I’m thinking more or less at parks and in public spaces. There’s some very basic implied understanding of, when you enter an establishment, you’ll probably be recorded. That understanding should end at the door.

I walk my kids to school and hear ring doorbells telling me I’m being recorded. Kinda sucks, I’m just on the sidewalk. I have a camera on my house and I set the zone so that it only starts recording for things that are on my property.

I feel like these are made to be inconspicuous. You can record, just announce it. Let me opt out by not being near you.

A backhand.

Yeah, had a good few years where we did a lot of Nos, we’re getting tanks of it from Bristol PA, $130 for a 20lber. I used to drive down, fill up two, and show up to a party and absolutely kill the mood. Went from loud people being silly to half of the partygoers up in a bedroom wonking out. I say that with a fondness too, it was silly.

And it went great with acid, k, and MDMA. I’d say K was the most frequent mixture for me, mainly because you could do nitrous and K, sober up for an hour, drink some Gatorade and a 5-hour energy, and you’re straight up good to go, it was almost disturbing, and it led to some abuse.

Those days are long gone, but I’ll never besmirch people exploring their brains. Just do it safely.

I agree for some furniture, but I’m not buying used couches. I see couches roadside with a “free” sign from time to time, and I just shudder thinking about what’s happened on that couch.

There’s one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don’t have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.

Chavs or posh and no in between. I am American and this is what I learned in social studies.

Being below average height is where it’s at. I rarely bump my head on anything. I’m a smaller target for gunfire (am American). I have never had an issue finding clothes or shoes in my size. The world is built for me. And I guess 5’8 ain’t too short, but it’s below average, and so I’ve accepted it.

I dunno, I’m American and I can tell them apart. I can essentially understand the Brits, kinda understand the Scots, almost understand the Irish, and the Welsh are completely unintelligible.

I’m from Jersey, which I call the California of the East coast (just tiny), and despite our size, the differences between north, central, south, northwest, west, Hudson/Essex, shore, are all incredibly well defined. I always get a kick out of folks from outside the US lumping all of us together. Like, I can’t even lump myself in with people 50 miles in literally any direction.

I live in Jersey (New), but a friend of ours is from Scotland, our kids are all the same age. He and his family (when they were over for the World Cup) are all just super easy to shoot the shit with. Soft-spoken and an accent makes them difficult to understand at times, but cool people. Got nothing but good things to say about the Scots based off my limited experience.

Do the medals mean anything? I did the military thing and have some medals and ribbons, and they each have specific meaning. Anyone can look at a picture and go to a wikipedia article and basically see when I served, what I did, etc. Are these just decoration? The US military is pretty active (unfortunately). I don’t exactly see North Korea getting out there and fighting wars in the same fashion, so as to warrant such well decorated members.

Neither does mozzarella but who doesn’t love dipping fried and breaded mozzarella fingers into some marinara.

Fingers are for sticking in something, including but not limited to mouth.

I love being awake and hanging out with my kids. But if they’re at school and I have a free hour, I’m taking a nap, because they definitely make me tired.

Yeah, I work a lot some days. I’m an independent contractor so it’s my work, and it ebbs and flows. Some days I work from 730-9, 10-2, then 5-11. On those days, I choose to nap from 2-3pm or so. I could do other stuff, but nothing trumps a nap.

Does your coworker know python?

I dunno, my buddy just set up cameras on his property and use Claude to write code to help them identify things (animals, his lawn mower, people), and then had Claude help him write a mobile app. I’m as anti-AI as it gets, but people absolutely use it and get value out of it.

It doesn’t have the same ring, you know? And 911 being the emergency number here in the US, it was a real double whammy for us way back then.

That’s barely enough room for spaghetti! I won’t stand for this!

The fork is the part that bothers me the most. So much handle, so little tine.