proudblond
@proudblond@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hip Hues 1 week ago:
Hell yeah V-Tech. Pretty sure I had one of those blue phones in my room when I became a teenager. Or it might have been in my dorm, can’t remember.
- Comment on Innocent until proven guilty 1 week ago:
As a kid I remember commercials for a local injury lawyer during daytime tv in the summer. His commercials were very memorable, just in the way he passionately talked. Now I see billboards for him and his son, and recently he was a sponsor at a college basketball event I attended. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug because I’m actually rather fond of him, in a stupid way.
In my area, he’s the only lawyer I see on billboards, or at least that I notice. When I visited Vegas, there were so many. (In my area, billboards are all nonsensical and if you look up what it’s supposed to be for, it’s always AI. Can you guess where I live? Sigh.)
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great teacher.
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 2 weeks ago:
My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.
The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!
- Comment on Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality 2 weeks ago:
Mine are probably lasting about as long as previous non-EV cars, but I’m also terrible about getting them rotated when it’s not combined with an oil change.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 3 weeks ago:
Godspeed friend
- Comment on How accurate is this? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is what I was thinking too. I worked for a mom and pop hobbyist store, and Starbucks. Obviously Starbucks was worse. But would it be worse than, say, a mall clothing store or Target or Walmart? Not sure.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 4 weeks ago:
Man I went to a party last week, had one glass of red wine and no other alcohol, and woke up the next morning with a killer headache. I’m 42 and not much of a drinker but this kind of reaction made me think it was specifically the red wine. I ain’t doing that again for a long while, if ever.
- Comment on The original was better 5 weeks ago:
As an actor or the role?
I recently watched some of a random episode on YouTube and it happened to be about how he and Samantha first met, literally the night before he was gonna marry someone else, and he throws it away because he’s infatuated with her after she barely speaks to him. Is this what passed for romance in the 60s? Fuck.
- Comment on That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' 1 month ago:
I was a big fan growing up. Really liked Achtung Baby and of course Joshua Tree is a great album. I even liked Zooropa and Pop. Went to see them live in the 2000s but by then the shine was wearing off; I was getting older and being a fan of things wasn’t as important to my identity anymore. But I was curious recently, so I looked up when their partnership with Apple started… Yeah, it was exactly the time I stopped liking them as much. It was both validating and depressing to make that connection. I’d always nodded along when people talked about bands selling out, but U2 was my band and they weren’t supposed to do that! Now I feel like they’re the poster child of selling out.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
I think so; that’s why we run the water.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
I think the idea of “fairness” comes in that everyone has to do something, regardless of whether you use the seat or not. If you don’t use the seat, then you put the lid and seat down (presumably in one go). If you do use the seat, you put the lid down. Either way, you have to lift something before you use the toilet.
Personally I think toilets should just have their lids closed when not in use, regardless.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
That’s a fair case. We don’t use one of our tubs and every once in a while we have to flush it with water because we get sewer smell. Unused bathroom facilities apparently cause problems.
- Comment on Click OK 2 months ago:
I’ve heard it as Kitty Roca
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 months ago:
Puce?
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 2 months ago:
Can attest. Dropped Facebook in like 2016 and am not on anything else aside from Lemmy. I constantly felt like I wasn’t measuring up to people’s perfect family pictures and exciting vacations, even though I knew intellectually that their pictures were posed and their lives were edited for social media. The world still sucks but at least I feel less inadequate.
- Comment on Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community 2 months ago:
You know you’re shitposting well if your post gets enough engagement that someone says “Not sure if shitpost”
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 2 months ago:
My aunt always hosted but we always brought something to share, usually something that was precooked or didn’t need cooking, like salad or dessert or even just cheese and crackers for an appetizer or something. She still made a ton of food but she didn’t have to do it all on her own, and we all drove a bit to get there; we were the furthest I think at about 2.5 hours away. It was my favorite holiday; just food and family. But I am aware that my family is pretty functional as families go. I am very lucky.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 months ago:
I’m a sucker for blue; 9 might be my favorite. 6 was yet more brown in a house full of brown and yellow. I’m an early 80s baby but my parents held on to the 70s as hard as they could, decor-wise.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 months ago:
No but my mom is originally from Nebraska! Scary close lol
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 months ago:
6! No one else?
- Comment on Vacations don't fix your life because your brain treats time off like a free trial of being the person you want to be 3 months ago:
My friend describes this as vacation people vs trip people. My husband and I are definitely trip people generally, but with kids in the picture it’s nice to get an actual vacation (relaxing) in once in a while. But there’s so much in the world we want to see!
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 3 months ago:
Partially because I lived through it, the ‘89 earthquake. I specifically remember not having power and then everything turning back on after midnight and what the news looked like (more grainy than normal) because I was afraid of the dark and hadn’t been able to sleep.
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 3 months ago:
Ouch I had a 4
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months ago:
Even my not-paid-off house is saving me money, since rent has continued increasing and my mortgage has not. I’d probably be paying at least twice in rent for this house as what my mortgage payment is. Bought it 12 years ago.
- Comment on Obligatory 3 months ago:
I don’t actively play the game with anyone but I’m aware of it and kind of keep it in mind. Last year I “lost” soooo early.
- Comment on Arby's steak bites 4 months ago:
They look like rocks. Be careful, don’t crack a tooth!
- Comment on Discuss 4 months ago:
If chocolate and coffee taste similar to you, I can see why you wouldn’t like it with fruit!
I like chocolate with my fruit (berries, apple even) but I don’t care for fruit in my chocolate bars, funny enough.
- Comment on God did not intend for us to fold fitted sheets, and if you can it's witchcraft. 4 months ago:
That works if the sheet only has elastic on the corners. The last few sets of sheets I have bought have elastic all the way around the edge of the fitted sheet. Does well on the bed but damn they’re impossible to fold.
- Comment on Found a dog 4 months ago:
Now that you mention it