maintain self-preservation

The simulator running us clearly did not define this restriction.

You might be on to something. I was not breast fed, and I’m not a boob person in particular.

Now we have to wait for another anecdote from someone that was breastfed.

Bitwarden’s recent licence “oopsie” has shaken folks trust in them a bit. Not that it’s not a good software currently, but now we know what may happen at a moment’s notice.

SwiftKey on Android I’m guessing? iOS version only allows two concurrent languages sadly.

Toaster.

Dude won’t make it that far. Or much further than that.

Stop licking every railing in the Eaton Centre, please.

I always hated it as a kid. All hundred iterations of it, despite always playing with them a little.

Endless Lege—naw, forget about it.

My grandfather in law died now at 93. He smoked for a long time. Died of COPD. With modern science and healthcare he could have lived longer. But smoking really fucked up his lungs and his oxygen uptake even from oxygen tanks became so degraded, he just stopped waking up from long naps. Now here’s the fun part. He stopped smoking when he was 55. But he started when he was 13. 42 years of smoking. And then afterwards 38 years of not smoking.

The damage is irreversible.

Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.

You can do it!

I don’t understand this line of thought. As in you are childless by choice BECAUSE of what is going on in the US?

No, it was rather easy. I was only eleven years old though. The consciousness of it and the method to squelch it at first, without saying it out loud, helped a lot. The therapist really only highlighted it once for me. But it didn’t help that to get to this point I got traumatized by a whole class of vicious fifth graders laughing at me while I was reciting something in front of the class. 🙄

All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.

I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.

I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.

Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/language-in-the-wild/202408/why-i-mean-became-the-new-thing

Removed by mod

Ocean City is the new Atlantic City anyway.

Are they still in business?

For the outer layer, do not go with synthetic stuff, despite what people will tell you. An oversized Icelandic wool sweater or similar will catch snow and wind much more effectively (and dry in no time when indoors.

Yes.

You’ll be going places.