I never haggle.

Haggling always feels incredibly confrontational and disrespectful to me. Watching others do it makes me annnngry. Usually because I'm wanting to pay and leave, like 99% of the others in line behind them.

If someone is trying to scalp me for a few bucks on some used tech I'm selling online, it's even more pointless, as the web is full of used stuff. Why force me to get dressed and meet you somewhere if you aren't even interested in honoring the price I'm asking?! I'm typically more inclined to walk away or drastically increase the price at that point, because it feels like the buyer isn't respecting my time, just fucking with me. Why not reciprocate in kind at that point?

As others have pointed out, it's also very time-consuming: personally I'd rather pay what's on the sticker and move on. Wasting energy on mere cents or dollars is never worth my time.

Definitely a Stellar's. And they definitely love emptying bird feeders. Typically looking for something they like that's not even in the feeder, seemingly. :/

I'm so sorry. It's tricky for everyone, I suspect. Maybe more so for some.

I wish I had some expert tips, but I never had any luck myself, and eventually gave up. It just always hurt too much when everything was secure enough not to "pop out" on me. Which made leaving the house that way untenable as all heck: who wants to walk or drive with their groin aching from the deathgrip of pain holding them by their tender bits? :c

I hope you have more luck with the gaff. It's something I never got around to exploring, as I figured for me it would be more of the same constant dull ache. I'm old enough not to worry too much what people think if they notice, which I know isn't a solution for everyone.

I had a doctor try to force me off my atenolol and metoprolol to amlodipine. Ostensibly because she "didn't like" that I was taking such a high dose of two separate beta-blocker meds. Not sure if she thought I was going to take them all in a fit of despair, or what, but it went really badly. My anxiety and ADHD were a lot worse, rather than better, and my BP skyrocketed.

I can't take stimulants. My body can't metabolize them well (or at all?), so I end up knocked unconscious for half the day. Basically, 6-8 hours where I can stay awake only by fighting tooth and nail. Even on fractional doses! Wild stuff. While their results are interesting (especially for those like me who failed every single non-stimulant, hard) this could be helpful. Oooor it could just be more big pharma BS with no up-side. So hard to tell anymore.

I've been meaning to try Logdy out. Thanks for the reminder!

I love how the meme assumes everyone trusts everyone else's driving. Utopian ideals, man.

Great. Now if he'd invest in some sound techs, microphones, or ADR studio time, he'd be making films that might interest me...

I can understand less than half the dialog in his works, which is pretty frustrating. If I remember correctly he's actually gone on record that this is intentional, too.

They made an unwatchably-bad movie based on this, too, with Don Johnson. I tried to watch it a month or so ago, and the acting, pacing, and set-work was so cringey I only made it a few minutes in before noping out. (I only skimmed the interview, but it sounds like they intended it to be bad?)

Same here, it'd have to be something AI-hardened, though, still.

Oh yeah. I'm diagnosed with adhd and waiting is actually physically painful, which isn't something most people understand, I guess?

browsing fedi in the workplace when one should be working is a wild reason to force people to cw things you don't care for. all you're doing is forcing people to always use content tags, even if they're not posting anything remotely unsafe.

I'm not straight and have no idea what it sounds like. (Not what you asked, but my incredibly straight parents have no clue what Grindr even is, if that helps. :)