I would like to know the function of the grey circle in the bottom left. Initially I thought it was a button but now I’m thinking it’s a microphone.

I have a small, unexplained cut in the middle of the back of my head. (My theory is that someone snuck in and did brain surgery on me while I was napping the other day.) It doesn’t hurt or anything and I can’t see it - I’m mostly only aware of it when the hot water hits it during a shower.

Because of this, I have been mostly forgetting it’s there … Except when something brushes or bumps it and makes it itchy, when I reach up to scratch at it without even fully realizing.

Then I really struggle with this impulse.

If she can take away your man that easily, he wasn’t worth your time.

This is what I see, too.

You will.

That’s disappointing; I always thought the one thing they got right was the 98/XP interface that Cinnamon copied.

My model female cousin (usually most of those details wouldn’t matter, but they sort of do in this anecdote) once broke down on the side of the road in broad daylight. Apparently someone, a man, pulled over and offered to help her, but then immediately started attempting to abduct her.

I was a kid when all of this happened, so all I know is what I overheard my mom saying on the phone when relaying the story to someone else; but apparently the cousin in question decided “I’m either going to die here or get away, I’m not going to let him take me.” From my memory of this secondhand story, she screamed, shouted and struggled, but was entirely ignored by everyone traveling the busy highway where she’d broken down. Eventually an off-duty cop (this was in the late nineties, I think) stopped at the side of the road and rescued her. I don’t know what happened after (except that said cousin is still around).

I’m proud of her for defending herself. So was my mom, which is why I overheard that story.

According to the training at various jobs I’ve held, if gunshots are likely to be a threat, you should lay down wherever is available and put your knees under your chest to kink up your body.

The reasoning given was that bullets tend to travel in a straight line, so if you minimize the straight lines in your body, you’re in less danger. This never really made sense to me, but it’s what I was officially told.

If you were in something like a cast iron tub, that might protect you, but I doubt any modern tub would make much of a difference.

I’m glad you survived your experience!

I got offered a job at NASA. It was very tempting, primarily because I would have gotten to see space maneuvers.

However, they had no WFH openings and the department that was offering me a position was only using technologies with which I was already familiar. Unfortunately I had to decline.

You figured it out?

When I moved to my current house, my wife and kid were at our previous house for a while. I deliberately chose this house for its isolation, so for a while the only people I really spoke to were local cashiers every few days. (Side note: my kid was three at the time and had left a toy triceratops on the back of one of the commodes the day we signed for the house. I never thought a toilet would make me miss someone so much.)

Anyway, I work remotely and had a daily virtual meeting. Most days, that meeting was the first and last time I spoke. I also had some kind of long lived sinus infection going on, so not only did I speak pretty rarely, until I opened my mouth I wasn’t even sure if I’d have a voice that day.

According to the sidebar:

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes

Your compatriots.

You’re exactly right! Thank you for compensating for my inadequate memory.

You know it.

My wife used to call him “Pook” or “Pork Chop” alongside his actual name.

He responded to any of them.

He was a good dog.

I loved his huge (and yes, soft) head. I often told him so.

This is the second picture I’ve seen in the last hour depicting the legs of someone in the bathroom. Is this the vengeance of the “can’t poop” guy?

Agreed, but I don’t think the urban legend was claiming that they were doing this legitimately.

The book I’m referencing was written in, IIRC, the 90’s or early 00’s. None of the ones that turned up in my search were it.

However, in case the one you’ve seen referenced was the one I mentioned, the premise I remember from reading it as a kid is basically that you should pay more attention to your subconscious. The bulk of what I recall is examples of people not doing that and discussion of how you can.

I do remember one specific thing from it. It describes the actions of a kangaroo before engaging in violence. It then specifies that that description is false, but you’ll never forget it. It’s true; I don’t remember why that came up in the book, but I’ve never forgotten the described actions.

There was a book called Fear Itself that roughly echoed this premise, but there seem to be some newer ones with better SEO.