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khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?English
4·18 hours agoThat’s crazy! I have heard similar stories on first where staff are dismissive though. First ones are usually slower so they build this silly assumption. My poor niece was over 24 hours. Nightmare!
We had two more after that and both times they brought her in early to induce so she wouldn’t have a repeat “unscheduled home delivery” haha.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?English
11·19 hours agoI delivered my own child. Wife went for a snooze and somehow woke up deep in labour. No way we were going to make the hospital. Young and very nervous sounding lad talked me through it on the phone. I was glad it wasn’t my first time experiencing the birthing process because that took a lot of stress out of it.
There were no complications and it all went smoothly. She’s 16 now.
At the time I was mod of a parenting community that nearly lost it’s shit hahaha.
The fire brigade arrived about two minutes after the baby.
On the very same day my son’s best friend’s parents had to deliver their baby on the side of the road because they didn’t make the hospital!
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?English
4·19 hours agoAh c’mon now. You can’t drop a zinger like that without details and / or pictures.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the weirdest story from your high school?English
3·4 days agoWhere I live there’s a legal requirement to have a certified first aider as employee once you go beyond a certain number of people on-site.
My first job was in a large company and they paid for me to get certified along with a few others. It was open to anyone who was interested. Really cool learning tbh. I think it was three days of intensive training then a written test and practical on dummies for CPR etc.
You have to get recertified every few years if you want to be considered legal though.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the weirdest story from your high school?English
4·4 days agoMy entire year got suspended, then un-suspended on our last day of secondary (high school).
So it’s the last day and pranks abound as is the case in most schools. The usual harmless stuff.
Three lads decided that it would be the height of hilarious to fill a balloon with water and drop it out of the library window onto some unsuspecting eejit. Now I mean proper balloon, not the little water balloons you buy.
Anyway, they heaved it over to the window and dropped it. The library was on the third floor though so by the time it got to ground you’re talking about a lot of momentum. It would have been dangerous if it had hit someone.
They missed and hit a teacher’s car, instantly smashing the back window.
Word spread like wildfire and we’re all called into the library for a meeting of the full year. They say to dob in the culprits or we’re all suspended. If they come forward we know they’re going to be expelled though. Everyone knew who it was but they gave us time to talk it over amongst ourselves. The consensus was to keep our mouths shut after quite a bit of arguing.
Well, they suspended us all. We were all over 18 so went to the nearest pub. It was a bad end to a good time in the school and the atmosphere was really weird.
About an hour later the lads involved owned up and we were all reinstated. They were expelled though and weren’t allowed to sit their state exams in the school.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the weirdest story from your high school?English
6·4 days agoThat sounds like a really great school.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chipEnglish
5·5 days agoCan you imagine trying to debug that? I’d rather pull my own nails out.
Gotta seed.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Epstein Files Redacted to Protect 'Prominent' People, Lawmakers AllegeEnglish
10·7 days agoI believe, and I may be wrong, that they can say it on record in Congress and not get sued for it.
I’m hoping they’ll lay it all bare given that opportunity.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who to follow for what's going on in China?English
31·8 days agohttps://youtube.com/@leisrealtalk
Plenty of interesting stuff going on that she covers (generals being ousted, political infighting etc.).
There’s a bias there but once you filter through that lens the information is really interesting.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.English
13·8 days agoI feel like tulips are the next big thing.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth taxEnglish
1·9 days agoWhy do these people hate us so mu…
OOF. OUCH.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth taxEnglish
11·9 days agoCan you imagine the size of the counter-demonstration. I really hope this goes ahead.
khannie@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Be on the right side of historyEnglish
11·9 days agoThe Nazis pulled a project 1932 immediately on taking power and absolutely obliterated every possible opposition within months of taking power through a wide variety of tactics. The gap between the Reichstag fire and utter totalitarianism was very, very short and in an era where information spread far more slowly.
They never won more than 37% of the popular vote (though it almost certainly would have been higher had there been elections later on and before the war, we just can’t know the exact amount as there weren’t any).
Yeah there was plenty of resistance from various quarters it just got smashed quickly and wasn’t coordinated enough. Born again Christians were vehemently opposed to the regime for example and suffered harshly for it. Obviously all the lefties etc. too.
On the flip side the Nazis did win over a significant percentage of the population through the late 1930s because of how well the economy was doing, it just never went to a plebiscite so we’ll never know the exact numbers.
khannie@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV marketEnglish
4·12 days agoThat is not what they cost. Mine was 180 euro. It has HDR support and plays everything I throw at it.
Yes. Really, really slim as they said.




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