I thought I lost my phone before moving states and nearly burst into tears. It has my insurance, the map, what if something happened to me on the road, etc. It was an awful spiraling feeling. Thankfully I found it, but it was a hard reality check of how much I have tied to this little device.

“What do you mean this password is too short? I use it for everything!”

Reminds me of:

Update for those who don’t read it but had questions: she’s alive and in the hospital. No word about what she went through or what happened to the baby as of this comment.

Awwww! What a cute shorthair putitback!!!! They’re adorable but have a lot of energy. They’re best if you let them go in and out as they please. They will eat so many bugs. Beware of its hisses. They are a temperamental breed.

Can I recommend The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck? It’s historical fiction.

It’s a glimpse into life back then; focusing mostly on the affects of the dust bowl and how hard it was to find proper work. While not nonfiction, it may give you some ideas of specific things you can research more, like crop rotation and Hoovervilles/shantytowns.

Side note: I always think of the Great Depression when an appliance breaks. My history teacher said one of the causes was that things were built to last back then. When they say, “they don’t make them like they used to” it’s 100% correct. Now we make things with a shorter lifespan on purpose because, when things last forever, we don’t buy new ones.

Hey; if you’re interested in this, I recommend Nevermind. It’s a game that gets harder when you get scared. It uses a heart rate monitor or your webcam. It’s supposed to teach you to make yourself calm down.

The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

An art project called r/place is active again. Basically, it’s a giant white canvas and users can change the color of one pixel every X amount of minutes.

Since we left Reddit, the community is torn between returning to post something in protest or staying away and refusing them traffic to protest. A suggestion there is to simply watch the twitch/YouTube streams of people who are there.

Some suggestions: “join-lemmy.org”, “API”, “Fuck u/spez”. There’s currently a French flag with a guillotine about to chop the head off a Snoo with u/spez as it’s blindfold. There is also clap back. Bots or the moderators are actively blocking pieces of protest with checkerboard patterns.

I hope this answers your question.

I’m doing my part!

My account was randomly locked because of “unusual usage”. I haven’t touched Reddit since the death of Apollo. So I guess going from a 100 to 0 was unusual. 🤷‍♀️

Dude, I’m lucky if I remember what “today year” even is, much less the math! Time got weird after 2020…

Chicken and rice is one of my favorite meals.

Bone in, skin on, chicken thighs. Cook in the crockpot all day (with occasional stirring, every few hours) until the chicken falls off the bone. Add salt to taste as wanted. My bf likes to use half water and half Swanson chicken bone broth inside the crockpot.

Next, debone the chicken and set it aside. Use the broth to boil the rice.

Finally, add the chicken back in. Enjoy.

Side note: it cooks faster with babysitting it and stirring every few hours, but it’s totally fine to set it up in the morning and leave for work. Just make sure to stir it when you get home.

Washing dishes

Thank you for the update. I appreciate your efforts in moderating and keeping us informed.

No one can take us. No one can make us give our rights away.

I was very worried about it being injured since it hadn’t moved. This is no longer a concern. It hated the box and ran away really well! So I put the box where it could reach it and fled the scene.

I switched before this because I wanted to keep an eye on my credit score. Credit Karma gives me both scores and with more detail than I was getting from Mint.

Thank you for the identifying info! Now I can google for what the parents look like. I’ll keep a look out.