I work night shift. I got to watch the time on my phone reset and then relive the hour again while stuck on shift.
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I live in the suburbs. There's dozens of options to go out to dinner within a 20 minute drive of me.
I haven't been out to dinner in years. Can't afford it. Rent's too high.
This. I use FOSS apps for as much as possible, have all my privacy settings carefully curated, don't use Gmail or other Google apps for anything that matters, and have everything related to AI, social media apps, or services I don't use disabled in the system apps, plus I use Mullvad's DNS server to block ads and social media traffic from my phone itself, not just browsers. I work a lot of hours and don't get much time to just chill. While I'm more tech savvy than the average person I'm far less tech savvy than the average Lemmy user. I don't want to spend what little free time I have trying to install a different OS on my phone hoping I don't brick it, or figuring out if I can get things to work with my phone carrier, my work apps, or my banking apps, and the convenience of having those apps outweighs the cons.
My cell phone is in my dreams all the time. Usually I'm trying but failing to make or send text messages or phone calls.
It's when I succeed in my dream that I wake up in a panic and check my phone to make sure that I didn't actually carry it out in real life. So far so good.
I do actually have two, so the cat hair and litter tracked everywhere adds mess that is not my own! :)
Self hatred because if you were just better it wouldn't take 6 hours to clean a one bedroom apartment that you live in alone and are never even home in and if you didn't suck so much it wouldn't ever get dirty and need cleaned beyond a quick vacuum in the first place.
Oh they "rigged" it, but they did it very openly. Elon Musk went to all the key states and bribed voters with his checks and his lottery and it was all ruled completely legal because technically anyone could sign up even though it was very obviously set up to pay off people to vote for Trump.
I've had my cat for 9 years and I still can't believe he's mine and I still melt into an incoherent puddle every day just looking at him.
I have been so depressed this week and you just made me laugh so hard and for so long my cat came into the room to check on me. I can totally relate to the obliviousness. I wouldn't recognize flirting if you wrote it on a sign and held it in front of my face
For me, once the interruption happens then it switches to "you stupid bitch, you did it, you did it, you stupid bitch, don't do it again, don't do it again, this is why you have no friends you stupid bitch..."
A lot of people don't believe jobs should make a living wage. They argue that if you want to make enough money to survive, you should get an education or work your way up out of entry level, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they've made education wildly expensive and that minimum wage is so outdated that in some places you can make double or triple minimum wage and still not be considered making enough to survive as a single adult with no dependents (I make over 3x minimum wage and rent on a small 1 bedroom apartment is over half my paycheck, if I don't work OT shifts I don't go grocery shopping that month). They also like to complain that no one wants to work anymore. My personal take is that if a job is worthwhile enough to society that someone needs to do it, that person deserves to make enough to survive, but apparently that's a wildly socialist take in this country.
I'm a first responder. I occasionally have to go through the pockets and belongings of unresponsive or dead people to search for ID or medical information. Obviously I'm not doing it to steal anything, but it has occurred to me that I have one of the few jobs where I actually "loot" corpses.
If it's cold my nose is like a leaky faucet.
My nose also runs nonstop if I'm tired enough, which is embarrassing and disgusting. Like I will literally just have snot dripping out of my nose if my hands are full and I'm not constantly blowing or wiping it. I feel like a toddler.
I remember a little while ago when it was in the news for a very short time that they found several mass graves in PA of Irish who were brought over to be indentured servants. I don't remember if they had determined what the cause of death was, whether it was illness or murder, but it stopped being news pretty quickly because no one really cared.
This is my random uninformed opinion, and I'm well aware that there are problems with it and it's not the solution, I merely throw it out there as food for thought. I think every worker should make a living wage as base pay, but as a teenager I worked a job that was a tipped job (not food service).
It was in the late 2000s and early 2010s I made about $5.50 hr base pay, which was twice what my employer was legally allowed to pay me as a tipped employee, although by law at the end of the week if my tips didn't get me up to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 they had to make up the difference.
I loved it. I did it for several years and at the end of every year I averaged $12+ an hour, and I was one of the employees who worked a larger chunk of slow shifts which obviously skewed my hourly average downwards. For a 15, 16, 17 year old teen in 2008 when the economy had crashed that was REALLY good money. Every other job was either a minimum wage job, or waitressing for tips. If I worked a busy shift I could work 4 hours and leave $100 in tips richer, plus my base pay. I don't make $30 an hour now working in healthcare.
