ChexMax
@ChexMax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 16 hours ago:
What about taxes? Health Insurance? Car insurance or transportation budget. You can live comfortably on $10 a day for food?? $3.30 a meal? That eats up the rest of that $1300 a month and leaves nothing for entertainment, savings, gifts or dating. Nothing left for meeting that health insurance deductible so you still can’t go to the doctor. Survivable? Absolutely! Doesn’t sound comfortable to me though.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Har har har. I’ve been to different states in the US
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
It’s happened for years over many different houses and locations, even different states. That was a good and thoughtful response though, thank you!
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
I love water, easily my most preferred beverage; I’ll choose water even if my meal comes with a drink. But it makes me sick in the middle of the night or in the morning. I don’t get it. It makes me nauseous. If I cut the water with juice or I drink coffee it’s fine. If I wait until like 11:40 am, it’s fine. But if I wake up parched at 4 am and I chug water like I want to, I’ll feel sick. If I drink half a glass before breakfast? Sick. OJ? Fine any time. Coffee, apple juice, 2/3 apple juice with 1/3 water? All fine. What’s wrong with me?
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 4 weeks ago:
A parent shouldn’t be letting their single digit aged child have unsupervised access to the Internet. Agreed that they shouldn’t be publicizing it, but this idea that parents should be letting their kids have secrets when they’re so little is one way dangerous adults take advantage of kids.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
You don’t get to decide the destination of your teleportation
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s not a great take.
Children are people, don’t make them wear diapers! They can pee anywhere they want!
Children are people! Don’t limit their screen time! If you just give them plenty of toys, they will be capable of limiting their own screen time!
Children are people! They are resilient! Let them watch R-rated films and have unfettered access to the Internet!
No one is talking about putting a leash on an eight year old. We’re talking about letting a 14 month old get to experience the privilege of walking in a public place rather than being trapped on Mom’s hip or in a stroller.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for the response
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 5 weeks ago:
That’s all wonderful advice. I’m trying to make scrambled eggs. It’s one of the baby’s favorite foods. Any advice there?
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad I am reading your comments. I am that kitchen novice. And so is my husband. We’ve been trying to move away from Teflon since we had a baby, and are struggling to make stainless steel worth the extra time it takes to clean. I’ve been feeling very frustrated that despite trying to do the heat it up and use oil thing, it’s still awful, and I figured either we’re dumb and bad or everyone online is just lying. We just went back to Teflon, because people online say it should be perfectly non stick and then also that you can only clean the stainless steel with a soft cloth. It’s hell.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
I spent so long on the 3DS in ocarina of time just running all over the entire map not sure how to progress, I eventually gave up. Those stupid boulders are supposed to give you tips but idk I just couldn’t figure it out back then.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
I was going to comment harvest moon after reading the title!
A lot of the older games for me. They’re just a lot harder. Like maybe they expect you to be willing to replay an area or a level over and over, getting a little farther each time until you beat it and I just don’t have the stamina for that anymore, or the time.
Newer games baby you, they increase the difficultly perfectly along side your ability growth. They might even make a level easier if you’ve failed twice. Older games don’t care if you’re having fun as much. There was less competition (fewer game choices) and more of a “gamers like this. If you don’t like it, you’re not a gamer” attitude, and now games want to attract everyone.
I have become such a baby about games. I want to have fun the whole time! I can’t handle failing over and over. I’d rather just read a book.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 2 months ago:
Because as a dink, other people’s children will serve as your lawyers, nurses, firemen, governor’s, mailmen, cable guy whatever for at least half of your life. You contribute nothing to the next gen except those taxes. Other people are providing the workers, while you benefit from their unpaid labor of raising children. Only dumb dumbs don’t see the value in contributing to education, especially since a lot of they themselves benefited from that exact education or free access to libraries and other social services
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 3 months ago:
Blue
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The craziest thing about this is that you’re boss doesn’t text you anything else all day?? Is all other communication over email? I mean I assume a lot of it is face to face but they never message you while they’re in a meeting?
- Comment on Get ya every time 4 months ago:
Obviously we need to support everyone and ableism is bad, but I wouldn’t want to get drafted which is basically a death sentence and then a guy who gets bring from A to B mixed up with bring from B to A is beside me with a loaded gun. I definitely wouldn’t want him behind me with that gun. To say that’s elitist is intentionally naive.
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 4 months ago:
I think this may be body dependent. Sometimes I get a nasty hangover headache from just two drinks. Lady weekend I pounded like 5 and a half drinks in an hour or two, I was drunk and queasy until deep into the next morning and no hangover. I think it’s more about what you eat and drink besides the alcohol.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 7 months ago:
Make clue finders for adults! Same game, just adult level facts, puzzles, and math!
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 7 months ago:
Thank you posting such an in depth and interesting explanation!
- Comment on Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say 8 months ago:
Suggesting all women flee Everytime a law is passed that doesn’t work for us is short sighted. I’m not leaving my entire support system on the chance I get pregnant. First off, we’re trying to get the laws changed. We’re voting, and getting new abortion guidelines on the ballots. Second, yes, all women in my state should have a little vacation fund in case they want to visit the North in a hurry. A six week ban is ridiculous.