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Android Apocalypse posted:Funny enough my friend lost their drone when we were in a wooded field last Saturday. It wasn't a DJI but he also has another drone that me may use to look in the upper part of the trees sometime later this month. I have a DJI Mavic that's really cool but I can only use it about 2-3 months out of the year because that app for Android is constantly broken. I once crashed it in an owl (I think) nest (nothing was in it) and had to get an extension ladder to retrieve it.
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We’re both 34 and a no on kids. I’m happy being the funcle. Also, had Buc-ee’s brisket sandwich and it was incredibly mid. It was basically Mission BBQ tier (though I didn’t have to recite pledge to get it so point to the Beaver)
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35 with no kids and no prospects but after seeing my brother become a father and seeing my niece grow from needy potato to whole person with her own personality and quirks but still having the mannerisms of my maternal grandfather and little expressions that are just like my brother has been kind of incredible and it makes me wish I'd been better about relationships in my 20s and early 30s. I hate my job and I hate my career prospects so I don't really have anything to sacrifice for. I have cool poo poo and do cool poo poo with my spare time but there's not much point in all the cool stuff when you're not sharing it with someone and the motivation in me is waning pretty badly to keep it up. Is what it is. Kids and a wife and a life would be pretty cool. If it happens it happens, if not, thems the breaks. Can't force this poo poo into the universe. swickles posted:General Dog make sure are legal to fly your drone before you do. We live nowhere near an airport but are in an FAA zone that requires registration to fly a drone, something we found out when getting our roof done. No but I very much like this idea and maybe we should build one and become app millionaires.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I’m watching the second season of Reacher and it’s corny as hell. The first season was pretty good too. Its hilarious how corny it is but I dunno why, this season just isn't grabbing me like the first one. I think the first one had that right mix in terms of tone with him being kinda folksy and friendly but capable of overwhelming brutality and they managed to walk that line extremely well. This season - not sure, maybe its the ensemble cast they have, not having the chemistry of the first one? The black dude from boston in the first one played off Reacher so loving well, I kinda miss their dynamic. The cutie he was working with in the first season was also a bad rear end in her own way but still rounded and grounded in her character but the lady he's working with in s2 is kind of brilliant and amazing at everything which makes me wonder if there's another shoe to drop with her that's coming or if its just bad writing.
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swickles posted:General Dog make sure are legal to fly your drone before you do. We live nowhere near an airport but are in an FAA zone that requires registration to fly a drone, something we found out when getting our roof done. Paprika. I’ve been using it for years. It’s a recipe app, but they have a pantry you can utilize to keep track of what you have. I pull recipes from Milk Street or Serious Eats with the in-app browser, then you can add groceries to a list right from the recipe. It’s on iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Android.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:My parents had me at 17 and then my mom had my baby sister at 38, so it's a fun age gap to explain. A friend of mine is a self-proclaimed "oops baby" - her two sisters are 20+ years older than her. So you're not alone! bobjr posted:With anyone I knew under 20 who had a kid, the make or break point was how much help their parents/grandparents gave them. Yeah, anybody who I know had a kid before like 30 had very involved family, a lot of money, or one parent who could be home all the time. Oftentimes a combination of those factors! Manoueverable posted:And on an ethical level I just don't know if I could bring them into a world that will almost certainly see the collapse of civilization and all the horrors it will bring within their lifetime. I know it feels much more real because we are experiencing it daily, but there's always been some sort of ongoing crisis or negative externality that has made bringing kids into the world a questionable choice. And yet people still get up in the morning and try to make the most of life. The vast majority of people ITT were born under the very real threat of nuclear annihilation (or at least an oft-discussed threat).
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Aside from the global warming threat, things have improved overall worldwide in a lot of key areas: overall child mortality is down, women's access to education has risen, global poverty has decreased etc in the last 50 years. Parents worldwide are having less kids (amount of kids is inverse to poverty). I'm not saying things are GOOD, but moreso every generation has its challenges with being parents. If I'm not having kids it won't be because I don't think it's morally unethical but because I personally don't think I can raise a kid right or want to.
