I pay $100 for my eye exam and $150 for my glasses every couple years.
It would take 30+ years for that cost to reach the Lasik levels you paid, and that’s assuming I’m not doing anything with the $3750 remaining after the first appointment.
You’ll take my kotlin from my cold dead hands
Note that a TikTok link is un-cleanable. It will always trace back to you. Do not ever share TikTok links unless you’re willing to expose your identity to the person you’re sharing with.
I got an Acebeam EC35 Gen II a couple years back and while there are many settings you can use there’s a big button onto he back that turns it on full blast and you click it again to turn it off. Done.
That’s not entirely true: sacrificial anodes attract and collect calcium and magnesium as well as preventing rust.
Misread another comment on the 40 part - my bad.
Good luck yourself - Everyone’s journey is different. My ADHD was crippling for decades and it worked out. I hope yours does too - but if it doesn’t ever quite work out I hope you give yourself the grace and the space to be imperfect.
I was definitely in a similar position but at a younger age. So I’m not sure how applicable my experience is to you at 40+
For me what helped most was 3fold:
Bupropion. I can’t state how much this antidepressant/ADHD combo medicine helped me chill out, function, and relax about social situations.
A major cognitive shift from “I must make friends” to “I’m totally happy alone, friends just make things better”
Learning to always assume the best. People aren’t out to get me, nor do they hate me. They’re generally busy, almost certainly have a small clique of friends they like to spend time with, and I’m not in that group. And that’s totally fine.
It took from age 23 until 26 for me to get that all straight in my head. I spent almost a year of that pulling back from all social responsibilities and taking time to be alone and heal.
Reading through your comments here reminds me of myself before that process and I’ll give you the same advice that a dear friend gave me - you need to go talk to a psychiatrist. Your mental state is unhealthy.
You don’t heal a broken leg by walking on it. You shouldn’t try to heal a broken mind by force of will. Medication is a modern wonder, and I’d seek it out every time in your position.
Interact with them just the same as before. they’re still friendly people, they’re just friendly people who didn’t come to an optional social event.
How many optional social events do you say no to? Personally I will decline dozens of invites to do things every year for various reasons including: nah I don’t feel like it.
It’s not that I don’t like the people doing the inviting: it’s that I have a limited social battery, limited free time and a lot of things I want to do.
And in the meantime: become even closer with the 5 who showed.
And I don’t see them serving Panda Express in Beijing. The point is not authenticity it’s that different cultures take what they perceived to be another culture’s food and bend it to their preferences.
But mostly I was making a joke because of its name.
That’s Pizza Americana though
Americans in Massachusetts are able to install solar panels and run their house.
It’s not like a cloudy day means 0% generation
Gotta be a lich before you die or else you don’t come back
That is not my experience in Italy.
Just ask a European about gypsies or African migrants. It will get very racist very quickly.
Fair enough. The inside of the ring seems the least important part to me, aesthetically. It’s pressed against my skin all day. I want it to be functional more than caring about look.
And the best function is definitely a beveled edge. It makes a huge difference to have that smoother on/off motion.
The main thing you’re looking for here is comfort fit: beveled edges on the inside surface of the ring make it easy to take on and off.
My Ring’s height is close to 2mm but it tapers down to 1mm with the beveled edge. Super easy to get on and off.
Speak for yourself- hiccups are painful for me
It’s the inverse that is true actually -
As Lemmy becomes more popular it will drift from being so tech focused.
Many popular sites gradually drifted off of tech focus as their user base grew. R*ddit is a prime example of how a very nerdy niche site grew and shifted to be popular (sorta) organically.
I do think that for all the hullabaloo about Ellen Pao and banning a bunch of subreddits - that actually did more to open the place up to users who were otherwise driven away by /r/FatPeopleHate and /r/Jailbait being on the front page all the time.
If Lemmy were to change to attract users it would likely be from increased defederation with instances that are less palatable to mainstream society.
Also Italian.
… Not that there’s much of an Italosphere but “Americano” vuol dire “Person from the United States”
It’s less idiocy and more laziness. Any amount of inconvenience is too much for a lot of humans, unfortunately.
I mean it doesn’t seem like his sister thinks it’s satire. Poes law etc