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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Earlier this summer. I was cleaning my whole contact list out, removing duplicates, using it to remember folks I would like to catch up with. I’ve managed to keep my contacts list migrating from my first Nokia brick phone I shared with siblings about 20 years ago, so it was full of a lot of crap.

    “Ginger, really good at math” is one contact I deleted. Was it Ginger the name or ginger the hair color? Was it a classmate or someone who was killer at splitting up a restaurant party bill? Idk, I have no recollection so out they go. So does “Stay Away from Steve” and “Another Mike, red ball cap” and “Good dancer Jess”. “Shouty Shorty” remains because she’s still my friend who is short and very loud.






  • Never said you broke 8 or that I think you’re a bot. It’s the answer to your question. This community has a rule against bots, thus you can assume bots exist on Lemmy and it is a community or server decision on how to handle them.

    And as 5 says, there are other forums if you have questions about the site itself. Gotta read the whole thing through, it speaks to more than just “how do I” questions.





  • Approach the claims made by “they” with skepticism.

    Assuming this asteroid is really going to hit and “they” are correct, prepare to die within the next 1-2 months. Practically no one would keep generating and transporting food for consumption outside their local/family use. Money would become useless. Folks would either starve or off themselves first. Folks who have substantial food gardens would be attacked or their stores “requisitioned” by whoever claims government authority via show of force. Folks with preserved food stores might last the 6 months if they were to do a really good job hiding that they have access to calories.

    Again, assuming this is a for sure event that will happen, I would probably off myself when I run out of food to beat the pain of starvation. In the meantime, I’d be sourcing a method of doing so that is painless, high probability of success, and not reliant on electricity because that is also breaking down quickly.

    Were you looking for an answer along the lines of drinking mai tais on a beach? I might do that as a smooth transition for the poison or other method selected to off myself before pain and violence reach me.





  • Do they assume the USA is like Hollywood […]? They perhaps assume that all Americans live in a large home with a white picket fence depicting a nuclear family as if its 1950.

    Yes.

    I keep an album on my phone of photos of “daily life” things for when I travel internationally. Some external and internal shots of my home. My city’s downtown area. The crowd at a college football game. House party guests playing flippy cup with red Solo cups. Grocery store staples w prices showing. Always a good conversation starter.