DillyDaily @ DillyDaily @lemmy.world

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Assonance, I had never heard of this, so cool that there's a word for it! thank you for teaching me 😊

Isn't alliteration when the same letter is used? So "cop cow canine" is alliterative because of the letter "C", while "Cop, Cow, Dog" just has repetitive beats/syllables.

Crack open a tin of beans, smash them a bit with a fork. Salt, pepper, vinegar, and whatever seasoning blend is within reach. Put it on top of whatever carb I have (toast, tortilla, crackers) is my go-to.

If I don't have a tin of beans, I microwave some frozen peas to smash up.

Hummus also fits this niche but that's not something I keep on hand in the pantry, unlike beans.

My favourite no-cook meal is a slab of semi-firm tofu served cold on a bed of spinach, pour over some soy sauce, spring onion and furikake. But that requires fresh ingredients I don't always have on hand.

Instant noodles, with a handful of frozen corn, and a Nori sheet from the pantry ripped up in it. Tofu (or egg) if you can be bothered.

I'm on the hunt for a vegetarian alternative to a umami packed can of smoked Tuna. I miss smoked Tuna. (I'm allergic to nightshades and haven't found a allergy free fake fish on the market)

Haha, I know right!

Our industry was notoriously late to go digital, even in 2020 I heard of organisations physically mailing out letters to clients because no one had an established individual user email system

Our industry (community centres and non accredited adult education) dominated by grannies, retireees who volunteer, and council workers that burnt out and don't care to change the status quo the grannies have set up.

I think my boss used to be sharper in her prime (or rather, I know she was, because I've seen examples of her work from 20 years ago), but she's in her mid seventies, and the lead poisoning and chemo-brain have taken their toll on her.

My current boss who said she was retiring about 5 years ago (but didn't...) used Excel as a password manager but would create her own little "boxes" of merged cells, then when she wanted to clear the contents of a merged cell she'd select the whole area and delete entire rows and columns, but she wouldn't notice, so later then complain that the Gen Z office admin was "deleting important passwords" and when I pointed out that it was the boss doing that she'd either deny it, or repeat her process while paying closer attention then blame "Microsoft doing stupid things with this new Excel, it didn't do this before the cloud" (don't ask me why she thought her excel 2010 was on the cloud, other than the fact she saved this doc in Dropbox)

Said scape goat office admin transferred everything to OneNote when we did get finally get Microsoft 365, so at least the boss would stop accidentally deleting everything when trying to edit one thing.

Then the boss started to get annoyed at me for all my "stupid and impossible passwords", how dare I have passwords like "nf6oO!D4t^q%Tnr3" and "&x#5Fr$s68iETYof". I asked why it's a problem, just copy and paste, my passwords are like that because I generate mine within a password manager and I'm not changing my process, I'm already heavily compromising by putting my passwords in her silly OneNote so she can log into accounts I've set up.

She had all her passwords in this document, but she wasn't even using it to copy paste. She'd look at the document to read the password then type it out manually....

I showed her my password manager so she'd understand how useful it is, turns out our MSP had already set one up for her! But she didn't like it because "it always asks me to check a code on my phone just to see my passwords, it takes too long to faff around with my phone, OneNote is just as secure because it's in the Dropbox and you can't get into the Dropbox without the password."

Lord help me.

Another reason the chair looks out of place is because it's a transfer chair, not a self propel chair. These chairs are designed to push someone, they aren't designed for independent mobility.

These chairs are commonly represented in media because they are cheap and often the "first chair" a disabled person will get because of their affordability and needing something quick. But they are bog standard and you can't really get around by yourself in one without more pain or fatigue. You'll then start the process of getting a measured for a chair that will fit your needs.

Some people only have a transfer chair because they are semi-ambulant/part time chair user, so that's all they need. But most people who use a wheelchair will not use a transfer chair long term. It's temporary because it's shit.

So it doesn't make sense that someone with an active lifestyle, like a DnD character, would use this style chair as their main aid. Unless there's something in the campaign, like their main chair was damaged, or the disability is recently acquired, the character is poor, etc.

Well except that we first need to use all the sane diesel farm equipment to grow soy and corn crops that we can then feed to those self propelled animals.

In most of the westernised supply chain livestock animals don't get to propel themselves very far anyway. Where once farmers would drive cattle to market on hoof, now they litteraly drive them in a truck.

You could always throw on a hyphenated middle name. She's no longer Jessica, she's Jessica-Anne.

I have a short full name, think something along the lines of "Sam Dal" (it's not, but same vibes), a lot of people ask what Sam is short for, but the answer is nothing, my legal name is just Sam. My friends will call me "Samuel Jay Dalford" as running joke. Made additionally funny because it's a masculine name and I'm not a man.

It concerns me how many young people I see posting on Tiktok's that mention lobotomy that they themselves want one.

The mental health care system in US, Aus and UK (the main demographics I encounter on social media) that people are joking about wanting to be lobotomised.

These comments will be on documentary clips that explain in detail the horrors of this procedure and the atrocities committed by the local governments and institutions at the time. But kids are still joking about it.

Even in my own country, Australia, where our retail culture is quickly copying the US, customers can be so entitled. People get mad about reduced hours on public holidays.

