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1. If you have a lot of trouble with brushing your hair dry, but you have an okay relationship with showering, brush it with conditioner in! You’ll get softer hair, it won’t hurt as much, AND any hairs that fall out will be washed away so they won’t be on your clothes!

2. If you are having trouble eating, do LITERALLY anything to make your brain happy at the prospect. Watch a video while you eat, pretend you’re eating with your favorite character, get on all fours with jungle sounds in the background and eat like a dinosaur. Seriously. ANYTHING.

3. Drink water and iced drinks in enclosed, nonclear containers so your brain doesn’t reject them like a mama bird. Water smells like wet dog to me, so making sure I CAN’T smell it is a must. Get a container with a straw, preferably.

4. If you drink a lot of sugary drinks (like me), use a straw. This will help you decrease the risk of getting cavities, especially in your two front teeth. Also, NEVER wash the toothpaste out of your mouth (spitting out the excess is fine), as leaving it on your teeth with make them cleaner and give you more room for error. Sensodyne is great, as it helps sensitive teeth and has a mild taste.

5. Go outside. Please. I know it sucks, but if you walk around for even fifteen minutes your brain will surrender so much fucking dopamine. Also, keep your curtains open if you can, so that you’re not in a casino-esque state of timelessness.

6. If you feel bad, ask yourself the following questions:

- Am I at a comfortable temperature?

- Have I eaten in the past five hours?

- Have I had water?

- Have I seen another human person recently?

- Have I bathed?

If you answered “no” to any of those questions, fix it and come back. You’ll probably feel better, at least marginally.

7. Don’t try to fix everything at once. When it comes to current events, pick something that you care about, and focus on them. Or maybe two. But if you try to give your money and time to every cause, you will burn yourself out.

8. If you are walking on the street, don’t try to make eye contact with everyone. I had to unlearn this after working in a grocery store and being expected to be approachable all the time. Look ahead at something, or look near the sidewalk/floor. That’s mental energy you could be spending elsewhere.

9. If you don’t know what to say, use a compliment. People fucking love those. Especially about clothes, hair, and/or accessories. Not about their body, though, that’ll make them feel weird if you don’t know them well.

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

where's the love for irritable f/o's? f/o's that mutter under their breath in frustration, f/o's that grumble and gripe over every little thing, f/o's that insist they're being realistic when everyone else is dramatic.

they might seem cold but they're the softest once you crack them open; they're desperate for a little affection and care deep down. they'll still insist they don't, of course, but just kiss their cheek and they'll melt against you.

Me? I had some really spectacular bruises and a lil friction burn on my nose from where Mr. Airbag and Ms. Glasses had a disagreement. That's it. That's it.

I was driving a little tiny coupe and went more or less head-on with a pickup truck. The entire engine and hood of my car was twisted rubble that was not connected to the rest of the car afterward. I sat down on the verge, about twenty or thirty feet from the accident, while I waited for the cops and EMTs to work their way through the traffic backup to get to us, and found that I was sitting beside one of the headlights of my car. The whole entire headlight, bulb and reflector and cover and frame and all.

All I had were bruises and that little friction burn. That's it.

Crumple zones save lives. So do seatbelts and airbags; half the bruising was the exact shape of my seatbelt in livid crimson and black on my torso. It was and remains the most insanely intense bruising I have ever experienced in my life. BUT IT WAS JUST BRUISING!! Unpleasant, sure, but eminently survivable and didn't even require much treatment beyond not wearing a bra for a few days. But all the force that created that spectacular bruising was force that wasn't flinging me through the windshield or impaling me on the steering column. My car crumpled and crushed and dissolved but it held me safe and secure and protected.

No actually. Combat rated vehicles have standards for crash and shock absorbtion. Obviously you dont have airbags and crumple zones on an armored vehicle, but you do have multi-point harnesses, rollover protection, fire suppression systems, internal padding, seats designed to absorb sudden impacts and protect the users... AND THEY STILL HAVE TO ASS CERTAIN ROAD SAFETY LAWS TO BE ALLOWED ON THE ROADS

It is also less repairable than a military vehicle. Military vehicles are often fixable with basic tools and skills. You can wrench, bolt, hammer, and weld on those things.

The cybertruck however. Needs special advanced glue and a depot level repair facility. For basic shit.

Awful vehicle.

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