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  • Did you hold a seance or ritual? What are your experiences?

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  • My parents held a seance with a “medium” (a grifter my mom knew), trying to contact the spirit in the house named Edward (the man who built the property and lived there until he died in a fire he started while drunk).

    I was 10-12 or so and it was really dumb. They recorded the session on a boom box (this was the 90s) and importantly I rested myself on it throughout the whole thing so I probably ruined the whole thing because the only notable anomaly on the tape was a heartbeat, and it was probably mine.

    However, as a result of all the chatter around the supernatural, I had “unexplained occurrences” for the next couple weeks due to being attuned to that sort of thing which I’d normally have blown off. Im not religious, not spiritual, and don't really believe in supernatural phenomenon, other than “we cant explain this but it definitely happened” sort of stuff. Many of the things I experienced the following weeks I’ve been able to explain as my knowledge of the weird natural world expanded, so..

  • the GOAT

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  • This reminds me of the dude who built a computer that technically runs doom inside satisfactory or factorio (I think satisfactory).

    I’m struggling to find the video now, but he wrote a ton of optimization code to make it run faster, because it’s painfully slow. I think the video was sped up 1,000x or so just to show it was, in fact, playing.

  • Chat, are we cooked?

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  • The last time I went under, I was talking to the nurses about the equipment in the room and stuff and the last thing I really remember is asking what drug they gave me, and when I learned it was fentanyl I was like “oh, this is fentanyl? It’s pretty nice. I can see why it’s a controlled substance, yeah.”

    I’m entirely sure I continued to be annoying though, even if I don’t remember it. Mostly because they don’t tend to bother trying to get me to count, they just kept me chattering. Same thing when they wake me up. I tend to be.. “helpful”.. removing monitor pads and such and slurring my way through asking how it went, if I gave them any trouble, and when I come around a bit more, asking if they amputated the wrong limb (I’ve never had a limb removed).

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  • The book Cat Sense by John Bradshaw is a good read (you can probably find a free pdf thats complete, and years ago I uploaded the audiobook to audiobookbay, but this preview will do for not linking to amazon or potentially breaking rules).

    He got around the problem of cats not doing cat things in a lab by just, you know, having cats at home and observing their behavior. Sure, its only a look at domestic cats for the most part, but its a great read anyway.

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  • If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier that goes from the bottom of the trench to up above the soil, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

    You could use brick, stone, or cement, but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber.

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  • Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don't think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

    Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

    Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

  • Ah beans

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  • Mine was 45mg methylphenidate (as ritilin) time release in the morning and 15mg after school. For a total daily dose of 55mg, (which is more than the 35mg max daily dose they’d give me now as an adult, and way more than the 18mg I actually take occasionally). I was 90lbs until I started cheeking it at 11-12, and got punished both for not eating dinner AND for “stealing” food from the fridge at 11pm when it all finally wore off and I got desperately hungry (also for cheeking the pills but that’s its own problem). Thanks for the food issues, fam. They work so well that living with people makes me feel guilty in my own house!

    Sorry we both dealt with shit.

  • Ah beans

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  • My test administrator genuinely laughed while I was doing the test because I couldn't stop asking questions/making comments about it.

    Apparently that specific test is administered with a human present for exactly that reason. Clear as day indicator of Overactive Brain Disorder.

    I was diagnosed at 5 originally but didn't have any records of it because I stopped medication at 13, the earliest age my parents would listen to me about how bad I felt on medication (was on a super high dose they wouldn't even give me as an adult, no wonder I hated it) and then raw-dogged the next 20 years, so they skipped a lot of the truly basic stuff and went right for a confirmation test of impulse control. Of which I have absolutely none.

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    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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  • since all vehicles require yearly registration with mileage anyway.

    I am 100% certain my state doesn't keep track of mileage, even superficially, because I have never looked at my odometer for any paperwork reasons.

    Registration yes, mileage no, and even emission testing varies by county/city.

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  • You should see the damage farm equipment causes.

    I pay my EV fee ($175 every year) even tho I barely drive, which is why I got an EV (old car needed to be replaced anyway). In the last year prior to getting an EV, I filled up my 10-gallon tank maybe four times. At 18 cents per gallon I probably paid $8 toward road repair via gas taxes, so I’m paying way way way more now. Farm equipment doesn't pay shit to fix the copious damages they cause going between their fields, since most of their gas use isn't on the roads and many large farms have their own fuel pumps and buy bulk.

    I like your proposal, but I’d add a HUGE flat fee to large farm equipment, or just entirely ban it from paved roads, where it very specifically is not meant to be.

  • 🥺🤬😾

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  • Cats are crepuscular, which means they are most active at dawn and dusk. They aren't doing a whole lot of hunting in the middle of the day regardless of their pupil size.

  • Establishment Attempts to Paint Platner as 'Rich Kid,' Ignoring 'Ultra Wealthy' Susan Collins' Millions

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  • Do it for them [@themokumentary]

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  • Also, Americans tend not to use “holiday”, we say “vacation” unless we are talking about a specific day which is a holiday, which doesn't really fit this context. Most of them aren't big spends, other than Christmas.

  • What's that video game boss you've never been able to beat, or took you the longest to beat?

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  • About 100 hours on the final boss of FF8 because I fucked up and saved right before the fight with basically nothing in my inventory. I repeated the fight for literal weeks, trying different strategies and item use patterns and stuff.

    It was very rewarding to complete, but I’ll never play that game again.

  • Beginner artist mistakes

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  • At least he put paint to canvas.

    Im up to two unique and lovely ideas and neither of them has made any progress because WHAT IF i cant do the idea justice? I know I've spent literal years thinking about it but WHAT IF it isn't what i had in mind???

  • Still valid

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  • I watched whole videos about repaving with used bricks and why we don't do that for all low-speed roads globally is just beyond me.

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    microsotProtectingMeFromItself

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  • My favorite thing these days is putting my windows laptop in airplane mode before installing anything. It goes all buggy and aggressive about “we don't know if this is a threat!!!” Meanwhile it always flags these installers as a threat anyway, and offline whining is easier to get through.

    Yes yes, I know, windows bad mmmmkay, all my other computers are linux, I keep this on windows for “but moooooom I don't want to have to mess with a load of shit just to test this game to see if I even like it enough to go through the arduous process to install on linux” reasons

  • Heat

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  • His videos are why I got a heat pump water heater instead of a standard one when mine died. I figure in summer I can hook the exhaust duct up to my hvac and get a bit of free air conditioning out of it, since I don't have AC yet. Tiny extra bonus piped straight to my bedroom.

  • A dark chapter returns: Stripping citizenship

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  • My mother had grandparents who were citizens, but because she died young, she isn’t able to claim it, which I think makes me intelligible, even though both her older and younger sisters are still alive and themselves eligible and may claim it under those updated rules.

  • A dark chapter returns: Stripping citizenship

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  • I almost qualify, but my mom died when I was young, and she’s the one who would have been eligible, and me through her. 😭