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If and when you get around to looking at it, you’ll love everything you see. A mood hack I discovered is to look at saved posts in a random order, because I forget about everything, so it’s like a perfectly curated feed.

All I can see is a bag that my brain has identified as frankincense in the center console. Actually, I looked it up and I’m siding with my brain on this one, that does look like frankincense.

I’m going to be honest, seeing a palmetto bug in person would probably make me think I’d traveled back to a more oxygen rich atmosphere for a second. I’m not generally squicky about bugs that don’t harm you, but I think that would activate a new part of my brain.

Iirc, you can only choose red, blue, black, and green. Maybe other colors are possible, but not preferred (I can see a white passport looking pretty rough after a couple years, if you’re a heavy traveler). No idea why they wouldn’t stick with red though.

That’s not just wrong, she (or one of her aides) is mocking us.

Buy now pay later! I kept reading it like the name of a tech company pronounced “beanpole”

I’m an immigrant in Germany with a discernible accent. I don’t know what would happen if I reported myself to a hospital, but I don’t think it would end in work allowance, even here.

From their username and domain, they might not be that far from France. This could be a small enough expense for lemmy to crowdfund.

There’s also a large number of people, myself included, who don’t trust the police enough to think that they even got the right guy. His eyebrows look different to me, and the rest of the evidence both 1) comes from the police, and 2) implies inconsistent levels of care, forethought, and intelligence.

Basically, I think that the police would have found someone and presented all of the same evidence found after McDonald’s, no matter what. I understand that that’s a conspiracy theory, but it’s based on police conduct.

It’s trucking, you should stop dismissing a union

Mobile gaming ads on YouTube are like softcore animations of a compilation of really specific niche fetishes.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/unixsocks

I worked for an insurance company in latent bodily injury claims (asbestos, lead paint, etc), and the symptoms of lead paint poisoning include lowered IQ, reduced emotional control, impaired risk assessment, and increased aggression.

There was a black man killed by cops for the crime of impoliteness in response to racial profiling several years ago, who had been one of our claimants. I didn’t find a reference to lead paint on the Wikipedia page, so I don’t think it’s public information and I won’t say who, but it’s unfortunately not a unique story.

Lead paint is nearly exclusively still present in awful apartments rented by slumlords to the poorest people in the US.

There’s also ambient exposure from leaded gasoline, but that’s not really an ongoing problem anymore (for now, I could see this regime fully legalizing leaded gas again). Even though lead hasn’t been legal in house paint since 1978, shitty landlords just painted over it instead of remediating it, so kids get exposed to sweet tasting paint flakes, as well as the dust released when it flakes off ending up in their homes or in the soil surrounding their buildings.

They should just call it a maize.

Your comment is appreciated, and I love the vocabulary of vivagenic and vivalytic. It’s absolutely true that I’m less social in my free time than I used to be, and I could see that as a concern among the people who love me, (and I would take that more seriously - I was talking more about societal views) but I have a much more social work life than I used to, so it’s not as appealing to socialize in my free time now, plus I’m married now and living in a tiny apartment, so much of my home time is still not alone (I’ve used varieties of “social” way too much in this comment, but I can’t think of a better way to put it).

I’m going to think about your comment though, I think especially the new vocab will help me more clearly conceptualize the benefits and drawbacks of coping mechanisms.

Just stand still (if there aren’t people behind you). They’ll figure it out and you don’t run the risk of losing your balance by a stray hip check while midstep. Plus it’s mildly annoying

Colcannon is GOAT.

I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.

Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…

I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something

How do you fick up that badly and not notice it? [emphasis mine]

lol

Having socially valued coping skills is honestly a trip though. I used to do community dance, and even though I was overdoing it to combat my adhd (14 hours of hard cardio a week), other people were so impressed by my “commitment.” Now that I just smoke a lot of weed, even though I do it for the exact same reasons, somehow it’s trashy/childish. Playing way too much pokemon go was a half step, where it was considered child_like_, but ultimately treated as a harmless quirk, like adult Disney fans.

I guess it’s like being a morning person (or lots of other factors that are clearly bigotry), where basically it’s just the luck of the draw and some people are assumed to be more/less capable because of random chance.

This has really been a revelatory comment chain.