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If everyone waited for certain times none of us would be here. Do everything you can to put the odds in your favor of course but you can't let what the world might do dictate your life choices too much.
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Leperflesh posted:Your cat instinctively wants some fiber. You can potentially help the cat by adding fiber to their diet via a little psyllium powder (it's basically metamucil, but get pure psyllium so there's no additives) plus a little extra water, to their wet food daily. Of course ask your vet first. But it really helped our cat who had gut issues. We do this but adding a teaspoon of pumpkin to wet food twice a day then mixing in some water for some delicious tuna chunk and pumpkin soup. We started with a powder but the pumpkin was easier to clean. Again, always ask the vet. swickles posted:Does anyone use any apps to keep track of their kitchen inventory? I'm looking for something I could access from both mine and my wife's phone (Android and iPhone). Tired of wondering if we have X spice or sauce and ending up with 3 bottles. Would like to be able to track what spices, sauces/condiments, and what all we have in our deep freeze. We just packaged a lot of meat and come spring are probably going to be splitting a cow with some neighbors, so it would be nice to have everything on my phone instead of the dry erase board next to the deep freeze. No, but interested to hear if anyone has a good suggestion. I have a dedicated sticky note on on e of my phone home screens that's a grocery list I add things to when they are out or low, but that still requires me to have an idea of what we normally stock. I did put together a google sheet in my drive to keep track of our chest freezer inventory so we can know what fish we have in there from our monthly box, but can't imagine doing that for the whole drat kitchen.
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Watching the Netflix doc about that NBA ref that got caught cheating and gambling. Love that this guy still sticks to his dumb story that like he knew the other refs so well that he could predict the outcome of the games that he just happened to also be a ref in.
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Between here ans the GWS thread, Paprika seems to be the go to. I already added my spice and condiments to the app, so no more collecting bottles of Worchestershire sauce for me. This week will add the fridge and deep freeze.
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Leperflesh posted:Your cat instinctively wants some fiber. You can potentially help the cat by adding fiber to their diet via a little psyllium powder (it's basically metamucil, but get pure psyllium so there's no additives) plus a little extra water, to their wet food daily. Of course ask your vet first. But it really helped our cat who had gut issues. My cat has an internal medicine specialist because of his gut issues. He's on budesonide because prednisone was elevating his blood sugar. Vet says only give him his prescription food and very tiny amounts of anything else, sadly.
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Freaquency posted:Paprika. I’ve been using it for years. It’s a recipe app, but they have a pantry you can utilize to keep track of what you have. I pull recipes from Milk Street or Serious Eats with the in-app browser, then you can Hearty recommend, paprika is great and makes our cooking life infinitely better
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Got my adderal today and will start tomorrow. I also just found ou ER is on Hulu so I'm starting psuedo-rewatch since I kinda remember watching various parts at different times. That show had a stacked cast.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Got my adderal today and will start tomorrow. I also just found ou ER is on Hulu so I'm starting psuedo-rewatch since I kinda remember watching various parts at different times. That show had a stacked cast. It had a stacked cast, but holy God did it go off the rails in ridiculous fashion after Anthony Edwards left at the end of season 8. The show's zombie corpse staggered around for seven more seasons after that, which boggles my mind.
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Smoking Crow posted:I'm 30 and I get a lot of poo poo from my parents for not having kids yet I’m 53, have never fathered kids, and never will (steps have been taken). Straight to hell with anyone who tries to pressure you or anyone else into having children. It isn’t for everyone.
