While yes, there are barriers to access for a lot of people there. Support groups - exchanging insight with people who have been in similar situations - tend to be pretty effective, and Lemmy is just acting as an online front for that.

I’d take anonymous internet comments with a grain of salt, but with that healthy skepticism in mind there’s plenty of potential for healing even in this environment.

The scene in Interstellar when he returns from the time dilation to watch like 40 years of updates he missed from his kids.

I don’t care which one is the knock off of the other, but rather which one is better. Thanksgiving wins the race when it comes to food.

Pour cereal. Pour milk. As soon as boyancy causes the cereal to rise, stop pouring the milk.

Perfect every time. 👌

It’s half materialism and half cult ritual.

Most of the music is annoying, with a strong exception to Transiberian Orchestra.

The seasonal junk food is usually pretty good. The seasonal food-food is just a wanna be Thanksgiving, but still good.

The lights can be pretty, but most of the other decorations look like cheesey tailor-trash shit.

I’d give it a 20-80 like to dislike ratio

It’ll still ‘evolve,’ just not in a pro-user way.

Lost something like 60 lbs by tracking calories in / calories out and making sure I stayed in a deficit. Wanted to enlist into the Air Force and had to get it to 168 before the recruiter would let me sign.

Biggest difference I noticed was I used to be uncomfortably hot all the time - no longer. That alone was worth it.

Didn’t it already tell some teen to kill themself recently? It fits right in with the worst of the internet.

Been using this in nursing school - a lot of our content is done on horribly designed websites, and it’s pretty common to hit submit and… Naw it didn’t take: all your shit just disappeared.

So, save with single file first, then submit, and if it fucks up then I’ve got a backup to copy and paste a replacement out of.

As a something-between-liberal-and-leftist-with-a-hint-of-arm-yourself-to-fight-the-increasingly-popular-Nazis (is there a word for this?) in the middle of the cousin-fuckingly deep south… yeah I probably wouldn’t even survive the trip home from work.

I work in healthcare, and the response from the workers in my hospital to the UHC CEO assassination has been… pretty much the same as the response here on Lemmy!

Couple morale-high-horse folks pearl clutching about no one deserves to die or some shit; but 99% of us are on team Luigi.

We fucking hate parts of this industry, with a strong emphasis on insurance bullshit.

My two cents from the inside.

Fox

Pastafarian

When we’re first in line at a red light, and the driver starts doing shit like check their phone.

Wife does this and it drives me nuts - unless it just turned red, you fucking stare at that light so you can GTFO the second it turns green.

…then she gets annoyed when I say “light’s green” when it turns while she’s distracted. -_-

A while ago I was gifted a towel warmer, and it’s just been collecting dust cuz for its intended purpose, it’s worthless… like, it warms towels? the things hanging in the warm steamy bathroom? the humidity from the shower does that on its own…

Froze my ass off going from apartment to car a few weeks ago, it it clicked that we literally own a little clothes oven! So now when I wake up, first thing I do is turn it on and shove my coat and a beanie into that fucker, then by the time I’m ready to leave, my gear is like fresh-out-of-the-dryer toasty, so I put on my shell of pure heat, and I’ve got a little thermal bubble that follows me to my car. By the time it wears off, the car’s heater is starting to kick in.

Mornings this winter have been a lot more comfortable that previous years!

Isotonic is what you’re shooting for. Hyper- or hypotonic will cause discomfort. You can buy saline packets from any pharmacy, mix those with a specified amount of distilled water and you’ll have the correct concentration with minimal extra bits (which you’ll get a lot of with tap water… don’t use tap water).

Done correctly and applied at roughly the same temp as your body, you’ll barely feel it in your sinuses.

The metric that’d be the most useful for the average lay-idiot like me would time estimates for multiple usage cases. Like, "this phone has a 50-30-4 battery, meaning:

If you don’t have a bunch of shit running in the background or things like Bluetooth turned on, you just take it out of your pocket occasionally, send a text, then turn the screen off before repeating in a few hours: 50 hours,

If you have a “normal” amount of activity for screen time and other battery-consuming activities: 30 hours,

If we turn on EVERYTHING - screen at max brightness, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, location, flashlight, and play the speakers at max volume while recording a video, it’ll go from 100% to dead in 4 hours.

'murica checking in.

Yeah fuck it: government. Hard to imagine it doing a worse job than we are.

/shrug.

I’m in my mid 30s now: no idea if it’s normal at this point to remember or forget that stage of childhood.