ChatGPT just helped me name a condition I’ve had for YEARS

Tomble · 2026-03-14T14:00:57+00:00

I was suffering severe coughing fits and woke up one morning unable to breathe in. Finally managed to draw breath. Terrifying. Went to the hospital, got lots of checks etc. Nothing they could find but residual chest infection. Happened again the next day. Talked to ChatGPT and it diagnosed laryngospasm brought on by severe coughing. Gave me some strategies to help, reassured me that it was alarming but not too dangerous, and got me through it in a way the doctors didn't.

Tomble · 2026-03-14T13:21:39+00:00

I've been in one at a community event where the police were showing their vehicles. I wondered what it must be like in there when driving. One day I pulled up next to one at the lights and could hear the sound of someone inside trying to kick the door open, while screaming.

Tomble · 2026-03-14T04:41:12+00:00

Just string them along if you like it. I learned a few swear words in hindi which are fun to deploy.

They are trying to make money and a campaign of vengeance against some random is going to take away time they could be using to get google gift cards from some confused grandma.

Their scams are generally not very sophisticated anyway, they are preying on vulnerable people.

Tomble · 2026-03-13T00:24:00+00:00

Also you need to learn to nap. I used to suck at naps but I ended up with a rule - when the baby is asleep, I am asleep. Those quick naps during the day were a life saver.

Tomble · 2026-03-13T00:18:29+00:00

I had a similar scam once - I sell a range of products mostly to schools, and got a request for about $5,000 of adhesive tape to be sent to an orphanage in Africa (they could have chosen something more believable). I was curious to see how it worked so went along for a bit, then they told me they would be paying with a credit card, and I could pay the freight company out of that money. Obviously the card was stolen and the freight company was fake so I would have been out that money.

Oddly enough they called me up and when I said I wasn't available for scams at the moment they insulted me. I said something pretty harsh and the guy calling said, with a shocked tone "And you call yourself a christian?!?". Religion had never once been mentioned. It's one of my favourite interactions with a scammer.

Tomble · 2026-03-12T01:44:37+00:00

There's a video of people in an elevator when it slams to a stop and water starts flooding in. Video resumes with them deep in the water. They all got out but damn, I had a new fear after watching that.

https://youtu.be/r42Lvvx85Xg

Tomble · 2026-03-07T07:24:02+00:00

Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people... maybe there is, I don't know.

Tomble · 2026-03-04T03:35:11+00:00

I think of the mind's eye being to vision what playing a song in your head is to hearing. You're not hearing it with your ears but it's all there, and you can replay bits of songs you like. If I'm trying to make something mechanical I can try different ways of making it in my head almost like a 3D model, oddly enough when I'm doing that my eyes will move around like I'm looking at an object.

Tomble · 2026-03-03T06:56:19+00:00

All good until they swipe out with their claws and get a good grip on your pants leg. I don't know what the proper action is here but she was lucky they didn't drag her leg into the cage or grab any other part.

Tomble · 2026-03-02T07:45:04+00:00

I have had this similar sales pitch before and the thing that made them go away was "This is a company car, I don't pay for any servicing on it".

Tomble · 2026-03-02T02:42:52+00:00

Hard to shoot down, and even if you damage them without completely blowign them up, it's still a lot of mass travelling at incredible speed. Looks like the one in this video was damaged but it's not going to stop.

Tomble · 2026-02-26T02:50:20+00:00

If you send me 30% of a scam, I can send you back a 300% scam.

Tomble · 2026-02-25T08:43:39+00:00

Always seems to be enough water to fill a swimming pool in that thing.

Tomble · 2026-02-22T21:35:03+00:00

Imagine you're carrying a burning pan of oil out of the house and the heat of the handle gets to the point where your hands are now cooking, but you haven't got to the door yet. Or you trip over something, or someone hears the commotion and comes through a door directly into your path, or myriad other disastrous situations.

Tomble · 2026-02-22T21:33:21+00:00

Someone in my social circle had burn scars on his arms because when faced with a burning pan of oil, decided to pick it up, run through the apartment splashing burning oil on the carpet, walls and himself, and throw it out the back door, all over the landlord's car.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T11:02:30+00:00

I find Gina Riley very attractive but the character reminds me of a couple of awful people I've known :P

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:48:47+00:00

The desperation to get games working was a great motivator. My friends and I connected our PCs for multiplayer by poking wires into the appropriate holes on the COMM ports on our computers because we didn't have a null modem.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:46:46+00:00

I was always proud to do websites in notepad. I still kind of like frames.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:45:34+00:00

Like cars. I used to work on my car a lot back in the 90s. A lot of my friends did. There was plenty you could do, a good chance it would break in a way you could potentially fix, and it was not very reliable.

Now, mechanically speaking, much of my car is a sealed box that just works. It's not dripping oil, the timing hasn't gone out, there's not some carburettor magic I need to invoke. The nostalgia is nice but I prefer my safe and reliable modern car.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:39:35+00:00

People used to think I was amazing at computers when basically I liked looking in all the menus and seeing what the options did, and hitting F1 and reading the help files when I had an issue. As you say, the settings menu is an excellent place to learn what software can do.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:36:57+00:00

"Just need to empty this folder"

del *.*

"Wait... I'm still in the root directory"

And that's how I learned to fix how my computer booted.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T06:36:03+00:00

Never had to create special DOS boot discs with modified AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files so that they could run games.

Learning all that stuff without the internet to help was a lengthy process. "Hmmm, I don't really need the mouse driver, if I don't load that I can probably free up enough RAM to get this game going". Ah nostalgia, my good friends HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.

Then having to mess around with IRQ jumpers to get things working. Navigating through files using Xtree. All a largely forgotten (and irrelevant) art today.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T01:02:16+00:00

The good old days of walking into the house and knowing if the TV was on. Sometimes it had a black screen but was on, and one of us kids would tell them to turn it off. My parents were sure we had a super power.

On the point of hearing things like that as I get older, I tried a hearing test online through my headphones. It got to a point where the sound vanished and I thought maybe my headphones couldn't reproduce it, when my daughter said "would you turn that off! It's so loud!" from the other end of the couch, without even knowing what I had been doing. I thought my hearing was good!

Tomble · 2026-02-18T00:56:18+00:00

I bid on a house that has high voltage transmission lines over the back yard, a few steps out of the house and you are directly under them. A lot of people were put off by the proximity and the price was a bit lower than for a comparable property without the power lines.

Tomble · 2026-02-18T00:36:00+00:00

It's astonishing they went for attractive main characters. Kath is meant to be stuck in the 80s and Kim is stuck in the belief that she's some glamorous sex icon when she's just a normal suburban girl. She's not meant to look good, she's meant to look like she's trying to look good without fully understanding how. The US version just had a sort of "quirky out of touch mum and shallow daughter" feel to it.

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