A lot of people fall prey to the logical fallacy of, 'well, I've done (insert super unsafe thing here) a bunch, and I've never gotten sick, what's the big deal?', failing to realize that it's not that a bad thing is super likely, so much that if it DOES happen, it can be catastrophic. I'm living proof. I went almost three decades of being cavalier about a lot of food safety things, and as the kids say, I f*cked around and found out. One bad bout of food poisoning is all it took to cause digestive tract damage that I'll have to live with for the rest of my life, and it can be debilitating during even a moderate flareup. Don't tempt fate, y'all. Cook your food to a safe temperature, keep things cold that need to be cold, wash your hands, and be careful about cross-contamination. You might be fine if you don't, or you might also regret it for the rest of your life.
100%. I cannot find a dentist within an hour of me that accepts my insurance. The free clinic has a three-month wait. If my cracked tooth gets infected, I will have to go to the hospital to get it pulled instead of having the cavity filled before it got this bad when I mentioned it over a year ago. I can't sleep at night because of the pain.
As a single person who is asexual, I'm mandated by Western society to live alone. But humans are social, and I crave a family atmosphere in the house. It's so lonely without others around just doing their mundane, cheerful life stuff. People strongly feel this is some sort of trap. I've been accused of being a closet gay, a predator, or just a weirdo. Is it that unusual to want a housemate or two as a g
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