I still rinse, but as of late have taken to using mouthwash between meals each day.
The mint hurts my mouth. I use a specific toothpaste, but I’ve used many kinds, they all hurt the inside of my mouth. I have to rinse to make it stop. Idk if other people think tooth paste hurts. My dentist compliments me on my teeth, they are not in terrible shape, my teeth dont hurt, its my mouth. idk what it is that makes toothpaste hurt but I have to compulsively rinse.
I’m in the age of flatbreads. Last winter was the time of the spicy bean, I often wonder what will become of the next era.
Exciting times in the kitchen
I used to just walk 1.5 hours to work sometimes because it was the same time the bus would take, to only drop me off 75minutes early for my shift, or ten minutes late. So I’d just walk.
I’m unmedicated. This was me yesterday, until my husband got me a red bull. Got the bare minimum done, with only one heart palpitation. So win? Hahahuhhuh
Def not slop. Def hit hard.
Copacetic has an interesting history. I heard about it in a video I can’t currently find, but this article gives some history: wordorigins.org
You just don’t get it, you keep it copacetic…
I play bass and I always just listened to the song for 3 hours straight while figuring it out, writing down on makeshift sheet music the parts I got worked out. Could take hours or days depending on the song
Amazing folks can just run it through a program today, slow it down, I bet there is tech that can just, tell you the notes.
Amazing. I still learn manually this way lmao Sometimes I would just be fucking around and hit a spot, and suddenly realize thats part of a song I know, and it would all click into place.
Teaching my son to play guitar/read music this year and the tech today is so good. Hes years ahead of me when I was first starting out.
No tips, cuz I dont know the tech, I’m just impressed how far the tech has come in the last 25 years.
This is the evil shit
I ask because my son, near 12 years of age, has ADHD and ODD. Videogames have historically been a massive issue with him, and today doesn’t play them. He does however love board games. However being he is a only child, he will play Chess/Clue/Yahtzee against himself often. I play when I can but I’m not always able to. He doesn’t like drawing, painting or writing, so I lean into board games.
I’ve found a few solo board games, but nothing good
Was hoping to hear what else might be out there that people find enjoyable, as his birthday is soon.
I’ll look up what Slay the Spire is
The best time to read books for me, was when I was paid to do it.
I worked the ticket booth at a state park. We had a lake, so we’d stay open even if it was raining. We’d have four or five boats come in the morning, I’d take their fees. The rest of the day I would sit in that booth making minimum wage, sitting in a small shelter from the rain, while being in the woods, and I’d read the whole time. I read 6 books that summer just from down time sitting in the booth
Read on my own time? I can’t remember to bring the book with me. I really just need to put one in my purse… oh look, I forgot to do that … again.
Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?
This is exactly how it goes for me too
I quit playing the Sims 4, I am simply, a builder. I would go on a month binge, then not play for 6months. Sometimes I’d play once a month-
But having to fix my mods every single time I booted was so much. I never had issue finding what was broken, it was just so time consuming. Then after two hours the game would be ready to play, and … I would be instantly bored, forgot my house plan to the mind vortex, all energy spent, ugh. That game is seriously dead.
I was beyond excited to move from xbox to pc with that game. amazing how it took no time at all for me to hate it.
I also play PvE Rust, it takes like a half hour to load in, and i get a whopping 33FPS. Love that game so much, 20-30mins loading time is fine if I dont have to fix mods like a sleuth every fuckin time I want to play. Just walk slowly so the graphics can load in lmao
I still load into Rust and immediately just, log off often. Hyperfocus just isnt there sometimes. Thats when I load N (it’s free and fun!) and play short levels.
Got 7000 words done, fuck yeahhhhh Dinner was never made, but got a large chunk of it done! You folks are so supportive! Thank you! Warms my heart
I have to, I mean HAVE to, get paperwork done today.
So far today I have mowed/weed wacked the yard, weeded and watered my garden, pulled meat from the freezer to defrost and planned dinner for tonight, and took one phone call in regards to said paperwork. They called me, of course.
I’m now on break and it’s nearly noon. This paperwork is over my head and I am overwhelmed. I could start on other chores just to avoid it, instead I uh, am taking break. I have to get this done, and I am annoyed as to why I have to do it at all… I might just pull it out to look at it. That’s step one no?
Everyone here seems to be talking about co-ops… And I’m really confused by the conversation in this thread, alas,
I worked for some years for a manufacturing company that was 100% employee owned. We were a multinational manufacturer for: wire and cable, aerospace, and medical. The company began around 1972, started the EO process in the early 90’s becoming 100% employee owned by 2000.
The [National Center for Employee Ownership] (nceo.org) is a good resource for businesses looking at employee ownership. The most common ESOPs are manufacturing companies in the states last I heard at one of the nceo conferences.
The obstacles that I see, is that most companies have Investors. Obviously we all know what the investors want as they own the stock. It takes a generous leadership/company founder to sell their stock to the company for employee ownership. It’s a long process with lawyers and other legal hurdles. Not impossible, but finding generosity in the white collar business class, especially today, is not common it seems. You must have initial generosity and care for your employees from the initial owners. They decide to go employee owned or not. They either see the investment EO is, or they keep greedy.
The founder of the EO I worked for sold his last stock to the company for the same price he sold his first stock (which in the ten-ish years it took to get to 100% EO, raised considerably).
Profit sharing is dope. Basically we all got an extra large paycheck every quarter. This company I worked for paid $3-$4 more per hour to start than any other manufacturing company in the area, and bennies began the day you were hired. They literally held financial literacy classes for all employees, to better understand our financial reports, as the company was super transparent. They believed that the best ideas come from the ones running the machines, and the founder often could be found sweeping floors of his shops to better know his employees and their struggles. In 2019, the company stock was valued at over $6K a share.
The original owner passed away, then covid hit, (I left) then the leadership changed to new people who never met the founder. It’s gone down hill since. Im to be paid out this year, and the stock is half was it was when I left. I still carry a card with the original founders mission and values listed for the company. That card is no longer what they follow. It’s been sad to see.
However, I still believe Employee Ownership is a solid pathway to restoring the middle class.
Folks who began in the 90s were retiring after 25 years with the company with $1-$2 million dollars in their esop accounts alone. I know what a Roth IRA is, what it means to diversify, and what dividends are all because of this company’s financial literacy classes.
It also is possible a company becomes too big to support the EO model. This company was hitting that point around the time I left, they told us “we’re hiring lawyers to make sure that it doesn’t happen”, but as I’ve watched the stock price drop year over year, yeah bet-
“My opinion is that general failures of liberal parties to actually make life better, and reduce corruption. People have lost faith.”
They absolutely have lost both faith and hope. Our institutions lack integrity.
I’d love to see a conversation of smart people discussing how we solve the underlying problems of fascism
I really like this creator and she has a number of videos on this topic if anyone is seeking more information
Kiana Docherty YouTube2 She has many videos on the topic.
I keep baby carrots washed and on the top shelf of the fridge, along with apples and such, for just this purpose.