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Living Luminously
Fix My Head
Alicorn5d*20

I think my headaches are multicausal, but drinking less water*, taking acetaminophen as soon as I feel a twinge, and maybe any of the other many things I have done in the last 14 years, have attenuated it substantially, and now I get most of them only at specific points in my menstrual cycle.  (Which is convenient because you're not supposed to hit the painkillers too hard when pregnant.)

 

*yes, less water; some of my headaches are migraine-y and you want vasoconstriction for that

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"What's my goal?"
Alicorn17d20

Note: if you don't feel like doing all of these, 

Missing some kind of then-statement here.

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Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism
Alicorn25d113

I (white) have cosmetic preferences which happen to select (weakly) against white people and in favor of everyone else, so I can relatively safely talk about it.  (I love brown eyes and dislike blond hair.)

I don't know where my cosmetic preferences came from, but it seems likely that some people have less speakable ones from that same source, and mistake it or have it mistaken for something about race-per-se.  I don't think this can explain the magnitude of the effect, but I feel like it's missing as a hypothesis whenever people manage to talk about racial disparity in dating at all.

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Parable of the vanilla ice cream curse (and how it would prevent a car from starting!)
Alicorn7mo270

When I started making double batches of pancake batter, they came out fluffier.

I checked and re-checked all the math on the doubling so many times to make sure I wasn't adding too much or too little of something, but the ratios were all right.

Eventually I realized I was going through baking powder faster and so the baking powder was fresher.

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(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
Alicorn8mo100

Stripe is even less welcome to my phone number than you are!  But I'll retry without the info saving thing.

ETA: Yeah that worked.

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(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
Alicorn8mo100

I just went to try to give you $40 (because there's an event that I expect to be hosted at Lighthaven, and I want to go to it, and would be happy to pay for a ticket at something in that ballpark of a price, but kind of expect to be offered free entry, so I might as well "pay for my ticket" now to make sure the place is there to have the event in).

But the form requires a phone number and will not accept all zeroes or all nines and you can have forty dollars  but you cannot have a real phone number.

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What are the good rationality films?
Answer by AlicornNov 20, 2024*255

Smallfoot. It's a children's animated musical about yetis who don't believe in humans, and about fraud and honesty and curiosity and how other motives, even sympathetic ones, contaminate truthseeking.  Hat tip to Elizabeth of Aceso Under Glass who recommended it to my family.

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2025 Color Trends
Alicorn9mo30

In the SS25 collections, we see it, unsurprisingly, in skin-baring clubwear:

but also in more classically graceful gowns and tailoring:

in slightly kooky and unhinged references to early-60s femininity:

and in more eclectic, playful styles:

Were there supposed to be images or links here?

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Physical Therapy Sucks (but have you tried hiding it in some peanut butter?)
Alicorn10mo2916

I was so excited about this post until I realized the metaphorical peanut butter was also exercise.

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Lack of Spider-Man is evidence against the simulation hypothesis
Alicorn2y60

I mean, sure, it looks like that when people who sound credible to you are checking.

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