flicker @ flicker @lemmy.dbzer0.com

ADHD advocate, former certified peer recovery specialist (specializing in s

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Oh no, I know it's my fault. You know I have a folksy, colloquial way of speaking, and I type like I speak.

"Can you imagine?" in this context usually is a scoff or an expression of disbelief.

"Doesn't lend well" here means those two things don't mesh.

Of course I was.

I like m@tes. I would want to stick with the pirate theme and in lots of the world, "mate" is a friend.

Love the idea of assuming we're all on the same side. Because we are.

Then the circled a is a good reminder.

This is solid stuff, db0.

Anarchists and elitism, can you imagine?

Doesn't lend well.

That's why I said it might have something to do with who you're around.

Mega corps like Nestle pay a fortune for whole PR departments to advocate for them- don't do it for free.

Who would listen to him? He wouldn't know if he was coming or going without observing red-shift or blue-shift.

Look. No one blames you.

Glad you mentioned 'next of kin.' This is the important answer. If you're married, you can do all that important legal stuff- make medical decisions if your partner is unconscious or indisposed, get the death certificate if that happens and give it to all the people who will need it.

Say your partner is in a car accident and you go to the hospital. There's no marriage, no forms, no nothing to indicate you're at all related to this person. You're just some dude or lady, showing up at some dude or lady's bedside. You can't make the decisions for this person. Even if, say, they have a horrible narcissistic mother they're estranged from- that mother, just by being the mother, can get all the authority to make decisions your unconscious partner would hate!

(Drawing from my own life. Fuck my mother.)

You can't even call the hospital and get information on them. If they aren't awake to indicate a release of information, the hospital can't let you see them, can't tell you anything.

This is just the first example that came to mind. The purpose of marriage is, it's a legal way to indicate that you're the most important person in the life of the person you marry. (And yes, depending on where you are and laws in your state or country or whatever, domestic partnership and other stuff can grant that, too.)

This is so weird to me. Maybe it's about who you are, or who you run with, but when I saw that Discord was about to go that way, I messaged my Pathfinder group and every single person there immediately hit me back with, "so where to next?"

On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just... take a dude and leave.

Tell ya what. Make it as easy for me to pop off a pound as it is for someone else to take a hair dryer out of their luggage and I will happily pay for all the extra boobs I bring on board after I remove the weight everywhere else.

You should've italicized solutions. That's good punnin' right there.

Man, I'd call my lawyer if dialing the phone wasn't such a hassle.

You're... jerkin it to the joker from Balatro?

I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.

We talked about your languages and where you're from. I remember stuff sometimes.

Thanks for asking- it's healing! Only a few more days before I can get the stitches out!

Eta after the fact; should make the couple of stupid long comments I've made look even more unhinged, given the hand injury.

I was totally going to ping you to come to the comments, glad to see you're already here!

It's triggering some sort of primal fear response in me. Which, honestly, I think is a good thing.