Loquat
5d ago
I knew the songs were big online, but I was still surprised to hear one of the other neighborhood moms singing "Golden" to herself while we were cleaning up after a recent block party.
Loquat
5d ago
I do believe there's some space in between, "dog is trained enough to respect the invisi-fence" and "dog is trained so well it can be trusted to stay in an open yard regardless of how many squirrels, kids, etc may come running by".
Loquat
7d ago
Anecdotal evidence, of course, but in my neighborhood multiple houses have them and they work quite well. Maybe this is one of those situations where you really need to teach the dog about the invisi-fence rather than just installing it and assuming the dog will react the way you want, so it'll work well for the conscientious owner and poorly for the lazy owner.
Loquat
1mo ago
I'm afraid I have to admit, we don't preheat or presoak at all. Room-temp Chemex, dry filter, add coffee grounds and slightly-less-than-boiling water. The coffee's still good.
Loquat
1mo ago
If you like a chocolatey mocha flavor, Yemeni coffee beans (at least, the ones Sweet Maria's sells) tend to just naturally taste like that. The name mocha even comes from Yemen's main port city, Mokha.
Also, our kettle doesn't have a goose-neck and it works fine with our Chemex.
Loquat
1mo ago
There's an alternate model of Chemex that just has a glass handle, no leather knot involved. My husband, who's enough of a coffee snob that he buys green coffee beans to roast at home, is a great fan.
And speaking of roasting your own beans, it's not too troublesome or expensive to get started - the company we buy from, Sweet Maria's, has instructions for roasting beans in a cheap air popcorn popper - though be warned that home roasting creates a strong burning smell so it's best done outside.
Loquat
1mo ago
I remember a "trans panic" murder getting a lot of attention when I was attending college in California (google says: Gwen Araujo, killed in 2002), and Gwen wasn't a prostitute, just a teen who thought it was a good idea to hide his/her penis and have sex with a couple of different dudes in the same friend group. The dudes got prison, though.
Loquat
1mo ago
For merely waving it? Questionable, IMO. The cop who shot Ma'Khia Bryant wasn't charged, but his body cam footage showed her actively trying to stab another young woman who appeared to be unarmed. If she'd just been standing there waving the knife and yelling, and he'd shot her, I think things would have gone rather differently for him.
Loquat
2mo ago
Bro, I've worn my hair in a ponytail nearly every day for the last 20-odd years, and never had an issue with traction alopecia. Just don't pull it super-tight and you'll be fine.
Loquat
2mo ago
I don't know where you live, but in my neck of the woods pottery is accessible enough that there are multiple pottery studios within two hours' drive, and I know for a fact the closest one offers classes for both children and adults. Also, coincidentally, I was looking up pottery videos for my kids today so they could see the process, and there seem to be quite a lot on YouTube explaining all manner of techniques.
Now, if you really are totally unable to physically go anywhere and must therefore learn everything from books/videos/etc, I'd recommend woodworking instead, but if there's a pottery studio you can reasonably get to, I suggest you give it a try.
Loquat
4mo ago
I got a couple of hours in, and I'm really torn between wanting to see more of the story, and intensely disliking JRPG turn-based combat with quicktime events. (Yes, I set the difficulty to Story mode and win most fights handily, but I still don't enjoy doing them.)
Loquat
5mo ago
If you're already going to the trouble of making it in a blender, I recommend throwing in some fruit for extra flavor. My husband will blend up Huel with fresh apples and cinnamon and it's pretty great.
Loquat
5mo ago
My younger kid is like that - she doesn't want to go unless she's actually experiencing the "gotta go right now!" feeling, and will argue and get mad if any adult tells her, "go now regardless, we'll be on the road two hours and I don't want to have to make pit stops."
Loquat
5mo ago
I feel like it still counts as modern polyamory if the one-man-harem situation involves the women openly having lesbian relationships with each other and/or additional outside women. And I want to emphasize the "openly" part, the lesbian activities being openly acknowledged rather than something others maybe suspect but turn a blind eye to.
Loquat
5mo ago
Hey, we just got that too! Absolutely gorgeous game, and I really want to see where the plot goes, especially with the hints about how maybe this isn't what the Paintress and her minions want to be doing but they don't know how to change course. But oh man, JRPG gameplay is a slog, even on the lowest difficulty setting.
Loquat
5mo ago
I've seen that in a few different games, but yeah, Minecraft Dungeons doesn't seem to have anything like that at present.
Of course, in our case, such a feature would only solve half the problem...
Halfway through level
"Wait, wait, I need to change my armor."
"What? Why do you need to change your armor?"
"I don't know! I just do!"
Loquat
5mo ago
Minecraft Dungeons - it's basically Diablo, but Minecraft. My older kid loves original Minecraft (and we will be required to all see the movie soon), but the main reason we got it is because it allows 4-player couch co-op so our whole family can play together.
Both kids have picked it up pretty quickly, but I suppose I should have anticipated that the younger one would be weird about armor. She's already the type to have "fashion emergencies" IRL, so naturally she cares a lot about what her character's armor looks like and very little about what it does, despite our efforts to explain build optimization to her.
Loquat
5mo ago
While I admit there are individuals out there who would happily try to rationalize the idea of adults fucking kids 12 and under as somehow necessary and helpful for the kids, I still have enough faith in humanity to believe nearly everyone would see through it, so it would never become popular enough to add itself into woke orthodoxy.
Loquat
5mo ago
Trans activists successfully convinced a sufficient number of leftist normies that some kids are inherently trans, those who are know it at a young age, and that those kids will suffer terribly and kill themselves if forced to become physically normal adults of their birth sex, therefore the mastectomies and such are actually necessary medical care.
A lot of normies are still uncomfortable when confronted with the details, though, hence the euphemism of "gender-affirming care".
Loquat
5mo ago
Per Google, DQSH first started in 2015 in San Francisco. The first big national-news-grabbing fight over trans bathroom access was in 2016 (North Carolina), but there had been several state- and local-level squabbles over trans issues in the years before.
Loquat
5mo ago
If you have a really fantastic marinade that you want to use as a sauce, put it in a small saucepan and cook it down to a thicker consistency.
Loquat
5mo ago
What kind of self-policing do you have in mind here? This guy in particular was upset over Israel killing civilians in Gaza - you don't need to confine yourself to Hamas-endorsed sources to come away thinking Israel's gone too far, the UN Human Rights office has publicly claimed the majority of Gazans killed are women and children, and there have been multiple reported incidents of Israeli forces killing aid workers, seemingly deliberately (latest example here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/middleeast/gaza-aid-workers-killed-audio-intl-invs/index.html)
So if a dangerous potentially crazy person were inclined to be sympathetic to the Palestinians before the war started, simple honest reporting of the above would be likely to set them off. Would you suggest not reporting on foreign wars? Because that seems unworkable to me.
Recently, I've been giving some thought to the question of what I would do if an intermediate amount of shit hit the fan, such that I couldn't just drive as much as I want but grocery stores were still available. The solution I hit on was the adult-sized cargo tricycle, which is an actual thing that multiple companies offer, and it seems like a decent option for transporting stuff in a degrowth future. Of course, then we're back to the problem of having a big bulky vehicle that needs parking space while you're shopping, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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