toynbee

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

I don't know, but it's a good thing they aren't into cash.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

I have met people who claimed to be "allergic" to Wi-Fi. They've found suggestions (perhaps ironically online) that they should move to this area, avoiding exposure to their proclaimed allergen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

"Americans think 100 years is old. Europeans think 100 miles is far."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No other woman has ever done that to me unless I was already in a relationship with them. I don't mind a casual hair ruffling, but if that's what it was it's still surprising to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When I was in my early twenties, a girl I had a crush on but who was dating my friend came up behind me and scritched my head. I'm married to a different woman now and have a kid, but I still wonder about that interaction. I can relate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

For me, the impaction was only mitigated after leaving the peroxide in for an extended period.

I did have a pool-related impaction one other time before I started using q-tips regularly. I went to the doctor for that and they pushed it out using some kind of manual water pump. It worked and the obstruction came out of my ear, but until that happened it felt like earwax (and water) were going to come out of my nose. I don't know if that's normal, but it was unpleasant.

One last mostly unrelated (and entirely unprompted) aside: my first encounter (that I remember, at least) with q-tips was right when I was a boy approaching puberty. My mother cleaned my ears with wet q-tips and I complained of the unpleasant feeling. She told me "if you don't keep your ears clean, no girl will ever stick her tongue down your ear!" At the time it sounded nice just to have any contact with a girl, but now that I'm an adult I have to avoid wondering about that sentence that my mother said to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Oh, I don't disagree regarding regular use being a pain. I used 3 q-tips after every shower (one per ear for the various crevasses, then the opposite ends of a shared one to - as you say - scoop from the main canal). For at least two reasons I wouldn't want to use peroxide that way every day.

However, twice in my life I've gotten my ears clogged to the point that q-tips just made it worse. In both of those cases, peroxide worked miracles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw the comment I believe you're referencing.

I repeated it to everyone in my life who would be even remotely receptive and they all loved it.

Hopefully the original commenter is proud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I second this question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the edification!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is the second time tonight I'm posting this exact comment (after this sentence):

This statement is upsetting.

 

Before last night I didn't even know my sister still painted. It's great that she does.

 
 

Nothing in my life has prepared me to answer that question, let alone to a 5-year-old.

 

They had an idea and they went with it.

 

Them: Knock knock!

Me: Who's there?

Them: Unicorn.

Me: Unicorn who?

Them: Unicorn. Unicorn. Stop saying unicorn.

edit: Line breaks.

 

Sorry if not.

I was on Reddit for a lot of years and enjoyed most of them, I really did. Almost all of that was through the Reddit is Fun app, it was one of the few apps I liked enough to pay for it.

I stopped opening RiF the day the API incident happened and I switched to here (using Connect, after some experimentation, because the UX was most similar to RiF). I wasn't confident we would gain enough users to make it worthwhile to switch, but I wanted to try and I didn't want to support spez. Just this morning I told my wife that we probably had several thousand users, then a few hours later I saw a post saying we had almost 1.5 million. That's amazing!

I struggled a bit with Lemmy when I started using it, but either Lemmy or I evolved - probably both - and now it's a wonderful experience to open every day. Y'all are great and I appreciate your presence.

edit: Probably should have said it in the original message, but in case it wasn't explicit: thank you all.

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