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My cars ignition coil and spark plugs are completely destroyed. Will cost me lots the repair…
I’m slowly losing the sense of belonging I had to my work. I’m afraid I’ll never financially recover from it if I fully realize it.
My cat of twelve years died on my birthday. He had been sick with Triaditis for about 6 weeks and I had to feed him through a tube 3 times a day. Each time would take about an hour and a half.
He was getting better, too. Putting on weight, and ate his own meals for 5 days. But the E-tube got infected and so we took it out 2 days early.
He got home. He vomited. He stopped eating for two days. He started vomiting and acted in pain and so I took him in again. They discovered fluid in his abdomen. He was too skinny from his digestion issues for a further hospitalization and he was in pain.
He slept each night in my armpit with his head on my shoulder.
I worked from home before the pandemic, and so I was with him almost all of the time for his life. I loved his tiny 6 lb ass.
He was a bathroom communist. It could be 3 a.m. and I could check that he was asleep, and when I looked up from sitting on the toilet, the door would be slightly ajar and he’d be in front of me watching the door.
I miss you, little dude.
I am so sorry! Last year I lost my cat and not only was he my first cat that I had for 14 years, but also the first pet I’ve ever lost. He died on 9/11 (because he’s a drama queen) and I truly wasn’t ready for it. I still miss him every day and I still cry when I think/talk about him.
My Mickey Mouse was the most perfect cat in the world; he never once hissed at me or scratched me, not even during the rare times he needed a bath. He loved my dogs and was friends with everyone he met. He never pottied or sprayed, he never scratched my furniture. He was purfict in every single way. I know in my soul that I will never find another one like him.
I’m very sorry for your loss. Its really not fair that we only get them for such a short amount of time.
I am so sorry to hear that! That is horrible. Take time to heal
Gestures at the current state of America
And that like a virus were infecting other countries. I wonder why it’s so effective…. Why so many countries are having this issue - is it the effects of covid? Capitalism?
The gnats inside the house.
Start collecting spiders and place them near gnat hotspots.
Once had a fly problem with my plants, plopped a couple spiders there and they were gone in a week or two
Then what do you get to get rid of your spider problem?
Without the food they usually go bye bye pretty quick. Also make sure to kill any eggsacs
Advertising and the stock market. Two evil controlling systems that systematically abuse humans daily. Fired, stock market. Some random dude got some absurd promotion to tank the company and ruin people’s lives - stock market. Forced to watch advertising every fucking where you go… Ohh sorry someone needs to do that to make money so fuck you.
SAME
Family or rally any retired person who doesn’t understand that you are working and trying to survive in this fucked-up word, and get upset when you can’t take days off whenever they please, trying to guilty-trapping you or just being condescending about you being busy.
There was this client. Gut says she’s bad news so I refused to work for her.
A couple years later she asks me again. She’s friends with 5 of my other clients so fuckit, I take the job.
End up crawing under her 1962 house, drilling holes and running wires. Horrible job and a mild but lasting knee injury.
Always trust gut.
When it comes to people’s behavior always trust your gut.
The absolute crap interfaces that are being developed for electronic devices. There’s no reason for them to be as bad as they are at this point. They were getting better and better going from say 1996 until about 2005. After that they just started dropping off fast. The last few years they’re just atrocious. And there is just no excuse. I know it annoys people when I say it, but as far as I’m concerned, the people who develop these interfaces, when they get up in the morning, they do lines of crack until their brains just about explode. Then they go to work and say this would be a cool idea even though the rest of the world looks at and goes. What the hell?
There’s no logic in the interface no common sense that you can use to use them.
And the target/hit boxes are becoming so small if you have any sort of muscular issue good luck on ever using it.
The developers, the executives the companies do not give a crap. Their attitude is if you don’t like it just buy something else. The problem : that’s the way it’s all being designed so you literally have nothing else to buy.
Then you have the consumers , their attitude is basically you have a choice. You don’t have to buy it. Which is a completely moronic statement.
My response is basically I’ve stopped buying things. Unless I absolutely have no other choice I just make do with what I have and the world go screw itself.
