I spend the first 15 minutes of every new year sending texts to all my family and friends in Wisconsin telling them to get registered on myvote.wi.gov for their absentee ballots for the year because we have to renew every single year and its my resolution to bug everyone about it until they send me “i voted” stickers (or excuses for why they haven’t a sticker but have voted) in the spring election which is days from my birthday.

Nobody buys me a gift, they send me pictures of stickers. Civic participation is my requested gift. Spring elections are shit for turnout.

I watched whole videos about repaving with used bricks and why we don’t do that for all low-speed roads globally is just beyond me.

Yeah, and I’ve also tried stuff like conditioner washing (co-wash), mostly when I did fun dye colors, to preserve the color. But my threshold to feel gross is honestly low enough that my hair feeling nasty is my shower habit trigger, else I simply wont do any self-care. So while it’s technically an option, it’s not one that works with my self. :D

I shower 2-3 times a week in the middle(-ish) of the day.

Showers make me sleepy so can’t do early mornings. I have very long, straight, and thick hair that takes hours to air dry, and refuse to use blow dryers, so night is right out else I end up with a really shit bed-head curl situation…

The sweet spot is mid-morning or around lunch, when I get sleepy anyway, given an hour to half-dry, then put up in a french clip bun, so when I take it down for the evening, it has a nice open curl. I never use the pretty, but it makes me feel very pretty at night.

My favorite thing these days is putting my windows laptop in airplane mode before installing anything. It goes all buggy and aggressive about “we don’t know if this is a threat!!!” Meanwhile it always flags these installers as a threat anyway, and offline whining is easier to get through.

Yes yes, I know, windows bad mmmmkay, all my other computers are linux, I keep this on windows for “but moooooom I don’t want to have to mess with a load of shit just to test this game to see if I even like it enough to go through the arduous process to install on linux” reasons

At my last job I auto-deleted everything from my manager. Anything she needed to communicate to me was done via teams anyway.

She got an absolute buttload of emails, because thats how the company worked for any but the lowest of the low. Every job you do (which can easily be dozens upon dozens) requires subscribing to a mailing list of absolute nonsense. Most people got several hundred emails a day. Management got around 1,000. Absolute braindead system. All tech roles (SaaS), and zero people who were willing to maintain proper documentation, except me but I only did it for end-users.

I was the lowest of the low and never got email that wasn’t important for me. Exactly the way I like it. Not like anyone is reading the 400+ mails a day anyway.

But what would happen is that she’d go through the daily onslaught of emails and find some relevant to her team and forward them on, not realizing we -only- got those emails, so instead of three emails in a day, we’d get 6. The original three and a set of duplicates.

No matter how many times I told her she was wasting her time and ours, she still insisted on doing it. Classic management.

His videos are why I got a heat pump water heater instead of a standard one when mine died. I figure in summer I can hook the exhaust duct up to my hvac and get a bit of free air conditioning out of it, since I don’t have AC yet. Tiny extra bonus piped straight to my bedroom.

Theres evidence that the genocide of the americas caused the little ice age, so we’ve actually had great impacts even outside of industrialization, likely largely from widespread cooking and heating fires. The more of us there are, the more impact we seem to have.

You just need silicone lube. You have to wash that off with soap. Works very nicely.

Also a dream for shaving your nethers, as again it doesn’t wash off easily.

Meanwhile: parrots.

Im sure there are other contexts in which that happens, but yeah, very uncommon

While I still don’t know what that thing is, this is much better. The edit makes it look like some VR headset holder or something.

Im going to save this but it sounds like those aren’t just various strains of mushies? and idk if id go out of my way to obtain drugs i cant cultivate myself. I like the idea of mushrooms and i have spores and stuff, just not motivated to grow a new batch.

Ive seen extracts of mushies, called “crystals of the gods” which is a dumb name but the only extraction method ive found, and thats what I want to try, because its supposed to completely get rid of the body problems associated with it, though not the enhancement of your natural mood (in my case mostly anxiety)

Im kinda afraid of human-made or refined drugs, tbh. What if i like them?

Solid, I’ll keep that in mind, thanks!

I’ve never done acid but I did shrooms twice and haven’t had the balls to try again.

The first time was ok, but the second time, come-up anxiety was so intense I spent the entire trip throwing up, shitting my brains out, and having a panic attack. I can’t do that again, but I’m still full of anxiety, so… nope.

Someday id like to try an extract, I’ve heard the mushroom itself is where the anxiety and gastric discomfort comes from, but yeah I’m just not really motivated in case thats wrong.

Name of the guy leads to name of the sister which could lead to name of the ship she’s deploying with making it clear that ship and its entire compliment will be around. Maybe that’s not the guys name, but with opsec like that there’s a solid chance it’s pretty easy to find out.

It doesn’t have to be a lot of information to you for it to be a lot of information to the intelligence wing of some other country.

It’s about the specifics, not the generalities.

I used that “not a real person” face generation site to create a photo to sign up for the sake of curiosity and to see what the services were like in case I wanted to sign up for one for like friend matchmaking or whatever (not to catfish or anything, just don’t want my face all up in there), but after uploading the photo, then it started asking for an absolute gob of personal data and I noped out. Not worth it.

Unfortunately no, I’m not on android at the moment (much to my chagrin)

However, lots of people around here are super passionate about sharing exactly that information with people, and there’s a solid chance you’ll get an answer to that here if you give it some time. If not, or if you’d like to know now, you can always make a post about it somewhere like asklemmy and you’ll probably get lots of suggestions :)

Sorry I can’t help further with that one!

Have you considered a platform like freetube that allows you to fully block shorts?

I’ve been using it for ages now (desktop application, I use it on Linux, works great), but other platforms for watching YouTube without ads are also likely to have “distraction-free” mode where all that obnoxious shit gets blocked or turned off, like when I view a creator I’m subscribed to the -only- thing that comes up are full-length videos. No community page, no shorts, no playlists and follows, nothing but videos which is what I’m there for.

You also get the perk of blocking ads and sponsored segments, self promotion, etc. so very nice to use.

It does break now and then when YouTube updates, but they typically get it working again pretty quickly.