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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I miss the days when you could get chicken egg size ones 4 for $1.

Don’t think that size even exists anymore.. haven’t seen them in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I’m glad Costco has leadership that seemingly understands the value and responsibility of loyalty, and is taking the union seriously.

A rising tide in this case lifts all ships. I hope the union gets a good contract. For everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

If you request the desktop version it shows it fine. I’ve been using that workaround for a long time now, because every link was saying I needed to log in or use the app or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Hmm.. turning up my screen brightness, I think you’re right.. which is super weird, since the real thing was right there the whole time…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

This is honestly a big part of why I avoid most fandom stuff.

It’s largely sex and relationship stuff, and I’m not interested in either of those aspects of the media I like. It’s mostly tolerable in the original media as long as it’s not egregious, but it can be a massive turnoff if it’s overdone or overemphasized. Even worse when the few characters one can relate to are, well, made unrelatable..

And the actual creators are bad enough about doing this; they do the same thing with most strong female characters who either explicitly or implicitly don’t want relationships or kids, only to end up falling in love or pregnant in season 3.. It’s frustrating to have the rug pulled so often..

[–] [email protected] 42 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

2 is Jasmin from Aladdin when Jafar is the sultan and she’s a slave but idk the other one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I feel like there’s a scene, probably in season 1, where Tucker asks tex the questions on the left...

As for the doc/omega part, I can’t place it but I’m pretty sure you’re right that it happened.

The screenshots themselves are actually from the same scene toward the end of season 2, where donut stumbles across doc in a cave and overhears omega talking and doc talking back. None of the dialogue in the post image is in that scene tho.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

They probably know.

However, college students (at least in the US) usually don’t know how to handle being intoxicated. This being the first time they are allowed and all.

That’s why the dorm popcorn alarm (aka fire alarm) goes off in the middle of the night, not early evening when people would be watching movies and such.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I had a conversation with someone the other day about getting a used EV. I want one (tho the spy-on-wheels aspect isn’t something I’m fond of), and specifically I want a used one because they are stupid cheap.

I’m convinced that people are actively trying to talk themselves out of getting one rather than doing even the basic look into the whole thing..

Person I was talking to was like “yeah but if the batteries go you’d be spending $28k to replace them!”

Dumbfuck, I’m not going to spend more than 10k on this used EV, which is only a few grand more than my current car is supposedly worth (which I’ll easily save in gas in just a few years).. I’m not going to replace the batteries if it’s expensive. I’d replace the car with another cheap used one, and trade in the busted battery one.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that If the battery goes within roughly a decade from manufacture, probs under warranty, and if not, well my ICE vehicle wouldn’t be worth shit for trade-in if the engine cracked or something, so what’s the difference?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I was briefly hopeful, and immediately double-checked the comm because we can’t have hope around these parts.. :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

There used to be, but it was mostly men commenting, and mostly men upvoting, which drowns out any actual women’s voices that may have been there.

Pretty sure all the woman-focused subs have shut down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t really think there’s anything that can be done other than policing your own and letting the platform grow.

It’s a whole vibe thing, not just obvious stuff.

For example, whenever there were questions aimed at women (hey ladies, what’s your hair routine? Sort of thing), it’s nothing but a bunch of men spouting off about what their wives or girlfriends do, and maybe a few actual women, but their comments always ended up buried. Nobody actually wants that “the woman in my life does this, I think..” sort of input at all, except other men (which unfortunately is the vast majority of the platform, so those “as a man” comments get heavily upvoted, even when they are obviously full of complete shit). It drowns out the few female voices that actually are around. And if you correct some dude in a post for women voices, about something men typically know nothing about, you’ll get heavily downvoted for it. Not at all welcoming.

I know we have some strong transfem comms, and I’m all for it because all women are women, but the experience of those women is wildly different from cis women, and a lot of the memes and stuff coming from those comms are sort of… cis-excluding and often very off-putting. Which is sort of the only fem representation on here.

It’s just not friendly for women. And so so many things need to change before it really is.

 

Curious of the ways you are avoiding buying mass-produced junk as gifts for people this holiday season. Share your ideas and tips, what you make or do, or how you otherwise partake of the joys of togetherness this time of year, without consuming for the sake of consumption.

 

Basically, when the app crashes while commenting, it recovers the text you had written out.. but then dumps you back to the main feed with that just in your clipboard, waiting for you to comment on the next post and go “oh yeah, crap” because you can’t find the post and go back to browsing.

When hide read posts is functioning as intended (which it hasn’t been for a while and may be related to version..? Idk how it works, and that’s not the point of this anyway), you shouldn’t even be able to find the post you would have replied to, and unless it’s from a community you follow, you’ll never find it again.

Maybe this is too much to ask; I’m not a programmer so I don’t know what I’m asking, but it would be super great when the app crashes to not only preserve the text, but maybe provide a link back to the post it was being made under (not necessarily the exact comment, but the parent post would help a ton). I’ve just sort of given up on long comments I spent a lot of time formatting because the app crashed and I couldn’t find the post I was replying to. And that’s really frustrating.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/woodworking
 

I have very very old power tools. I cannot afford new ones. The problem is, if I’m being totally honest, I’m largely afraid of the tools I have. I’d like to get over this. How does one do that without direct supervision?

More info: I inherited tools from my parents and grandparents. Things I could afford to replace, like drills and drivers, I did. What I have left are big bladed things (chop saw, table saw, tile saw, etc. no lathe sadly :( ) None of the users of these specific tools are still alive. They are all probably 30+ years old, and work fine, probably, but… are just super intimidating (tho my grandfather had a lot of pre-electrification manual tools and I love those - So nice to take a manual plane to a solid door and end up with something that closes properly!). Some of them have plugs that screw together so you can repair them and everything (those I probably won’t use, absolutely terrifying if you fuck up). I’m mid 30s so I remember most of these things being used but I also remember the table saw I have in my garage taking off half my step-dads thumb..

I know power tools today are built to be a lot safer, but I definitely can’t afford those (I wouldn’t even be able to afford these but they were free for me), and I don’t know anyone with power tool skills (last learning I got was in hs shop class almost 20 years back) so how do I get comfortable with them enough to actually use them for the little projects I need them for? I don’t live in a big metro area, so there aren’t clubs afaik.

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