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tipicaldik

@ tipicaldik @lemmy.world

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  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • haha yeah I've been a pothead for 40-several years and I got my Florida MMU card last year. It took me a while to get past my "kid in a candy store" phase. Geez I wasn't used to having ANY choice, let alone that many choices 😆

  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • but back then it was "fine" because it never made the news...

  • Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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  • haha my dad was a tech nerd and when he bought his first programmable VCR back in the '80s he was on top of the world. He was recording everything...

  • My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?

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  • haha... yeah. We have a tankless gas water heater that requires an electrical connection. We live in hurricane country so going without power for days/weeks at a time is something we've lived through on several occasions. Having a hot shower during those times is the one thing my wife really appreciates. Fortunately, it's just a 110 connection and we can plug it into a generator or battery back up...

  • What fruits are ripening where you live?

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  • Our loquats are still tiny little buds. I love 'em and can't wait for 'em to come in...

  • Name them

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  • we have what seems like about 15 mattress stores along one stretch of road, and we also have a store that sells nothing but bar stools. I've often thought that about those places...

  • What's a strange food combination you love?

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  • or a pulled-pork sandwich...

  • What's a strange food combination you love?

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  • you just caused me to remember my sister making peanut butter and mayo sandwiches when we were kids. I had forgotten all about that. I did PB and pickles, but stopped short of the mayo...

  • Do you have any tattoos, piercings, or scars that you regret?

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  • I spent a short time in the US Navy, just long enough to get a couple of tattoos that I put literally zero thought into. One, a stupid cartoon character done at a whole-in-the-wall shop while I was drunk faded away pretty badly, but the other one, a sexy sailor girl (done by Philadelphia Eddie himself!) stayed pretty nice for quite some time. I was sober that time. That was about 44 years ago. I don't necessarily regret them, but I wish I'd put more thought in to them, especially dumb old Yosemite Sam...

  • TIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ...

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  • got lung cancer... only found it because it had eroded into rib #5 and felt like I had a flaming hatchet stuck in my back. This explains why pacing my den while streaming profanities seemed to help, at least a little anyway...

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    Have you ever been experienced a natural disaster? If so, which one?

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  • Took a direct hit from Hurricane Ivan. Blew all our roofing off so the rain was blowing in and big chunks of ceiling were falling in while we were all huddled in the hallway. We found the roof of our back porch in the middle of the street, about 4 houses down. We've ridden out a lot of hurricanes over the decades, but Ivan was the scariest.

    In the end we came out of it smelling like a rose. My wife's parents had both recently passed, and we were planning on buying their house out of their estate. I was in the middle of readying our house for sale when the storm hit. Our house got wrecked, while the parents house was left pretty much unhurt, aside from a few missing shingles and a downed tree. We moved in immediately and ended up selling our house as-is to the "we buy ugly houses" people for about half it's normal value, collected a fat insurance check from Liberty Mutual, which combined with the sale was enough to pay off the mortgage and pocket a few grand, which was right at what we hoped to sell it for because we didn't have very much equity in it at the time. We ended up right where we planned on being, much sooner than we thought we would. We got lucky for sure...

  • Fellow Americans, which family member are you not looking forward to seeing for Thanksgiving that you know will bring up politics?

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  • It's my house. Everyone in the family knows I'll shut that shit down, so I look forward to seeing everyone 😁

  • Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general

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  • Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general

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  • I'm wondering what position MTG is gonna get now... ain't too many people kissed his ass more than that thing has...

  • Donald Trump border czar: Workplace immigration raids will be conducted

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  • they're giving the bigger illegal employers plenty of heads-up so they can muster up their big bribe payments and swear their fealty...

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

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  • Hiya neighbor!

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

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  • Yes! Yes we did! I forgot to mention that...

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

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  • Florida voter here... I stood in line for about 45 minutes today for early voting. Women outnumbered men by at least 8 to 1 while I was there, which I found a bit encouraging. I enjoyed being able to vote against Matt Gaetz, and I only wish DeStains was on the ballot too so I coulda voted against his dumb-ass as well...

  • Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview | The former president attempted to "weave" his way through an interview with Bloomberg News, but couldn't escape his own policy black

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