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Post by mynameisvlad »

lazystar wrote: post #12

three days before xmas in 2022, my partner of 6 years threatened to kill me because i was scared to travel through an ice storm to her mom's house. while she was downstairs getting her pocket knife, i texted her best friend for help and got her to call her and she talked her down. the ice storm prevented any travel for 2 days; we still made it to her moms for xmas, but i was gone mentally for the next year and a half…

If it was the Seattle ice storm you're talking about, WTF. I could barely walk 10 feet out to let my dog out for potty/poop, let alone driving a car through that. The entire city shut down for the day.

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Post by jongjong »

lazystar wrote: post #12

three days before xmas in 2022, my partner of 6 years threatened to kill me because i was scared to travel through an ice storm to her mom's house. while she was downstairs getting her pocket knife, i texted her best friend for help and got her to call her and she talked her down. the ice storm prevented any travel for 2 days; we still made it to her moms for xmas, but i was gone mentally for the next year and a half…

It's hard to comprehend how much mental trauma someone must have gone through to be so unstable and violent.

The range of human experiences is significant. Humans communicate using the same languages and same expressions but mentally, different people are wired very differently.

Trauma seems to spread like a virus.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

My favorite memories are from family gatherings. Christmas is a magical time that can really bring the family together. We used to have them a lot when I was a kid but they just kind of stopped as I got older. As though the magic was gone.

This year I got to experience this again and it made me so happy. Seeing my family together and happy, conflicts and troubles forgotten. It was a joy I hadn't felt in such a long time, I didn't know it was still possible.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

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Post by niag »

Merry Christmas!

This year, I’m flying solo. My wife and daughter are visiting family in India, and my mum’s spending the holidays with my younger brother and his family. With the house unusually quiet, I’ve decided to knock the rust off my frontend skills and catch up with all the new tooling.

Not a bad way to spend a quiet Christmas, really. Hope everyone’s having a lovely one, whether with family or a bit of peaceful coding!

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Post by lazystar »

lizzas wrote: post #63
lazystar wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no worries, been asking myself that question too. my best guess is that i had disassociated because i couldnt bear the cognitive dissonance from accepting the fact that i was in an abusive relationship. before that incident, everything in that relationship had been going well - but looking back i see that i was slowly becoming more and more reliant on her for her network of friends and her family, which made breaking…

Well thank you. My current job is probably only possible due to lambda!

nice. yw; lots of cool stuff coming in 2025/26. we're re-focused on the needs of the customer, rather than internal metrics.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

jedberg wrote: post #13

I'm Jewish, so all my Christmas's growing up were kinda the same. Sleep in, have brunch, wander over to my neighbor's house around noon to see what kind of loot they got and help them play with their new toys. Sometimes we'd go out for Chinese food and a movie. But my favorite was Christmas 1999. My girlfriend was out of town with her family and there was no reason to go home to mine, so I was alone (my roommates wer…

Jews have contributed significantly to what is recognizable today as Christmas time.

Many catchy classic Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters.

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Post by brian-armstrong »

jakebasile wrote: post #50

Merry Christmas! I had rented Final Fantasy 7 from Blockbuster so many times that my brother decided to get it for me for Christmas. Even though I never really snooped for presents he decided to mess with my head and wrapped it in two large bath towels and put it in an even larger box. This giant package below the tree for me, and it sounded like cloth - I figured it must've been a jacket or something until I opened…

The accidental gift finding is so funny. My dad got me a bike for Christmas one year. Of course it's really hard to hide a bicycle, and he put it alongside the side of our house in a part of the yard nobody ever went in. For whatever reason, I happened to be playing in that part of the yard and found it. I asked him why there was a bike stored out in our yard because I was not a very clever kid. In hindsight it's very funny to imagine his perspective on it.
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