TheRealKuni

Yup! “Oh, she should probably go down a band size and up a cup size” popped into my head one day and I laughed at the absurdity.

I introduced my wife to the world of proper bra fit, because she’d never known any of it. No one taught her. Made me feel vaguely guilty of mansplaining, but it helped!

There are plenty of brands that follow mostly standard sizing, as I understand it. But popular brands in the US (like Victoria Secret) generally don’t.

I fell down the r/abrathatfits rabbit hole one day, years ago. It’s fascinating.

Next you’re gonna tell us that the earth is flat because you’ve never experienced curvature. 🙄

1. it destroys a lot of the nutrient value

Nope! STUDY AFTER STUDY shows that isn’t true in any meaningful sense.

Yeah I agree, they seriously need to rethink their strategy. I’m not absolving the party.

But voters abandoning the dems because they aren’t left enough still shot themselves in the foot.

The left falls in love, the right falls in line.

Oh sure, he’s not saying don’t diversify. That was specifically about the small amounts from previous employers. Like, I had worked at a place for about a year, and the amount in that account wouldn’t be worth him taking over.

Doing stuff is important. But I have enough hobbies that I think I could stop working and not get bored.

Yep. My wife and I are in our thirties and have good whole life insurance policies that will supplement our retirement accounts nicely in our old age. I’ve been paying into mine for almost two decades (maybe longer, my parents started it for me and locked in good rates when I was young), my wife’s is newer. We also both have matching retirement accounts and are making sure we hit our matching totals each paycheck to draw as much from our employers as we can.

It’s not ideal, but with good planning (and stable income) you can still do well. Now, stable income is the important part. I’m a software developer, my wife works for a non-profit, so my income is generally a bit more stable than hers.

I recommend finding a financial advisor. Our life insurance guy is great and because he gets commission on the life insurance plans he doesn’t charge us for advisory services (and also doesn’t try to sell us on other stuff, he actually recommended we NOT move our old 401ks from other jobs over to him because we’d end up paying him more than we’d make, he recommended we roll them into our current employer plans).

Isn’t Teams just Microsoft’s attempt to reinvent Skype for Business as a Slack clone? I didn’t think they’d acquired it (other than acquiring Skype and fucking that up, too).

Do you have a source for this?

*Hamas has killed more than 40 THOUSAND PEOPLE, by deliberately placing its military supplies and operations in and around civilian areas to maximize any collateral damage.

Okay, let me preface this by saying fuck Hamas. They’re horrible.

But, just for a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a resistance movement. Where are you supposed to put your supplies or operations? In bases far from civilian populations? You’ll just get bombed to shit.

No, you have to hide them. And unfortunately the easiest way to hide people and stuff is around other people and stuff.

Guerrilla warfare is the reality of modern combat in cases where a large, powerful military is fighting a smaller, weaker resistance.

This isn’t done so that your enemy can’t take out your operations and supplies without collateral damage, although that is a side effect. It’s primarily about not being taken out in the first place.

If you are the larger, powerful military, you need to adapt. You don’t get to blow up hospitals and schools and then blame your targets for hiding among civilians.

Disillusionment campaigns worked. Same as in 2016 with the Bernie bros refusing to back Clinton.

Just needed enough noise about reasons NOT to vote for Kamala. And people would still vote the rest of the ticket, but not for her. Because we all forgot about the importance of strategic voting in FPTP.

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Be careful giving away personal information on Lemmy. It’s wildly difficult to ensure stuff is deleted or removed in the Fediverse across multiple servers.

Fuck Moash.

(I know what MOASS means, but I misread it at first. And fuck Moash.)

Mmmm, bronchiolitis obliterans. Being serious, the common name for the disease is “popcorn lung” because it was first identified in a microwave popcorn plant and it’s caused by inhaling certain chemicals often used in flavored popcorn.

Right. Yes. Diacetyl and its ilk are not something you want to breathe in, well aware. I used to vape, years ago, and mixed my own liquid. Popcorn lung was always a big topic in the DIY scene.

The workers who developed popcorn lung were working around vats of the shit, breathing in large quantities on the daily. But still, the risk was enough to never trust any buttery flavors for vaping.

Occasionally cooking butter-flavored or butter-laden popcorn is not a problem though.

“Dosis sola facit venenum,” as they say. The dose makes the poison.

Fair enough, lol. I got a good chuckle out of the image of downing any drink by just dumping the whole thing straight down your throat. 😂

You mean the plans to put it on the same classification level as heroin? A change Biden and the Dem establishment had 4 years to make?

It’s already schedule I, the same as heroin.

The Biden admin’s plan, which is in progress and is being held up by the DEA who have been told many times over the years to reschedule cannabis, is to put it at schedule III, which would be the same as, say, ketamine. Able to be prescribed, able to be researched.

Get you a Whirley-Pop. You can put the butter in with the kernels go.

You can also get packs that include oil, kernels, salt, and butter powder that come out like theater popcorn and taste great (included some in the link above). I add some cheddar powder to that for cheesy popcorn when we have people over to watch movies and it’s a huge hit.

Edit: important note, add the cheddar powder AFTER popping, because it will burn if you put it in before popping and it will smell awful. Don’t make my mistake!

I was at a symphony concert where the guest performer was Yo-Yo Ma. And up in the cheap seats where I was, phones went off no less than FOUR TIMES during his performance.

It sure seemed like three of them were the same phone, but there were at least two different phones that went off.

How on earth do you not silence your phone going into a concert? And if you forgot to, how do you not silence your phone when someone else’s goes off? And most importantly, how do you not silence your own phone if it goes off?

During the applause the same person’s phone went off again and I just started laughing.

I later said Dvorak was remarkably far ahead of his time to write a piece for “solo cello, orchestra, and iPhone.”