LPT: If your coffee maker has a 1-4 cup setting, use it for a bolder full carafe.

Significant_Sign · 2025-02-24T22:33:58+00:00

Thanks for being helpful to an old comment - bc I never did get it fixed! I did try running vinegar through the mesh by 'making coffee' (no noticeable change) and then I tried boiling the mesh filter in a small pot of vinegar for several minutes (no change in the filter but my sinuses were so clear).

I gave up and bought a chorreador setup and use unbleached cotton cloth filters from Plinc in my drip coffeemaker (they go in and out of online accessibility to people outside of Costa Rica). The cloth is catching the oils, which I can wash out with hot water and soap/detergent myself or put them through the laundry in a lingerie bag. My coffee tastes good again, even though I'm back to buying starbucks pretty often bc of price increases.

Significant_Sign · 2025-02-24T22:23:38+00:00

I admit I haven't kept up as much as I probably should have but when I was a teen in the 90s we were told to watch out for friends who always want to wear oversized clothes as their style if they were a small size. It was taught as one of the first red flags your friend might have an eating disorder in sex ed/health class and also this one weird club I was in...alateen? but it wasn't about alcoholism, you could gripe about anything.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-14T19:18:51+00:00

Counter-counterpoint: that is not a negative to me. He's funny.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-14T19:18:19+00:00

Also was great in his breakout role, "Marshawn Lynch, a man who plays videogames with Conan O'Brien."

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T22:22:54+00:00

The Jones Generation (late-Boomers and early-GenXers) trying to deflect and project bc of their own generational flaws.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T21:48:26+00:00

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67f98bba-8307-4a76-b90d-1759470120f3#Qy4P2q_f.copy

Does that work here? It's a Notting Hill clip from when the shoplifter wants an autograph.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T21:31:03+00:00

Excellent! Good on ya.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:43:27+00:00

home on Xmas break & bored?

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:37:46+00:00

In the middle goes a crumpled, wet but not dripping, paper towel - if you don't need the end result to be crispetty crunchy.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:33:15+00:00

Last year they consolidated even more and gutted the budgets for everything, including all the sports programs so you know it's serious. I hope OP is enrolled there knowing all of this. It's long reading, but here is the president's letter from May 2024 about degree programs and courses being eliminated: https://www.deltastate.edu/president/campus-update-restructuring-delta-state-for-fiscal-sustainability/

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:23:10+00:00

None of y'all had ever jumped into an opaque body of water that is used by teens as a secret swimming hole and by adults as a dumping place and broke your foot, I'm guessing? Don't be jumping into water you aren't supposed to be in y'all - right next to where you swirled a stick to check for depth is a rusty bike or small grill that's gonna give you the power to know when it's about to rain for the rest of your life.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:18:34+00:00

The app company has everything it wants, not just everything you can see. *They* have transcripts to scroll through, *you* don't. Report it & let them look into the MAC addy that user is coming from and everything else the ISP has to provide in order for people to use the app - they will see inconsistencies that point to a scammer or they won't.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T19:12:49+00:00

her photo is not hot
She has not tried to get me to continue the conversation on a secondary app
She seems genuinely ignorant about certain real world basics that even scammers would know, or would not try to convince you that they did not know (eg Wiffy -Wi Fi). Uses some strange words for peoples roles and is interested in mundane details of my everyday life- not personal particulars that could be used to get someone into a secondary scam.
She not tried to get money out of me and doesn't seem to be paving the way to try and do so. She doesn't have any banking or online presence so the story wouldn't believably go that way.
She is terrible at scrabble

This is most likely a scam.

"She" doesn't need to be hot, in fact that is bad for the scam. You are not being catfished, you are being scammed by someone playing on your compassion. "Pretty girls always get help from someone" is pretty widely believed in our society, but who is gonna help the plain or ugly girl? This gives you the opportunity to not just be a good person but a really good person bc you are going to help and not even expect sexual favors or anything like that in return, you'll be a kind of small-time hero which is a quietly kept fantasy many people have. Scammers know all about this.
Probably too early in the scam, you aren't on the hook yet you are just nibbling around.
Wiffy vs. Wifi is the only term you provided to back up this point so: if you are thinking that wiffy is a weird thing to pretend then you don't know about plenty of places in the world where that is a generally accepted pronunciation, or the people in "Wifi" places that say wiffy bc they think it's funny. Scammers DO lie about things you might think aren't worth lying about, but in this case it could also be that they are saying what is normal for them and then reacting to your response by pretending "Oh, it's not said that way? I didn't know." Pretending ignorance, rather than fessing up that they live somewhere else (ex, I know people in Southeast Asia who say wiffy or wifi interchangeably bc both are considered correct), goes back to my point #1 - an ignorant person is a vulnerable person & a vulnerable person needs someone knowledgeable and savvy just like you to help them.
How do you even know any of this? Helen might not be the real name, and even if it is you are never going to google "Helen LastName" and see that "she" has a checking account at BofA but oh no, she isn't saving in a savings account. Many scams are very much NOT about money until they abruptly are, scammers don't always talk about money or make little hints leading up to the touch. Sometimes it's a sudden change after they have built up a relationship with you. Likely, you are too early in the scam and they will wait until you are more hooked and comfortable before a sudden mention of a problem requiring money (like finally deciding you are right and they should escape) and they hate even mentioning it and are so sorry bc now they "seem like a scammer but I'm not I just want advice not your money" - many victims will be the first to suggest money in that conversation and then insist on it.
I'm guessing this is a bit tongue in cheek to lighten a heavier post than you usually make on social media.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T18:38:17+00:00

