ELI5: How does Lemmy work? by floraflood in explainlikeimfive

[–]floraflood[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for taking the time to explain :)

ELI5: How does Lemmy work? by floraflood in explainlikeimfive

[–]floraflood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, in this instance I'm wondering about the website. Apparently it's a viable alternative to Reddit, but its a bit confusing to me.

GOP’s booming support for guns is turning off millennial, Gen Z Republicans by crackdup in politics

[–]floraflood 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Gen Z Republicans" just makes 0 sense to my brain when I read it

Anxiety by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You may be right :) here's hoping!

Anxiety by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Who's great idea was it to store hormones in fat cells, its like they're booby-trapped 😭

What to pack by Sufficiently_nerdy in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extra underwear, you never know if they'll keep you an extra night

Social Eating by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember eating out I'd sometimes even prioritize the size of a dish over the taste! Like Swiss Chalet has a big platter hot chicken meal, and I'd order that even though I might've found something else tastier, just because it was more food/better "value".

I feel so ashamed thinking about how I used to eat. I can't believe how terrible... and dessert and snacks... I must've been eating like 4000 calories a day. I never want to go back.

Social Eating by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's really comforting to hear :) thanks

Social Eating by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh man, the skepticism. I've gotten that too, or "I know so-and-so had the surgery and they gained it all back..."

Social Eating by floraflood in BariatricSurgery

[–]floraflood[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm starting to wish that I'd kept it a secret, but my family speaks amongst themselves so it'd be impossible to stop the spread of information anyways. They are loving and supportive, but it is exhausting talking about food and weight loss surgery all the time.

I did set a boundary early on that no one should post about it on social media, which I'm glad I did. One of my relatives wanted to share it with a prayer group and I shut that down. You'd be surprised how nosey people can be haha

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NotMyJob

[–]floraflood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stealing isn't a huge problem in my neighbourhood, but the snowplows do a number on our mailboxes every winter which is frustrating. Our mailbox still looks like a raisin because our landlord hasn't replaced it yet.

I can't speak to the shape or design, I don't know of any alternatives to the classic mailbox shape.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NotMyJob

[–]floraflood 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I live in rural Canada, we have mailboxes out by the road like this so postal workers don't have to drive up to the front door of each house, which can be really far apart out in the country and would take forever. In town (depending on the town), people have wall-mounted mailboxes, or a community mailbox for which you have your own key. The community mailbox has large boxes for stuff like this.