Good to know, thanks!

Actually, I knew. We were immature and playing for longer than other kids but there was a feeling the last time. I can picture it now, running around in the dark giggling and as our Make Believe characters. It was harder to assume our roles that time. We promised to play again at the next sleepover but somehow, I knew. There was a crisp winter feeling of finality and I felt that we were leaving the world of pretend behind. The next time we hung out we did other things that were fun. Dance to Whitney Houston, read books, sneak into their mom’s room to try on all of her random hats, general pre-teen shenanigans.

I think we knew we were behind. At least I was aware of it. For a while we didn’t care but the horrors of puberty come for us all I suppose.

1. Can you download a DRM’d file from Kobo?
2. Does it…ahem…can it “work” with something like Calibre?

Otherwise I will continue to slowly accumulate them through used bookstores.

Here are some resources to clear up the difference between eruptions and flows and provide more context to answer your question.

Background on explosive eruptions: https://youtu.be/tQzaQd72DJI?si=wmhLU3TjlRuiKvJW

Part 2 (more interesting from my pov): https://youtu.be/umNWZOTHFXo?si=ZfmHJCEnQ_eil87I

Timestamp ~30:10 on the second video (Lesson 10) talks about the origin of pyroclastic flows.

Nobody makes enough Aladdin memes.

Aw sad I was just talking about him the other day.

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Wait, your workplace has a training? I’ve been looking for a training to send to my leadership because it is a huge blind spot in the organization and they are very empathetic and open to learning more.

I never fully lost my taste (maybe 80% lost during active infection) but it only partially came back. It feels like there’s a “section” or “zone” of flavor I can’t taste anymore. Like a blind spot. I am extremely saddened by it and have an even more complicated relationship with food now.

It also rewired my taste and some smell so some things taste really different. For example, coffee tastes like stagnant mildewy mop water and smells like a recently used litterbox. Only minor variations for brand, at home drip vs. barista, etc.

Going into a coffee shop smells like venturing into a crazy cat lady’s condemned home.

Why would they sweat? You just input the amount of the check, stick it in the machine to get franked, and the till opens. It’s not much more complicated than cash and way easier than damn WIC (great program, lousy execution).

Handing them a check isn’t a problem. What sucks is when the customer pulls OUT the check book to slowly fill it out, AFTER you told them the total, while your line backs up and it fucks your metrics.

The Clapper 👏👏

Pretty sure I just woke the house up by cackling at your comment. Chefs kiss.

Holy crap this is gold.

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For me I can’t really exercise for exercise sake. I have to do an activity that happens to involve exercise, like a sport, swimming, or hiking.

Things I have tried and enjoyed:

• net sports like badminton and volleyball
• trampoline park
• a martial art
• roller skating/blading at a rink, similarly ice skating
• a hobby that involves having to hike, brain want hobby reward so will put up with endless trudging…barely
• swimming / surfing / snorkeling / diving
• VR games (fr, quite the workout)
• having a dog and using dog as motivation to walk more
• amusement park or fair (because I will get my damn money’s worth and walk for like 10 hours straight)

Extreme social anxiety, covid, money, and no longer being in college with “free” or cheap access to things have ruined most of these for me but my point was to do a THING that happens to need you to move your body. Not just exercise (bleh). This is how you trick your traitorous brain.

Yarp. Her name was Joan Quigley.

2 important excerpts:

Joan herself in her memoir:

Not since the days of the Roman emperors, and never in the history of the United States presidency, has an astrologer played such a significant role in the nation’s affairs of State.

The chief of staff dude who found out and got pissed:

Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco [Quigley] who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise.

There’s a Behind the Bastards episode about it. Highly recommend.

An article came out last month or sometime relatively recently that basically says blue light filtering doesn’t help jack.

Personally I prefer warm toned light in everything except my computer monitor.

Edit: published study AND summary article. I only read the article but there is a published study associated with it.

I remember people commenting on other people’s avatars and I was like, wtf are you people talking about?

I miss RIF.

I find it cute you’re explaining reddit to me like I wasn’t on it for more than a decade and came to Lemmy in the June exodus lol.

In addition to all of the above they would literally consult their “psychic/astrologer” on policy decisions.