S_Bear

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by S_Bear 1y ago
I'm a technology librarian and I spend around 20 hours a week helping seniors with their devices. I really wish that phone and TV engineers could shadow me for a few weeks and see what problems people really have using their devices (
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by S_Bear 1y ago
The Internet thing is true. I live in a town of 2,000 in what would be considered the middle of nowhere, and have a local ISP that's better than anything I had available in the large metros I lived in prior.
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by S_Bear 1y ago
Yes, but not having a mortgage is huge. And it's a giant leap from the 90k my house is currently valued at to the $299-350k that a comparable home in a metro area would fetch (I live in the middle of nowhere).
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by S_Bear 1y ago
I bought my house in 2018 for $40k and it's paid off. I used to move frequently (every 5 years or so), but now I'm kind of trapped because housing has gotten so bonkers since then. Instead I'm throwing all my extra money int
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by S_Bear 1y ago
I treat it just like I did back in the 80s and 90s; I tell myself that each good photo costs a quarter to develop. After vacations, I have around 10-15 quality pictures.
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by S_Bear 1y ago
Lermontov's 'Hero of Our Time' is probably my favorite Russian novel, and I say that as someone who absolutely adores Dostoevsky. It still feels relevant and modern.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
As a librarian, that's only around 35% of new books. The rest are about a hard-working professional woman in the big city that inherits her dead aunt's coffee shop in Cape Cod and has a prickly love-hate relationship with the loca
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by S_Bear 2y ago
For all the focus on STEM education in the past couple decades, I'm surprised cooking never really came back in vogue. Cooking is applied science that we have to do every day. I had to figure it all out in my late 20s, because shop a
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Reminds me of the old random joke generator that was on the Brunching Shuttlecocks ages ago. That thing would have me in tears.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Now if only whoever owns the rights (Fox? Disney?) would follow suit and drop the old Fox TV catalog (Herman's Head. Whoops!, Parker Lewis Can't Lose) on youtube so I could rewatch the shows I loved as a kid, but never stream anyw
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by S_Bear 2y ago
I don't know, my lifetime lack of affordable healthcare probably means I'll die unexpectedly before my mind goes. So that's nice.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
My parents are poor boomers that could have been rich boomers if they had any self control at all. Instead they pissed away opportunities and money and now they sit and complain they don't have enough. If they had to live as I do, they
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Back in 2002, I was on the hunt for a copy of Primal Rock Therapy by Blood Circus. I would hit every used record store, book store, CD exchange, and thrift store trying to find a copy (I still had unreliable dial up at home, so getting it o
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Reddit is still extremely valuable if you curate it heavily. My entire feed is my narrow interests and passions (though I still use old.reddit, which helps. The minute that's gone, I probably am too)
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by S_Bear 2y ago
I'm crippled and have a handicap tag for my car, but I'll still park in the back, depending on the store. Trying to get out of handicap spots at Target, Trader Joes, or Costco is always a nightmare because people have no patience.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Another UTC person! I thought I was alone in my odd crusade; nobody even knows what I'm talking about when I suggest it.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
My insurance denied me a MRI and physical therapy because having 2 working arms was a luxury. Had to pay out of pocket to be able to lift my arm above my head. Private insurance can go shove it.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
If you're making $8 and hour and get bumped up to $12, that's a 50% bump but you still can't afford to live and need a second job. Based on the job postings in my part of the US, that's pretty much standard.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
I replaced my old Elegoo Neptune with a Bambu A1, and what a huge difference! I hated FDM printing for years, but now I use it all the time. I'm upgrading my resin printer next year, and can't wait to see what advances have been
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by S_Bear 2y ago
ACE 7 here. I'm doing OK in life. It took a long time for me to stop running away from things because I didn't trust anyone for a long time. I'm still cynical and paranoid, but I have a steady government job, a solid early r
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Sometimes I like to imagine what the US would look like if we took a fraction of the trillions of dollars we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and used them to help our southern neighbors develop and modernize. Happy and content people don&#x2
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by S_Bear 2y ago
That would be a rough ride for your health. I remember back when Adam Richman was doing the original run of Man vs Food and he was looking like death towards the end.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
My wife wears her rings, but I don't find jewelry comfortable, so I never wear mine. I wonder how many snoopers think we're having an affair when we go out.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
From my collection of Soviet-era Russian fiction I've accrued over the decades. One of these days I'll get to reading it instead of dusting it off every few months.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
I'd spend my days painting miniatures and reading. Don't really care enough about the rest of the world, to be honest; I'd turn inward.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Since my broken body is the equivalent to a genetic warranty replacement, I'm more than happy to leave the future gene pool.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
I got a Steam Deck last year and it really opened my eyes to how far along gaming on Linux has come. Even a crash-riddled game like Fallout: New Vegas runs more smoothly than it ever did in Windows.
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by S_Bear 2y ago
Protondb says that 99% of my games will run OK on Linux now, so when I build out a PC later this year, I think I'll finally make the leap to Linux on the desktop. I have to use Win 11 at work and I find it frustrating.
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by S_Bear 3y ago
We took some goofy career test in high school, and my top choices were 1) Lighthouse Keeper 2) Mortician and 3) Librarian. Wound up becoming a librarian for the past 24 years. So I guess the test was accurate.
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by S_Bear 3y ago
Around 20 years ago, I discovered the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and realized there were like-minded people to me. Got fixed in my early 20s. I'm happy to see the antinatalist message hitting so many media outlets in recent ye

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