I apologize if this isn’t the kind of comment that you’re looking for…but what’s wrong with the colleges local to you? Do you live in an unsafe area? It makes a hell of a lot more sense to go to a school with in state tuition rather than going across the country to a school with needlessly exorbitantly expensive out of state tuition.

Maybe I was just lucky in the state I grew up in.

I thought I read somewhere that your social security card wasn’t initially at all meant for proof of identity and shit that we use it for today, which is why it’s made of fragile paper. But I didn’t actually look that up to verify so idk.

Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.

I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.

Bees specifically? Or do you mean wasps and hornets? I haven’t seen a bee in literal years, maybe since I was a kid. Wasps and other fuckers are annoyingly common enough. I have some in the back of my place. I can’t even leave the window open for fresh air because they are somehow able to sneak in through the screen (I can’t discern visible holes in the screen).

Same! People (especially on Lemmy I’ve noticed) love to rag on folding phones. But I think it’s fantastic companies are trying to innovate and make something more interesting than the same old same old we’ve had for the past 10 years. Phones used to be bizarre and weird and come in all sorts of shapes and sizes! Folding phones add a little variety back into the mix!

Yeah I agree with the person you’re responding to. For some reason, a lot of companies are really getting into researching the larger folding phones…the ones that unfold from a regular phone into a tablet.

And there is definitely a market for these phones, sure. But they are incredibly expensive and not everyone who is interested in a folding phone really wants a phone-tablet combo or the pricetag to match.

I’m not sure why more companies aren’t trying to make the “collapsing phone” style of folding phones like Samsung’s Z Flip or the Motorola Razr. There is a big market there and you’re limiting yourself as a company if you only are researching the phone-tablet style folding devices like Google is doing.

Seriously what is this a photo of?

P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia

This is so stupid but why do I love it??

COVID is going around at my workplace. I caught it. You might have caught it too.

How does that work? I feel like I would just end up wanting to vomit. Not that chocolate milk is gross, but it’s a bit heavy for working out.

I could figure out the other words, but not that one. “Select”??? It makes sense from a semantic point of view, but there is no way that it says that. It does not look like that at all!!

Jeez…how do you think your dishwasher feels about that? Monster!!

One of my coworkers without children (I think she is in her early 40s) got strep last year and she was out for a whole week! That shit is no joke! I also don’t hear much about adults getting it (especially when they don’t interact with kids) but I guess it happens! You doing better now?

Omg yes exactly! I’ve not heard this comparison before but it is spot on! Like what was even the point??

Yeah my coworker is going to be seeing at least 2 vulnerable people. I’m sure there could be more out there as well.

Just feels a bit odd and simultaneously wasteful using an extra sick day (we have a limited amount) when I am not even sick. And look, this is totally stupid, but I also don’t want people to think I’m a wimp that needs more time to recover than I actually do. Or I don’t want people to think that I’m lying and using sick days for no reason.

I know those last two are kind of nonsensical, but I can’t help how my brain works lol!! I’m getting cabin fever in here!

I have a slight problem when people say stuff like this.

Yes, I agree that sex shouldn’t at all be the most important thing in a relationship. And at some point many people aren’t able to have sex anymore. And sure, some people aren’t able to have sex to begin with.

But for most people on the planet, sex is a huge (although obviously usually not the only) component of a relationship and a basic need. So when you can’t have sex, it very severely and significantly limits your dating pool. Pretending it doesn’t is very unhelpful and just not realistic…at least not in the modern, Western world. Other cultures might work differently.

Hmmm…but how can we be sure that you aren’t the dog???

Ah well in that case…for me personally, I’m 30 and I’ve never had sex. Since sexual themes are so pervasive in media, sometimes I do feel like I’m missing out. But at the same time, I don’t personally seem to have the ability to feel sexual pleasure, so it is what it is. Some people are also physically disabled in ways that mean they can’t have sex or can’t feel physical pleasure during sex. Sometimes it stinks to feel like such an outlier with the inability to experience something everyone talks about, but it is what it is. There are a lot of other things in this world that are fun and can occupy one’s time.