You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking “humanoid” for example, you get something that isn’t presenting itself as a human. But I didn’t come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
So thanks.
Ehh, I dunno. Back in high school and the years shortly after, we’d take trips down 287 to Rutgers to visit the Grease trucks for one of their famous fat sandwiches. The name tells the tale, the sandwiches are absurd, but great late night drunk food. Fat Darrel was my go-to, chicken fingers, mozz sticks and marinara, French fries, on a sub roll. They had a variety of sandwiches, and they’d even name one after you if you could eat three in an hour, which even back then, when I swam competitively, smoked a lot of weed, and was a human garbage disposal, eating three period was a tall order.
I will say, the French fries were probably the least important ingredient to most of their sandwiches, but it was a package deal, you get what you get.
Have a daughter also, so I know it all too well! Our focus is “It’s normal but private.” We will see how that goes.
My wife texted me the other day:
You know that yellow slide our son carries around? Well, he started sticking his penis in it, you have to talk to him now.
He’s 4. It’s just what boys do.
I fast between all my meals, so yeah.
Nah, must be something else, can’t be my own poor decisions.
And this is perhaps me using the wrong term (translator v. interpreter), as I’m talking about speaking and not writing. I can never remember which is which, if there is a distinction.
House of Leaves drags at times. At times it’s gripping, and at times I was bored stiff. It’s interesting, I think it’s nutty, I think it’s a real reach and ought to be lauded, but I just never thought it was that good. I’ve discovered I’m just a sucker for classic epic fantasy though, so perhaps it just weren’t for me. I also read it 20 years ago at this point, and so perhaps with my maturity I might enjoy another read. My brother in law just got me a copy actually, which is good because my original copy disappeared.
I never read Twilight so I have nothing to add there.
I worked with a translator yesterday. She teaches courses, but she said she does translation because the money is good. I’ve worked with her for a while at this point, as well as dozens of other translators, on nearly a daily basis. They’re very much still in demand.
Yep, I interact with a couple different ones two or three times a week. I see them more than I used to.
I have a three year loan at 1.9%. Why would I cough up an additional $20k now, when I could hang on to my cash and, at the very least, leave it in an account that earns twice that (and then some) in interest?
Say what you will about RFK, but he’s broken clock right on a couple of issues, pesticides being one of them. Sure, maybe his rationale isn’t right, but his end game may be a benefit. Unfortunately it’s at odds with Trump’s complete destruction of regulation, but he (RFK) seems to be chugging along. I think making America healthy is good; I don’t think pesticides or ultra processed foods make kids transgender.
Ha, I told a joke in middle school and they had to call the police, so I feel ya. It was 25 years ago.
How about humor?
Are you from the generation of email chain letters that asked you to scroll down and it’s be neat ASCII designs?
Scrolled far too long to find even a mention of Zebra. Uniball is the intro to good pens, but Zebra is where you land.
As it should be!
left over spaghetti
!!!
But yeah, there’s that whole thing with blood sugar and leftover pasta, I dunno, I’m not a scientist and I have a bad memory, but it’s basically healthier on day two.
The last thing I want is to make spaghetti and still be hungry after I eat it. Whole box it is.
It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn’t a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.