EponymousBosh

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[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know, but apparently people had some way of managing.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I'm too old and weak to keep up.

FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/these-4000-year-old-bones-reveal-a-shocking-secret-about-humanitys-earliest-caregivers

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php

These are just a handful of these types of stories, there's loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn't say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you'd be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It's a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

Really surprised no one's mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

It's specifically the fact that it's family that makes it hard for me to buy that it's isolated (hence "in this case"). It's possible for sure, but you don't usually get "my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off" without a shitload of other family weirdness.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

My late cat (the one in my pic) REALLY wanted my grocery-store sushi one time, but I didn't give her any, so she decided to lick a big ol' glob of the wasabi.

She didn't like it.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Gaia Online still exists??

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It might be another food allergy as well. I have skin reactions to dairy, and it took me years to figure it out because a) it's a slow reaction (6ish hours after I eat it), and b) I also assumed it was something my skin was coming into contact with

And in keeping with the OP, I also still eat dairy from time to time. Not a severe reaction, it won't become a severe reaction, and there's still no good replacement for actual cheese, dammit. (Daiya is close enough...sometimes...)

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

When Brood X happened, I think one of my cats thought I was responsible for the cicadas. They kept bonking against our windows and she'd look at them, then look at me and meow. I tried explaining but I don't think she understood :(

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