Watermark710

When I see a violet08 post, I upvote. One of my favorite posters in the fediverse.

You dropped this —>p (I assume you meant Trumpian).

GenX here, I have a streaming service (Paramount+) for exactly one reason: It comes for free with my Walmart+ account, which I use frequently. Every 6 months I switch between that and Peacock, since both are free and I can change my choice twice a year. So I watch what I want on Paramount+ for 6 months, then switch to Peacock for 6 months, rinse and repeat.

As far as a lifetime subscription to Nebula, I’ve watched way too many sites fail/die to consider a lifetime subscription to anything on the internet. They could shut the site down tomorrow, and now I’m out $500 ($300 if I happen to get a discount from a creator code).

They were never, and still aren’t “gone”. But they have scaled back operations significantly. At their peak, there were 4000 ICE agents in Minneapolis. The most current number I can find is “between 400 and 1000”. So that’s a pretty big change. They’ve reduced their presence by at least 75%, and best case scenario, they’ve reduced it by 90%.

My ancestors had the CCR5-Δ32 mutation, which is why they survived the Black Plague. That mutation was passed down through generations to me. So I am (theoretically) immune to HIV.

So basically, 1/3 of Europe dying almost 700 years ago means I can’t get HIV.

Mind you, I’m not looking to test my luck.

If I see a new Max Miller video is out, I will drop pretty much whatever I’m doing to watch it. I love Tasting History.

I watch Good Mythical Morning/GMMore every weekday morning. Also, Last Meals from the Mythical Kitchen channel. Mythical Chef Josh is probably my favorite online personality. I used to watch A Hotdog Is A Sandwich without fail, but I have recently had my fill of Nicole, so I skip those now.

I watch a lot of Mike Chen (Strictly Dumpling).

JonnyCakes, Sambucha, and L3WG are also folks whose videos I click on without hesitation.

SortedFood might be the best cooking show on YouTube.

The Food Theorists is another great channel. I miss the original host, but the new guy is still entertaining.

JOLLY almost always hits the spot. I have how childish/dumb Ollie’s humor is, and when Josh laughs so hard it sounds like he’s dying, that makes me laugh along with him, even if the thing he’s laughing at wasn’t that funny to me.

The dudes from Fallow provide a lot of useful information, and they do it in an entertaining way.

Hank Green makes some great videos, I just skip the parts where he plays Connections, because watching someone else play a matching puzzle is just not entertaining to me.

Sir Yacht feels very relatable, and I’ve never seen a video from him that I didn’t like. His “professional dumbass” vibe speaks to me.

Sam Reid (the YouTuber, not the Australian actor) is a great content creator, and I love his positivity. I literally have an exact copy of his “IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY” neon sign hanging on the wall of my game room.

Veritasium and NileRed are great when I want a nice science video to go with my dinner.

I have a soft spot for the ladies from Sporked, their taste test videos are informative, and their interactions just seem real, and not scripted.

Honorable mention goes to FaZe Rug. He’s not my favorite, but my grandson loves him, so I always end up watching those videos with the kid.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but those are the ones that came to the top of my head.

requires logging in with one’s identity card

Fastest way to get me to never use your site again. I’d rather deal with a few trolls and bots than have to give my ID to every site I want to interact with. That’s some ridiculously invasive stuff right there. Turning every website into their own private Big Brother is the opposite of progress.

Plus, what about when the site’s database inevitably gets compromised, and now my personal info is public?

You seem to have misunderstood their comment.

if it passes, you effectively need a passport to vote.

But it has not yet passed.

I’ve added emphasis to make things clear.

Not a shill, but I honestly love my Samsung TV. I took it out of the box, plugged in an HDMI cable to connect it to my PC, and use it as a monitor. I’ve never connected it to my wifi, so it has no internet access. I’ve never had to enter my Samsung account info to use it.

One of my gaming buddies is in Thailand, but plays on the American server with us. His ping is regularly 2000-3000ms. When he hits a button, he doesn’t actually “do the thing” for 2-3 seconds. But dude is a fucking genius, and he’s mastered the timing. He regularly outperforms folks with a 28ms ping (It’s me, I’m “folks”).

