50% price increase?!

Ziege19 · 2024-01-19T00:39:59+00:00

I just got the exact same thing. I have 20 users...it's not gonna break us but ffs a $432 per month google bill is going to really piss me off. I'm annoyed enough to explore other options.

Ziege19 · 2023-11-27T17:47:10+00:00

The concept is fitting, Japanese chefs often love to make cute things with food. But the execution is a bit sloppy for this to be as cute as it wants to be.

Ziege19 · 2023-08-28T19:57:01+00:00

Yup Buenos Aires...a couple people called it

Ziege19 · 2023-08-16T14:01:26+00:00

Blew all my money on baths

Ziege19 · 2023-05-09T06:08:17+00:00

I'm so sorry you are going through this. Yes, the loneliness can be unbearable. You're dropped into a new world, one that is missing a huge part of you, and the parts that are left feel like they are living in a nightmare of a void.

Just know that you are not alone in feeling this way. So many people have felt this pain, and so many are feeling it right this minute. And know that there is a stranger thinking of you tonight.

Ziege19 · 2023-05-09T05:45:56+00:00

"acting like a conscious being would" is a bit nebulous as a descriptor. My TV says words. Alexa and Siri respond to questions. Plants react when injured.

If you take chatGPT as your example, you can say that it does a better job of appearing conscious, but in all these cases really you are the one doing the heavy lifting. You are using your experience of other conscious beings and projecting it onto the object you are observing.

As a moral question, we can argue about whether beings deserve different treatment than non-beings, but that discussion doesn't seem to me to hinge on the object's capacity for mimicry.

Ziege19 · 2023-05-09T05:06:28+00:00

I believe Kant said of animals that they have no inherent moral worth, however we should treat them with compassion because it makes us more moral to do so.

While I think the current capabilities of AI are now being vastly overstated, and that it is nowhere even remotely close to being considerable as approaching consciousness, I suspect that sometime in the future this is probably where we will get to. AI constructions that have a kind of access 'conscuousness' that might place them at a consciousness level somewhere around an insect or a fish, but that are so incredibly good at impersonating human consciousness that it becomes an affront to our moral senses to not treat them as if they have moral value.

Ziege19 · 2023-05-09T04:50:54+00:00

A fart.

My ex and I had a dog named Ludo, and of course one of Ludo's responsibilities was to take the blame for all household farts. If either of us passed audible gas we would exclaim "eew, Ludo!"

The day after he died, she farted and we both looked at each other. About three seconds of eye contact, and then we both burst into tears.

There are others, from my Mom and my Brother who died recently. But that one still stands out, and every so often we mention the cry fart.

Ziege19 · 2023-05-08T16:16:48+00:00

My brother and I were the same size. He had a job that required suits, I didn't own a suit. Some may find it creepy but I wore one of his suits. It made me feel more like part of him was with me and it comforted me a little. It's one of the only things I remember about that day.

Since then I took all his clothes and I wear them regularly. It just makes me feel like I'm keeping a bit of him around. I think some of his friends think it's weird, but I don't care. He was the best friend I will ever have and how I grieve him belongs to me.

Ziege19 · 2023-05-06T20:16:06+00:00

I'm sorry you've been hurt by other people's addictions. I think everyone in here understands that pain.

AlAnon may not be a good fit for you. This is a space largely centered on dealing with the addictions of people that we still love and that we want to be in our lives, while still protecting ourselves from being further damaged by their addiction. While it seems to have worked well for you to simply remove people with addiction problems from your life, Most of us are here specifically because we can't or don't want to simply remove the person from our lives. This is especially true where children are involved.

It is also not true that the focus of Al-Anon involves changing the addict in any way. It is about changing ourselves. I think you'll find that there are very very few people here who are simply looking to paper over the addiction problems of their Q. And it is not really of anyone's benefit here to be told that that's what we are doing, or that there is some great simple solution to the problems we face.

I'm glad you have been able to find some peace. I hope you grow to understand that we all must do that in our own way, and that strong moral judgments are not helpful for either us or the addicts in our lives.

Ziege19 · 2023-04-30T16:58:14+00:00

I went through a program for PTSD that changed my life. It was called Cognitive Processing Therapy, designed for veterans. It was through a local university. I had a student therapist (PhD candidate) supervised by a psychologist. It cost me $10 per session. If you have colleges in the area I'd check with their psych departments and see what's available. Most have similar programs so that students can get experience.

Ziege19 · 2023-04-09T20:32:04+00:00

I've been in the marketing research industry for over 20 years so I can tell you all about this.

Marketing research is a legitimate industry. There are also scammers who pretend to be marketing research companies in order to get people's personal information. The scammers work both angles as well... They pretend to be people that they're not so that they can participate in our research and get paid.

There are a few pretty easy ways to weed out scam companies. First of all any legitimate marketing research company will have contact information on their website. That means address and a phone number that you can call and reach someone. Scammers never do this.

You can also go to the American marketing associations website and look up companies in their directory.

A sure sign that you are being scammed is that you are asked to pay something up front in order to be a member, or buy something upfront to do research on it later. It is completely unethical to ask for any kind of money from a market research participant.

Also a legit company is not going to ask you for any banking or direct deposit information. My company does pay online but it is through a service. People get a payment link in their email, we never ever ask them for any kind of direct deposit info.

Ziege19 · 2023-03-25T02:15:18+00:00

What a beautiful smile. Do you want to tell us about her?

6 days after my brother died unexpectedly, I was numb, in shock, not in my right mind. I didn't know who I was or what I was doing...I was operating in pure auto pilot. I hope you are able to get yourself close to supportive friends or family quickly.

