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ScotttSee

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Amateur wannabe train driver but I get paid to be the IT Director for an Anime and Manga publisher in San Francisco.
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RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all, I like all the Treks, I can't deal with your fighting, please think of the children.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr I'll never understand the "thing I love is still available to me but I need to be mad because the other thing with the similar name exists, but isn't exactly the same" mentality.

It's not like Paramount has black holed TOS,TNG,etc.

They are now more accessible than ever and looking better than ever.

RickiTarr, to random
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People with Anxiety: No worries.

Also People with Anxiety: Imagining every scenario where they need to worry.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr "Why did they say 'No worries'? Did I need to be worrying about something I wasn't? Was I worrying about something I shouldn't've? Did I lock my car door in the parking garage this morning? Why did I say that thing to that girl in 1994? How much wood would a wood chuck chuck? Did I forget to take my pills this morning? What if they're not working? Oh look! A kitty!"

bruces, to random
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*Where have I seen this before? Something something Japan something Detroit something

ScotttSee,
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@glennf @bruces Imagine if we hadn't spend 50 years encouraging larger and larger civilian passenger vehicles by not enforcing fuel efficiency standards on larger death machines?

We wouldn't need to mandate that every car be capable of surviving an impact with an oversized penis compensation truck or soccer mom mobile.

ScotttSee,
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@glennf The safety rules mandate being able to survive being hit by a massive truck that wouldn't exist without the CAFE standards loophole.

If people didn't insist on needing a massive truck to do simple tasks, the safety rules would not need to be so extreme.

My neighbor drives a GMC truck that I can barely see over the hood of (and I'm 5'10"). There's no non-work reason to have a truck like that and barely a reason to have a work truck like that. It only exists to bypass CAFE rules.

RickiTarr, to random
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Just a reminder, if you're in a state without access to abortion, there is a network of care, providing safe, effective, and free abortion pills and information.

www.redstateaccess.com

ScotttSee,
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@juancho_me @RickiTarr There is legal framework in many red states to prosecute women to crossing state lines to obtain an abortion, and they are working hard to do things like get the police (or even volunteer "patriots" to pull over women in cars near state lines to check for belly bumps.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr My condo I live in for ~25 years had terrible, always broken, communal laundry.

I ended up going to the laundry mat about once or twice a month and using the massive "12 loads at once" washer instead of letting my cloths get destroyed by my HOA.

I think it was Kids in the Hall who had a great "Laundry day fashion show" skit, I wish I could find in online but my google-fu has failed me.

RickiTarr, to random
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Anyway, sometimes my brain creates really sad scenarios, and I play out my reactions to these scenarios, and it makes me really upset, but it's like I'm trying to prepare myself for every possibility even though it's both impossible and destructive.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr one would think that going through life preplanning every conversation 8 steps ahead would result in being a good chess player.

At least for me, that's not the case...

RickiTarr, to random
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You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr this thread has laid bare the dearth of female/femme presenting cereal mascots. Not counting athletes on Wheaties boxes, there are only two I could find, Carmella Creeper and the nameless women if Offlimits cereal.

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr
I live in Vallejo, CA

Pros:
Can afford to live in a lovely home built in 1936 with an actual yard and garden.

My commute is a ferry boat.

Beautiful old downtown is coming back to life after the pandemic

It's the most diverse city in California.

My local councilman emails me back in like 5 minutes most of the time.

Cons:

Police have a (well earned) bad reputation.

Not a lot of live entertainment.

Has property crime like any city

Still recovering from municipal bankruptcy.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

ScotttSee,
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@sollat @RickiTarr I've always heard is as "cats and dogs" but with a modifier like "raining like cats and dogs", "coming down like cats and dogs", or "fighting like cats and dogs". I don't know that I've ever heard "dogs and cats" except in Ghostbusters "Dogs and Cats living together..."
I wonder if it's an east coast vs west coast thing?

purplepadma, to food
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I bought a punnet of fancy mushrooms and some marinated tofu, I’m going to make Nigel Slater’s miso and ginger soup with griddled mushrooms. So easy even I can do it. And very tasty and nourishing

ScotttSee,
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@purplepadma I don't think we use "punnet" in the states (or at least I've never come across it) I like it and will annoy my friends and family with it in the future :)
Also that sounds like a lovely soup.

skinnylatte, to food
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More soy toots: when you buy soy sauce look at the ingredient list and label.

If it has ‘hydrolyzed soy protein’, it’ll be roughly the same quality as ‘cheap Chinese restaurant takeout soy sauce packets’. Soy sauce made from chemical processes. It doesn’t taste good to me and is usually amped up with sugar.

If it just says ‘soy beans’, and the label says ‘naturally brewed’ or ‘naturally fermented’ or ‘first draw soy sauce’ it will be pretty good.

