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I think I actually had a coat once with a hidden pocket like this that I didn’t know about until I had it for quite some time! It wasn’t big enough to hold a lot, but it was a very secret stash. Even some coats I have with inside pockets blend in very well, but those probably wouldn’t pass someone searching me at a checkpoint of any kind.

Not a topic I’m super familiar with, but I feel I’ve heard people often are either robbed or have their items confiscated by authorities. Same with unhoused people not wanting to have stuff that would make them a target.

If it was something you had a little bit of prep time for, ziplocking USD or EU and seeing it into a grubby jacket where the repairs would blend in and not garner attention would be the most portable and effective thing to do while minimizing theft potential, other than having all eggs in one basket unless you split it between different garments. Also make sure it is pretty weatherproof to prevent mold damage.

It also has the benefit of being immediately usable, should you need to pay for transport or food. If it was seen in a puffy coat, one could discreetly remove one pack of bills while leaving the rest secure. The immediacy that cash can be used may make up for having something potentially more valuable that you would have to barter or fence, as pretty much any human has a need for cash.

I would probably be a bit more excited if it didn’t start coming out during a time of widespread disinformation and anti-intellectualism.

I just come here to share animal facts and similar things, and the amount of reasonably realistic AI images and poorly compiled “fact sheets”, and recently also passable videos of non-real animals is very disappointing. It waters down basic facts as it blends in to more and more things.

Stuff like that is the lowest level of bad in the grand scheme of things. I don’t even like to think of the intentionally malicious ways we’ll see it be used. It’s a going to be the robocaller of the future, but not just spamming our landlines, but everything. I think I could live without it.

Jetstream is my favorite all purpose ink. I got the refills to put in some of my other favorite pen bodies.

You have some tiny writing with that 0.28! I find 0.5 to be my happy place.

Ferdinand has been dead and gone a long time now, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in my lifetime associate a German car with the Nazis. Though I did have someone in my neighborhood for a while with a sticker like this that didn’t make me feel very welcoming to them.

To me, this is more akin to saying it’s 1940 and I think the Type 1 is a good car for me, but I’m feeling conflicted what those profits might be going toward. Elon is a very present day and active entity, unlike Ferdinand Porsche.

My thoughts are:

1. It’s an inflammatory title. The actual question being asked is a good question given the current state of affairs, but the title feels meant to stir people up. If it was approached like “how do I convince others my objectively decent Tesla vehicle doesn’t mean I support what Elon is doing,” I feel would come across as a more personal concern than “Tesla drivers = Nazis?” does.

2. Potential rule 2 violation since this revolves around politics, especially the way the title and some of the post is phrased.

I responded with my own opinion earlier as I felt it was an overall legit post, but I can see why some wouldn’t even bother to read the post after seeing the title and downvote based on either or both the things I mentioned.

I don’t think you can really separate Tesla the company from Elon, as even if he was no longer CEO, he still owns so much of the company. Despite them making something arguably good for the world as a whole, many see Elon himself presenting a more immediate danger than the possible emission reductions.

Hurting Tesla financially as a company is a nonviolent way to fight Elon. Hurting someone physically or financially who owns a Tesla does not affect Elon in any way, as the car has already been purchased. Any Tesla employees that may lose a job due to an extended boycott would be an unintentional effect, as I doubt anyone begrudges a regular employee of a company that, politics aside, makes something that isn’t inherently bad for people.

If you have concerns of malicious behavior to you or your car, you could always get one of those “I bought this before Elon went crazy” magnets, but in turn, any Elon supporters may now dislike you.

I remember a lot, but my memories often seem to account for things happening much differently. The mind does some amazing things to try to cope!

For me, depression felt like things just stuck to me. Everything negative, from minor and petty things to real major life events. Every time something new would happen, it would get stuck to that pile of things and pull on all that negativity, waking it up again. Like if you’d forget you said you’d help me with something, it would bother me because you forgot, but it would also trigger all the other negative things I could think of about my history with you and me, and often with other unrelated people, making me feel like nobody cared about me, or that I was just a joke of afterthought to everyone in my life, even though it was nothing more than something just slipping your mind. So instead of just sayin, oh no problem, you were probably just busy and got disctracted, i’m glad you’re here now, it’d trigger vivid memories of like 100 bad things that happened to me all at once. It’s just impossible to function like that.

Almost immediately after I got on medicine that costs me less than Tylenol, all that stickiness was gone. Being able to separate my feelings and deal with them one at a time as they came in instead of trying to cope with a life’s worth of issues all at once was so life changing! It finally gave me time to resolve my feelings about those old events and to move on from them instead of dragging them with me everywhere I went.

When I feel really bad now, I feel that weight start to build and it tells me that I need to look inward more seriously again. I feel myself reach the limits of the medicine. I tried to up the dosage (with doctor’s permission!), but that made me too tired. I just have to pay attention and assert myself where I can with people causing me issues, and I need to make sure I’m having good times with people and activities I do like. It’s like watching your hunger now. You don’t want to let yourself starve, and you don’t want to get so hungry you pig out on a bunch of junk. I just need to be smart about my emotions. It’s way easier still than if I would not be on my medicine. It’s so scary to think that I could still be that old way, and if I ever forget to take my medicine I do feel it creeping in. There are a few downsides to meds for me, but I feel they are very minor compared to the depression.

I accept what is done, and I use those things as learning experiences now. I wish I could forget some of it, but now that I can understand what I’ve done in the past, it makes the lessons really stick now.

