ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @ Nemo @midwest.social

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MRW I'm on a list with the CIA and the NRA but it's the Culinary Institute of America and the National Restaurant Association.

That, and so they have an excuse to incarcerate or kill the leadership, see: Haymarket 7, Joe Hill, &c

Boxers, specifically woven boxers. In that the point of drawers is to filter farts and keep your legs from touching each other, they're the best option to do that. They're gma lighter-weight fabric than briefs or boxer-briefs; and also a stiffer fabric which means they won't ride up and let your legs start touching.

Worst of both worlds, they're the suburbs of underwear.

We're taking it back!

We'd suffocate and then be crushed.

I find it much less so than, say, reddit, or old-school website fora, or talking to randos on the bus, but then I browse by subscribed.

Stephin Merritt / The Magnetic Fields, and never.

They've come through town several times, it's just never worked out.

Your first time doing taxes, go to the public library and grab the paper copy of the instructions, even if you're submitting it electronically. Read them and highlight anything that's confusing or important.

Laundry: Use less detergent than you think, and colder water than you think. Don't machine-dry any wool and most synthetic fabrics.

ADHD? Look into a bullet journal for keeping track of important info. This is not a product, it's a method, and you can do it with a 50¢ composition book. The main benefit for someone with ADHD is that it's stupid easy to start and doesn't break if you forget to do it for a day or a week or a month.

Buying insurance? Hiring a contractor? Know your budget and get at least three quotes before deciding.

You don't get promoted by being good at your current job. You get promoted by asking for it, or by jumping to a different company.

Start investing now. Pick a stock or fund that's boring but steady and buy $50 worth (or more, if you can afford it), rain or shine. Don't stress about optimizing it; even boring investments should have a return well above inflation.

Never lend anyone money. It will destroy your relationship 90% of the time. If someone needs help and you want to help them, just give them the money. Either they'll pay it back some other way or they'll pay it forward, but no matter what it won't be hanging between you.

If times are hard, don't be afraid or ashamed to take advantage of programs or food banks. That's what they're there for. You're not taking it away from someone who needs it more, most food banks have a big overflow from week to week. If you feel bad about using these programs when you're down, well, make sure to donate or volunteer when you're up.

It's fun and festive... if they "only have that experience a handful of times in their lives". If you do it on the reg, it's just wasting the product. That distinction is what the question is about.

Yes, when discussing pay. I said flat out "I need to be making X/week, is that realistic here?" Got that job, working it now. I don't have time to mess around.

This is a sales job, though.

Each voting district sets its own methods; different areas have different laws. It's a mess.

Eh, I switched it up, but mostly to the right.

When I used to have two monitors, it was never right and left; it was always center and side.

Making champagne bottles pop.

To quote one of my old sommeliers, opening a bottle of sparkling wine should be "as quiet as a nun's fart in Mass".

Well, there won't be any new posts, so that's not all that much of a problem in the end.

Only three of those green states are in the Midwest, though.

It's salty fats dressed with acid, that's exactly right.

ZZT!

This is the game that got Tim Sweeney the cash he needed to develop Jill of the Jungle and then go off of that success to bring Epic (Epic Megagames at the time) into the successful company it became. But I don't care about that because I never played Unreal or Fortnite.

ZZT came with its own editing software. Not just so you could place pieces around the board and make mazes or whatever, it contained a fairly robust scripting language you could use to make all sorts of things way beyond the scope of the original game the editor came with. Whole online communities grew up around creating and sharing these homemade games, first on BBSes and then on AoL fora and eventually on a dedicated website that's still around. Because the game/editor were distributed as shareware, there was almost no barrier to entry, and we were all just churning with ideas about how to break the engine and push the bounds of the software, of gameplay, and if narrative convention.

It was one of the most creative and community-focused times of my life, and fostered my lifelong passion for game design, something I still do as a hobby.