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I’m having such a bad time. Some days it feels like I can’t breathe
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Yes, but the day has ended and you made it through. 💪 be proud of yourself for that.
so many hugs
Is there anything we can do?
There’s not much but thankyou
Okay, GP was absolutely lovely! She gave me a script for a medication to help me quit smoking, directed me to reduce my coffee intake and eat more (even just grazing) during the day, and if none of that helps then we’ll look at the anti-sad I’m on.
I think I just needed someone in that profession to tell me what I already knew, but I’m very happy that she offered the medication for quitting smoking. It’ll free up money for therapy. I’m self-aware but that doesn’t help if I don’t ask for it, so I’m definitely much more confident.
I’m tired but hopeful.
I hear ya. It’s so much stress to front up to the GP and it’s such a relief to be listened to and helped. So glad you got some practical steps. You got this
so many happy hugs
you can do this :)
That’s great to hear. I didn’t even know there was medication that could help with smoking, aside from nicotine of course
Glad to hear you had a great experience :)
One of my favourite apps (Zen colouring) has been removed from my phone because Google flagged it as unsafe. Booooo.
Yeah that happened to me tonight too. My husband bypassed the restriction. Tbh I don’t know what he did. I pointed and said “fix it”.
I might give it a few days to hopefully solve itself, seen a few comments about it being because of an ad. Given it seems the devs have been rolling out new features I hope they can work it out.
I think it was a weight loss ad. When you try to skip the ad, it directs you to their website. The ad itself was a bit odd too. It was a bit fat shamie.
I paid to remove ads ages ago, but fuck me it’s annoying so invasive some ads are and how they try and trick you into things. Like fuck offffff, maybe come up with a legitimate product and people might be interested!
Right. I only get ads in between pictures or if I choose to watch ads for points.
I can ask my husband later what he did to get it started again if you like. I just need to know what device you use. I use my Samsung tablet. He asked me if I do any banking on it which the answer was no. He said that’s fine and over rid something and it started working again. Hope that makes sense. Lol.
Makes total sense, thank you!! I use it on my phone, with which I do do banking, soooo maybe I’ll just wait and hope it comes back, lol. I think I had it on my little tablet as well which doesn’t do anything important so I can maybe over ride it on that. It’ll be fine. Thank you!!!
No worries. I made a post on today’s thread about it.
Happy Colour has been worth paying for no ads, if you’re looking for an alternative.
Thank you!! I’ll check it out!
I miss simple games. There used to be lots of little basic games with endless levels without a million ads, bouncing pop ups every turn, endless in game purchase etc. I just want something calming I can play for 15min while I have my coffee. There’s a gap in the market. I guess it must be unprofitable.
Flight Control
Plants vs. Zombies
Peggle
Angry Birds (original one)
Fieldrunners
Asphalt 6
Jetpack Joyride
Doodle JumpI actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.
Field runners is the first game I ever played on a touch screen. And it’s a great game!
Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.
I’ve just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.
Have a look at Mini Motorways. It maybe right up your alley. It’s very clever for what it is.
Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I’d have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.
Look at a game called mini motorways.
You might be able to install it directly if you can find the apk install file. I had to do that with ghost commander, which is a file browser.
Thanks for the idea!
good night everyone, sweet dreams
and special hugs for Melba {{{{{Melba}}}}}
Goodnight all ❤️ Hope you have a great night and ill see the insomniac’s a bit later on 🛌
Another nice thing that happened at work today is i can finally bulk upload leads in the CRM. I’ve been adding them in one by one for months and I swear it can take me a whole morning sometimes.
This will be a massive time saver I can use to run more lead campaigns
I have a GP appointment today and I’m not sure what to say. My anxiety is paralysing, and my depression is escalating, but I’ve used all my free psych appointments for the calendar year. I think I’m falling apart, but the rent and bills have gone up, so I really feel utterly stuck.