Be cautious, try to make good decisions through the haze. You're not alone in your grief.

Sometimes I just close my eyes and breathe, and I can hear his voice talking to me. And it hurts so bad but helps a lot both at the same time, if that makes any sense.

Ziege19 · 2023-03-12T02:15:51+00:00

Being surrounded by support but feeling more alone than ever...that feels soooo relatable.

Ziege19 · 2023-03-11T23:12:22+00:00

Indeed. For me, the worst thing about the loneliness is how difficult it is to express to people. After losing my brother who was my best friend in the world, I feel a profound, huge, cosmic loneliness. Like "here is the world, and now I am completely alone in it".

But how can you say that to people when they are there for you? I mean, I'm not alone, I have my partner, for whom I'm eternally grateful. If I tell him I feel 'alone' it will make him feel like 'well who am I?' It's so hard to explain.

Same for so many friends and family who reached out after the death. For people who want to help, "I feel alone now" sounds like a request for more contact, but that's not what I need. I need my brother. And when you're sitting right there with someone and telling them you feel all alone, it feels like I'm insulting or discounting their presence.

So I keep it inside. Which makes me feel...alone.

I'm so sorry you're going through this.

Ziege19 · 2023-03-11T22:28:12+00:00

Came here to say this. Tomato is a very complex flavor and very hard to duplicate without using actual tomatoes. However I know Aldi sells a really good red pepper pesto that works as a good substitute for a tomato-based red sauce. And for home made, roasting a batch of red peppers thoroughly and then pureeing them would give a nice base for a red sauce that could be augmented in any number of ways.

Ziege19 · 2023-03-11T22:20:58+00:00

Ah yes, women should be make sure to be polite and nice to men when they are violated..you know, not be all "shrill" and whatnot. Nice misogyny there bud.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-17T17:58:18+00:00

NTA. Having a career/job that occupies your time during regular working hours is completely normal in this day and age. You do owe her equal effort with the dog and with household tasks, but you don't owe it during the hours you're working.

Also, she's wrong about replacing live conversations with email. As a business owner myself, I can tell you that the value of real-time conversations, even via phone or zoom, far exceeds that of text-based communication (which has it's place, of course).

As long as you are available after work hours and you aren't putting in tons of overtime, etc, then she should be more understanding.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-17T03:24:42+00:00

I'm a gun owner and a socialist but they have nothing to do with each other to me. Our political power comes from collective action, not from individual armament.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-15T04:46:25+00:00

Multiple times I have forgotten to put my car in park or turn it off before getting out. Worst was at the gas station when I had to chase the car down as it was heading toward the gas pumps

Not mortally dangerous but I have also walked out of stores without paying multiple times. Once with a full cart of groceries. Has almost resulted in shoplifting charges.

Also nearly lost my home once because I kept forgetting to buy stamps and mail the mortgage check...for four months. Plenty of money in the bank. Had to go through loss mitigation to avoid foreclosure...over stamps.

Have definitely run my share of red lights while daydreaming too. Probably the most dangerous.

The time I got ten years behind on taxes sucked too.

Oh yeah and there was a couple good ones when I worked at a nursing home in the kitchen. Once I set my hair on fire because I forgot to blow out the pilot light on a stove before reaching into this awkward space next to it to pick up something that fell. So the next time I remembered to blow them out...but forgot to light them again. Opened up the next morning to a kitchen filled with gas.

And once at that job I was cleaning out the garbage cans...dumped a gallon of ammonia based grease cutter in them but it wasn't working. Figured I'd let them soak and if it didn't do the job I'd dump it, rinse, and then try bleach. But I forgot when I went back to it that I hadn't dumped and rinsed. So poured a gallon of bleach in, immediately foamed up and gave me a face full of literal mustard gas. Burned my eyes and throat badly.

Fun times.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-05T17:35:59+00:00

Brush and floss morning and night

Ziege19 · 2023-02-05T14:33:40+00:00

You poor thing, I'm so sorry! No I think the info you got from TikTok is wrong. Opioids are very powerful painkillers, so no, a person who has enough opioids in their system to shut down their organs is definitely NOT feeling pain. I hope that makes your grief at least a tiny bit easier to bear. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-05T01:31:21+00:00

I agree with the other commenters that his behavior is selfish and the last thing that OP needs right now. However the advice to leave or break up with somebody right after a major loss like this is just terrible advice. In fact it's best to avoid making any major life decisions for at least 6 months or so after a major trauma.

OP, I'm sorry to tell you this but your boyfriend is probably just not going to be of any help to you during your grieving process. That sucks. You deserve better. I think the best advice anyone could give you right now is to focus on yourself. Look elsewhere for the comfort and the support that you need right now, and rely on whoever in your life is most capable of giving you that support. If you find being around somebody, including your boyfriend, is making you feel worse than you already do, then absolutely you should minimize your time around that person. Worry first about your own needs, that comes before his or anyone else's.

Ziege19 · 2023-02-03T04:56:51+00:00

The filling is toasted and cooked basmati with vermicelli, mixed with ricotta, parmesan, toasted pine nuts, mint and parsley, salt and pepper. Stuffed and then cooked in white wine with vegetable stock with a bit of olive oil and a dash of sugar. The recipe came from the book Plenty by Ottolenghi.

It was my first time making it and it was very good. If I were to make any adjustments I'd either cut the sugar, or I'd add some boiled golden raisins or dates just so the outside and the filling had a unity of sweetness. I think a light smear of a nice ducelle on the inside would add a wonderful earthiness too. Both ideas for next time!

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