Generally, keep humor work related, and it’ll be fine no matter who it is. Well, there’s always that asshole that thinks you have to be a robot at work, but with that sort, it doesn’t matter anyway.

Beyond that, either stay neutral with pronouns, or use those that a person introduces.

I promise you, just those two things are going to go a long way in establishing respect and camaraderie.

Ngl, I’ve been tempted to find one of those things and use it on a picture of myself just to see how accurate they get.

But it would have to be totally offline, and even then I wouldn’t actually do it

Ngl, at 40, I had some wrinkles, my first gray hairs were showing up, and I was using a cane

Me too :)

Nah, it was my imaginary friend doing bmx tricks, we didn’t have parkour back then.

Also, how could a person run fast enough to keep up with a motor vehicle? Sheesh, does your imagination completely ignore science? You gotta have at least a bicycle to keep up.

Also, this is the first time I’ve ever seen or heard someone else talk about this kind of daydream. So, it’s pretty fucking cool, even though the details aren’t the same.

Ooooo-ah-ah-ah-ah AH-AH

Well, that’s mainly because it’s a pet peeve that was injected into the thread rather than being part of the existing conversation.

Tangents aren’t always going to draw heat, but the more you stack things up, the more likely it is.

That one had four or five stacks to attract attention, maybe more depending on exactly what gets counted as a distinct target.

Like is rejecting the British spelling the same target as insisting that the American spelling is superior part of the same idea, or two different ideas that are just linked? You break things down enough, and there’s maybe as many as eight or nine inflammatory layers.

Kinda hard to not have people get riled up.

I’d even go as far as to say that a single statement that was more severe would have gotten less heat. Something like just rolling up and saying “fuck British spelling, you assholes” would definitely piss people off, but I do believe the extra layers drew more ire than that would have.

As a pet peeve, it’s pretty damn unique. Never seen anyone argue that exact combination of points. If it was a troll, it was a damn good one, too, but it reads like a genuine peeve to me.

Should have read, it isn’t about Google knowing where you live

For a given value of recent, it’s between three things.

Black garlic, vegemite and marmite.

Black garlic is candy with depth. Sweet, savory, and a mild pungency that nothing else has. It’s also a great ingredient, but stands as its own delightful edible.

Vegemite is basically a salt and umami bomb. It’s best used as a spread, imo, but can be added to soups, stews, or other dishes that can use a little boost with only the smallest of additions.

Marmite is similar to vegemite, but has a bit more versatility, imo. It’s also more of a syrupy consistency compared to the paste of vegemite. The flavor profile is different though, with marmite having a malty undertone and being slightly earthier. But it can generally be added to marinades and sauces in a way that vegemite isn’t as good at.

The key with the 'mites is moderation. As ingredients, you might add at most a whole teaspoon to a pot of soup. And that’s going to be a heavy addition. As a spread, you want the thinnest possible layer on the bread because both are salty and potent. But, you can layer on a little of either, with some butter, on toast and it is amazing, just like that.

Black garlic, I have trouble using as an ingredient because it’s just so damn good by itself. But it can go anywhere garlic goes. Either by itself, or with normal garlic. But I prefer it along the lines of how people use truffles, and typically on dishes where it’s going to have plenty of room to come though. It’s expensive enough compared to regular garlic that you don’t want to waste it in a giant pot of marinara where it’ll get drowned out.

Depends on what you consider a gadget.

If you include anything that does small tasks, a multitool is the single best gadget on the planet. I picked up a victorinox multitool years ago. Damn thing is the Cadillac of multitools, but doesn’t sacrifice durability to get the comfort and handling. It’s a tank with heated leather seats lol.

If electronics are the limitation of gadget, I gotta go with a thermometer. A thermopro probe thermometer means you get perfectly cooked foods, every time. If you get one that’s got an alarm on it that you leave in the food, it’s even more dummy free.

But even an infrared thermometer helps a buttload in the kitchen. People rarely realize that pan temperature matters as much on the stovetop as it does in the oven, when it comes to reliable, predictable outcomes. That alone will reduce how often you ruin food as you learn how to cook. And once you do, it allows you to dial in exactly the results you want.

