The difference between binge drinking and having a glass or pint a day.

Yep. It was a key way to understand other families didn’t work the way yours did.

“Single with 3 roommates at a crap job just moved in” style.

Yup. Go for it, kid. And the best part is you can drag out the rainbow farting moose any time a childhood story is needed to mildly embarrass and laugh with your kid.

Don’t forget she did art, too.

Yes. But I don’t complain about it. I do complain about wealthier people and businesses don’t pay taxes like I do.

Tarps, tent, flys, cleaning coolers and drying them too, re-packing everything in storage if camping isn’t a regular event…yeah. It’s fun, but there’s a reason it’s not super common for most people.

For me, camping is fun the day after I get home and have already had a shower, a good sleep, and put everything away.

If you’re not churning out widgets for your employer with an aching vagina and handing your newborn over to someone else to care for, what good are you? Your’e an expense and a liability unless you’re making someone above you richer. All this country wants is to monetize you until you’re not worth it, then hope you die quick.

Even how it trains itself can be biased based on what its instructions are.

All for it.

Unfortunately where I live grass or plantings for a lawn above a certain height gets you a letter and possibly a citation from the town. You’d have to rip out the whole lawn and “landscape” the space. Not sure how much good that would do as you’d constantly have to maintain it so as not to leave all the dead plants around as the flowers died.

That said, one can still do a lot with lawn space to make it at least low-mow with various plants and flowers that will still look great and provide something for insects to eat.

No. Just another way to mine for data.

Recently? A shower door catch was broken. I got a new one and it sat in the package on the bathroom counter a foot or two from the shower door for a really long time. All that was needed was to fetch a screwdriver, take two small screws out, and replace the unit. 30 seconds to do, if that.

Meanwhile, if anyone used the shower, you had to creatively wedge something in the door every time to keep it from opening. That took far more effort than simply replacing the catch.

Man, that sucks. I’ve had a Synology NAS for almost 15 years and its feature set has been great. From built in servers to 2FA to VPN it’s been easy to use. Sure, you can DIY a NAS, but then it’s always cobbling together parts that all require individual maintaining vs one-stop shopping with Synology. Ah well, when this one dies I guess I’ll be looking at FOSS/DIY.

Your example is the very reason there were attempts to standardize the language.

That’s prime trash talking territory. There are no rules.

Spelling and grammar matter.

At least take a stab at doing it well.

Other than speaking to people, it’s how we interact with others. It can be professionally, casually, or with friends. Friends we can be pretty informal and slap emojis all over if that’s your style. But casually, even online interaction, people should favor more formal writing until “reading the room”. Professionally there’s no excuse, IDGAF how “brilliant” someone might be and suddenly they get a pass for whatever comes down the email pipeline (unless that brilliance comes attached to some bonafide neurodivergence or something), the awful writing I’ve seen come from some “professionals” is anything but.

People who think they’re an island. I don’t know how to describe it. People who operate like little effort should be expended on the fact that other humans exist around them and they’re part of society along with some responsibility for that society. Doesn’t matter if it’s stopping in the middle of a busy sidewalk in a group and blocking it, driving the speed limit in the passing lane, or utterly destroying the use of spelling, grammar, and punctuation in an online post forcing the reader to translate it into something meaningful. People unwilling to return the courtesies and efforts those around them offer by default.

Read rich dad poor dad. Nothing but leveraging yourself into oblivion and doing your best to make the most sketchy writeoffs or deductions you can. Heck, the author is allegedly a billion in debt and has filed for bankruptcy at least once. Not exactly a resounding example of his own financial advice.

Must be an older route or someone friendly with Russia. US and some other flights do not operate through Russian airspace.