That assumes this isn’t a converted house or other building, where consistency is very difficult due to the original construction. There are tons of those and they tend to be shitty cheap places attractive to first-time renters and students.

My friends lived in the ground floor apartment of a converted house, and the washer was above the hallway between one of the bedrooms and the bathroom, so I could totally see that.

I like that his fork melted. That’s a nice touch.

I know someone exactly like this. Frequently complains about the burn and heartburn, and keeps doing it anyway.

If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.

As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.

If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)

If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.

Since 2020 I haven’t touched a door handle in public. Because that’s when I realized just how backward some people are (I’d managed to avoid learning that prior). I wrap my sweatshirt around my hand to open them, now. In the summer I have paper towels in my pocket.

I have enough popcorn to find out.

It would be fucking priceless if America only got universal healthcare as a result of executing rich people. Very character consistent.

Sad, but I mean we take what we can get and that lesson will be around for a long long time if it works…

I bought this quantity of super worms for my turtles…

And omg it’s so much. It’s like a 5gallon bucket full of dehydrated crawlies. I wish I could get that quantity of dried river shrimp, but so so so much more expensive.

Anyway, I have no idea what I’m going to do with them… I doubt my little 3 inch turtle is going to be able to consume them in the max 10 years he has left… (I had two when I bought them, but the big female died a few months later. No idea what happened, but they were halfway to their max lifespan at the time, and she deteriorated too fast to do anything about it, so…) so I guess feeding them to crows might be a good bet. Get me a corvid following. I’ve always wanted a minion army.

When I lived down in Houston I made the disturbing discovery that cockroaches in the south of the us are much much larger than the frozen north.

I also learned that they can fly (Texas has FOUR flying varieties), and will in fact fly right in your balcony door if you leave it cracked for the cat and have a light on inside… they also don’t care about you.

With a phobia of roaches, let’s just say Texas wasn’t the right state for me…

Give it a try. So much nicer.

I only shave my legs when pulling up my ski socks (knee-high, tight enough to not fall down, but I’ve never been skiing) causes pain from pulled hairs. And sometimes when I go to a pool. So like maybe 5-8 times a year.

I don’t wear shorts or skirts above the ankle, so I really don’t care most of the time.

That’s ok, they will be fine whenever we go collect them, and there are probably already tons up there. They can have a party with their distant relatives!

Pretty sure they mean non-Americans who can’t vote in our elections.

And this is why I’m sterile.

I don’t want to be here, and I sure as shit don’t want to do that to someone else… plus I don’t want to take care of some miniature asshole version of myself; I’m bad enough to deal with.

It kinda looks like a game king cartridge, from the inside bits (can’t find a pic of the whole thing), but that’s from the early 2000s. I went through a list of older handhelds and that’s the closest entry. But importantly, that probably isn’t it.

What you have is probably a regional knock-off sort of thing, or something that was never popular/prominent enough to be added to the wiki page.

This is the handheld list I went through. I stopped at the DS, as I assume yours is considerably older than that. Some of the old systems only have a handful of games for them, so it’s possible it’s something that just wasn’t made in large numbers, but my bet is on super-generic-knockoff-gamebay/gamboy/toyboy/gamekid handheld system (jokey knockoff names not real things afaik), which are not listed with the actual non-knockoff systems. (I wasn’t able to find much about vintage knockoff/copy systems)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handheld_game_consoles

That’s ok, everyone else does that anyway :)

That’s like one of the super grindy JRPG titles I have (100 hours or so to get through the story). To get all the achievements, you’d have to play through an absolute minimum of 9 times, because you need to kill the end boss without taking damage on each difficulty level, and they unlock as you go. But you’d actually be grinding bosses for ages trying to get them without taking damage…

The game was ok, but I honestly can’t see wanting to play it twice let alone 9 times… there’s definitely a reason almost nobody has those achievements…

Sure but it could also be simsimulation and maybe they can play as us on a grand scale and if so they maybe can tweak the war, dissent, and natural disaster settings down a bit… you know for the sake of recovering from the fun part.

Cuz idk if you ever played simcity and set loose disasters, recovering from them suuuuucked when it got out of hand.

I don’t ever change my clocks, I just do mental math because my car clock also tends to drift roughly a minute a month so I’m used to it. Frankly I don’t even set most of them when the power goes out (phone and watch are right either way, bedroom and living room get set after outages)… but when one friend comes over they always set or change all my clocks for me because it drives them crazy…

Appliance clocks can be useful, but I typically don’t use the pre-set or programmed features anyway so meh. I think in 10 years I’ve used the scheduled bake on my oven once, and that’s about as much as I’ve used any of the program features on any appliances…

(I’m just speculating for fun here)

Based on the sash, this is a woman celebrating a birthday or bachelorette. Due to the pattern on it I’m leaning toward birthday, as bachelorette sashes tend to be solid white.

She’s probably hammered, having been day drinking since 10AM (that’s what those sashes are for; to give lunch goers a clear visual warning sign.) and based on the shadow line and assumed time of year (I’m just assuming it’s not northern California in winter, but it might be) that is probably like 4-5pm, so she’s been drunk for a solid while, probably in the sun.

So very drunk, good mood woman gets an idea that twerking poolside (very possibly to no music or music played off a shitty phone) is the way to keep the party going (a shockingly common sort of happening at those two categories of sash-wearing events). And for that one guy, far far too old to have any shame left about being a creep, she’s absolutely right.

This makes me wonder, though, if those dumb attention seeking sashes exist outside of the us (baseball hat in background seems to indicate US)… I’m sure they must in some form, but I really sort of hope it’s just here that people are so self absorbed as to think a birthday or wedding is a free pass to be a public disaster. (Also there used to be a trend of wearing a sash so strangers would staple money to it, but thankfully that seems to have died…)

The University of Wisconsin system of schools is well known for being good for the sciences, while still being state colleges, and thus more affordable for average individuals, particularly residents of the state.

However, in pursuit of profits, some of their academic hiring decisions have been…. Unfortunate. I won’t name the specific school this occurred at as the problem occurs across the board for associate+/-lecturer positions. And it occurs in most states. Education as a whole in the US has been commodified, and thus reduced.

Nope, I’m also a brown thumb due to having the attention span of a newt :) but I’m trying to figure out a way to make that tendency work anyway. Lazy indoor gardening. $10mil idea, which I’ll never profit from :)

If I can, literally everyone can (with freely available plans I’m developing! Because I like creating but the follow through… oof, nope…)

If you want to grow herbs, specifically, tho, I highly recommend water beads. You can get them on amazon for water bead blaster things, some 4x120,000 for under $10, which makes like a couple gallons of beads? They are also available at various retailers if you don’t want to support Amazon, expensive when bought for plants, cheap when bought as a toy. Go figure. You can mix your powder nutrient solution (10/10/10, with whatever additional nutrients you may need) with water, soak the beads in that water, plant the stuff in the beads, and then just sort of let it do its own thing, top it off with plain water as needed to retain the volume. If the herbs die, meh, just extract the nutrients from the beads with distilled/ro water for a day or so, let them dry, remix the nutrient and plant new ones!

You’ll get a good feel for what plants need and how lazy you can be with them. The water beads dry out as they are used up, but don’t really evaporate, so it’s a super clear sign to replenish them, with none of the disadvantage of organic soils (poor drainage, poor moisture retention, nutrient overload, etc.)

I’m planning to try the beads as a medium for strawberry rhizomes in the spring… I think they will do a decent job for some of the everbearing varieties. Or they won’t ^_.

I really need a friend who can keep a schedule so I can try my ideas… 😅