Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on My dad’s 3 a.m. Friday oopsie 4 hours ago:
Oof, that’s worse than walking in on your parents.
- Comment on This place is a prison 1 day ago:
Okay but drink it from the bottle. No spills!
- Comment on ‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work 2 days ago:
NPR noted this morning that several of the AI gatekeepers who do the initial screening of applications are biased against Blacks and Asians, and maybe 50% of your applications are going to companies which use the same AI, so half those individual opportunities are really just one racist rejection. (If you aren’t Asian or Black you could still be getting screened out of 50% of jobs by one thing the AI is rejecting.)
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 3 days ago:
This needs reposting to Stick Enthusiasts
- Comment on Intimate, grim, and grotesque! 4 days ago:
“revised”
- Comment on Robbed 1 week ago:
Appreciate the humor but of course razors existed in those days. The cutthroat kind at least.
- Comment on Robbed 1 week ago:
Since it was important to the director for accuracy, did Margo take the time to grow them out, or might they have used the equivalent of merkins? And if so do such things have a separate name?
- Comment on excuse me 1 week ago:
Sadly, not anymore. They changed the rules over 100 years ago.
- Comment on What a good Lenny community to talk about teaching kids at home? 1 week ago:
I appreciate how filled your time is, and I struggled with consistency myself (still do but my kids are grown, thank goodness). If possible, set a specific Silent Reading Time and sit down with them and your own book. Make it 15 minutes rather than 30, and paper not screens just so you don’t have to keep checking. Don’t have anything planned for the 30 minutes after, so any of you who wants can continue reading longer. Pre-bedtime is one option, unless you’re already reading aloud to them because that’s even better.
By the way, they’re old enough for some of the Terry Pratchett books, like Equal Rites or Maurice and His Amazing Rodents. And you might find a little relief from reality with a Discworld book yourself. When you have to get up and go deal with the dishes or whatever, leave your book open in case one of them is intrigued.
- Comment on Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them? 1 week ago:
One reason assholes got mad about you doing that was probably because they wanted your attention on them in that moment. Everyone zones out and stares at nothing sometimes but some people are faster at snapping out of it. If the default position for your social engagement switch is “Ignore,” you have a delay while you switch it to “Engage.” Meanwhile the asshole is already all focused on “Me! Me!”
- Comment on Starting a new side hustle 1 week ago:
Ahoy, Thirsty Aspiring Sword Lesbians!
- Comment on Mint 1 week ago:
Does it smell nice when you drive over it? Does it allow rainwater to percolate? Can your vehicle get sufficient grip and support?
I guess maybe you’re worried it will dislodge the rocks and make the surface uneven? Because otherwise it seems like a non-problem. If you make a point of squashing the tallest bits each time you won’t even have to cut it.
- Comment on We're not going to make it 1 week ago:
I thought of something you could run by your FIL. He’s obviously loving the idea of a green lawn the kiddies will enjoy. But maybe he’ll be open to allowing the addition of some California wood sorrel amongst the pointy grass. If mowed it stays at about the same height as the grass, it’s nice and green, it’s soft to sit on and the kids can hunt among the three-leaf clovers to try to find a lucky one with 4. If it gets the chance it will make pretty yellow flowers and then nifty seed pods shaped like miniature okra, when they are ripe you can twist to make them pop seeds everywhere. It also handles drought well. And it can help crowd out non-native weeds. But it could possibly take over the whole lawn. Which will make him mad if he thinks of it as a weed rather than a chosen inclusion. So if you think he might say yes, ask him. If you know he’ll say no, don’t bring it up. It’s legitimately possible for it to start growing in the lawn all by itself because it’s so prolific, and you don’t want to be blamed. Especially if you did surreptitiously scatter some seed…
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 1 week ago:
At least with the bag, it’s a reminder to tired parents not to let the child put the bag on its head, to tell the child about the danger, and not to leave the child alone with the bag because they’ll test it. If they leave the child alone with the bag and a cat, the child will learn
23 lessons: fur helps prevent plastic bag suffocation, and claws/teeth can penetrate both the bag and human skin. Also cats prefer to choose whether and where to be enclosed. - Comment on We're not going to make it 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. If your house has the water heater far from the bathroom you can also collect a few gallons of the “waiting for hot water” at the tub spout. I don’t have a yard but I have a big balcony garden using that water. Maybe do native flowers around the edges since FIL will mow short anything on his turf
- Comment on My typical response is just "good" 2 weeks ago:
70s moreso
- Comment on We're not going to make it 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t live in an actual desert, there’s probably some local plant you can use as a groundcover which will cushion your kids when they fall. In my area for instance carex pansa (sand dune sedge) is popular. You might be growing some local sedge or ground over now, only you think of it as a weed. The first thing to do is to stop thinking of a uniform surface as the goal. Think meadow rather than lawn. If you painted a picture would you have a swath of flat green without nuance? Even if your kids are playing sports out there, so you need to trim it to a few inches all over, it’s still better for the environment to use native plants. And even tolerate the non-natives like dandelions rather than spread poison. Obviously you don’t want poison ivy or puncturevine, anything that can harm your kids.
- Comment on Anon has an epic weekend 2 weeks ago:
I would think the percentage of children given up for adoption is higher in stigmatized circumstances, one of which would be incest.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 weeks ago:
A Peking duck?
- Comment on Hottest thing ever 2 weeks ago:
… because she’s in bed with you
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Nah, if anything the store clerk is envying your dinosaur toys. I know I am.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s the Met Gala, they could totally show up with full pit and crotch forestry to make that statement.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
Agreeing about universal healthcare but adding sufficient PTO to go to the Dr.
- Comment on And now, let us join Pete Hegsfield in prayer 3 weeks ago:
Please Lord, take him. And his shitty boss. Do what You will with them, but take them.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 weeks ago:
That’s also an option
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 weeks ago:
No, something like this, (I picked one at random) so easy to upgrade your boring head-down shower. Aim the warm water exactly where you want it, get everyone’s bits nice and clean.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 weeks ago:
If you’re doing anything in your bed other than sleeping, you may need to shower and change your sheets more often.
And if you shower and change your sheets more often, you might increase the chances you’ll be doing more in your bed than sleeping.
I will also suggest having a lidded trashcan in the bathroom, and a hand shower.
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 weeks ago:
Heart shapes at the very least!
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 weeks ago:
“Calm down!”
- Comment on Thatched-roofed cottages! 3 weeks ago:
A strong Ukrainian woman!