I suppose I’ll say that lol
seriously?
You are going to a GP to get some help and you are talking about your problems , you are not paralysed and you are tackling your depression even tho you feel like you are
Just keep doing things. Your feelings are tricking you.
Kudos.
Say exactly that.
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A question that’s been bothering me over the weekend. Have been utterly stumped by it, so asking here if anyone has clarification to offer.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
I’ve been trying to figure how many kilos/grammes per metre but if you want to answer in pounds shillings and ounces that’s fine with me.
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
Not very much. Their arms are tiny. Average weight of woodchuck is 3.9kg. if we look at a human (agile, long arms comparitively), and perhaps use the weight of a hammer (like from hammer throw competition), which is 16kg, and AVG human weight in hammer throw… maybe 90kg? That’s gets us 17.7% of weight. Transfer to groundhogs that’s about 700g, BUT their short arms surely limit this a lot. I’ll say at least by 75%. Which leads to: 175g. A woodchuck could chuck 175g, if a woodchuck could chuck wood
You forgot to factor in wind speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure as well what it had for breakfast.
Well jeez what if it was in outer space in zero gravity? It could chuck all the wood then - whether or not it ate vegemite for breakfast
This pretty close to the best answer I came up with. BUT. Woodchucks are rodents, not monkey-ancestor brachiators like us. So their shoulder and arm assembly is geared to grip & gather, not swing and bear weight. So the ‘calculated’ answer I came up with was 35grams. Given the moment arm and leverage etc. Plus claws get in the way - woodchucks don’t have fingers/thumb for gripping like us. No doubt this question will continue to bother me.
You make some fair points. Perhaps only a 75% reduction was far too generous in hindsight. i think 35g is a bit too light though.these woodchucks are quite capable diggers. If you imagine it scooping up the wood in a digging fashion, perhaps flung betwixt its legs, I feel it could get a bit of power that way.
True. The initial question does not specify if the chuck in question is forward directed or rear directed. Damn questions that miss out on the most important info.
If gummy lollies were invented today, what shape would they have gone with if not snakes and red frogs?
Those ugly Labubus
Snakes aren’t replaceable here. Frogs can be whatever though. Koalas?
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According to Google 700 pounds (317.5kg) so that’s probably wrong. 🤷♀️
Do you have any other questions?
Probably, but they can wait.
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Its a bit hard to say, but they probably couldn’t eat more than a couple of hundred grams, so if you are looking at how much they can chuck up in one incident it would be limited to that. But wood isn’t part of their normal diet, so even if a woodchuck would chuck up wood it’s unlikely they could chuck up wood.
Big day today as I’ll be heading into the city to see Brennan from Dropout do a DnD campaign tonight. It’s a lot for a Monday but at least it starts early
rad
Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?
Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they could’ve named it anything else but they chose that name.
Renuneration lol
Idempotent. It’s a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You’ll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.I’d been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
Right now it’s chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book), because I’d read so many books as a kid/teen. I’d heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled “ipitomie” or “ipitomy”.
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It’s now my favourite haha
In a similar sense I’ve got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I can’t roll my r’s good.
I can’t roll my R’s either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isn’t how it’s actually done 😂
I did read “provolone” as “pro-vah-lone”. The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
I love “albeit”. Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.
Looking at my weekly unKAOS plan , I can do this. :)
the garden worries me, I have a tender back, but if i do some everyday it will get done, even if it’s not as early in spring as i would like
plonks 60l tub down
One tub full of weeds per day. That’s my aim on green bin weeks
You can do it! just a little bit every day
Morning! No work this week 😺
Yay!
I heard this song in the supermarket and I don’t know how to feel about that.
You should be getting down and making moves in the aisle to that absolute bop
I was kinda grooving to it NGL 😂
fukn ay
that’s a pretty cool song
I can’t find my bug a salt. IM NOT HAPPY UNTIL I FIND MY GUN.
Update: I found it
