Good god. I had covid twice, once before the vaccines and once after being vaxxed. I had a month of bad brain fog after each. It’s terrifying to think I was going to work and driving while my brain was leaking.
Hello I am new, confused and excited about Lemmy! I like the vibes.
Good god. I had covid twice, once before the vaccines and once after being vaxxed. I had a month of bad brain fog after each. It’s terrifying to think I was going to work and driving while my brain was leaking.
True! Hopefully the manned missons land right side up.
So Japens moon lander landed upside down, and Americas fell over. This isn’t looking too good for the future of space exploration.
This is really cool! The evolution of dinos into birds really fascinates me. Time for a new internet rabbit hole.
This is probably the best advice here. I’m rooting for you guys. Stay safe and do what you got to do.
Unfortunately, I think your best move would be to flee the country by any means necessary. Do you have any relatives or friends who live abroad? Even if you are sleeping on a air mattress on someone’s living room floor, it would be an improvement. I do not think the conditions in your home country will improve anytime soon.
You guys talk to computers in the language of computers. You are trying to get the computer to do something you want. However the computer doesn’t help you out, you have to tell it explicitly what to do down to the tinyist detail or it won’t work and you will be sad.
To the outside observer this looks like typing gibberish and copying in chunks of more gibberish. With occasional swearing.
How’d I do? (I know very little about programming and computers, I’ve worked manual labor for something like 20 years.)
I was in collage when Fight Club came out. Of course a bunch of guys decided to make an underground Fight Club. I never went to one bc I am a women and therefore exculded from Manly Punching Time but, boy, oh boy did I witness the fallout.
It didn’t take long for poeple to realize that maybe a computer major shouldn’t be fist fighting a ex marine who was here on the GI bill. Or maybe accounting majors shouldn’t be trying to punch the six foot tall guy who does construction to afford his textbooks. Poeple had black eyes, knocked out teeth, concussions and face swelling. Turns out it’s hard to hide an underground fight ring where you hit each other in the face.
Luckily the Fight club disbanded before admin got involved, and before anybody got really hurt.
This is amazing
I keep clicking on those memes and laughing, and then having no idea why it was funny in the first place.
Holy shit you saw The Thing as a kid!? That’s hardcore. I got nightmares when I watched it as an adult.
This was gonna be my answer. Watched it as a kid when my parents weren’t around. Finally got up the courage watch it as an adult. Yep, holds up really well.
I was an active, functional, alcoholic for many, many years. I stopped drinking for good seven years ago, haven’t touched a drop since. There has been a lot of good advice here, however I wanted to offer my (possibly unconventional) two cents.
One of the things that got my attention during my drunk years was being confronted with how much money I was spending on alcohol. That was eye opening and really, my first dim lightbulb moment of ‘oh shit’ I might have a problem. Maybe showing her how much money she is throwing away each month on hooch?
Second was the realization that all my hobbies revolved around alcohol in some way. Getting involved in some new fresh things that didn’t inherently involve alcohol was a big step. Maybe you both could plan alcohol free activities during the hours she normally drinks the worst? Go for a walk in the park, hunt some Pokemon? Get her out of the house and somewhere poeple aren’t drinking. Even if it means an emergency 11pm trip to Target for candy.
Third, I would highly recommend therapy. I was drinking to fill a hole in my life alcohol was never going to fill. Once I was on the correct medication, I realized I was just using alcohol as a crutch for my mental illness.
My last advice which I hesitate to give, but which worked for me, is to switch addictions to something a little less damaging. I’m much happier being a evening stoner than an evening drinker. Maybe she would like vaping, or mircodosing on shrooms for a mood elevation?
Again all of these ideas involve her wanting to change, but if some part of her does want to change, than this will help. Also DO NOT KEEP ALCOHOL IN THE HOUSE. Nothing. Not a drop. Throw out the vanilla extract and mouthwash if you have to.
Good Luck Buddy!
I feel the same way. In fact I haven’t painted anything in months. I do acrylic realism, painting on canvas board. One of my artist friends was showing me images she made using AI and I was blown away and deeply saddened. This was good art, all at the click of a button. Why would poeple pay me money for art, when they can get it for free? Just spend three bucks to print it at Walmart.
I always kinda assumed he probably went back to live with some family members. I don’t think the Enterprise is gonna let a kid just live alone in his own apartment.
I read it. I read the whole damn book. I kept waiting for something to happen. Nothing really did. 1/10
Militarization of the police, and a extremely unfair, draconian, for profit prison system.
Right!? I was sick for two weeks each time. I couldn’t have taken anymore time off. Deep down I knew I probably shouldn’t have been working during the worst of the fog but I needed the money.