Safe? I never considered that, this is not a variable in my music listening

No, they don’t grow even. But it’s not so uneven to be problematic for me.

Tonsils? You surely meant toenails right? My tonsils grow in my mouth. I don’t cut them

I see!

Why? How come? I never imagined either would be the case

Really, people got shunned for watching Monty Python in the 80s and 70s?

Cheers! Yes I haven’t been on Lemmy as much lately, but I still check in every now and then.

I’m with the truffles guy saying truffles with the caveat that perhaps I haven’t had real truffles properly.

Otherwise, I find KFC too overrated. All fast food chains in general, but KFC in particular gets a hype at least in my circles. From what I hear, you are buying bliss and a heavenly experience in a bucket. Come on. It’s just chicken bits with nothing special about them, in fact the cheap deep frying oils can upset my stomach easily.

I second your impression of truffles. I’m yet to appreciate them. So far in my books is a thing that tastes like dirt and shoots up ridiculously the price of whatever it’s added into

Too yellow to be olive green, too green to be proper mustard yellow.

Olive yellow or green mustard, your choice

I’ve dabbled in the occults during my youth and I’ve never heard of “skin readings”. Maybe it’s an ancient technique that escaped my radar or maybe it’s just a scammer getting your boob pics. I’d be inclined to think it’s the latter.

Answer: no

However fossils are relatively scarce, especially those that are in great condition (which means we can learn from them). They slowly decay when exhibited because of environment conditions, so you are very likely to find a majority of replicas.

Now, occasionally you do see the real thing. I remember seeing that famous archeopteryx fossil during a temporary exhibit at the Australian museum and I was completely blown away by the amount of detail it had. Mesmerizing. 10/10 would definitely recommend

Showerthoughts is for showing pondering, whimsical thoughts.

It is not for thoughts that need to showered off

TIL there is a thing called Grokipedia

Hello, I work in retail in Australia. The shopping malls I’m at all have “quiet time” for “people with sensory issues” every Tuesday morning from 9 to 11:30 am. It is as you described, and I agree with you.

Now I’m not sure where I stand on the spectrum but I’ve heard colleagues say they also prefer the quiet time, so, there you go. I just don’t understand the point of bombarding people with music all the time especially for Christmas.

This doesn’t work… It’s like saying there is a fine line between strength and opening pickle jars

They aren’t even adjacent either…

I’m glad to see most people replying yes, I was like “wait, is it not?”. The only time I don’t see noise is when I look at flat colors on a screen and I’m not a fan.

I believe the technology will eventually be implemented, but most likely not as an external device but as part of a neural chip/link/augmentation. We are already heading in that direction, and I’m certain we humans (unless we nuke ourselves out of existence first) will finally get to the stage in which our brains are augmented with the aid of some kind of artificial implant.

And it’s going to happen relatively slowly at first, then faster and faster. And things will fail or will be exploited and yes, one of those side effects might be wiping your memories or screwing up your identity.

Personally I’m not too worried, I don’t think I’ll live long enough to reach that phase let alone be able to afford any modifications to myself. I just hope humankind learns from the absolute mess that is social media and AI today and can see the obvious risks of implementing something like that. Or not. Just let the world burn down

Considering you mention affairs and divorce I’m going to presume you have a relationship you are not happy with.

I can absolutely relate to being exhausted after work. But it’s the job you do more than the hours. I’ve had energy after a 50hr week, yet felt absolutely drained in other jobs with just 30hrs.

Catch 22 then, because you can’t improve your relationship if you are reduced to a zombie, and your relationship is supposed to help ground you against the drains of daily life.

The ideal answer would be to talk things with a professional therapist. Not sure if you are in a position to do that. Second best is, talk things calmly with your partner and see if it is possible to cut down hours of work, perhaps move somewhere more affordable, change your job, in order for you both to have more time enjoy yourselves and your family. It sounds like you can do without, but it is important.