Kids these days are just so lazy, back then the average man could lift way more weight

About a month ago I was at the gas station filling up my 24 year old clunker when a homeless guy came up and asked if I would give him enough money for a coffee. I was going to lie and say I didn’t have cash on me, but it occurred to me that I’m one bad day from being in his shoes every moment, so I checked the emergency stash I kept in my car and on impulse just gave him the whole pile of it. Idk how much it was, not a ton, but a handful of ones and maybe a $5 or a $10. And yeah, a week ago, that bad day happened. My husband dumped me via text message, and now I’m very, very close to homelessness in the next few weeks or months if I can’t find a place to go soon. It’s not always drugs, or addiction, or laziness. Sometimes it’s making what look like good decisions and just getting fucked over.

Now do it for MySpace and Twitter!

Lemmy for me is all Linux, politics, boobs, anime and sports. I’m a straight woman who hates sports and anime, has a surface interest in Linux but doesn’t wish to debate about it, and likes to be knowledgeable about both world and US politics but hates the anger. I’m really debating if Lemmy is for me, but I won’t go back to reddit and I need someplace to browse when the insomnia strikes.

Good advice with the vacuum. It definitely gets dusty in here, so I’ll check that first.

About the fire department, funny thing that, it’s volunteer here, and I’m actually on the department, but I’m not a firefighter, I’m medical side and don’t know the slightest thing about fire except that it’s hot and I stay away from it. My role on fire calls is to drag hoses where I’m told lol. I keep forgetting to ask the real firefighters about my detectors when I see them, but if I can’t get it resolved by cleaning or talking to management I’ll have to talk to the chief or ask my LT.

Thank you!

Off topic, but do you know what to do about smoke detectors that chirp like once a week? I’m in an apartment, have 4 smoke detectors in here for some reason, and 3 out of the 4 will randomly chirp like once a week. We’ve changed the batteries, they’re flashing green, if you hit the test button they work, but they just chirp once in awhile. Sometimes it’s only once, sometimes it’s 2 or 3 times in a day and then will go a month or more without chirping. Management is a PITA so I don’t want to complain if there isn’t an issue, but I’d rather not die a horrible death if my apartment burns down and my detectors don’t go off.

The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.

I had to wait 2 months to see a primary care doctor this year. Was supposed to have to wait 6 months to see a specialist about an issue I was having but thankfully after I saw the PCP she went “no way” and had her office call the specialist and move it up so it was only a 3 month wait. My husband is currently waiting 3 months for his appointment with a primary care. We are in an urban area with a couple different hospital systems.

I’ve been sad because I know I’ll never be able to retire, no matter how hard I work, but now I’m realizing I can stop being sad about that because there will be no world or civilization around by the time I’m old enough to retire. The earth and humanity will still exist but I highly doubt things will still resemble what they do today. One way or another, it seems like things are going to drastically change. We can’t sustain this for another 40 years

I used to have 25-28 migraine days a month. About 15-20 of those were struggle through work while half blinded, come home and go straight to bed. My PCP put me on a beta blocker while waiting until I could get in to see a neurologist. It helped a small amount, in that I was having maybe 23-26 migraine days a month and they were slightly less severe, but when the neurologist put me on anti-seizure meds (topiramate) my world changed. Now I have maybe 1-2 migraine days a month if I have a migraine at all and I only have 4-5 bad headaches a year. It’s been maybe 2 or 3 years since I’ve had a “lay in bed, dont move, dont think, dont open my eyes, if I so much as twitch a finger i will projectile vomit” migraine. I got my life back.

“Immigrants will take our jobs!”

“No one wants to work anymore!”

“Let’s hire children to fix the labor shortages”

I dont have TT. I also don’t have Snapchat. Therefore, I also don’t have friends, or have any clue what is going on in the lives of those around me or the pop culture of my generation.

It is a lonely existence, but I refuse to get either of those apps. People have my number. If they actually cared, they could return my texts.