Oh boy I feel you on that one.

Turned out to be not so catastrophic in the end!

As an actor or the role?

I recently watched some of a random episode on YouTube and it happened to be about how he and Samantha first met, literally the night before he was gonna marry someone else, and he throws it away because he’s infatuated with her after she barely speaks to him. Is this what passed for romance in the 60s? Fuck.

Legitimately, this feels straight out of the book I’m currently reading (listening to) “the Grace of Wild Things,” where orphan Grace who has a crow familiar is trying to find a witch to teach her how to be a witch.

Mine do active shooter drills.

My elementary-school-aged kids still have desks like this.

Sometimes feeling like shit is insidious. It sneaks up on you and you may not even realize it, until you do something actually good for yourself (like getting a couple nights in a row of good rest, or committing to making healthy meals for a week or whatever) and then you realize how shitty you were feeling before. But it’s so easy to slip back into feeling shitty with bad habits! I say this from lots of experience…

I was a big fan growing up. Really liked Achtung Baby and of course Joshua Tree is a great album. I even liked Zooropa and Pop. Went to see them live in the 2000s but by then the shine was wearing off; I was getting older and being a fan of things wasn’t as important to my identity anymore. But I was curious recently, so I looked up when their partnership with Apple started… Yeah, it was exactly the time I stopped liking them as much. It was both validating and depressing to make that connection. I’d always nodded along when people talked about bands selling out, but U2 was my band and they weren’t supposed to do that! Now I feel like they’re the poster child of selling out.

Hmm, king tides and flooding, perfect time to get out the kayaks!

This is niche, never expected to see a meme about Schenker of all people on a very generalized community. I dig it though.

I don’t love audiobooks but last year I made the switch from podcasts to audiobooks and I haven’t looked back. Podcasts are fine but I get my news online and too much of it anyway, and I wanted to prioritize reading instead. I also always make sure to have an ebook loaded on my phone, and I find myself reaching for it when I run out of Lemmy, or if I’m waiting at a doctor’s office or in line somewhere. It’s really nice to have an alternative to the internet. Highly recommended!

Btw I use Libby and Bookwyrm to track so it’s all 100% free. I purchase physical copies of the ones I really like.

I think so; that’s why we run the water.

I think the idea of “fairness” comes in that everyone has to do something, regardless of whether you use the seat or not. If you don’t use the seat, then you put the lid and seat down (presumably in one go). If you do use the seat, you put the lid down. Either way, you have to lift something before you use the toilet.

Personally I think toilets should just have their lids closed when not in use, regardless.

That’s a fair case. We don’t use one of our tubs and every once in a while we have to flush it with water because we get sewer smell. Unused bathroom facilities apparently cause problems.

This is very much not my genre so I’m not sure my suggestion is valid; maybe others can chime in if I’m way off base. But this year I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and it felt pretty surreal to me.

This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?

Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.

He has earbuds! But he doesn’t use them. Phooey

I was just getting annoyed at my husband for exactly this and your post was literally the next one in my feed. Felt like kismet.

Anyway YES it drives me crazy. He seems to love watching videos on his phone. I don’t get it at all.

I went to college and lived a couple of years afterward in LA and it was seriously tough for a broke college student to manage to get their first apartment and furnish their own fridge. It sucked. It seemed to be a quirk of LA, though perhaps other counties do it too. When I moved home to the Bay Area, everywhere had fridges already.