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DepreceV2 posted...

I honestly didnt consider this. Our current central AC unit is, at minimum, 16 years old. A new one could be far more efficient

it definitely would be. they use a completely new kind of coolant and the old systems are actually going to be discontinued in the next few years so any more repairs would be even more expensive.

if you contact an AC company they'll tell you all about it.

at least he'll probably get shanked pretty quick

cjsdowg posted...

I am worried that COVID-19 Vaccine kills people.
Also I am going to die to because I didn't take the vaccine.

honestly you should get it

I work in a nursing home and I know of one that had almost 60 people die of covid in the first few months and then it was hardly any after the residents and employees were all vaccinated. the government completely failed in providing PPE and knowledge and the entire Trump administration should have been sued for the way it was handled. people were reusing N95 masks for entire weeks when you're supposed to throw them out and use a new one between every patient. same with gowns and gloves. that shit is disposable, not washable. but forcing businesses to make certain things is too commy. Fauci was the only one telling the truth and he was demonized.

ultimate_reaver posted...

oh that makes a little bit more sense, especially because later in the article people are asking to give him theirs

yeah, organs are precious resources and hospitals won't waste them on someone who won't take care of them. if you've been an alcoholic or smoker your whole life you're not getting a liver or kidney over someone who randomly got cancer or something.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

I've decided to do a bit of writing, much like how my wife wrote her autobiography, just to be able to look back at my own growth, or something. I dunno, just to help me. Much like this topic has already been doing that. If you'll indulge me, what I wrote today.

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One Week

I have now been a widow for one week. How are you doing? Its the main question I get asked now and I dont honestly know how to really answer. What do you compare it to? Ive never lost anyone super close to me, not really. Ive had a friend commit suicide and though we were close, we were not best friends or anything like that. Not how it was with my wife. Beyond being my partner she was my best friend. I lost both. Im not crying as much, am I doing better? I can sleep, eat, take care of myself. Does that mean I am doing better than one might expect?

Its the quiet that gets to me, what I took for granted. Ive always been a social person. I like having that other human being beside me. As a child I had my little sister play in the same room while I played video games. I cherish experiencing life with another, and that is now gone. Not on a macro level, but in my home. The place where I felt the most comfortable, confident, and loved is now just a memory of those things. I suppose it will improve as the days and weeks turn into months. At least I hope so. Right now it just feels so quiet, so still. We werent the type of people to go out to parties or anything like that, but within our space was an energy, you know? My wife was trapped in a broken body but together we filled this space with so much energy. I didnt realize how much of my energy was generated in response to hers. Yin and Yang or however you want to phrase it, Im missing half of my energy.

I fill the void with YouTube, TV shows, video games, movies... all the same things I would have done with her sharing in it all with me as we shared our lives. Is it wrong for me to fear I will never find that again? Beyond the pain and grief of missing your lover and best friend, there is this intense fear that you will never find anything even close to that again. It can cripple you if you let it. My wife wanted me to find it again and the logical side of me knows I will, but what if? Is it disrespectful to want to fill this void quickly? To find someone else to love and put all my efforts into being a duo against the world?

There are other people in my world I care about deeply... and I worry that if I express to them how much I care they will rebuke me for not taking enough time. I will miss my wife forever. Absolutely forever. That doesnt negate my ability to find joy and love in another. Ive loved before my wife and I will after my wife.

I keep finding documents in regards to my wifes medical. While living it every day it didnt really hit me how sick she was. I have an entire ream of paper that is all to do with medical diagnoses, appointments, payments, results, testing. She was so sick and struggled for so long just for me. Im glad that she did so and allowed me to spend so much time with my best friend. It was the greatest sign of selflessness Ive ever been given. For someone else to live in pain for you? I sure hope that I earned that selflessness. That I was worthy of that kind of love. She certainly didnt seem to think she earned that kind of love from me... she was always questioning how I could stay with her. How I could put all my money and time, all my energy, into a failing person? That was just as much her own childhood trauma as it was anything else. My wife led a life that was filled with pain of many kinds, and just when she found a person who would accept her unconditionally forever, her body starts to fail.

So going back to the question; How am I? Im a 39 year old widow and Im scared. Thats how I am right now. I know Im not alone; I have an amazing support system around me. A wonderful family, amazing friends. But Im scared. Is that OK Lindsay? Can I be scared? Please tell me thats OK.

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even that 2nd line got to me because it just feels like the same 'how are you?' people do in passing at work. I do suppose it's polite, and most people probably don't want to get too personal if it doesn't seem like you want to, but it's also hard to open up if it doesn't really seem like people are asking. but people not knowing what to say is probably part of why it seems so quiet

ultimate_reaver posted...

reading the article he did not refuse a kidney transplant, he was refused one because he wasn't vaxxed

he refused the conditions of the transplant. you have to sign a contract for this kind of surgery

no bun?

