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I'm trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:
My parents and my husband's parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.
My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian's first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.
I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses..., in full 3D and a victorian setting.
In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).
I'm second.
Look at my profile and check my comment count. 😎
I swore you would have used that your name is an anagram of "i anal kok".
I do be seeing you in the comments
I could walk both ways up a hill both ways in the snow after dialysis treatment.
Past tense because I got a kidney transplant.
Which caused a very rare Cancer (1st condition to get it, you must've never gotten Epstein Barr virus, ever, which 90-95% of the world has. Second is getting a transplanted organ that carries the virus lol).
Which led me to weird flex #2: I have unusually high cold resistance and can also mentally raise my body temperature. This was helpful when having to walk to the patient hotel in a strong blizzard with nothing but hospital clothes.
Unfortunately that means I do terribly in the heat, and there's not much AC in Finland for the summer...
The funny thing is I grew up in El Salvador, and then Texas.
I can't consciously change my body temperature, but I do find that my thoughts and attitude about the heat or cold do affect it quite a bit.
Inspired by another comment, I've been to the mountain that Monkey (of the 80's TV show) "hatched" on. It is more of a hill really, and it's brown, not black as shown in the intro.
I've been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.
But how old are your knees and ankles?
Hahaha, I used to run; I had the same question! I can't run anymore because knee pain :(
There was an arrow involved…
I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.
2006: "You" is Time Person of the Year
2015-2024: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA IS BAD FOR DEMOCRACY AND WE NEED TO BAN IT FOR CHILDREN AND MISINFORMATION AND PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH AND FASCISM AND ("(&)§$()"§&(&$(")§&$
I was a preteen in 2006 and still hold the optimist views about technology and its democratization that so many people held in 2006, but it seems I'm nearly the only one who even remembers them.
You're not the only one! I think it's worth noting that back then, "social media" was a new model in which the viewers provided the content, a democratizing force which broke the hold of a small priesthood of editors, producers, and owners over the message we hear.
Now, so-called social media is synonymous with The Algorithm. That is, the powerful and connected have figured out how to tame it and gatekeep information again, this time in a far more insidious way. It still has the veneer of populism, but scratch the surface, and the owners largely control what you see.
It's darkly hilarious to read discussions on here in which people deny that Lemmy is social media at all, rather than an example of the ur-social media, the good kind.
Yeah, not going to defend "algorithms".
I wonder how we managed on web forums where the entire "algorithm" was... thread bumping, and that's it.
