211 2w ago • 100%
Standing on the bus stop, so, uh the road? But that wouldn't be useful without the buildings and all the activities in them that bring people here. Or since the room could be considered the general "outdoors", oxygen, or stuff like that.
Also now I'm in the bus, so the driver.
211 3w ago • 100%
Nobody likes people not accepting responsibility for their own actions. Duh.
At the same time, who am I to say that something isn't or wasn't as hard on someone as they say? Shouldn't we believe people when they say a thing is a burden for them? Doubly so if we ourselves don't have first-hand knowledge of it, such as poverty, or race, or gender?
Yes, I have a close friend who sometimes irritates me by how she keeps saying she can't do X because Y, or failed at Z due to Q, but in the end her feelings are true and valid even if they seem irrational to me. And she's so much more than that.
211 4w ago • 88%
I, like most of us on Lemmy, live a better life than almost the entirety of the rest of human history.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the world and by extension you have been so kind to me and I turned out to be just this worthless waste of oxygen, my existence a net negative of epic proportions and yet I'm too cowardly to at least end this miserable experiment.
Life is full of wonders and joy and there's so much more to enjoy!
Life is full of putting on a face and smiling and playing a well-adjusted individual and I'm so tired.
Welcome to depression-ville, population way too fucking many.
211 4w ago • 100%
Ditto. Effing survival instinct.
211 1mo ago • 85%
I don't know how the Play Store version does push notifications, but Molly, and I think the apk from their site, work just fine on degoogled phones without Google services.
I don't remember what name it has, but missing it breaks push notifications on most "normal" apps. Many FLOSS ones are coded to have their own methods that don't transmit data to Google, and it appears at least some versions of Signal do too.
My threat model doesn't include state level actors taking an active interest in me, so for my purposes Signal would be secure enough, if only I got people to adopt even it.
211 1mo ago • 100%
We built our own civilization! With blackjack and hookers! And world class (or well above world class, since average world class tends to suck) cycling infrastructure!
211 1mo ago • 92%
Would have been great 20 years ago.
211 1mo ago • 100%
Luoja noita kommentteja.
Mutta joo, on ihmetyttänyt itseänikin miten ilmastonmuutoksen vastaisia toimia vastustavat eivät halua tehdä myöskään varautumistoimia.
Muhoksen palojen yhteydessä 2020 saatiin muistaakseni sammutuskalustoa lainaan Ruotsilta, onko nyt kalustoa lisätty sille tasolle että ainakin yksi massiivinen metsäpalo voidaan hoitaa normaalien tehtävien ohella jos naapurilla on omakin hätä? Onko kaupunkisuunnittelussa huomioon otettavat sademäärät ja tulvariskit ja niihin varautuminen päivitetty oikeasti realistiselle tasolle? Onko helleaaltojen vaatimaan sairaalakapasiteetin ylläpitämiseen kesällä varauduttu? Ym ym.
211 1mo ago • 100%
You mean this is not in addition to retirement income in some places? 🙀
211 1mo ago • 92%
European here, if my parents needed assistance I'd do my best to help them 100%. But that's because they're my parents, they can be thrifty, I know they're not gambling addicts or spending it all on booze etc. Having to ask (not outright, but no longer strongly refusing my help or no longer dumping money on us at every opportunity to avoid inheritance taxes) would be an indicator that they're already pretty desperate.
Lots of people aren't as lucky regarding their parents.
211 1mo ago • 100%
spaghetti monster
But does it fly?
211 1mo ago • 100%
It's not even limited to the US. In Finland it's called "pilluralli", "pussy-rally", and the general associations are of 18-19-year-olds of lower socioeconomical class.
211 1mo ago • 100%
At least here, you don't usually pay for private healthcare yourself, your insurance does. And because private healthcare can and does limit their services and usually avoids the most costly patient groups, insurance is cheap compared to the US (abt 500€/year for 42F), if you want it. US is in a league of its own in how much people end up paying for healthcare, and they have god-awful population level results to show for it.
Sure the wait times can be long, usually not years though. But what horrifies me is that there are rich countries where the wait time can be infinite for some people.
211 1mo ago • 100%
Same has happened here. While I am proud of the younger, more skittish one, it's also an indication of the old matriarch diminishing. I'll never be ready to lose her.
211 1mo ago • 100%
My 14-year-old cat with white ears has a wound that doesn't seem to be healing on one of her ears. One vet visit and 5 days into a 7-10 day antibiotic salve treatment it hasn't clearly shrunk. At least it hasn't grown either, and apparently at least squamous cell carcinoma of the ears is slow to metastise. But still. 🙀
211 2mo ago • 100%
https://molly.im/ Especially the FOSS version. Need to manually add the repository though.
211 2mo ago • 100%
Ace Attorney (nostalgia). I'm not weird enough to be a witness, the perp, or the wrongfully accused. If I was the victim I'd obviously be screwed. If I was a defence attorney my clients would be screwed. If I was a judge everyone but me would be screwed. Payne seems to make an ok living as a prosecutor although he sucks at it, I could do that. Or I'd just be one of those weirdoes cheering in the gallery, or an unremarkable resident of Japanifornia, which would both be fine.