I hope they eat it with their fingers because eating a burger with a fork and knife is worse than doing that to pizza

no one is ever going to make a story based RTS better than Warcraft 3. Blizzard couldn't do it and the FFT remake won't either if it ever gets made.

Crimsoness posted...

I trust modern medicine enough to rip out my kidney and put in a new one but not enough to get a vaccine. I am very smart.

that was almost such a good same time post

on a related note, I have a friend who never got the covid vaccine because she 'doesn't know what's in that'. she also got botox two years ago and when I asked her if she knew what was in that she had no idea.

right wing news is not good

no one will them X's. they'll be tweets forever

imagine believing in the science and doctors behind fucking organ transplants but not believing in vaccines.

divinity: original sin on easy difficulty? there's still a lot going on but it's more forgiving

Will_VIIII posted...

The locked 30fps on consoles is a big oof IMO too, especially with combat not being turned based and in first person.

if they really have to lock it to 30 it's probably better than letting people go over it and have the game run like shit. locking it at 30 means it probably struggles to maintain more than 30.

I love this show lmao. the way it does tiny things to set up jokes that pay off in the last 5-10 seconds of an episode is amazing.

and the the way Larry is such a stickler for the rules in the first two seasons and the just gives up reminds me of myself.

and if "that" is being gay or trans no one will care

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oh yeah I barely even consider bbq sauce the same tier of stuff cooked on a smoker

I like pork butts cooked in cola too, that comes out really good

I'm from MA so admittedly we've stolen all of our BBQ. I love sweet baby ray's if it's cooked nice and crispy on the outside

if they really need so much parking that they have to steal people's land and kick them out of their homes they should be required to build a fucking parking garage instead.

try getting a hotel for the night

yeah the NES one when I was a kid. that shit was fucking hard

NeonTentacles posted...

So do foot fetishists like to get rubbed by feet there? >_>

...have you been so focused on titty-fucking that you've never heard of footjobs?

wait maybe that's his strategy

if it gets as big as twitter itll beat porn sites in the searches. he's just helping out a bro

the #1 indicted president ever

no I tip because I've been friends with lots of servers and bartenders and know that's how they make money

I've only given a bad tip once and the entire group agreed on it. she took forever to bring our first drinks and when she finally did her drink tray was covered in water and she just poured it on the rug right in front of our table. after that she was just generally annoying and forgot a bunch of stuff

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or that

go trade clothes with a homeless person

ai123 posted...

Why knock down a house for a sports stadium, when you can just follow the example of newly-promoted Premier League club Luton Town?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/8/AAdkcxAAEsKI.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/9/AAdkcxAAEsKJ.jpg

because people could watch the game from their roof and the teams wouldn't allow that in the US

Chicken posted...

Bro just wants a free campaign ad

lol Trump is probably expecting to be paid to be a guest

unless they really mean funky and you need disco appropriate clothes

I didn't know it came out but this news makes me glad I didn't buy it on release >_>

is it set on the same island?

sabin017 posted...

Anchovy. Bad meat.

Fish meat is basically a vegetable.

andel posted...

not really. something can be a trend and still be incredibly rare, like mass shootings.

those aren't incredibly rare anymore. they happen almost every day.

I said this in the topic when it was originally found out but I hope the people actually investigating look more into this. people don't just fake their own disappearances for no reason. could have been trying to get away from an abuser or something

it would be Baldur's Gate 3 but it's not october yet

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how else do you make it >_>

bbq chicken + bacon is the best pizza

yeah especially with Showtime added

Amazon prime also has some surprisingly good original shows that never get mentioned

Says tomorrows gonna be hotter

Turbam posted...

Something along the lines of "it forced us to come together as a community during it"

yeah that's kind of inevitable in a concentration camp

Will_VIIII posted...

Why is wiki feet a thing that exists

the internet is for porn and wikifeet is a reference material

Kloe_Rinz posted...

What

Florida is trying to force schools to teach that slavery taught black people beneficial trade skills

and a bunch of the 'former slaves' they used as examples of important inventors were never enslaved

Hussein

SSJGrimReaper posted...

she gives off "missionary only" type vibes

thats fine, youd get to watch those titties bounce

Playing EA on normal right now and it feels pretty good. Most regular fights I can just walk into and get out of fine, but quests or anything with a boss or 8+ enemies takes more planning and a couple resets

yes but only with myself

if you let people get abortions there won't be enough kids for republicans to fuck

you have to get there first

they don't have TVs