SocialMediaRefugee @ SocialMediaRefugee @lemmy.ml

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When the internet was still young I entered an online drawing to win a vacation on a travel website. I never really thought much of it. One day I decided to answer the phone even though we got lots of telemarketers. The woman was from the travel company and said I'd won a rafting trip in CO and that this had been their third and final attempt to reach me. It was totally legit, they paid for the flight, rafting trip and rental car. Due to low river levels the trip was moved to the San Juan river in UT though. It was an awesome trip. We even paid some extra to keep the rental car longer to add some extra sightseeing days to the trip.

Not speaking up for my wants and needs. Being a "soldier" and sucking everything up just creates resentment and gives the other person the mistaken assumption that you are ok with everything. It is ok to say "I don't agree" or "I don't like this" as long as you do it respectfully.

The worst part of mental issues is the part of your body that needs to be fixed is the part that isn't working right and is the part that is supposed to make decisions.

For a few years after college I swear I was in some sort of depression. I barely remember anything from those years and my friend from then tells me about stuff I did that I have zero recollection of.

Mulva? Gipple? Deloris!

I don’t know who put the Panama canal and Greenland into his head

Seriously, it feels like he just crawled out of his basement full of bizarre obsessions.

Leave your phone at home.

Well they didn't have any past government examples to use as a warning. News and communication back then was also much more limited.

I could grab my rifle and take to the streets

They literally had street battles with armed communists and ww1 veterans fighting each other. The average person was so horrified of living in a war zone that they voted for any party who could stop it.

Spain's unemployment rate is 12.29% so not that great there.

I'd say you have issues that have little to do with the news. Talk to a counselor.

Everyone seems to be doomscrolling

Slippery slope of censorship. Where would it stop?

This was a form of "soft serve" lol

I went off the road on an ice coated mountain road once. I suspected conditions were ripe for icing so I was going VERY slowly fortunately. I went into a tree. Well when I got out to inspect the damage as soon as I tried to stand up my feet went out from under me and I held onto the top of the door while my legs flailed like a cartoon character building up speed. The ice was the slickest I've ever encountered.

Sideshow Bob?

I gave the small town police a dunkin gift card for taking the time to drive up to a trail head parking lot in the mountains, in the winter, and pick up my expensive crampons that I had left there. I figured they didn't have to do it for some forgetful tourist. They said "no no" to the gift at first but I insisted.

There was a dunkin donuts near me that always had some city police in it like a cliche. I told my wife "If you ever have a problem around there go to that dunkin and there will be some cops in it."

Then Porky Pig came out of nowhere and said "That's all folks!"

Reminds me of a guy I knew who was in the navy on a "boomer" (nuke missile) sub. The toilets on it had special pressurization systems to force the contents out into the ocean when underwater. Well you had better follow the instructions if you used them, part of which involved closing a ball valve before flushing. If you didn't do this the pressurization would force the contents back up at the flushee resulting in "blowing shitters". Since you had to clean up your own mess nobody made this mistake twice.

And he had to sleep in the garage for 3 days.