No interest in it, I have a long list of other projects I would enjoy more.

Simply a realistic statue showing how fucking weird he looks and stands.

https://www.politicalflare.com/files/2019/04/2019.04.27-12.00-politicalflare-5cc39b80caaa2.jpeg

https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106380767-1581192226373rts318wa.jpg?v=1581203599&w=1920&h=1080

His body looks like the front half of a centaur.

I can’t smell bad milk either. Also can’t taste it.

I learned just how bad it was when I polished off a bowl of cereal, made a bowl up for my Person with the same milk I’d just consumed, and they spit it out thinking I was playing an awful “prank” on them. I had to convince and demonstrate that no, I can’t detect spoiled milk until it’s visibly bad.

I’m in the same boat; I can’t smell spoiled milk. Partially that, partially I don’t really like dairy milk that much, I drink plant-based milks now. When I open a new container I mark the date on it with a sharpie. Then I throw out any remainder after 14 days (or whatever the bottle says plus some).

Sweet. Thanks for your efforts, RM. Your For Reddit app was my favorite by miles and I appreciate you continuing to offer it on the Lemmy side.

Folks, this is an app worthy of the few bucks to unlock features and support the developer.

I use Voyager. Lockout specs for me when selecting an app were ability to apply a custom tag to users, and firmly holding my default view/sort settings.

I started on Boost for Lemmy after using Boost for Reddit. But I was having some issues with it and it’s not actively updated anymore. Not sure if the creator is done with the project or just busy with something else, but I just checked and it still shows the last app update was in July 2024.

I don’t scambait in general. One, I have so many options for entertainment that give me more joy than responding to scammers. Two, I assume much like robo phone calls, the initial communication itself isn’t the scam, it’s to see who responds so their contact info can be put on a list for further targeting.

As my mom was becoming an adult, women in my country still couldn’t have their own bank accounts nor could they vote. So how much choice did she have? She could stay under her abusive father’s control, or roll the dice on marrying a guy who had minimal red flags. They’re fine, they had kids and are still married decades later. But I can’t really say she was able to freely choose.

I am mixed on how they did as parents. I have no doubt they mostly did what they thought was the right thing. I just strongly disagree with them on some things they believed to be right. Like I wasn’t given certain vaccines as a kid, not because my parents thought they would cause autism, but because my parents thought Hep C would only be caught by drug users and sexually promiscuous people. And their kids would never.

What you’re missing is full brainwashing from the patriarchy, from the bootlicking capitalists.

Any partner who can but doesn’t support their partner and newborn is an ass.

Any partner who can but doesn’t take advantage of the leave benefit they earned is giving free money to their employer overlords like an absolute cuck.

Be revolutionary, put your family over your employer.

Top bunk. My folks invited someone to stay with us when I was in high school and they slept four feet above me.

Can’t say I’d be so generous as to invite a stranger into my house like that as an adult. Maybe. I would certainly help with other sorts of disaster relief but it’s tough for me to envision a situation in which I would open my home.

Very directly. My company just had layoffs as a direct result of Trump. The company has contracts with the government and Trump cancelled many of them. The Legal team is also trying to figure out if the company will be paid for some work that was already completed.

The tarrifs and threat of tariffs and general chaotic instability Trump is driving around tarrifs is already affecting our supply chain and pricing. We try to make long-term agreements with suppliers instead of doing spot buys, and they are working assumptions of even more tarrifs into their pricing as a buffer.

And how would one know with 100% certainly a person killed in self-defense despite being labeled a murderer by the applicable legal system?

It assumes an impossible perfect knowledge. Or if not perfect knowledge, some percentage of error, making the murderer of murderers guilty of occasionally murdering an innocent self-defense killer.

Murdering all murderers can’t conceivably be “self-defense”, making it unlawful.

Murdering murderers makes one a murderer. If one is going to ignore any context and mitigating factors, no, murdering murderers does not result in net good.

E.g., people who have killed in self defense have been tagged as murderers. Murdering them is not at all a good thing (in my moral framework, at least).

E.g. #2, murdering one person for Reasons does not necessarily mean a murderer is going to murder again. So murdering them adds to the overall murder tally without necessarily preventing any additional murders.

There has to be some element of preventing future murders, not just retribution of past murders, for this to even be a debate, IMO. And then there’s the bar of simply locking them up being insufficient to prevent them murdering in the future.

Feels bad, man. I just hope other countries pay attention. Y’all are seeing swings to the right too. Germany, Canada, Sweden, France, more, check yourselves before you find yourselves in the same spot.

While I have some savings, I’m not wealthy and I’d rather be employed. The best time for me to look for a better job would be while employed and on ok financial footing.

I’m also in a position where I could insulate myself from a lot of toxic personalities and “quiet quit” to some degree before getting fired. And getting fired would mean unemployment benefits where I live, so I’d be ok with that.

Hindsight is 20:20. Regardless, I think Bob is overreacting, assuming your email to Alice was in the range of what I personally would write and nothing you said was sparking red flags to me l.

Oh, for sure. I guess I assumed Bob made the introduction by email. So OP could reply to that intro email with a “Thanks, Bob! Alice, pleasure to meet you, I’ll send you a separate email to introduce myself and blah de blah”.

Acknowledge the email and thank Bob, then drop him from the convo. Regardless, Bob doesn’t need to see the sausage being made.

Without reading your actual email, this all sounds normal to me. Networking is how people get jobs.

I would have probably thanked Bob and dropped him from the email before asking Alice questions. Bob doesn’t need to be on that email once he’s made the introduction.

Adding to Scratch recommendations, look for First Lego League Jr teams in your area for next year. FLL Jr is for ages 6-10. They get simple kits with visual programming, and it preps them for FLL (non-jr) through to FIRST at the high school level.