shadowSprite @ shadowSprite @lemmy.world

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We missed our chance to all get together and collectively start acting like zombies as soon as the alert fired.

Then again... all of these lunatics have guns and are just dying for an excuse to start blasting. I'd rather not get shot trolling the crazies.

When I was a kid my mom used to get American cheese sliced behind the deli counter all the time and they always gave us the slices in a stack and it never combined.

I can't stand American cheese, nasty fake stuff, but I got cheddar cheese slices behind the deli the other week for the first time in awhile. Instead of just slicing it and giving it to me in a bag like every other time in my life, they individually wrapped every slice in a thin plastic. I got home and was like what in the plastic hell is this? So wasteful and it was a real PITA unwrapping it all.

Agreed! I'm a boring person (that's why I'm on social media)

I used to work for a boss who would proudly say shit to my face like "it's my job to get the most out of you for the least amount of money". I used to respond by flat out refusing to do work saying "you're paying me $12/hr, you're getting $12/hr worth of work from me. You want me to work harder? Give me a raise." We were understaffed and they refused to hire enough people to do the work (our work load more than tripled and they refused to hire any additional staff. Another location had more staff and way less work coming in daily). When my boss started regularly panicking that the work was never done at the end of the day and his ass was going to get handed to him by corporate I was like "huh, that sucks for you, I'm done at 5 and don't give a shit. Maybe you should hire a few extra people like we keep asking"

Idk, is there universal Healthcare in Tamriel? Lol but I guess I wouldn't have any money because I'd have died early on, so I'd still be better off without rent to pay :)

In my computer science class this week I was having an issue with a line of code throwing an error I'd never seen before, so I took my laptop up to my instructor for help. After looking at my code for a minute she very solemnly said "oh, I know what's wrong. It's your fault." After we finished laughing I said "I know it's my fault, but please tell me why so I can fix it"

My husband will literally say "I'm going to sleep" and go to sleep. It can take me up to 8 hours to fall asleep while I toss and turn and fight panic and depression. However, I did get to work night shift for awhile, and realized that when I go to bed at 8:00 am I can be the asleep in 10 seconds person! I miss night shift. Instead of being tired and miserable all day and laying awake all night except for a few hours of fitful sleep, I slept like the dead for 6-7 hours during the day and felt absolutely alive and awake and happy during my waking night hours. Apparently my circadian rhythm is flipped and so when I try to live "normal" hours my brain responds by sending me into a spiral of doom and worsening mental health.

My husband and I had a conversation about this once. Why do we always end up rich with multiple houses in video games, when we're broke AF in real life? Why can't we transfer some of that into the real world. Then we realized the answer. Crime. We play criminals in video games. Skyrim? I'll have 300,000 gold and 6 houses by level 40. I'll also have robbed every single house, every NPC, and shop in every hold. Damned morals keeping me from doing that in the real world.

He's from Pennsylvania. I grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in several parts of it before I left the state. Dressing nice for family dinner means putting on a clean hoodie and your nicer jeans and sneakers/boots.

That's what I keep saying. That the world ended, but to save humanity some brave but misguided hero somehow ported us all into this slightly different but really fucked up reality. This is my explanation for the Mandela effect, that we remember our old timeline but when we look things up the research shows what happened in the new timeline so it's all wonky lol

A knee locking up sounds far more painful than an ankle! I hope you somehow find a resolution!

Nah, my parents wouldn't take me and when I was an adult I didn't have money/care enough to go find another doctor who I figure also won't care. I'm also no longer an athlete (because of said ankle, but now I'm just old and lazy) so it's not a big deal. If it hurts, it hurts.

When I was 10 I started having issues with my ankle joint "locking" into place. I wouldn't be able to bend it forward or back (like you need for a walking motion), and would have to roll it around gently sideways and slowly get a wider and wider ROM in my roll until it popped and I could do a straight back and forth motion and walk normally again. As a young athlete, it was a bitch, because I'd be sprinting down the soccer field and mid stride my ankle would lock and I'd be fucking hobbling. Finally at 13 my parents decided maybe it was an issue worth seeing a doctor for. The orthopedic specialist told me he had no idea what was going on, that puberty does weird things to kids heads and it was all in my imagination. Told me by the time my hormones stabilized it would go away, said just wait til 15 or so, I promise you'll be fine. I'm in my 30s and the fucking thing locked up as recently as last week, so he's clearly a genius.

FYI GOG lets you decide whether or not to update, and if you update and don't like the update or it's buggy you can roll it back. They don't have as wide a selection as steam, but they have a lot, and they actually have a ton of old games too. I love it for games that I've modded and the mods get abandoned, I can play my modded version forever

I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it's going to be such a helpful resource! I'm going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You've definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!

My mom, older genX, was a stay at home mom with a very part time job my whole childhood. She always complained that my dad didn't do enough to get us more money, but refused to work because she was the woman.

She also complained to me after I got married that she thought my husband and I would be fun loving people who did fun things, but apparently we had given up just like all the young people. She said it seemed no one young wanted to do anything with our lives anymore, we just worked and stayed at home and were boring people wasting our lives. She said she thought we'd be better but she guessed she was wrong. At the time there were 3 days total a month where my husband and I both had off work, every other day one or both of us were working. We literally didn't have time to go on vacation or go out to do fun things, we were always working or trying to catch up on errands. Bitch, I have rent to pay, unless you are going to chip in, fuck off, because if you think this is the life I chose think again.

Wow, I'm in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!

To some degree yes, but not everyone in a red state votes red, and not everyone in a red state can afford to leave. Sounds like an excuse to punish the poor, but we knew that. (Yes, I live in a red state, no I didn't vote for this shit, and yes, I do vote). Now do I feel bad when I read the articles about the woman who are like "I was always against abortion but now that I was denied one this is awful?" Haha, no.

It was very busy and stressful. I think I've taken on more than I'm capable of handling and I'm doing a poor job at all of it and I feel inadequate and stressed and like my mental health is balancing precariously. The good news is I should get a break in a few months. I just need to keep juggling these knives until then and hope I don't hit an artery. Like so much of humanity, I just wish the world would stop spinning for a little bit.

You just taught me a new word and I love it!