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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not that bad quit whining⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Article from 2014 says it was a factory accident to an 18 year old worker. CW: pictures of his hands post-repair but still bloody. nydailynews.com/…/chinese-worker-gets-pincers-for…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pride month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ooh, ooh! Ace here. I went through a period where sex was my special interest. I went deep down the research rabbit hole, learned all about sex toys and methods and safer sex techniques. Had willing partners.

  At the end of the day, sex is boring and no one is hot/of an attracting gender. I guess it’s like if you were a super straight man and everyone else was men? I don’t know.

  Now I’m into knitting and kumihimo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay hydrated, folks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  /me laughs in POTS. I had four 30 oz tumblers of electrolyte water before noon today. (0.94 gallons aka 3.5 liters) And yes, I pee constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hi to Flocky!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A meter is about a yard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are we heading?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and then the good stuff is more likely to survive through the ages and be shown off. I think that’s what parent poster meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  tbh, I doubt any of that would get through and it would just prolong an unhealthy relationship.

  It’s best to cut ties and move on if possible.

  Source: my mom sucks and nothing is ever her fault. The exception to the rule was when she got wicked drunk at my dad’s memorial service and kept shouting that she’d killed him. She only stopped once a couple people stepped in to try and reassure her that she hadn’t, which brought the focus back on her. (Spoiler alert: she did. Without her actions he’d still be alive.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh you're gonna be a horny bard again thing campaign? Here's your dice.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure there’s enough space in the dice bubble for the die to roll well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know an American 10¢ coin is the perfect size to drop behind a plug-in night light, such that it gets stuck between the power plug prongs? You can then unplug the night light and the dime drops to the floor, with two impressive marks taken out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m face blind and your methods of telling people apart sound very similar to mine. I don’t use odor but I do use gait. I also often just assume that I know someone if they act like they know me, and I play along until I figure out who they are.

  I also didn’t like hearing my name much until I changed it. Now I’m happier to hear it, and even diminutive forms of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern lies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve got hard water and I’m trying to get my partner to try a chelating (mineral-removing) shampoo on his long, curly hair. His poor scalp is so itchy and I think it’s the hard water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern lies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on if you have hard water or not. I tried it with wicked hard water and it just never washed out, my hair ling felt so gross and greasy. (it was mid move and my regular shampoo was already packed :( )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern lies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Lush’s cinnamon one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  d:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🦜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oof, that sucks.

  Vaguely related story: Back in the Olden Times before ubiquitous wifi and data plans, I had a friend cancel on me after I’d already gotten in the light rail to meet him an hour away. He didn’t call or text, just emailed, so I looked for him for almost an hour before giving up.

  Turns out he’d emailed me then was at the hospital with a friend who’d gone into labor, and didn’t have his phone with him (so didn’t get my calls or texts).

  My partner (who’d come with to meet my high school friend) and I had a good time in DC anyway. We went to a geeky bookstore and a nice cafe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom once blew up at me because I didn’t respond to her text for 23.5 hours.

  “Sorry to bother you. I thought you might give a fuck but I see I was mistaken. I won’t bother you again.”

  She didn’t call, she didn’t email, she just sent a text and then exploded when I didn’t respond (because I didn’t see it). Anyways, she’s blocked now–I don’t want to make a liar out of my mother, so I won’t let her bother me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's in the wrong here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  or were commuting home, having texted as soon as they got off work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im a weekly showerer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys have sheets?

  (I sleep in a hammock and wash my blankets and hammock routinely, but no sheets)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  contrast this me picking up my dog’s prescription meds: “ah, shit, that was his last pill!” <calls vet office> “hey, could I get a refill of gabapentin and vetmedin? Let’s toss in some canned food. Sure, I can swing by after work. Thanks!”

  From my point of view, the difference is there’s no insurance involved, so I pay out of pocket and no one has to deal with insurance companies. (pet insurance exists, but I’ve done the math and it doesn’t make financial or logistical sense for me.)

  I do like my human pharmacy, but all my human meds are generic and not super controlled or abusable. I gave up on ADHD meds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servers go Brrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  a half bath is a toilet+sink. A 3/4 bath is a toilet, sink, and shower (but not a tub). 3/4 bath can be fuzzy: if it’s the only bathroom in the home, it will often be called a full bath.

  I’m not sure if we had to pay an estate sales tax when we bought this place. We pay town taxes every 6 months automatically through our mortgage. We also paid a recording fee for the town to record the condo sale. There were a lot of fees, tbh.

  And yes, you got me, I heard about German kitchens from YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servers go Brrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. For example, search for parcel “176-194-030” in the Hartford, CT tax assessor’s search. It should bring up a McDonald’s fast food building (I chose that because it’s less creepy than singling out some random person’s home.)

  Screenshot of the parcel info page

  There’s even a little drawing of the building. The purple is the first floor and the blue is the “canopy” or, I guess, awning outside. The “interior” tab on this site doesn’t list the kitchen quality, but does say the insulation is “typical” and 40% of the building has sprinklers. My guess is different cities and towns track different things in their tax assessments.

  Oh! IIRC, Germany has the thing where the kitchen doesn’t stay with the house. In the USA, they’re firmly attached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servers go Brrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (USA) My flat just had its tax assessment done and that includes the floor area, heating source, and other things like how fancy your kitchen is (mine is “standard”, btw). That tax assessment is available online to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some neighbors have no chill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had those neighbors growing up. Loud parties until 1 am on school nights, constantly revving their motorcycle. They also parked a boom lift in their driveway and I’d routinely wake up to their teen son looking in my second floor bedroom window.

  Surprise, talking with them didn’t help anything. My dad helped by getting me earplugs. My mom told me to stop bothering her by having needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They might not even be pervs, maybe they’re autistic and feet are their special interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure would have been nice to know this when my house got invested with fleas. No need to flea bomb, I just needed to wash my hands!

  (got a pup from a household with inadequate flea control measures–they’d give him a flea bath weekly, but never treated the environment or their cats. They swore up and down he didn’t have fleas.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also autistic. Seconding that this is hilarious. I’m with the reporter, the prisoner makes prison sound like a good place to be.

  I stacked paperback books as a toddler, straight in a line. My dad taught me to do them in a brick pattern for stability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And no paper towels to use on the handle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And no paper towels to use on the handle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.

  Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always use proper lifting technique⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you have to sneak up on the box

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I choose hating your job in unconventional ways.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a big fan of textured vegetable protein (TVP). It gives a ground beef texture but is vegetarian and shelf stable. It looks expensive per pound, but it’s dehydrated so you’re not paying for water.