I feel like the solution to this is more Luigi, tbh.

People would be less selfish if they didn’t feel so hopeless.

Buy some decent, quiet, pc fans and sew a wrap-around sheet, with holes at the foot end just for the small fans to nestle into. The idea is you lay on the bottom part, the top part is over you with whatever other light blankets, and the fans are by your feet, ideally one for each side with an on/off switch. They blow cool air into the sheets and help evaporate moisture. It’s the same idea as a lot of very expensive machines.

Build a small frame to securely hold the fans, ensure no obstructions, and hold the end of the airflow sheet, put the power supply somewhere far away, and you’ve basically built a $400+ cooling bed.

What pieces do I need to build this?

Color doesn’t matter just tell me the bits plz.

Mmm I can’t wait to see the unintended consequences of that backpedaling.

God I hope there are some…

My parents sort of did this to me for a while… I did get some books I ended up really liking this way but we also lived way out in the country so getting to a library was difficult. Didn’t have much choice but to try them.

But then they realized I was well beyond kids/young adult books and started giving me books they liked when I was in 5th grade, like sphere and the third pandemic… my teachers thought it was super weird, and I got a lot of negative comments about age appropriate-ness, but I had a dictionary and undiagnosed autism (diagnosed adhd, though), it was fine.

I was so excited when we moved and I was walking distance from a library. I ended up getting 2 library cards so I could reserve a bunch of stuff and still check out 5 at a time (I was there usually twice a week, and would just burn through books at around 1,000 pages a day, because it was all I ever did)

Do it hard mode brown side up, tape it together with packing tape when it’s done, and then slip it directly into an envelope with a sheet of cardboard to keep it together, and deliver it to HR. No junk viewing required :)

There are two types of people who survive decently in the military. Those who can find every loophole and can maliciously comply, and those who allow themselves to be completely broken and reshaped into perfect compliance by the system.

Many people believe the second group is more common, but it’s really not, since those people tend to be in lower ranking positions. Bullet catchers and the like.

Kinda off-topic, but I’ve never heard of red kote. I have blue kote (animal antiseptic spray that tints blue to avoid further damage from other animals), though.

lol he swapped seats and everything, that’s great! Not the drunk driving, ofc, but to be a fly on the wall for that stop, woof!

Melancholy, misanthrope, and asocial were game changers for me. Learned them young, use them frequently even now.

But super good to know, riiiiiight?

lol sorry about that, android is a total mixed bag on that sort of thing. All iOS devices should function as described tho :)

This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.

The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.

In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”

The anecdote in question:

Last evening over an early dinner in New York a dear old friend visiting from Australia gave me this postcard which he found lately in a museum bookshop in Germany. The caption reads Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910. The first phrase is difficult to translate with equal concision, but surely means [men made more] beautiful by stripes, and presumably therefore drips with irony.

iPhones don’t shut off when you do that, but 5 rapid presses of the power button return it to the encrypted lock state, and require full password to unlock, exactly like full rebooting does. This is enabled by default iirc.

It also quickly vibrates a unique short pattern to let you know it worked so you can do it without looking at it.

If you want to fully shut it down, you can either long press the power and volume up, then drag the power off slider, or do the 5 press thing above and drag the slider.

I only know of google voice, but they will issue a free number for you, and you can use that to send and receive all communications you’d get on a real phone line, so calls, voicemail, and texts.

You… toast it and then egg wash it, and then eat it without cooking the egg…?

I mean that sounds nasty af to me, but you do you :)

There was a bar near me that still had one of these things until quite recently, and yeah it was always on the ground and gross and stuff. I just used a napkin the few times I went there.

But then they had a fire and got rid of them. Now they have a freestanding roll of paper towel that’s always wet and falling on the floor which is much better…

A prior owner of my house was a mason. I know this because I get his union stuff (I’ve lived here for 15 years; at this point it’s not my problem).

He installed a huge fireplace and hearth… on top of 2 layers of old hardwood flooring… so when I ripped that out, I made the hearth unstable. Yay! It’s also an absolutely massive radiant structure, and everyone is shocked that it’s… designed for a small pellet stove.

It’s both well done, and not well done at all.

If there’s fake ones and people show up for them because they saw them on the map, are they fake?

plop plop

Well good thing I learned brail

Yeah it’s only until the end of July, it was just to help out a friend until either I was ready to move or her staffing picked up, and her staffing picked up, so I’m out.

It’s not my cup of tea, but it is what it is, and I figured getting out of the house once a week would be, like, good for me or something.