My mother is Asian and my father is British. My father had a pen pal that was a friend of my mother’s, and my mother also decided to write to him. I believe they wrote for about two years before deciding that if they want a relationship, they’ll have to get married. So my mother moved to Britain and they were married within the month.

Before the internet (and Facebook) became more accessible, my mother would write to her family often and occasionally call, which was expensive.

I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

Dad fell for a Microsoft key scam. They were calling him about invalid registration or something. Kept asking for £500.

Stopped calling after my infuriated sister, who was living with our parents at the time, basically bullied the shit out of them on the phone.

Just put the whole government in the bin at this point.

I am honestly incredibly grateful for the NHS and find it bizarre that anyone can be actively against nationalised healthcare. I can’t imagine how many people have died due to simply not wanting to burden their family with excessive bills.

Ah, this is something I genuinely didn’t consider.

I suppose it’d be better to pick up the games I’m interested in on GoG and play them on PC?

Just figured it wasn’t as relevant as it could be. It was just me mentioning that I think it’s fine to push this sort of change due to being influenced by family working in the ICU seeing cases of alcoholism and alcohol-influenced accidents. However, I am from the UK, which has a higher rate of alcoholism than other nations.

Didn’t think me figuring “eh, nah” would be seen as some sort of heinous micro-aggression.

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Classism and stupidity.

Although they got a bit stuck on Hadrian’s Wall.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m British, but I always assumed that America is the way it is because we shipped a bunch of over-zealous loons over there that we didn’t really want here.

Part of me isn’t surprised as to how things are turning out.

Based on the article, seems like he just wants to point out it’s bullshit to put the entire onus on women for pregnancy.

He doesn’t want turbines because oil companies paid him $75 million to promote their interests.

Probably influenced by the enormous amount of money oil barons spent on him, of which they almost certainly did with an expectation of return on investment.

His desire to “Drill baby drill!” and relax restrictions on oil drilling—including drilling into a wilderness reserve previously uninterrupted by man—and his apparent distaste for EVs and green energy, makes it pretty obvious whose hand has firmly lodged itself right up his arsehole.

The man needs oil to sell to please his owners, and belligerently trying to force the EU to increase their purchases is just another one of his hare-brained schemes.

My cat hated Elizabethan collars and got stuck in places with them frequently, but after switching to a donut collar he became a lot more comfortable.

I usually just breathe in as much as I can and hold my breath until I need another gasp of air. It usually goes away after two or three times.

Lying on your back and pressing your knees to your chest is another way to get them to stop that works for me.

I mean medical intervention is a common way to try mitigate mental health issues. For many people it can never truly go away, but the effects can be lessened. Similarly, there are avenues to help with obesity, whether it be the psychological or physiological aspect.

FFXIV’s Honey B. Lovely battle theme. Everyone else seems to love her theme but I absolutely abhor it.

I recycle everything so personally don’t have much need for the tether, but it’s probably better overall and I imagine most people will just get used to it, honestly.

It is a bit annoying having to make sure my nose doesn’t get bonked when I drink, though.