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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • I know a few older people who have smartphones, and while they can use things like Twitter or Facebook on the phone, if you told them that you were installing an app, they wouldn’t know what you meant.

    They’re the type of people who were never interested in computers, and used them as appliances, possibly never needing to install things themselves. As they moved to phones, they either get their kids or the shop to set them up.

    They understand using Twitter on the phone, but don’t really understand the concept of how it works.




  • UK here. I had a similar day to you, but it turned out to be a very severe case of double pneumonia, caused by an undiagnosed autoimmune disease. I had multiple organ failure, was put into a medically induced coma, and was hospitalised for about two months.

    14 years later, I’ve had countless tests and scans, and had a kidney transplant. Like you, I’ve only ever paid for things like parking and meals that I chose to buy.

    The fact that people defend the American system is beyond my understanding 🤷🏻‍♂️


  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldInsanity
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    4 days ago

    This is a massive part of the problem here in the UK too.

    I just checked with Google Maps how long it would take my wife to get to work tomorrow morning. In the car it would take between 45 minutes and an hour, but public transport would take an hour and 52 minutes, with 29 minutes of that taken up by walking to bus and train stops. She would have to leave the house before 5:30 am, whereas the car would give her another hour in bed.

    At the moment we’re under a yellow warning for rain too, so she would need to take waterproof clothes and probably a change of clothes too.

    Until things like this are improved, it’s easy to see why lots of people still take the car :(