As a workaround with the default directory fuckery, I always just made new ones.

I’m not confident my tax documents aren’t saved to my dektop.

I usually air gap onto an external disk, but I’ve been busy recently.

Sorry about you not seeing the lightning bug.

Insects are dying out a bit.

I think this is a super common goal; Lots of terrible parents have it.

The problems come in when “equipped to make sound decisions and care for themselves” is interpreted way too seriously.

For instance, my being queer was not a sound decision for me to make.

WeChat preinstalled?

But nah, the OnePlus 7 with a custom ROM was my jam. Shame the screen broke.

Wow! Rattling off stats like that is a great way to show you’re not shilling.

Tell me, how is the display color quality and camera resolution?

Make sure to encrypt messages with a ceasar cypher.

I mean it’s an incredibly difficult job to refine the chemicals enough to produce a usable product. There’s a finite number of instalations which can actually pull off the delicate chemistry. The materials to make it are fairly common enough; essentially just SiO2,Al2O3, Na2O, and K2O, but it’s much easier to obtain it from the hardware store. I’m definitely not suggesting you attempt to make your own clear glass.

Good catch, but that’s a common misconception. You can actually use woodworking tools on glass, such as drills and saws, but you need to go a lot slower and make sure to keep vibrations under controll.

Store brand foods are good a lot of times. They used to be garbage, but nowadays they’re pretty good.

Frozen veggies instead of fresh is usually okay if you’re steaming or roasting.

Automotive parts off Amazon have worked alright; Rebuilt my suspension for, like, $120. That’s tie rod, sway bar, shocks, and struts. No issues for the two years since that repair.

A ton of hobbies have perfectly respectable aliexpress alternatives. Keycaps, Fountain pens, 3d printer parts. They rob intellectual property, but I like linux ISOs, so I don’t exactly have a history of respecting that type of property.

Software in general can be cheaped out on; I don’t think I need to champion FOSS on here.

Refrigerators and washing machines can be cheaped out on, as long as you do a bit of research about their reliability.

Lots of stuff is easy to DIY if you have some work space. Furniture, fish tanks, thermonuclear warheads. Learning to sew is valuable, not because you should make your own clothes -fuck that- but because you can mend the stitching on your current clothes.

Services can usually be cheaped out on. Youtube videos and a can-do attitude can get you through manicures and toilet repairs. Court clerks will sometimes be willing to walk you through basic legal stuff like name changes. Things you should educate yourself about beyond a short youtube video: Electricity, flammability (from heat sources), and anything involving significant pressure (pistons, compressed air, and power washers, mostly.).Also be a little careful with chemical reactions: cement hardening, for example, will produce a bit of heat. Usually this isn’t a big deal and you can ignore it, but there have been idiots.The world’s information is at your disposal. Provided you’ve got some common sense, and you never fuck around with the capacitor in a microwave, you should be fine.

Holy fuck.

Change your socks.

Please.

Change your socks.

Fuck man, I didn’t think I would need to pull up scholarly sources about foot sweat.

here

When running, you sweat around 250 grams of sweat per square meter per hour. Variables change +/- 50g ish depending on what you are or are not wearing on the foot, what the ambient temperature is, and what you’re doing.

You can work out the maths of your own foot sweat.

Obviously, less physical activity will result in less sweat.

We need peer review meta analysis published in a with 50 years of study and published in a paywalled journal in order to verify that we should change our socks.

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I reckon watermelons are cheaper than ramen noodle around here.

(I live in mellon land. No trees; just mellon. I think I’ve seen a fruit tree once in my life.)

Ahh, I see.

When using a bidet, you must always be face-down ass-up with the sprayer above you.

Biden is the president whether or not you individually voted for him. You’re figuratively eating dogshit right now. Be glad it isn’t arsonic.

The fuck are you going to do? Buy a submarine and live like captain goddamn nemo?

Ah yes, insurrectionist part II electric boogaloo.

The choices on the table are dogshit or arsonic, but if you don’t choose you’re still going to have to eat one of them.

In order to avoid eating either, we should probably focus on getting the one off the table that will fucking kill you.

Done.

I hope you see a rainbow today. 🌈