shuzuko @ shuzuko @midwest.social

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Not British, just of the wrong gender to consider that type of dirty joke 😉

Ah, as I am a sister who generally does not talk about "handies", it very much flew over my head 😂

Not sure if I'm not getting your joke or you're not getting mine, but just in case it's the latter (or for anyone else wondering about the lettuce) -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

Tldr: a British tabloid live streamed a head of lettuce the entire time Liz Truss was PM to see which would last longer. Spoiler, it was the lettuce.

Anyone got a head of lettuce handy to compare?

did not actually file copyrights on their art with the U.S. Copyright Office.

The way they've worded this isn't really a sufficient explanation of how this works. An artist is automatically granted copyright upon the creation of a work, so it's not that they don't have the right to protect their work. It's just that, without registration, you cannot file a lawsuit to protect your work.

Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

However, if it's within 5 years of initial publication, they can still be granted a formal registered copyright and bring the complaint again.

The last 2 times I went under (for a complicated tooth extraction and the subsequent implant) they didn't do the countdown, which surprised me because that was what I remembered most clearly from my lung surgery as a teen. They just asked me if I was comfortable, then said "Good, cause you're about to get extra comfortable!" and we laughed, then I woke up. Maybe it was a dental surgeon thing? But I've also got a really good relationship with the dental techs and the anesthesiologist was a riot.

To be fair, most Western shows are trash these days, too. There's a few standouts, and plenty of them are still the stupid kind of enjoyable in spite of being trash, but that's true of anime, too. Most modern media has just unfortunately become a vehicle for making money, not a vehicle for making art.

The co-op is pretty good, though there are a few tiny frustrations - I can't automatically use an npc party member's skills in conversations (like guidance or bardic inspiration) if they're under my husband's control instead of mine, for instance. Our problem is that we both want to finish the storyline for ourselves before making storyline decisions in our co-op campaign and I have an entire day off that he doesn't thanks to working 4 10s instead of 5 8s. So I have to wait for him to push ahead in his campaign before we can play ours, but I can just play mine at my leisure, lol.

It's more trying to indicate the tongue placement - an N sounds different depending on whether you place it at the front of the tongue or back of the tongue. Back of the tongue is much more nasal, which is frequently associated with French accents, and could sound almost like an "ng" sound to someone less familiar with nasal pronunciations.

hastily closes steam window showing over 250 hours of BG3 played so far

My husband is mad because I'm further in the story than him, lol

Joke's on him, I'm totally unmotivated and I knit(well, crochet) hats. In fact, I craft to avoid responsibilities, lol

The joke probably would've been clearer had you mentioned Vaporeon 😏

Oh, I see the problem. You've written black and brown people.

You should know by now that they don't count as people unless they go through a very rigorous "personhood" check, with markers such as "will they stay quiet about racism," "will they strive to emulate rich white people in dress, speech and manner, to the detriment of their own culture," "will they lead fully sanitized lives as wage slaves without complaint and never dabble in white collar or petty crimes that would be ignored if their skin was lighter," and "will they silently and happily vote for rich white capitalists in politics, against their best interest". Because clearly if they can't follow these very generous and simple guidelines, they don't want to be considered people, duh.

Fuck I feel dirty having typed that out.

People (idiots) prefer therapeutic to preventative because of shitty/misattributed confirmation bias. If they get the shots and don't get sick, it's not because of the shots, it's because they weren't ever going to get sick anyway. If they get sick, take something, and get better, it's because of whatever they took. They can't see the vaccine helping them, so it isn't happening, and if it isn't happening, then it's worthless, and if it's worthless but someone's trying to "make" you take it anyway, it's cause they have an ulterior motive.

The fact that I have no idea what her name is but still know exactly who you're talking about when you say Lettuce Head is endlessly amusing to me.

Hardness absolutely matters in rings. Not as much in pendants or earrings, but people don't realize how rough they are with their hands. Most people do not take their rings off to wash their hands, or do their laundry, or, or, or. So many things have unexpected abrasives that may just feel a little rough on your skin, but can significantly damage a soft stone like opal. In a rush and accidentally bang your hand against the door frame? Chipped opal. Back of your hand itches, so you rub it against your jeans briefly? Scratched opal. They're very fragile stones.

Oh, not arguing that. Just pointing out that this is a large part of why price goes up when you mention the word "wedding". Even if a particular individual doesn't care to have absolutely top-tier perfect service, they're in the minority - and those vendors in the wedding industry price their services to fulfill the expectations of the norm, not the exception.

Not just that, but the expectations are almost always significantly higher (and, in return, the effort that you as a consumer get from those vendors should also be higher.) Speaking from the position of someone who supplies the cake industry, for example, you're not just getting "a cake". You're getting a multi-tier work of edible art that took that cake decorator four times longer to make, requires a special setup for transportation, and usually requires another half hour to an hour of the decorator's time to fully set up once on site. Any old cake could feed 100 people, sure, but do you really want pictures of a flat single layer cake decorated with ugly, mushy balloons half-assedly piped on by the resident 18 year old at your grocery store, transported in a flimsy cardstock box in Aunt Hester's 1970 woody wagon so that half the icing is stuck on the top of the box? If you do, great! You can save a lot of money that way, for sure. But most people want a 3-4 tier cake, decorated immaculately with flawless buttercream and covered in flowers. That shit requires effort, and effort means money.

It must be really hard to have no one love you

Maybe if you decided to try being a human, instead of an animated pile of fecal matter, someone might love you even a little bit

I'm smoking science and facts. Sorry you're too stupid to understand them. One source: https://dcs.az.gov/sites/default/files/media/Child-Abuse-Tips-Scald-Injuries.pdf

Another source, citing 3 seconds at 140F: https://antiscald.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=15

Another source, a graph showing time to burn at liquid temperatures ranging from 130F to boiling: http://www.accuratebuilding.com/images/services/charts/hot_water_burn_scalding_lrg.gif

Edit, hey! Just for fun, here's one specifically talking about the optimal drinking temperature for hot beverages. It only briefly mentions that the usual serving temp of coffee (~180F) can easily and quickly cause significant scalding, but it goes on to show that the optimal - in terms of customer satisfaction, taste, and safety - is a cool ~140F. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305417907002550?via%3Dihub