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BlindSite posted:35 with no kids and no prospects but after seeing my brother become a father and seeing my niece grow from needy potato to whole person with her own personality and quirks but still having the mannerisms of my maternal grandfather and little expressions that are just like my brother has been kind of incredible and it makes me wish I'd been better about relationships in my 20s and early 30s. I hate my job and I hate my career prospects so I don't really have anything to sacrifice for. I have cool poo poo and do cool poo poo with my spare time but there's not much point in all the cool stuff when you're not sharing it with someone and the motivation in me is waning pretty badly to keep it up. Are you me
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Timby posted:It had a stacked cast, but holy God did it go off the rails in ridiculous fashion after Anthony Edwards left at the end of season 8. The show's zombie corpse staggered around for seven more seasons after that, which boggles my mind. I didn't expect the pilot episode to go so hard or for William H Macy to pop up. I did catch some episodes of later season ER but I what remember watching off the top of my head is the episode where Carol has her babies as a kid with my grandma who passed because she loved ER. She was a hospital admin for a long time before becoming a trauma then GI cancer nurse. My sister in law also sent me a clip from an episode where a CPS worker gets shot by a dad earlier this week so that's what sparked my interested.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I didn't expect the pilot episode to go so hard or for William H Macy to pop up. I did catch some episodes of later season ER but I what remember watching off the top of my head is the episode where Carol has her babies as a kid with my grandma who passed because she loved ER. She was a hospital admin for a long time before becoming a trauma then GI cancer nurse. My sister in law also sent me a clip from an episode where a CPS worker gets shot by a dad earlier this week so that's what sparked my interested. William H. Macy recurs as Dr. Morgenstern throughout much of the show, so you'll see quite a bit of him.
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Anyone here from Nashville? Wife and I are thinking of going in March and we want to know what's fun to do there.
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trilljester posted:Anyone here from Nashville? Wife and I are thinking of going in March and we want to know what's fun to do there. Not from there, but get a catfish sandwich from the Nashville Palace.
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Speaking of food just had half an apple to get things started again after fasting for 72 hours and it was the most delicious thing I have ever eaten.
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trilljester posted:Anyone here from Nashville? Wife and I are thinking of going in March and we want to know what's fun to do there. ahhhh man Nashville is the biggest tourist trap east of the Mississippi. It's a way bigger, less drunken, classier Gatlinburg. Number 1 city in the country for bachelorette parties. Nashville has good restaurants, stupid tourist poo poo to do everywhere, and of course live music and bars. I think the last time I was there I did some like...printing museum place? Which is cooler than it sounds. The person I was with was really into printing, I guess. They have a full sized model of the Parthenon from like the worlds fair a century ago. Broadway is a spectacle. You just meander through bars that all have live music and the performers can play anything you throw at them. At night it's a spectacle. It's very expensive now and a Coors light costs like 14 bucks on the weekends but it's definitely worth seeing. Food is fantastic. The marquee item is Nashville Hot Chicken which is forgettable. West Nashville is where all the cool kids hang out. Tons of over the top tourist joints, world class wine and dines, some of the best drunk food youve ever had in your life. Nashville is a great place to spend two nights every few years.
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BlindSite posted:If everyone waited for certain times none of us would be here. Do everything you can to put the odds in your favor of course but you can't let what the world might do dictate your life choices too much. Yeah, this. You’ll never be perfectly, 100% ready to be a parent - all you can do is try to set things up. I’m glad my wife and I traveled a bunch in 2019, because the pandemic happened and now maaaaybe it’ll be possible to bring the little one along this year. I’m glad we have the little one we do, and we’re discussing going for two, but we’ll see. What BlindSite said about seeing a child go from potato to toddler is amazing and true and accurate in my experience, and it’s also exhausting sometimes. Oftentimes. Thankfully better now that they’re closing in on two years old. Also re: grocery lists and tracking, I use the Goodnotes app on iPad, also have it on my phone, and they can sync over iCloud to allow me and the missus to write out meal plans on there and then use it to order groceries or go to the supermarket in person. Pretty handy.
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trilljester posted:Anyone here from Nashville? Wife and I are thinking of going in March and we want to know what's fun to do there. Country Music Hall of Fame for sure. Catch a Predators game while you're there too (best hockey atmosphere I've ever seen). There'll be tons of live music downtown any given night of the week. Just hop bars until you find something you like. Avoid the big-name clubs owned by country stars. If you like bourbon, take a few tours. A day trip south to Tullahoma (George Dickel) and Lynchburg would be worth it. Jack Daniels isn't a particularly good bourbon, but their tour is absolutely one of the best you'll see.
