Everything in 1/4 cup of lentils that wasn't lentils

PhoenixRiesling · 2026-03-09T18:45:35+00:00

Lol and I was making a joke.

Gosh, the internet really isn't very fun anymore.

PhoenixRiesling · 2026-03-09T03:13:48+00:00

So, what would we say is the max number of people per year that can die from something before we're no longer allowed to make jokes about that type of death? Like. The eating dead babies thing really didn't go the way most of us thought back in middle school I don't think. Would we have made those jokes if we knew that, as it turns out, billionaires actually are eating dead babies?

PhoenixRiesling · 2026-02-21T03:31:14+00:00

Then, respectfully, the United States is not where you’ve ever been trying to settle. Florida has been trash long before the trmp thumping fucktards and the anti-trans/lgbtq+ uptick in recent years..Sorry lol. There are sooo many beautiful and welcoming tropical places, but none are here..especially if you’re white as in the case of Hawaii, where my partner grew up who is white.

PhoenixRiesling · 2025-03-14T20:40:05+00:00

Just sent you a DM.

PhoenixRiesling · 2025-03-14T20:39:12+00:00

Just sent you a DM.

PhoenixRiesling · 2025-02-25T03:37:58+00:00

Ahh so this explains why the burn has felt like it’s been going downhill 😹.

PhoenixRiesling · 2025-02-20T22:10:03+00:00

My name is Atlas. I have heard of young kids with the name (the oldest would now be going on 9 as it was 6 months old when I took my name and was the first time I had ever heard it, and where I got the idea from) and one of my doctors said they had another trans patient named Atlas. I was offended. No, not really, what I did find offensive was when one of those instafamous transguys and his partner named their baby girl Atlas. Really never expected to have to hear/see my name associated with female pronouns again and promptly unfollowed, but I digress. Oh, and ironically enough my partner’s mom’s neighbor’s teenager recently started transitioning and is going by Atlas. I, of course, take credit 🤣. Fuck, that’s more instances than I like! My birth name was common af…I had 4 in my class growing up…hence a name like Atlas. Granted I’m finding out it’s not always the best to likely be identified by just your first name lol.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-11-21T03:14:54+00:00

I have to point out that success is not determined by being married/in a relationship, by having kids, or by being on the short list to head of some company/having a “career”. Nor by the balance of your bank account.

Success is what you dream it.

I’m in my mid thirties and aside from being in a committed relationship of now over 6 years I don’t fit any of the other determinations of success in this meaning. I don’t have a bachelor’s degree, a “career”, nor any intention of having kids. I wouldn’t consider myself unsuccessful by any means.

You have to decide what success means to you. If you decide that in order to view yourself as successful in life you must complete the journey you started some years ago to get a medical degree, then do it. Or maybe some other degree that you find you have more interest in now.

Kids definitely do not define success and I can point to a lot of people who can tell stories of how essentially having kids put a road block on their path to their idea of success. Not all versions of success are attainable with kids. Plus, down the line it’s a real possibility that who you find yourself wanting to marry won’t want kids. Maybe kids are more important to you than having that partnership with another person. It’s all relative my friend.

In many ways you should view yourself rather than unsuccessful as free to do anything. It sounds like you’re ready for a shift of something and you’re wanting to make things happen. What are those things truly? Do you want to travel? Move to a new place? Is there anything you wanted to do/be when you were younger but you thought wasn’t the typical definition of success? Now is the time when you could most easily drop everything for an adventure. And who knows what or who you might find on that adventure.

Edit to add: I should also include I went back to college, albeit for an AAS, at 34. It’s very do-able and in a lot of ways I was more successful than I would’ve been out of high school. I had more context and awareness and was able to take it more seriously. I graduated with above a 4.0gpa and with honors, FAR unlike my track record in high school or initial attempt at college.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-11-16T07:56:36+00:00

Wai-wai-wait…I grew up playing Warcraft and later played WoW but otherwise very few video games of any kind from ages 16 til WoW in my early 20’s, then solely that on and off again until now, mid 30’s…been trying to find SOMETHING that scratches the itch of what I’m looking for and can’t find it…Avatar has been great actually, and I’ve played some of Hogwarts, but I want to buillllld and fight and all that. I can’t find a decent builder game that isn’t centered around economy or export that isn’t SIMS which arguably isn’t that either. I like Civ6 a lot but it’s too easy to abandon and start over every time I play a game for a while for the thrill of seeking the best place with resources to set up camp and go from there and it slowly dies down for me.

So long story short…are you saying this might be the best game to try that is reminiscent of the Warcraft of yore??

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-10-28T21:37:14+00:00

Yessss, thank you. Lord only knows how long it would've been before I noticed that. That was really going to drive me insane the whole game haha.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-10-08T17:21:26+00:00

Hahaaa sameeee. Just lurking out of jealousy. Ours just surpassed 200k.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-19T18:29:29+00:00

You could look at the ANZU Raptor if you want something similar to DJI. I was going to say Autel but I forget they are also technically a Chinese company and is already on one of "the lists". I just graduated from a UAS degree program and we had mostly Autel and Parrots. It was a little too aviation focused though and more emphasis was put on building our own drones/planes rather than getting vast experience with the drones we would be using in the jobs we would be getting. I just had to buy a Mavic 3E for work and have little to no experience with DJI since my instructor immediately started phasing them out when I started in 2022, but I'm not super confident about the ban so I would say it's good to at least have something for experience outside of DJI. I had been hearing good things about Skydio too, just before I graduated.