211 2mo ago • 66%
Oh hell no. A fumbled 1, shambling back into sweet death-death within moments, possibly dragging him with me.
211 2mo ago • 96%
Agreed and agreed. But an addendum regarding mattresses: No matter what the salespeople tell you, most mattresses with pocketed coil springs are pretty much the same apart from hardness, especially with a compensating mattress topper. Just get one that feels right to you, definitely don't think that more expensive=better, mattress-wise.
More money advice: Most things come in two tiers worth purchasing: "nice" and "wow".
"Nice" are the things experts deem good enough, or clothes-wise ones that you can see yourself actually wearing across multiple years, both durability- and appearance-wise. Affordable, and you like them. A useable placeholder, if you will.
"Wow" are the things that you've been steadily dreaming of for years, or ones that catch your eye even if you weren't looking. "Buy it for life" stuff. Solid whole wood furniture, that teapot or coffee maker you've been dreaming of. A designer winter coat that only costs 20 times your old one. 🫣 On these you look at the price tag after; you want it, you get it, and if it breaks, you repair it. If it's affordable, or if you find more than one of these every 1-3 years, consider yourself very lucky.
Nothing below "nice" is worth getting, and very few things between "nice" and "wow" are worth getting.
211 2mo ago • 100%
IMHO that's a surefire way to burnout and self-doubts later on. My advice would almost be the opposite.
Never too late to change if what you're doing isn't working for you. Recognize when you're about to kill your passion with expectations, and don't do it. There is little to no cross-disciplinary knowledge that doesn't come in useful, so don't force yourself to be single-minded in your pursuits. What you're learning matters surprisingly little, that you're learning matters so much more.
But yea, don't change major pursuits, like, every year. Probably depends on the person which advice they need. I definitely would have needed the latter.
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references? Additional links: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/100810-thor-thors-hammer-viking-graves-thunderstones-science https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukonvaaja [Finnish]
Arvostelu: Normalin 7€ "Man Up" partahöylä ``` + halpa kuin mikä + ulkonäkö jossain määrin muokattavissa + toimii - vaatii sääätämistä - kahvasta halpa fiilis ja sisältää muovia * "closed edge", 2-osainen terämekanismi * erittäin pääpainava * pitkävartinen, 10,6 cm varsi ``` Osui tässä männä päivänä silmääni Normal:ista partahöylä 7€:n hinnalla. Koska sähköajuri vetelee viimeisiään ja kasettihöylien muoviroska ja hinta ketuttaa, päädyin sitten nappaamaan mukaan. Mainittakoon että minulla ei ole aikaisempaa kokemusta partahöylistä, ja vaikka naamaan jokunen haituva valitettavasti kasvaakin, testaus on tehty pääasiassa säärillä ja kainaloilla. Käytin nesteenä ihan vain vettä ja käsisaippuaa. Ensimmäisen yrityksen jälkeen sain naamaan pari nirhaumaa, toisella yrittämällä vain yhden pienen. Sääreen sain vanhan näppylän kohdalle yhden. Kainalot yllättäen menivät molemmilla yrityksillä mallikkaasti, vaikka siellä arpiepätasaisuutta onkin, ja tulos on ensipäivän kuin epiloinnin jäljiltä mutta huomattavasti miellyttävämmin (ja sitä kautta nopeammin) saavutettu. Kasvaa tietysti nopeammin. Kaiken kaikkiaan ajotulos on myös vasta-alkajalta siisti, ja vaati vähemmän "höyläämistä" kuin halpis-kasettihöylät. 2 viikon seurannassa ei tulehduksia. Puhdistusta varten uudelleen avattaessa ilmeni tämän höylän suurin vika: Kahvan muovikappale ei ole kunnolla kiinni, vaan lähtee helposti pyörimään, mikä tekee pääosan irroittamisesta hankalaa tai suoraan vaarallista. Kahvaosan saa kuitenkin voimakkaasti kiertäen auki, ja esim. 2-komponenttiepoksi molempiin päihin tikulla levittäen minkä jälkeen tiivis kokoaminen auttaa asiaan. Tässä yhteydessä tietenkin voisi myös maalata muoviosan, tulostaa erilaisen, tms. En jaksanut, mutta jos olisin hankkinut tietäen että säätämiseen joutuu, varmaankin olisin väsännyt jkl yksisarvisoksennuskahvan ihan vain koska. Kaiken kaikkiaan suosittelen partahöylistä kiinnostuneille joilla on rajallinen budjetti mutta jotka ovat valmiita vähän säätämään, eikä lähellä ole myyjää jolta saisi ylijäämälaitteen sopivaan hintaan. Eri mieltä saa olla.
Kolumnisti puhuu siitä miten lomalla palataan juurille, on se sitten mökille tai historiallisiin kaupunkeihin. Ja miten monet tekijät nykyelämässä kannustavat merkityksettömään juurettomuuteen. Paljolti tuttua ja itsestäänselvää, osin vetää vertauksissa mutkia suoriksi, mutta sanoittaa ajatuksensa kauniisti ja tavoittaa mielestäni hyvin tämän puolen ihmisten pahoinvoinnista.