Dozzi92
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 13 hours ago:
This sounds like an emergency situation, a broken main, versus someone digging. These get discovered when Joe schmo turns his water on and it’s brown, no pressure, or someone driving down the street encounters a flood on a sunny day. They contact the water company, and the water company then identifies the problem. Time is continuing to pass as this all occurs.
Water utility calls every account holder affected by the outage. They post online. They notify the town and the town posts on their website. Dunno what this “system no one knows about” is, but around me there’s a service called Nixle that I use, and you’ll get text messages about things, including water main breaks and boil water advisories.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 13 hours ago:
They had four methods in OP’s case. OP describes “a system no one knows about,” which sounds like a system OP doesn’t know about. They call you, unless you refused to put your phone number on your account, and then what? Are they supposed to go door to door? It’s an emergency.
The entitlement here is staggering. If you want to be informed, you gotta give them a way to inform you. If you hide away for whatever reason, you run the risk of missing announcements.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 13 hours ago:
Four options isn’t enough? I get you didn’t get it, but do you want them to knock on your door?
I subscribe to a service called Nixle, and the water company will email and phone is anytime there is an issue. I’m not sure what else they’re supposed to be doing. If you’re hard to find you’re hard to find. Definitely sucks to find out there’s a boil water advisory after you’ve been chugging water all morning though.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 days ago:
Got a earn that shit. Also gives me something to say hey, get your shit together or no games.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 days ago:
When I was a kid, we’d get together with family and do our thing. Then we’d all eat a meal, and usually after the meal it was all right, everyone go do whatever you want, and the kids would usually go down the basement and play toys or video games, and adults sit around digesting, having some drinks, etc.
Fast forward to now, I’ll bring my kids tablets or whatever, and when the party is entering the food coma stage, I say do whatever you want, you’ve spent the last couple hours talking to people, or just existing around people who are 30-60 years older than you.
I feel like it always comes to this, but everything in moderation. I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid, and I grew up well adjusted (enough), and I don’t doubt my kids can do the same. For me, the whole tablet thing just stretches out the amount of time I get to hang. Kids get antsy. Shit, I get antsy and I’m an adult, but if letting them do whatever for 30-60m at the end of a party let’s me unwind with my family and friends, it’s fine.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 4 days ago:
The preexisting condition is having a brain.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 5 days ago:
See, I would call all those macaroni, that’s the coverall for tube-shaped fork-sized pasta. Spaghetti are the long rounds. Linguine flats. And then all the big guys get their own names, manicotti, ravioli, and just stuffed shells, they probably got a band that ends in a vowel but it didn’t make its way down to me from Grandma.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s funny. Sometimes my son, 4, he’ll talk to me, but his speech and communication are still in the very basics, and I’ll say, Buddy, I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re saying, and he’ll get frustrated, which leads to anger, all because I don’t understand what he’s saying.
Turn the tables, I’m like, Dude, go to the bathroom, we’re getting in the car, you go to the bathroom before we drive, and he’ll say NO! And now I’m the one who’s frustrated and angry because he’s now the one who’s not understanding what I’m saying.
As always, communication is key, and breakdowns always cause problems. And so we’re all just along for the ride.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
I love hearing other parents have asshole kids, because it reminds me that I’m not alone.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
And also sitting down is hard now. But yeah, you have to imagine all the stabilization your muscles used to do are now taken care of by this robot tail. So atrophy away!
- Comment on What’s the plan? 1 week ago:
Yeah, my wife can drag out goodbyes, but when I’m on my own, or when I can just walk home, I just get up, say “All right, I’m leaving, see you guys later,” and then I just leave. Been doing it for 20 years at this point. I’m not an introvert either, I enjoy parties, but I know when enough is enough, and I just leave. I will see these people again, some of them soon, no need for long good-byes.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 week ago:
Nerdy.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 week ago:
What if I want to actually talk to other people, though?
- Comment on that's a sunday night 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate you not putting a stopper in that wine. Too many people are unfamiliar with the serving size of cab being one bottle.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 weeks ago:
Except you can turn your phone. I’m not rotating my monitor or my laptop.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 weeks ago:
The Decline is definitely my favorite tune from NOFX.
- Comment on Fun fact 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, I always assume homeopathy was just alternative and generally dubious treatment, but I looked it up and I’m enlightened that it’s administration of substances to mimic symptoms in an effort to elicit a response. Color me surprised.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy Shitpost is actually a place where people can come and dissect humor, and eventually turn it political.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 weeks ago:
There is hope! I convinced my neighbor to downgrade his f150 into a Tacoma…
I can’t stand big cars.
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
So at that age, all the kids nap at the same time. I guarantee that’s when teacher is sitting there filling these things out; hence, 120, 130, 140. It’s remarkable how efficiently run these places are. And I had the misfortune of my kids’ first daycare (two block walk from my house) getting flooded, going to a second one of their centers miles away, and then switching to another one that’s less than a mile from my home now. I saw consistently efficient operations across all three over the past 7 years (and much dollars).
And one thing that I have always believed to be the most important about having my kids in daycare was getting them into groups of their peers. They get plenty of time to “socialize,” especially the older they get, and so the teachers (generally) don’t need to be constantly interacting with them.
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my son is older now, wrapping up daycare (thank God), but still gets the reports. He’s four, so communication isn’t exactly the greatest, but it’s there, and I go through that daily report with him at night to help refresh his recollection about his day at school, things he learned, events that occurred. Without the report, I know I’m going to get a lot of I don’t knows and I don’t remembers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying, but it was Morocco in June of 1777, while France took their sweet time (February of 1778). I only know this because it was stressed to us when I went to Morocco to train with their military (or have them train with us). Went poorly.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
The complexity, probably. I am decent in French, rudimentary Spanish. I think I’d go about getting a better handle on those before German. And then, if I choose to step away from the romantic languages, it’s probably for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. So I shouldn’t say zero, zero isn’t real, but it’s close to zero.
So it’s not some anti-german thing. Ich habe einen Bruder, I’ve got a little German, my girlfriend in high school took it, but I just don’t see it in my future. In fact, besides working and taking care of my family until I die, I don’t see much else.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can’t speak German, and there’s zero chance I’m learning German at 37.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Just a haircut.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The first country to recognize the US was Morocco, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation then, and before then, and now. And for that long-lasting support, real Americans suggest they don’t belong here.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 3 weeks ago:
Trenton, NJ, the most densely populated state in America, only has 91k. This represents only 1% of the population, versus 10 in ND. I’m not sure how it is around the country, but of the capitals of NJ, NY, PA, none are amongst the most populated cities in the states. And I don’t really care about the rest of the states (and I like Mass, but it doesn’t fit my example), so that’s that.
You’ve certainly piqued my interest in regard to populations of capitals v. the states they represent.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
So that second one is interesting, because it brings up the whole pants things. Pants appears plural, but you don’t wear a pant. Seems to be a similar situation for tights here. A pair of pants. Hmmm. Got a do some research here about the history of pants.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
The right potato will work just fine.
- Comment on Inconsiderate fucks who litter 5 weeks ago:
Just say you thought they dropped it by accident and you were returning it, doing a good deed.