My wife and I bought those stupid Surface tablets. Not really sure why. Too big to be comfortably portable, too small to be useful at home. At least the magnetic keyboard thing makes a good mousepad for my desktop PC.

People generally date people who live somewhat close to them (I know, LDRs exist).

People generally shop in stores that are somewhat close to them.

I’m smelling coincidence.

I like to grocery shop on Tuesday mornings, since that’s double coupon day at my local grocer. I give my neighbor a ride to the store, so we can use her 5% senior discount and save even more money.

I see the same people at the store every week, because they shop on the same day I do, at the same time I do. We smile and wave, sometimes we chit chat about current events, or small talk like “Man, the weather’s crazy this week”, or “How did your son’s baseball game go?”.

I am not stalking them, they are not stalking me. We just patronize the the same store at the same time as each other.

If you think you’re being stalked, randomly change up your routine. Let’s say you normally go shopping on Saturday afternoons. Go on a Thursday morning. If you still keep running into them, maybe you’re onto something. If not, enjoy your new ex-gf free shopping experience.

13 people live in my house full time. If I didn’t meal prep, I would never be able to leave the kitchen.

We always have “egg McBluffins” in the freezer, just pop em in the microwave for a minute or so (99 seconds if you’re doing 2 at once) and you’ve got breakfast sorted. I make large batches of pulled pork, or shredded beef, and I freeze individual portions in vac seal bags. Pop some in the nuker, and you’re ready to make a sandwich, burrito, taco, whatever. I currently have 40 servings of chili in the freezer, along with 40 servings of Italian Wedding soup. I also make ham and bean soup in big batches to freeze, but we’re currently out of that. I’ve got beef stew coming up in the rotation, we’ll eat about half of it the first night, and freeze the rest in portion sized containers. Pickled eggs (the pink ones, with the beet juice) are a huge hit with my family, and I raise chickens, so we’re never short on eggs. I don’t know an exact number, but I’d say I have somewhere between 80 and 100 pickled eggs in my house right now. 2-3 of those is a nice high protein snack that you can just grab and go. Last time I harvested one of my goats, I cooked the entire thing in a pit I dug in my yard, then shredded the meat for a delicious birria inspired dish. I also like to make huge batches of Bolognese sauce and freeze it in reasonable portions, so that I just have to boil up some pasta, and that’s dinner.

I don’t just “do” meal prep, I live meal prep.

Not a huge one, but I’ve got a small tribe. My wife and I have a girlfriend, and regardless of which woman is the birth mom, all our kids have 3 parents. My oldest son and his kids also live with me, so we can help out with his kids, and he can help out with ours. My MiL lives in an apartment above my garage, so she’s always around to help out. My SiL lives a few miles down the road from us, so ditto for her. My best friend will drop pretty much anything she has going on to help out if all else fails.

It definitely makes parenting better, and a lot easier. As far as what keeps us together, a mutual love and respect.

Mainly because she’s not exactly a celebrity anymore, so people don’t spend a lot of time talking/reading about her. But also because a woman getting raped in 1982 isn’t exactly “Breaking News”. There are a lot of old articles about it, but who is looking up news from 30-40 years ago? There was some chatter about it when her rapist was convicted of raping two other women in 2006, and again when her house was broken into and she was attacked in 2016.

The craziest part is that according a post she made on Facebook, she was also gang raped at age 12. She’s had a very rough life.

Kelly McGillis, she was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise.

His balls aren’t hollow.

Don’t talk about your mental health with an AI seems like pretty basic common sense to me

And as we all know, people in the middle of a mental health crisis always act logically and make good decisions.

The other human beat me to the punch, but I would strongly suggest you check out the Townsends video series on it. Dude made 4 entire videos about the stuff. It’s a very deep dive. Like, so deep you get the bends if you come to the surface too quickly. I love Tasting History, but when it comes to pemmican specifically, the Townsends did it better.

The only time I ever touch cash is when I buy weed, since the dispensary isn’t allowed to accept card payments. They have an ATM inside though, so I take the cash out of the ATM, and bring it to the counter. It spends maybe 2 minutes in my possession.