yenahmik

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Adam Savage

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My favorite from my time working in the news industry:

Neighbor puts toilets in their yard facing other neighbors house. That neighbor builds a fence so they don't have to look at the toilets. Original neighbor then hangs toilets from the tree so it is visible over the fence. Cue complaints to get toilets removed by city/county.

I believe the original dispute had to do with tearing out a shared bush and parking on lawn, but I don't recall the details.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I didn't have very high expectations of it going in, but I was absolutely blown away. It deserves all the acclaim it's received.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I just finished watching The Bear. I absolutely loved it, though there is certainly a lot of yelling in that show.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh fun. $330k for a 500sqft shack that is partially collapsed. The only info on the listing states the lot will need to be scraped, so basically that is the cost of an empty lot.

Going out a bit further, you can find a couple of houses around $350k that are liveable. They are 700-900 sqft and 0-2 bedrooms.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How high are you OP?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

A while back I applied with the USPS and got called in for an interview. It wasn't a real interview, but more of a presentation on all the required next steps to be hired (there were at least 20 of us in the room). I ended up getting a different job before my start date, but if you were able to do all the steps by the deadline the job was yours.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is the example that OP referred to in their question

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Go for daily walks in nature.

Do yoga

Play a recreational sport that interests you

Read (I guess that's still consumption)

Write

Volunteer for a cause you care about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is pretty niche, but I'm in a casual curling league and nearly everyone is over 40. Everyone there is super welcoming and friendly.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Asking where you are from is pretty normal conversation, especially if you have a noticeable accent. Asking where your parents/grandparents/etc are from is less common. Are you by chance not-white? Sometimes these sorts of questions have a race element to them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not unless I'm intentionally thinking about them.

However, I do have some difficulty differentiating between memories and dreams that I recall from my early childhood.

Here are three examples of memories I have from a very young age. One is confirmed real by my parents. One as far as I can tell is physically impossible so must be a dream. And the third I have no clue if it is real or a dream.

  1. Shortly before my 3rd birthday, we moved. I remember getting bored while the moving truck was at our house so I rode my tricycle to the next door neighbors and hung out with the old lady and her dog until my mom realized I was missing and yelled at me for wandering off without telling her. (This one really happened)

  2. We were at the mall to meet my dad for lunch at the food court. As we got onto the escalator, I remembered I was able to fly and flew through the mall (it was similar to swimming but in air instead of water). (Obviously this had to have been a dream but it feels just as real of a memory as the first one).

  3. As long as I can remember, when we drove anywhere as a family, my spot was behind the driver's seat and my sister's spot was behind the passenger seat. I have a vivid memory/dream of it being reversed but my sister saying we should switch spots. My mom said ok and we switched to the standard positions. Nobody remembers this so it may have been a dream (and I would've been extremely young if it was real).

 
 

I've heard of the Camino de Santiago and was intrigued to see there are a lot more long walks around the world.

Has anyone here ever done this. I'm intrigued by the logistics of a trip like this, especially since the article describes trekkers only carry what they need for each day. Are there porters to take your things to each nights stop? Or do you wear the same clothes every day so you don't have extra bags and carry everything you'll need for the entire trip?

 
 
 

A picture I snapped wandering around Auckland a few months ago

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