A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.

One of the best examples of how it’s expensive to be poor.

We got a BJs (regional wholesale club) membership around the time our first was born. It was worth it just for diapers and wipes. Hell, when he was on formula, a giant jar at BJs cost the same as a medium jar at the supermarket.

A lot of things were like this, but the best examples were the ones that take up the most space and either get used (comparatively) slowly or go bad relatively quickly. Like paper goods. Frozen anything. Fresh meat, produce, dairy.

But if you don’t have the space to store that stuff (and especially to stock up when there are coupons/sales), you’re missing out.

I’m thinking of buying a chest freezer just so I have a bunch of frozen pizzas on hand so we have no excuse to order delivery when we get home too tired to cook. On that use case alone, the freezer would probably pay for itself by 6 months, including electricity.

Can’t do that if you’ve got a 600sqft studio.

Sometimes one big purchase might be worth it to get a membership for. Like tires. How much you’d save on a set of tires would be less than the cost of a first-year membership, especially if you got a Groupon. But if you don’t have the space to store wholesale goods, it’s probably not even on your radar.

That happened to me on vacation, and why I was a member of the Houston Museum of Natural History (I think that’s what it was called), despite only being there one time and living like 1200mi away. For my family of four to go and park, tour the museum, see a planetarium show, etc, it was cheaper to become a member, even if we’d never be coming back during its term.

Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?

Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing.

And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).

The dentists panoramic X-ray that swung around your head like something out of a sci-fi VR movie was the coolest, imo.

But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.

Whose your friend who likes to play?

Realizing now that there are probably people here who were Riley’s age (11) when that movie came out (2015)…

“Dick Bong” sounds like a nickname you’d give someone you caught trying to turn a bong into a fleshlight. Or vice-versa…

I think these are different teeth. Like one person tried it and another had insatiable curiosity after seeing the bit one.

Windows is just a hostile OS now. The only explanation for its dominance now is mass Stockholm syndrome.

Or use a password manager and strong unique passwords everywhere. It’s really not that hard. Just disable everything built into browsers and OS and use a good third-party platform like Bitwarden.

Honestly it’s easier than remembering one weak password (and then being to change it every 3 months for your bank and every 4 months for your utilities…)

Then you can store your passkeys in Bitwarden boom they are on all devices.

Googles Passkey is one of the easiest things to use in the world.

I really wish there was an opensource Social Auth option that was, ya know, actually used. I hate logging into my Google account, but likely for different reasons than op is stating.

So my kid is learning guitar, and I keep thinking of ideas for mildly inappropriate songs for him to learn, because he’s only nine.

I’m gonna add “Stacy’s Mom” to that list, for you.

I know it might be wrong, but I’m gonna teach him that song.

Lol nobody Rs TFM anymore. I’m in the middle of having ChatGPT teach me terraform lol.

Me, every time I see Fabuloso.

Hello, Clarice.

Actually saying it out loud it kinda sounds like a BFE, Minnesota accent. Or maybe more Canadian. However my idea of Minnesota accent is based on the mom from Bobby’s World and Uncle Joey’s beaver.

I’m realizing again a few minutes later that 00s+ kids may not get either of those references. And Dave Coullier is Canadian and I think his beaver is too.

Edit again, I realize that the 00s+ kids that don’t get the references would probably be more confused by me referencing two mens beavers.

Dave Coullier (sp?) was the actor who played the character Uncle Joey (Gladstone) in Full House, where he pretended to be the uncle to three little girls and lived in their house, with their dad Bob Sagat (of “the aristocrats” and “Rolling with Sagat”), after the mom died of mysterious circumstances. As the girls got older Uncle Joey started making videos where he stuck his hand into a beaver and used it as a puppet. Part of this gag usually revolved around various jokes about “wood”. Eventually this got him to become a bit of a local celebrity, in the morning news and as a radio host.

Partly related fact, Alanis Morissette’s album (and now Broadway Musical), Jagged Little Pill, was inspired by a bad breakup with Dave Coullier

American here, and they rhyme. LEE-ver and NEE-ver.

Better Nate than lever.

– https://natethesnake.com/

I’m gonna wear my grandfather’s old ghost costume. It’s really high quality linen. My drycleaner was speechless, like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Like he’d seen a ghost. He even told me he couldn’t clean it and to take it somewhere else. It’s that high quality. That’s the type of “wow” I hope to get.

Semi-related PSA for when Disney is eventually uncancelled…

If you find yourself at Animal Kingdom, try to get on some of the later safari rides. Like, closer to dusk. Usually not much of a line. Totally different experience than during the day.

That’s when you might hear the kitties meow like 15 feet from the van.

Let’s take a look at plus-size models. That’s a really good example.

It makes this rift between haas/body acceptance and what’s really actually healthy.

But on the flip side, super-skinny models aren’t exactly healthy, either.

Both normalize unhealthy weight and lead to population-wide body image problems and related eating disorders. Then you get things like social media throwing rocket fuel on that fire.

I don’t see how either is “woke” though.