Bread maker for my dad when his old one started dying. Quality has dropped a lot in the last few years; I expect new bread makers won't last more than 1-2 years going forward.
New e-reader for my mom when Amazon/Kindle started getting shittier. The real gift though was setting it up for access to her library and a storefront so it's easy for her to download new books.
Rowing club coach at a university I was interested in told me I was too short to bother trying out but if I dropped all muscle to squeak under 120 lbs I could try for coxswain.
Jokes on them, rowing generally requires waking up before the ass crack of dawn which was not conducive to my preferred college experience. I found rugby, which has way broader allowance for body type and no sunrise torture sessions.
Is this, like, revelatory to anyone? I don't mean this to be flippant, I am just genuinely surprised when it seems like new discourse to people to learn horror has been the realm of POC, women, queer folks, and others not-in-power to get their ideas into the world.
This feels a bit like PTA-driven panic about kids eating Tide Pods when like one person did it. Or razor blades in Halloween candy. Or kids making toilet hooch with their juice boxes. Or the choking game sweeping playgrounds.
But also, man on internet with no sense of mental health ... sounds almost feasible.
The Venn diagram of men who name their boys jr, III, IV, etc and the men who really care that their child has a penis is not a perfect circle but does overlap a lot IME. Gives "boys carry on my blood, girls are accessories" vibes.
Don't make phone calls on speaker when in public. Not even if you hold it up to your ear.
They don't believe in either so the Dilemma is not a dilemma for them.
If I care enough about another user to note them across time and communities, I give them a tag.
In the other direction, I don't expect anyone to recall my username from one thread to another, to build any sense of my broader personhood greater than one interaction provides.
An avatar just seems unnecessary. I'm also on an app that only displays them if I go out of my way to see them.
I have kept half an eye open for updated workarounds since the Feb 25 change and haven't heard of any.
In my personal framework, once I've bought a copy and supported the artist, it doesn't weigh on me to acquire a copy elsewhere. YMMV.
I'm choosing to buy from Not-Amazon going forward. All the major alternatives I've looked into similarly lock the content to their readers and apps (based on agreement they have with author), but unlike Amazon, they state it clearly up front and aren't changing access retroactively.
Shoutout to bookshop.org for being crystal clear in product descriptions when an ebook is DRM-free.
Is that really the message you got? It's worded differently than what I see in mine.
Dinner with a retired colleague/mentor. Prior to his retirement, he was really nervous about mental sharpness and health degrading without work. He put a lot into work and not much into hobbies until really late in the game.
He really has slowed notably, so it will be a bittersweet meeting and reiterates to me the importance of a robust life with interests and relationships outside of work.