JackiesFridge
@JackiesFridge@lemmy.world
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
I am with you on every one of these points. The image selection process is terrible now, where before it was quick & simple. And in the past couple of updates, sending larger images and gifs was sporadic until now I always get an error. I was happy when they added message reactions, then puzzled when they just stopped at six, half of which are rarely useful.
I’ve been a paid user for years, but now I’m causally shopping for something else. If they’re giving up on their app, so am I.
- Comment on Remember when 15% was the expected, not the minimum? 3 months ago:
Seriously. USA is like the generic video game starter character before anyone’s had a chance to customise it and level up. At all. And I say that as someone who lives here.
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
It’s been around for a while. Over a decade ago Target ran a cheeky back to school advert featuring a slow pan across school cubbies with lunch pails all labelled with variant spellings of “Braiden”. I thought it was hilarious.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 3 months ago:
Respond to nothing. Block everything.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
That’s fair.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
I think we’re talking past each other but agreeing on the fundamentals. I’m approaching it from the angle of all government positions - absolutely if a progressive candidate has a chance to win any office from dog catcher to president, get them in so they can influence policy. But if they have no chance of winning, it’s just damage control.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
Didn’t win? Dude’s a congressman. He’s in.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
Voting for other candidates only shifts the needle if they win. If they can’t possibly win, nothing is accomplished by voting for them.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
You’re right, of course. Patent illustrations traditionally show the item only from behind.
- Comment on Why Movies From The 70s & 80s Look Like This: Kodak 100T 5247 5 months ago:
Harrison Ford
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
Oh well then I feel so bad for them /s
When I started my current job they told me the position was 45 hours/week. For my salary and task load that sounded reasonable. After that 45 I am gone and they respect my boundaries, which was honestly unexpected.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
That’s…definitionally not quitting, quiet or otherwise. That’s literally doing the work you agreed to do when hired.
- Comment on Most obscure movies you've ever seen? 6 months ago:
I love Plympton’s stuff in general, but The Tune is epic. I lucked into a DVD at a used shop years ago and I’m so happy to have it.
- Comment on Most obscure movies you've ever seen? 6 months ago:
The Tune (1992) by Bill Plympton is definitely an experience. Hausu (1977) is a weird fever dream. Dead In the Water (2006) was co-written & directed by a friend and is a decent indie zombie movie. It was fun seeing his parents cameo as zombies and then have Thanksgiving dinner with them.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 7 months ago:
My Shorts list is a lot of random Spanish-language stuff. I don’t speak Spanish.
- Comment on POW right in the...kisser? 10 months ago:
If not the kisser, at least the pucker.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 11 months ago:
In the board game theme, have you tried any 2-player abstract strategy games? Some of my favourites include:
Quarto (complex 4-in-a-row game with a twist: your opponent chooses the piece you must play) Quixo (from the same publisher, Gigamic - tic tac toe on steroids with an ever-changing board) Hive (each piece moves a certain way, very portable defend-the-queen game) Tak (simple rules, deep strategy - connect opposite edges of the board while preventing your opponent from doing it)
Not strategy, but abstract speed game: Nine Tiles by Japanese company Oink Games (not Nine Tiles Panic, tho that one isn’t bad). Oink has very clever, easily packable party games and a few can be played with two people.
- Comment on Would work on me 1 year ago:
That thing is literally a 30 minute drive from my house. It’s actually a really cool sculpture
- Comment on How do empty nesters deal with over cooking? 1 year ago:
Like many people have said: freezer.
We have a box of quart-sizes freezer zip bags. Whenever you make food, immediately separate half of what you made and freeze it. You can always thaw it later when you don’t have time or energy to prepare food.
Dairy tends not to freeze well. Most other foods do. You can freeze pasta, rice, and bread easily, so make a bunch to mix in to future dishes, and if you can’t get through a full loaf of bread before it spoils, freeze half the loaf as soon as you bring it home.
There are a lot of meal prep tips websites, and it sounds like you are inadvertently meal-prepping. See what tips they have for storing food.
- Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product? 1 year ago:
Plus, Bandcamp will also recommend new music and related artists. The recommended artists at the bottom of a band/artists’s page are listed by the artist themselves, so you can pursue music that inspired the music you like.
- Comment on Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular? 1 year ago:
In print, you can use all-caps to produce a large, attention-grabbimg headline and reduce the leading (line space) without worrying about font ascenders or descenders interfering.
Online, it’s just shouting.