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Two friendships that I can think of, one was rekindled, one wasn’t and I’m not thinking of renkindling it either.

The first one was because my friend moved to another country and we just lost touch. I talked to him after about a year, he got angry at me because “why didn’t I write before”, I just Uno Reversed his ass and asked him the same question and he said “damn bro u right” and started talking again.

The second friendship, he started using me as his chauffeur, he was invited to my house at 3pm because I had university tests the next day, he showed himself up at 11pm with someone I didn’t know and I had to let them in to stay the night because my country wasn’t the safest.

He got drunk that night, made a mess in my house and left the next morning without saying shit and he was supposed to be my best friend. After that I straight up stopped talking to him.

Nowadays, my “best friend” has moved away from 3 different countries because he’s a drug dealer and he’s always using the product he has to sell or losing it somwhere and several people are looking for him, he lost 5 kg of cocaine in Argentina. The reason I know is because the first friend I mentioned in this comment is also a friend of his and he actually keeps up with his antics.

I was working at a small gaming studio and talked on the phone with German Garmendia because we wanted to make a game featuring him and his staff. He’s a youtuber, I think he was called “the pewdiepie of latin america” or something like that? He had way too many subscribers, I think about 50M

He was a nice individual from what I remember, very hard working and friendly. I think he was recently “cancelled” though but idk I don’t keep up with those things.

I didn’t meet him per se, we just talked on the phone, and he’s not like… A hollywood celebrity or amything but it’s the closest I get.

Just one, Interstellar. I don’t watch a lot of movies but that one just hits different, I’ve watched it 7 times, could watch it again.

I saw Matrix 2-3 times when I was a kid, but no more than that.

I once told someone they couldn’t park their Ferrari behind the restaurant I was working in because it was the place where the trucks would unload the food and he would get a fine.

He just replied with “it’s ok, the fine is just what the parking lot is charging me to park there then”. I said I would call the towing company and he said “ok, I’ll just Uber home and pay to get my car back”.

I then thought that I wasn’t paid enough on my job to deal with that shit so I gave up. Honestly, having a lot of money in this world is like cheating.

It certainly helped me stay away from the family after that! The family told me “your belief was not strong enough, that’s why it didn’t cure your arthritis”. Sure…

Venezuela, where I was born (although I don’t live there anymore). However, there were way more Santeria small sacrifices (chickens) in Miami, FL when I used to live there, walking by the streets and actually looking at the bushes next to the streets you realize it’s really common, every now and then you find a bloody plastic bag with a beheaded chicken/rooster and hanging chicken legs.

Backstory: I met my first girlfriend when I was around 17. Then I met her family, and during that time, O developed arthritis.

The pains were really bad, to the point that some days I couldn’t even stand up from my bed. One day, her parents called me and asked me if they could “help” me.

This is where the story starts, they said they were part of a “religious group” and were called Santeros (so they practiced Santeria).

The thing is, at the time I was so ignorant that I didn’t even know what that was and didn’t even make the effort to find out for some reason.

They told me they could take me to a guy that could pray for my health and whatnot. Since I didn’t want to sound rude, I agreed and we went to the place.

The man (priest? Idk) kept insisting he knew I had noghtmares and I was afraid of someone chasing me, to which I kept insisting that that was not the case. Yhe whole experience was weird.

But then he told my girlfriend’s parents that he wanted to see me again because he meeded to “perform” to be able to help me with his prayers.

For some reason, I didn’t even pay attention to this and just said sure.

A week goes by and I am going, again, to the same place with priest with my gf’s parents. The difference is that, this time, there is a giant box in the back of the car.

I get there and they take me to the second floor of thr place. The floor is completely messed up woth dirt all over the place and weird artifacts, cockroaches, spiders, and a hole on the rooftop.

They tell me to take my clothes off (except my underwear) and pray to a god (I think it was called Oshun? I don’t remember).

After chanting and praying, they tell me to lay down on the ground looking up. I do so and they proceed to take a small calf out of the box, decapitate and dismember it next to me, and afterwards putting the body in top of me in the form of a cross, all while chanting, singing, dancing, etc.

After that they told me to bathe in a specific river using oranges as a sponge.

The whole experience was fucking surreal, after that, I just reject almost everything that has to do with religion.

No sidelong, easier rooting (sometimes), price, etc

I’m gonna be honest I’ve lost friends because of reaching out.

At least 5 friends I had before I stopped talking because I simply was not in a good mental state to keep using social media/messaging daily, I was in a different country, and none of us had started a conversation.

I felt overwhelmed about it as well. Sometimes I even felt more nervous about reaching out than going to a job interview.

As soon as I sent the text asking how they had been, the first text I received was “You think you can just pick up the phone and text again like nothing happened? You never text”

They didn’t even want to know how I was doing. I was taken aback but I immediately asked “I’m sorry I couldn’t reach out before, but, why did you never text either?” And they just blocked me.

The good thing I can take from this is that I think actual friends would be happy that their friends reached out.

Are we talking American? British? Scotish? Australian? Irish? Which one are we talking about?

Are we talking American? British? Scotish? Australian? Irish? Which one are we talking about?

Just opened Sync because “I wanted to use it for one last time” and was hit with the 404… So sad to see a good app vanish like that…

But I’m glad we’re getting Sync for Lemmy at the same time.

Goodbye Sync for Reddit…

And hello Sync for Lemmy (soon)!

I’m wondering if Reddit will just be a place for AI/bots to create/replicate content, and the people (read: “normies”/people who don’t care what social media website they use as long as they can consume content) there will be interacting with said bots. All that just to drive traffic and appease shareholders.

Not sure if I’m just paranoid or if this is the case. I know that there are cases like this, but I wonder how deep it goes, or if it has been like that for a long time.

Wellp, long gone are the days of me typing a question and ending it with “Reddit”, now it’s 100% Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon.

Go to Options > Share Folder (on the top, next to “Set Download Folder”)

Then select the folder you want to share with all the music or videos in it and that’s it.

You can set up a single folder that has subfolders, or you can share multiple folders separately, your choice.

Been using adblock for years now, I haven’t seen a single ad on my devices since then.

Last week my wife used her iPad so we could watch a video and I saw 2 ads in a row, it was kind of a strange experience.

If a creator needs money I’ll donate directly to them, and if the only way to support is ads, then what a shame, I’m not gonna watch ads just because of a creator.

I am a bit more active here than I was in Reddit because I feel like here we don’t really find the toxicity we had on Reddit, at least in my opinion.

Thought I was the only one, I can’t log in anymore either :(

Is there anything I should look out for in particular?

Not really, I mean, let me explain to you my process to see if that helps

First of all I have 3 backups… 1 in cloud, 1 in secondary ssd, 1 in external ssd. When I download something from a source that I’m not sure about specifically in 1337x I:

• Check the comments first, if there are a majority of people complaining then I don’t download
• If there are no comments, I check the profile of the uploader and check comments on other uploads. Seeing this guys’ other uploads it seems that his content is ok and there is no need to worry about it.
• Just in case, or if I’m still not sure, I run it through virustotal.
• If I’m STILL not sure, I just use a VM and install it on the VM. If something happens I just delete everything and my computer is fine. And even if somrthing happens I’m prepared to do a clean install without worrying about my files.

I’m not sure and someone can correct me please if I’m wrong, but if the drive is installed in the same computer it doesn’t make a big difference. VM is always better imo.

It’s a placeholder for a graphic or emoji. If somebody uses a symbol or an emoji and your device doesn’t have it or support it, it gets replaced by that symbol, it shouldn’t have to do with the app.