I have an earliest memory that I wonder if it’s just my memory of me recounting it at this point. And another memory of being attacked by a dog that I believe was a dream that got mixed up with reality because the neighbor’s dog scared me. ‘Memories of memories’ seems accurate the further back I try to remember.
I’m worried they’re going to provoke someone into shooting up a daycare
There are notable exceptions to the ban, however, for high-performance membranes used in filtration or separation processes, and textiles deemed “necessary for essential use” or national sovereignty.
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The first draft law also included a ban on non-stick saucepans, but this has been removed following reports of “intense lobbying” from French manufacturer Tefal.
2012 sounds right for that, actually. There definitely was one, but I couldn’t have guessed the year. There was just a time when I made a bunch of cupcakes because I kept seeing fun recipes online.
You can probably start with careful exposure therapy. I’m not sure how to do that with germ phobia. I dealt with a fear of spiders by reading about them and looking at pictures until I stopped feeling disgust/anxiety. I then just kind of noted and moved on when I saw one in real life. These days I see a spider and can even move it if it’s in a bad spot without feeling anxious.
Not knowing your triggers, I can’t say if that path would help or make it worse.
https://fherehab.com/learning/germophobia-treatment This could be useful for learning terms so you can look up and find reviews for self help books.
For my social anxiety, I started out getting books from the library about that specific phobia. It took a lot of time to get from there to telling my doctor I was anxious all the time, to medication, and then therapy. I doubt I’ll ever be free of it, but I can do a lot of things now I once couldn’t (small talk with customers? wow!)
It kind of has to be guided by you and the specifics of your phobia, unfortunately. Like, would looking at a picture of a dirty surface for five minutes a day make you anxious? Just a little, or a lot? If a little, try it. If a lot, scale it back further. Hopefully someone with a similar phobia comes around with more relevant advice. Good luck?
When speaking to the police, they said they reached out to the FBI to see if the Bureau could help the dept. in clearing some of the redactions in the filings for them, so they could search records for specific names, but the Bureau was unable to do so.
I wish we could offer the victims lifelong protection from retribution if they agree to name names. They deserve to live full, healthy lives and the people who hurt them need to face justice. As it is…
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-survivors-list/
When they’ve tried to do anything, nothing comes of it and their lives get worse.
“Most of the individuals, the victims, are very scared to say these names because they could get sued. They’re going to get attacked, and nobody protected them the first time and that was against one person,” Edwards said.
Henderson added, “I think if someone’s interested in prosecuting, they may have something different to say about sharing a list, but they’re not sharing a list for nothing to happen. And that’s the experience that they’ve had for all of these years.”
All their lives, they get treated like a sacrifice for other people to get what they want. They get raped to fulfill the fantasies of the powerful. They get threatened if they ever say anything. Now, the well intentioned keep pushing them to come out with names for the greater good. Are there negotiations behind the scenes to make sure the people who victimized them don’t use their considerable power and lack of interest in abiding to the law (by definition, if someone raped a child, they don’t care about exclusively following the law) to further harm them? And everyone they care about?
Some other articles on this arrest:
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/somali-resident-mayor-frey-to-detail-erroneous-ice-detention/
Regardless of citizenship status, he shouldn’t be put in a chokehold and assaulted for…walking down the street while being non-white? A lot of citizens are living under the illusion that citizenship status protects people from this treatment. It doesn’t, but even if Mubashir was here illegally, he didn’t deserve this. The chokehold could have killed him, and now he has to live knowing that he can’t leave his home without risking being killed by an armed gang.
Interesting! Thanks for telling me about it.
It does say it accounts for inflation, but Poland is the only country on the list that went from low income up to high.
No, but it’s something I’ve heard other people describe. I don’t know if it’s common, but it doesn’t sound odd.
People at church when I went as a kid would talk about a sense of feeling guided. People talked about feeling “called” to something. I always felt a lot of nothing, but I don’t think most of them were lying about that feeling, even if I suspect a different source than they did.
If there’s one thing Trump knows, it’s fraud
https://parade.com/food/cheese-recall-aldi-target-walmart-december2025 This article’s a little more extensive. It’s weird apnews didn’t link to the fda report that briantheebiscuiteer linked to, since that has the actual actionable info people would need.
My first thought was that there was a bright light shining on it for some reason.
It’s not fast, unfortunately, but I was prescribed a high weekly dose by my doctor and it did seem to help eventually. The long time it takes means I’m left wondering if I feel better because of the vitamins, or something else, but I do feel better.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/long-vitamin-d-work-3555995/
Research has found that vitamin D insufficiency resolved with 12 weeks of weekly high-dose vitamin D.
Unfortunately, when your D is really low, you should up the dosage to get a noticable change, but too much vitamin D can be dangerous so I wouldn’t recommend it without finding out what your levels are. When I was checked both my vitamin D and iron were low, which is why I was sleeping constantly and still feeling fatigued.
“power user” is such a kind way to describe that, thank you!
Some of the ones that get to stay professional are also majority female, so there’s something else going on too, but I’m sure sexism is also hugely involved.
Like, a sensible list for higher loan thresholds would be how genuinely expensive it is to train someone in it. Like, how much the gear - books, equipment, normal trainer salaries, etc - cost. And nursing would have to be high in that regard. If they aren’t using more objective measures because this is a vibes based government, bias that treats women’s jobs as less valuable seems like a likely reason for the change.
people who track government planes on blusky had a beautiful period of time after the plane turned around but before the announcement it was an electrical problem