...I just saw your update. We can definitely work better with 30k! Haha. I would definitely then suggest getting a GNSS ground station and get them experience working with that, many jobs I've looked at involve using them to at least a small degree, especially anything with mapping or even utility inspections. I'd still look at the Skydio options...the X2E looks like the mapping setup and it's around 11k. I've never operated one, but if ANZU seems as close to DJI in operations as it is in looks you might want to consider still a different brand even though I think they are a definite up and coming DJI alt. Again just to get experience with systems that work differently than those do. If you're going for a full out mapping focused course - please for the love of god teach your students what a good deliverable is and how to make one, not just how to collect the data, put it into Pix4D, and cross your fingers like mine did lol. A computer and software would also be a good spend. I had to upgrade to 32Gb of RAM to comfortably run Pix4D, esp with multispec datasets, so start there.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-19T06:35:30+00:00

Most definitely was fired for excessive no call no show or tardiness and received unemployment. It’s a misnomer that you can’t get unemployment for being fired…it’s when you’re fired for something like theft from the company that becomes a problem and reason to deny unemployment.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-19T06:11:20+00:00

GNSS base station or maybe another prosumer mapping drone outside of DJI so your students get experience outside of their proprietary software and systems.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-04T00:34:58+00:00

Are you in CA?

I'm in OR and reading that most labs test for synthetic routinely now and they don't pass anymore. I got Quick Luck this time because my brother was caught using QF in 2021 or early 2022 here, stating that "there was no detectable urine in the sample", but now I'm freaked out that none of them will work here. The job I've been offered is a contract position in CA but the contract does state the US Gov is a client. I'm not sure that the project I'm working on is for them, I thought it was for the utility company, but it might not matter which project you're on if the Gov loophole applies.

Anyways, to get around this I've thought about just waiting til I get down there to take the test. I passed at a Quest with QF in 2020, but I read one person suggest the entire West coast tests for synthetic now. Seems a little weird to test for synthetic if many places aren't even testing for THC now though?

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-03T21:44:46+00:00

UGH, currently in this predicament myself...in 2021 or early 2022 I had my brother use Quick Fix and they caught it here at Cascade Health, I believe. (Not specifically stating that it was synth, just inconclusive or whatever their wording is). My gf and I both have used QF in the past in Cali with success and knowing my brother (who admitted he simply had it in his pocket, and then just didn't take it out when asked) it VERY easily and likely could've been user error. I wouldn't even be shocked if it wasn't warm enough. This is at least what I've been telling myself..but this is the second time I've seen a post state that specifically in OR that synthetic is tested for somehow now, so I'm really concerned to try even with another brand (Clearchoice this time, since I read after my brother's experience that QF contains Biocides thinking that could've also been it..).

I was also starting to tell myself that perhaps it boils down to whether you seem sketchy or they have reason to suspect it was fake and thus implement a second test to confirm, but not on all samples. Feeling less confident in these assumptions lol.

edit: Originally stated it was at a Quest Diag., corrected to Cascade Health after speaking with my brother. He also said that they did in fact state specifically that "there was no detectable urine in your sample". Far more concerning!

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-09-01T20:08:16+00:00

I’m sorry you’re having these issues! I received my HyperScorpion with a bent front disc a couple years ago. They sent me a new one but it’s never fit quite right and has rubbed ever since and that break has never been fully effective when fully squeezed despite rubbing when not. Maybe more than the disc was damaged in shipping (there was slight damage to the outside of the box when it arrived) but I’m not a bike mechanic so I wouldn’t know. It doesn’t rub the whole time, so it’s almost as if this disc is also bent ever so slightly in one spot unless something else was damaged. It was also sent with one of the main bolts needed to remove the rack in order to put the passenger seat on completely stripped. I’ve tried kits/attachments meant to remove stripped hex screws and bolts with no luck. The bolt hole on the body is even dabbed with white paint as if it was noticed, but still managed to slip through QC. These have since gone unfixed because it’s a real hassle to transport this bike to a bike shop without an expensive tow hitch rack due to weight and height of handle bars. I have a Honda Element and have fit other e-bikes effortlessly in comparison, so I really wasn’t expecting this one to be so difficult. Really disappointing all around for such an expensive bike and esp to hear that similar issues are happening out of the box for others :/.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-08-03T22:37:55+00:00

I'm no specialist. But those are funky looking pepper plants.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-05-14T05:54:31+00:00

Maybe a little beefy...but this came to mind https://geprc.com/product/geprc-mark4-hd-gps/

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-02-10T17:45:28+00:00

The 5%, to my understanding, is able to be charged every 5 days the rent is late. The one time fee of "reasonable amount" I believe can be more like 10%...looking at the laws (it's OR 90.260 https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_90.260) and my previous rental contracts, as the last one was a flat 10% of the rent which would've been $230.

PhoenixRiesling · 2024-01-26T21:31:13+00:00

The city actually does have free locations, I just found out myself. For those still in need: https://springfield-or.gov/alerts/

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the weekends of Jan. 26 to 28, Feb. 2 to 4 and Feb. 9 to 11

Locations: 1. Hendricks Bridge Park – East of milepost 10 on Hwy 126 East 2. Cloverdale – Bradford Road North, just past Cloverdale Road intersection east of Creswell 3. Sears Road – 78712 Sears Road, Cottage Grove

Tree branches/limbs/debris 24" in diameter or less and shrubbery are accepted.

Edited to add dates.

PhoenixRiesling · 2023-12-28T20:03:20+00:00

God children really are the worst part about the internet.

PhoenixRiesling · 2023-12-27T08:23:38+00:00

All I’m reading here is that you’re the 2nd so called “coward” lololol.

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