NABDad
@NABDad@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 2 days ago:
Not an issue for me. I’m 6’4". The only way I’m drowning after falling asleep in the bathtub is if my legs dissolve.
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 2 days ago:
I’m going add another anecdote to the rest. I have one of the long versions that we use for lighting candles. We’ve had it for seven years. Still works great.
- Comment on What's that word? 2 days ago:
According to Wikipedia, the term was in use in other languages before it was taken in English
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 3 days ago:
I think the sub you’re looking for is “casualconversation”
- Comment on YSK that Dark Chocolate is healthier than White Chocolate 3 days ago:
As a general rule, the darker the better.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 3 days ago:
The best and brightest don’t work there anymore.
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 3 days ago:
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 days ago:
It’s not a treat if I’m not interested.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 days ago:
Good point.
I think that’s where your premise really breaks down because I still wouldn’t be either.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 days ago:
There’s also the people who just work to survive and have nothing left over.
Unless by “world” you’re only referring to those with too much money.
- Comment on what does your "workshop" look like? 5 days ago:
It’s a hell hole.
- Comment on People will definitely boo US athletes at the Winter Olympics 6 days ago:
Looking forward to President Pedophile bitching because he didn’t get any medals.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 6 days ago:
Because the police aren’t the slaves, they’re the overseers.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 6 days ago:
I keep getting left off jury duty by honestly answering the question about whether I would give less weight to a cops testimony because they’re a cop.
I suppose if there’s ever a civil jury trial that doesn’t involve a police testimony, I might serve in a jury.
A bit of a shame because I don’t mind being on a jury. I’m not trying to get out of it. I’m just being honest.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 6 days ago:
When I was a teenager, my mom made some baked pasta and brought it with a 2 liter Pepsi to me while I was working on stage crew at the high school.
I took it up to the spot light booth and ate it.
When I got home she asked me how everyone liked it. I told her I ate it all. She said she made enough for the entire stage crew. I told her she was wrong, it was only enough for me.
I hit 6’4" tall when I was 14. At my lowest weight at that height, I was 165 pounds.
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary. It wouldn’t have made a difference at the times when I needed to eat like twelve people, but it would have made it easier to stop eating like twelve when I didn’t need to.
However, I’ve had smaller adults try to tell my kids that they were eating too much. How can you meet me, get a pain in your neck from looking up at me, and still think you understand how much my kids need to eat?
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 6 days ago:
- Comment on There are a lot of siblings that hate each other, simultaneously there are only children that feel lonely really want siblings to play with. 1 week ago:
I’m my case, I have an ok relationship with my older brother. We don’t see each other often, but we do get together for lunch from time to time.
I stopped talking to my sister years ago. I told her our relationship was on hold until she committed to getting some therapy. She immediately hung up and proceeded to start spreading lies about me. She has previously tried to convince my kids that my mother hates them, and at my father-in-law’s funeral (standing at the casket) she told my mother-in-law to marry for money next time.
My wife finally realized her remaining brother was an asshole and cut off contact after he took our kids to a rock concert. She asked him not to drink at the concert, which pissed him off and he proceeded to drink at the concert. Their older brother was killed by a drunk driver, so it was a particularly shitty thing to do.
I’ve often said there’s always at least one insane person in every group of siblings. My father heard that and asked, “what about for me? I don’t have any siblings.”
I told him in his case he doesn’t have to wonder who the insane one is.
- Comment on There are a lot of siblings that hate each other, simultaneously there are only children that feel lonely really want siblings to play with. 1 week ago:
My dad was an only child. I have a brother and sister.
It would absolutely infuriate him that we weren’t all best friends. He’d really lose his shit. He just couldn’t understand why we couldn’t live up to what his fantasy of siblings was.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 1 week ago:
I’m my case, I either have proof that I bought them in the form of the original DVD, or the movies are in the public domain, or they are digital copies of home movies.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I run an Emby server, but just for family. Two of my kids use it, one doesn’t. I posted previously that my daughter doesn’t have anything that can play a DVD, but she still gets them and I add them to my server so she can watch them.
