AFKBRBChocolate

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

Reminds me of something from the opposite end of the lifespan. When I was young, they didn't clear the theater after a movie, and they sometimes had "double features" where they'd alternate between two movies and you could watch both for one ticket price. My dad's aunt lived with us (she was probably in her 70s at this point), and one day a couple of her friends picked her up to go watch "a double features of animal movies" at the local theater. They dropped her off some hours later and her face was grey - she said it was horrible, and didn't want to talk about it.

It turned out the double features was Day of the Animals and Night of the Grizzly, basically both horror movies. They didn't think they were allowed to leave during the movie, so they stayed through both.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

My wife had a procedure under general - one where they had her legs pulled away back after she was out. She woke up during it to the point where she could hear them talking, but she couldn't say anything. She told the doctor at the follow-up that she heard them talking and he said lots of people think that, but it's just hallucinations from the drugs. She said, "One of the things you talked about was your kid's soccer game," and he got an "Oh shit" expression and moved the conversation to something else.

Why did he do that, you might ask? Because another thing they did was make fun of my wife in the position she was in. Extremely unprofessional, and she could have made a stink about it, but she just indirectly let him know she heard it.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you scroll lower down, there's a table with the amounts from the different samples from different fires.

I think it's telling that the amounts in the Palisades fire are by far the highest. That fire had a huge number of structures burned, so the samples of suppressant scraped off of leaves and things is going to be mixed with smoke and ash particles from those burning structures. It doesn't make sense that the amount of heavy metals would vary wildly from one batch of suppressant to another, but it makes perfect sense that the amount in a field sample would vary depending on what's burning in the area.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It's not an absolute rule, but it's true in the vast majority of cases. The coloring is on the X chromosome, and males usually have only one, but some males with have an extra X chromosome (XXY) and those can be calico. It's rare.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

True, but you're asking a cross segment largely made up of people who didn't vote for him, so we can't answer your question. Best we can do is to say that apparently a giant contingent of our society is made up of people who are stupid, cruel, racist, and/or easily manipulated.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Silly me for retiring in January

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It feels like there's few pranks these days that don't end up being cruel. We have enough horrifyingly outrageous things in the news, that if the prank is trying to make us think something horrible happened that didn't, we sure don't need that. On the other hand, if it's trying to make us think that something good happened, but it didn't, then that's a really perverse cruelty.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's the camera my mom used, too. It was super popular, it seems like every family had one.

Taking pictures was such a different experience in those days, knowing you only had as many pictures as was on the roll (like 20 I think it's what we bought), and you couldn't see how they came out until you had them developed.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Omg, a camera with a flash cube - so it would have been able to take 4 flash pictures.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Call BS? What he said is literally, explicitly true: If you click on the article, that's the title of it. OP didn't change the title to fit an agenda, he used the article's title.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

All that is true. In addition, those communications are subject to records retention laws, so using signal and flagging them to be deleted is illegal in itself.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

No expert, but it seems unlikely. My understanding is that big brands generally use custom fonts, so you're unlikely to find generic lettering that matches. But maybe you can find something close enough?

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