The bug was deliberately put there after he was born so he could fulfill the prophecy.

Fang!

Mechanical keyboard users unite!

Does it actually make you feel safer? I think I would feel less safe every time I remember I have a gun on me because I may need to use it.

The comments about poor independent grocer Coles is doing my head in.

Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer gave me a lot of confidence. His other books have a spiritual bent to them, I believe (I haven’t read them), but the above book is just straightfoward advice.

I’m impressed you remember it! Unless you’re in 3rd grade now, in which case it’s not as impressive.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Your car would be incredibly easy to work on too which is great for saving money if you’re willing to do the work yourself.

I still do bottom right. Whoever owned my car before me obviously didn’t and the steering wheel cover has melted into the wheel itself.

I am irritated by electric windows. Every time I park and turn off the car someone (often me) has left their window down.

Same here in Australia with the Eureka flag.

A shame, it’s a really cool flag.

I’m at the same place as you. I used to love playing MMORPG for the community but it’s become so optimised and competitive now. I understand you can’t be dead weight, and I’m not, I spent a lot of time understanding the game mechanics, but I also want it to be FUN. I’m not going to be on my deathbed and think “Wow, I’m so glad I managed to squeeze 2 extra DPS out of my character that time.” I want to look at those hours as fun times laughing with mates, not the stress of letting my buff fall off for 0.05 seconds and getting blasted for it.

Look up Furby next.

Awww. I had a cat that liked sleeping in my jacket while I wore it. I’d tuck it into my pants and zip it up and walk around with the kitty inside like a womb.

I think the Dalai Lama would be considered a bodhisattva, which is someone who puts off Nirvana for themself in order to help people still stuck in the cycle of rebirth. That would be why his followers don’t find his statement weird when he says he’s not going to reincarnate again because of China’s political interference.

Yes, they attach them to their bicycle handles.

In a way, Buddists don’t want to come back either. Reaching the goal of enlightenment means that reincarnation ends for you.

There should be a simple signup that looks something like:

[choose a username] @ [choose an instance]

Where the first one is an input field and the second one is a drop down or search bar. People can pick whatever instance name piques their fancy to get started. Once they understand the fediverse better they can move to another server (hopefully migration will be built-in at some point).

Apawllo 11 has landed.

My god! The same thing happened to me but it had been years since my last vaccination. Proof that they stay in your body for a very long time.

I asked ChatGPT to make “I don’t like it” longer and boring but it became pretty interesting to read.

In the realm of emotions and subjective experiences, I must candidly express my profound lack of affinity towards the current subject matter, as its presence elicits within me an indescribable and seemingly unending wave of ennui, boredom, and disinterest that permeates through the very fabric of my existence. I am left to navigate through a vast expanse of dispassionate apathy, where the spark of enthusiasm and engagement is but a distant memory, suppressed by the weight of profound tedium that engulfs my every thought and perception. It is with a heavy heart and a wearied spirit that I reluctantly confess my profound and seemingly interminable dislike for the aforementioned matter, as its insipid nature fails to captivate my attention or ignite the slightest flicker of excitement within the recesses of my weary mind.