BlueLineBae

@BlueLineBae@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roses are red in North Carolina.....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want a picture of a got dang hotdog!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My husband has had a metal USB stick that is shaped like a key and is very thin specifically for this purpose. I don’t know the brand as it’s not printed on it, but it’s lasted him a long time and I would assume it to win this contest by a landslide. Excellent analysis, very interesting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only clean cars are target⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that eggs also come out the hole!! If you’ve ever seen fresh farm eggs before, you have to wash them before you use them because they’re covered in piss and shit. Yum!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an excellent episode of the Sopranos where they end up going to Italy. And even though their whole personality is “Italian” they find that they have nothing in common with actual Italians. That show is a masterpiece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first job I had was for a dinky little 15 person company. Obviously they didn’t have loads of money and the way most corporate software contracts work is it’s a lot cheaper for a period, like 1-2 years, and then the price increases. So they would jump ship before the price increase and use another product after that. So I ended up learning loads of different digital marketing platforms. I list them on my resume when I can, otherwise I just list the big ones and put something like “various digital marketing platforms”. But thanks to all the magical algorithms that pick out what they need from all the entries, you pretty much have to have the exact platform they want on your resume in order for the bot to be satisfied. Some things I would understand, like if someone didn’t know how to use key software for their field. But all the other stuff that gets tossed around should be considered “trainable” and not part of application requirements. Yet here we are…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m not fully on board with this idea, I do think it could help some people out. When I got my first job out of college, I definitely couldn’t afford to live anywhere aside from my parents house. All my friends were in the same boat and even with our meager salaries together, we could not afford to get an apparent together. It took us 3-4 years out of college to have the salary to be able to come together and get an apartment. But what if you moved to a new place and don’t have friends to share with? What if you just… Don’t have friends or have some reason you can’t live with others? This is a great solution for that. My brother was in a situation recently where he felt stuck in a relationship with his batshit crazy girlfriend because he couldn’t afford to be on his own and would have to move in with our parents if they broke up. It eventually worked out and he has an apartment all his own, but I feel he could have removed himself from that relationship sooner if there was a cheap option like this for him to use temporarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My choices are AT&T and Comcast. Both are shitty and treat you equally shitty, but Comcast actually works most of the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to fly united quite a bit and it used to be pretty good. But these days my options for flying for work are united, delta, and southwest and I usually choose delta because they don’t charge you for shit and you can have both an overhead carry on and a small bag plus free internet on the plane. In the end they’re all shit, but I’m going to pick the lesser of the shits each time. Same reason I have Comcast internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a dog once that was super smart and would learn what different words meant very rapidly. I’d say with most dogs I’ve had, you can go most of their life and they’ll maybe learn 2-3 different words for “dinner” and you can use other words if you’re trying not to excite them too much. But this dog I swear near the end of her life we would have to say ridiculous things around her like “Did you put the K9 cereal in the receptacle?” because she had learned just about every other basic way to say “did you feed the dog?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always refused to put work apps on my personal phone because they would make you agree to some bullshit where they could remote access your phone or potentially wipe it. So I would refuse and say they needed to provide a company phone for me if it was that important. Most companies are either ok with this or provide a phone, except for one company. This was a software company, and literally everything else about this company was a unicorn of a job. But for some reason they wanted me to have slack on my phone and also wouldn’t give me a company phone. So I dug up an old phone, reset it to factory settings, and added slack to that so I could say I did it. Then I put the phone away and they never asked about it again. So I really don’t know what the point of that was 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget we wear them also…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1337⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First sentence: wow I absolutely agree. It’s such a shame that mothers have to go back to work so soon after giving birth. We should work toward guaranteeing parental time off for all parents.

