Looking through these comments I don’t know what half of this stuff is and I don’t think I want to.

My wife’s freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they’re hideous but to each their own), and she responded “thanks they’re D and G, they only cost me $700”. These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.

I don’t care for that.

Oh shit that’s smart

Not exactly quiet but works for me because of the layout of my house.

I go to the laundry room which is on the other side of the house from the bedrooms, turn the kitchen light on, laundry room like off (so it’s light enough to see but pretty dim), sit on the washer and play sad songs on my guitar.

It’s therapuetic and after about 20 minutes I’m just exhausted.

Hey uhh… I don’t know if these guys have ever seen jurrasic park, but maybe we should start a go fund me to get them movie tickets before we have the moa-b roaming the streets.

My job used to outsource a bunch of dev work to another company and oh boy did those people love their tests. I don’t get it. In my case they weren’t even using our actual database to pull data from. They had a bunch of fixture files with generic data that they would use to make a temporary sqlite db for the tests. All of the test ran perfectly with that data, not so much with the actual data. The code is there, can’t you just read it and know what will happen?

When I write something I’m never not building it and at least checking that it works and trying to break it.

Accept our lard and savior, he is everyone’s dicta… I mean president. Join us, it’s definitely not a cult.

My son has always eaten rice with his hands since he started eating solids. He’s not a big utensil guy. I started following him and doing the same.

Luckily we’re able to do this because we don’t spend any time scratching our asses through the day.

My son is 3 and has better hygiene than this guy.

We were all that sucker at some point

Ooo that might’ve been misleading. I bought them as the local hardware store was shutting down about a year ago. I helped the owner out with website stuff so I got a percentage off plus the out of business sale. I think they were ~$80 originally. Nothing fancy.

I rebuilt my house from the ground up, from the foundation to the studs to the drywall, by myself, it was the cheapest on the market for a reason. So don’t worry, the callouses are plenty.

You’ll do fine with an electric leaf-blower. If you have a landscaping business or maybe 20 acres, I’d say you’re in a pickle and frustration is definitely justified.

The batteries can be a pain and a lot of the cheap ones die quick, buy a few extra quality batteries and remember to charge them. With the cost of gas alone you’ll end up saving money in the long-run if you’re out there as often as you suggest. I built a solar generator that powers my garage which is where I charge my batteries, so it litterally cost me nothing but the initial investment. I have a quarter acre and do my neighbors half acre, 2 batteries ~$30 a piece let’s me weedwack and blow. My mower goes through 2 and I have an extra one just encase I need it.

Having to replace everything you have definetly sucks, I feel like they should just stop selling them and let the ones out there go until they die instead o prematurely going in a landfill.

When my son was born I immediately got him added to my insurance plan. Somehow his name had a typo (not on my end, I had to send in a PDF file and triple checked it, still have the email that I sent in). I called the insurance company to let them know and they basically said oops we’ll fix it, so they readded him as a dependent and we got a new card for him when he was about 3 months old ( it took them like 2 months to fix it)

The issue here is that he now had a different member ID number, and Jerry Smith wasn’t covered by insurance up until those 3 month, only Jerrry Smithe was, and my son isn’t Jerrry Smithe, so everything that got submitted to insurance up until we got his new card wasn’t covered by insurance, doesn’t go towards our deductible or out of pocket maximum and is fully on us to pay. His 1 month vaccines alone were fucking $17k, how, why, maybe the antivaxxers are onto something? Those microchips must be expensive.

I’m fighting it, but Jesus Christ the run around is a god damn marathon. We’re almost $50k in the hole here and the customer support just keeps saying “Jerry Smith wasn’t covered under your plan at that time”.

I’m a neurodivergent who was working from home and taking care of my 2 kids while my wife was working an extra shift. I would’ve slipped out for a bit and brought the kids if the air wasn’t litterally toxic yesterday where I am due to an ongoing forest fire burning down one of my favorite local state parks.

I feel like when I started slacking my boss became happier with my performance. Maybe I’m just happier and taking time to realize it now, but I got a better bonus for last year than the year before and I really didn’t do all that much last year.

I feel like everyone thinks they’re behind in life in general. It’s a really messed up mind set society puts us in.

It might feel like a big thing now but you’ll be fine. I went to get my GED once and failed the test, I thought it was the end of the world. Turns out none of it mattered and I ended up doing pretty well for myself.

I have some stuff that I would happily mail to someone who needed it, some older but still usable phones/computer, a ton on perfectly fine laptop parts that I don’t need, baby toys/clothes, I got more formula than I’d ever need when my youngest son was born and my wife is breastfeeding so I’m trying to get rid of it.

I don’t really like the chain thrift stores and all the small local ones around me shut down after a chain moved to town. I donate to the schools a lot but they’re suprisingly picky about what they’ll take.

I could see it working.

I don’t think I would be comfortable sending money nor am I necessarily in a position to do so. But I can afford a few bucks in postage and a clear shelf in the garage.

I find that I’m pretty much useless after 4 hours. I usually do a 4 hour stretch during the day and then hop back on for another 2 hours when the kids are down and that seems to be the most productive for me.

I once worked at a place where I built out a bunch of internal tools that became pretty heavily integrated into the development workflow. Everything I built was the shittiest, most disgusting piece of garbage I’ve ever seen, but it worked. My job became solely managing these tools, as everyone else struggled to read and comprehend my filth.

I ended up switching jobs because they wouldn’t give me the compensation I asked for and half of the development team quit before my 2 weeks was up to avoid dealing with my slop, a lot of them were already considering leaving for lack of compensation, but this was the nail in the coffin.

I found out a few months later that instead of just going back to life without these tools or finding someone to take them over they just shut down the development department. The people who were left either got fired or moved to a different department to pursue a new career path.

Neat and simple. Thanks.

I’m in this boat, I just look pissed all the time and it takes a lot to get an actual smile from me. I used to try and fake it a lot but I wasn’t good at it so it made people even more uncomfortable.

One of our cats is Meshe, we call her Moo. Meshe -> Mooshe -> Moo.

Bonus: we have a dog named Gismo, we call him big boobs. Don’t ask how we got there, it makes sense.