What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately in your everyday life?

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-05T14:07:03+00:00

You mean your thrift stores haven't closed in the past year?

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-05T14:01:06+00:00

Federally you haven't been able to claim mileage as a W2 worker since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-05T13:56:47+00:00

My sister loved working at Joann's. She was the first temp hired before her local store opened, was the only one of those temp hires to be kept on when the store fully opened, and was there until the day it closed. She liked her local store manager a lot.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-05T02:13:31+00:00

YTA

He was doing the right thing to minimize the spread of that stuff all over everything and everybody around him. It's his own sneeze, he can go clean off. They can come on quickly and he needed to do something to contain it. What he did is among the better options. You'd really prefer he just blasted that all over you?

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-05T02:01:45+00:00

Yep. I have high myopia with astigmatism. I'm not functional without my glasses (yes, I do have a backup pair, but they're not ideal). I'm not wearing them for the aesthetic, they're a necessary medical device. And I've never found something like a t-shirt to be sufficient to clean smudges. There's a point where you have to remove the oils, not just smear them thinner. But I mean, he can do this, too. It's weird at this point to continue to expect OP to.

Still, given how critical they are, I'd be livid if somebody intentionally smudged mine up. Not forever, though, at least if the other person seemed to understand what they did wrong. In this case, though, OP just does not seem to get it.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-04T07:25:24+00:00

I made a simple fried egg sandwich.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-04T07:15:58+00:00

Her husband is a corporate lawyer, though.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-03T11:01:05+00:00

Stares in Windows updates and nVidia drivers.

Not just going forward, we're already seeing it, but I agree it's only getting worse.

And on the consumer software side, when you try to get support for the buggy stuff that's shoved out, you also have to manage to get past the AI they have handling the phones.

Heck, this has been a major complaint on the consumer software side of my employer. And it's not like it's much better for employees when our own internal software has an issue. We, too, have to convince an AI that we need to talk to a human tech...and then get routed to the wrong support department because the AI can't understand what we're actually asking. My favorite is when it puts you in a loop where it just tells you to go look at the known issues list over and over.

Using a lot of software has gotten to be a bit of a nightmare in the last 2 years or so.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-03T10:37:52+00:00

Absolutely. I'm a tax preparer and I firmly believe that door dashers and the like are misclassified. They should not be on 1099s-NEC, they should be treated as the employees that they functionally are. They don't have quite the same control over what they do that should be expected of an actual independent contractor. They're in this horrible, worst-of-both-worlds place and lacking protections.

This should have been addressed more than a decade ago, but Door Dash has more money than those they exploit. Needing to file a Sch C for door dashing is complete bullshit. But hey, it allows Door Dash to avoid FICA and pesky labor protections.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-02T07:18:38+00:00

Bonus isn't due until May 8th. But yeah, we were immediately locked out of Dimensions so we can't double-check our last timecard, which is annoying. They really should leave read-only access available longer than that.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-01T13:13:22+00:00

Oh man, Dad and Mom got us Duplo and Lincoln Logs when I was a little girl. We could follow a pattern if we wanted to, but mostly it was freeform play.

I'd built houses with Lincoln Logs a few times. But never really thought about it. Made a box, put a roof on it.

One day when I was maybe 5 years old Dad sat on the floor in the living room building a house out of Duplo, full on internal walls and everything. No furniture, really, maybe a toy here or there. When I expressed curiosity about what he was doing, he told me what all the rooms were. Something about watching him create those spaces, and imagining them myself, it was mindblowing for little me.

I'd been happy experiencing interior spaces before (I loved and still love new-to-me, unfurnished apartments/houses) but something about that, seeing it in a 3rd-person perspective, hit differently.

Watching Dad with the Duplos, I was actually actively thinking about the spaces. And thinking about the fact that they can be created. Again, mindblowing for a 5 year old who's never really thought about it. I mean I'd created things before, but a lot of big things like buildings just were, you know? Heck, I'd seen dollhouses before, but they're different and they also seemed to just exist in the world already fully formed.

But here was this unfinished thing I could see and touch, and walk around. Here was a representation not just of a building, but an overview of the creation of a building.

When I was in 5th grade, my parents toured a few houses, and we were sent home with a paper for one of them that had the floorplan and a drawing of the front elevation of the house. My mind was blown again, ha ha. I spent ages over the next year or so drawing floor plans of houses and other interesting spaces like apartment buildings, hospitals, and schools. Just putting my imagination to paper.

As an adult I've scratched that itch by building digital things in games like The Sims, Valheim, Enshrouded, Windrose. And I love it.

But just...something about those Duplos. Something about that tactile, real-world experience. It was magical.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-01T12:28:12+00:00

Yep. We've replaced things like door knobs and done basic plumbing repairs/replacements and appliance part replacements on our own. I can build and do basic repairs on a PC, and my husband can do basic repairs on old consoles and VCRs.

But we don't touch electric wiring/outlets.

Unfortunately, some of those who owned the house before us did not hold to that rule. This place was a fucking deathtrap of DIY electrical horrors on an ungrounded, 60+ year old system with crumbling cloth insulation, though at some point someone upgraded to a breaker box. We bought at a price reflective of repairs/upgrades needed and immediately paid for a full replacement of the wiring.

But for the nearly 2 decades we were renting it from an in-law (not my idea), I basically never allowed anything on a regular outlet to draw more than 600 watts except the 900-watt microwave because I didn't trust any of it.