  Second sentence: yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah… Um… Nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octagon Spiral + RGB filament = woah!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy bismuth, Batman!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jawgs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a picture of a got-dang hotdog!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No one should be using these anyway. Everyone rags on Keurig for how wasteful it is and how much plastic it adds to landfills and probably your coffee, but no one seems to talk about how this does the same thing :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been pondering about as of late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to decide the best “lazy” way to make homemade dark chocolate peanut butter cups. Typically, you would have a mold and put a bit of melted chocolate in the bottom of each mold and then use a brush to paint chocolate up the sides and then put it in the fridge to solidify and then put the peanut butter fudge in each one and then dump more chocolate on top and then wait for that to solidify and then pop them all out. But… I think I can maybe just dip each one in chocolate and let it solidify in the mold? Less steps means I can make more cups and then I can have a large supply to last me longer. But maybe then there won’t be enough chocolate on the PB cup? Maybe I don’t need that many PB cups in my life? But the ones I buy right now are super expensive and this would save me some money 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DAAAAAMN DANIEL WITH THE WHITE VANS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been shopping at shitty Jewels all my life and I’m moving to an area where I can choose Jewel or Mariano’s. I was super excited to find this out until they announced as part of the merger, they would sell off a bunch of stores most of which are Mariano’s including the one I would have started going to. I Reeeeeeally hope the merger doesn’t go through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update on the situation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a beautiful diagram. You should hang it on the fridge. The one with the beer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rural Towns Are Aging, Cash-Strapped and in Desperate Need of Workers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely think that allowing more people to work from home would greatly help this problem. I knew someone a few years ago that was hired on who lived in rural Iowa in a farm with her husband. She normally wouldn’t be able to get a job in marketing as she would have to drive hours each day to get to work. But. WFH allowed her that ability to stay on the farm and also work an office job. Lots of people moved to more remote places when WFH was more widely accepted at companies. Not to mention there’s a housing crisis and lots of cheap properties in rural towns. I know it seems like there’s nothing to be had in a small rural town, but you have to remember that those things were once provided by the people who lived there who don’t anymore. The more people who move to a rural town, the more demand and money there is and the more small businesses will flourish. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but I’m also sure that WFH would help. Some people really would prefer to live in a small town if they could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday in Kroger (a supermarket for you non-Americans) I saw a bunch of cans of potato salad. Why would someone buy canned potato salad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all … ew. I don’t know who this is for honestly. Maybe it’s one of those things that was used during war times that’s now sold in stores because why not? Second, we have lots of Krogers in the US and they are currently trying to merge with Albertsons which would essentially create a monopoly on grocery stores. Let’s all hope that doesn’t go through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sitting and shitting on my high horse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at this guy. He doesn’t know about the 3 seashells!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I diagnose you with dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for one of the largest health care companies in the US and I can attest that they are genuinely concerned with what Amazon is doing right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are under 18 then you are considered a “child” in labor terms. Different states have different laws about people under 18 and work eligibility. In Illinois, I was able to get a job at 15 with a work permit that my school had to sign and very strict rules about what I can and cannot do. They were allowed to pay me less than minimum wage as long as they followed those rules. I don’t think it’s wrong to let teens get jobs and start learning how the working world works and also make a bit of money for whatever they might use it on. But um… Maybe they deserve a lunch break?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard of the Awwderworld⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot a “pet”! He has 3 heads!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Bill-t different⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the bill who’s only a bill and sittin’ on capital hill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am on the fence about this subject. On one hand I would like to see a world someday where we don’t need to kill animals for food or fur. On the other hand, we haven’t yet found environmentally friendly material replacements for some of these applications. I hear on the news about things like pineapple leather and mango fur, but I have yet to see them used in something practical that would help reduce the use of animal products. Like sure, I can buy a purse, but when will there be an alternative for car seats or shoes that isn’t made of plastic. I really hope someone out there is working on a solution, but until then I’m really not sure which is worse. Fake fur hats will just add to the piles of plastic like everything else :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He thought it was a sausage on a stick..⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the adult version of the kid that ate the dandelion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This made me laugh too hard first thing in the morning. I sure do miss clever starter packs like this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man. In my fucked up family, this is the Christmas album we would listen to every year. I’m sure some songs were very inappropriate for children, but I’d like to think I turned out ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