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A redditor u/spottedgolfing shares the process of the penny floor they installed into their homes foyer.

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I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée

They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe

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Fainting does not hurt but everything leading up to it is fucking insufferable. I don't know why I bother trying not to faint because actually fainting is a much less unpleasant experience than almost fainting for me.

Even so, I wouldn't describe almost fainting as literally painful for me, although I also wouldn't fault someone else for calling the same experience painful.

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(right blog this time) it seems to be either. I've fainted from Small Cut On Finger and nearly fainted from Blood Draw I Was Not Looking At. The faster I take care of an injury and the less bleeding I see the less likely I am to faint, but for blood draw the only things that help are lying down and -- yeah, making sure I am hydrated and fed, bc if I'm not it may take them multiple tries to stick me and then I freak out more even if I don't faint lol. But those things *do* really help, so if they let you recline I bet I can do it! Thank you for the advice! <3

Hey, I know you can't donate blood or plasma if it makes you faint, but will they let you lie down if that keeps you from fainting? I can do stab without fainting if I lie down but idk if that "if" means I shouldn't bother trying to donate plasma and you are the Plasma Information Person (I tried finding the info myself but I just keep getting 'you can lie down at home later' and 'you can lie to the blood donation people')

to my understanding a lot of places do let you lay down, but it would be best to call ahead and just ask if you can lay down while donating. as far as what makes you faint, you might actually do better with donating plasma than donating blood. you get most of your blood back when you donate plasma! you can try upping your salt and water intake (lot of soup, broth, high sodium electrolytes (look at the sodium content), canned vegetable juice, and of course a ton of water) for a few weeks and if you tend to faint from the loss of blood volume, then this should make it a bit better.

but either way I think this is best answered by someone else. anyone know?

I do not know a whole lot about plasma donation. the most I know about is what it gets used for and how it tastes.

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Trying to figure something out about myself; please reblog this for a larger sample size.

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the resume autofill feature for job applications is. So Useful.

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curious bc i finish my undergrad this year and my mum is upset that i dont want to go to my graduation ceremony

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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Some of them work for me if I adjust the timing, but if I don't they make me feel like I'm hyperventilating. They are all Too Fast.

Asthma runs in my family and I am literally Right Now waiting for a referral to get tested.

Every time a medical professional tells me to do breathing exercises and then measures my blood pressure they freak out because I'll go from like 110/60 to 170/110 in five minutes and I keep telling them that the slow-count breathing just makes me feel dizzy and like I have to pant to make up for it after the fact.

Writing this post has been miserable because even looking at the word "breathing" this many times has made me feel like I can't catch my breath but when I walk away for a couple minutes and stop thinking about inhaling and exhaling I know I'm going to feel fine again.

I fucking hate it when that four square breathing gif circulates or when I get an ad for a relaxation game on Duolingo, that shit breaks my lungs/brain for minimum twenty minutes every time.

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How To Find A Sea Unicorn (prints)

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This got too long for the reply function lol but that post might imply to the unfamiliar that God and angels ONLY do bad awful things to followers when actually every GOOD thing that ever happens to you is A Gift From God, and every bad thing that ever happens to you is a TEST from God and if you handle it well you will be rewarded either in this life or the next, so fundies and evangelicals actually tend to be very positive people if they're ate up enough! They're #grateful for everything in their lives! Good things are only From The Devil if they encourage you to be less Christian.

And the trick re: asceticism is that LOVING money is idolatry, but HAVING it is A Gift From God, and probably a reward for being Pious Enough, so you can aim for being rich or going to disneyland as long as you acknowledge that if you get there you're #blessed and not there on your own merit. Conveniently, poor fundies get to feel good about being poor -- because they're being tested, because God gives his hardest battles to his strongest warriors 😔 -- and rich fundies get to feel good about being rich -- because they're being rewarded -- and nobody gets to hate rich fundies because they're obviously doing something right if God is giving them ca$h money, but EVERYONE gets to hate rich non-christians because THEIR money is from the devil, and everyone gets to hate and/or feel superior to poor non-christians because they're either being punished or ignoring the obvious call to Christ in their circumstances. Except you usually don't use the word "hate," because hate is equivalent to murder in some denominations. Usually the word you use is "love."

Anyway in my family the patriotism came in through several windows, including miscellaneous prophecies both biblical and not and the idea that the US is the only country where you're genuinely free to be (protestant) Christian. Which somehow coexisted with the idea that we were oppressed for being Christian in the US. Lol.

Regarding your latest fundie masterpost: these descriptions make them sound utterly joyless and ascetic. When they usually aren't? Where does fanatic patriotism come in? I thought it was conflated and blended with faith. Also, does the average fundie like...refuse to do anything fun? I'm not sure that's consistent with what I know about Americans. Maybe I'm confused, but I live in a pretty conservative city, albeit not in the deep south or bible belt, and while I see plenty of "I kneel for the flag and stand for the cross" "blue lives matter and I would fuck my gun I could" I don't see these conservatives Christians espousing quite the same views as you list. Is it just that I don't know them well enough personally, or that these are a different variety of American conservative Christian?

A lot of them actually live and act like normal people and may also completely defy all those teachings (allow their kids to read harry potter, have atheist or gay friends they don't try to convert, etc.) but they still believe all that stuff applies to everyone but them. Like I have *three* different uncles on the same side of the family who live by the whole "what would jesus do" philosophy, they help everyone they meet without asking anything in return, they're always telling jokes and complimenting people and generally on the outside completely carefree and seemingly kind, and they actually don't even push their religion on anyone. And yet they absolutely believe that every single person in the world who ever has or ever will fail to share their exact same faith is going to spend absolutely all of infinity burning in agony. They have never shown a sign that this bothers them in the slightest. I don't interact with them because it's just too creepy knowing that's what they both think and accept that easily. There are millions of Americans like my uncles and they might never even tell you they believe that stuff at all, but they go to those churches and donate their money to their political causes too lol. There are also those who believe only a fraction of it but still attend and donate all the same, too, because the church supports a couple things they’re really big on politically. We are a horror country.

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mami

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Unicorns are for young girls

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Okay reblog with what fast food chain you hate (don't say Chipotle because rhey are homophobic or whatever it has to be petty/and or silly maybe you hate the food or uniforms or whatever)