RheumatoidArthritis

@RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany is great in this regard, you have coin machines everywhere and the cash and privacy culture seems to be very strong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of living the 1) life, I have a degoogled smartphone in eternal airplane mode and only free software apps. So in practice I have none of the apps “required” to live.

  In large cities, transportation is getting more and more difficult without uber. Bike/escooter rentals also stopped working without an app. I use osmand on my offline smartphone to find taxi stands, so that’s cheating by your standards, but stands are empty these days and the drivers are a bit surprised and comment that “most people order a taxi by phone these days”.

  I’ve lost most of my friends when I quit facebook, when we randomly meet we still have a small chat but I don’t get invited to events (birthdays etc) any more. Big respect to the few that still don’t mind sending an sms or email (and even more respect to the 2 friends who keep an xmpp client with only me as a contact)

  Increasingly, I don’t know what’s going on around me because businesses, libraries etc advertise only on “spotted” on facebook, have presence only on fb, and don’t even care about telling the local news about events or openings. I only know about that because of other people who use facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i liek turdles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Works in portrait on mine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call of the void⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. But there’s no pressure (that I’ve heard of) that farmers change the shape of cucumbers so they don’t slide in that easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call of the void⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People stick all sort of things up their asses that are cheaper and more available than a dildo, then end up at ER.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call of the void⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a helpful assistant, not a therapist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had an extraordinary school experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the school did its job just right then. High five, I quietly let people be wrong too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You understood numbers intuitively and that piece of shit could not even comprehend that someone can understand it this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who, me? The furthest west I’ve been was Wales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had actual cavity search but it varies within Shengen. Germany is the least pleasant, always some problem. Last time they insisted on searching a preschooler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If high speed rail becomes popular, all that stands between the current freedom and ID-required tickets and fingering by agents is one terrorist attack, staged or not.