ScotttSee,
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@skinnylatte I Lee Kum Kee double fermented is amazing (to my admittedly unrefined pallet) in dips and sauces.

DavidGallagher, to random
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I’m on a boat! It’s been a while, glad to be back. with a ferry trip has been one of the best things (maybe the only good thing) I discovered during the pandemic.

ScotttSee,
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@DavidGallagher I take the Vallejo<->SF Ferry twice a week and ride my bike on both ends. Great way to commute.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why is it that the people who brag about being "self-made" aren't?

If you turned out successful odds are you had help, a lot of it, and a good amount of luck on top of that. Imagine being so self absorbed that you don't give credit where credit is due.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr If you acknowledge you had help (family money, legacy university admissions, etc) then you might have to help other who need that same help instead of looking down on them.

If you "did it yourself" then you don't owe society anything so you can be a conceited prick.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr
The best thing that happened to me in HS was my computer broke for several months and I had to get a job at a movie theater.
I was (and am) very socially awkward and hid behind the computer, so interacting with the public on a large scale was hugely helpful in getting me out of my shell.
Many of my cinema coworkers are still friends 30 years later. We were all misfits. Every time I think of it I'm happy they called me back when I was 16 and no McDonald's.

RickiTarr, to random
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It is Hilarious to me that after cats get to a certain age they rarely communicate with other cats through meowing. Cats are very good non-verbal communicators. They meow at us, because we are too dumb to understand, and they are baby talking to us.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr Two of my 4 cats, the 4 and 16 year old girls, have developed a chripy language and will always greet each other and chat for a minute when they both end up in the same room.

I've never had adult cats talk to each other. Yowl and hiss, yes, but not talk, it cracks me up when they do.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr "If you sit too close to the TV, your eyes will turn square" -Grandma

Which, admittedly, may have caused me to sit closer so I could get awesome square eyes.

I wonder if grandmothers today say "rectangle" instead of "square" since TVs aren't square anymore...

mattsheffield, to random
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As has already happened several times, Trump cultists who own the Truth Social stock are losing money bigly.

After news broke that Truth Social is accelerating its money losing and that its users are declining, the stock has plummeted drastically.

This is what a "bloodbath" looks like.

ScotttSee,
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@mattsheffield considering the whole offering was a campaign donation scheme, none of the billionaire investors expected a $ return on their investment.

They know if Trump is elected they'll get their quid pro quo.

If non rich MAGA take a bath on it, Trump doesn't care.

ScotttSee, to animals
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I'm not the least mad that my security cameras misidentify cats as people.

RickiTarr, to random
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Nihilist Recipes

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

You might as well try making these croissants, your failure means as much as your success.

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr I think you have to be Nihilist to cook souffle.

RickiTarr, to random
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How do you feel about physical touch? I mean this is the broad sense, not necessarily in a sexual way, but you can answer however you wish.

Personally, I enjoy it a lot, and find it comforting, but only from really specific people. If strangers or people I don't know well want to hug me, it's okay, but I won't seek it out. I think handshakes are weird. Hey, you want to hold hands with a stranger for a short amount of time for some reason?

ScotttSee,
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@RickiTarr coming from a large Italian family, hugs etc were just part and parcel.

I enjoy the physical connection but also understand different people have different boundaries and would never touch another person without consent, unless life or limb were on the line.

I'm also socially awkward as hell and feel that initiating physical contact can come off as creepy even if not the intention.

Alice, to random
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I’m an adult and that means I can put a tent on my bed and nobody can stop me.

ScotttSee,
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@Alice When I was a kid I had a bed tent that fit on my twin mattress like a fitted sheet.

Loved that thing.

ScotttSee, to random
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My train was supposed to pick me up an hour ago. It's currently scheduled for after midnight but since it hasn't moved since 8:40 I'm not holding my breath.

I know shit happens (sounds like either train v vehicle or train v person) but after an initial service (with the wrong date) alert, it took 2.5 hours for Amtrak to update it to say "yup it's still stopped no idea when it'll get moving"

A little more communication and actually telling us what's up would be great.

dancinyogi, to music
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I have seriously eclectic musical taste, but only recently got into opera, thanks to someone who's introducing me to it. This is one I listen to often. I adore it.

Lucia Popp - Song to the Moon

https://youtu.be/4qxi-sYUT9s?si=NFxKhTNd80AZ0KcN

ScotttSee,
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@dancinyogi I need to see more opera. I recently discovered an all volunteer opera company in my city that does 3-4 performances a year for about $25 a pop, so I'm going to try to catch all of them this year. I saw one last year and while it wasn't "Met" quality it was pretty damn good, especially for the price.

ScotttSee,
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@dancinyogi It's really worth checking out. They do "super-titles" for most productions these days so you can follow along with the story (assuming you don't speak Italian, German, or whatever language the production is in)

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