I watched my mom try to tap an icon on the screen seven separate times before it would actually activate. think about that , seven times just to activate whatever she was trying to touch. That’s stupid. So I literally knelt down right next to the table and watched herfinger very carefully, hit the screen and come up. The problem was her finger was moving by just a few pixels. So it was counted as a drag. Who the fuck thought that would be a idea? I mean, I could understand if you touch and drag, like a distance on the screen OK well that’s dragging. But that incredibly tiny amount? What jackass thought this was a good idea.? If your finger so much is twitches, it won’t count it as touch. It’ll count it as a drag and it won’t activate.
Preach!
I’ve also noticed my kids trying to press things on my screen. Before, when they didn’t know better, they would keep accidentally scrolling a little when trying to press something, because that’s how much force trying to press something real and physical usually requires.
But you can actually see, with your own eyes, the moment as they notice how their real world experience is not useful to apply to a touch screen. They have to adapt and be extra gentle and careful when tapping to activate stuff, so at not to scroll.
Tell grandma with Parkinson’s to “adapt”. While not as ubiquitus a disability as daltonism or blindness, interfaces should still cater to people with them.
When it’s kids adapting it’s fun. When it’s someone with tremors physically incapable of gently and precisely tapping the exact 5px, it’s just bad design.
I’ve yet to see an accessibility setting for this very valid usecase.
The banality of daily life as we slip into authoritarianism. None of this matters.
Discovered phone launcher I use (Ratio Launcher) got bought out by some shady company , peops who bought their lifetime subs now expected to perpetually drain their wallets to this company . Play store has so many 1⭐ reviews . Hate subscription models so much . At least modded APKs of it exist , where I would be without em
Lawn chair is decent.
Am not asking about alternative launchers
Sorry for the shitty experience and for my comment.
I really dont get the appeal of launchers, is that like an Android thing comparable to Shortcuts/automations?
Not … really ? More like alternate home screen layouts . Some allow custom icon packs
Insomnia.
I finally landed on a sleep pattern that (mostly) alleviates/prevents my chronic migraines and today I got all of 45 minutes and haven’t been able to get a wink since. Think Green Day’s Brain Stew.
Trying to keep my meds and routines as much as possible and hopefully stay up/sleep in to where I need to but I worry I’m screwed for the next week or so.
I have a sleep issue and my latest job has a standby/on-call component I can’t avoid right now. I’m dramatically affected by even the potential to be awakened and it’s been a challenge.
I’m looking forward to avoiding that again, as I can usually recover about a week after that all ends.
I’m in a similar spot, but with fatigue/brainfog instead of migraines.
I believe in you, friend. I feel like shit and I’m sure you do too, but we can make it through.
That does not sound like fun. I’m sorry this is happening to you.
Thank you, I appreciate it. /gen
The obsession Americans have with acronyms. Some of them can have wildly different meanings depending on the context (MTG, CP), and sometimes even in the same context can mean different things and you need further context, like video game titles (DS, GoW, AC, SC).
It’s getting near impossible to understand what’s going on when reading their news. “DOJ pushing DOGE to ban EPA, GOP says…” The who, what, where?
I’m scared that I’m developing tinnitus. It started in one ear a few days ago and won’t go away. It’s not getting worse, but also not letting up either. It comes and goes, but when it’s quiet in the room, I can hear it clearly.
No particular event has occurred for it to start, sound wise. No loud things or blasts or anything. But I haven’t been sleeping properly for a good week or so. I should try getting some proper sleep. Maybe? I dunno.
My grandma is basically deaf, and my mother’s hearing got ruined when she was subjected to a house burglar alarm. Having bad hearing is not fun. I also love music and singing and such and I really don’t want to get effed-up hearing. My coworker is also afflicted by tinnitus and has to go to coping therapy and shit. It does not sound like a fun time to have this continuing, or progressing. 😟
The end.
I’m not a medical expert, but I can safely say from experience that tinnitus can be caused by a huge variety of things with most of them not actually being that serious (cold/flu, earwax buildup, meds, infections, etc.). However, like other symptoms that inhibit daily functions, if it persists longer than a week, you should definitely consult a professional (assuming that option is available to you.)
I got perma tinnitus from covid in January 2020. It makes me so incredibly sad. I had very good hearing before that, and now, after spending some time with an audiologist and ent, it’s official that I have some hearing damage caused by that event, too.
