They’re going to be super embarrassed when they show this misuse of homophones at the trial for terroristic threats.

I hadn’t done a bath in years, but at one point we were fixing some of the tile in our bath/shower. To minimize how much water got into the unprotected wall, we had to take baths for about a week.

It was inefficient for time, but maaaaan was it nice. I promised myself I wouldn’t allow myself to lapse like that again. Unfortunately I don’t think I’ve done a bath since.

Was the appeal like a “I didn’t say what you thought I said?” Or was it a "ok I definitely did that but I’m sorry and I super-promise never to do it again if you just give me one more chance? "

Do you mind sharing what you said that put you in reddit-jail?

Even if I couldn’t find a good reason for optimism Nationally (which I would never admit to due to the the credible threat of getting my house burned down), I know that I can make an impact on the people I love (friends family and strangers) that are directly around me.

We’ve considered home-schooling. I’m not concerned about the educational side of it. I know that 1 on 1, or 1 on 2, I’d (we’d) be able to teach our kids WAY more than they’d pick up in a classroom full of 30 half-paying-attention kids.

My biggest concern is the socialization. 2 families we know home-school their children, and, don’t get me wrong, between home school co-ops, activity groups, and programs with the local public school, they DO get a lot of chance to socialize with other kids. I just think there’s a lot of character building in being forced to sit in a classroom with 30 kids you may or may not share a lot in common with, and having to deal with some lessons that move too slow, and some lessons that move too quickly, etc.

I get that sometimes the school environment can be so hostile as to create real problems for some kids, but that’s a bridge we’ll have to cross if we ever get there. (Our oldest is not yet in kindergarten)

Scuba Diving. I’m lucky if I can go twice a year but just thinking about scuba diving feels like a full-time hobby

Yup, good read, she’s grandmothering BIG TIME.

My Mom was recently diagnosed type 2, but I think she was completely asymptomatic. I mean, she’s 71 and has lots of symptoms but also plenty of other causes to attribute all of her problems to. When her routine blood work came back with a type 2 diagnosis she said, “shit, I probably should’ve seen that coming. Damn now I have to get really serious about losing weight. I don’t want to be diabetic by this time next year.”

All the time. When people start talking about how the FDA and legislators are all captured by industry lobbyists. YES! And the regulations they wrote don’t actually help protect people. YES! So we should skip vaccines and drink raw milk. NOoooooooooo!

So close but the answer I was looking for was abandon FPP elections so we can have a multi-party system that actually represents us and maybe has a chance at overturning citizens United and all that stuff. I don’t know, I’m not a poly scientist, I’m just pretty sure pasteurization isn’t the root cause here.

This. It makes my whole day.

I just set up a new computer that was deemed unworthy of Windows 11 on Linux Mint. I don’t believe I opened the terminal at all, except to do ssh-keygen stuff for my server, which I would assume you skip on grandma’s computer.

The wifi, wireless printer, etc all just worked.

When people are over my house I usually offer them an “adult beverage” but now I’m totally replacing that with “ethanol”

I have done that in a pinch but disliked how it made my hair feel. For me, shampoo bars are a good compromise because the feel/smell nice but one bar lasts me like, a year.

I have tried a lot of things including pre-boiling, ice-baths, baking soda, and air-frying. In the end it just made me appreciate how good and easy restaurant fries are even more.

Yeah, my 1st car died a rust death due to its winters in Syracuse (basically a Canadian climate). I’m 40 y/o and my 2nd car is still going strong (much to my wife’s dismay)

I feel like Indonesian is a decent start. There are already a lot of people speaking it, and it’s REALLY easy to learn.

There’s no conjugation and no cases/agreement. I’m a native English speaker and picked up a functional amount of Indonesian in a matter of months, just from reading a couple books before we went.

Omg I’ve never been able to do a magic eye before, but I think there stereograms just unlocked it for me! I Feel like I get it now, thanks!

Yeah it is amazing. My wife breastfed both of our kids unti they werel about 2 years old. I can help with bath and story time, but it means I miss the absolute best cuddles. There are a lot of advantages to not being tethered to the child, especially when bedtime isn’t going smoothly, but I’d give it all up for those sweet sweet cuddles.

People I work with were shocked to learn I share a toothbrush with my wife. This being a work chat, I had to settle for, “Wait till you hear what else we share”… But I like yours way better.