https://exronmusic.com/2026/05/17/dancesafe-announces-staff-layoffs-amid-financial-crisis/ bummer. Guess they’re moving to a chapter based method

Text. I think the answers on this kind of social media are going to skew that way.

I agree with the other comments that it’s probably about memory more than anything, especially in faster paced communication like an in person conversation.

In like, a blog post intended for lots of people to read, it’s contextually dependent. Probably? Like, if they’re reviewing the movie, they’re talking about how the actor filled the role. In a plot description, it’s more natural to say the character name. If the actor is named then, it could be intended to imply the actor never disappeared into the role. “Then Chris Hemsworth snuck into Whosville dressed as santa and stole all the presents with his dog Max” implies that the person talking never entirely saw Chris as the Grinch.

But, yeah, in immediate one on one talk, I assume it’s the name that comes to mind first. The famous person is memorable. Though, if you got a very strange mental image, you can also consider the possibility that the speaker was making a joke, like I was with “how chris stole christmas” up there. The quality of the joke is separate from whether it was intended as one.

I would assume a kid that age doing it had some kind of disability and move on. A binary ok or not is irrelevant, because it’d be none of my business unless they want to shake my hand.

The PGA bans shorts and the LPGA’s dress code doesn’t. There’s more to it (why are the dress codes this way, historically?) but that’s a simple answer to your question.

Probably the rapid pace of eating it plus bad luck. A relative almost died last year because of an intestinal blockage. Don’t know the specific cause of his just one day he couldn’t keep anything down. He went to the doctor thinking it was a bad stomach bug and was immediately shipped off to the hospital for emergency surgery. He lived, but it’s a thing that can very rapidly kill you if you’re unlucky.

Like, people die from stuff that didn’t kill lots of other people all the time. Only one lady died from this:

https://abcnews.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer-strange-water-drinking/story?id=8970712

but dying from drinking too much water, like bowel obstruction, is a known cause of death. Or like when “healthy” athletes randomly die from heart attacks - sometimes the body just goes “nope” and fucks something up. There might have been a flaw in the heart that was just chilling until some slight extra push made it cause a whole system failure.

Maybe the kid had a slightly swollen section of his intestines before he started, or a different flaw in the area, where it was easier for food to get caught. Or he ate it way faster than a normal raw pasta enjoyer would, because it was a challenge and not for the love of raw noodles.

So, I don’t see any reason to doubt it.

Probably reading stars

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5946918/ oh hey here’s a study that goes into the cases when cancer has transferred.

In humans, a lot of things have to go wrong for transmission to happen.

Cancer cells have a parasitic propensity in the primary host but their capacity to transit between individuals is severely restrained by two factors: a lack of a route for viable cell transfer and immune recognition in allogeneic, secondary recipients. Several examples of transmissible animal cancers are now recognised. In humans, the only natural route for transmission is via the haemochorial placenta which is permissive for cell traffic. There are three special examples of this occurring in utero: maternal to foetus, intraplacental twin to twin leukaemias and choriocarcinoma-extra-embryonic cells to mother.

It can also happen in organ transplants, since the recipient has to be on immunosuppressants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer

It doesn’t seem like there are case studies about transferring the cancer cells through the air. People can also get diseases that can lead to cancer from each other, but that’s not the same thing.

Ran into AI article hell trying to look this up.

https://knifeinformer.com/state-knife-laws/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state

https://thelegalguide.org/constitutional-carry-knives-do-knife-laws-follow-gun-carry/

Does constitutional carry for firearms affect my ability to carry a knife? No. Knife laws operate independently of firearm carry laws. A state may allow permitless firearm carry while imposing strict knife restrictions, or vice versa.

https://thegunzone.com/can-you-open-carry-a-bow-and-arrow/

The legality of open carrying a bow and arrow varies dramatically. Some states have no laws specifically addressing the issue, meaning the practice is generally permitted unless prohibited by local ordinance. Other states might consider a drawn or easily accessible bow and arrow a concealed weapon if specific conditions are met, such as having the bow strung and an arrow nocked in a populated area.