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Re: kid chat, my gf and I have touched on the convo a few times. She’s 28 and in no rush and that’s totally understandable (she doesn’t want to think about marriage until 30), and yeah guys dont have the clock women do, but my parents are getting older. My dad had a TIA a few weeks ago that presented as about a day of complete amnesia. He’s on eliquis too, and he had a workup that lasted three days inpatient that came up with nothing, which is either reassuring or terrifying depending on how you look. Dad is slowing down in general too. Nothing anyone not a family member but it’s there. One of the reason I moved to Asheville was to be here as they got older. My sister is on the other side of the country. I just don’t know if hitting them with a newborn at 73-74 would be helpful. They’d be thrilled of course and do everything they could, but that’d become a lot as they got older. Eventually I’ll be in charge of everything. my girlfriend’s parents are worthless. Frankly I wouldn’t want a kid with them unsupervised. Then there’s the whole “should I even bring a kid into this world?” conundrum. Things are going to get interesting here in the next few years. Maybe I’ll adopt, I dunno. I think I’d make a good dad.
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swickles posted:Between here ans the GWS thread, Paprika seems to be the go to. I already added my spice and condiments to the app, so no more collecting bottles of Worchestershire sauce for me. This week will add the fridge and deep freeze. Speaking of deep freeze, we got one last week and it’s great. Bought a ton of meat from Costco and filled it up - mostly to be used to make food for the dogs but it’s also freed up a lot of space in our regular freezer. If you have space to get one, do it, it’s worth it. We found a 7 cu. ft one at Best Buy for like $170 on sale.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Speaking of deep freeze, we got one last week and it’s great. Bought a ton of meat from Costco and filled it up - mostly to be used to make food for the dogs but it’s also freed up a lot of space in our regular freezer. please measure at least twice regarding "if you have space" signed, this dipshit, who has a refrigerator stuck halfway down his basement stairs bc it's too heavy to drag back out and too big to get further down
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StupidSexyMothman posted:please measure at least twice regarding "if you have space" Oof that sucks. We have a huge crawl space that stays pretty constant temp regardless of how cold or hot it gets so we knew we had room. It was also a chest freezer so. So like…is the fridge literally stuck still? Please take pics.
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if you think the change from potato to toddler is something, wait til you see the change from toddler to full on kid. my oldest turned 5 in September and she's like suddenly...a person. like, the hindbrain and forebrain stuff connected, she can reason through things, and she comes up with all kinds of amazing questions and ideas. I can see why it's so easy for parents to think their little one is a genius. the process of mental development is astonishing to watch.
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shirts and skins posted:if you think the change from potato to toddler is something, wait til you see the change from toddler to full on kid. my oldest turned 5 in September and she's like suddenly...a person. like, the hindbrain and forebrain stuff connected, she can reason through things, and she comes up with all kinds of amazing questions and ideas. This really is stunning to see. What surprised me most was like the sudden development of a strong sense of humor. She was already a pretty funny kid but she really like had comedic timing and hits observational humor super hard. It’s amazing.
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FizFashizzle posted:Has there ever been a parent who said “yeah my kid is loving dumb” one of my friends is sometimes like "man I dunno" about his son, but seems like some of it is just toddlers are dumb. hard to tell. the one, honest, true regret I have in my life, is that the timing of things went such that my little one came around a couple years after my mom passed away. She was looking forward to being a grandma so goddamn much, it's the one pain that I do have. almost everything else that was a forking path can be balanced out by how it actually has turned out, but man, that is the one that hurts. Hug your moms, if you're able and want to.
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FizFashizzle posted:Has there ever been a parent who said “yeah my kid is loving dumb” Yea sometimes. I also try to remember that he's just 4, and sometimes you have to repeat things 100 times before they get it.
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harperdc posted:one of my friends is sometimes like "man I dunno" about his son, but seems like some of it is just toddlers are dumb. hard to tell. Definitely my regret is not letting my parents be grandparents before they passed away. At least my mom got to see my sister get married. Smoking Crow posted:Called off work today bc I have a doctor's appointment My sister needs to go to a doctor's appointment today so I'm up at 5:30am. Even though she's visiting me she's not on vacation.
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