I suggest salad. With olives

No movie that isn’t just bigotry pretending to be a movie deserves the kind of hate this movie got.

That being said, it’s not a great movie. It also lacks the charm of a traditional B movie. But that’s all it is, is meh.

This doesn’t seem to be an actual question. It’s a rant.

There’s basically two types.

One is where it vibrates, the other is where it oscillates.

The kind that vibrates, you essentially use like a regular toothbrush, just without scrubbing. You move it around slowly and let the vibrations do the work.

The other kind, you do need to move it around in a pattern so that the little cup formed my the bristles gets everywhere.

This video does a great job of explaining how to use both.

Generally, both types do the same job, equally well. But you do have to use the oscillating kind correctly so that it gets everywhere. The vibrating kind suffers from going too fast for them to get the job done well, which is fairly easy to do without a movement pattern to work as a built in timer of sorts.

Most people end up developing their own way of making sure to get everywhere with the vibrating kind, but if you’re aware of the limitation ahead of time it’s easy enough to plan it ahead.

I haven’t run across one as of yet.

I was never able to do anything on the sub, but I always enjoyed seeing people doing nice things for each other.

Active vs passive voice. It’s a thing

Honestly, the perks were pretty damn intangible. Contacts with other caregivers and providers was the most useful one. Secondary, you build up community connections. There’s people in my area that have gone out of their way to help me decades after I took care of their family member. I’m still friends with some.

At one point, I worked for the home health company that was a branch of the hospital, soi had acces to their medical library, and could attend seminars and lectures that would normally be only for enrolled students (teaching hospital).

The contacts I made, back in the early 2ks, allowed me a chance to interview pathologists, coroners and medical examiners for a book I was planning to write.

So, I guess that’s more tangible than I thought lol.

But for me, I just loved being the guy that got to do the job. I was never happy it needed doing, but if it did need doing, at least I got to get in there. Since other parts of the job were a bit more difficult, having a patient that I was going to help heal was also a major boost and helped stave off burnout. Sometimes, no matter how well you handle end of life care, or chronic conditions, it grinds at you that the case only ends with death, or some other less pleasant outcome.

But wound care? 95%, you do the job and when the case ends it’s because the wound is gone, and that feeling is like crack. You get little hits along the way as the wound improves, where you get to tell the patient how much has improved, that the infection is gone, or that it shrank over the weekend. But that big hit where you get to say “I won’t be here tomorrow because you don’t need me” holy crap is that magic. I’d ride home smiling and elated.

Because they’re tiny. Some are invisible without magnification. Even the bigger ones are smaller than a grain of rice, and an unusually small grain at that.

All it takes is walking through dirt that’s been exposed to something infected. It doesn’t even have to be where an animal poops directly on the spot, some eggs can handle being washed away during rain to somewhere else. Which means that even pavement isn’t completely risk free where avoiding bare ground would help.

You ever watch crime shows where they bring up Locard’s principle? The idea is that no matter where you go or what you do, you will transfer something from one place to the next. That something may be indistinguishable from the environment, but we’re swimming through clouds of dust and microbes every step we take.

Every step you take, barefoot or shod, you’re in contact with something. Teeny tiny pieces will be picked up. It may fall off the very next step, or a dozen later, but you’re carrying things along, even on the slickest, smoothest shoes. There’s little microscopic textures that grab things.

An egg for a parasite is usually going to be great at sticking to things. That’s how they find new hosts. Some of them can survive for scary amounts of time in fairly difficult conditions.

The question isn’t whether or not you’ve ever carried something like that into your house, it’s how many and how often.

Well, aren’t you just a ray of sunshine. Answered my question at least

Masturbate to it.

Either you’ll get a new fetish, or find a new level of rejection. Either way, you win.

I’m only joking a little.

The point is that you’ll get over it eventually. Everyone that runs across their parents naked or fucking gets over it at some point. Sometimes it takes growing the fuck up to get there, but that is what it is.

The sooner you stop letting yourself think it’s some kind of big deal, the sooner it’ll stop feeling like a big deal.