SolarMonkey @ SolarMonkey @slrpnk.net

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In my family it was jello, half of the half-set jello was mixed with whipped cream, other half cut into chunks, then mix in marshmallows, and fruit, and let it all set up.

I’ve never seen jello salad with cheese, veg, or nuts or anything, that’s wild, just cuz I’ve never seen it before.

Tangent, but I wish we could normalize pass-around bakeware/dishes (with goodies). Nobody in my experience gives away stuff on dishes they want to keep anyway, without explicitly saying they want the thing back.

I like to go to thrift shops/garage sales and get cheap mismatched dishes to make/give away baked goods in/on so nobody has to think about returning it. They cost about the same thrifted as sturdy “disposables” these days. If they want to return it, that’s fine, but most people forget and that’s also fine, because then later they give me something in the same cheap dish, and that’s lovely. Or they use it to give food to others and that’s also lovely. Or they use it themselves and that’s great too!

This works wonderfully for holidays or other potlucks when there are a lot of dishes going around, and it works extra well for shows of support after a loss, when the grief makes memory difficult to maintain.

I stepped on a construction nail when I was like 9, went straight into the arch of my foot. I got a rust colored tattoo from it, that I still have.

Agreed on getting it back out sucking most.

I have a precious moments figure that was purchased the day I was born with my name and the year on it, and a glass mug with the same.

My grandma gave them to me when I was 18, she had a collection for all the kids in the family.

So this absolutely tracks.

As I had to explain to my boomers “you worked for the state government long term, and 15 years at a single company, respectively, prior to retirement. You both got into good positions wrt: healthcare coverage. People these days are unable to secure promotion without job hopping, and are subject to rolling layoffs, putting them fully at the mercy of whatever low budget health insurance their new companies decide to use, but additionally, companies are swapping to cheaper plans for new/existing employees to save overall money, meaning what you were offered and what your newer peers were offered was probably not the same before you retired.”

They do not at all get it and they are not into my hype for it. Not a bit.

Whenever I get any of those contacts, I ask for about 150k more than the absolute max I could get for it (150k.. is about half of the total sellable price). Sight unseen, as-is.

I’d take that deal, but they usually don’t reply :(. Did have one guy ask if there was a pool in the basement to justify the price. Told him he’d have to buy it to find out.

In reality it needs a lot of expensive work I’d rather not pay to do (re-wiring, ripping out the cracked lathe and plaster walls and drywalling, kitchen remodel, etc) and they would be piiiiiiised when they took possession ;)

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.

It won’t be good for both at the same time -most of the time- but if you can source free or super cheap peacock feathers, I’ve found them to be a toy that cats who don’t normally get along all want, and will thus play together better. The great equalizer.

They won’t, in my current three-household-9-cat experience (and so many past but before feathers), play with each other until it’s broken and you ditch it to their devices. They will just play with you (and enjoy the fuck out of it), but pay close attention to other cats playing the same way. And that’s a normal play strategy for cats - they enjoy watching play from cats they know, it gets them revved up for their own turn at play. Cats who get along well take turns playing with you, because they recognize that you don’t play the same way they do, and rarely respond to their play requests like other cats, and are thus a limited, and valuable, resource. They want to give you their energy, because they like what you do for them.

But when the peacock feather “dies”, and gets bent up in weird places, one will chew one end while another plays with the other end. It’s good for everyone. The cat chewing gets dental perks and the cat at the end has a now moving toy to play with.

It isn’t perfect, but you can’t really do anything other than encouraging play between them; they are fully sentient beings, like kids. You can encourage, but ultimately they make their own choices about friends and how to interact with them. And that’s ok.

Other than making boxes into castles (tape or wood glue work wonders), it’s more of an issue of rotating toys like one does with toddlers. If they normally have sponge balls, put them up and give them sparkly Pom balls. If they like strings, use long feathers, wands, or lasers for a few weeks instead. Just rotate their toys and they will keep the energy up while saving you money.

I left this open for a while and forgot what post I was reading when I returned, so I misread your first sentence as “politicians” rather than pelicans..

And lemme tell you, that was a quality chuckle.

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.

Nope, this is the info I was looking for, thanks :)

I’m struggling heavily to find that OS to learn more about it (literally just got a google tcl tv delivered today, as my old one died last week), can you provide a link of some variety?

I was very heartened to find out that it’s just big android, so there’s likely a lot that can be done with it (but I got it to be dumb).

The only problem I found with this is that Roku knows it’s being blocked so it’ll kill some apps over time (like the Plex app) in a way that forces you to fully reinstall the app. Which means unblocking their domain and allowing them to phone home (or disabling/bypassing pihole), because the app downloads go through that domain as well.

Before I just factory reset them and denied them any internet at all, Plex would break and need to be reinstalled about every 2 months like clockwork, and it wasn’t due to app updates or anything. I know this because I did a test once; reset on one tv, and 2 weeks later on another one. The first called for an update at roughly the 2 month mark, and the other exactly two weeks later. Meanwhile an absolutely ancient Samsung tv still has a copy of the Plex app that hasn’t been updated in like 5 years (it’s a fully obsolete tv)… works fine.

My speculation is that it records the data for that period, and then breaks things you use so it can phone home when you are forced to connect it to fix it.

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.

Instead of setting them aside, I put them in a plastic baggie, write on it what they are for, and tape/magnet it to a wall or toolbox, somewhere prominent.

Works a charm for me.

Well at least it’s only for married couples. Non-procreative casual sex is still fine. (I’m not gunna read it to find out if that’s wrong, I don’t really care enough to fact-check insanity)

I guess he supports gay marriage? I’m not really sure what he thinks he’s saying here, other than “I have a breeding fetish but don’t really understand how biology works”.

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…

This is true, I had both living with me at the same time for years.

Sort of still do but the bitey half is more playful now (different cats)

Unironically, housing everyone is much cheaper than incarceration. But we don’t do the cheaper thing, we do the vindictive thing.

The cruelty is the point.

Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)

So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!