Fun fact, baby carrots aren’t babies at all. They take any carrot that doesn’t fit their classic 🥕 shape and put it through a machine that cuts them to length and lathes them into the tiny rounded dowels we know and love. The inventor of the machine was inspired by his wife wishing she didn’t have to cut and peal carrots for recipes.

They’re not babies, they’re the dismembered bits of any healthy plant that dares not conform to the advertised, mass appeal standards of consumer products, mechanically processed and sold to us with a marketable name.

I honestly don’t know anymore. I though I had a really diverse music taste and I especially love abnormal noises in music, but then I used musicbrainz to categorize all my music and found out the basically everything I listen to has the Avantgarde genre. I don’t know if that’s supposed to mean I’m on the far edge of adventure and listening to only the most experiential of music or if I’m so narrow in my niche that I only listen to music considered too weird to categorize.

Gowlfing. You go bowling, but you put the bumpers up so no one can gutterball and you play for the lowest score. Everyone is equally bad at it, it’s hilarious to play, and it confuses the shit out of other lanes.

Speed minigolf. It’s minigolf, but if your ball comes to a complete stop you have to start back at the tee with all the swings you’ve already taken. The ball and the club have to be in motion when they collide or you start again. So it leads to everyone galloping through the course, shouting numbers as they swing and desperately trying to get the right angle on a moving target. Do not play when there are other guests.

Monopoly deal is remarkably fun for a monopoly spin off. It’s even more fun with two decks and everyone plays for 5 sets.

For a short while I had a ttrpg version of magic the gathering. Not the d&d tie ins, it was commander, but your commander is a character sheet with stat based rules to allow you to pick any card that meets the requirements. You start off with only a 2 drop rare, and as you level up you get perks that change that. Every game you play with that deck earns experience, and once a month we’d do a dungeon crawl as our characters, using our signature noncreature cards from our decks. It was fun while it lasted but life always gets in the way.

Twister. It’s twister, but you have to get up and spin around for 10 seconds each time.

Hand of Glory. It’s played with tarot cards because French tarot an poker aren’t intractable enough. Each player has 7 cards in hand, you have to make a set of 5 in classic poker values, with a 6th card that’s a major arcana and a 7th spare. Each turn you draw a card and discard a card. You may take the top of the deck or the top of the discard. A player may discard a major arcana when another player draws a card to trade it with the drawing player for the card they would’ve gotten. When you have a winning hand you declare your clutch, and the other players may play a major arcana that’s higher than yours to block you from winning. You may in turn block this by playing a higher card from your spare. If you don’t you discard your hand and draw 7, they take your losing major arcana. If the fool is played to block a winning clutch, all players discard their hands. If the World is used to block a winning clutch, that is a hand of fate and the blocking player is allowed to immediately play a winning clutch if they have one. If the world is played as the arcana for a winning clutch, that’s a Hand of Glory and can only be blocked by playing the fool. Conventionally, the game is repeatedly shuffled up and dealt until a Hand of Glory is played, at that point the player with the most wins is the Victor.

If you use aquarium silicone adhesive, they won’t be damaged, the adhesive is weather proof, and the silicone gives a flex and wiggle that prevents sheering. We had a dime stuck to our porch for 8 years and when it finally came up, it was because the concrete had eroded underneath it.

My dad taught that one to me in high school. He stuck $1.50 in random change to the ground in front of the soda machine at the apartments he was groundskeeper for. On slow days he’d sit and watch the local kids try desperately to get a free soda with money they can’t pick up.

Frankly, day one. The idea that America was ever an example to the rest of the world is American revisionism. If you actually look at American history you’ll see the current American administration is very in line with the way we’ve always been.

Had to look this up, holy fuck that goes from 0-100 fast…

This is the video that open my eyes to this anomaly.

We literally don’t know! There’s a while anthropological study called child lore that focuses on the almost universal things that children share with each other and we still can’t actually find the origin of this.

My theory is it’s the true form of the yellow sign, the Lovecraftian rune that allows the eldrich being, Hastur, to exert his influence on mortals.

But actually the big thing that helped me was sitting down and assessing why I wanted to correct this stuff. It never gave me any satisfaction, it never lead to anything I liked, and a good deal of it was likely venting trauma from being talked down to all my life. Once I put it together it just kind of stopped happening.

This is looking to be my best option, it looks like I can send text notifications through email to sms and I like that

What set’s Gotify apart from ntfy?

What sets SimplePush and Kuma apart from the others?

Ideally for things like upcoming calendar events or notes on Homehub, maybe spec updates or added media, though jellyfin already gives us updates on that. Really just a reliable software that will send us a text or notification popup on our phones that I can connect other software to.

I use the old school method. Each password is a combination of my one preferred password, and three words that relate to the subject but are too funny to forget. For instant, Amazon would be “FuckJeffBezos123456Aa*” or something like that. I only have to remember my version of the “123456Aa*” because every time I think about amazon I already think “fuck Jeff Bezos”.

This uses your mind’s natural ability to associate instead of just raw memory. It also guarantees your passwords always meet requirements.

Lastly, record them all in the meat space in a small journal that I place in a conspicuous place. You can’t hack a notebook and I’m not important enough to rob for access to my Lemmy account.

Pretty sure it’s not the boning part, my sexuality is anything but repressed.

As for walking past each other, out of the question. We’re both anxiety riddled human flamingo nerds, we’d be able to spot each other miles away. Ambush tactics are the only safe bet so it comes down to which of us was less distracted by the lighting and managed to impromptu a weapon first.

It’s a blast, tell your friends.

A big emotion I’ve been dealing with is that the US decided to fall apart completely at the same time I finally got my life together. I used to be someone with a reputation, someone who didn’t have anything to lose or anything better to be doing. Now I have a wife and kid, career, I’m on my way to a degree, and I’m scared.

I didn’t care if I threw my life away back then, it waant getting used anyways, but now that I am using it I’m to terrified of losing that to protect what I have.

The best way to bowl is to put the rails up so no one can gutter ball, then play for lowest score. It’s impossible to take serious, no one can be good or bad at it, a 7/10 split still sucks, and the people in the next lane will be very confused.

Fun all around.

I feel the same as OP but it’s not due to lack of knowledge, it’s good threat assessment. My political ideology is anchored entirely in the idea of empathy and being left alone so foreign actors trying to radicalize me isn’t going to go far. Data about my political leanings are going to be an anomaly on the graph so it won’t help anyone trying to sway a nation that already doesn’t want any of my input regardless of who’s in charge.

As for corpos, I would gladly buy all of my stuff internationally if it got me a better price, but now all it gets is slower shipping. Meanwhile, the local corpos actively spy on my every move so they can better rip me off. It’s, a good idea to be worried about a gunfight happening down the block, but it shouldn’t distract from the gunfight in your yard.

Yes, the best practice is to sure up against every threat, but in a practical sense, worrying about an international body harvesting my data is like watching a burglar open your front door and deciding you need bars on the attic vent.

Meeting myself in any variation.

I have no idea why, but I’ve always had this idea that if I met another me in the world it has to end in one of us dead. Doesn’t matter on the origin, clone, copy, alternate timeline, time travel, doppelganger, replicant, don’t care. There’s absolutely no way around, it’s on sight and to the death.

This is one of my most consist feelings in life and I often wonder if it’s because I consumed my twin in the womb. As a child I came up with an arrangement that if I accidentally time travelled I’d be able to use to contact myself indirectly so that we can’t cross paths.

Of course, the chance of any of these things happening is insanely low so it’s kind of dumb to have a plan in place for its eventual occurrence.