LanyrdSkynrd

Pair-bonded birds are adorable.

There's a pair of doves have a nest where a vent exits the side of my house. Sometimes they perch all snuggled up on my railing at dusk. It looks like they're watching the sunset together.

Roasted butternut squash soup is pretty good. Chop the squash up into chunks, coat in oil and roast it in the oven until it gets some browning. Sautee a ton of leeks, some garlic, some ginger, and some onion or shallot in a pot. Put the squash in and add some stock until just barely covered. Throw in some herbs and a bay leaf. Once the squash is starting to fall apart, remove the bay leaf and blend the soup(an immersion blender makes it easier, but you can do it in a regular blender in batches). Strain it if you want really silk smooth soup, but it's not necessary.

Add some sweetness if desired, I like to add a little maple syrup. Serving it with some browned butter is also a nice touch, but also necessary.

I think this actually helps Biden more. Libs(and a surprising number of folks on here) are predicting violent reprisals from Trump if reelected.

Fear of a Trump presidency is what got Biden elected in the first place.

I don't see how 5 days is a reasonable isolation time after testing positive for COVID. I'd read that the CDC recommendation dropping from 10 to 5 was not based on science but economic considerations, but I assumed the 10 days + negative antigen test was effective.

My partner caught covid, and I slept in the basement and masked indoors for 11 days. We both tested on day 11, both negative, so we stopped isolating based on the research I'd done. I figured there was a chance I'd been exposed and been asymptomatic because we had slept in the same room and kissed 20 minutes before they tested positive.

I caught it immediately, and it had to be from my partner because I didn't go anywhere but to a curbside grocery pickup while they were sick.

My partner had it pretty bad. They took paxlovid, and their physical symptoms weren't too bad, but they were delusional and hallucinating. They were also being super difficult, angry and trying to piss me off for 2 straight days, almost like the way my grandfather was when he had early stage dementia. Thankfully they're better now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240503185201/https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/10/brian-eldridge-st-paul-obituary-bullied-lonely/

The online market for swag with stuff printed on it is massively oversaturated right now. The get rich quick grift economy has moved from drop shipping electronics to drop shipped printing.

There are a bunch of online print shops that will take an image file, print it, and ship it to a customer for you. There are also data services that scrape Etsy, eBay, etc, then sell sales data to other sellers. So even if you make a unique design that sells, competitors will steal them and be selling them for less almost immediately.

It's not normalized on creatinine levels, they just count samples with low creatinine levels as needing a retest.

A lot of young people are getting caught in sex scams. They get flirted with on discord/social media, get invited to Skype calls where they engage in sex chat. Then they get told by the "father" that the person was underage, and if they don't send money they'll send the videos to the police and their family.

Say those 4 reasons to him and be firm in your decision. Do exactly what he's doing to you in forcefully saying you ARE going.

When my father was near the end of his life, he was like that. Using the prospect of his dying to kind of try to guilt me into committing more than I was willing to. He was a bit of a prick and would take offense if I wasn't careful in how I turned him down. When I was younger I didn't give a shit and let him be angry, but I didn't want to be on bad terms with him because it was clear he was dying.

Of course you don't owe anyone any explanation and it would be perfectly reasonable to just say no and leave it at that. But I think you can turn him down in a way that preserves your relationship, if that's what you want.

Start off by telling him that you've thought about it but you aren't going. He'll want to know why, respond with a reason he cannot counter argue. For example if you start with the concern about the cost, he could counter by saying, "I'll help you pay".

You don't want to let it turn to a debate or argument, so if he tries to, don't engage. Just say you're sorry but you've already decided.

If he tries to guilt you, call him out on it.

My best friend as a teen ate burgers by eating the meat and cheese with his bare hands, then eating the bun with ketchup(no other toppings because he and his whole family didn't eat any vegetables). He ate pizza the same way.

I did home renovation work for like 8 months. Some of the people in the crew practically destroyed their bodies doing that work for 20+ years. One of the drywall guys would have to use his left hand to loosen his right's grip on the knife because it would get locked up. There was another guy that was maybe 45-55 that walked hunched over like a 90 year old man.

I actually liked the work compared to other jobs I'd had, but the "work through the pain" culture was so toxic. Everyone would act like working hurt was both mandatory and something to be admired.

It's fine to be proud of being a hard worker, but being proud of destroying your body for a boss that wouldn't give a shit if you died is sad.

If the buildings vent stack is operating properly smells shouldn't be coming out of the drains, no matter how much they pour down it.

If the vent stack is clogged or insufficiently sized, air could be forced up through the traps, but you'd be smelling sewer gas too. It's a really rank smell you'd notice, so I think the polysytrene smell is probably coming in some other way.