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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Boston⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I rode the subway and bus from Logan Airport to Worcester, heading back to college after winter break. I had trouble understanding the announcers on the T so asked strangers to help me know my stop. I think they knew the story because I had my luggage with me. They felt like… I don’t know. Tolerant indulgence of my inexperience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my partner. I just shop hungry and ask him to check the refrigerator for me while I’m out.

  We also have a shared grocery app, which works nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as my PCOS got treated (metformin) I lost 20 pounds. Looking back, it should have been caught decades ago. It pisses me off how much “you just need diet and exercise!” bullshit I swallowed when all I needed to do to lose weightwas take a stupid pill to treat the underlying condition.

  Caveat: I believe treating the underlying condition has had a bigger impact on my health than weight loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what we had tonight! Well, I had sliced turkey because it needed eating and my partner had canned chicken. I rather like Mac and cheese with peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not neurotypical, but yes, I do chew on them.

  I ended up going with silicone straws in my household. Mine open up down the side so you can run your finger up them for easy cleaning.

  The metal and hard plastic ones suck for chewing on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really just want to know where the bathrooms and sitting areas are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no problem viewing the site on lynx. I wonder what their list of allowed browsers is. It’s bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public service announcement ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bingo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I play Rimworld. (Though, tbh, my worst habit is accumulating way too many animals. Like, pages worth of named or trained dogs and wolves, plus quail.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leftover macaroni and cheese makes a mean grilled cheese sandwich filling, then you dip it in tomato soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨negativity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you feel about one large pancake melded with two smaller pancakes, to make some sort of cartoonish mouse head shape?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember asking my dad to cocoon me in blankets as a kid. It was wicked comfy.

  Nowadays I’m in a hammock. It’s way more comfy on my hips than a mattress and it gives me that happy cuddled feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered PT? I’ve been for my back and knees and it’s been great. They give you homework to help you strengthen the right muscles to make the pain to away. They also walk you through how to do those exercises and take feedback to make sure you don’t hurt yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to not use numbers. Use a tchotchke placed in a prominent place on your desk. My password changes frequently. The previous tchotchke was a goat pin, then a cactus figurine, then a binder clip. I just need to picture my desk and I know what the thing is.

  And my desk is so cluttered it’s not clear what the special object is. (You know what they say: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His name’s “Elvis” and he answered to “Aye-ellll-vis”. Now he doesn’t answer to anything because he’s gone deaf, but he’s still a great pup. He’s a senior terrier mix, about 10 pounds. He’s a bit of a velcro dog and I am the One True Human, so it sucks for him that I work outside the home. He’s stuck with Work From Home Partner, who just doesn’t fill the same void in Elvis’s heart. So, Elvis sleeps all day and then watches the front very attentively when he decides I should come home.

  He still has bursts of energy. Last weekend he met a chihuahua his age. Elvis was like “omg, you’re slightly smaller than me and seem even more chill. Let me dance around and thwack you in the face so you’ll play with me”. The other pup was game and it was adorable to watch two seniors playing.

  He goes on long hikes with me. He gets tired after about a block and will turn around and try and get me to go back to the car. I generally just carry him at this point. He’s lucky he’s tiny. He’ll lean forward to ask to be set down, then he’ll either sniff something or amble so very slowly along the path. He is the worst hiker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This question reminds me of a dog I ended up with. He knew his name, but only in the same accent as his previous owner. So I’d be at the dog park in New England calling for my dog in the most exaggerated southern accent I could muster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taught it was about states rights, too. In Kentucky, they were less forceful about calling it the "war of northern aggression.

  Did you get taught that some slaves liked being slaves because it meant all their needs were met and they didn’t have to worry about anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I don’t think national pride that was a factor in my disappointment. I was more sad because 9 is a better number than 8, and Pluto is just a cute little guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine sure isn’t. We were having funding problems before the pandemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can also denote a difference in government styles: towns have a town council, cities have a mayor. Cities can be smaller than towns.

  This depends on your region, naturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned about an expensive headset brand today. Their website was fun, their product is exactly what I want, and they have a 5-year warranty. The headsets come with spare ear pads. Never heard about them before today. I somehow trust they’re worth the price.

  (Still ended up just buying new foam pads for my current $30 headset, but I was tempted.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is my first name in neat Gregg Shorthand, then squiggle squiggle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the date in the username. So dorky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bunny?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on them, I have a 15-year mortgage on my condo. (Lower interest rate than a 30-year mortgage, USA, ymmv)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another win for the blind⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s for the best.

  (I’ll describe it in case you’re serious ||You know those Asian squat toilets, a fancy hole in the floor? First shot is of one of those with a toilet seat suspended over it like a swing. Second shot is outside the stall, angled along the stalls. We see the feet of someone swinging out of the stall, like they’re enjoying the toilet swing. A brown turd-shaped object rolls out from under the stall door. A hand with holding toilet paper reaches out and picks up the turd, pulling it back into the stall.||)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irreplaceable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slaps car. You can fit so many cats in this baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irreplaceable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but my state. It was maybe 6 months after mind was stolen.

  (technically, you can still sell them but the rules are strict. One of the ways was if the catalytic converter was attached to a car at the time. I think the other way was just more paperwork.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ll start making major changes on this active system people are actively using while they are actively using it. Or… I could do it at 10pm when they’re all in bed and won’t write me nastygrams about interrupting their workflow.

  I’m also thinking of things like roadworks, where you can either have land closures when folks are out and about or at night when there are fewer folks on the road and working with hot asphalt is less hot.

  There are also some processes that need to be done at a certain temperature, like thermite welding rail (skip to like 4:00). So, either you air condition the railroads or you weld when the outside temperature is right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also twinged my implausibilty meter when they said there were several easy to find podcasts and blog posts on the depths of AiW, but didn’t link to any…