I added my parents to it, and they watched some stuff, but they can’t remember how to use it. Every time I show them, my dad will watch things for a few days, then he forgets how.
I appear to be unique among the people running streaming servers in that I only add things if I own the DVD (or if they’re in the public domain). I also only have about 1300 movies.
I visit thrift stores to get cheap DVDs. There’s one near me that charges $1/DVD, but they have a 50% off sale on the last weekend of every month.
I’m trying to be more particular about what I add. I had started thinking that for 50¢, I can buy a shittier movie, but now I’m only getting the movie if I know it’s worth it, or if it’s got > 7 IMDB rating.
Today’s haul included True Grit (the remake), Capote, and Ready Player One.
- Comment on What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks? 1 week ago:
Not eating oreos on the way to the appointment.
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 1 week ago:
I’m definitely happy with it. I took my time at first until I knew what to do, but now it’s pretty easy to get the cut I want. I don’t notice any difference between what the flowbee can do and what the barbers used to do.
I haven’t been able to convince anyone else in my family to try it, but I definitely recommend it.
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 1 week ago:
I got one after a particularly bad experience with a barber.
Not a bad haircut. He was just an asshole.
I used to go a barber shop where you’d either write your name on their whiteboard under the name of the barber you wanted, or you’d just come in and sit down and get the next guy who was available.
Originally I didn’t care, but I’d end up with one short, older guy. I’m tall and long in the torso, so he’d complain that he couldn’t get the chair low enough, so I’d have to basically slide down in the chair until I was sitting on my back for him, with my tailbone over the edge of the seat.
That gets uncomfortable, so I started picking one of the taller barbers.
One day I was in a hurry and I didn’t want to wait for the tall guy, so I didn’t put my name up.
The guy took several people ahead of me who came in after me. At first I thought it was just people who stepped out and came back, but eventually I realized he was skipping me. Eventually one of the other barbers noticed and said something to him, and he started bitching about how I didn’t want him cutting my hair.
I didn’t know I was breaking up with a girlfriend. I thought he was just a barber.
The barber who confronted him took me next. I gave him a massive tip, and then I came home and ordered the flowbee.
That was a few years before the pandemic, and I’ve been using it ever since.
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 1 week ago:
“In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move.”
-Douglas Adams
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 2 weeks ago:
Briefly mildly confusing maybe. Not very confusing unless you’re already pretty confused about everything.
How are people hearing I.C.E. referred to as ICE without any context?
I don’t think anyone is confused into thinking that frozen water is racist or murdering people indiscriminately.
Or are you saying that someone said “I hate ICE”, and you thought they were talking about frozen water? Admittedly, if it was blurted out as a non sequitur with no other information it might be briefly misunderstood. Also, given the storm that hammered the U.S. recently, folks here could easily be talking about frozen water.
But all you have to do is ask for clarification.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 2 weeks ago:
This question really pushes the boundaries of the concept of “no stupid questions”, but I will respect the premise and answer with all seriousness.
There is nothing about being a former anything that is automatically disqualifying.
Not everything he says is without merit. Even a blind, dumb squirrel can accidentally find a nut.
Americans aren’t trusting him. He is only respected by the deluded cult members, and then only because their pedophile leader tells them to.
The people who don’t realize he’s full of shit are the people who can’t handle being the most ignorant person in the room. They’re swallowing all the bullshit that this administration spits out because it’s the only way they can pretend they are better than everyone else.
It’s all just corrupt, diseased minds taking advantage of other corrupt, diseased minds. If they didn’t reject the compassion of their opponents, I’d have sympathy for them. However, they chose the darkness.
- Comment on AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy 2 weeks ago:
Oh no. We must stop this threat to democracy that hasn’t already happened yet.
Thank God democracy hasn’t already been undermined for years.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
You need to upgrade to a better friend.
- Comment on News could use a reboot. 3 weeks ago:
I listen to the Up First podcast every morning. Then I see what I see while doom scrolling lemmy. That’s pretty much it.
My wife leaves MSNBC on just about all day long, and it’s rare she mentions anything I don’t already know about.
