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  • @Case@unilem.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlliterally no clue
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    142 years ago

    We keep the front mowed for the HOA.

    The backyard can grow until we worry about snakes affecting our pups.

    We have a front garden that gets no care outside HOA recommendations. It came with the house.

    Can’t wait until I can OWN a house, but the market (with all the influences upon it) isn’t there.

    I’m saving, and considering moving to another state, if that helps all the pedantic monsters our there.



  • I having a gaming laptop. 13 inch Razer blase stealth.

    I bought it for the GPU and its compact size.

    Let’s me do some hash cracking while at work, though if its some serious work I’ll boot into Linux on my gaming rig and do it there, but I don’t like to tie it down when I could be playing games.

    As I get older and older I have less and leas free time.



  • Don’t know much about my current neighbors and don’t want.

    The people we used to live next door to were great. L came over as me and my BIL were handing out candy, and any adults got a shot if they wanted.

    After the kids went to bed L came over to our place and we got ridiculously drunk. L passed out in the kitchen and we let him sleep some of it off before helping him back next-door when we met M, his wife.

    Probably my favorite story is when M texted L and said she thought there was a snake in the backyard, and being drunk we went to investigate immediately. Not the expected reaction, so when I knocked on the back door (it was late-ish) I’m greeted with a double barrel shotgun. M apologizes and says its not loaded, at which point I drunkenly admonished her that if she’s gonna point a gun at someone unknown, it should be loaded in case she really needed it.

    We got to be really great friends with that family, and then they moved for work. Still miss them years later.



  • Requiem for a Dream - Especially now, later in life when I see addiction in so many people in my personal life.

    It is a powerful movie on the various ways addiction can take hold of your life, even with doctor prescribed medication.

    That being said, unless you’re into the final scene with Jennifer Connoley, it’s not something you’d necessarily want to watch again.

    Side note, if you did enjoy it and want a look into mental health issues in a similar lense, among other things, Pi is a great movie by the same guy.


  • @Case@unilem.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlthe way it is
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    32 years ago

    They probably recognized enough to tell it was a Germanic language, but knows no German.

    That would be a very common response in my area, but it was settled prominently by German immigrants.

    There’s a subtle awareness you get growing up around people who are very proud of their Germanic heritage, but not in a racist way like some would assume from the south.


  • Thank you for differentiating.

    The original “skin head” movement was mostly factory workers in Britain who cut their hair short (not necessarily shaved bald) for safety around equipment, and some of the most popular music among the group was stuff by “rude boys” Jamaican primarily I believe.

    It was working class solidarity with no intentions of racism.

    The neo Nazi groups coopted the term, and delved into punk music to find disenfranchised people who would buy into their rhetoric.

    There are also other skin head groups that exist today - SHARP for example, standing for SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice.

    Espouse hateful rhetoric around these guys and you’re liable to wind up on the wrong side of a brick to the head.

    Why do I know all this? I have a penchant for research, and in the past few years I’ve been shaving my head because I decided to own my thinning hairline instead of have some ridiculous comb over type shit and hide it.

    I have had an encounter with a racist white dude at a 711, and he’s ranting at the cashier and looks to me and said “Right brother?!”. No, it was absurdly horrible (misguided) and I threatened to call the cops if he didn’t leave the store and hopefully the neighborhood. He left when he realized he didn’t have any support.





  • They can do it in their free time, and even barter trade. But from sunup to sundown (or whatever labor scale they use to measure shifts) they are doing something materially useful. No contribution, no food that day. Should only take about 3 weeks to get rid of all the slackers (and I say that as a slacker myself) either they’ve gone back home, or they’ve starved to death.







  • I had some severe sleep issues and ended up abusing DPH, not for any recreational effects I just needed to sleep. 9 days without sleep is bad. Torture.

    I took 30 of those pink devils, just to sleep. I was that desparate.

    Still didn’t sleep, but I went out back for a smoke and there was a spider towering over the houses in the neighborhood. Didn’t think anything of it while on the meds, just went out front to smoke lol. Also I had some common visitors in the corners of my bed room, cloaked in shadows whispery chanting in a language I couldn’t understand, while the darkness and certain patterns began to warp around me. But at the time it wasn’t concerning. DPH is a deleriant, line jimson weed and some other plants - they differ from hallucinogens in some interesting ways. Erowid has always been a good source on various substances for those inclined to research.

    For those who may be concerned, I no longer take DPH much at all, last time was due to a new minor allergic reaction to something I haven’t been able to identify. Something was in that hookah tobacco my body didn’t like. Also, I’m sleeping better these days - in part due to having the right medical access, as well as rigorous sleep hygiene.


  • @Case@unilem.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlI'd pick the person.
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    2 years ago

    Yes, its 110+ F here during the day… the attic… well a few years ago we had a guy out to service…

    He FELL down the attic ladder due to heat stroke. Its one of those almost straight ladders that fold into the ceiling.

    He was thankfully ok, and after some AC and water, was right as rain… I should say, he was a young guy in good health, and not only that a friend of a family member. We wanted to take care of him, first and foremost. If we thought medical attention was needed (and my own ass has had heat stroke, I know it) we would have called emergency services. We didn’t want to stick him with an ambulance bill (no insurance, private contractor) if he didn’t need it.

    But fuck, 1k roaches? You know what, I’ll board the animals, use it as an excuse to get a nice hotel room with the wife, see if we can both take PTO for the week off and take an unprompted vacay, while the exterminator does their business.

    That being said, 10 years ago, when I was much much poorer, with much more tenuous job stability… I’d take a knife up for the human in the attic, take the body to a family friend with a pig farm. Pigs make the best witnesses. They eat all the evidence, and can’t speak.