Yes.

I don’t even get why people need ringtone anymore. I can hear my phone vibrate from across the room and if its in another room, it’s there for a reason and I’m not picking up anyway

I had a cat called “D.C.” it stood for Dead Cat. Or was a fully black cat I saved from certain death in the wood, hence the name

Anything by the “artist” pitbull… Like, who rhymes canon with canon…

Just thick socks, a good pair of jeans, a hoody and wintercoat and maybe a shirt under it if it’s really cold. Than a good scarf, hat and mittens. Anything more and I find I’ll start swearing from the heat after only a few minutes, cycling through bad weather and show is hard work.

I have a terrible case of dislexia. It’s better now, but foreign languages during high school where basically impossible. Not that I wasn’t learning, I just couldn’t keep up with the class.

My French teacher, who was also the class mentor, didn’t believe dislexia was a thing and made it very clear he didn’t. I always felt like he was picking on me, as if he straight up didn’t like me. He’d often call me out in front of the class, but there’s this one time that still stands so clear in my mind:

We had a test, a simple one. Just 20-25 French words we had to translate. We had one day to memorise the. I studied for hours after school. My mom spend at least 3 hours studying with me. I still didn’t know much that night, but when showing up the next day for class, I had forgotten everything. I did the test as best as I could, but knew I was gonna fail. Just like I always did.

The following day, after he had graded the tests, he was calling out everyone’s grades. When he came to me, he held up my test to show the whole class, with it being pretty much all red crosses on it. He casually added “and look who didn’t study again and chose to get an F”

It broke me. I was trying so hard up until that point. I really did. It took all my strength not to just burst out in tears. I did everything I could, it still wasn’t enough and to add insult to injury my teacher felt it necessary to shame me in front of the whole class and he wasn’t even right in what he said.

After that day, I didn’t study for the class anymore. Not even once. After that moment I choose to live up to what the teacher already thought of me. It hurt my whole school career and I still kinda blame him for that.

I’m really into history, so at least one a week

I choose to not own a car, making it so I have to cycle to work daily. That’s my exercise

ALWAYS CALL 911 FIRST IF YOU’RE SUSPECTING SOMEONE IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK!

That being said though:

You can save a life by always carrying around aspirin. Aspirin prevents platelets from clotting, which is very useful when someone is suffering from a heart attack. It’s even one of the first medications first responders often use when someone is having a heart attack. After you’ve called 911 have the person chew on and swallow aspirin, making sure they’re not allergic.

The act of chewing makes it so the aspirin is absorbed quicker. Stay with the victim until emergency services arrive and tell them you’ve given the person aspirin and the dose. This is useful information for them to know.

P.s. Here are the signs someone might be having a heart attack:

Chest pain or discomfort;

Shortness of breath;

Pain or discomfort in the jaw, neck, back, arm, or shoulder;

Feeling nauseous, light-headed, or unusually tired.

Sources:

cdc.gov - heart attacks

Mayoclinic.org - daily asparin therapy (it has a section on aspirin during a heart attack)

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That bad huh? Haha

That’s pretty much what my friends said as well, but it somehow sounds odd to me. Like, “why wouldn’t you be nice and say hello to everyone there, it’s just the obvious thing to do.”

I mean, I do. Sort of. I live in the Netherlands so even the rural areas are pretty much next door to bigger cities. I live in a small village, but do everything in the nearby city, even there it’s normal. Maybe a bit less so, but that’s just because there’s too many people. No point in trying to thank the driver of a full bus, he won’t hear you anyway. But if I’m in a smaller cafe, people will say hello when I arrive and goodbye when leaving.

When first joining Lemmy, without subscribing to any communities yet, I got absolutely bombarded by hentai and just porn in general. I had to keep blocking every community that popped for a week of so before they started to dissappear.

No, I think at this point going to Facebook for the ads would actually be more valuable

Yikes. A lot of code?

You did what? That first sentence is entirely meaningless to me. Mind explaining some more?

Glad to hear she’s doing better. Migraines (which i assume you’re talking about) can be a real bitch, my sister had mad attacks as well. Kuddos to you for taking care of her.

May I suggest monty python’s life of brain. I need a good chuckle last week so I rewatched it again. Just like always, it didn’t disappoint

Good to hear you’re taking care of yourself. You’re important enough for that. Also, anything that involves large machines and such is interesting as fuck.

Oof, good luck mate. Bet you’ll still enjoy the hell out of it, even if it’s exhausting