/hb/ - Health & Beauty

go vegan it was the best choice i’ve ever made

It's easy to be vegan after learning about Taco Bell's vegan options. Also whole wheat pasta in tomato sauce is a lazy and easy vegan dish.

Pescatarian. It's pretty easy.

>>21254
It’s like the baby will be born without a soul. The loving breath and voice of its mother is outside… with artificial wombs you get an artificial limbless torso who doesn’t talk to you or stroke her stomach when you kick. It’s so sad. Those artificial womb babies are going to be fucked up and less intelligent than natural womb babies.
Unless of course they genetically engineered them to be super soldiers. But then again they’d prob be psychopaths

>>21257
That's the sort of thing that's easy to catastrophize. We are as a society investing billions of dollars into finding ways to create un-souled human intelligences. And that intentional un-souling is to the greatest possible extent non-metaphorical. We slowed down on using fetal stem cells instead of adult-harvested chemically adjusted skin cells recast as neurons, and it's not because the fetal cells were less neurologically effective or adaptable than alchemist skin. The social barriers against using adaptable fetal tissue are the real issue, but an alchemist transmuting skin into a brain to create a homunculus is socially and ethically palatable. These slave circuits are already sentient (in the scientific sense of having and responding to senses and sensory organs, most organoids independently develop photosensitive "eyes") and conscious (in the scientific sense, demonstrating all brainwave forms and developing cyclical brainwave patterns equivalent to human newborns) but because of the manner of their creation there is no real objection to their lifelong use as slave-circuits. So the important thing about forming a new class of human organism for the purpose of unpaid labor, including the unpaid intellectual labor we hope to profit from with organoid computer banks, is to make sure that they are created in a way that is different from the normal mode of pregnancy and fetal growth. Artificial wombs may give us that difference, especially if we could show that the class of being that emerges from them is emotionally and/or intellectually deficient and therefore unworthy of love or respect or medical care; everyone resents the amount of love or respect or voting rights or medical care that are currently given to people with standardized IQ test scores 4 points below their own. That way, we may not even need immigrants to solve the economic problem of physical labor, even while organoids promise to alleviate the economic problem of intellectual labor. Then we will see that the line will go up and the chart will be green and the gdp will be big.

So I can see the horrible dystopia concept, a society in which women's rights to abortion are made contingent on the sleeve-birthing of troglodyte monsters intellectually and morally unfit for any role in society except as unskilled labor for the benefit of very nearly no-one.

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>>21258
you are profoundly retarded

>>21269
If I wanted to hear average people's opinions I wouldn't come to an imageboard. Can the "lolcow refugees" just go away, honestly

Sexism is based entirely on the significantly lower physical ability vs moids. When they can easily beat you up they will.

>>20983
cope

>It feels like Instagram makes body images worse, especially for young women
The opposite for me. I used to have cripplingly low self-esteem until I entered a phase of following IG models and listening to kpop. Seeing how hard they all tried to be beautiful made me start pitying them instead of envying them or wanting them. Now I feel superior to them simply because I don't participate in or care about their sick game. You can free yourself too, anon.

Why do you need to compete?
I stopped using Instagram/almost all social media (LinkedIn for work is the exception) years ago, and I've never been happier. I get all my fashion inspiration from older Japamese mooks, and it's refreshing to see less heavily-edited women enjoying fun clothes.
Why would you even want to attention of someone that finds AI-tier instagram models attractive?

