LOL! Yup.

I went gambling ONCE, with my grandparents who loved to go to Foxwoods. Played the slots, lost 20 bucks in a few minutes and got ZERO frisson from it.

Am like “People get a charge from this…?” as I was sitting there watching the others in the aisle poke the spin button on the machines they were playing, like they were robots…

I had more fun the rest of the afternoon playing video games in the arcade. It took me a LOT longer to go through 20 bucks there.

…Heck, even in your own example your first date was in a bar, which now a days is a dozens of dollars experience for just a few drinks…

Pro tip for anyone still reading this far down into the thread: If you’ve a hotel - like a Sheraton, Hilton or any higher-end lodging… Check out their lounge. The cheapest drinks in the city I live in are at the hotels - they generally will price cocktails 35 to 50% lower than the bars and clubs in the area, simply to catch a little bit of the cocktails action… (also the hotels all have beautiful lounges)

Last time I went to New Orleans I stayed in a hotel on the edge of the French Quarter and drank for one fifth of the price that the drinks outside cost. Got good and oiled THEN headed out to hear live music.

Totally get that. I’m a bit web 1.0 so the social media - most of it - has flown right over my head. Hell, even on this site, I run on the old.lemmy design. It’s framed most like usenet, which is what I cut my online teeth on.

Yaah… I could never get into Instagram. I had a flickr account from when it was owned by yahoo - I used to run a few yahoo groups and stored images for the groups there.

flickr’s gotten enormous now…

LOL! Best Tupperware party I went to (this was 1990) saw me driving home afterwards and noticing a bright glow about a mile down the street from my home. Picked up the husband off the porch (he saw it too) and we drove to the block before what was a HUGE fire at what used to be a hot dog factory.

It was glorious and seeing the propane tanks catch on fire and vent from their domes on the tops of the tanks (they’re made to do that, it’s a lower temp metal that melts so the gas vents and burns off and doesn’t explode the tank) - white hot flames that shot easily 80 feet straight up into the air and sounded like jets taking off… So cool.

I did pick up a freezer storage set that has outlasted every other Tupperware set I’ve had. Still have most of it.

Nope! Still exists…

Once those Servalier lids split… yup. Definitely open.

Any word on storage?

NGL, if I was working for the government, that phone would NEVER get used and I’d leave it in a drawer at my desk. Turned off.

It has something as the nature of my feed changed. I’t’s also been inaccessible for me a lot more lately, so I’m back to flickr for the photo stuff.

Hey, I’m on Bluesky and it’s fine for certain topics. (lotsa photographers I like are there)

I have definitely noticed the pro-russia content, as the algorithm has started sending me more international news - when I subscribed to the news outlets that are local to where my mom and my uncles live - but now I’m getting european stuff?

Hmmm.

I come to lemmy for EU/international news…

It is in a very remote corner of the Northeast Kingdom that is far enough away from industrial centers that dumping wasn’t cost efficient. I actually lived near one of the OG superfund sites in New England, and recall the tanker trucks bombing up and down the road past my house - so when it all broke loose in the late 70’s (and all hell locally DID break loose - Beedee Road Landfill - recieved decades worth of industrial waste from two companies - Davison Rubber and Hooker Chemicals.) we were all… “ahhh, that’s what all that was about…” Then I moved in with different relatives, but have been hyper aware of where in the northeast - to avoid the water from. (Do NOT drink Poland Spring water.) I will always ask the older people who knew what factories and mills were where and what they made.

Whatever FIFA puts up should be splattered with paint ballons launched from cars driving by with catapults or slings…

Hmmm… If the reporting is accurate, some of it might have made for honestly interesting listening. The last bit about Grok… Perfection. LOL!

Here’s the rub of it: you know what the issue is, and where the chemicals are likely to be found and you can make sure your friends and that family which you want to protect can also know what to avoid. As much of it as you can.

PFOAs are all in the water where I live, a consequence of having a SAC air base (now decomissioned) in the next town over and for most of the time it was open, there was NO environmental concerns for the shit that got dumped in the ground. My father, who was an airman in 1962 and stationed at said former base, often was tasked with doing the dumping. (he always told me to be mindful of the water when I moved here in my 20’s) People ask me why I drive (quite a distance) twice a year to go get almost 100 gallons of fresh spring water form a VERY isolated source. The water where I live is unpalatable and is heavily treated. Often stinks like a municipal pool. On those days, I will opt for a PTA bath instead of a hot steamy shower. Testing of the city’s main well a dozen years ago revealed what I’d been warned of decades prior… (ofc it’s the most contaminated one in the area…)

At this point, I am firmly convinced that this is 100% a move by the Trumpists and their monied enablers to gin up as much disease in the population as possible. There is no one single sector of the economy as large as the Medical Industrial Complex and it’s driven by the rapacious maw of greed and nothing else.

YOU BET that the current administration sees the public as nothing more than a resource to be mined of all it’s capital and then left to die. After all Trump famously “loves” the poorly educated, and to double down on that, he’s also stated that “Smart people don’t like me…” (Gee… ya’ think?)

There are enough poorly educated so they can feed for decades… and they will. This is where they start in on it seriously.

Time for the smart people to be stepping and fetching like never before.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones.

Not at first: At that point, it’s marketing.

About the time that the techbro overlords figure out the command to the chip that makes it so you can’t get an erection, is about the time you’re suddenly going to be on the hook for 80 hour workweeks.

Don’t think for a millisecond that can’t be a possibility.

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Doesn’t matter… we all know you’re a 47 year old used car salesman from Peoria.

LOL!

Yes… yes and of course!

Uh huh. Within four years, mostly. That is how long the chemical frisson takes to wear off (and coincidentally, how long it is to fully wean a child) and then the hot sex goes and so does the marriage.

I had SO many girlfriends that I saw go through this EXACT pattern. Here I was the last one married, watching them all get hitched (thinking there was something wrong with me) and then came the kids and then the divorces and then remarried and a few hitting a second divorce. I’m like WTF, I got tight with my best friend first, then we became lovers and finally got hitched 7 years after we met. 35 years later, he is still my best friend first and foremost. He kicks my ass and keeps me on my toes. Drives me up a wall and I love it.

It’s about finding someone you do NOT have to fuck 24/7 that you like so much, that once the sex goes (and it does, if we’re being honestly blunt about it) you still are crazy about them, and they are about you.