A fixer-upper.

I appreciate the suggestion, but I’m single and live in a garage “apartment.” It wouldn’t be a good life for them.

My paternal family name. No one else carries my last name and I’m almost 40, been single for a decade now so kids are out of the question.

God knows how many generations of this name existed only to die out because I’m pathetic lol

“Coworker 4 - talking too much in general about any topic (they would just prefer I shut up tbh unless there is zero work)”

I am this person lol without knowing them at all I can say at least for this type of person I think the best thing to do is just be direct about work stuff, get to the point right away after the initial pleasantries of initiating the conversation. If they’re anything like me they might actually dislike conversation for similar reasons that you feel anxious. I just don’t have much to say other than strictly work related business and it stresses me out to be stuck in a “meaningless” conversation.

If coworker 1 really is “a bitch” then there isn’t all that much you can do, just treat her similar to coworker 4 and just accept that she might be judging you for stupid reasons. That’s more of a “her problem” than a you problem. As they say “you can’t make everyone like you.” but that doesn’t have to mean there’s anything “wrong” with you, some people just don’t mesh well.

Because they’re so small I think a bowl of tardios would be more like a liquid, probably not very viscous, and more than likely wouldn’t taste like anything. I think the “texture” of that would feel disgusting though

Whenever companies pull especially greedy bullshit it just makes me want to find the content another way…

The game Avowed just pulled this “advanced release” bullshit, pay $20 more and get access a few days early. Had they simply released the game I’d have bought it, but after seeing that I said fuck you I’ll find it another way and honestly I’m glad I did. As one review put it: it’s aggressively “meh.”

Use it as an excuse to strengthen your bond I guess. Just say something like “all I want is to do (XYZ thing you know you both like: dinner, movie, whatever.) with you, I don’t need anything more.” If that even is something you’d even want to do of course. Don’t force it if it isn’t what you want.

Just be honest with them, you could even possibly try to explain the anxiety you feel about it all and let them know you’re happy just being with them in whatever way.

Either that or pick a food you like lol for me I’d probably just say “get me a big ol’ bag of chocolate covered pretzels and I’ll be in heaven.” :P

Doesn’t have to be! Add some flavor! I was always partial to adding a bit of pineapple juice.

As another person suggested try to substitute with something similar.

It doesn’t have to be purely fizzy water, I used to mix seltzer with a little pineapple juice. Pick whatever you like and start there, you might eventually appreciate just the seltzer on its own and not need the juice.

Just try not to replace a ton of sugar with a ton of sugar, so even with the fruit juice 1/2 & 1/2 would be a start as opposed to 3/4 juice 1/4 seltzer, the opposite of that of course being best.

I fucking love anchovies! I just made a fried pizza with anchovies the other day!

If your supermarket has them pick up some premade dough, stretch out whatever size you want that will fit in the pan you have, and deep fry that mother for a minute or so until it’s golden, flip and repeat. Then after that’s done I top it with sauce, anchovies, onion, and mozzarella and put it under the broiler until the cheese gets a little browned.

Idk if it still classifies as shitty food but it’s damn good and really easy.

“Mr Trump there are those that say your only motivation for this is to enrich yourself, how do you respond?”

“Of course the lying crooked media would say that I am going to enrich myself. Is my name Donald Trump Jr? There’s no Jr in my name so obviously I’m not the corrupt one here!”

Fucking seriously… I wish there were aliens that could save us from ourselves, but it’s just oligarchs all the way down…

If only someone could have responded with that… Too bad they’re in a circlejerk literal walled garden safe space where any “other” (unflaired) gets booted.

Looks like the tech bros and oil oligarchs are really getting their money’s worth. They bought this

Not really sure to be honest. Even in the US the price varies a lot it seems. Some people are paying $10/dozen but my coworker just mentioned paying $4/dozen.

I have high cholesterol so I buy 0 dozens lol

Oh man you better delete that picture, I see those eggs. Don’t display your valuables online someone is going to rob you!

Idk, honestly one of the larger selling points to global trade was that you’d be much less likely to want to go to war with someone you relied on. If there is literally nothing connecting you then war is a much “easier” option to choose. :/

It’s almost like not having any real representation other than lip service to culture wars issues combined with social media and “traditional” media propaganda helping the right actually has an effect on perceptions of “the left”… Who’d have thought…

“Can you believe this!? Oatmeal. I’m being sued by oatmeal. The left has lost their minds! They have nothing so they have oatmeal sue me. I’m signing an executive order that outlaws oatmeal now. We’re going to deport all the horses too. Long faced communists.”

I tried asking it what it couldn’t discuss and it mentioned misinformation, so I asked it what would be an example of misinformation about the Chinese government and it started to give an answer and then it must have said something wrong because it basically went “oh shit” and deleted the response replacing it with the generic “I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”