His star has really crashed and burned, hasn’t it? He tried to put his kids in movies and they can’t act and are also very weird, so no one went to see them. His wife cheated on him and laughed about it. On national TV. He slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars because he told a mean, but not horribly offensive joke. No wonder no one wants to give to their charity.
Haha, I have the massive beard Jewish gene so that has never been a problem. I usually do the Chester A. Arthur thing though.
Anyway, thanks. I appreciate it. And yeah, I am under no illusions that my heavy cannabis use will definitely never have an impact on my health. Even though I vaporize, I’m sure it’s not the best thing for my lungs. All I can do is hope I live as long as Willie Nelson (90) or Tommy Chong (85) despite using it probably as heavily as they have.
Thanks! We will be going to so many restaurants once I can properly eat again!
They opened a Nepali restaurant in my small Indiana city for some reason and it happened like a week after I stopped eating. My two favorite types of international foods are Indian and Tibetan and Nepal is between India and Tibet so it’s probably amazing. I get upset every time I drive by it that I can’t eat their food. And they put huge pictures of it on the outside of the building so I know what I’m missing!
With my luck, it will be out of business within the next few weeks.
I’m not, I’m just really hoping I get to try some soon, and restaurants featuring food from countries other than China and Mexico don’t last long in my town. The Turkish restaurant already opened and closed during my non-eating period.
It’s been a rough ride for about a decade at this point, so in general, the scared shitless part is over, but I do get extremely anxious in medical settings in general, so that’s no fun.
As for my family, my wife and daughter (who aren’t here) are fine. It’s my mother, brother and late father who are/were all total nutbags.
I mean I’m unquestionably eccentric, but, and this is obviously a self-assessment, I think they’re much more nuts than I am. My wife, for what it’s worth, agrees. And the fun thing was that each of them agreed that the other two are nuts and not me.
On the other hand, as annoying as she is, we can have decent conversations. We didn’t listen to anything on the way up. We just chatted for the whole 8 1/2 hours. Not even any silent periods. I put like 30 hours of BBC radio dramas and comedies to listen to and we didn’t listen to a single one. We’ll see how we feel on the way back.
I’m sorry to hear about your mother. My mother can be very kind, she can also be very angry and spiteful, especially if she is feeling stress or anxious. And she’s just weird with money. Like she happily paid for the $127 medicine, just handed my her credit card, but I paid for gas on the way up and if I wanted coffee, I also paid for that. And I know I stand to inherit a decent sum of money from her, so it’s not like she can’t afford it. And she’s always been this way. My father would get me really great toys when I was a kid, but my mother refused to every buy me anything except on holidays or give me an allowance (my dad regularly gave me money on the sly). She also thinks expiration dates are some sort of trick to get you to spend more money on food and that food can remain frozen indefinitely and still be edible, so I ate some foul meals as a kid. Not moldy, but often very stale and tasteless. And yet after my dad died, she bought an absolutely massive house and let her friend live there with her for free. And then on the way up here my mother, who gives me $200 for my birthday every year for the past 25+ years, and no other gifts the rest of the year, says she wants to help us pay down our medical debts.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely appreciate the money she’s provided and says she will provide. I just do not understand her reasoning, if there is any. My wife doesn’t get it either.
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed....
How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn’t exactly a major metropolis, but we’re in the middle of town! It’s not like they’re relying on Hughesnet or something....
No support group like that in my town as far as I know. Also, I’m a major TN outlier. Technically it’s ATN- the A standing for atypical. Aside from some unusual symptoms, I’m also much younger than the average person who gets it- I’m in my mid-40s and most people get it when they’re over 70- I’m also male and women get it much more often. Oddly enough, my father also had it, but in his 70s as is more normal. It also just went away for him after a while thankfully. Not for me though.
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
I use Facebook. I am not in touch with very many of my relatives. The few that I am in touch with are all on Facebook. I also live a significant distance from pretty much all of my friends and that’s a way I can keep in touch with them. On top of that, my brother, who is on the spectrum, prefers to communicate with me that way. In fact, I would probably never hear from him until my mother died if I didn’t because he’s never called or emailed me.
But… here is how I use Facebook: I only follow select friends and relatives who aren’t too annoying- which means following about 10-15 people and unfollowing all the others, I tell it every time I see an ad I never want to see again, and I am only in groups that are either small and personally significant to me (like the group for my relatives) and a couple of others that I mostly just look at and don’t participate in.
No arguments, no political unpleasantness, nothing that makes me angry or upset unless something bad is happening to someone I care about, and honestly it’s not unpleasant. I think I’ve maybe blocked three people the entire time I’ve been on Facebook and all three did something personal to me offline that made me decide to cut off contact with them.
Sure, they’re hoovering up my data, but so is everyone else.
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith charity closes down after decreasing donations post-Oscar slap (www.salon.com)
‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Rips Into Baltimore Bridge Conspiracists, Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene A “Complete Submoronic Pratfall Of A Human Being’ (deadline.com)
'Insane levels of sacrilege': Trump shocks by hawking $60 MAGA Bibles (www.rawstory.com)
Newly discovered cave paintings indicate early humans were stick men (www.thebeaverton.com)
Update for those following my mystery health problems: I'm at the Mayo Clinic. We may have at least a partial diagnosis!
Mods: Multiple people have asked me for an update, so I hope this is okay....
Right-Wing Media Blames Bridge Collapse on ‘Open Border’ and COVID Lockdowns (www.thedailybeast.com)
Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts (www.nbcnews.com)
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed....
Her son died by suicide. Responding police took a photo of his body and it ended up online, lawsuit says. (www.inquirer.com)
Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. (lemmy.world)
How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn’t exactly a major metropolis, but we’re in the middle of town! It’s not like they’re relying on Hughesnet or something....
Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? (midwest.social)
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...