Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Sauerkraut was just too overwhelming as a kid, but I love it now. Some other foods were the same, but that is the one I remember.

    I liked black olives as a kid, then hated them in my teen years through early 30s and find them tolerable now.

    A lot of people hated vegetables as a kid if they were made bland by boiling, and like them a lot more when they have them roasted or just with some seasoning. I remember having bland steamed brussel sprouts at home which are just awful but one of my friends roasted them and they were awesome. My dad cooked up some awesome seasoned steaks and that friends parent bought the wrong cut and cooked it well done so it opened my eyes to how much of a difference preparation makes.




  • It is important that when we are addressing issues of sexism, that we try to make sure that the ideas are easily understood by women, men, girls, and boys so that everyone understands how to support equality. If we only focus our effort on men and boys, without recognizing the influence also has on women and girls, then it will not be as successful. For example, the social expectations of women and girls to dress in certain ways is commonly enforced by men, women, girls, and boys even if the influence is only targeted at women and girls. Not to mention the toxic masculinity that is applied to men and boys by men, women, boys, and girls that are commonly reinforced by telling men and boys to ‘man up’ in stressful situations.

    You are right, that is smooth as butter.



  • Doing something woth your brain leeps it working better, just like how physical exercise works. If you traded gaming for doing nothing, that would make the occasional time you do something feel like a lot of work.

    It is also possible that you have some level of depression or your brain adjusted to all the stimulation and other things aren’t triggering the same feeling. It could lots of things.

    The first step to try any of those for things is to find an activity that is mentally stimulating in some way. Not like a full dive into calculus, but maybe learning something new like a different hobby or maybe games that aren’t as engaging for long periods of time. I would recommend games with a short completion time and no grinding or rewards if that is what you found to be addicting.

    Note: I didn’t stop computer gaming but I did drop another time consuming hobby and it took some adjustment to find something else.






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    I’m mainly asking when ages span from birth to old age and the goup would basically be “female persons” or “male persons” which is clunky.

    Sometimes it can be rephrased, but it often requires multiple words to mean the same thing. Plus “women of all ages” will be read as not including children.

    I’m mostly pissed that sexists ruined the only single word term we have for half of the population.



  • An early 2000s Jetta my fiancee bought shortly before we got married. The electronic sensors kept dying throughout the warranty and after and were expensive as hell to replace, a pain in the ass to install becsuse I had to take off 6 parts to get to them, and it had horrendous handling in snowy/icy weather. Got rid of that lemon a year after we were married and replaced it with a 2005 Camry that was super reliable and cheap to maintain for the next 18 years.

    The Canrywas still going strong when I traded it in for a truck due to changing needs. Literal opposite of that stupid Jetta.


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    What is a good word to use for people who are female of any age including young children that are not old enough to be called women in addition to women?

    ‘Women and girls’ is pretty clunky when talking about something that is gender specific, but applies to all ages.


  • That seems completely serious and not satire at all.

    Since I never saw the videos, my assumption was that ‘wants another baby’ was wanting to sleep around with multiple partners as in ‘I love you baby’, not having a literal baby. The six pointed stars and the cradle is pretty fucking clear it is about a Jewish woman sleeping around to have multiple babies, and yeah that is apparently one of those ‘Jews are taking over’ racist stereotypes.

    Now I’m guessing that the Sign is a swastika.

    Thanks for the link, I’m gonna go throw that album in the trash and feel like a jackass for not catching on earlier.


  • For most stuff like brake pads, wipers, or bulbs I have used Autozone or O’Reilly, not really picky about either. When I needed the occasional expensive thing like batteries or an alternator I would check prices first and pick the one that was lower for the one I wanted.

    This was mostly due to needing the thing right away, so I’m paying a little more for convenience.

    I also used LKQ a couple times over a decade ago for junkyard parts like a headlight housing that was damaged.

    Haven’t had to do the expensive stuff for quite a few years, just wipers and the occasional brake pads.