

Just knowing a dozen good friends seems like a lot.
Just knowing a dozen good friends seems like a lot.
Still is. I’ve seen almost exactly this exchange on Lemmy at least three times.
… Leave me alone.
Whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, there will be weather, whether or not.
I also use Reolink, including both the NVR and doorbell, and have been very pleased with it.
I have three cats, one of whom I adopted in the same go as I did Maze. The other is probably a decade younger. Plus my wife, my kid and I definitely give her plenty of our time. She may be lonely, but she’s not alone. Thank you though!
Back in my home town, they built something that was clearly a cell tower, then just … Essentially glued a few fake pine tree branches to it.
They didn’t even bother to make the tower look vaguely trunk-like. It’s still matte grey and you can clearly see the antennae attached to the top. When I say “a few fake pine tree branches,” I’m not exaggerating; it’s been a few years so I don’t remember precisely, but it’s no more than five throughout the entire height of a cell tower. Mostly clustered together.
It’s odd. Maze has outlived three of my dogs now. She didn’t react like this to either of the previous two, though she appeared to be affectionate towards them when they were around. I never really saw her interact much with the third, but as I’ve mentioned to you before (thank you for all the support, BTW), she was cuddling with me when the third was gone before I realized he was gone.
She hasn’t voluntarily left me alone since then. I even have some pictures of a few nights after he was gone when she was laying next to me and, no matter what position she took, wouldn’t remove her back foot from me. I lock the cats out of my bedroom, but almost every day as soon as I get up, she comes running to sit with me.
I did try to read the books but, though I enjoyed The Hobbit, I didn’t make it through the first LotR book; as such, the movie depiction is the only one I really know. Not to say that makes it more accurate or anything, just my only experience with it.
Well, you’re not wrong, but if you don’t want to look evil it’s not the best choice.
Perhaps you would also enjoy Changing Lanes. (Trailer)
Judgemental or not, you’re not wrong. Enabling one’s anxiety will not reduce said anxiety. I knew that when I set everything up and I think about it every time I check.
But I’m physically limited (not disabled, just enough to make things harder) and my general concern about the state of my home isn’t going away, so being able to check things without getting up is an immediate comfort that sometimes lets me get back to sleep more easily, even if long term it’s damaging to my psyche.
Thank you for the apology, though it was unneeded, and the empathy.
This is most of why I’ve installed any “smart” devices in my house. If I’m up at 4am with anxiety, I can check most things that inspire it for me (are my door locks engaged, can my cameras see anything concerning, is my young kid in bed and breathing, etc.) without getting up. Some of those I can even rectify remotely; for example, I can lock my doors through the app if someone forgot to.
As a result, I’ve developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?
That last part would be of the biggest impact to me. I’ve had two major bone breakages in my life - my arm when I was seven, my ankle when I was thirty-four. Even over that time period, the treatment seemed to improve a great deal, though neither ever fully healed, which is why my mobility is limited even now. Even putting aside things like infections, I can’t imagine getting a broken bone treated without painkillers and hope I never have to. Resetting a dislocated shoulder without was bad enough.
Also though, when I broke my ankle I was alone in the snow. If cell phones weren’t a thing, I’m not sure I would even have been able to get treatment and it’s possible that exposure could have made things much much worse.
Fortunately, I had my cell phone and we weren’t in prehistory, so things went significantly better than they could have. Now I just have to worry about the future.
edit: Better image source.
Along similar lines, I think about this for any post apocalyptic scenario that disrupts supply lines. Even if things are okay in terms of food, I regularly take medication that one would presume would be hard to get without modern society. In that situation, if I broke or even scratched my glasses, it seems very unlikely I would find functional replacements. I’m not physically disabled, but I am very limited, so in any real conflict I would lose. Quickly.
In prehistory or any future environment like that, I wouldn’t last long.
They already did thrice.
So I … Shouldn’t be eating off of my tires? Do I have that right?