Make it 60-72 hours and your death will still be fresh enough for it to be relevant, but plenty of time to figure out how to work around whatever calamity might prevent still-alive you from stopping it. It’s even enough time that if your death makes the news it’ll have been seen by most relevant journalists and newsrooms already so they’ll have more context for the strange email they find
When my daughter was about 1.5 she would wave like that, waving so she could see her hand correctly.
Not long after that she’d dismiss people she didn’t want to deal with with a little blown kiss and a wave. So at the doctor’s office they had two nurses come in to give her some shots and she kept doing the little kiss and wave and they went “aww she’s blowing kisses” and my wife said “no she’s actually trying to dismiss you”
My grandmother was born in 1940 and told me when I was little about when her family first was going to get a TV she thought it would be like a radio with a little screen on top that you’d wander over to and peek into for a visual when you needed one for the radio drama you were listening to. As I got older I second guessed my memory of her telling me that (because she’s old but she can’t be that old!) and then she told me the story as an adult again and it all makes so much more sense now
My daughter recently asked me “ladybugs are good? Because they eat orphans?” And after a moment of stifled laughter and thought I said “aphids. They eat aphids and yes that makes them good because aphids will eat your plants”
When I was a kid my dad would often pull up the NORAD Santa tracker on Christmas Eve, and that combined with seeing the film War Games at way too young of an age had me believing in Santa for much longer than I should have because “why else would the federal government devote so much money to tracking him?” I think it was specifically seeing the exact same animation of him being welcomed into a country by a pair of fighter jets for the third year in a row that finally killed that line of reasoning (because obviously the NORAD Santa tracker site is shot with television cameras or something)
Kid logic is wild
I mean frequent consumption is pretty well documented to be bad for your liver, and they don’t call it a beer belly for nothing. Like any kind of indulgence, moderation is key
Also worth noting beer historically was very very light on alcohol, so it was effectively a method of making water safe to drink rather than about having fun getting drunk
Most radiators are just a big metal thing which a hot liquid slowly flows through to radiate the heat into the space. Kinda hard for that to be bad for you unless you burn yourself
Most heated blankets have such a feature
My wife uses on every night, and it’s just a Walmart special no-name brand heating pad. Never had problems with burning even with kids and pets in the mix to really do a number on them
Nah whats a little rapid oxidization between friends?
I’ve edited my comment with pictures now! Thank you for the reminder!
I have some 19th century railroad stock certificates from railroads that have long since ceased to exist through many, many mergers and acquisitions. I’ll post a picture if I remember when I get to the computer
Somewhere in the In-between by Streetlight Manifesto
I’ve been slowly digging into their discography recently and holy crap Ska is so funny because it’ll be a bopping tune but then you catch the lyrics and find it’s a song about war, death, collapse, etc.
This music video definitely embodies that same disconnect. Cute animal animation with bopping music except wait what are those people doing? What are those animals doing? Oh my is that how this ends?!
That’s a lot of time to figure out an escape plan and execute it!
This was the premise of the Greek myth of Tithonus
In short, Eos fell in love with Tithonus, a mortal prince, and begged Zeus to grant immortality to him (but forget to specify eternal youth and eternal health) so she was forced to watch him age until he shrunk into a raisin and was eaten
Personally, I’m terrible about actually spending money on myself. Mostly because right now money is pretty tight as a single income household. A giftcard forces me to spend money in a more careless manner than I otherwise would. A giftcard encourages me to splurge and order a thing on Amazon or buy a super sugary treat or something else that can bring me joy. If I’m given cash I just use that to smooth over the daily grind, so giftcards absolutely hit different
In a forum system that sorts by last comment that can be annoying.
I’ll be real, I entirely forgot that was a thing. Why are you reviving terrible memories like that?!
I see necroposting as when it’s someone coming by months or years after the discussion is over and not bringing much of value to the table. So it’s more to do with the value of the contribution than the timeframe
Only time I’ve had fraudulent charges was when I was 18 or so and hadn’t yet got my first line of credit. They disputed the charges normally and froze the account. It did suck not having much money but I also was living at home still so I just avoided spending money for a few days until it all finished processing
On that subject makes me wonder if insurance.aes has been cracked yet