Test

>compete

You know you don't have to right

>>21289
*moids

>>21289
Wow. I’ve never been happier to be a shitskin :)

tall people look freakish and die sooner

>>21291
Yeah
Fuck the white worship those loser moids will take what they can get
Right now they are obsessed with jd Vance and usha
They want what they can’t have. So they want to bring down the self esteem of non whites
Wanna be colonizers

>>21289
you guys are too retarded.

invest in silk pillowcases to reduce breakage

>>21053
Dandruff is included but more so controlling oil and hydration levels. For example, if you have a dry scalp you might need to use gentle shampoos and exfoliate the dead skin cells every so often. Just go down the Haircare rabbit hole and experiment.

before you shampoo, add hair growth oil and a mask on your scalp for an hour.

i've been growing mine out too. others mentioned silk pillowcases you can also get a silk bonnet to sleep in at night. make sure you drink enough water throughout the day. i take hair skin and nails supplements (it's basically just like a biotin and collagen multivitamin) but it might just be placebo lol.

i only wash my hair 3 times a week and use a scalp oil and leave in conditioner. dont be afraid to use products with silicone or glycerin in them. some of the "natural ingredient" hair products i've tried just dry my hair out, especially in the winter months.

careful with heat styling, i only dry my hair with a diffuser on low heat once it's about 50% air dried and still use a heat protector spray.

i have thick straight asian hair so ymmv depending on your hairs texture.

>>21296
NTA but I also have straight thick asian hair. What products do you use? Interested in your hair routine.

I use lush natural shampoo and conditioner bars, have leave in conditioner, and Argan hair oil for my ends. I take an hour every weekend to cut my split ends (not a general trim but literally find individual split ends and snip them). I’ve been thinking about getting that Conair exfoliating scalp wet brush to scrape away any dandruff or buildup on my scalp in the shower, but I’m afraid it’ll damage my hair because it’s easiest damaged when wet. I got an oily scalp and sometimes when I wash my hair on high temperature setting, I get dandruff for a day or two. So I was thinking of getting the conair brush to mitigate that.

I wear my hair in Dutch braids or fishtail braids. Fishtail isn’t as protective. When you unwind the hair strands, they get stuck together and you peel them away from each other. I imagine split ends get splittier this way so I stopped doing it. My hair is waist length right now and am waiting for it to grow to hip length.

I got approved for disability so my medical fees will cost way less but yesterday my husband told me he's embarrassed to be married to me because legally I'm on the same level as a retarded person.

Im guessing your ok with your husband speaking to you like that, because your still with him.

>>21277
Honestly I'm in my 30s and yeah, it's embarrassing. Everyone else at the rehab center is elderly. My memory and recollection is only like 85% of what it should be. I got assigned a care manager as if I'm a person with Alzheimer's. But I need it.

I guess I appreciate that he's honest with his frustrationsinstead of hiding it and emotionally or physically cheating on me or leaving me. When we got together he didn't sign up to be a caretaker in his 30s, but now he is. I understand that's hard for him.

I have an iq of 85 which means I'm only borderline mentally functioning.

FND sucks. outside of the neurologist that diagnosed me, i've had to describe it to every other medical professional since they just don't know what the hell it is. really makes me feel like i'm just making shit up even though i've had to be hospitalized multiple times from FND symptoms.

i somehow lost about 10 pounds last fall. I was dieting but doing so very poorly but it ended up working. i'm not very overweight so losing those 10 pounds brought me a lot of confidence, especially because everyone noticed. i'm about 147 pounds now and I want to get to about 130 by summer. sad thing about losing weight is that the less you weigh, the less you need to eat to lose weight. i'm looking forward to being skinny again though.

I thought I had gained weight binging on shark week, but today it all disappeared and I even lost an extra kg

Not eating meat is really weight loss on easy mode.

>>21287
It's only when I went from portion sizes to calories/100g that I realized just how heavy meat makes you. I remember what a trip it was to eat more and gain less. I agree, its easy mode (if you can get into that mindset/make the sacrifice)

anyone else on weight loss meds in addition to dieting? any good experiences? bad ones?
i'm going to a weight loss clinic in a few days and chances are they'll give me ozempic or something. i'm fat due to a binge eating disorder (and bad/lazy lifestyle) and i'm hoping this can get me to a place where i can get up and exercise without immediately being in pain. i'm tired of being fat, nonas. please tell me medical intervention can help me get a place where i can help myself T_T

I love being flat chested,no tits,nipples only

>>21184
heck you nona, i am so jello

>>21174
Good Mornings and Reverse Hyperextensions will annihilate your back pain

>>21174
Yeah, and fucking moids just stare at you, and put their phone in front of you just to take a picture of your breasts

Yes, but only if they are magic and never sag or give me health issues.

