I got a new laptop at work and everything, every file I worked in, was creating a second copy of itself on OneDrive. It was so annoying and took awhile but I found instructions on deleting the duplicates.

It took all the files off my local machine and left the ones on OneDrive.

Aaaargh!

The long arm of the paw!

The incredible strength of the glue on those bags guarantees they rip and always make a mess. Flour here is mostly sold in 5lb bags that perfectly fill a gallon jar, at least. I don’t mind the paper at all but do you have to glue it down in this arrangement that guarantees ripping, with glue that could hold a bridge together?

This happened to me in the pandemic too. Working from home is kind of a drag, and building a division between work and home, logging off and sitting on the porch with a drink was such a lovely way to do that. But it quickly felt like too much drinking, alcohol is literally a downer, a central nervous system depressant. So I started going for a Pokemon go walk instead, and keep the drinking to weekends, except some weeks a half glass of wine with one supper, if it makes it better tasting. Never a full serving though.

We do joke at work about logging off and drinking when it’s stressful but most of us are not really daily drinkers and I have literally never touched alcohol at a work party or happy hour at any job and nobody cares, nobody makes a big deal about it.

I feel like there must be another way for you to accomplish that feeling while sober, though, you are still you when you have a drink. Letting go a little.

I have the opposite effects. Alcohol in moderation (like one drink, about 1.5 “units”) makes me feel very gently relaxed but not much else, it’s pleasant. Weed makes me feel tired, stupid, and irritated, I have never found the “high”. I just feel annoyed and want it to be over. Everyone annoys me because I am myself annoyed. Actually getting drunk drunk is also annoying as fuck but weed I tried even very small amounts, no high. Except one time when young but I suspect that was laced, it was psychedelic. I’ve tried it a handful of times before and since and no, it feels yucky.

At least be intentional about it. I buy personal care products and sometimes whole bottles are shrink-wrapped, WTF? Others just have a better design so they can be shipped safely. Some vitamins/medicines have the caps with plastic wrap to show they haven’t been opened but also the plastic and foil inside. Why can’t I bring back my medicine bottle and have them use the same one, or just give me the medicine in a paper envelope and I can fill the bottle, I don’t NEED another bottle!

I don’t know about ALL but there are a lot that could be eliminated without any impact on anyone except maybe the people who make the plastic.

This would be great if it was a gay bar doing it. A hetero day, welcome your brothers, lol.

A straight day at a straight guy bar is straight nonsense though.

Valencia are good juicing oranges, but messy for eating. Navel oranges are dryer and less flavor but great to eat because so big and so easy to peel and section.

Fresh orange juice is just a whole different thing, it’s not like the bottled ones. If you juiced the navel oranges it would still taste more like the fresh juice from juicing oranges than the bottled juice does.

There are greening tolerant (not resistant) varieties developed already, yes of course biologists have been and are urgently working on it. I have a “sugar bell” tree, that’s one of them.

Evolution and Nelly’s are the only brands that get close, but nothing is like fresh squeezed (obviously, same thing with any citrus juice, right?) so I just make some when I want it, by squeezing some oranges. We can still get the juicing oranges here, not year round though.

We actually pay for all our kids’ phone service because T-Mo let us add them for $10/month each line. If they raise it 5 per line it will add quite a bit but I think I’d just ask the kids to pay their $15 a month then, or spin them off if they prefer, and save money overall, T-Mobile has already saved us thousands of dollars over the years, improving service without raising the price so they have a little bit of loyalty from me. It may get shitty from now but it’s been a good run for 15 years at least.

Yes, I think you would be increasing your chance of landing that. Yes. And sorry.

I think if you disparage a group of people, it would be helpful to live as one for awhile. So there should be a greater chance of rolling that.

Other than that, straight up randomizing would probably work ok (since everything is a pyramid most at the top would be trading down economically), and you need to acquire enough knowledge when transfered to know what the daily life is - where to go for work or school, familiarity with the situation you are in, the basics of your job. It’s a lesson not a punishment, right?

Sometimes I think we need a Freaky Friday sort of thing to happen. Can she just wake up as a black trans woman tomorrow, just for a few days? Walk in their shoes?

I have no Facebook, I want no Facebook. When I got my now job a few years back they said “we couldn’t find you on Facebook.” That’s right, you can’t.

And yes I get left out of that communication stream, but absolutely don’t care. Like, not even a little bit.

I’m waiting it out. Already my kids see it as “boomer shit”.

I went to the zoo but it sucked, they had only one exhibit and it was of a dog.

It was a shitzu.

2 of my kids are young enough that they were targeted by the micro transactions, but the total lifetime spend on gaming stuff is under $1k, mostly spent on a PS4 and a PC for gaming, bought some Steam games, some PS games and both spent a little in Genshin. But not ever from my money, except for the equipment, I split that cost with them. $0 before they were 15. And they both UNDERSTAND money, both got part time jobs in high school, they make money. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to throw a little cash at a game you enjoy but it needs to be a decision not an impulse, turn off the game and think about it.

Excuse me, what?

I unfortunately know a lot of guys who like him (and a couple of women) and it’s more like they don’t care, not that they have a positive view of his personal life, they just don’t think it’s relevant. They like how he functioned as president, or rather, how they recall he did.

Even in that group you wouldn’t find one who thought he was “respectful to women”.

Beans and rice. (Red beans and rice, black beans and rice, garbanzo beans in curry on rice, you can make probably a hundred delicious variations on beans and rice)

A can of pureed pumpkin and a can of white beans with seasoning and a little chicken broth, heated and blended, makes a healthy and delicious soup.

A can of tomatoes, an onion, a couple dried Chiles and a can of pinto beans also makes an incredible pureed soup.

Up until recently I’d have said eggs and toast, but eggs are expensive lately. Still probably under $5 to feed 4 though.

We bought a frozen turkey cheap after Christmas and my God that made so many meals, I still have 3 quarts of stock too.

I don’t think a frozen pizza is a good deal in terms of nutrition but we do sometimes have that or the Little Caesars one if I can’t cook that night.

None of us are fat, husband is overweight but fit, and the rest of us are on the thin side.