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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • Can anyone recommend a very simple and hopefully inexpensive 'system' by which a bedridden older person might be able to access music or videos?

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  • Does your mom's friend have family? I'd start there, followed by asking the hospital what resources they have for patient engagement that your mom could supplement.

    Absent those, I would look to a local library app like Hoopla or Libby. Once installed and setup with an account, it should be relatively easy for a non-technical person to use.

    Failing that, audiobook and music CDs from a local library, playing on a CD stereo. Your mom brings fresh CDs and returns the old as she visits.

    I really hope the hospital has some resources though, maybe a patient advocate could offer advice specific to the hospital. If this is "rehab", they should be taking care of the mind as well as the body.

  • How do you recognise the difference between a need and a desire?

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  • Raised Catholic. Anything that makes me feel guilty is a desire.

  • What was the stupidest road trip youve ever been on?

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  • Walk a dog or wash dishes? Hmmm, choices, choices. And breaking up was the right one.

  • What was the stupidest road trip youve ever been on?

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  • Well, the one making the claim paid for the pizza, and free pizza is the best pizza.

    But by taste only, no, not the best pizza. Still a fun, dumb road trip with friends that only makes sense for a small window of years before adult decision making and financial responsibility kicks in.

  • What was the stupidest road trip youve ever been on?

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  • Drove six hours for pizza, ate, drove six hours back. It was a group of college friends with one insisting their home pizza was the best and making the rest of us hungry.

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    Atheist don't believe in God why they believe their father? God is described by holy books and Saints while Father is described by our Mother.

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  • What if churches that do "missions" to evangalize, like the Mormons who go door to door, had to reduce travel and costs during this challenging economic period. I suppose like me in my job, they would have to do more by email, chat, and video calls instead of in person.

    Is that what this is? Cost cutting religious recruitment down to a few posts on the Fediverse?

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    Which is worse: drunk driving or illegal street racing?

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  • The only street racing I've seen IRL was out on a quiet road with lookouts on both ends to spot if cops / other cars were coming. There wasn't much danger to anyone but the drivers.

    If comparing drunk driving to Fast & Furious street racing the answer might be different, but comparing to what I suspect is what more commonly happens in street racing, drunk driving is more dangerous.

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  • If she expects marriages to last, yes, your history of five divorces is a red flag indicator that your feelings about marriage are incompatible.

  • In Switzerland the Money is being updated and the population gets to help and chose. Here are the 6 finalists, which comcept would you chose?

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  • I like the rocks and concept L best.

    At least two have women in clothing with exposed arms and legs while the men are covered, including even their heads in some cases. In this year, 2025, are we still considering scientist man in serious thought versus swimming suit lady frolicking on the beach? Really?

  • What are some small inconstancies in your body that makes you unique?

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  • I have a dent in my shin bone from a really big hit that didn't quite manage to break it. It's visible if you look close. I also feel rapid temperature/pressure changes there.

    "My shin bones screamin', I figure a storm's coming"

  • Do you do anything while you watch movies/tv shows?

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  • Yep. I have Bluetooth headphones so I can wander the house freely. Tidying up, cooking, hobby projects here and there, picking out the dead leaves and buds on houseplants.

    Some TV shows warrant full attention, but some I just listen to half of it. Some I rewatch as a comfort.

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  • Having something under my lower back sounds awful. Head and knees, yes, but back?

  • What hobby do you feel is leaving you?

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  • I've slowed down brewing beer too. I travel for work more and get to try more small breweries all over the place. But I'm still glad I have the home brewing behind me, I know way more about styles, ingredients, processes than I would otherwise.

    I've been thinking about how to make the tasting more of a hobby. Like keeping a notebook with descriptions of beers I've tried and what made me pick up a particular brew. There are apps for logging beers but I'm not looking for that, it's too gamified. I don't want digital badges for drinking beer!

  • A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot.

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  • I wanna see that tattoo in 5+ years when it settles. Seems like fine detail is going to lose its sharpness regardless of whether it's a human or a robot on the other end of the needle.

  • TIL there's an ant-infused cheese

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  • Have you eaten them and did you enjoy the taste and texture?

    I've eaten ants before, but just the little guys. The size of these things, the tactile experience of biting into an abdomen, would give me hesitation.

  • Can an energy drink create worsen exhaustion?

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  • You could just be exceptionally sensitive to caffeine or something else in the drink. Personally, I would just not drink them if I were you. Who cares the underlying reason when you can just not do a thing you rarely do anyway.

    I also love that it makes you psychically tired . Like you're just too beat to do even a single palm reading or to shuffle a deck of tarot cards.

  • Are you CPR/First Aid certified? If so, do you carry around a "rescue breath mouth shield" with you everywhere you go?

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  • I have wilderness first aid certs and have come across people that took up my offer of aid, not CPR specifically.

    I sometimes have a mask in my kit, but it's among the first items to get left home if I'm watching pack weight. In the wilderness, hours from a helicopter evac, if a person isn't surviving with the help of chest compressions then air isn't going to make any difference anyway.

  • TIL there's an ant-infused cheese

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  • IDK if those brown spheres are actually ants, but they do appear to be roughly the right size for th ant type in the article. I was sure they were just stock photos of cheese but maybe not.

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • Yeah, the distance isnt a problem for me either, it's the logistics. Safety on the path there, what to do w my dog while I'm in the library. Fitting that much time into my day for a single-purpose trip. Carrying many pounds of books or larger (my library checks out household maintenance and cooking tools too).

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • 2.3 miles wouldn't take me an hour and 15 min. More like 45 min one way, walking 3.5 - 4 mph.

    I would not walk that regularly for the library. I would bike or more likely drive due to time, weather, and some roads between my home and the library not really being suitable to walk/bike safely the whole way. My immediate neighborhood is bike/walk friendly, but as I go out 1 - 2 miles and further, they are very much car roads not built with cyclists and pedestrians in mind.