[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

(bulging disk between the L3/L4 here)

Stretches might be useful but you'll probably need to do some light core body workouts to strengthen the muscles around the offending nerves.

(Cold packs can help reduce inflammation, which reduces pressure on the nerves, so that's not nothing.)

Leg lifts, flutter kicks, crunches, toe touches, pushups. You don't need to do a ton at any one time or anything. Adjust the exercises so that you're working the muscles close to where you're feeling discomfort.

Probably make an effort to adjust your posture if you aren't already. Adjust your car seat, if the seat has a lumbar adjustment fiddle with it, maybe roll up a large bath/beach towel to help keep your back in a comfortable position when you're driving or sitting in an office chair for long periods.

content warning, its the US's veterans administration medical website..

https://www.veteranshealthlibrary.va.gov/3,85891

Link to the VA's list of resources for stretches, exercises, etc about sciatica.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Me constantly setting off the "possible theft" detector because I'm putting my bag on the side of the machine where I'm about to put my groceries.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Would be mildly amusing if the WTO starting fining the USA for disrupting markets...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Cross disciplinary skills for the win yo!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

I mean... let the guy you don't like drive the Pinto, am'I'right?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago

Trump / Kamala

Trump starts talking about how all of the "Anybody but Biden" crowd are ignoring Kamala.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

If its too hot outside for you, its too hot outside for them.

Let your owl friends inside to share the A/C.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If this riles up his base and energizes the people he sees at his rallies, he is going to lean into this hard.

Every future rally is going to have Secret Service, local cops, and a fuckton of fascist militant types volunteering to watch every roof, vehicle, closet, port-a-potty, and man hole cover from now on.

If he notices that his crowds are more subdued or smaller, he might play the oWo smol bean card and tone down the rhetoric.... maybe.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Depends on how long the "civility" fetishists on D side of the aisle are allowed to keep pushing anti-political violence op-eds I guess.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Go Nagai's The Devil Lady, anime.

Five episodes in and its not too bad.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I was dicking around on YouTube earlier today and got "got" by a fake video clip of Biden giving a speech about ending his run for the re-election.

Then I pop in to hexbear and see this and I start thinking that he might not be able to give a speech about not running for re-election if he wanted to.

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I'm out here touching grass and enjoying the sunshine.

Watching the fireflies at night and dragonflies during the day.

You ever seen somebody high five a dragonfly? I have, its fucking amazing.

Look at that rock. That's a fucking cool assed rock!

What kind of rock is it? Fuck if I know, but its cool as hell.

What's going on in that tree? I hear some rustling. Hey! Its a squirrel, up there doing squirrely things.

See whats going on with those flowers? They're out here getting all pollinated by bees and shit.

Holy fuck! Look at the size of that grasshopper! That fucker is HUGE.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

was just a mistranslation and the word was actually supposed to be "Doomocracy" and we were always just supposed to vote for the most wrong candidate or policy possible?

thonk

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spoilerThat's a cat's butthole in ASCII.

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I used to have an account on that woke instance. Left the dumpster fire for lemmy.ml. Not going to entertain obvious censorship on Lemmy.

Courtesy of user [email protected]

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

150+ pounds so far (that I need to get put in the freezer) and probably another 100 still in the tree.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A comrade posted about this USA federal program a while ago. So I spent a few days looking into it.

Website was fairly clear, making an account was no problem, site function is pretty good (no hanging pages, dead links, etc). There's a link to a page where you can put in your city/state or zip code and it gives a <100% accurate list of businesses that participate in the program. (So if you already have a service provider and they aren't listed, call their customer service number and ask if they participate in the Affordable Connectivity Program. Two of the local telecoms that service my area participate, and their customer service people absolutely knew about the program and seemed genuinely happy to let me know what I needed to do.)

It took a day or so for the ACP site to tell me I was approved. The first page after logging in to the site has your "Application ID" right there for you to see. This is the magic number to give to your ISP. I contacted my ISP about midway through the billing cycle and gave them the info they wanted. They didn't contact me to let me know when the discount was going to be applied but it showed up as a 30 dollar credit on my next full month's bill. Which dropped my current internet bill down by 77%.

So, its all very :hexbear-retro:, so far.

A new internet service just came out to my house today to finish running actual fiberoptic with ~100Mbps up/down (compared to my original provider with 15/1... which is ... :downbear: ). From the ACP site's FAQ page, the credit is transferable to a new ISP and all I think I needed to do was just give the new ISP the Application ID number. So I've started the process with the new ISP and get to wait to see if I understood the program's directions for transferring the credit correctly.

So at the very least, if you're already on some government assistance, this should be a breeze if you want to try for it.

I didn't look at the part of the application process for people who would need to provide more documentation for income verification. So I don't have any useful things to say about that.

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