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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marriage update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I often demand an olfactory component to my calming shelters. The smell of rotting bananas in particular reminds me of my first college advisor’s comfy, crowded office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus you get a window seat.

  tbh, I don’t know who most of that people are. I’m just going by “yay, window seat”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’m trying to over stock. It’s things like buying more pasta when we’re down to 5 boxes instead of 0. We go through it, we just disagree on how much we should keep on hand.

  So far, the trick has been to keep the backlog out of sight and refill the main cupboard as needed. Like, he knows I keep extra, but he doesn’t look for himself because it’s in the low-down awkward corner cupboard.

  I guess I’d rather stress-buy pasta than gacha toys or another multitool or something, and I’m stressed for various reasons my therapist knows about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still in the “mark expiration year in big marker” stage of rotating food, but that’s been easy enough to keep up with.

  Sadly, my condo doesn’t allow vegetable gardens on our porch because of the real threat of visiting bears. I sneak in some herbs because they’re not vegetables, but the HOA can be persnickety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I are in conflict about food storage. I buy beans, pasta, and jarred foods when I’m stressed. He doesn’t like sacrificing storage space and I think just sees it as clutter.

  Anyways, I’m going to pick up more pasta, pasta sauce, and canned soup. Boxed macaroni and cheese. Stuff I know we’ll cycle through and doesn’t need much effort to cook because I know when things get bad I won’t want to brain much.

  Oh! LPT: textured vegetable protein is shelf stable dried soy protein and you can rehydrate it to add a ground beefy texture to things, like macaroni and cheese or pasta sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading that some folks (actresses, models) would get vaccinated in less conspicuous places, like the inner thigh, but now I can’t find any documentation for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your comment on funerals reminds me of my mother yelling at me for crying over my grandpa’s death (the first death I experienced as an adult/college student). She told me “Why are you so upset‽ You’ve been to church more recently than I have!”

  Anyways, that thought lives rent-free in my head, even though I no longer speak with my mother.

  (mini rant: she gave me exactly as much space to feel my feelings when my own dad died more recently. Yes, she sucks.)

  My grandma’s funeral was not a sad occasion. She’d lived a long life and died very demented, so there was a bit of sadness, but mostly those feelings had been dealt with over the years as her mind changed. The primary feeling seemed to be relief. The sermon was very “we’re not burying her, we’re planting her, rejoice for she will be reborn” and I wanted to throttle the preacher because he said nothing specific to my grandma, it was very generic. My main feeling at the funeral was stress from navigating the disfunctional relationships of family members I hardly knew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prepaid cards have numbers that identify them.

  Which, btw, makes perfect sense. As a shop that takes credit cards, I would want to know if someone has signed up for a subscription service with a prepaid card, since the card may run out, prematurely cancelling the service.

  There’s a big database at the backend of the credit card processor that keeps track of all this stuff. The shop can tell a lot about you based on your card number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about hat hair...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could visit a thrift store and see if you find any good materials. Dissect a plushie or look at the blankets and throw pillows for materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just toss on a dress and go commando. No need to remove the shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a medical scare just yesterday. I was in the ER for 8 hours with my partner over a non-life-threatening but still emergency problem.

  An ultrasound, cat scan, and much poking and prodding later, we still don’t know what is up. The AI was at least able to predict next steps (if A then discharge and follow up with PCP, if B then surgery this week, if C then emergency surgery), something the ER was too busy to do for several hours. It was reassuring. The AI also gave me (working) links to more thorough resources on the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They seemed nice and normal until....⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you see, “anything” is very broad and could include removal of a finger or two. Specificity is good when defining boundaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hesitant to get an electric vehicle because I don’t currently have anywhere to charge near my condo. My condo parking spot isn’t near a building, so it would probably be a pain to charge from there. I’d be interested if my office had some charging stations.

  Until then, I’m quite happy with my old Prius. It goes, stops, and steers as needed, no complaints. Catalytic converter has only been stolen once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you. The person you responded to talked about “the plastic one” and meant the old style non-milk plastic one, but the milk plastic one is also a “plastic one”. It was a tad unclear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Good news on that front: libraries I’ve worked at just don’t keep records of what you’ve checked out after you’ve returned it, unless there was some sort of fine or something. Can’t give up data you don’t have and if the library avoids storing the data for anyone then it’s hard to accuse the library of selectively hiding data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to do my laundry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve hand washed a heavy wool item and want to dry it quicker, you can lay it on a towel and roll it up in the towel. Squeeze the towel gently, then lay the wool item flat in a mesh surface or a fresh towel–more airflow is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I just identified features of birds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the y-axis must be inverted. Otherwise I spend the whole game staring at my feet or the sky.

  Oddly, growing up my younger brother was the opposite. It was annoying to take turns playing games with him, because we have to adjust the settings between handoffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hehehehe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents were checking out the building site for our new house in the woods and I got bored/tired and went back to the car to nap. They looked everywhere for me and I was just safe asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also team office slippers. They’re so snuggly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even teenagers sometimes prefer dead tree books to ebooks. Back when I worked in a public library, we could tell when a book was assigned reading because we’d suddenly get 10 requests for our 2 copies. The students had access to the ebook, they just preferred paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We accidentally installed a white light bulb in the hallway outside my bedroom. It made me feel so pissed off and on edge every time my door was open and someone turned that light on.

  Once we swapped it to a warm bulb I was much more chill.

  I do keep a tunable light bulb in a task lamp, but the rest of the lighting in the house is warm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, yeah. Tbh, it was not wanting an ice maker that was the biggest hang-up. We didn’t have a water line to the old refrigerator and I was tired of visitors trying to use the non-functional door ice maker on the old model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was Home Depot, Best Buy, and Lowes. I looked at their in-stock offerings online and only one of them had something that would work. I tried out a floor model, it seemed fine. I couldn’t spend too much time on the decision because I was playing host and didn’t want my house guest to worry about her food spoiling. (She has dietary restrictions and enough food anxiety as it is.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did buy a replacement refrigerator based on “no ice dispenser, fits in available space” on a Saturday when mine let out the magic smoke that morning. It was delivered the next day and worked out ok.

  I would not get something fancier without doing research. This one was literally the only refrigerator that fit the bill at the store (weird-sized refrigerator alcove)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who care about book⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *libarys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A “go bag” is a bag you have for when you need to leave (“go”) in a hurry. For example, you might have a change of clothes, cash, hygiene items, your passport(s), snacks, a week’s worth of prescription meds, first aid kit.

  My friend has one because he’s an immigrant and doesn’t feel secure in the current political environment. I have one because I’m trans and I don’t feel secure in the current political environment.

  I downvoted you because it felt skeevy to be told I was providing backup to you, when I didn’t feel my data was particularly supportive. It felt like you putting words in my mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “only 33% of naturalized citizens from Venezuela have a go bag packed” is not the support you think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sample size of 3: my naturalized citizen (from Venezuela as an infant) D&D buddy is concerned AF. His (also naturalized) parents are more blithe about the current political climate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My old man dog loves my heated lap blanket. I set the blanket on low with a timer while I work from home and my dog stretches out on top of it. Without the heated blanket he curls up into a tight little croissant.