Also, I just realized what you meant by “you’re supposed to say no Mom”. Your mom was literally telling you to lie to avoid getting in trouble.

Ok, but wtf is this thing your mom texted you “Dad wants a treat, send me your grades?”

I cannot imagine a man telling his wife he wants a treat for Halloween, and then being satisfied with that treat being an early update on his kid’s grades. She is making that shit up so she has an excuse to supervise your grades.

Your mom feels like a very anxious person, always checking in about all the stuff you describe, and making the whole family anxious. Almost all your examples of lying are to your mom because it feels like she’s pressuring you (probably because of her own anxiety). You’ve said enough things in your post to make me think your mom lies a lot too, and has modeled her anxiety and lying in a family setting to you a lot. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you lie because she taught you to lie.

Some advice:

1. Pay attention to whether you lie to your friends as much as you lie to older adults (especially parent figures like your coach).
2. Make a rule never to lie to people your own age. Don’t let the lie pattern spread.
3. Work the family lying stuff out with your therapist ASAP while you have a young highly neueoplastic brain and can undo these patterns. If you don’t have a therapist, talk with your college’s health center, you can probably get one through them.

Scrolling by I literally thought “Man, that candy looks delicious, what’s this article about?” And then read the headline… 🫠

Is he going to break his cheekbone when it kicks, or is holding the gun with your face standard procedure?

My buddy asked for feedback once. The recruiter said, “We passed because of the words you said.” That was it. 😐 Say better words next time guy.

Something that surprised me in my travels (which are primarily West of the Mississippi) is how often the states actually line up with a significant geologic shift. Arizona is endless orange desert. New Mexico immediately becomes rainbow painted cliffs. Utah is somehow entirely vertical. California is a contradiction of green desert. Nevada is like a chemical mine puked on a bunch of bumpy ridges. Northern New Mexico falls off a cliff and the bottom is Texas.

If you watch closely, usually something fairly dramatic happens in the landscape within a few miles of the border.

Wait, what are the wooden stakes in Catholicism? Is someone vampire hunting Stephen Miller?

I do this kind of “foraging plate” sometimes. Yours looks really good and balanced. Got some protein, plenty of plants, a little probiotics, great work, good eating!

If you were suddenly fabulously wealthy, would you continue to work in stone, or quit and never look back?

Looking past the caption, I think it’s way funnier when you realize the cat doesn’t actually know how to read. He thinks these are huge cans of cat food.

The good news is you haven’t brought all your things in yet. Don’t bring anything else in until you’ve had some time to investigate.

One bed bug, like you’ve said, could come from anywhere. If this apartment is infested you will find so many more. Give it some time to make sure this is an infestation. Do you have bites? Are there other signs? Of course the landlord is ALWAYS going to say there aren’t any bedbugs, of course they would. But give it some time, pay another month, see what happens.

If no more bedbugs show up, and you don’t get bites, go ahead and move your stuff in. If it’s infested, get out because they are SO hard to get rid of!

A lot of fascism and authoritarianism comes from loneliness or a lack of community. Cutting him off could mean he seeks more community with Nazis. Be clear about your beliefs, keep calling him out when he’s wrong, but try to stay his friend. That’s different than “supporting” his beliefs. Take care of him when he’s sick, but don’t drive him to the Nazi rally. Your friendship might make a difference on his journey back to healthy beliefs.

Also, really sorry your friend is dealing with this right now, I know it must suck to see this happen to him. It’s not necessarily the final story though.

Oh, haha, yeah, I tried some stuff in ADB, too, but I think I want to keep the phone a bit longer. Thanks for your answer!

Did you find a way to get rid of that full screen update notification?

It’s a threat. Nobody likes the idea of crippling the economy with an unending general strike. But the people who watch the daily numbers use them to predict future behavior. A big blackout in the second month makes them think really hard about what is coming 6 months down the road. If the blackout is small, they know they don’t have anything to worry about. If it shifts 50% of sales to another day, they know they’re having a conversation with a giant that can move their numbers a lot.

First time it ever occurred to me, but now that I’ve read it, of course! Why wouldn’t every city make this free?! Solving transportation woes is a surefire way to stoke your economy, and removing payments is going to make public transportation more efficient and cheaper to maintain (no ticket kiosks getting vandalized, no payment processors to pay). Seems like a win win for any congested city.

Salt gets into rivers when material that can’t be dissolved is stripped away by erosion. This exposes new water soluble compounds to the water, where they dissolve into the water and are taken to the ocean.

Over millions of years erosion removes innumerable tons of material, essentially mining the subsurface soluble compounds and delivering them to the ocean. Once there, as you mention ,those salts remain in the ocean. On Earth, this process began billions of years ago and has been adding salt to the oceans ever since.

You can observe this happening in many rivers today. The Colorado River is a great one. If you measure is salinity at the headwaters (or heck, probably even the inlet of Lake Powell), and where it enters the Gulf of Mexico, you will observe an incredible increase in salt. There was an international treaty formed around the US delivering river water that is not too salty to grow crops in to Mexico. The US solved that problem by installing a desalination plant on the river!

However without that land based salt mining process, how salty would the oceans be? Lots of good clues in this thread, but I don’t think anyone has offered a definitive answer.

Sure, I get that, but without land for rivers to essentially mine salt from, the equation changes a lot. Underwater erosion is dramatically less destructive than above water erosion.

Earth’s oceans are in a steady state, where all the addition of salt by rivers is balanced by loss of salt in the ocean. If you removed all the rivers from the equation, Earth’s oceans would find a new balance at a point significantly less salty than they are currently. Though I have little idea if that would be something we consider freshwater, or just “less salty” saltwater.

This is all very interesting and pertinent. I was wondering about the hadean period, and whether you could actually get to an ocean world without first having continents with a water cycle. I don’t know enough about planetary formation to conclude further. Thanks for pointing me to the hadean period, I will read more about that.

You might misunderstand my comment about the dead sea. The dead sea actually precipitates salt crystals onto the bottom of the sea. No land is required in this strange process. I don’t think it’s clear to say whether this happens because of the extreme salinity of the dead sea, or if the extreme salinity just makes it the only place we observe this rapid desalination on human time scales. I offered this as perhaps the most striking example that salts dissolved in water are not necessarily a stable state on a timeline of billions of years.

Yeah, but not all that salt is in contact with water. There are huge deposits of salt under the Mediterranean, yet they have not dissolved into the ocean. You have to actually strip away the non-salt components to get enough water to salt contact to actually dissolve enough salt to make that much water salty.