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Cake day: December 13th, 2024

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  • Depends on how you do it, really. Most of the candy color dyes these days are semi-permanent or temporary colors, so they don’t have the same harsh chemicals that permanent dye used to have. The most dangerous chemical in the process is the peroxide bleach, and you can get really gentle formulations of that now for bleaching your mustache.



  • faythofdragons@slrpnk.nettome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    More or less, yeah. The church also took advantage of us, telling my mentally ill stepfather that being poor was a good thing actually, and it was good for his kids to go without so we could learn to rely on god like the sparrows of the field, or some shit. My parents never missed a tithe, but they sure made us skip meals so god didn’t get angry at us.


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    Spoiler, they don’t. I grew up in the kind of poverty that has us digging food out of the garbage if we wanted dinner. My parents didn’t take me to the doctor when I dislocated my knee, or when a schoolmate knocked me out with a text book. The school provided a couple of uniforms, and weekend clothes were all secondhand. Toys were few and far between, we mostly just played ball in the street with the other kids in my neighborhood. School supplies were borrowed from other kids or the teacher. We didn’t do extracurriculars except church, no field trips, no birthday parties. Special needs were called “being lazy” and I just got my ass beat a lot, so, I didn’t discover the brain tumor until I was an adult.







  • That’s good then!

    I don’t know if he has any hobbies besides getting angry at the news, but it’d help and give you two something to talk about that isn’t upsetting. I know you mentioned in another comment that he sees frivolity as a waste of potential, but maybe you could emphasize that he’s worked hard his whole life, and fun in retirement is supposed to be the reward for that?

    What does he do for work? Maybe there’s a hobby that hits his dopamine the same way?