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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Thank fuck my grandparents were completely independent until they got very sick very quickly and died.

    Two of my grandparents passed before I was born, of rather aggressive cancer. The other two lived completely independently until age-related illnesses got them in a matter of weeks.

    I kinda hope that’s what happens to my parents; they’re in their mid 70s now and doing just fine on their own. My sister and I only need to help with with the occasional thing, like fixing stuff around the house that takes a decent amount of strength to do, or climbing ladders.






  • Yeah, fair. I just often feel the need to make sure people know the difference, since there are some companies that do literally resell Rogers/Telus/Bell/SaskTel/etc services. They’re mostly either debt relief companies for customers, or global subcontractors for large companies with offices over the world who pay “one company” for internet, but they really just contract it out to the local provider on the others’ behalf.







  • dankmtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldReality vs Fantasy
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes you get article transfer as well. The English word “apron” comes from the obsolete “napron”, in turn from Old French “napperon”.

    People heard “a napron”, which became “an apron”, which eventually led to the main word being “apron”.