People don’t by iphones for practicality they buy them as a status symbol and I will actually never find “I see green text bubbles i smell a broke bitch” posts anything but stupid.
Yes it does because I’m literally poor and formerly homeless.
Imagine thinking this was a good take.
You just jealous cuz we got better picture quality uwu
Samsung phones have better cameras than most on the market actually but thanks I guess
If youre over the age of 20 and lost all your teen years to mental illness and never got to be normal, or have healthy relationships, went down the wrong path or diddnt have the right nurturing support from BOTH your parents and now you have to sort of catch up on your life whether thats getting your license, getting your GED, starting college, fixing your mental health, or starting things you told yourself to start or try again and again no matter what it is, and trying to fight to live and accomplish shit you FEEL you should have accomplished as a teenager but diddnt have the capacity or insight to care about due to mental illness.
I am so incredibly sorry, and im thankful youre here and alive and trying!!! also;
You are N O T a failure you took your time because you couldnt put more on yourself than you could bear to carry and that is a mark of self care so dont ever feel bad about it
I am so fucking proud of you, youre trying your hardest to get to the top even though it may be harder now, you could have given up but you havent and for that you are victorious and i am in awe of you.
I needed this, thank you
I got my GED when I was 30 and now at 32 I’m about to start my freshman year of college.
I’m pretty confident in myself but thank you. This sort of support and encouragement means the world to me in a world that would try to tell me I’m a failure for taking so long.
Green, who lost her parents young, was raised by her aunt and uncle. While still at school, her aunt died from cancer, and three months later her uncle was diagnosed with cancer, too. Green went on to earn her degree in physics at Alabama A&M University, being crowned Homecoming Queen while she was at it, before going on full scholarship to University of Alabama in Birmingham to earn her Masters and Ph.D. There Green would become the first to work out how to deliver nanoparticles into cancer cells exclusively, so that a laser could be used to remove them, and then successfully carry out her treatment on living animals.
her studies thus far are only on head and neck cancers, but her theory is this treatment platform would work on all types of cancers. But needs $$$$ to keep doing research.
It seems the issue is how to target the cancer cells and in her head and neck cancer tests, she had success in mice by utilizing fda approved immunotherepy antibodies to deliver nano particles to mark the tumor. Then she could proceed to blast the shit out of cancer with fuckin lasers.
she was ready or prepared when opportunity arose
I’m so proud of her. I wish more young black women would go into science.
#BLACKGIRLMAGIC
Yes!!!!! If she really does cure cancer, watch her name & face disappear behind some white man.
My fellow spoonies, particularly those of you with anxiety (regular or social), depression (including seasonal), and/or executive dysfunction, what are some of the ways you cope with difficult tasks?
Full disclosure: I’m trying to work my way back from a pretty deep pit.
I used to be very good at keeping up with my dailies, taking care of myself, and even going out to run errands or have fun with friends. But for the past year,
I’ve been having trouble keeping up with housework and self care, and juggling multiple daily tasks or anything that requires leaving the house has been difficult.
I know why this happened, and fortunately, I’m no longer in that situation, but there’s a lot of psychological damage that needs healing. If I’m going to get anywhere, I need to develop healthier coping strategies than what I’m doing now. I’ve got a new career position starting up soon and a big social event in April, so I need to get back on the horse and get the anxiety and dissociation under control.
What I’m Doing Already: Making lists (for memory and compartmentalization), taking multivitamins and iron (for a deficiency), light daily exercise (mostly walking and stairs), hydrating lots, strategized cleaning (3x3 grid or 30min at a time), using ASMR and lofi to help me sleep (chronic insomnia still kicking my ass).
Suggestions are welcome, but I do ask that no changes in diet be recommended. That’s one thing I can’t change any further than I already have right now, for health reasons.
Thanks, loves!
WOW, these are some awesome suggestions so far! Thank you all so much for sharing your tips, these are really gonna help me get my daily game back on track.
Followup question - How do you cope with anxiety related to social situations? I’ll just go ahead and say it: if you wanted to go to a big party but just the thought of it made those panicky flutters start in your chest, how would you go about psyching yourself up for that?
I have depression and my gf has anxiety and certain tasks are harder on one than the other so we trade.
For example, my gf hates doing the laundry. Its time consuming and annoying but i dont mind it so i do it. In exchange, sometimes i wont feel after work, like tired and sore or i had rude customers and all i want to do is lay down but i need to eat. But if i had the choice i wouldnt eat. Cooking is a chore for me but my gf likes to cook. So they will cook and i can do laundry and lay down between loads and feel better and we both have clean clothes.
Some tasks take less spoons for the other so we trade to keep each other heathy ❤️
It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.
Also, aside from this completely uneducated reasoning as to why minimum wage was created…
I can guarantee that there are tens of thousands of teenagers who have to pay bills and help support their families or are the only financial supporter to their family.
not to mention, if minimum wage was meant solely for high school students how would the business survive when students are in school?? are they only supposed to be open on the weekend? this “unpopular opinion” makes no sense.
Unpopular fact: in the 70s a minimum wage worker could pay for college with a summer job.
Unpopular fact: minimum wage was conceived to be the minimum amount of money a person would need to support themselves and their families when working 40 hours per week.
Unpopular fact: minimum wage was created because working men and women in this nation fought–figuratively in the negotiating room and literally in the streets–for a fair working wage, with sweat and blood and tears and death.
Unpopular fact: military service personnel are not the only people who have fought and died for your rights as American: labor leaders and common workers laid down their lives so that you could have a 40 hour work week instead of 80 hours; so you could have a 2 day weekend instead of none; so you could have lunch and bathroom breaks instead of going hungry and shitting your pants,; so you could have a three day weekend in September.
Capitalism would NEVER dole out basic human decency without literal human sacrifice.
The man who started the cleanup started with public bathrooms and other spaces and he worked for six to eight weeks before anyone else even joined him. He has also worked to reduce the amount of trash being thrown in creeks upstream that was settling on the beach.
