TimewornTraveler

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

oh yeah, how'd the NYC election turn out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

syntax is part of grammar and refers to word order. a man/men refers to numerical agreement. both are grammar, but this is not about syntax.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

that's crazy to think about. which NT is responsible for sending a signal along my vagus nerve to my brain? what NTs regulate the functions of the sympathetic nervous system? how can transport as quickly as my body reacts? I need to know more!

how quickly do NTs even travel? it feels like electricity because it's nearly instantaneous! how do they do that so fast???

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

not enough about barking!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

copros dont get to eavesdrop on me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

adhd life hack: do weird shit so you can trust you'll remember it and become free to forget things

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

well 90% of the fentanyl that crosses the border is brought by a US citizen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

this makes me even more excited for my plans to switch to linux. I'm gonna have to go find a good backup method soon!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I dont know. maybe to help them get ready or look like he's doing so?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Great question. I used both concurrently. The reason for the disposable: accessibility.

The old school vapes are just getting harder and harder to find. I had to order parts online. The juice companies were getting shut down. I didn't want to give up my addiction, and I felt so much better on vapes than i had on cigarettes, so I figured it was fine. (Nicotine alone is a bitch to your heart, though...)

I started trying out the disposables because they were readily available. I could pick one up anywhere, I didn't have to bring juice around with me, no giant batteries or kits to maintain on the go... and in exchange a much harsher hit.

this also led to me doubling my nicotine strength. I had been using 3mg juice for ovet a year by then, but all the disposables measure out to 6mg. Nothing weaker was available. had to switch to stronger stuff on the box mod.

it pisses me off how much they enshittified vaping. it was a really cool and helpful tool that got me off of tobacco. but they started targeting it at minors. instead of rich savory flavors you get all this fruity menthol crap that middle schoolers like. you get tiny vapes with flashy blinking light and fixed high potency. you get bans on it, and regulations/fees so strict that indie vape companies that started this shit for people like me now have to shut down.

oh well. it was all a facade anyway. nicotine itself is the problem. it pushes your systems into overdrive and then wears you out on seconds, until you cant even be at homeostasis without nicotine in your system. the joy of smoking is just the temporary relief of withdrawal. it's like wearing a pair of tight shoes just so you can enjoy taking them off for 5 minutes. I'm done living my life in withdrawals. so happy to be free! (and it was honestly fucking easy, you all can do it too)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

NRT is a scam and your addiction is the scammer. You're trying to stop poisoning yourself and you think you need a substitute for the poison! This isn't benzos we're talking about here, Nicotine has a half life of max two hours. The withdrawal is not that bad at all, it's over within four days! I just reached 87 hrs nicotine free and it was a breeze, no titration or NRT or antidepressants or anything.

JUST DO IT!!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

PLEASE stop using disposable vapes.

I quit cigarettes 10 yrs ago and had been exclusively using the old school refillable box mods. The kinds with big clouds, not the nic salts like disposables. I was doing fine, great even, for the last ten.

But this past year, after picking up those disposables, I kept having breathing problems. I would stop using them for like two weeks before I picked them up again. The cycle finally led to me going into atrial fibrillation, a cardiac emergency. Had to have my heart shocked. in my 30s!

I ended up quitting nicotine entirely now. it was surprisingly easy to quit! once you wanna do it, it's already done. as long as you don't mope about it and celebrate it instead. it's easier than the whiners would have you believe!

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

 

it seems like lemmy has a thing for fireflies (aka lightning bugs). It's sad to think of them being driven away by our actions, or not even just us not being able to see them again.

Well my yard/neighborhood is covered in them. Literally hundreds dancing in the grass of every yard, every evening and night. Like they cast light into my home with their blinking by my windows, making me look for a coming car or something. At least one gets into my home every day, much to the delight of my cats.

I get it. I love them. These things have always been special to me, and I spent 10+ yrs living in places w/o them. So now being in an area with a healthy Fire Fly population feels like such a blessing to me.

I figured it'd be cool to share some of that with those of you who miss them. I'm trying to take some pictures and video, get some good closeups, etc. I got one video of two fireflies fucking. Just gotta figure out how to organize the media I guess.

But is there anything else you'd want? Requests or something? I dunno where this is going, look, I'm just saying: you all seem to like Fire Flies. I got Fire Flies. What's next?

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Weather dotcom has premium gatekeeping and Accuweather just kinda sucks

EDIT: i just remembered not everyone is ND and doesn't get really super into every topic enough to care about things like meteorology :[

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Also, Can they hurry up and rename BPD? So that BPD can return to its rightful owner, Bipolar Disorder?

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