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wildncrazyguy138

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  • 'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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  • My wife and I had a good snicker one time when I brought home edamame peas in the shell.

    They were shelled, but she wanted them shelled.

    Flammable/imflammable is another one that comes to mind.

  • What 3 good and bad things do you see happening in the world in the next 12 months?

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  • Good

    • Personalized medicine means diseases are being cured at a rapid pace
    • The great pacific garbage patch will be cleaned up!
    • High speed rail is to start service in central California

    Bad

    • The war in Ukraine and Sudan are set to continue
    • The vast revolution wind project in Rhode Island is likely to remain stalled, near completion
    • Because the republicans have a trifecta in the levers of federal government, the US is going to have a hard fight ahead of it to maintain free and fair federal elections. Depending on how that shapes out, other countries governments may feel more bolstered to follow suit.

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • I cast one of my donut shaped microwave magnets in your direction. Qty: 30

  • What normal household item becomes a mythical magic item when given to someone in a fantasy novel?

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  • The standard faire would be a mirror or the ladder to the attic or a broom.

    If you’re looking for the path less traveled, a microwave magnet is a fantastic way to curse your nemesis’s compass.

  • What's wrong, babe?

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  • Wait, this has a name!? It’s better with the coffee creamers that usually come next to the vending machine. Also better if you use Dr. Pepper. Tastes like an ice cream float.

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  • As long as you both consent to it and he is willing to also put in the work it takes to raise a child then what’s the problem?

    Malcolm Gladwell just recently had a child in his late 50s/early 60s and so did Peter Sagal of Wait Wait fame. People have kids later in life all the time.

    My wife and I had our first child when I was 39 because that’s finally when it happened for us and we had the means to support our kid the way we wanted.

    I’m in my mid 40s now and would love another. I still have the energy to swing our kid around and throw her up in the air. Now she’s getting into the ages where she can hike with us, it’s a wonderful journey watching her grow and learn.

    One thing I would just ask of you, personally, is just make the commitment to read to your child. Read to them every night. Read to them as much as they want. Read to them even when you’re tired. It’s so important for their development.

  • What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?

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  • You’re up north? I’d be thinking of ways to keep the house insulated, warm and with pipes unfrozen.

    Pipewrap. They come in a few different options. The cheap foam works ok, but can be a pain around elbows and expansions. The insulation roll is a bit easier to get done well but takes more time.

    Pipe heaters - relatively cheap, somewhere around $20-40. Run it along the pipe and plug it in.

    Do you have a well or city water? If a well, make sure that cement encasement is lodged in the ground good and then stuff insulation all in it. Pipe warmer may serve you well here too. If city, then you’re in a bit of an easier situation.

    If you have a crawl space, seal the door well. Don’t forget to open the vents in the summer and for sure close them in the winter. If you have a basement, make sure your water barrier is doing its job and get a dehumidifier to prevent mold. Try to get one with a drain tube so you don’t have to empty it all the freaking time like I currently do.

    Get one of those foam dohickeys for your outdoor faucets and for the love of all that is unfrozen do not leave your hoses attached in the winter.

    Get a preventive maintenance plan on your big ticket items like furnaces boilers and aircons. People neglect these and then end up with an eventual $8k unexpected bill. At least the pms will tell you if you’re close to their expiry so you can prepare. They may also help you prevent mold in your aircon before it becomes a problem.

    Get pest control, we do monthly. It’ll help keep out the ants, mice, bats and squirrels.

    Get yourself a backup battery that can run a fridge for a day. Or invest in a backup generator.

    Figure out what your secondary source of heat will be (e.g wood stove, propane, kerosene.) Make sure you have it stocked. If you burn anything, make sure to get a CO sensor and that your fire alarms are working. Houses are so tightly built nowadays that you’ll need to ensure anything burned has proper ventilation.

    Change your air filters every 3 months depending on use. Make sure to clean your fridge air filter every 6 months. If you have a kitchen stove exhaust fan, make sure to clean that up every few months as well.

    Invest in some salt and a snow shovel if you don’t already have one. You’ll need it. .

    Change out your locks. Who knows who the previous owners gave a key. If your doors have the smart key system, then it’s very easy to do nowadays.

    Learn where your electric panel is, make sure you don’t have two or even three elsewhere around the house, sometimes inside, sometimes out.

    Don’t be a stranger, talk to your neighbors. They’re your best resource in a pinch

    Congrats on owning your own castle. It’s a lot of upkeep but it’s a lot of piece of mind too.

  • YSK a slice of bologna can make the paint on a car peel off due to its high level of salt and lactic acids

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  • These are the useless kind of you should know facts that I need in my life.

    Could hot dogs serve the same purpose in a pinch?

  • Water Boil Advisory

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  • I would have preferred it in the form of a limerick, but that’s why I listen to NPR.

  • That white guy on the Cracker Barrel logo they were trying to get rid of.. Is his name just Cracker?

