My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot
Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.
My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot
wow, that’s something I was happy to not have heard in a while
The corrupt liberal propaganda machine in Tishomingo covered it up 😤
It sure is awful that we’re at a point where people like Musk and Theil are working with a demented rapist conman to put someone like this 3 hamberders from the presidency.
The eyeshadow is not really a problem, I guess, except in the context of his other views. If he just was like “yeah I grew up with emo” or “I like the cure” or even “I think it makes me look cool”, that would be one thing, but instead we’re just supposed to overlook it like some people accept that his running mate is a pasty pink person with pig eyes who paints most of his face orange.
So you think the Oklahoma town canceled their football for… ?
It does seem pretty wild how widely it’s prescribed given anecdotes like that. I also a knew a guy who had been taking it for over 10 years and clearly was wildly addicted.
I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.
In the past, definitely. I’m not sure what the current system is.
Realistically, might as well read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager as it knows a lot more than I do. I had a pager for several years and have done network programming, that’s about it… i have an insulin pump that people often mistake for a pager though, ha. It makes me look pretty cool.
They’re sent like a phone call. Afaik there is no confirmation on the network whether the device received the message.
Yeah, reading it, I definitely mixed the two. The first one I was thinking of for sure had a lengthy very sci-fi set-and-setting exposition where it explained that people flew around in hovering vehicles and their legs had atrophied. I can’t remember the plot or anything that happened in the story, though, only that, so I think I just imagined that it had the plot of this Bradbury story. I’ve been wondering about it for a long time… I read it over 40 years ago and it was in a collection of stories probably published in the 60s.
What number of those people are of military age, though, fit, able, willing to upend their lives and would support whatever cause? A lot less than 330 million, I’d guess.
Thanks! I feel like I might have conflated two stories though. The Pedestrian is definitely the one in the second half of what I described. I’m not sure about the first part of what I recounted though, it could have been a different story. I’ll have to read it and check it out.
I’ve been trying to find this ridiculous sci-fi story I read in elementary school. I thought it was Ray Bradbury but then I recalled it was, I believe, from a collection edited by and/or with a foreword by Bradbury.
The scenario was that people in the future had become so dependent on mechanized transportation that their legs atrophied. Walking around normally was seen as very strange as everyone used these hovering personal transport devices. I think the story basically just described the protagonist walking around town and taking strolls at night and how odd everyone else thought it was.
I also hate driving vehicles like this. It’s not comfortable to know you can’t see around you properly. They’re hard to park too and get terrible mileage.
I had a gf with a full size Chevy, a Silverado or something, and basically hated driving it. We’d go mildly off roading on some dirt roads and when you were going uphill you couldn’t see the road ahead of you. Just awful. I had to stop and get out a few times to ensure we weren’t about to drive off a cliff. That never happened in the normal sized Subaru I had.
Loomer also then defended her post and tried to rationalize it.
Trump mentioned her as a potential White House press secretary, which of course is horrifying.
But Danald Tramp just said it was $85 billion
Now it’s Kamala Harris doing it? Fuck off, Jon.
I do mean just a saucepan with some water in it. I ended up getting an electric kettle…