I don’t know if I’d consider myself “happy” at the current period of time I’m in, because meds or therapy aren’t cures, they just let you process stuff in a more productive way. I’m fighting with my job about a bunch of issues I see as them not looking out for my safety, and there’s always family drama and I don’t have much in common with my own or my girlfriend’s family. I’m just able to process all that without flying off the handle or totally walling myself off from everyone and all that fun unhealthy stuff. I’m at least able to appreciate the good things that do still happen though, which I couldn’t before.

Talking about it and trying to destigmatize it is part of the responsibility I feel, because while I can’t undo any of what I did, I can at least try to help other people to help themselves so they can avoid walking down the same path as I did for so long. It helps them, and all the people that those people run into in life.

Hands down, ignoring my depression for so many years. Cost me countless friends and relationships.

The shame people at least used to put in getting any kind of help for mental health made me try to overcome it all on my own, and for most of my life I’ve probably made things worse for a lot of people and don’t fault them one bit for not wanting to be around me.

Getting help, for me at least, was very easy, cheap, and straightforward, and I almost immediately did a 180 in most every aspect of my life. I hardly recognize how old me used to live now, but I also have the guilt of all I did while I was untreated.

Oh shoot, I’m not so far from you. I live more south of Allentown, but work closer to Philadelphia.

Apple butter is an underrated condiment. I used to eat it on pancakes instead of syrup as a kid, and I put it in oatmeal and such as an adult. I don’t have it often nowadays, but there’s a place that produces it and other fruit butters nearby, and there’s occasionally some other brands in stores and roadside shops.

For those that haven’t had it, I guess imagine baked apples or an apple dumpling but reduced down so it is super concentrated into something spreadable.

Very nice! I’m into whatever info you have to share! Always down to learn more about other cultures.

If you ever assemble anything to read, I’d love to hear about some of what you’ve learned about owls or the Nahuatl in general. You’ve had to have put in a lot of hard work and I’m sure you’ve connected a ton of great random bits of history and culture.

I wasn’t going to say anything here, because I’ve been trying to self promote less now that we’re a big enough group, but that so many upvoted this without any kind of promoting felt really nice.

Especially from someone like you who has stuck around a long time now without even being super interested in the subject matter tells me I’m doing something right.

I have a hard time thinking I ever accomplish much of anything important, but a number of you have said some really nice things the last week or so and it’s meant a lot to me. I try my best to show that appreciation back, and I hope I do that.

And I’ll always argue that even though I provide most of the posts, it wouldn’t be a fun place without all of you that do come and comment or just keep the place active and a generally good place to be. It encourages me to keep giving it my best efforts even if I’m not typically a super social person. You’re a really great group and I feel fortunate you share your time with me.

PS. Chicuahtli forever!

We just lost my fiance’s mom 2 weeks ago. They’re a very close, very big family and their mom was a true matriarch. She also didn’t leave any plans for any of the complex situations she’s left behind, so her and her sisters have been stuck in all this legal and business drama instead of being able to grieve, and they just lost their dad at the end of last year.

We just got engaged this summer and she was already heartbroken her dad wouldn’t be there, and now she suddenly has no parents when she would talk to them every day. I’m not a big people person, but both her parents were really good to her and they all loved each other very much, and I feel really crushed this holiday season, so I can’t begin to feel what they all must be feeling.

You have my sympathy. It stinks. I liked her parents more than most of my own family, and I’m sad I won’t have anyone but my brother anymore to have good family time with.

I’m sure you had a really great mom, and I hope you get a proper chance to find the closure you need eventually and get to remember all the positive things again. I hope this was helpful, I feel I’m not great expressing emotional things, as I’m not used to feeling that close to many people, so please take this as my deepest sympathy and caring.

Thank you for the great reply. I know your modern brand recommendations, but the reconditions for older brands is a great idea I’ll have to look into.

For anyone that has contractor grade faucets, if you ever get to handle a higher end faucet, or even a lot of the commercial fixtures and compare them to the cheap stuff, it should be night and day.

I replaced my faucets before attempting to sell my house and used ok stuff to modernize, but they’re still low end. I ended up not moving, and I treat them nice so they’re doing ok.

But they all have plastic internals, the weight is much less, the parts wobble more, and the finish isn’t holding up as well as I’d expect of a premium faucet. Even when right out the box, they aren’t as nice as a decades old name brand faucet.

They’re made to meet a price point. While they will get you the look (potentially) of a high end faucet, it won’t hold up like one with better fit and finish, and if it does need repair, your chances of getting the part is likely much better.

Do you want a buy it for life faucet? Or do you need one to last a couple years? Spend accordingly. There’s a market for both, and people need to determine which product is right for them.

If you require some superb owls, we just started the quarter finals of the 2nd Annual Lemmy Owl of the Year bracket tournament over at your federated owl-ternative destination, !superbowl@lemmy.world.

I forgot the emergency updates. My gf will send me links of that stuff well before it ever hits the news, if it even makes the actual news.

Like I mentioned in my comment, I think that it still has a huge user base and it’s free makes it still be the default tool for casting a quick message to the most people for free.

I have the Messenger app since some of my best friends still prefer it. It also seems to be useful for occasions where I run into problems sending something to someone via RCS. Not sure if it’s an occasional hiccup since I’m on Android and they’re all iPhone users, but Messenger never has that problem with us.

I don’t use the Facebook app, but I am on there for an extended time every day. I use it to get the bulk of my content for !superbowl@lemmy.world since all the animal rescues use it. It’s free and still has a huge audience, so it makes sense for them to share their content there. I take the hit and subscribe to every rescue, rehab, and wildlife photographers I come across, filter through all the fake stuff, scams, and privacy violations, and bring the best of it here to share with you all so you don’t need to do it. No need for us all to suffer.

They share important info, but I get why most people here want nothing to do with it. It’s the only practical way to get info for a large group of charities though, so it’s still a necessary evil for some niche purposes like mine.