Possibly it doesn’t bother them when other people do it, but my theory is a very mild sadism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear) i was picturing the lady in the first picture, but futher searching revealed i was wrong. Hope some other people understand the situation more for you.

I actually adore it

By the way, I think my initial reply reads dismissive, but my intention was to try and make clear that whatever is happening isn’t normal aging. Can you see a second doctor? Fatigue is such a vague symptom, with so many possible reasons, but what you’re describing could indicate a lot of things and you need a doctor who will take it seriously.

My friend was able to do a mini sleep study from home recently, to test for sleep apnea. I noticed when we were traveling together that he sometimes gasped in his sleep, and he told his doctor about it. I think there are DIY sleep monitoring apps but I don’t know if they’re any good. Might be worth looking into, if your doctor isn’t helping. Or find someone to listen to you sleep.

The range of possibilities with bad fatigue is just so big. I can only make suggestions based on my own life experience, but a doctor in your corner would be able to look for so many more things.

Oh, did you have a bad illness at some point before the fatigue? Covid isn’t the only virus that can have confusing long term after effects.

A relative with fibromyalgia had constant farigue, but I think pain is a factor with that one.

I can keep thinking of possibilities, unfortunately.

They didn’t do any followup? Low white blood cells for that long can indicate some stuff that should at least be checked for. Your doctor should also know if those numbers are normal for your age. Did they make any suggestions? 32 is genuinely still young.

Nope! I’m older than you and that doesn’t happen. You probably need blood work done? I went through a time when I was exhausted constantly and was like “this must be middle age” but I had low iron and vitamin d.

I’ve noticed the specific food craving thing around my period. It needs to replace iron or whatever, so I suddenly want a hamburger.

But how does that connection happen? Is my body releasing hormones in a specific way that my brain understands before and after the burger, and then in the future, the “give me iron” hormone is translated into fantasizing about hamburgers by my brain?

https://www.parents.com/what-to-know-about-pregnancy-cravings-7507166

I figured pregnancy was when people get weird cravings the most. Hormones go so wild then, it really makes me think hormones are the culprit here, with the brain translating them as best it can.

The like three articles I looked at on this all warned about how pica (craving for nonfood items) might mean you have low iron.

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6357/6/3/26

The connection with iron and pica makes me think there is something concrete going on here (don’t eat concrete. go see if you need iron supplements). But your hormones and brain are both flailing around trying to keep you alive, so it can get weird.

Outside eating, the craving is probably the desire to return to some feeling. Music especially seems to get associated with times and people who were around then, and specific states of mind. I permanently associated one song with a cool scene from a story I was reading, and now I get an echo of the feeling from that scene when I hear it. And when I want that reading a cool action scene feeling, I can listen to that song on purpose.

TLDR; probably brain translating desire or need by making us want things it associates with filling those needs. With food, hormones seem involved.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/13/9/20170484/50480/Do-linden-trees-kill-bees-Reviewing-the-causes-of The abstract here has some ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel_fountain Is it this kind of thing you’re asking about?

What salt gun do you use? I’ve never heard of them and now I’m intrigued

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/09/groundbreaking-sls-study-documents-the-pathways-to-prison-for-those-experiencing-intimate-partner-violence

Another said: “He had us scared, both [my children] and me, that if I told anything to the police and they arrested him, he was going to get out and kill us.”

I think it’s fine that she killed her abuser, even if it wasn’t the exact moment a threat was made. In a way, I think it’s good if the killing happens in kidnapping cases like this one when the kidnapper is vulnerable, because the victim is more likely to survive. Poison, stabbing while they’re asleep, stealing the gun they used to threaten you and hitting them in the back - it’s cool. You tell someone they can’t leave or you’ll kill them, you are allowed to live exclusively on the whim of the person you threatened. That’s where my opinion gets a bit controversial, I think.

I started looking for cases where victims of rape were thrown in jail for killing their rapist as it was happening, and I immediately found several different incidents and got depressed.

Hope this explains why I think my view would be unpopular.