I once donated $50.

It’s not much, but I’ve definitely got my money’s worth and then some over the years.

I once ran a campaign of a game similar to D&D where one of the players had geared a character to be super charismatic and had an end goal of being able to persuade anyone to do anything.

She kept persuading the random side characters that helped them into joining, until they had a small army of Merry Men.

Yeah, the campaign took a back seat while they played Robin hood for awhile.

She started specifically targeting side npcs because I wanted to drop a character that was making my vocal chords hurt. They liked the npc because he was basically a child’s vision of a stereotypical pirate.

Oh, my rooms tend to get hot by themselves, so it’s less “cool it then heat it” and more “cool it, then stop cooling and let it warm up naturally around morning”

Except in winter, I guess. Then it’s just “don’t heat until morning”

I have always wanted a programmable thermostat, so I can sleep to nice cool air, but wake up to almost uncomfortably hot, because that will force me to get out of bed and be something resembling human.

Instead I’m a burrito, all wrapped up and warm

Good. I can toss my other blanket on top and get snuggled in.

I have had managers send me emails telling me to ignore warehouse safety standards set by OSHA, regardless of what the warehouse personnel tell me when I’m there for the day.

Also had managers that recorded themselves breaking company safety rules and post to social media.

I’ve even had one manager that straight up pointed a gun at me in front of 3 cameras thinking it was a funny joking thing.

Never assume management has a single brain cell, let alone enough to realize when something probably shouldn’t be done or said.

How I’ve felt since getting fired this week:

I have forgotten about a concert after paying for the tickets, I have forgotten about super important plans and didn’t even send a text to the person I had them with until about 6 hours later (in fairness I never even got a text or call from them in that time, just a “where were you, I waited” when I called to apologize) and I have forgotten my entire wallet at a restaurant. Sat it down while waiting for my card back and put the card in my pocket and left the wallet on the table.

I have also unironically said this.

The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried

Insane bullshit.

I have a kit with me every day of my life, and I’ve had to refill it many times due to using it on others.

It would be pure coincidence that I happen to be carrying a first aid kit on any given day, and if I’m going to a peaceful protest I’m bringing my trauma kit because the entire fucking world knows how cops treat protesters.

And what country are you from where racism is not an issue?

No really, where, because a non-racist place to live sounds fantastic, especially nowadays.

Why, have you not played any other Kojima games?

I mean, you’re the weirdo accepting random liquids from someone.

… Okay no really, who ever in their right mind considered us a “liberal democracy”?

Calm down there, Shiro Ishii.

This is my only issue with having three dogs.

I only have two hands.

So if I come home and they all want attention, I have to split pets between all of them in short intervals or they start pushing each other (and me) around trying to get attention. Or rather, the biggest one pushes in and the smaller two have to climb over themselves to get to my other hand.

This post was good enough to kick me off my phone for the night. I just woke up after about 3 hours and only meant to pull my phone out to turn the audiobook back on, and instead started scrolling.

So thanks for the reminder I should be sleeping!

Hell yeah. I’ve actually used the S10 as an example of the max size I want a truck to be. Stretch the cab forward to the unnecessary engine bay and make it a crew cab with no nose.

At this point I’d take a modern truck if it was offered, but I’d be looking to trade for something smaller immediately. Modern trucks are just too grossly oversized, and I, as an adult, often can barely see over the hood of modern trucks. And tons of trucks around here have lift kits installed, making them even less safe for pedestrians

my child.

Honestly I just want to see the first two in imax since I missed the opportunity when they had their original runs.

A theater about an hour away had a special showing of part 1 running with the first week of part 2’s debut. So you could go see part 1 and go to the next hall to see part 2 immediately after. I’m hoping they do something similar so I can watch all 3 in a couple weekends, but I’m not holding my breath.

That is crazy to me.

I hate driving in general, but will typically be okay with nearly doubling my travel time (up to like an hour) if it means I am in constant motion. So I’ll happily take small side streets and drive two small towns over and avoid a highway on the off chance that there’s a traffic jam. Some highways are almost guaranteed to be at a standstill at certain times anyway, but surprise stoppages always seems like a given when my wife and I travel more than a few hours from home.

It doesn’t seem like that’s an option to drive on non-highways, from the translation post, sadly. Fingers crossed they get the public transit sorted next year, and improve it for 2029. That sounds like a bad time for everyone.