I use that brand specifically and prefer it to plucking/shaving my wretched mustache but there's no way to avoid the pain, as brief as it is. I used to have my mom rip them off my face (she had fun!) but then I moved out and have to pull them off by myself like a big girl. Sometimes it doesn't get them all and you have to pluck the remaining ones, but for me that's normally the thicker black kind that are easy to take care of. I've also used their bigger strips for legs/pits but for that I still prefer an epilator.

i've recently tried nair wax strips and I think they're kinda fun and nice but since I don't grow that much hair, I think its just easier for me to shave. I don't like the wait period you have to do with waxing.

I use reusable pads and find them much more comfortable and longer lasting than disposable ones. Less leaky, too and no weird smell. I got them for cheap on amazon.

>>9519
TSS is more for things that are internal. Mostly, tampons, because they soak up all the blood and bacteria, and if they're in there for a long ass time, they can get pretty nasty.
Some people keep tampons in there for like 12 hours, which is a big risk for TSS. TSS is basically a bacterial infection. A pad won't really cause that since it's external.
I think even most menstrual cups have less risk of TSS than a tampon since all the ones Ive seen are made of medical grade silicone and have less chance to breed bacteria compared to a super-absorbent tampon.

Literally just don't sleep in tampons and you'll be fine. Mine start to feel sore after hours of being in, so I have to remove them anyway. I can't even imagine leaving it in there long enough to incur TSS. I'm guessing some women just don't feel it? Also, make sure not to completely rely on tampons and wear a pad to let it air out a bit after removing a tampon.

I use some made from bamboo cotton, and while they're very comfy and absorbent I haven't switched to them for my main menstrual use, only for sleeping and for discharge I get before/after a period. My first issue is: because the poppers can only hold it on loosely and even pads with two popper options can't always stay put without rolling sideways or slipping up and down I don't trust it to keep blood from going on my thighs and trousers. I've had them slip when heavy discharge was coming out and I ended up with a big wet patch above where the pad had been sitting, and thank god it wasn't bloody.

Second issue: I don't bleed when lying down but that means when I get up there's a fucking tsunami of blood and clots I have to rush to the toilet to get rid of. I've noticed when it does hit the pad all the clots and, for lack of better words, stringy red goopy shit in the blood sits on the surface without going in. I'm honestly amazed how the material has never soaked through to the other side when with disposable pads I'm frequently only saved by the plasticy adhesive backing being waterproof, which suggests it really does absorb a lot. But why the fuck does so much sit on the surface like chunks and silly string? It's unpleasant to feel and rinsing it off in the sink is nasty too. Is that just something with bamboo cotton? Do they all have this problem?

Third issue: the side you bleed on is dark gray so I don't have any problems with blood stains, however there are occasionally lightish stains that can survive a few washes and handscrubbings before going away. It's embarrassing because I can't tell if this is from the discharge I can't help, or some moment where I happened to be talking lewd and might have leaked other fluids. I don't know. Never had a problem with those staining anything in the past so this is news to me. Could just be that the pads are getting worn and the rougher surface holds stains more easily? I have no idea but I'm glad the neighbors don't use binoculars to eye my laundry.

What I'm most curious about is whether there's a brand that's particularly secure and doesn't slip, and whether "period pants" are basically the same thing. The latter are way more expensive than buying reuseable pads, and the thought of changing your whole underwear every 4-8hrs to stay fresh seems pretty inconvenient, so I've never tried it.

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>>9519
ew