Yoooers can for sure. It’s such an uncommon accent (there aren’t that many people in the UP and northeast Wisconsin to begin with, and most people who grow up there don’t leave or travel all that much) but so close to stereotypically Canadian that it threw me the first dozen or so times I heard it.

Now I’m imagining that concoction in like a disposable creamer cup, like I’ve seen shots of eapresso packed that way… pour that into just hot water as something akin to instant coffee, just more wasteful…

I had some friends years ago who had a huge electric percolator like that. Early 20s nerd group with all fucked up sleep schedules living 6 to a house.

They’d refill that thing idk every two days? Use it til it was gone. 🤢 it was so terrible. But there was always hot coffee available. Technically.

Thats basically cowboy coffee, and yep it is terrible indeed.

That’s a very reasonable price. That’s probably well over 500 feet of rope. Having bought that for cat scratchers (I used hemp) its a lot more than $30. There might be cheaper options, but this isnt a cheap diy either way.

If you mix the spice with the milk before you add it to the other stuff, it should work a bit better to avoid the pockets of flavor. You’ll still want to stir the finished product, but as long as you don’t give it time to separate before pouring in, should help a lot.

You can also make whatever kind of microwave popcorn you want, just get some brown paper lunch bags and loose popping corn, put about a cup of corns in the bag, fold the end over several times, and pop it like regular microwave popcorn (you’ll wanna watch the time until you get a feel for how long it takes, since the volume is different than pre-packaged) then take your seasoning of choice and either sprinkle on directly (if powder seasoning it should stick fine without help) or spray some water/drizzle some butter or oil and use that to stick on your flavors if they are bigger bits. Im a big fan of garlic and sweet onion popcorn :) and if you skip the oil, super healthy snack. I kept a jar of corns and a small spice cabinet at work so I could make it whenever, was lovely.

Right, I meant they didn’t catch on in this format. As evidenced by the fact that all through the 90s we had VHS and not giant dvds 😊

Saying these caught on is like saying the jaguar was a success because the playstation later used CDs. Its true in the very broadest terms, but the specific technology was never a hit.

Bullshit Jobs 

Yes! Its a 2018 book by David Graeber

Wiki link above to give a decent synopsis

Were they really that big? If so, no wonder they never really caught on

Any two adults on one of those things would have that happen. It’s inevitable. Adults have a much higher center of gravity, and are heavier in general, than kids, for whom the equipment is scaled and for whom the spring resistance is set. It starts to fall over, and keeps going until someone loses grip, at which point the other person is launched regardless of relative weight differences. Its all about that spring.

This is an “adults on kid stuff are funny” thing. Doesn’t have to be more than that. Any adults who fuck around on playground equipment should have a general understanding of this, what with it being a near universal experience.

Replace clean with “complete major projects” and this is me.

Not because I get my cleaning done, I just don’t care as much about that as getting my water heater installed (been trying to get to it since April!! Poverty-based-DIY is awesome!)

Which came first, the background or the cameras?

Last night at about 2AM I went for a walk around town because it was really nice out, and the quiet stillness of liminality is very peaceful.

I ended up by some sort of community center building, didn’t really pay much attention to what it was and I havent really been down that way before, but there was a flock of deer on the lawn, two standing and five more laying down.

I sat myself down on the curb across the street, and interacted with them for about half an hour. They make weird noises. I had no idea.

They did not like the “hiiiiii baaaaaabyyyyyy!” Treatment, but they did seem to like/were interested in rapid clicking. They didnt approach me or anything, which is just as well those fuckers are scary up close, but we mutually watched each other and that was fun.

This cant possibly be someone on lemmy

We do beans en masse here. Regularly.

We do good gut health.

That table leg giving me the heebies

They are mostly coming down in my wider area, though some towns looking to replace with something else.

Nearby bigger more toursty town just put them up and everyone is super pissed.

Also have found some in the middle of nowhere, like next to farm fields on relatively busy country roads that have minimal incidents. What justification they can come up with other than just tracking people, who knows, but at best its lazy law enforcement for traffic, so still not popular. And very obviously new.

Right there with you.

Summer has been pretty brutal this year, just so ungodly humid. Fortunately a dehumidifier costs a lot less to run than air conditioning.

And fall is ok temp wise, and the smells and colors are nice, but all the work of raking leaves and shit sucks big time. Especially when you have trees that don’t drop until the very tail of fall, after the brutal cold has started.

I used to work at a company that processed business-end taxes.

I’m going to make my American compatriots very uncomfortable - I’ve very possibly seen your full social and address info. We handled about a third of all business taxes. I don’t care to use any of it, cuz I also got wage info. Y’all broke. (Same)

because the company I worked for processed your taxes. And your HR people are garbage and don’t know how to do their job.

I cannot tell you how many times I had to request my IT team to scrub files from our retention policy because your shitty HR sent it to me in cleartext to troubleshoot instead of through our encrypted box.

This is why cbt (therapy, not to do with testicles) didn’t work for me.

Autogaslighting. Can’t do it, get nothing from it.

Some of the best artists were so because of perceptual issues.

This is very pretty and interesting motivation! Im sorry for the reason for it, but I’m glad you are working with it to get your thoughts and/or feelings out :)