Different person, but yes, even after watching the TC video. I preheat the water too. And it’s a fairly recent Miele dishwasher.

Rinsing the dishes definitely helps cut down on this, though. And occasionally checking the filter at the bottom. A little rinsing goes a long way, I’ve found.

Tax filing companies. Individual taxes are pretty straightforward in most cases. Our tax laws are just completely screwed up.

Health insurance and tax information can easily be handled by the government.

Sync, until it dies.

Nobody really follows the Bible to the letter, especially with things like clothing worn, foods ate and all that. At the time, religions in general were a great way to teach people how to wash poop off their hands before eating, how to avoid foods with parasites, and not treat the lowest in society like absolute dogshit.

The real takeaways from the Bible are:

• Treat others with respect, humility and love

• A lifetime of goodwill can be squandered with one act of cruelty.

• You can be screwed up your entire life, but still be redeemed in the end by admitting that you screwed up and genuinely making amends where possible.

• If having gay sex was sinful, God wouldn’t have made it so fun. He put the prostate and clitoris there for a reason, after all. He made us in his image.

Growing up, everyone felt pity for them, as they grew up sheltered and not very well educated. In modern times, I feel like this has been magnified significantly.

I’d only do it if your kid was getting the absolute shit kicked out of them at school(s). Social media makes it extremely easy to get chain-bullied at multiple schools even with a transfer or two.

It’s always a safer move to wear protection. If you’re monogamous and your partner hasn’t had any illness recently, it’s probably safe to do raw if they do a good clean out first.

4.15, PNW, today. Typical range is 3.80 - 5.30

We’re a car-light household, so it doesn’t affect us too much. I still want better mass transit options, though.

Grey

It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life? If so, I’ll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.

Nice! And yes.

Definitely a tough situation. I hope things work out well for all of you. I’m also extremely curious about what animal John has for his fursona.

FWIW, I’m not too worried about John’s dating life. The furry community is pretty strong and cross-functional, and there’s a ton of hobby overlap with furries and other hobbies and sports. Especially if he’s bi, there will be others that he will meet, and he’s young. Hopefully his depression gets better.

I think the Valve era was pretty incredible.

Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life + HL2, and Portal + 2 all pushed the genres forward or were utterly unique for their time.

I can’t think of any other dev ATM that was doing what valve was doing in the 00s and early 10s.

Definitely fine. I fill up my car like…once a month, if that.

Mine failed that way, yeah. Though I think it was user error after trying to repair a mouse that wasn’t designed to be serviced officially. All the rubber wore off the wing, so I had to disassemble and replace it with a generic part. The left and right clicks are a bit spongy now, and middle click only intermittently works now, but the mouse is grippy again. I wish more mice were actually repairable.

It’s annoying to have mice that break down and need to be repurchased instead of a few replacement parts. 90% of the mouse was fine.

Rise of Nations: Gold Edition (2003).

The controls are ancient, but the gameplay and music still holds up.

Just a heads up, you can also freeze fresh spinach in the freezer for smoothies! It keeps pretty well because it freezes into individual “chips” that don’t stick together unless it thaws. It’s excellent if you’d usually be throwing away spinach that was going to go bad. I recommend buying and freezing a large portion immediately in a freezer bag, just so it doesn’t get mushy in your fridge.

If you carve out a tunnel into the floor and have the entrance down a foot or two, the wind can’t blow directly in, and the cold air will sink to fill the tunnel/entrance with your sleeping platform being quite warm.

GTA. Games 3 and 4 were good, 5 was kinda fun, but I’m not really at all excited for the same formula over and over again. Even battlefield feels a bit samey. Only indie games are really taking risks these days. And some of them are fantastic.

Gaming is a hobby, but just that. A hobby. We like to do other stuff like camping, skiing, hiking, etc.

It may be good to have an open discussion with your gf about doing other things, or a couple’s counselor. The latter might be easier if you are unsure about how to really talk about it.

Someone hopped a nearly 6 foot tall by 4 feet deep construction barrier blocking both ends of an out of service escalator, with multiple pallets or replacement escalator stairs stacked all around it. (The elevator was in service right by the escalator)

Anyways, they predictably fell through the massive hole in the escalator and cut their shins to ribbons on the exposed stairs. They then got to the bottom of the train station platform and were bitching about their legs. Eventually, they hailed a police officer just to bitch and whine further about their gouged shins. The officer had the grace to just listen to the guy and not call him a dumb motherfucker for hopping the multiple tall plastic barriers and signs. I was just shaking my head in amazement until my train came.

They’re lucky that they didn’t fall the 30-45 feet down to the train platform by hopping the construction barrier either.