u/Thready85

I got off Facebook last month after a health scare. I mean I didn't stop checking on a few people, but I stopped posting, commenting, basically stopped scrolling altogether.

And it didn't make me feel better.

I used to have a blast on Facebook before they changed everything to have 3 promoted posts and 2 ads before I saw anyone I know. I used to get a lot of love on my funny stuff and photography and now I'm lucky to get a like.

My incentive to be on there is gone now and it's not replaced with anything. So I'm still lonely.

Oh well. Just wanted to speak on that

Today my dentist said everything looks good except a little weak spot on my upper left tooth where it gets very close to the other tooth. I use a reach access flosser before brushing with prevadent 5000 every night.

I forgot to ask what if I brushed with toothpaste before flossing and then flossed with the remaining toothpaste still on my teeth so it gets up in there? Because it's the type of toothpaste you leave on so if I floss it will go up in between right?

Do those physics make sense? Idk. Thank you for any advice.

Not looking for anxiety help or medical advice. I respect the rules. But I am an anxious person. I have the autism (the 'tism). and I'd like a little education on the topic of echo/ultrasounds so maybe I can at least get to the damn hospital without ruminating.

My question is what do I expect from the process? They say between 30 minutes and 2 hours. That's a wide gap.

Am I allowed to wear my earbuds? The sound of my heart is frightening. I figured they could just give me a tap when they need something and I could just take my earbud out. Earbuds on quiet mode won't mess with their equipment right? I would just have Bob Ross playing.

I wore a tank top under my button down shirt so they can get to my chest easily. I brushed my teeth, washed my entire upper body with soap and water this morning and I have deodorant and clean clothes. My mom made me do all that because she's a nurse...

Any insight into what to expect and what this process is actually about is appreciated. Thanks!

I'm getting so tired of this sentiment on social media. It's really a big social media thing.

I guess I'm just too real, I have no filter, I just say it like it is, I'm just honest, I don't have a filter so deal with it

Why are you so special that the world needs your unfiltered honesty? What secrets of the universe are you working with that we all need to immediately hear about?

You don't hear educated people talking like that. When I was in my psych degree, we learned the importance of actually having a filter. Our words can affect others and if we're unfiltered, we can ruin someone's life with our words.

And I have autism, which I feel like I have to say because so many in the autism community talk about how their unfiltered candor is such a virtue. No dudes, it's not best to just say whatever is on our minds and it's vital that we learn how to have a filter in certain times.

It's always some basic people with ego making this a virtue too. I've been told I'm blunt and honest and for me I don't feel good about that. I don't have an ego for how I come across. I want to be more diplomatic and tactful.

Him: "Forza 6 is free on Gamepass next week."

Me: "No. It's included with your payment. Nothing on Gamepass is free."

And then the idiot argued with me on the meaning of the word free and how his use of it actually worked and how wrong my correcting him was.

This is bad consumerism. This is low consumer education too. They want us using the word free because it's awesome word of mouth marketing for them and they're not allowed to say it themselves. But we can use the word free and they'll never correct us.

Entertainment journalists use this word, especially when it comes to gaming, movie, and music subscriptions. They'll talk about what's coming to Netflix and if you have a subscription you can watch for free.

This is actually bad for society for people to conflate the concept of "included with a subscription" to something being free. It allows the real cost we're paying to become hidden. And unfortunately I think it's being driven by younger people who don't know any better because they grew up with Netflix and Gamepass and such. They have no basis to argue against those of us who are older who understand the weight of the term.

Things that are truly free in this society are few and far between. Everything else is paid for somehow, usually by the consumer or taxpayer.

Midwest summers get hot and it takes me an hour to mow

I got Cruel Summer

It's a Sin

Hot Together

Love is a Long Road

Running Down a Dream

Horse with no Name

Down on the Corner

If You Wanna get to Heaven

I want to ask about trading in the ******* ***** and it requiring the original power adapter that came with the ***** when I bought it in 2020 before the pandemic. Those things don't last 6 years. Do I really have to spend $33 to buy a new one to include with the ***** if I want to trade it in for $75 to get the ***** 2?

Edit: Japanese Video Game Console Hybrid you can play handheld and docked and the new one came out last year but I can't mention them by name. Mario, Zelda, etc.

I'm honestly asking any business minded person. This is not rhetorical. Where do these live service companies think they'll get gamers from?

Marathon is a financial failure. That's not hyperbole. No revenue can be gained that could make up for the cost at this point.

Companies only put money behind games they think will benefit them financially, obvious business 101.

They'll have some internal forecast of gamers that it will take to make a profit off the game.

and I want to yell "WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THESE GAMERS FROM?!"

Most multiplayer gamers have their chosen games. They're set and comfortable. Time is a finite resource. We have our chosen games to play with the time we have to play them.

People aren't going to try new shit out in massive numbers at this point. Even if a game reviews well, pulling gamers away from their comfortable games isn't happening.

It's frustrating seeing these financial failures because financial failures are like blood in the water for vulture capitalists who ruin companies.

I was rushed to the hospital last week in an ambulance because I had a-fib and heart rate and blood pressure out of control. I've always had panic and hypochondria that mimic heart attack and make me believe everything is one. Now I actually had something real.

So I'm panicking in bed with a klonipin and Bob Ross and neither are doing me any good.

Having a hard time.

He's homebound, only able to go out for doctor appointments. He is being told he'll have to go to a post office to verify his ID after all my attempts to do it failed. Isn't there a better way? Thank you.

Update: I just learned about id.me and this thing saved my sanity. I just got out of the hospital with an a-fib scare and I do not want to mess with the government lol.

I was able to download his award letter and everything to my computer. Thanks a ton for the help.

I live in St. Louis. Yesterday was a bad one. I was filming the high winds and rain from inside my house and I saw my neighbor across the street get in their car and leave.

We were less than a mile from the county line where there was a tornado warning on the other side.

we have people making jokes about sitting on the front porch watching the 'nadoes. We have people getting stuck in standing water. We have people getting into hydroplaning accidents.

And the whole time our top 3 news stations are interrupting programming with weather alerts

I live in St. Louis. I turned my Synology off because we're about to get hit by severe storms. What do you consider a threat big enough to proactively turn your Synology off? I have an APC UPS with a data cable to my Synology and I configured the automatic shut down process.

But the threat of 80 mph gusts and possible EF3s have me paranoid and I don't want to trust it to the APC.

Thank you.