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  • If history serves me correctly, his first name is Uncle and if you follow him everything will be alright.

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    Do you think trump croaked?

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  • Huh, maybe DT has been following RFK Jrs recommendations and he really did make America healthy again.

  • Messed up Barbie ideas

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  • Donkey Show Barbie

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    my youtube algorithm kinda sucks rn, recommend me some

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    • Everything Daven Hiskey and Simon Whistler make
    • Geographics channel could use some love
    • Eric Rosen chess
    • Veritasium (popular but well produced and informative)
    • Adam Savage’s channel of mythbusters fame
    • Montemayor - rarely posts but his WW2 battle breakdowns are so good!

  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • If the people were all invested in taking out the billionaires, then the people would win, hands down.

    But if, as in the current situation, the people have higher priorities, in which 50% do not find billionaires to be an existential threat, and at least 300 million think they are simply temporarily embarrassed billionaires themselves, then the billionaires win, that is, until the Earth inevitably cannot support them any longer.

  • I resigned to my last job and now I need to talk to my abusive former boss to get the job back. Any recommendations?

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  • This is challenging but it could be one of those excellent opportunities for you to learn and grow as a person and a professional. As a lawyer, you probably already understand that personal relationships and references are essential to this line of work, especially if you plan to move up to senior or partner.

    Moreover, you seem to have some animosity towards her ways of working. You’ll need to work past that. Perhaps she had reasons that she arrived late, like a child at home and lack of childcare. Maybe an agreement with her boss due to work/life. As a lawyer you likely understand already that you really don’t know someone and what they’re dealing with until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.

    So here’s how I’d handle it:

    1. Prime the pump. Do you have client references that you could leverage? Could they start asking about you to your former boss?
    2. Do you have senior members that you worked for that would be willing to have a chat about you to her to check her sentiment?
    3. Crank the starter. Would you be willing to meet up with her professionally outside of work, coffee, drinks. To catchup, test the waters, play the game. During the meeting I wouldn’t outright talk to her about this new position, you want to make her feel comfortable with you again first. When you anticipate the timing is right, have a discussion about what her perceptions were, what went wrong and feedback on how you could improve. Listen, acknowledge, try not to push back on the little things, let ‘em slide. Certainly don’t be a pushover if it’s something that confronts your values or ethics. Actively seek her feedback here. You want her to recognize that, although you two had your challenges in the past, that you respect her as the senior professional that she is. Thank her for her time and offer to buy the coffee.
    4. Shift into drive. Once you’ve at least partially mended the relationship (it may take a few meetings, you decide) and know where she’s coming from, that’s when you can matter of factly ask what she would need to consider being a colleague again. See how she responds, that will give you your answer and her requirements. If she’s somewhat decent judge of character, she’ll have understood your motives by now and knows the game y’all are playing.

    Personal anecdote, last year I had someone dead-ass quit on me with no notice. He was smart, qualified, decent worker, had military experience which I appreciate. He reached out via email a month ago and said he was struggling with PTSD at the time, was trying to hold on, and underwent some therapy over the last 6 months. He asked if I’d consider hiring him again. Like lawyers, it’s damn hard to get decently qualified people in my line of work and it takes years to ramp them up to processes and procedures. I wasn’t willing to hire him back, because I can’t trust someone that flat out quits like that on me. But you know what I did? I sent him a list of contacts of people I know at sister agencies and said I’d be a reference for him if he wants to get back in the line of work. I think most people in this world generally do want others to be successful, we don’t like to see people suffer. I also think we as individuals get in our own heads a lot more than what serves us. So take the opportunity, see where it takes you. You miss all the shots…etc etc.

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • I used to give fairly often, but after handing one of the more famous homeless folks in my community a 5 spot and him immediately saying “thanks man, I’m going to go buy a beer with this” I took a hard think and realized I don’t want to enable that lifestyle. I mean a beer is fine every once in a while, but I’d rather see the guy have a safe environment where he can drink it.

    So now instead I donate to our local hospitality house every time someone asks me for some change.

  • Why do so many conservatives in the US bash on California all the time?

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  • It’s easy to hate and fear the “other” - not just a conservative thing, though I do think they’re a bit more vitriolic about it.

  • What AI tools have you found useful?

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  • I use it to help give me ideas for DND character building and campaigns. I used it to help me write a closing poem for my character who sacrificed himself for the greater good at the end of a long 2 year run. It gave me the scaffold and then I added some details. It generated my latest character picture based upon some criteria.

    Otherwise, it gave me some recommendations on how to flavor up a dish the other day. Again I used it but added my own flair.

    I asked it a question to help me the remember a movie title based upon some criteria (tip of my tongue style) it nailed it spot on.

    I’ll tell you one place I hated it today. The Hardee’s drive through line. Robot voice drives me up the wall.

  • What movie did you see too young that still haunts you to this day?

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  • Hellraiser and the original Dune. Claymation looks so fake now, but it didn’t back then.