I was just thinking this is the perfect compromise between dark and light mode, actually!

There’s a dad jokes lemmy!

dadjokes@lemmy.world

It probably is, and fixing my poor sleep hygiene would get me better sleep, but I am sleeping enough and medicated enough to get by. However, as it becomes winter where I am, I have to be more careful. I definitely have to get 8+ hours in bed, though.

No, they just believe in the honesty of people. Well, that and they probably also figured that having an aggregate of answers and the upvote/downvote system, they can ferret out a response.

And how does one do that while meming “the man, the myth, the legend”?

No, if they want to be gendered appropriately, they should have it in their username.

though I’ve been saying “munis” for short.

“comms” is my go-to.

I always railed against this. I’m using clockwise-lockwise from now on.

What is your point?

protects students from being compelled to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.

Students are not being compelled to salute or say the pledge, only stand and be quiet. Teachers are the ones compelled to recite the pledge every day.

It is a law in my state that all students must stand and all teachers must recite. Most of the students recite too, but no one but teachers are forced to.

Yeah, we don’t need a song about war to remind us how we got here, we need a song about togetherness to remind us how we should be.

Can we make a pledge to be a good and productive person?

In countries without capitalism and property rights, the billionaires are the government and the judiciary and the military.

In the US, they just have solidified a really good means of controlling it… I mean, the amount we don’t tax them, the super PACs we let them contribute to, and the control they have over our media is definitely a form of control that may not be “as bad” as other systems (arguably) but it seems like it’s really similar.

Yes, and I’m not as narcoleptic as others I’ve heard because I can medicate and function. But I do have one of the smallest sleep latencies (how fast I enter REM sleep) of any narcoleptic I’ve encountered.

I’ve never fallen asleep while doing something truly stimulating. Boring to me tv show or movie while comfy, sleep at 10pm, TV show that has me gripped, binge until 2am. I have a memory from my teens of watching a good movie in the theaters, no issue, but a friend dragged me to see it a second time and I passed out.

Absolutely, me too. If my brain is stimulated, then I’m at no risk (unless other factors are against me).

It was crazy to see the EEG showing me hitting REM with 15 minutes. Sometimes I feel like I’m conscious and experience REM.

Mine was more like 2 minutes. My doctor once called me “extremely narcoleptic”.

Thanks for chiming in and sharing your experience! I used to have a really great narcolepsy community over on R*ddit, and that is one of the few things I miss about that place.

Yeah, for real. I don’t know if you read what I wrote in another response, but one of the factors that affect me having a sleep attack is the amount of stimulation, and that would be enough endorphins to keep me awake. Now, if I’m not medicated, the cataplexy (weakness in the limbs that comes with my form of N) might get me because of extreme emotions.

though to be fair it’s really wild the range of different things COVID can do to you

My mom still has problems with brain fog and her sense of taste after having COVID.

Dysautonomia

Wow, that sounds like the disease you have when something’s wrong with your brain and they don’t know what.

I would not have fallen asleep while running, I would not have been able to stand up straight while asleep, and I would not have been that awake when I did wake up.

And, while where here, most media portrayals of narcolepsy are not accurate, but I am also not offended at my disorder being played as a joke. However, I’ve never actually watched the whole of Rat Race or Duce Biggalo or any other movies portraying narcoleptics so maybe that had something to do with it.

I’ve been working in this job for the past three months.

Are you the first Personal Assistant she’s had?

And do you have a contact for a certain amount of time to be assumed renewed or could she straight up fire you tomorrow?

They’re the kind of parents that are so relaxed to the point where they don’t care about her, which is probably true. She’s the youngest girl of the family, so she’s not really that important to them. She’s basically allowed to do anything that she wants, as long as it’s nothing that puts her in danger.

At first, I thought this was sad, but honestly, I would have loved this as a 20-something. Do you know how she feels about it? I mean, at least she has plenty of money to wipe her tears with…