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Hello everyone,

wasn't sure where else to put this, since, while chronic, this definitely doesn't qualify for /c/chronicillness LOL (idk how to link communities sorry)

If you are born in a small country, you're stuck in a small geographic area out of a massive world. I mean sure you can travel, but its really hard to permanently move somewhere unless you have special skills or something.

How are you all doing? Anything fun with your kids if you have any?

Today is my second cake day on lemmy!

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Could be any piece of trivia, scientific or historical fact, etc.

So back in highschool, the grade for 12th grade was based 100% on the mid and final exams. Homework didn't matter, quizzes didn't matter, projects didn't matter, participation in class didn't matter as far as grades go. You could of course still do these things and most people did care about them to practice but in the end it was all about the exam.

What was your latest bad idea?

So character, characteristic and why.

So I found a little line of ants a few days ago. I didn't know they went this far off the ground, but I found a little cluster of them mobbing a forgotten piece of breakfast cereal that was under the couch, so maybe it was my fault and they were highly motivated by whatever else is under there.

I've been driving the first car I ever bought for almost 15 years now. I love love love that car, but it's time for an upgrade, so yippee!

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Getting old I guess. I can vaguely recall her face, though barely. I didn't think I'd ever forget such a thing. Not suffering from acute memory issues afaik. Just father time gradually erasing the paths travelled in the sands of time.

Where else are you a lot?

I have been particularly miserable lately, just quit using nicotine altogether, and also been moving away from subscriptions. I need distractions that aren't gum and Altoids. I've been into these songs lately: Whatever You Want - Sports, Zen Automaton - Pond, Bicep - TR/ST, People in the Streets - MGMT, and We Control - Hyper.

it seems like lemmy has a thing for fireflies (aka lightning bugs). It's sad to think of them being driven away by our actions, or not even just us not being able to see them again.

Weather dotcom has premium gatekeeping and Accuweather just kinda sucks

For me, it's Argaï: La prophétie. It is about a medieval prince who got transported into modern world on a mission to save his fiancée. DVD copies are no longer available AFAIK. Luckily, you can easily find all episodes on YouTube.

I’m not Netflix or a struggling screenwriter. I just read an offhand prophecy of how the year pans out and thought it would make a good chat.

Sooo... yeah! I don't really have IRL friends to chat about this so I figured I'd make this post. Didn't want this to be super consequential like hosting an AMA or anything since it's just me going back to where I was born but yeah

Good evening, everyone. It's 18:36 here, and the sun is down right now, but the weather was very clear. My activity helping my mum was not interrupted and was successful. I helped them drive the car and lift weights for processing gardening materials for sale, the family business. I created, deleted, and recreated Lemmy accounts because I wanted to try firsthand installing self-hosting front-ends like YunoHost, Coolify, Runtipi, Cloudron, and so on. I found that YunoHost and Runtipi are the easiest for me to try as an IT student who is currently stuck in semester 2 of college diploma studies, mainly for financial reasons. How was your day?

Gonna be stuck on a train for the next 3 hours so I'm looking for something to pass the time. Books, articles, comics, all is welcome!

But I haven't tweeted since 2014, and I logged out a few years ago and deleted the app. I just left my account behind so nobody took my name, but Twitter says I'm banned for inauthentic behaviour. Is Space Karen a little bored without his orange rapist bestie?

Someone you don't have a relationship with, or even know their name... What was your most recent selfless thing you did for other people?

I’m having a can of chili beans with an egg and some shredded cheese mixed in while it was heating up.

I'd only become aware recently that it's become less common for newer cars to have a spare tire. It was a bit of a shock to me.

As the world can be a cruel place, you can say fuck it🖕 and carve out your own place in the world (hopefully not at the expense of others).

Honestly, I’m not sure. Part of me wishes I never existed. There have been so many nights I’ve wished to never wake up. Other times, when my anxiety causes chest pains (right side), I wish it were in the left (heart attack). But then there are times when I see my boys working together to solve a video game problem (I grew up abused by my brother because he thought “that’s what brothers did”), or they make a casual comment about how much they want to do something with me (spend my birthday with me and take me to dinner, on their mom’s week), and I couldn’t be happier to be alive, and I wish I could just be happy because they are all I need.

For way too long now I have had to plug it in and not let a breeze pass it lest it stops charging. I went at it and it quickly got a lot better where I didn't have to wiggle it around to the right position to start charging.

When I was about 12 I had a maths lesson on Friday afternoons at school. Towards the end of term, I remember my teacher dumping a pile of holiday brochures on his desk and setting the class the task of planning and costing up a holiday. This was pre-Internet, so brochures and travel agents were how you did it back then.

So that's all really fun.

Back when I was like 9, on my birthday, I went and knocked on a neighbor's door. Told her it's my birthday and left. This was someone I'd never spoken to before.

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Hey it sounds sad but imo my friends and I had like the best childhood.

This made for an interesting discussion at dinner lol. Lots of opinions on what is or isn’t a “dumpling” xD

I keep commenting on the wrong post somehow.

Didnt get any pictures cause my phone was turned off but there were a ton of people driving by filming

If so, how did you manage it?

The vet says he has a cancerous lump and will not survive any intervention, and that he was a very different dog than even from two months ago and that it was time. He has dementia, tracheal stenosis, diabetes and cataracts, and coughs a lot, so it really is time, but my ex needed to hear it from the vet, who thankfully is always her forthright helpful compassionate self.

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What are your plans?

I'm really happy, I missed this, it's also something to look forward to, feeling awful from my first group of friends, I finally have a second group that I also once used to talk with, it's so good, I'm like irrationally happy right now

It is so much sweeter and with a unique taste, I don't like peanut butter because it takes so much sugar to make it sweet but hazelnut is less calorie dense and sweeter, it just feel superior!

Have you discovered a new instance? Did you experience a rift in community shifts? Did nothing change for you at all?

How was your experience, how well are you doing?

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Just like what the internet told me, what one buys, including books they don't read, actually speaks more about themselves. Not in a negative manner, such as wasting money, procrastination, or laziness, but because the unread books they purchase reveal more about who they are.

Just wondering if others think the same.

The usual Sunday thread didn't get posted, and I missed it. So I'm posting it. Partly as an opportunity to talk about chickens, ngl. But also because I want to see how everyone else is doing.