You would have known from my username haha. Definitely give tea a try, and pick up some interesting varieties, a nice mug, and a fun electronic kettle to simplify / fancify it into a fun part of your morning!

From personal experience, a fresh cup of coffee is what gets me out of bed when I don’t have other obligations. I use a percolator, and grind fresh coffee each use (i.e. not prepping it the night before). This helps me keep a routine between the weekdays and weekends.

I switched to tea for a bit after a rough bout of heartburn, worked about the same for me keeping a routine. I much prefer my doom scrolling when I can mimic the Kermit the frog meme with a piping hot morning beverage.

Also, you may be my friend based on the bathroom necessity. If not, you two should form a morning intestinal distress support group.

I got notified of it in the first quarter of last year.

I had already switched insurances because all my providers stopped accepting UHC because THEY WEREN’T PAYING THE FUCKING PROVIDERS

This ended up working! Great suggestion, thank you!

I’ll look into that, wasn’t something I had considered yet. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion!

I have not tried that - thanks for the suggestion!

Germany woke af by having a gender-neutral pronoun already

What’s weird about this broader “conversation” on masculinity is I feel more masculine than ever

Same. The more I read stupid quotes from the Tates and Musk’s of the world, the more I feel like I’m doing something right with how I’m living my life, raising my kiddo, and engaging with my community.

Between that and a wider understanding/acceptance of neurodivergence, I’m feeling pretty comfortable in my own skin for the first time in a long time. And I’m ready to fight for women, minorities, and the LGBTQ+ communities to feel the same way.

Agreed. Only thing keeping me from doing it daily (in good weather at least) is that I don’t have a garage, so my bike is always difficult to get out of the shed and around the back of the house.

Good news! Currently building a garage. Just need to get a seat to take the kid to daycare, and it will become the preferred daily driver.

I’ve made an effort since I’ve lived on my own to live somewhere with good walkablity / public transit availability for my personal time, often at the expense of my commute to work. I’m now at a happy balance having settled in a medium-sized town with great walk- and bikeability, and I have my shortest commute ever of 9 miles. Unfortunately there isn’t a public transit option that I can take to get to work, but it is bikeable.

Part of my house is an old house…I’ve just learned to accept that things that should be straight or square are crooked 🤣

I’ve noticed a drop in efficacy when I have a period of time where I’m anemic. I’m basically having to take iron supplements non-stop for that reason…

Nice to hear from someone else with a similar experience, and I hope that improving the anemia leads to an improvement in ADHD symptoms too!

Same here, I only found this out recently as well and changed my vitamin intake to midday.

Hey now, if a fellow freedom-haver from east of Colorado asks where I’m from, I just say north of Seattle, because they both do not care and also do not know anything about my state. If I say I’m from the “South Vancouver Trader Joe’s unincorporated district”, there is a better chance of a Canadian knowing where I am from than even someone from Seattle…

The people pushing AI don’t care if AI works or not. They will keep making money while the consumers and workers suffer.

100% - I started writing a second paragraph about John Deere’s fuckery, but deleted it. You are spot on.

Manufacturers try really hard to stop their proprietary software from getting out into the world, because when it does this is exactly what happens.

Case in point: I have a $35 phone app that lets me change software configurations on my BMW, and it is great. Can’t change anything related to engine, aftertreatment, or safety though…which is a good thing.

Propane is way less energy dense per volume than diesel, so it isn’t feasible for long-haul trucking. CNG/LNG is more energy dense than propane, but still nowhere near that of diesel fuel, which is why you see it in busses and garbage trucks. I know a few massive fleets (UPS comes to mind) that use CNG for some of their local routes, but that is probably more for the “green” optics than anything else.

After clicking on a $43k chandelier, now my “recommended products” for underwear is just a bunch of diamond-encrusted things…

Edit: thongs, damn autocorrect. But it still works