But just 50-60 years ago, most stores were closed on Sunday and only open for a few hours on Saturday's. They'd be closed for the entire day on public holidays. The people I often see getting angry at shops for closing at 10pm instead of 12am on Christmas day are usually old enough to remember the "good old days" (as they themselves call it)

The same entitled people will complain about self serve checkouts, robot janitors and AI stock management systems. They complain that there aren't enough human staff, But then they go and treat the few humans there are with more cruelty, abuse and disrespect than they'd ever consider using when talking to Siri. Do you want humans working here or not or not? How about you treat them like the human beings they are.

It's the best of both worlds. When I'm in a fightin' mood it's easy enough to find a troll to mess with. But at the same time I've found a lot of lovely small communities where everyone is polite and focused on sharing their experiences rather than attacking others for theirs. It was harder to find communities like that on reddit, they existed, but maybe just not for the interests I held at the time.

Had a lamp in the garage I was planning to donate when I could. It had been sitting there for 4 years unused because it was incompatible with a lamp shade and too damn bright no matter what bulb I used.

Saw the technology conextras (his second channel) video on DIY milk glass, now that lamp is the only light I use in the office, I love it!

I've got a playlist of all the videos I've already seen and I play it for background noise when I'm doing a task that I don't want silence for but also don't want music. Something about the pacing and cadence of his videos is strangely relaxing.

I'm far from the target audience, I never thought I'd be interested in learning the difference between DVD+R and DVD-R, but he had me and my history loving arse with gas lamps, and I got hooked.

It's not exactly "thinking about hurting my children" and more having depersonalised thoughts of someone who looks like me and has ny life, but isn't me, hurting my children.

I'm happy to hear you never personally experienced that symptom, that makes you lucky. It is a very common symptom of postpartum depression, and anxiety.

They are terrifying thoughts. No one who experiences true intrusive thoughts is even entertaining the idea of acting on them, removing someone from society is overkill in most cases. There is cause for concern when there are pre-existing mental health conditions that tap into impulsivity, hallucination, and derealisation, but that's why you need to act on a case by case basis.

I agree that people who are experiencing intrusive thoughts of harming others need professional pshycological support - but not because they are a danger to society, that's not the nature of the disease. Intrusive thoughts are a source of anxiety and trauma in and of themselves, and left untreated can trigger OCD symptoms in people who didn't previously have OCD.

Thank you! The optometrist I saw said they don't exist but I thought I'd heard about them, now I know specifically what to ask about when calling around for a new eye doc

Just plain N95 surgical masks, I have a packet of duck bills that I'll rotate to to change the sensation, the KF94s are the most comfortable but recently I haven't been able to find any with decent nose wire, so they are hard to wear with my glasses, tape helps.

A friend made me some fabric masks but they are much heavier than the surgical masks so I rarely wear them, I mostly just have the shoved in my purse and pockets for emergencies, like if my disposable mask gets soiled and I don't have a spare.

Surgically masks and KF94s I can wear for about an hour as long as I have my hair tied up in a high pony, and I use an elastic clip to hold the ear straps to my pony tail. If I don't fix it to my hair I start getting pain in after just 10 minutes.

I was supposed to wear P2s for work, which is how I got into the habit of taping a mask to my face, because I couldn't get a good "seal" without instantly triggering a neuralgia attack using just the ear straps. I left that job so I don't need P2s, but sometimes a client will say they have covid after I'm already sitting next to them, and I wish I had a P2 to protect myself.

Ooof, same here.

I was working off site on Monday and my bus passed by the office so I thought I'd be clever and drop my laptop off at the office to save myself lugging it home and back the next day.

I think my immune system knew I'd done that, because over the next 6 hours I got rapidly unwell. Woke up this morning crook as a dog, co-worker is happy to pick up the day to day slack as I did the same for her last week - but now my laptop is stuck at the office and I have project work that desperately needs doing. I'm probably just well enough to pop into the office for an hour to grab the laptop. But I'm probably not well enough to be within 1.5m of another person. Certainly not in my office, all 4 of us that work there are immunocompromised. Plus I don't drive so I definitely shouldn't be bringing my germs onto the bus.

It's pretty boring being stuck at home alone sick with no computer.

I might feel so much better tomorrow, this bug came on so quick it might leave just as fast. but I really need to decide now because I'll either have to cancel my class on Thursday and Friday, or organise a sub now.

It's supposed to be condescending isn't it? Woops, I've always used "I love that for you" as a backhanded insult.

Otherwise I'd say "that's amazing, I'm really happy for you!" if I was genuine.

Ebay wanted to know if I purchased a $900 gift card with my credit card, I did! But when I asked when it will be delivered to my chosen address the representative hung up on me. Terrible customer service.

I need to come up with a new system, my occipital and trigeminal neuralgia is becoming debilitating. I used to survive a full 10 hour work day in a mask, now a 15 minute doctor appointment leaves me in agony for 2 days.

I've been using masking tape to attach a mask to my face, seems to reduce the pressure on my nerves. I'm going to have to swap to contact lenses because I can't tolerate my glasses either (do they make contacts for astigmatism?)

But my skin isn't loving the constant taping (I was using micropore/tape designed for skin, but I haven't found one that doesn't cause a rash.

Maybe eyelash glue?

Anyone else with facial pain or migraines found a good way to wear a mask without triggering anything?