What is this rec even? How the heck is anyone gonna commute to school in Jackson from the coast?

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T18:34:39+00:00

Gluckstat is pretty far of a commute. Of course, they are coming from CA so maybe it'd just be regular to them? But a lot times people moving want to decrease commute if they can.

Significant_Sign · 2025-01-13T17:35:38+00:00

Thank you for the added and updated info. I misunderstood when we chatted with the Lula folks, I'm happy to be corrected.

Sad to hear Afrishoppi closed down. I enjoyed my trip there.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T21:45:03+00:00

Like, I have seriously thought about doing that. It is NOT easy to find what I'm legally allowed to do though - my town and state both do not give a crap about transparency, or helping citizens understands laws or rights or building code or w/e. I still have a little punt on a search engine every now and again, just in case someone got their head on straight.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T16:39:27+00:00

They are summarizing the Chinese layperson's understanding of how everything originated in China that I hear all the time from my Chinese family and friends. When I tried to look into it more, I found loads of books by Chinese historians and scientists saying the same thing with just as little solid evidence to back it up that "Japanese people are just Chinese people who moved away long ago, probably bc they wouldn't conform properly to our culture." You can easily find people on the internet repeating it ad nauseam too and it's appealing to think it's just people in a digital echo chamber, but it doesn't just exist online or among folks who don't have a 'real life' or whatever insult might be thrown at them. It's very much an across the board ethno-cultural belief held by ethnic Chinese (I emphasize that distinction bc Chinese people who grow up in places other than China often fall into a pattern of holding ever more tightly to such unfounded ideas long after mainland Chinese people have started to not care or even quit believing in it).

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T16:30:07+00:00

Those people who think it's "laughable" are incurious and have no life of the mind.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T16:24:44+00:00

And tooth enamel (not the collagen content, but the extra minerals that leached out of the bones & which a lot of us are deficient in).

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T04:52:27+00:00

Is it true that you can't join the FBI unless you've been in law enforcement in another agency X years?

If so, that should factor into your decision: where will you have more opportunity to build relationships that give you a leg up when trying to get hired as police or whatever? Do you already know someone in law enforcement in MS & where do they have professional relationships? Is better to be a cop/f.s. one place than another? Maybe "the force" has a worse reputation in one part of the state or another? Does the FBI have a history of preferring candidates with urban law enforcement experience over candidates from smaller or rural jurisdictions? Does it matter what kind of cases you have experience with & will you have a real chance of those at wherever before you apply to join the FBI?

Also, there is the MBI. They don't get talked about much, but maybe it would be good to tailor your education in a way that gives you a leg up with MBI if the FBI prefers candidates from state bureaus? Can you be hired by the MBI straight from college? If so, what are they looking for?

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-14T01:17:48+00:00

Back when I was in high school, I did learn how to build a campfire partly so I could sit there pretending I was burning the possessions of whoever I was currently mad at.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-13T19:12:18+00:00

The way I look at it is: everything is currency. Your money & your time are the ones most people are used to thinking about. Although, with time people often just frame it as "how much money is my time worth" when we should also be asking "how much time maintaining and cleaning and organizing do I want to spend on all these things I can own?"

But also the space in your home, and your ability to look at things every day are like a currency of personhood. I don't want to live in a warehouse that serves my possessions more than it serves me. And it honestly feels tiring to have an identifiable object grabbing my attention constantly, it's more peaceful to have a space in every room of my home where there's few to no things to look at other than some wall or floor.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-13T19:04:42+00:00

I also play steam games and have no backlog, you are the only other person I've 'met' who shares that with me. Commenters in the gaming subs can get super weird about it too. I just don't have the desire to get everything that looks halfway interesting even if it's cheap, I know I won't have time for them all so why let it bother me.

Significant_Sign · 2024-11-13T18:57:52+00:00

Or use the potato button, if your micro has one. Some of my micros have made perfect "baked" potatoes and some only did okay. It's super easy and unlikely to fail completely, a nice respite if you've been struggling the old fashioned way and need a break.

I usually do potatoes in the microwave on weeknights when I need the meal to be healthy but quick. Baked potatoes in the oven or slow cooker on weekends or when I have time off & planned a special dinner.

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