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waiting for the upcoming "lost focus and made an ill-informed workplace decision" tweet from watcher headquarters

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Literally pacing back and forth between apps rn like an animal in the zoo waiting for Watcher to at least put out a “we’ve heard your critique. Working on a response” message

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Even if everything else was fine with this (spoiler: it's not) the new Watcher platform being credit card-only makes it literally impossible to buy a subscription for so many people

Also, it doesn't seem to have a comment section under the videos (standard for streaming services, I guess). Like, as if the comment section isn't a huge part of the community aspect, which is kinda part of the shared enjoyment of their shows?

Honestly, I would probably buy a month whenever a complete season of Puppet History has dropped but it's pretty much impossible due to the credit card thing anyway

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Gonna be real, I’ll regain most of my respect for Watcher and the team back if they walk back on this decision. It’ll show that they at least listen to the loyal fanbase they’ve created over the years.

But still, what an absolute gut punch.

When my family was going through hard times and couldn’t afford any kind of streaming service or cable, I’d put on YouTube and I’d watch Puppet History or Dish Granted with my dad and brother, and this was back when Netflix was CHEAPER.

Most of your fanbase is broke students, Watcher, we really can’t be paying for this.

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watcher leaving youtube... for a streaming service????

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today’s the eclipse, so make sure to check on your local florist just in case they’ve got any new and interesting plants ☺️💕🌸

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having online friends is so fun! but watch out! the distinse......

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like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery

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Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

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I've been waiting for him to drop since day one, my prayers have finally been answered.

I unironically made an edit with Hey daddy like a gojo stan

Gacha gods are fickle, but at times they will bless you with your faves at the perfect random moment,,,,,,

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DADDYS HOOOMEEEE HOME FOR MEEEE

IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS............

VOLO MY BELOATHED-

Congrats though, dear moot! I hope you shake him very aggressively

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Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

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Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

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🇧🇸 junkanoo simeon 🇧🇸

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the chocolate trigger thing is a myth??

Thank you for asking. The short of it is yes.

Chocolate as a posited migraine trigger came out of migraine journal studies. Basically, people suffering from migraine were asked to keep detailed journals of their lives, including what they ate, and this was compiled and trends were picked out.

One thing they found? People often ate chocolate before reporting a migraine attack.

There were two things going on here, though it took years for people to come to this conclusion. The first is that migraine prodrome can include sugar cravings-- so people who were already well on their way to a migraine attack were craving chocolate, ate the chocolate, and then reported the migraine. The second is that stress is a trigger of both migraines AND sugar cravings. Thus for someone had a rough week, the stress induced both a migraine attack and a desire for chocolate.

Later lab studies in which people who suffer migraine were given chocolate, or cocoa, or small doses of caffeine similar to what's found in chocolate, etc etc found that there was ZERO evidence for chocolate triggering a migraine. No component of chocolate triggered a migraine in sensitive people, even people who reported chocolate as a trigger.

So really, eating chocolate is a symptom of migraine, not a trigger of it.

These same food diary studies also led scientists to (briefly) believe that alcohol might PREVENT migraines. Why? People who reported fewer migraine attacks drank more alcohol. The actual finding here? People who have more migraine attacks don't frequently drink alcohol because jfc who wants a drink when they have a migraine (also migraine fucks up social lives). Alcohol, unlike chocolate, DOES trigger migraine attacks.

So these are the kinds of limitations of food diaries when you are trying to figure out what triggers your migraine attacks, and also why doctors emphasizing food triggers, especially chocolate, get a side eye from me.

That said, there is ample evidence that when people feel in control of their health, they tend to feel better. If you believe that chocolate triggers migraine attacks and you feel like limiting chocolate helps you, I'm not going to tell you to stop.

But if your doctor handed you a pamphlet with 20 year out of date information on migraines that included the idea that you had to stop eating chocolate and cheese (no evidence for cheese, either, eat your heart out), I'm here to say your doctor is at least 8 years out of date with the literature.

TLDR; chocolate fine, alcohol bad, doctors lazy, science progresses

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