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seachanger, to random
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I asked my small biz customers to pay by check or e-check and many actually have! I have to invoice them separately so it’s tedious but the real ones are down. well, the real ones plus the lady from Texas who told me she was happy to start getting in the habit of paying for things by check due to the 15 minute city people eventually using credit cards to shut down commerce from longer distances 🤗

gwcoffey,
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@seachanger Hey thanks for the link! Ordered!

collin, to mastodon
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    gwcoffey,
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    @collin My knowledge here is super dated but have you looked at Vimeo?

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Oh, Dairy Pics from yesterday! I've never seen such happy cows, and the cheese was sooo good!

    This is several wedges of cheese in different sizes and shapes on a slab of granite. They are Camembert Havarti, Edam, Gouda, Raclette, Jersey Jack, and Garlic Jack
    A weathered shed with an old red truck in front of it, there is a windmill and green rolling hills in the background and a dog walking on a gravel path in the foreground
    This is the cow pasture, you can see cows grazing under trees in the distance and big puffy white clouds in the sky

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr You’re such a tease. “I’ve never seen such happy cows”. But not a single picture of a happy cow.

    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!

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr There was a period when my family was very busy with me working, my wife in school, and my kids in the throes of teenage.

    Even though I had a washer and dryer at home I started going to the laundromat just because I could wash, dry, fold, and load a week of laundry for a family of four in 90 minutes start to finish.

    I'm such a laundromat fan. Just walls and walls of washers, and miles and miles of folding tables.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr Not about children per se but you might enjoy the book The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper. She grapples with this question as it relates to Shakespeare.

    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.

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr Is Wilford Brimley taken? Swoon…

    paninid, to random
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    is a learned skill.

    gwcoffey,
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    @paninid I feel like there’s a valid corollary here: Some people don’t speak with the intent to be understood, they speak with the intent to elicit a response.

    Which is to say seeking to understand and not responding can be acts of rebellion.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    But...but that's a female lion...so...

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr I know this is a way out there thing to say but I don’t think a lion eating is an unethical act. So I’m scratching my head at the comparison here.

    paninid, to random
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    People who advocate for “revolution” seem to suffer from that they are rarely bloodless.

    gwcoffey,
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    @paninid Very true. And also that the outcomes are as deeply unknown as it gets. Revolution is roulette where the barrel is aimed at the next 100 years.

    paninid, to Parenting
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    It turns out there are a lot more people who have violence in their hearts than you think.

    That is the detail I’ll always struggle to rationally explain to my kids.

    gwcoffey,
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    @paninid I sometimes have to remind myself that violence meant survival for most hominids for a million years and then like a thousand years ago we started to sort of feel like maybe we shouldn’t.

    In fact just the other day I was thinking about how ill-adapted I am to survival in harsh conditions and how well adapted I am to survival in the modern socio-economy and how not all asteroids fall from the sky.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
    brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

    Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

    This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

    We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

    So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

    https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

    It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr I saw something like this once years ago and then eventually we found one sign on the fence with one of those radioactive warning icons. And finally after some digging we learned the fence was keeping us out of a contaminated site in the middle of nowhere.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr I see you’ve met my father.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Remember reading the cereal box in the morning over and over again, day after day.

    gwcoffey,
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    @StillIRise1963 I also remember my 8 year old daughter reading the Rice Krispie box and then saying “dad what if Kelloggs owned an orphanage and the cereal box had a coupon to get a child?”

    Hmm. Yeah what if Sophia. What if.

    dannotdaniel, to random
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    if you charge a price for something on Craigslist people treat you with a little bit of respect but if you list it for free they make all kinds of demands

    make that make sense

    gwcoffey,
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    @dannotdaniel The secret is to say it is on my driveway right now and whoever gets here first and loads it and takes it away with zero involvement from me gets it. Last time I did that a whole pile of bricks was gone in 20 minutes.

    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?

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr I his my computer magazines behind cooler things so I could read them at school.

    paninid, to philosophy
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    The options of a philosopher-king: or

    Human beings exist for the sake of one another: so either teach them or endure them

    http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/04/12/the-options-of-a-stoic-philosopher-king-coach-or-suffer/

    gwcoffey,
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    @paninid This reminds me of a great story in Jill Lepore's book The Mansion of Happiness where Fred Taylor of Taylorism fame went before a congressional committee to promote his views and the committee chairman wasn't having it.

    I read this book more than 10 years ago and his mic drop "…for whose benefit society is organized" is still ringing in my brain.

    BrianJopek, to random
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    One of the funnier things I’ve seen today.

    gwcoffey,
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    @ntnsndr @BrianJopek Haha I came here to say "is this a good time to say phones should be banned in school?" but you said it better.

    My daughter's school disallowed all phone use except in the courtyard from 7th grade through high school and it seemed so sensible to me.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, so last night I was on a date, and I asked hubs what he was up to at work, and he told me he learned Python, so he could write a program to help people troubleshoot computer problems on their own.

    I ask him, "You're creating a program to replace yourself?"

    Apparently, just the boring easy stuff he doesn't want to deal with, because he has better ideas about how he wants to use his time at work.

    Is this what you smart people do all day?!

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr Sort of. This comic captures the dynamic more precisely:

    https://xkcd.com/974/

    RickiTarr, to random
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    You're at the Frozen Yogurt place, what flavors and toppings do you choose?

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr Vanilla yogurt with fresh berries and sliced almonds. This is the way.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    How To Do A Backflip:

    Step 1: Do a backflip.

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr Do a front flip backwards.

    quinn, to random
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    tech companies can't make social media trash unless the people who want to be on them want them to be trash, and we have made a few outside of the bit techosphere that are also trash, so

    guys, we might be the problem.

    gwcoffey,
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    @quinn Honestly I think this is unfair. In a sense social media companies are engaged in asymmetric warfare against individual minds. They devote resources to manipulating people into engaging in things they don’t really “want” in much the way a rat in a Skinner box does what the researcher wants it to do.

    Ultimately individuals are victims of a vast system of manipulation beyond their control, governments are clueless about it, and bad actors are exploiting it.

    gwcoffey,
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    @quinn Well that’s fair if you’re taking about toxicity. I thought you were talking about endless scrolling, endless division, and endless general malaise about “the world”.

    But yes I agree if you give people anonymity and engagement they will be jerks to each other.

    gwcoffey,
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    @quinn Well I’m not particularly qualified to diagnose toxicity because I’ve never seen any of it directed at me (privilege I know). I read years ago that data shows strict real name policies go a long way (but create other problems). But I’ll definitely defer to you on toxicity problems. My personal beef with modern social media is commodification of the human psyche.

    RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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    This is probably my worst poll, but I'm curious, for science:

    I have/had:

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr I've spent a lot of time thinking about this line from Xochitl Gonzalez' novel Olga Dies Dreaming:

    "She told him how they had put all their letters in order, how hearing them out loud, in front of other people, in front of each other, had made them feel: like dolls in a rich kid’s toy chest—occasionally played with, largely neglected, sometimes abused."

    But anyway I chose the second option.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Please Social Media Scientists, tell me why smacking booties is so fun?!

    gwcoffey,
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    @RickiTarr It’s an evolutionary trait. When early humans first began to walk upright, it became harder to run away from predators. They would sometimes smack each others butts to help hurry everyone along when the lions were after them.

    In this way communities who liked engaging in butt smacking had higher survival rates.

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