AA5B

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[–] AA5B 2 points 1 hour ago

Which puts it all back to chaos - I think it’s all individual retrogressives taking advantage to push their own agenda. You end up with dozens of independent half-baked strategies doing all sorts of inconsistent things

[–] AA5B 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yet lists can be special

  1. markup is way over sensitive

  2. So even if I use period then space as a delimiter

  3. Maybe I spaced it out

  4. Which works everywhere else

[–] AA5B 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Where that falls short is just how much of the population that appears to include. I’m all set to believe in plain incompetence, weaponized incompetence, stubborn incompetence …. But 50% of voters?

[–] AA5B 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

That’s the problem, isn’t it: whose convention? It never works in the way I conventionally do ot, and takes way too much troubleshooting to make it work. I also have no idea how to do formatting other than lists so would have to look it up. There’s a reason most posts on Lemmy are unformatted, it’s too much effort to get it to work.

Before you say that’s a me problem: the list conventions I write with work fine everywhere else. Plus I haven’t had to look up formatting syntax since LaTEX

[–] AA5B 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

NOt entirely blind so a stick helps with curbs and stuff, similar to how there are people who can walk,, technically, but benefit from a mobility device.

No one took away his license when they should have, and full self driving helps him appear to function

[–] AA5B 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I’d upvote that - why does markup need to be so complex and brittle?

[–] AA5B 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you want to suck the R instead of the D, are you even gay?

[–] AA5B 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Incentives evaporating, chargers not getting built, legacy manufacturers backing away from EVs on the promise of cheap gas, revoked efficiency requirements, and no regulation of carbon emissions. US never did get to the point of a healthy EV ecosystem, and now we step back to square one

[–] AA5B 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If you default on your mortgage, you’ve got a problem. If you default on Twitter, the bank has a problem

[–] AA5B 0 points 12 hours ago

Well, good thing they did that, huh? This is so much better than that could have been. /s

[–] AA5B 4 points 14 hours ago

You’re giving too much forethought for a plan, but Trump thinks that way about everyone. He’s not just a bully but a toxic boss who always has someone lined up to be the fall guy.

The goal was always to fire a bunch of workers and replace them with sycophants: people actually trying to do their job inhibited the damage in trumps first term, so nope the priority is sycophants. Sycophants. everywhere. But every action needs a fall guy

[–] AA5B 14 points 14 hours ago

This would make my year. I hope you’re right

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Cleaned out the garage (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 20 hours ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

So many toddler toys and sporting goods on the curb in front of our house! Got my now college age kid to help.

We put up a huge “free” sign, and at least some things found a new home. Three bicycles, two portable soccer nets, and a pair of roller blades definitely gone but there’s just so much stuff that I really couldn’t say what’s no longer there

I’m disappointed the snow blower didn’t go. Yeah it’s older and needs service but it’s a nice two stage, self-propelled, auto-start model where bringing it back to life would be a fraction of the cost of buying something like that

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Imaginary YouTube > real (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 1 month ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

I find this a bit weird, but I just fell asleep on the sofa while watching YouTube. The weird part was I had a very vivid dream that I was watching an entirely different YouTube video

 

This morning I made pancakes for my little one (ok, he’s a high school senior, and it was an egg, cantaloupe and some pancakes). His favorite is chocolate chip: I can do that!

As I was making them I realized I didn’t have enough chocolate chips. But I could still be the hero, I had mini-chips to make energy bites!

I don’t know if this counts as science, but I discovered the minis sink right to the bottom while full sized are easier to keep in suspension. The minis made it a lot harder to give each a consistent chocolate taste

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YouTube history (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 1 month ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

The last several months, I’ve started watching YouTube.

I tried looking at what I’ve been watching:

  • lawn mowing
  • drain clearing
  • dog grooming
 

For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

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submitted 2 months ago by AA5B to c/aww
 
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Waffles for the win (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

Slept in and made waffles for my kids …. I got too damn excited making Liege Waffles for the first time. The kids loved them but it’s a lot of work, even more cleanup, and molten sugar hurts like the dickens

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Huge Costco trip (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

I haven’t been in about three months so I started running out of stuff. It almost got exciting, going while hungry and without a Christmas list. I should not have done that

And still no effing tissue boxes

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submitted 2 months ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

The pop up reminder has been on my thermostat since October.

However the furnace couldn’t hold temperature and started short cycling so I had to. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the problem so I may need to call a guy (it’s always to replace the control board but I have yet to find a way to confirm that before spending $400 to do it myself)

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Did not sleep in (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

Already failed my first goal for taking today off, by forgetting to turn off my alarm clock.

So my grand plan for using one of my precious days off is (drum roll, please) ….. taking my kid to a routine appointment that for some reason had to be in the middle of the day

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Syrup from a can (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

It’s the weekend, so I got up early, walked the dog and started thinking about what to make my kid for breakfast.

I spent way too long looking at a four hour recipe (why not, dinner is a smoked pork shoulder that I really need to get started asap) before giving it up

Started off normally: eggs over easy and sausage links. Let’s make the pancakes a little different with bananas and walnut, and top with fruit and nuts ….

Critical question: why do we buy a specific syrup for pancakes? It’s just sugar (or corn syrup). So I used the syrup from canned mangoes!!!! Tastes great but a bit thin and I didn’t use enough. It would be easy enough to thicken up, I’m sure. But why isn’t this the norm? We should have flavored syrup all the time, maybe save money over the maple stuff

Oh, and splurged with egg nog.

 

I generally use Lemmy through my phone browser: safari on iPhone. Starting a few weeks ago. I can no longer get to the primary url. When I try, the progress bar stops partway through, I get a long delay and eventually see “a problem repeatedly occurred on https://lemmy.world”.

I assumed there was some sort of update and was patient but it doesn’t appear to be getting fixed

As a workaround, I’ve been using https://old.lemmy.world

Is this a known problem or can someone help look into this?

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