stelelor @ stelelor @lemmy.ca

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A whole dozen of people?! That's pretty good by American and Canadian standards.

The serious thing: When taxes, interest rates and mortgages were no longer abstract concepts but things I dealt with on a regular basis (I have spreadsheets!)

The funny thing: When I realized I could spend >500$ on a telescope without having to ask, wait, bargain or argue with anybody about it. I want it, I buy it.

That's because the cost of living is a bitch. We may make 5x more but our bills might be 7x more than yours, so overall we're worse off.

Sabriel by Garth Nix. I like YA novels in general; this one and its sequels are amazing. The world building is so good that it feels more like reading a folk tale than a fantasy novel. Also, I like that the main character stays in the picture as an adult and is shown dealing with regular adulthood problems.

Oh shit, this made me remember my experience. As a kid, I had two books that were definitely cursed. Every time I cracked one open, something awful would happen to my family. Being renovicted from our apartment. A parent developing epilepsy. The other parent losing a job. And so on.

The books were sentimental so I held on to them for a long time. When I was an older teen, I even opened one of them to "test it out"... sure enough, parent had a seizure that same day.

I have since gotten rid of them and I steer clear of books on similar topics.

I'm late to the thread but I just wanted to say THANK YOU for taking the time to write it all up! You've helped me understand a few things about abjads, which makes the original post even more hilarious.

I've always agreed with that saying "jack of all trades, master of none, but better than master of one" ... but I didn't expect to feel so frustrated that I don't have any fun niche knowledge.

This was a great question, and I've loved reading all the answers!

It actually means "the tulips", with the determinate article, like this:

• Tulip = Lalea
• Tulips = Lalele
• The tulips = Lalelele

Cooked mushrooms. As a kid, I viscerally hated the smell of mushrooms, to the point it would make me gag whenever we had them for supper. The aversion gradually lessened over time. Then when I moved out and started cooking on my own, I suddenly found them delicious! To the point that I now like to add them to almost any savory meal.

The reasoning behind the API changes, the CEO's entitlement, the ever-more-annoying interface changes (I hate the "More Posts You May Like", the algorithm is pathetically shitty).

I refuse to install apps to navigate websites. If your site is decent, it should work in a browser. If not, I'll just go elsewhere.

Ok but just for the sake of being annoying, you had specifically excluded AND as an option. ;)

1 - And/Or is redundant: Just use OR

So, whenever we are tempted to say “and/or” it is kinda definitive that just OR should suffice.

As a public servant, government policy is full of situations where 'and/or' means something distinct from 'or'.

"You can apply for benefits for yourself, your spouse, and/or your children." VS "You can apply for benefits for yourself, your spouse, or your children."

Which formulation clearly conveys you can apply for benefits for all 3 persons?

Jumping in bodies of water and letting the water carry me away. It's a weird mix of "appel du vide" and the urge to be cleansed.

What is your professional opinion on decimal feet? I had to use such a measuring tape at work, it took me half a day to figure out what was going on with that abomination.

Edit: to clarify, feet were divided in 10 units, not 12, so one and a half feet was at the "5" mark between 1 and 2 ft, not the "6" mark.

Not just on the internet, on Lemmy of all places!

getting a call from their son calling to say that he is ok and not to worry with zero context

So, funny/sad story, I did the exact same thing during the shooting at the college I was attending. (We don't live in the States, so this is definitely not a common occurrence here!) My family only had one cell phone, and as luck would have it, I had it that day. I called my mom at work to tell her I was ok and in a safe place. My mom was very confused during the call. She later told me that after we hung up and she processed what I had just told her (and heard the news on the radio) she almost went hysterical.

If I had time and money I would invent dressy clothes that are practical, long-lasting and comfortable!

The problem was that I adopted the trend without thinking about my poor college student lifestyle (LOTS of bus-metro-walk and carrying heavy books). By the end of that day, the tights had runs, the heels were dirty and scuffed, and my feet were killing me. I looked and felt like crap.

Aw, thank you. I appreciate it but let's be real: I know it was stupid. Like, I thought that dressing smart means I'm smart. I did enjoy the feeling of being put together, but wearing my heavy backpack with heels was atrociously stupid.

Wearing super preppy clothes to school/college. I was mistaken for a teacher in 11th grade. In college, I once wore a pencil skirt, black tights, white sweater, and high heels... to a regular Tuesday afternoon class, just because I wanted to.

I think that fear is just one of the many responses humans like to stimulate. Spicy foods and deep massages? Fancy pain. Fireworks and laser shows? Fancy lights and colors. I wonder if it ties into the ability to remember that we survived the painful stimulus long enough to enjoy the aftermath, so we're more likely to seek out that stimulus in the future? High risk = high reward kind of thing.

Also brings this to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus