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  • That great room kinda rules. Maybe a fun rental, but living there I fell like I'd get sick of it pretty fast.

  • "Anyone who must venture outdoors for a period of time is strongly urged to cover exposed skin. "

    Oh shit that's a good idea. I've been snowblowing in my flip flops this whole time.

  • A second hand drum kit will be more reliable than a second hand power washer, so you could get a washer with gift cards and then look for a good deal on a drum kit.

    That being said, playing drums makes you more fun and interesting. Having a power washer makes you more likely to be asked to clean things.

  • Isn't it possible to use PayPal as a bank? I think you can order a debit card from them.

  • In most settings I would be inclined to agree, but in specific settings, like the community this was originally posted in, acceptance and comfort is the point.

    You may have seen this from World, but it was posted on blahaj.

    In this particular instance, it seems less like you were approached on the street and told to speak differently, and more like some people were having a meeting and you walked in and told them to stop making a scene.

  • I have no experience with it and can't claim to know, but the privacy advocate in me tells me it can use everything because it wants access to everything so it can datamine from every app at once.

    Again, I don't know this specific app, but literally every other non Foss app is just a front for granted permissions.

  • Language is always evolving, and for a term as long standing as pet, with such wide use, it's no longer an incorrect use of the word. Pet as a past participle aligns with the use of similar words like bet and set, and on a cultural basis petted sounds like the way a little kid speaks.

  • If I recall correctly, only one of the heads likes to be pet. Don't lose a hand.

  • You have to go to the other side to get the blue gun so you can move blocks

  • It's the main reason I don't care for 80s-00s east coast comics. It's too hard to tell if they're going for shock comedy or are actually as dumb as they're telling us.

  • Sepparate utensils into three groups. Prep and baking tools should be near the largest counter space. Cooking tools should be near the stove. Single use tools should be near the curb.

  • I feel like the term has been bastardised away from what the literal words mean, being able to sense humor. So in that context, a good sense of humor would be a chill person who knows how to find absurdity in a situation rather than taking things seriously.

    A fun person, in other words.

    As for the more modern use, I would say someone who can make regular conversations and events entertaining, while avoiding low hanging fruit and what I consider lazy jokes, jokes based on discrimination and stereotypes.

    Like, it's not cool or nice to make sexist and racist jokes, but on a totally different level, it's lazy joke writing. Wife bad Asian driving black criminal is hack shit that relies on ancient cliches for a punchline, and is generally missing very key parts to approach humor in exchange for getting white dudes in trucks to chuckle and say yeah.

  • A good point, but I do like the observation that the only problems Nissan has are with the two most important parts of a vehicle.

    This is some pretty good spaghetti, just the noodles and sauce are trash.

  • Guaranteed this just turns Honda into Nissan quality

  • With a little patience you can make full on AR10s.

    It isn't terribly difficult to make a rifled barrel with electrolysis.

  • I bet we could tweak the language to be pretty persuasive. Those guys are known for believing some bullshit youtube ideas.

  • Open or libre office, NAPS2, local send, proton, helpwire, inkscape, firefox with addons, and a local server if they need a lot of "cloud" storage, which people think they need more of than they do.

    Seriously, the rehab was convinced they needed several TB to store their records, when every invoice and exam note they had for the ~12 years they'd been digital amounted to about 8GB, ignoring the fact that they only needed to hold on to records for 7 years, or 10 for Medicare, which wasn't terribly common.

    The optical that needed access to very large (16k) retinal photos, really only needed access from 2 locations, so a couple of local servers on automatic backup with a UPS powering the routers meant unless power went out in the whole state, the images and documents were always accessible somewhere.

    The grant service needed encrypted emails and wanted personalized URLs, so proton business worked for them and came with storage. Not free, but that was their choice.

    For some reason most businesses I've worked with seem to think running everything on laptops or all in one computers is the way to go, and get frustrated when everything inevitably gets slow as shit.

    So I switch them to mini PCs running my scrubbed ultra light windows image mounted to the back of monitors, and now they can replace parts when necessary, and I can gut the old computers for harddrives for a local server. The HDDs might be crap, but 20 of them make for a hell of a backup RAID.

    Helpwire as a hidden startup app allows access from anywhere for files, and I can run tech support from anywhere if necessary.

  • Two optical shops, a rehab clinic, and a grant funding service. No specifics on the internet.