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What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures
  • Your comment implies though I've been pregnant three times, I don't know how to calculate pregnancy age. Thank you for the explanation, but my miscarriages were at 8 and 12 weeks. What's crazy is that you may not experience the effects of a miscarriage for a week or so after the "baby" has already died/stopped growing. So it's possible my little lizard baby was only 7 weeks along.

    Edit: grammar

  • Anon loves sunny days
  • Yeah, but that's just a mindset. You can turn that mindset on in the Florida summers too. When you get in your car and it's an oven until the AC cools it you just pretend you're in a sauna, breathing that hot air from the coals. You're sweating while you're doing a job/project, you just pretend it's like hot yoga.

    A hot tub feels amazing. The heat can too when you decide it does. When you finally give into the heat and decide you're just gonna be sweaty today, it feels great.

  • What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures
  • This isn't completely accurate. I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks and I passed a little lizard-y thing. It looked a bit like when a lizard egg breaks and the lizard inside isn't done yet. I had another miscarriage at 12 weeks and passed a little baby like the size of a quarter, still alien but less lizard-y. I don't understand how this article can say the below. Am I a freak of nature that grows babies at breakneck pace? The doctors seemed to think everything was normal for all of my pregnancies, including the successful one.

    This image shows the gestational sac of a nine-week pregnancy. This is everything that would be removed during an abortion and includes the nascent embryo, which is not easily discernible to the naked eye.

  • What's the coolest thing your library has available to check out?
  • I don't want to dox myself publicly, but I'll DM you a link to the page on my library's site! They don't have device names listed but there are descriptions of what they do and pictures of the devices so if you're familiar maybe you can just figure it out?

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
  • So my ball was the ball from toy story on a round wooden kitchen table. Probably the table from my childhood home. So the ball is yellow with a blue stripe and a big red star. It has shading and a shadow. I switched it out for a golf ball, but that didn't seem right, so back to the bouncy ball from toy story, bigger than a baseball, smaller than a kickball. Because it's the ball from toy story, the young man pushing it is toy story animation style. I tried switching him out for a regular human, but it just seemed wrong so I couldn't. He goes with the ball.

  • Education level has become the best predictor for how someone will vote
  • No, the word less made it perfectly clear. If they had meant less educated-people they would have put fewer as you pointed out. Plus the context of the title made the sentence's meaning clear. Education level is the predictor, and Republican voters are at one end of the spectrum (less educated) and Democrats are at the other (more educated)

  • [Article] 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
  • Never? I know tons of people who are keeping up just fine. My grandmother, she just retired, but she was working up until like a year ago, she has dinner on the table at 6 every night, often with vegetables from her small garden. Her house is always clean, but she's not a clean freak. She paints, follows a water color tutorial about once or twice a week. Two years ago, she took up drawing. A few years before that, photography. She realizes she needs something else for a recipe for dinner, runs to the store and grabs it, no procrastinating. She has an active social life, and is very involved in her church. She visits her mother.

    My brother-in-law runs his own business. He pays all their family's bills, he exercises, reads books to his sons as he puts them to bed. He eats healthy. He sets New Year's resolutions and actually keeps them every year. His bottom floor just flooded in the hurricane, and he was very calm like yeah, a lot of our stuff just got ruined. A lot of my business stuff just got ruined. We're going to be fine, let's get to work.

    My friend is a paralegal. Her house is spotless. She has a cat who she loves. Her boyfriend is annoying, but she loves him. She loves diet Coke. She owns her place, and wants to settle down and have kids in the next few years.

    All that's pretty foreign to me, I'm struggling to keep up. I have a lot of friends who are struggling. But there are definitely people who walk through life and are just better at it. They just seem to be able to handle things.

  • What's the coolest thing your library has available to check out?
  • You don't take it home, but my library has digitizing machines. You can digitize hundreds of old photos in minutes (it pulls them through and scans them like a deck of cards in a shuffling machine, so fast! And it is super sensitive so no/low risk of a photo jamming), and it can scan front and back at once, for those photos granny labeled on the back in her sweet cursive. You can digitize old home movies all the way back to those circular reel movies. All for free, as much as you want. The equipment is thousands of dollars and they just let me walk in and play with it. It's incredible

  • ‘Hamilton’ tickets donated to Boston Public School students went to admins’ sons
  • I think the appropriate accountability here would be to for those administrators to have to enroll their children in public school. If they think that's a problem it's up to them to make the schools better. The administrators obviously think public school students don't need extra access to culture or expensive things, they're doing just fine.

  • "Loss" but it's a Red State
  • I feel like risks permanent bodily harm is putting it lightly because pregnancy changes your body permanently even if everything goes "right" not to mention changes your brain permanently.

  • What's an artist / band that you used to dislike, but now enjoy?
  • I used to hate Miley Cyrus' music and her personality. Now I'm on board. I still don't love her, but I don't mind singing along when her music plays near me and I feel very neutral to even positive about her as a person. As far as child stars go she actually seems surprisingly normal and thoughtful.

  • Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say
  • Suggesting all women flee Everytime a law is passed that doesn't work for us is short sighted. I'm not leaving my entire support system on the chance I get pregnant. First off, we're trying to get the laws changed. We're voting, and getting new abortion guidelines on the ballots. Second, yes, all women in my state should have a little vacation fund in case they want to visit the North in a hurry. A six week ban is ridiculous.

  • After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?
  • Not exactly. My coworker has been trying to sell his waterfront home for over a year. He keeps having to rehab it after flooding from storms and then right back on the market. No luck. Starting October 13th or something you have to start disclosing floods when selling, also.

  • Issue where commenting refreshes post

    Is anyone else having the issue where you're 30 comments deep into a post, you reply to a comment and when you submit it refreshes the whole post making you lose your spot in the comments?

    Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

    I'm on a Google Pixel if that's relevant.

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