I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some...
I dont think it’s so much an overall dexterity issue just a practice issue. Someone who doesn’t regularly use chopsticks might have really high hand dexterity but they just haven’t practiced that finger coordination. I.e. its easier to teach an athlete a new sport but a football players gonna have to practice to play hockey well.
The most common mistake I see with infrequent chopstick users is overgripping and a low grip. If you squeeze too hard it not only fatigues your hand but it actually makes them harder to control, same for choking up on them. If feels more secure but it actually gives you worse control. For any one wondering a high grip and only as tight as you’d hold a pen should make it easier to use chopsticks.
$1100 for a one bedroom? That would be crazy good where I’m at even for a studio where you’ve got bullets flying at night. I’d blow through 10K in rent in a few months. Where the hell does OP live that they could survive 2 years? There’s no way I’m even in the same country as OP.
I recently moved across the US. 15k would be possible but it would be tight (assuming everything you own doesnt fit in the back of your car). Also assuming youre including all moving expenses like reregistering a car, gas to drive across the country, deposits on rent/utilities, a month of overlap on rent, etc. All the little things start adding up quickly with a move that far.
…everyone’s point isn’t “wow you suck for having only 10k in savings”. Everyone calling out the OP is saying “in my country/area cost of living is very high and with 10K in savings I would be in a bit of a panic”.
Also telling people to “get educated” while they react to the US cost of living being out of control just makes you sound like a dick.
“Relatively few people” may be the standard for your part of the US but in my experience PA, MD, VA all have mushroom hunting as very normal and popular activities.
Comcast once hung up on me because the system wanted to transfer me to a department whose phone system hadn’t yet be set up in my region…the system force transfered me to a number that didn’t exist and I was immediately disconnected.
Why where all three on the same flight? I’ve worked for companies that wouldn’t allow 3 execs on the same flight and these guys were essentially trained…
I mailed in my last phone and it was a situation where it’s “X” price /if/ they get the trade in within a certain number of days. So I had a few days where I had both phones and they warned me to do the switch over before I sent back the other phone.
Ok, but the alternative is knowing a nurse directly in charge of infants wants to murder them and still letting her go into work. You’re basically an accomplice at that point.
What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success....
The Xenogenesis trilogy (Liliths Brood) by Octavia Butler. It examines what it means to be human and how much of us can be changed before we’re no longer humans anymore. It also made me examine how we treat other cultures/species through the lens of how the aliens treat the humans and how they are so convinced that their way is the right way that they don’t even question it until it’s forcibly shoved in their faces. It shows the ugly side to the violent human agitators while also eposing the ugliness of the peaceful alien “saviors”.
There’s also a side thread of connections are chemicals in our brain and we can get trapped by them and circumstance into a situation where we’re not always sure we’re happy/on the right side/have any agency.
They aren’t long books and even years later I still think about them sometimes.
Lots of people who are seeing top-level postings about Hexbear. Net are probably confused about what has been going on and I want to give an SRD-style overview of the whole thing....
I just started using my .world alt for the same reason when my lemm.ee account use to be my main. Hexbear just made lemmy unusable for me. If I wanted to wade through Russian apologia and genocide denial I’d be on twitter.
Cindy James was a 44 year old nurse living in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. When police found her body on the front lawn of an abandoned house in 1989, her hands and feet were bound behind her back, and she had been strangled. But how she died, and importantly, who killed her is still a mystery....
Im usually in the anti-conspiracy camp. I think Amy Bradley went overboard (accidentally or due to Alister “Yellow” Douglas), I think Morgan Ingram was an accident/suicide and she was never stalked, I think alot of people who disappear with their cars accidentally drove into rivers and just havent been found yet etc.
But I flip flop so much on if she did this to herself in this case. The thing that gets me is how did she get the drugs in her system and then disappear all the drug paraphernalia and tie herself up like that before they kicked in? Had she built up a tolerance to morphine over the years? Wouldn’t that have been obvious to the coroner?
That phone call was definitely her though, so I 100% agree that if she had a stalker she also must have faked some stuff too.
Brandon Swanson was born to Brian and Annette Swanson o January 30, 1989. He was born and raised in Marshall, Michigan. Brandon had recently graduated from Marshall Senior High School in 2007. He was enrolled in a one-year program in Wind turbines at Minnesota West Community and Technical College located in Canby, Minnesota. The...
If I recall that river really wasn’t very deep. It seems unlikely that he’d have drowned in it, and even more unlikely that a body in the water wouldn’t be easily spotted.
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
Reddit ad targeting is a joke and I dont even understand how. How can they not tell what my interests are when I’ve literally subbed to them? It’s the easiest targeting set up in the world and they still can’t make it work.
Jordan resided in Salt Lake City and was 36 years old at the time he went missing in 2021. It appears that at the time of his disappearance there was very little coverage and the majority of known information has been taken from his family’s Facebook appeal page, which is run by his younger sister Shelby....
I think it’s because the show unsolved mysteries got the name “unsolved” first. So the sub that ended up being more popular got stuck with “unresolved”.
What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some...
Title (sh.itjust.works)
If You Were Unemployed, But Had A Hefty Savings Of 10K, In What Ways Would You Approach Your Job Search Differently?
The point is not to chill and just burn through the savings and not work. How would having that much money saved, change the way you look for jobs?
Missouri man found a lost dog, and called the police. Cops came, took the dog to a park, shot it, and dumped it in a ditch. (fox2now.com)
“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.
Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning (ptv-news.com.pk)
San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police (www.independent.co.uk)
Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed
Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?
Let’s say there’s someone I want to call Mr/Ms/Mrs [Name], but I don’t know their gender, is there a title I can use that doesn’t assume their gender?
Zillow listings be like (startrek.website)
This wasn't meant to happen! (lemmy.world)
Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russian civil aviation authority says (news.sky.com)
Please stop following in Apple's footsteps (lemmy.world)
gizmodo.com/google-s-pixel-8-sim-slot-esim-only-i…...
Lucy Letby will die in prison after receiving 14 whole-life sentences (news.sky.com)
What book(s) has changed your life?
What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success....
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years (greekreporter.com)
A summary of what happened between Blahaj.Zone and Hexbear.Net
Lots of people who are seeing top-level postings about Hexbear. Net are probably confused about what has been going on and I want to give an SRD-style overview of the whole thing....
/r/PICS is being forced to break the site-wide rules. (www.reddit.com)
Copy of the post in the event it is deleted or you don’t want to give ****it any traffic....
Did Cindy James die from murder, suicide, or an accident?
Cindy James was a 44 year old nurse living in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. When police found her body on the front lawn of an abandoned house in 1989, her hands and feet were bound behind her back, and she had been strangled. But how she died, and importantly, who killed her is still a mystery....
Brandon Swanson drove into a ditch while on his way home, when he called his parents for help they couldn’t locate him. 47 minutes later, the phone went dead and he was never seen again.
Brandon Swanson was born to Brian and Annette Swanson o January 30, 1989. He was born and raised in Marshall, Michigan. Brandon had recently graduated from Marshall Senior High School in 2007. He was enrolled in a one-year program in Wind turbines at Minnesota West Community and Technical College located in Canby, Minnesota. The...
Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
UPDATE: Belongings of 36 year old missing man, Jordan Boone, discovered by Tiktoker in Utah desert.
Jordan resided in Salt Lake City and was 36 years old at the time he went missing in 2021. It appears that at the time of his disappearance there was very little coverage and the majority of known information has been taken from his family’s Facebook appeal page, which is run by his younger sister Shelby....