Anyway, all of that lengthy word salad to say that while I understand and agree with the arguments that tipping culture allows companies to not pay living wages, for teens and college students, who are probably always going to struggle, rightly or wrongly to get a well paying job, finding a job where they are mostly paid in tips can be a life changer. I worked hard in high school and stashed my tips away and when I turned 18 I had a (very) used car that I purchased myself and almost 10k in savings that I used to sustain myself through my 20s when I was trying to launch myself into adulthood through lower paying jobs that didn't pay a living wage. I do not come from a privileged background, my parents didn't help me with anything and in fact from the time I was in elementary school I had to work for basic life needs, so having that savings from my own work was a safety net that would have been almost impossible to build up $7.25 an hour.
This sounds like something you would do if you have already robbed a bank and you need to get rid of the dyed money. Buy your own dye, withdraw your own money, dye cash that you can prove is legally obtained, spend it in a bunch of places and make it a "thing", become known around town as the "crazy dyed cash dude" then start throwing your illegal cash into the mix.
Your left it's your heart, my left if it's mine.
Stimulating the vagus nerve can drop your heart rate quite a bit, sometimes enough to cause them to pass out. If someone's heart is weak or diseased and their vagus nerve is stimulated enough that their heart rate drops too low too fast, their heart might not be able to recover and they can just die. It's why a lot of old people die on the toilet, the act of pooping stimulates the nerve and boom they're gone (see Elvis).
Sticking a fork in an outlet is a great way to give yourself Ventricular Fibrilation which is just like Atrial Fibrilation except that the Ventricles, not the Atria, are quivering. And when the Ventricles are quivering they aren't pumping so no blood is moving out into your body and you have no pulse and you are dead.
Fun fact, AEDs and defibrillators don't shock asystole (flatline). They shock 2 rhythms, in hope of stopping the heart so that it might restart in a better rhythm (have you tried turning it off and back on again?) V-fib is one of the 2 rhythms. Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) is the other. In V-tach your ventricles are beating very very fast. You can still be alive and still have a pulse in V-tach (or not), which is why they say never to apply an AED to someone who is still alive, because it could recognize the V-tach, shock them and kill them.
Not familiar with the paper this is from, but Atrial Fibrilation isn't a heart attack (it can cause one, or a stroke). The human heart has 4 chambers, the left and right atria are on top and the left and right ventricles are on the bottom. In super layman's terms, blood enters the heart from the lungs into the left atria and from the body into the right atria, passes through valves into the ventricles, and then is passed into the body (from the left ventricle) or the lungs (right ventricle). Normally the atria squeeze, there's a slight pause to allow blood to enter the ventricles, then the ventricles squeeze. In A-fib, the atria just quiver, they don't squeeze. It can be fairly benign and people can walk around for months without knowing they're in A-fib because the blood will just drop into the ventricles and the ventricles do the work of pumping blood out into the lungs and the body. But the problem is that in A-fib some blood tends to hang out in the atria and it doesn't completely empty, so eventually it can clot and now you have a huge clot hanging out inside your heart. If that clot decides to move it can go out into your body and end up in one of the coronary arteries (the arteries on the outside of your heart that supply your heart muscle itself with blood) and cause a heart attack, it can go to your brain and cause a stroke, or it can go into the lungs and cause a pulmonary embolism (PE). So usually people with A-fib are put on blood thinners to keep the clotting from occurring, or if the A-fib is too high of a rate (rapid A-fib) they're sometimes given medication or cardioverted (shocked) out of it.
Like another commenter stated, in guessing they stimulated the vagus nerve which converted his heart rhythm into sinus rhythm, which is the normal heart rhythm.
They just announced that they're raising water and sewage in my area by 300% by the end of the year. No reason given, just because they can. It should be fucking illegal. They're also planning on putting in a few data centers, which are currently being hotly contested, because they're supposed to make everyone's electric bill go up about 300% as well. I'm terrified as to how I'm going to afford my electric bill. Water and sewage is included in my rent, I can't wait to see how much that increases when my lease is up this winter and I also have no idea how I'll afford it, but I also don't know if I could find anywhere to move that would be cheaper and not give me a commute that negates any savings.