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As the title asks. I have an up to date prescription, where's the best place to order from?

Also it'd be cool if your second account can just import it...

This is mine

I stopped listening to it because I made the "mistake" of dedicating it to my then girlfriend. I had always wanted to dedicate the song to someone, it never crossed my mind that things would not end well. When we broke up I deleted the song from my playlist and regretfully stopped listening to it, the memories it was associated with were too painful.

Recently I am trying to reconnect with the song. The memories are still there, but now they are warm and bearable, melancholic but sweet.

I'm constantly feeling guilty about "not doing enough" when it comes to my hobby of learning Chinese. I have been averaging around 3-4hrs every day (I often do 25-minute pomodoro sessions to ensure full focus) for these last 6 months, balancing it with a full-time job, working out and trying to be social. I have no co-dependents and my job is sometimes quite chill which makes this doable. Either way, I still feel guilty of not being able to "obsess" over it every day by studying 8hrs as, apparently, some internet people claim they do. Even while balancing it with other stuff. Or you know, just looking at students studying engineering/law/medical school and also saying they spend 8-10hrs a day studying. Like, I didn't even spend a fraction of this time studying by myself when I went to uni.

In the end, how many hours of deep focus a day is reasonable? Are the people saying they study 8hrs a day just lying? Or is a lot of unproductive time counted into these 8hrs? Like yes, they sit for 8hrs, but every 10 minute they check their phone for 10 minutes and then resume studying?

Where can I buy some pictures/infografic for my website. What are the sites that have decent prices. Thanks in advance

Now that we have determined in this thread that a friendly/flirty conversation is indeed not harassment, women are just people too, the old gender roles are dead and public parks are a singles hunting ground, how do I make it clear I'm open to being approached?

Since chatting someone up is out of the question for me, I'd rather hedge my bets on some women using those tricks all you Casanovas left in that thread on me. We're all progressive here, I don't see why the man must start this dance.

But I can't help but notice that this plan has not worked at all yet. How do I express I'm single and ready to mingle, except by just having that printed on my shirt? Like was said, having just a friendly conversation with any gender would be a start, can't remember those happening in a while either.

For me it's The Rock and Chris Pratt.

Guardians of the Galaxy was great but I just wish he would stop playing starlord in every other role he's in!

No need to name names or sources.

Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"

Rules:

• The messages can go as far back as the beginning of the 7 day period (the moment you found out about your assassin is after you)
• You can only send the messages if you have cell signal (maybe don't hide in the woods, you assassin might be there, and you don't get a do-over 🙃)
• Your phone is immune to damage and malware (although spyware and keyloggers can still be on there, but they can't affect the system, just on "read only" mode). Auto-updates are now disabled by default
• If assassin got your phone, they could send false messages to trick your past self. (Don't lose your phone!)
• At the end of 7 days, the Assassin will just drop dead due to time travel limitations, time travelers cannot survive longer than 7 days in the past (yes, the assassin is a time traveler 😉)

[P.S: El Psy Congroo]

I’ve spent the last year every weekend creating a 2.5 hour block of tailored programming to recreate the experience of Saturday morning cartoons for my kid, with selections from ~60 of the best (and some bad) cartoons from the last several decades, animated music videos, unearthed funny old clips, and modern indie animations, often with seasonal themes.

My programming is (I think) objectively better than the Saturday morning block ever was, and it takes hours every week to gather clips, edit, and manage where we’re at with every show. I sometimes wish I could share it with a larger crowd. Do you know of a PeerTube instance that would be cool with hosting this kind of content? I've tried sharing this with friends and family via SyncThing, but they didn't like it and it was a pain to help them troubleshoot all the time. It would be nice to have a platform for this work, even though I know it's all mostly untenable from an IP standpoint.

So now that the USA Navy is deploying underwater F/A-18 Super Hornet Battle Combat Ace Knight Super-D/X Series Mega Jets, how should we expect the situation in the Red Sea / Yemen conflict to develop? I understand that this is a situational deployment and usually planes like air, but obviously this is strategic. With the enemy deploying tactics like visiting their girlfriends at civilian apartments where they live, can we expect a water-to-civilian-land combat solution on the horizon?

edit* I am specifically requesting a War Thunder leak thanks

Just finished reading an article about how raw alfalfa sprouts easily spread e-coli, but the problem could be solved by irradiation. So why don’t we?

After all, the US is the land of GMO, pesticides, washed eggs, chlorinated chicken, and pasteurized dairy. How could irradiated produce be any worse?

• Each language has their unique encoding of their language represented in pulses of light.
• Written text remains the same
• The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM
• Instumental music still works, and people can still hear things, just not talk.
• People currenly alive will instantly know how to communicate with light in equivalent proficiency to their speech proficiency before the scenario happening, but everyone born from now on will have to learn from the adults.

Remember: Light cannot penetrate walls

I remembered the time I asked my middle school English teacher what the word "igneous" means and she didn't know. Instead of telling me to look in the dictionary, she said, "Let's learn the word together." And got her personal dictionary from her desk and we looked up the word together. She even highlighted it in her dictionary "so she'd remember it". This was during a study hall, so she had things of her own to be working on, but she took a few minutes to indulge my question. It was a really nice moment of actual teaching in a school district that was awful in regards to educating students.

I feel like sharing little moments like that with other people is important. Idk why. Maybe it's to spread a little happiness or something, but I love sharing little tidbits I remember with people.

It seems like a simple and reliable product, but I know so many people who are put off of residential solar because so many of the contractors are sketchy. What is it about the industry that attracts so many of those folks?

And are you surprised looking back on it?

The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it's mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

As a machinist a lathe is the first thing that comes to mind, you get some clothing or even a rope caught in the wrong place and it'll eat you alive

Location: CA, USA

I have some neighbors who regularly have a huge bash lasting all night long - it's happened every Cinco de Mayo for nearly a decade.

This year - nothing.

The whole town is quiet. This used to be one of the noisiest days of the year. Is anyone else noticing this in their community?

I’ll start: my ear wax. Several months ago, I observed what I thought to be extra wax coming out of my ears. Since then, I can’t stop trying to keep my ears clean. Wash in the shower with soap every day. Stick my finger in there when nobody’s looking to try to get some out. And so on.

I don’t use q-tips, and I know the advice is to simply let it come out when it wants. But I hate cleaning the gunk off my AirPods! Stupid ear wax, I think I feel some now.