You watched Kaos, too? I love Jeff Goldblum.

I deleted my Reddit account and switched to Lemmy after the API stuff. I kinda regret deleting my account because it wasn’t until after that I learned about the apps that would scrub your comment history, but Reddit has a tendency to roll those back anyway.

I still sometimes end up on a Reddit thread when searching for some technical issue, but I generally try to browse other forums for solutions first if possible.

ETA: all other social media stuff like Instagram and Facebook I deleted around the time of Trump’s first election. Just got sick of the constant stream of bullshit.

Definitely got a chuckle when Eddie Izzard talked about how Europeans just “long for a bungalow”.

Never really looked and just realized how cluttered that apartment is.

I’m an atheist and even I think the dude’s a twat who enjoys the smell of his own farts.

It’s ridiculous how obsolete US utility companies are, especially water companies that often require you to show up to their office in person to activate service or set up automatic payments (You want a voided paper check? I don’t even have checks for my account. What’s wrong with a debit card?).

And they go crazy with their estimated bills. I worked an IT job where I’d fly to some city in the US for a week of work, fly home on Friday, do laundry and submit expense reports, and do it all again the next week. Was pretty much never home. Got a water bill for $300+, and they wanted to try and argue with me that the bill was correct. They suggested maybe I had a leak somewhere, as if a leak that resulted in a $300+ bill wouldn’t have been causing some blatantly obvious issues that I would have seen.

American Exceptionalism.

gestures broadly

Fingers crossed that’s just a stock image because that wardrobe is very depressingly beige.

For when you’re feeling nostalgic.

There’s some shithead in my area that lugs around one of those large JBL party-size looking Bluetooth speakers and has a habit of sitting at the bus stop across the street from my apartment and blasting his shitty rap music for the whole fucking neighborhood to suffer. Always super awesome to finish a long night shift, crawl into bed, and be woken up to that shit a few hours later.

I’d have a similar reaction. My birthdays were so consistently shit that I stopped telling new contacts/friends when it was years ago and I just don’t celebrate it anymore.

What a pleasant thought for the child diddling priests he did nothing about.

If you honestly expected a different general response to this question given the current US political climate and America’s reputation abroad, I’ve got a highly lucrative meme coin to sell you.

And that’s how docker was born!

I’d certainly appreciate even minimal protection from the elements while I’m pinching one off.

At the time I was taking them I would have been on my parents’ medical insurance, so I’m not sure of the costs. I would imagine self-administration would be cheaper if only because you’re not paying for an office visit.

It’s been years since I took them, but at the time I used something that looks like the image below. Not a huge needle, and injected into an area with fatty tissue like the thigh or stomach so didn’t really hurt either.

I took them for a few years in middle/high school, and they worked well for me. If you don’t feel like going to a doctor every week for the shots (and you aren’t too freaked out by needles) you can usually also administer them yourself. My roommate in high school hated needles and shots, so I’d of course make sure to administer the shots while he was in the room.

That fucking trash. I’ve got vasovagal syncope.

A sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting, often in reaction to a stressful trigger.

Common triggers include strain, stress, long periods of standing, heat exposure, or the sight of blood.

Symptoms include paleness, nausea, sweating, a rapid heartbeat, and fainting.

It’s inconsistent, though. For example, never had issues with the numbing shots at the dentist. One day they start giving the shots to numb me up, and next thing I remember they’ve got me sitting up over a trash can trying to clear the vomit I was aspirating on. Scared the shit out of those dentists.

Once while in middle school I lightly nicked a finger with some scissors - barely even bled. All of a sudden I feel nauseous and ask to go to the bathroom. I manage to get out into the hallway before collapsing to the floor, hitting my head at least twice on the way down and traumatizing my classmates who thought I just dropped dead.

Intelligent design my big gay ass. Damn vagus nerve is a dodgy self-destruct mechanism.