clean up after her pet

The headline didn’t say that.

I far prefer the reality where Emily Blunt doesn’t even own a dog but is notorious for showing up at random dog parks and running off with poop.

In the olden days we would just scream at the top of our lungs to talk to people in other rooms. I feel like texting captures the lazy spirit without the chaos.

If the objective is “meeting people” in the dating sense, it’s usually going to be apps or singles events. Some apps are definitely better than others, so I wouldn’t just write them all off thinking they’re all like Tinder.

If dating is a nice-to-have outcome but you’re also happy to socialize, MeetUp is a great option. You can vet events based on something you’re already interested in, and meeting someone while doing it becomes secondary (and therefore less pressure). If there are no good candidates (or no chemistry), then at least you didn’t waste your night - you still got to play board games or make sourdough or whatever was going on.

I would teleport myself to Taipei and immediately engage the entirety of the Chinese invasion force in furious hand-to-hand combat. Then I would stick around for the victory parade before heading back home to tell my boss why I missed work.

Water dripping? Don’t call a plumber yet. Get on your hands and knees and try to figure out exactly where the water is coming from. You might need a $5 part and 10 minutes watching a YouTube video instead of a $400 callout. The same concept applies for most things in a home or vehicle. But don’t screw around with electricity if you don’t know what you’re doing.

If you’re shopping around based on price, make sure you’re factoring in the cost of gas and your time. Driving an hour to save $5 actually costs you money.

Need to quickly determine if a caller is a scammer or legitimate? Just ask who they’re calling. If they don’t know your name, you can hang up immediately.

Maintain your things. All your things. If you use something until it’s no longer working, it has moved from inexpensive maintenance to expensive repair.

I cut it twice and it’s still too short!

If FB marketplace is the only game left in your town, create a fake Facebook account solely for using marketplace and you’ll probably have the easiest time selling stuff. It’s less convenient to chat with people if you don’t install their awful apps on your phone, but it’s less invasive.

Craigslist isn’t the king anymore but it’s still very active. There’s also Craigslist clones of various types in various cities that might be active for you - just try a local search for selling stuff and odds are the sponsored results will be big enough players in your area that they bother to advertise.

Or just throw up a sign with your phone number or email and stick it up on a community notice board, apartment building mail room, etc. For types of items that are pretty universal you shouldn’t have much trouble finding a buyer.

In all cases, set a high bar for scammers and idiots. Clearly post in your ad that it’s for pickup only and price is firm. If you get a message from someone saying anything but “is it still available? I can come over tomorrow”, just delete it. I’ve gotten tons of stupid messages like “call me 555-5555” or “I’ll give you 30% of asking price in cash”. Don’t waste your time with those fuckers. They’re either lazy or dishonest and you don’t have time for them.

I wouldn’t go to the trouble of setting up a table at a flea market unless you have a lot of valuable stuff to sell and have a strong stomach for dealing with hagglers.

I bought a boring looking office chair from an ergonomic furniture store about 10 years ago. I spent about $600 and it’s still just as good as it was when I bought it.

That’s a sharp contrast from the shitty $150 chairs I would keep buying from Costco and having to replace because the foam or seat started to collapse after a couple years.

What kind of engineering manager isn’t using a dramatic shrug emoji or emoticon dozens of times every day?!

Don’t tell me your team has their shit together.

I had the same experience! I got as far as the first boss, died, and thought this game just wasn’t for me and fuck all the hype.

Came back a few years later and actually paid attention to the lore and was blown away.

According to the last magazine I checked about this, 1997 is actually going to be the year of Linux on the desktop.

And this housing bubble is totally going to burst any day now, too.

It’s spelled Mordor, geez.

I love the multi book series where they hire a different narrator for certain books and they end up pronouncing names and places differently than the first narrator.

YOLO and FOMO are two of the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Maybe BOGO is another one.

The Room is an awful movie that everyone needs to watch at least a couple times.

My library has a digitization room you can book in order to digitize tapes, photos, slides, etc. If you’ve got something similar in your area that would be extremely budget friendly.

Would it help if we deleted some communications? I have a lot of them.

Oh, since we’re in here, let me tell you about all these captain’s logs we’re about to delete so you have some extra context about my shore leave from 25 years ago.

Why is this maintenance taking so long? It seems like all we’ve done is look at old logs…

Happened here, too. Also using Memmy.

Fascist? I thought IQ testing was designed around the apolitical flavour of white supremacy.

They ought to be. You might have to change ownership of the file to some other local user (and disable permission inheritance for that file so admin can’t touch it), but I bet this would work for most use cases except like a system restore.