dharmacurious

So, how does one get this particular sticker for their vehicle? Asking for a friend.

My mom lost her business when I was really little, and once we settled down somewhere new, she started working as a receptionist for an environmental company. She used to have to bring me to work with her sometimes. Everyone in the office was super chill about it, but if Ed, the owner/complete asshole was there, I had to hide under her desk until he left.

We need a lot of changes, but honestly, a UBI with an extra stipend for parents is one of the big ones. people can't afford to have kids, can't afford to lose their jobs because of their kids. Who the fuck is gonna take care of assholes like Ed when they're old if no one is having kids?

Excuse me, this is Me Erasure. I am beautiful in my own way, tyvm. It's not my fault I had a weird evening in which a genie wish went wrong, and John Cleese loved me carnally.

Also less mess to clean up. Plus, you can use your enemy's weapon. My mom hated cleaning up bits of balloon from the yard, so she gave up straight up kitchen sponges to lob at each other. It was very fun, I'd love to use the purpose made ones kids have nowadays

Can you explain to me, an Idiot™, what that would mean for me in practice if I switched? Would I be able to use the play store? What about my bank's app, or something that uses location, like Grindr?

When I was 18, I lived in an apartment building like 1/4 from the sand in Virginia Beach. They had restrictions on their restrictions so they could restrict you while you were restricted. It was insane.

My neighbor directly above us had the sweetest pit bull mix in the world named Lola. He used to call her his showgirl, she was amazing.

He got away with it by showing them papers, that he 100% forged, saying she was a pure blooded Staffing Nannyshire terrier. He was so fucking pleased with himself, and I do not blame him. In case anyone isn't aware, Staffordshire terriers are a related breed to pit bulls (and pit bull is more of an umbrella term for several breeds), and pittys were called nanny dogs back in the day. He just threw some related words together and claimed her breed was originally bred as show dogs, and weren't closely related to pit bulls. And the apartment bought it hook line and sinker.

That's cool as shit!

When I was a kid, like... 10-11 or so, I wrote a sci-fi short story about an alien planet where they evolved as arboreal marsupials, and lived entirely in trees, shaping the branches to make their homes and roads and bridges and stuff. Shitty story, but the visuals my friend drew from it were freaking amazing. Cool to know something like it actually exists

Does Lemmy have a Pareidolia community?

Thing is, I only had a minor sore throat for like 24 hours, with a couple white spots, and honestly, I just thought the sore throat was from some, uh, recreational activity the night before. But I felt just awful and flinchy* for several days, then I got these red bumps all over my back and shoulders, and then almost died.

*I get flinchy when I have a fever or get sick. Something touches me and it's like my body jumps or flinches and I don't understand it at all. It's happened my whole life, but about 6 months after the scarlet fever I got mono, and got super flinchy as well, and now that's just a thing that happens to me now, where my body involuntarily flinches whenever anything touches it. It's not all the time, but it'll do it for several days with no reason, and then not again for months. Doc doesn't know why, but guesses it's because the mono virus sticks around in you forever, and it's just an after effect. Says hopefully it'll go away eventually, but it's been like 5 years, and every so often (coincidentally happening the last couple days) I just suddenly become a scared Chihuahua or some shit

TIL why my mom always checked my throats for spots whenever we mentioned any kind of not feeling well. First thing she did. I always assumed it was just a strep thing, but she grew up in a time when measles was still an active threat. I just remember white spots in the throat being the biggest thing. No white spots, go to bed. White spots, go to doctor.

Fun fact: I ignored that advice in my late twenties and ended up with scarlet fever. Like a fucking Victorian child. Didn't even know scarlet fever was still a thing.

Don't worry, after we ~~invade and occupy~~ purchase ~~Greenland~~ Red, White, And Blueland, I'm sure we'll "purchase" Iceland, too. Then we can all go live there...

I literally only opened the comments to ask someone to do this. Lol. Thank you for anticipating my needs