CascadianGiraffe @ CascadianGiraffe @lemmy.world

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When you needed more than one voodoo card to be cool.

Can I pick where they put my extra finger?

SOS doesn't stand for anything. People made it up later.

The original distress signal was CQD, which stood for "seeking you, distress" or "all stations, distress," according to PBS. This was widely used by the British, while Germans used SOE and the Americans used NC, which meant "call for help without delay."

A 1906 International Telegraphic Radio Conference effectively standardized communication by suggesting the simpler SOS, which is easier to signal because of its distinct dots and dashes sequence.

See the difference for yourself:

CQD: -.-./--.-/-..

SOS: .../---/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/05/12/what-does-sos-mean-its-history-and-what-it-means-on-your-iphone/11746118002/

Gotta hold the map in your off-hand while traveling or it won't autocomplete

Imagine being unemployed and looking for work.

I have to answer every call.

Every call is spam. The number of calls I get has increased tenfold.

I'm certain that some of these jobs and recruitment sites aren't actually hiring for anything. They are just collecting and selling my data.

Some of us love spaghetti a little too much.

At one point the VA assured me that a veteran's medical debt is to the government and is not released simply because the veteran passed away.

Even things like the cable bill took months to resolve because we didn't want to pay for services that weren't needed after death. (It's hard to find and cancel every account for someone who died and didn't keep track of things.)

Your family isn't poor if you can afford to take time off work just because your whole family died.

We would put it on a Zip Disc and use external drives to play on the college Macs.

It'd get stolen the moment you left it alone.

'parts of lots of dicks'

just doesn't roll off the tongue like

'whole lotta dicks'

The tinnitus though.... It's so quiet I can't hear anything but ringing.

Well it does increase your chances of survival.

To prepare you for the future when the police stop you and ask to see your Disney papers.

After all if you don't exist to Disney, you don't really exist at all.

Tried buying some organic Oreos once.

They were quickly referred to as "punishment cookies".

That one box lasted almost 3 months rather than the 3day lifespan of a normal Oreo.

I can confirm. Was in retail management until recently. Owner regularly boasted about how much money he made because he saw the beginning of the pandemic and bought a ton of product at the low prices they were at before prices started going up. Then raised prices to be 30% more than the competition raised prices.

"People expect prices to go up, but they won't be able to shop around so they will pay the extra. With all the shipping and package theft problems nobody will trust Amazon so it doesn't matter if we are charging nearly twice as much. They want what we have and they will pay the price we set."

When I left they were still nearly double the price of LOCAL competition and still pulling profits. The thought is even if 30% of the customers leave and go somewhere else, with the margin being ridiculously high we still came out on top.

"We make money by being the first to raise our prices and the last to lower them."

"We" was actually the owner.

Bonuses were "Not Available" due to rising cost of operating during a pandemic. Raises were limited to cost of living increases based on state adjustments (which were far lower than our area).

Had a good doctor who told me you can't "try to quit". You can't "cut back". You can't quit for other people or before you are ready. But once you are... he said every successful quitter he helped, quit cold turkey. You have to stop 100% or you won't stop. He offered meds to help with the emotional and physical side effects. I declined.

I was a smoker for 20+ years, many of those I was well over a pack a day and I worked in a smoking bar for over a decade. It's probably too late for me is what I thought, BUT I DID IT.

Quit 2 and a half years ago. It hasn't gotten any easier yet. I still want to smoke daily. But I haven't had a single puff. I still hang out with friends that smoke but I did change my normal environment. (Quit while I was moving to make breaking associated habits easier.)

The things I found most helpful when the craving kicks in... Exercise was the best. HARD physical labor. Also sleeping and eating. Luckily I was in decent shape already so eating a bit more often wasn't a huge deal. The tons of extra exercise just burned it off or helped build up some muscle mass I didn't know was possible.

When the teacher took your watch at the beginning of class it was either test time or tv cart time.

Many of us also use 'Cascadia', in reference to the mountains we reside in and around.