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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • M137@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.worldNon-Negotiable!
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    2 days ago

    My family had 4 cats when I was born, all had been found as stray kittens or literally come to the door and begged to get in (second story of an apartment building with lots of other choices of doors). We found the owner of one and they just said “keep him, we realised a while ago we shouldn’t have gotten a pet in the first place”.
    Then when I was a teenager a cat came to our door just the same, during a huge storm, went directly into my room where I was sleeping and laid down basically on top of me and stayed there the whole night. I remember waking up thinking “who the fuck is this?”.
    We bonded immediately and he became mine more than ours. A few weeks after that we found the family he had come from and they also just told us to keep him because they had two 3-year-olds who weren’t playing nicely with him and they saw that he had a better home with us.
    He moved out with me when I got my own apartment and we were best friends till he passed about 10 years later (he was already 5 when he came to us). Haven’t gotten a pet of any kind since then, he was the best cat and friend I’ve ever had/known. Still dream about him at least once a month and it’s been 8 years since he passed.


  • I’ve seen two UFOs, both with several other people there who also saw them.

    The first one was when I was a kid (around 12) with my mom and other random people on the street, we saw two blue lines of light that went parallel across the whole sky, and purple spotlights in a line between them that turned on and off after each other. I’d have said it was just my child’s mind making things up if it weren’t for my mom, who still tells this story often, and everyone else who saw it.

    The second one was when I was about 23, my then girlfriend and me were waiting on a tram during sunset with about 10 other people, the sky was fully covered in clouds and there were these two orbs, one black and one white, that zoomed around incredibly quickly then stopped on a dime and then went another direction, very erratic movement. They went up and disappeared into the clouds then came back down in a different place. After a couple of minutes, they stopped kinda close to each other then slowly flew closer to one another and when they were so close they became one they lit up brightly with a blue shine and shot up into the clouds, the light from them was so strong that we saw it through the clouds for several seconds as they seemed to exit earth’s atmosphere and become smaller and smaller from our point of view.

    To be clear, I’m very much a skeptic of stuff like this and I’m very scientifically minded. I still have no idea what any of them were, nothing even close to a logical explanation. But to me it’s not much more than “dang, that was cool as fuck and weird, wonder what it was?”, I don’t want or need to think they were aliens, something form the future, classified military stuff or whatever. I’ll never know what they were and I’ve just accepted that.
    Nothing else I’ve seen, both in person and in video, photographs etc. is good enough to convince me there are beings or tech here that isn’t from us, or is some military or any other way secret high-tech or “different-tech”.



  • This is such a weird and dumb comment, in several ways. There are tons of European chocolate bars, many of which are more popular than Snickers. You seem to think European countries only have a few sweet things they sell? That’s just not true in any way and incredibly strange to think. And American brand snacks and candy are seen as cheap, because they are lower quality than most things available. I’d not be surprised if this was some odd troll attempt.




  • M137@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
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    15 days ago

    Is it though? I never paid any attention to him, so I only know that one time he made some kids make a sign with heil Hitler or something like that (which from what I’ve read was just a joke in bad taste, he isn’t a nazi or major racist). Otherwise, I haven’t heard anything bad about him, he was just never someone I cared to know more about and watch, seemed to be mostly for kids. Please, correct anything I’ve said if I’m wrong.





  • And for some (including me) that’s our only computer (other than phone). I just can’t afford anything, so all I have is a shitty laptop from 2010 that barely plays 1080p video. I deeply want something better, especially a steam deck, but doesn’t look like that’ll happen anytime soon (or ever). And then you see people have steam decks that just sit there, unused, gathering dust… fuck.





  • Shadow updating their Linux app to support anything other than Ubuntu 20.04…
    It’s the only reason I use it, and it’s weird and bad that they only support that distro and version (which has reached EOL). I’ve talked to them about it and all they say is “We see the need from users for support of newer Ubuntu versions and other distros” which is such a nothingburger of an answer. I spent three days with several other distros and Ubuntu versions trying to figure out a fix but sadly never found one. I just wanna use Linux Mint or anything other than Ubuntu, especially a 5 year old version.