• RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
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        It’s just a vertical wind tunnel with a net above a grate that you stand on. Once the airspeed reaches ~200km/h you can fall forward and you’ll be pushed upwards.

        • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOPM
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          Oh that’s what it was. I thought maybe it was like a really tall building or something, like those ski slopes they have in Dubai because they don’t know where to put all their money.

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        yea, i’m not big fan, but those places surely have one. anyway, the fact that their tire burst on the way, kinda blows

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    9 days ago

    These happened on different years but a really close friend died, one of my grandfathers died and my childhood dog died

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    The 9/11 suicide attacks. I didn’t know until a couple days later that a relative died during it.

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    Had to pay $200 for a covid test because my families insurance had just dropped me because I turned 24

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      In the US, the insurance should have continued until 26.

      Are you sure your parents didn’t drop you and blame the insurance?

      Edit: I’m assuming you’re in the US because of the lousy healthcare, but I suppose you could be in some other shithole country.

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        Yeah I live in US. It honestly could be my parents but thats what happened sadly

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        FYI this doesn’t apply to Tricare (military healthcare), it’s 21 in that case (with exceptions for full-time students).

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    Damn, reading the comments here really puts things in perspective. I was gonna say something about getting a bunch of Rick and Morty stuff despite having no interest in Rick and Morty, but damn y’all

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    My 5th birthday. I had mumps, but my mother had already organised a birthday party for me, so I lay upstairs, confined to bed, listening to a roomful of other kids having fun downstairs.

    This was a very long time ago, before children were routinely given the mumps vaccine.

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    My 16th birthday we were on a family vacation. I was upset that day cause I wanted to be with friends, my dad was pissed cause I was unhappy and didn’t even tell me happy birthday. Sounds like not that big of a deal but to teen me it was devastating

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I stood up to my then partner’s abuse. He told me I had no power and he would make sure I was left with nothing if I ever left him.

    I knew if I cried he would use it against me and try to convince me I was crazy and emotional. He would do that so I would know my place. So I held my tears and bit my tongue.

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    30+ people invited, 1 showed, mother’s friend’s kid. (I was ~6-8), parents didn’t do birthday parties for me after that. Next birthday get together I had was @16 with 3 friends. I’m not an only child but it was just me in that situation.