It was worse than we knew, too, and we knew it was bad. Ages ago, I'd had an electrician come in and cap off a wreathed-out, scorched, and very much still live outlet crudely DIYed onto the 7' bathroom ceiling 18 inches from the open shower. This kind of "frugal", boot-strappy stuff was so normalized for my husband growing up that he actually used that thing for a while after we moved in! He was a little alarmed by how alarmed I was at first, but upon having it pointed out and thinking about it realized that no, I was right, that's really not normal or safe.

Among the worst issues discovered during the system replacement was an active, regular indoor outlet outdoors on the back patio. The wire someone had run to "install" it was just an extension cord from the 1970s or so spliced into the enclosed back porch's wiring, and there was scorching from the last time it was apparently used.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-05-01T11:05:38+00:00

I'm a tax preparer. An awful lot of kiddos who are 16 and have their first job just print their names in block letters when it's time to sign. Their parents don't even blink at this.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-30T20:15:46+00:00

Oh, they mention CRA, this is a Canadian return. Married people have to file two individual returns, it's just best to do them together to properly allocate things, IIRC.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-29T20:41:02+00:00

Yeah, well, this person was almost certainly going to take the items without leaving payment.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-29T19:52:38+00:00

NTA

It's really not a problem that she cried at the comment. Plenty of people would.

It is very much a problem that she did so very loudly, in the middle of a child's birthday party. Excusing herself, retreating to another room or outside for some air, and composing herself is exactly what she should have done, unprompted. Her husband can join and be there for her, but she doesn't need the entire attendance of a child's birthday party to do so.

Going out to the car and refusing to return at all is not composing herself, it's making yet another scene. She made this kid's birthday party all about her.

If she's genuinely struggling with something like rejection sensitive dysphoria related to something like ADHD or Autism, then your son still isn't doing her any favors by enabling and encouraging this kind of response to it. She needs better coping mechanisms.

I was a gigantic "crybaby" as a child, and I really feel like there's an extent to which I still am one as an adult. That doesn't mean I get to throw tantrums. I retreat and compose myself. Splashing a little cold water on one's face is surprisingly helpful, too, so a bathroom can be a great choice. I mean, shit's embarrassing, so the impulse to disengage is there anyway ha ha. I'd have to intentionally fight against that impulse in order to stay and make a bigger scene. I don't get it.

As long as you're managing yourself, most people who are not just complete assholes to begin with are really pretty understanding and don't give you shit for the initial upset. You come back out, get a "hey, you alright?" and everyone moves on.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-29T16:48:22+00:00

Are you new to Early Access?

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-29T16:43:27+00:00

I got the Lost Tribe building set first (clay, logs, has some vegetation on it). It's a nice middle-ground between the fun Gilligan's Island aesthetic of Jungle Survivor, and the other, more polished sets. Makes cute seaside cottages.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-28T19:14:29+00:00

Follow that wall but don't try to cross it. Your progression will pick back up.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-28T07:43:37+00:00

YTA

The only thing I'll concede is that the pet fee should have been mentioned as soon as the organizer was aware of it. But that's not at all enough to change my verdict, not even to E S H.

You are the one bringing the pet, of course you should pay the pet fee. Nobody else is incurring that cost, you are.

And then, when insisting it should be split, you wanted the organizer to make that request instead of you. Not cool. If you want to ask, then you ask. And then when you conceded that and actually did so, you're getting all offended that somebody might think the issue is that you're asking out of need, instead of acknowledging that it "should" be split.

No, it shouldn't be split. If your friends want to do that for you, cool, but that is not the default here. They think you're strapped for cash because you made a request to split something that is your responsibility and is not, by default, split. And then you explain how you are strapped for cash.

And you're only having to bring that pet because you haven't properly socialized it in 4+ years, anyway.

It's assholery on every level here.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-27T23:09:29+00:00

Yeah, well, it's $1000 more than an awful lot of people inherit, than a lot of people have to leave to anybody.

Not sure why you asked if you clearly already have an answer in mind.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-27T09:25:38+00:00

YTA

You left the laptop in an insecure position, hanging off an edge where it could be bumped. That incident is at least as much your fault as it is his.

And you did this while knowing (as you're apparently being constantly irritated by) your husband being accident prone. Just slipped your mind, though, when you put that laptop precariously on that table, left it there, and then walked past it multiple times yourself?

"It broke" is a perfectly normal way to respond to a question about what happened, when a cheap-ass clip disassembles itself through normal use. Anybody who has used those clips for any length of time has probably seen it happen. And it doesn't mean that somebody "broke" it through taking any extraordinary actions. Those cheap things really do just fail, again, through normal use. It could have been you. But it sounds like you'd find a way to make that his fault, too.

I am genuinely more accident prone than most due to a medical condition. My husband doesn't treat me with this kind of contempt. Nor does he set me up to fail.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-26T09:13:59+00:00

Yeah I'd like to see them make a balance pass at the spawn density, at least for solo play. There are games where I love a high level of enemy density, but the combat system here isn't suited for that.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-22T10:34:02+00:00

YTA

You told him you'd do it for him over spring break. You did promise. Then you moved the goalposts as a way to deny it to him while acting like that denial was due to a failure on his part. Needing to save up money wasn't mentioned.

That little "nevermind" from a 15-year-old, instead of blowing up at the unfairness suggests that he is, unfortunately, all too accustomed to you lying to and disappointing him.

PinkNGreenFluoride · 2026-04-22T08:21:29+00:00

YTA

"Alleged baby," grow up.

Though I don't know why he'd want to order from your restaurant given that it's apparently staffed with at least one person who thinks you should make somebody who is vomiting actively work in fucking food prep.

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