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- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’m a pretty dedicated alcoholic at this point, but I don’t screw around with otehr substances.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
those things happened over 25 years ago, so not really
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
the topic was “wow, I’ve been really lucky”. It’s okay, here were are and he’s 85 with Alzheimers and I’m almost 50. So we made it. Overall, though, if I had a complaint about him, it’s that he wasn’t very aware or engaged in my life from day to day.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had a few good ones. I recounted them to my dad one time, I recall. Experimenting with prescription drugs as a kid (muscle relaxants when I was like 8), driving in the rain with no license when I was 15, excess opiates that one time, too many sedatives with alcohol a couple of times, and then the legit health problems… I had seizures from low blood glucose a time or two. Pretty exciting record imo
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not too cold there
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
The extra ridiculous thing is how they deny services that a doctor says are medically necessary… and not even in a reasonable way, in an abusive way. Like the system that automatically denies 60,000 things an hour or whatever, and count on people wasting tons of time to challenge it. Or when they have an ophthalmologist review your kidney disease and say that some treatment isn’t warranted. And that’s even after you’ve paid your stupid deductible costs for the year.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
A unit is a unit, so the dosages are the same. What varies is onset curve and length of action, so timing.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
The deductible system is ridiculous.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
The subs would be R and NPH, not the old mixed formulas like 70/30.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
The old formulas you can buy OTC for $25 are more inconvenient to use, but will indeed keep you from dying. The main difference between the R insulin and Novolog/Humalog are how quickly they act. Novolog starts lowering your glucose in about 60 minutes while the R takes 2 hours. Dietary management is not related to which insulin you’re using. So yes, the claim that OOP’s only alternative to paying $800 was to die is not true.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 weeks ago:
Source on the existence of unsubstantiated rumors? How would that help?
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 1 month ago:
There are rumors about him sexually abusing young boys as well
- Comment on Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means. 1 month ago:
It means someone saying something that on the surface sounds nice, but is actually meant to be insulting or challenging. It can be subtle until you learn to recognize it. Even then, it’s annoying because sometimes one has to question "were they being passive
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 month ago:
What about … an electric car?
- Comment on Always sounds like fun but after 10 minutes you are ready to leave 1 month ago:
I’ve been learning that I’m way more extroverted than a lot of people. I’m Ready to drink, smoke and hang out until the bitter end.
- Comment on Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea: Nice plans for US manufacturing you had there, shame if something was to happen to them 3 months ago:
I wish, among other things, that someone would teach this degenerate cretin when and why to use capital letters.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 5 months ago:
It was fairly common in the US decades ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
They used to be better. I had a lot of success when they were relatively new. However the culture around them has gotten worse and more toxic, and the companies have grown more abusive of customers. Just what I gather… I haven’t tried since 2019.
Tinder was okay for meeting people interested in actual relationships when it was newer. It seemed to turn into more of purely a shallow hookup site. I tried Bumble, and that worked, though it apparently is not as good as it used to be. Never tried Hinge or any of the others.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 7 months ago:
they’re focusing on AI instead, it seems
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 7 months ago:
I don’t save stuff with it but I read the articles that come up on desktop. so it’s kinda like a community, subreddit, rss feed, whatever
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 7 months ago:
I enjoy pocket for the articles that come up on the new tab page. I’ve never once saved an article for later with it.
- Submitted 7 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Same here. I have never owned and NES. We went Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, Amiga, Sega Genesis, Saturn, PC, Dreamcast and Plastation 2. (I wasn’t a kid by the last few of course). And agreed, Phantasy Star is awesome.
- Comment on Adding Canada to the US would drastically increase the number of awesome people in the country. 10 months ago:
The invasion aspect is with taking seriously. Also, Trump/Putin want the US to withdraw from NATO, but that’s an aside. My point is that the media, pundits, social media personalities are talking as if it’s a reasonable concept, military invasion aside. It’s about like some guy walks up to a married woman and says “hey we’re going to have sex tonight!” and she’s like “wtf? absolutely not, no, get the hell away from me” and then a bunch of people start discussing what kind of sex they’re going to have and if it will be good or not.
- Comment on A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart 10 months ago:
I think they meant being served half an avocado on a restaurant dish.
- Comment on A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart 10 months ago:
Wasn’t there a post on here not long ago with someone thinking the same thing about getting half an avocado? Like “woah someone else is eating the same avocado as me”. This also applies to say, cows. Pretty rare to eat one single cow yourself.
- Comment on A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart 10 months ago:
If you get the more expensive brands or varieties it’s more likely to be solid pieces vs a slurry.
- Comment on Adding Canada to the US would drastically increase the number of awesome people in the country. 10 months ago:
They’d still be up in Canada though so I don’t see how that aspect would affect me. They’d never let Canadians have full voting rights, of course, since that would mean Republicans would have to cheat way harder to win.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Say “wtf dude” or nothing. You could snap a pic and call the cops. I doubt your knife saved you from SA like you’re saying.
- Comment on Israel’s Netanyahu signals he’s moving ahead with Trump’s plan to move Palestinians from Gaza 10 months ago:
Oh, Genocide Donny. Good thing people fucked around for months about ‘genocide Joe’ so we could get this deranged shitbag and Elon Musk in charge instead.