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  • Good God is this ever true. I went many years without stretching and noticed a much higher probability I'd make a random muscle in my back or leg upset by doing something it wasn't ready for.

    Heavy lifts are one thing.. Bending forward and back while painting a wall causing a back muscle to freak out was entirely unexpected and a wake up call for me to stretch every day. I still can't touch my toes, but I'm getting there.

  • Remember that first month of lock down when people in urban areas noticed a change in their air quality from the diminished number of vehicles on the road? It would be nice for that to be the norm.

  • I'm three years in, still want to smoke.

    Glad I don't, and the cravings from the first bit aren't as bad, but I still want to.

  • I was talking about groceries with a friend over in England a few nights ago. Apparently my pasta prices are 4x hers. And that's just the store brand dry noodles. If I found the cheapest deal I used to see from various places, it'd still be 2x. I'd need a pound of noodles for $0.49 to even be in the ballpark.

    If a simple item like that is casually 4x more expensive, I'm sure everything else is also up there. I've been lucky that my income allows me to be a single family income provider and have money left over to throw around wherever I want, but just finding this out the other day really left a deep impression of just how sorry of a state things are in over here.

  • I like taking a graphing paper notebook. It's a minor thing, but it makes drawing maps and keeping little note blocks. I also like to have a few different colors of highlighters to assist in making quick references.

    Kind of a weird other inclusion, but getting fantasy sticker sheet, character relevant if possible add a bit to the experience.

    1. If tortilla still isn't large enough, make larger.
  • Depending on context it could be.

  • Click. That Adam Sandler movie about the remote which controls time. If both movies play out like they did separately, the amalgamation would stall out half way through and never recover.

  • And it's thanks to folks like you that I can hop into the mid journey discord server, search for a few keywords, and generally get an image close to what I'm looking for for free.

    Thank you for making my magic the gathering token prints so much easier.

  • There was a questionable article written with that number not long ago. It's completely bullshit though.

    I'll use my own experience as an example: I got approved for a mortgage of 125k (which is fairly low for my area, but there are still options) with the understanding that I'd be getting a house with a few issues that I can work on. My 30 year mortgage rate if I had managed to buy a house at that time would have been around 700 a month. If you double those numbers to 250k, 1400 a month and you earn 4x that amount your annual salary needs to be just under 70k.

    Just for reference, there are a significant number of homes for sale for 250k or less, and I live in one of the top 10 most populated cities in the country.

  • There is no world where a law aimed at this type of thing will ever be used for its intended purpose.

  • It heavily depends on the reason for being in therapy, but a lot of times what people do get out of it is a different perspective on themselves and the world around them. It's not a cure, it's a series of plans/strategies to handle those feelings in non-destructive ways. It's about understanding where their issue stems from, sometimes it's just an imbalance of brain juices, sometimes it's something to do with their past or upbringing, or education. If it's the second one, therapy can help those people explore those parts of their past to understand the reasons why they are feeling the things they are feeling and how to mitigate or better handle those feelings.

    Others have explained it fairly well too, I think you've got a decent enough handle on why therapists are a thing.

  • It seems you have missed the point of being in therapy. They're not a friend, they are a guide for you to use to better understand yourself. Therapy is meant to explore parts of yourself that you want to work on or that need to be addressed (such as self harm).

    Some people find it difficult to think about themselves and having someone to listen to those people's explanation of their week might just shed some light for that person on why they feel a certain way about the things which happen around them.

    It's also something that you must actually commit to. Going to therapy and either lying constantly or being very tight lipped about things because you feel like you are being teated/judged/analysed are not going to yield any real results compared to someone who is as open as they can possibly be about themselves.

  • Say what you will, I will use the soda spoon for most purposes so that I feel like a giant eating with a tiny spoon.

  • I'm one of those who have extremely mild symptom. Just one. A minor sore throat. No mucus build up, no coughing, no fever, etc etc. In my line of work it's not terribly uncommon to finish a random day with heavy circular saw use and have worse symptoms than covid (for me). I consider myself very lucky but it sure was strange when my job site all got it and I was seemingly unaffected.

  • Well now I want a version of this sport that starts as a scavenger hunt to find the scoring area before you can score any points.

  • Again? Could it be the same guy from last time?

  • Ah. Is there a list somewhere of places we've defederated from? I haven't been keeping up with my fellow lemmy.blahaj's.

  • For the memes, the candle of infinite burning, for the comfort, blankie.