pleasestopasking @ pleasestopasking @reddthat.com

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This is not helpful but I just want to kvetch. It seems like any appliances you buy nowadays are just so shitty compared to even ten years ago. Even brands that have long been reliable are so hit or miss. I have a mini-fridge that's almost 30 years old and still works fine. I keep being tempted to buy one with a better freezer or that's more energy-efficient but I worry it would kick the bucket and be unrepairable within 5 years.

Never knew how much I needed this, holy shit. Mine beeps when it finishes but also beeps again if I haven't opened the door in, idk, some amount of time. Which I get why it's a gesture and sometimes I actually do find it useful but often I'm like "I KNOW, GIMME A MINUTE"

I am triggered, please for the love of god and anyone who lives with you JUST CLEAR IT

Melt ICE, let's fuckin go

I am an uneducated American, thank you for sharing this. Really repugnant. This cancer is global and growing.

So jealous of my UK brethren who can ask this question

This is the kind of [ Removed by Reddit ] content I'm here for

The toxo do be plasmosising

Yeah but does your young cat have to wear a diaper? This cat seemingly has incontinence problems.

He probably pees on the carpet quite a bit. I could see a tenant being told to get rid of the cat or get evicted.

Custom autocompletes/corrects. Just figure out a non-word (i.e. something that you wouldn't want to use without autocorrecting) that's easy to remember and set it up frequently used snippets of text. Some examples:

• meetnow - my zoom meeting link
• booktime - a link to my calendly
• frequent sentences or blurbs I use in emails (e.g. thanks so much, let me know if i can help with anything else sorta stuff)
• nicknames for different frequently used hex codes
• galert/yalert/redalert populate a styled HTML snippet to make a green, yellow, or red div that I can then just pop my content into
• lots of other little HTML snippets like that
• group nicknames to populate a list of email addresses (like an Outlook contacts group but you can use it outside of Outlook)

Anyway there are a ton of things I use it for, those are just a few examples. Saves me a lot of time.

You can do this on Macs at a system level, on Windows you can do it on some programs but it seems to have to be set up on each one which is worthless.

Let's be real "starting a business" probably means she sells essential oils in an MLM

It helps cut it down if you vacuum at least 3 times a week. When there's not as much floating around there's just less of it to stick to everything. It's impossible to not have some of you have cats, though. We accept it because cats are worth it (and the toxo be plasmosising)

I recently started listening to Cautionary Tales and I love it, I'm going to check out more on your list. Thanks for providing a blurb on them, it's so frustrating in these types of posts when people just give a list of names with no context of why they like it.

I am still not following. If every household gets a baseline income–say based on average cost of living in an area, or even simply based on the poverty line–why would people who work more and get paid more accordingly feel they are not compensated for their time?

UBI doesn't mean everyone gets the same amount of money no matter what they do–it means everybody gets the same amount of money as a baseline. If they are able they can hold a job just like they do now that pays a wage just like it does now. The person who is disabled, unable to find work because of lack of skills or education, or doing unpaid work gets the baseline money, but does not work a job where they earn a salary.

A version of this already exists in Alaska–not an amount that is livable on its own, but the same basic idea. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/alaska-free-money-residents-hints-how-universal-basic-income-may-work

The thing is, if working isn't tied to capitalism, then it's actually easier to find work because you don't have to worry only about what provides enough money to survive. Someone "unemployable" may be perfectly suited to be a caregiver, artist, odd-jobber, or anything else that would not be able to financially sustain them because of low pay or a limitation on the hours they are able to work. I think UBI would lead to more societal engagement, not less, because people would be able to choose how they engage without worrying about whether it would pay the rent.

To your second point, I'm not sure I understand. If it's a universal basic income, does that not mean that everyone has their basic needs met? Those who would like more than that and have the capacity to do so could still seek higher paying jobs in order to have the lifestyle they want above and beyond basic needs. Why would they be bitter about other people getting those same basic needs covered but not earning more money?

because most of the community in here consists of IT guys

Is this data that has been collected, or anecdotal?

WikiTok Bloomscroll through Wikipedia articles

This gives me the same feeling that I got from StumbleUpon

You can abuse alcohol to negative effect without drinking every day. Binge drinking and drinking to dull your emotions are other forms of alcohol abuse beyond just the classic portrayal of a "drinks all day or he gets the shakes" alcoholic. Maybe OP is doing this very occasionally and it's not a problem for them. But if you're using alcohol to as a coping mechanism with any sort of frequency, it's probably not a healthy situation.

Steve Huffman, one of the co-founders of reddit. Spez is his username. What other questions do you have?