There’s a place near me that sells under-selling, damaged package, and past-sell-by-date processed food for a super steep discount. It’s priced like being in the 90s or early 00s. They buy it from grocery store distributors who collect items that are “returned” to them by the store, and it’s run by Amish which don’t seem bound by quite the same regulations…? Not entirely sure how they are allowed to do that, though there’s another place in the opposite direction that isn’t Amish and does the same thing, so maybe it’s just allowed here.

Since most packaged food is still good well beyond the sell-by date, this means I can buy dry goods, shelf-stable microwave meals, and condiment sauces, and fill my car trunk/boot for about $100. It’s pretty out of the way, so I only make it there every few months, but I stock up heavily when I go. I’d probably have needed food assistance or just starved if I hadn’t found that place. (I prefer not to use it since my understanding is that it’s not a forever benefit even if you need it forever, and circumstances may warrant use later)

Have to be super careful about what sorts of things you buy, some of it goes stale or separates a lot faster than other things, but it’s all still edible, and if I get stuff that’s not tasty to me, my chickens eat it and poop out eggs, so it’s not really a loss.

You should organize about it :)

Yeah, that definitely seems like the sort of loser thing he would ask. Like the kid who never got invited to any parties in HS and college finally thinking they got in good with the cool frat guys only to never rise above the rank of simpering pledge…

This is my go-to whenever someone compliments a feature I have no control over.

Doggo wants to sit and watch the world go by.

Smart doggo.

Good doggo.

I’ve never heard that advice. What kind of sliding is that for? Like when you hit full-sideways-sliding?

I do know if you start fishtailing, taking your foot off the accelerator until you regain control is absolutely the way to go, however that may be dependent upon the kind of drive the vehicle has. It’s worked a dream for every vehicle I’ve needed to try it in.

Good advice, I’ve genuinely never done that, just habit from a lifetime of winter. Wouldn’t even have thought of it.

That does remind me, though, I did find out years back that if you already have a crack, in my case a tiny crack from a rock, that hasn’t been sealed with a glass repair whatever it is they do, any significant amount of heat directed toward the glass in freezing conditions will cause the crack to spread. Bit. By. Bit. Suuuch a shit feeling to watch.

If you are coming directly from outside to a heated space, it’s likely the space near the door Is over-heated because of the loss to outside.

Hotels, big stores, event spaces, and other things with frequent entry/exit usually have a double door setup, meaning you walk through two doors and an air gap to enter, to minimize fluctuations in the main building. Revolving doors are popular for this as well, but I’m personally thankful they aren’t more wide-spread… That air gap space usually has heat set to run until it’s like 80-90f whether the door is open or not, so it gets rather toasty. Places that don’t have the buffer space will often have heat vents near the door cranked up to account for heat loses, and if they aren’t opened it’ll also get toasty.

And for the love of all things good in the world, do NOT throw hot water on your car to melt the ice/snow. The glass -will- crack from thermal expansion. Use the defrost and sit there until it’s melted enough for your ice scraper to slide it off. If you have plain water in your wiper fluid compartment, drain it or it’ll rupture the lines when it freezes. If you can get low-temp wiper fluid you can use that, otherwise it’s probably best to leave it empty or maybe throw some isopropyl alcohol in it. Not super sure, I’ve always used low-temp fluid.

I watched my ex from Texas throw hot water on their windshield after they followed me to my very northern-tundra state. They had never really seen snow before, outside of occasional falls that melted by noon. Not even close to the same thing as a sustained hard freeze. I did tell them not to do it but they knew better. They were an abusive asshole so meh. Lessons learned the hard way are valuable. For me as an onlooker. That popping sound as it shattered was just 👨‍🍳💋.

From 5th grade onward I didn’t spend two consecutive years in the same school district. I was perpetually the new, weird, poor, neurodivergent, easy-target kid who sucked at making friends, so they pretty much all sucked in uniquely scarring ways. The best part is my parents thought they were doing me a favor by trying to find a school that would be good with my neurospice… We didn’t actually move from the time I was 9-16. Only me.

I have no clue how to make or maintain friendships and I desperately want to move cities, or at least homes, every couple of years or I get restless. Very glad I’m well educated, though, it makes the isolation that much more profound.

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Would he do this by getting spanked until the ketchup comes out…? Is the ketchup his brains?

I don’t want that thought in my head anymore so now you can have it.

No body cam footage? Shame.

I mean look, we’ve all seen the documentaries. If we don’t do it now, the worms are just going to reanimate his corpse and take infection matters into their own han…. Tails?

Anyway, it’s just pragmatic.

The worms are trying to spread themselves through undercooked meat! RFK is merely their mouthpiece to the world! They know bigger portions mean more chance of raw middle bits! Wake up sheeple!

He meant to say “complacency”. Nearly identical pronunciation, easy mistake to make.

Every bad day you get through is another day you never have to live through again, and I think there’s something to be said for that.

I used to work escalation support for a door and window company, and we had full discretion to give people free shit to keep them happy “within reason”. See, doors and windows are really expensive, and warranties are serious business when you are talking $20k in product, so reputation is important. We were the step below the core product experts with the company, who handled anyone who was talking lawyers.

I hated that job because, like any call center, they never fired anyone for not doing their job properly/well, so I gave away a lot of free stuff in protest. Like a lot. Examples include:

• Oh you are a 10 months outside of warranty for the whole house of windows that’s just started failing? No problem, we’ll honor it and send out an inspector to get the full scope, order the replacements, then install them.
• Oh you are missing a piece, but you mentioned the thing it’s attached to isn’t working that well, so I’ll just send a whole new unit for you, instead, and just charge for the small piece.
• You’ve just ordered this replacement part that’s outside of warranty, I’ll include some stuff to keep it working well for you.
• Ok we can’t figure out which specific part it is that you need, so I’m going to send the entire kit.
• If you only replace this one piece on the door it will be aged differently than the rest, so I’ll send you a whole new set of hardware.

The only thing you needed to do to get free stuff from me was be nice, and have a need I could fill for free. If you were mean, not just frustrated but mean, to me or my tier 1 agents, I’d get real stubborn real quick. That served as a lovely smokescreen so nobody really caught on to the plethora of goodies I gave away, though I saw my giveaway stats and they were considerably higher than anyone else. But it meant I got great feedback, so they didn’t do anything about it except tell me to cut it back where I could. lol ok sure I’ll get right on that.

Small thing overall but I got what I could out of it.

Why’s it my job to say hi if you saw me? Put in a little effort instead of trying to feel snubbed.

I love when games themselves are sort of meh, but there’s that one thing in them that keeps you hooked for hours and hours because it’s done surprisingly well for some reason.

When I played FFX I basically stopped playing the story when I found blitzball. I’m not sure if I ever actually finished the game. It was amazing use of 3-D space that actually played really well, at least compared to what else was around at the time.