Oh hey I was just about to comment that the one time I got morphine in the hospital it absolutely did not make me feel like this. It didn’t feel like anything except “thank god the pain stopped, now I can rest.” But it didn’t make me feel good above my baseline and I was about to wonder if something was wrong with me? Now I just feel lucky.

Fantastic write up. Reminds me of a post on Hobby Drama.

I was looking for a good source for that (I have heard the same thing) but found this instead which is still helpful.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666956022000290

I have a gemstone (I forget what kind, it’s a dark purple though) worry stone. It’s just the right shape to rest in my hand and let me rub my thumb over it. I don’t really use it for that often, but on occasion it’s nice to just hold a cool stone, literally and figuratively.

And if you’re lucky, you don’t slice yourself on the plastic bastard.

A powerful statement in therapy that still hits me when I think about it. “You don’t stop being someone’s child.” (I’ll leave it without context, the context would be too painful and personal, so read that however you want.)

Had a tamer but similar hill near my home growing up. Loved speeding down. It ended in a lot filled with gravel. Fortunately the day I spun out on the gravel lot was coming from a different, slower direction. Developed an extremely bad case of road rash all over one leg. When I realized what might have happened if I’d been taking the hill instead, that I probably would have broken my legs or worse, I stopped going down that hill. Realization of mortality can be like a bucket of ice water sometimes.

A proper return to ‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’

I got all the way to the last level once… but never beat it. The lava level man.

In order, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Pokemon, Digimon

Omelettes. So versatile. So good. Of all the combos I love bacon and mushrooms in my american cheese omelettes best of all.

Pancakes are a close second.

First one is a screencap from Overly Sarcastic Productions. I sadly don’t remember where the second one came from.

Isn’t that just what Firefox was before it was Firefox?

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I’ve been complimented on my voice before, and those aren’t weird compliments. But delivery is important. I had a coworker tell me, “Your voice is great!” And of course I’m thankful. But then deadpan, she goes, “You should do ASMR so I can listen to it.”

Now that was a weird compliment.

USA! USA! USA!

We both hung out on a Digimon fansite in high school lol

https://lemmy.world/post/16294262

This post talking about a nifty anti-paywall website here: https://byebyepaywall.com/en/

To your credit, language is indeed an ever-evolving thing and what words mean what is not a constant, particularly in this age of internet.

Point against you, is that means that a ‘meme’ is largely whatever the majority of people think it is.