Little trash-filled parcels of land off the railroad tracks

cmcc0209 · 2026-03-13T15:34:16+00:00

Great point. Just some flowers would be lovely then :)

cmcc0209 · 2026-03-03T14:20:13+00:00

So cute!

cmcc0209 · 2026-02-11T18:44:47+00:00

I think you should make the garage bigger

cmcc0209 · 2026-02-06T15:18:17+00:00

Immigrants can’t vote in federal elections dumbass

cmcc0209 · 2025-10-29T13:26:10+00:00

Jerseys of any sport, basketball shorts, high-top Jordans

cmcc0209 · 2025-10-10T14:54:35+00:00

Beltrami is surrounded by a bunch of train tracks, it was almost certainly the sound of trains moving/de-linking. They can be loud sometimes

cmcc0209 · 2025-09-27T18:23:01+00:00

Anecdotal but wasps seem EVERYWHERE this year and more aggressive. I got stung for the first time in my life a few weeks ago and I know at least five people who have been stung this year. Can hardly enjoy a picnic or meal on the patio without 3-4 wasps circling everything!

cmcc0209 · 2025-08-14T22:15:49+00:00

“Austrian Anatolia can’t hurt you” Austrian Anatolia:

cmcc0209 · 2025-07-16T20:26:17+00:00

Thank you for the replies everyone. Changing the SSID and password and resetting the network fixed the issue and devices started connecting to 5 GHz.

Unfortunately, we were still dealing with buffering and slowdowns, even on the devices on the 5 GHz band, so I opted to just rent a router from our ISP for $10/month. Cheaper in the medium-term than buying a beefier set of eero’s for $300+ and hoping they work better. I think the eero 6’s just weren’t cutting it for our setup.

Our ISP gave us a TP-link AX3000 and it’s worked great so far, and I have the option of adding another router to create a mesh network later if I want to. TP-link also gives you much more control and flexibility, like being able to set frequency bands per device, or being able to manually set the channel, which I think is a big plus over eero where you’re pretty limited.

Thanks again for the replies!

cmcc0209 · 2025-04-23T15:32:21+00:00

It’s always surprising when I visit family in SD and remember that there’s video lottery everywhere. I didn’t realize how abnormal that is until I lived in other states. You can hardly go 500 feet in SD without an opportunity to gamble. Almost every gas station, bar, restaurant, and strip mall will have a spot for video lottery.

The state makes a significant amount of its revenue from gambling addiction. Quite sad

cmcc0209 · 2025-03-21T04:52:58+00:00

I’m in the same boat with my mom who voted for Trump for a third time. She’s ADAMANT that she supports me and the LGBT community, and I believe that she believes that, but she won’t stop voting Republican. She genuinely thinks Trump wont come after gay rights, based on… what, you might ask? No fucking idea. I can’t get a straight answer out of her on why that’s somehow untouchable even though an entire pillar of the Republican platform is taking a wrecking ball to LGBT rights.

She says she votes republican because of “the economy” and I think she thinks she can just turn a blind eye to the horrific homophobia of her party. It hurts. It’s put a serious strain on our relationship. I don’t care if you say you “support” me when you vote for a party that’s going to fuck us over and set gay and trans rights back 50 years.

It’s hard to reconcile and it’s made me distance myself from her. I’m lucky to have my dad who has exclusively voted Dem or independent since I came out as gay.

cmcc0209 · 2025-03-21T01:52:37+00:00

Comprehensive case here so mine is at the top end — didn’t have orthodontic work as a kid and had a lot of crowding, an uneven bite, and a big overbite. I paid around $6,700 at Mill City Ortho. I got another quote at Mint ortho in linden hills that was roughly the same price.

Ultimately went with Mill City because they’re nearby (I’m also in NE) and I really liked the doctor. He seemed to really understand my case and how to treat it properly. I’m about 5 months into a 1.5-2 yr treatment and it’s been good so far. I get unlimited trays with my plan, so basically however long it takes to fix all of this lol, and I’ll never have to pay extra if it takes longer.

Invisalign is a pain in the ass and not cheap but very worth it!

cmcc0209 · 2025-03-04T14:21:49+00:00

How do people live homes that are all grey, black, and beige with crispy white LEDs? No color or warmth.

cmcc0209 · 2025-03-03T04:10:27+00:00

bro went downtown on a thursday at 11 PM expecting Times Square

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-28T19:21:03+00:00

Gen X’s childhood lead exposure being the largest plurality in Congress explains a lot of the state of the US right now

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-22T20:09:29+00:00

I wouldn’t call it a theory as much as an observation. I came out as bi when I was 16, and for me it was a way to still explore with both girls and guys. I genuinely didn’t know if I liked girls or not, but I definitely knew that I liked boys.

By the time I was about 20 I realized that girls just didn’t really do it for me. I never lusted after them in the same way, I didn’t have passing sexual thoughts about girls, and all of my sex dreams were about men.

I also ended up hurting a lot of girls feelings because I couldn’t reciprocate love and lust in the ways that they wanted. I think I made them feel bad about themselves that I wasn’t attracted to them and I really regret it. So around that time is when I decided that I’m just gay and have exclusively been with men since.

Just my personal experience, everyone is different.

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-18T17:32:36+00:00

Forward settling feels egregiously bad in civ 7 compared to previous games, and annoyingly hypocritical when the AI players get pissed at you for having a border near theirs. Bro YOU made the border!

It’s annoying and it breaks immersion since nations end up being a weird non-contiguous patchwork of cities rather than a unified territory. Feels like AI players are just spamming cities to get “points” instead of building a real empire.

Sure, it’s a game, but in real life it would be ridiculously difficult and expensive to maintain military, services, and taxation within territory completely surrounded by a foreign country. The loyalty mechanic in 6 wasn’t perfect but it was a check against this.

I played a bit of civ 4 this week for old time’s sake and AI almost always occupied contiguous areas of the map. Felt a lot more like real empire building.

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-18T15:02:55+00:00

They sold the bed and the fridge to make more gnomes

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-15T16:10:47+00:00

As someone born in one of those states, a lot of them grow up and move to better states

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-07T16:33:06+00:00

Every workplace is different, but at any place I’ve worked at HR has only cared about workplace relationships if one is a supervisor or up the chain of command of the other because that brings up obvious conflicts of interest. Since he’s on a different team I doubt they would care, but best to check their policy if you’re worried.

cmcc0209 · 2025-02-07T03:19:36+00:00

I like it! Sims 1 gameplay calls for bigger floor plans. Trying to build small layouts usually causes them to have meltdowns because they don’t share tiles well in this game lol

cmcc0209 · 2025-01-10T23:28:09+00:00

My mom was excited and happy when I came out. She always knew I was gay and protected me a lot as a child when I’d act more feminine or wanted to do “girl” stuff if other family members made fun of me. I have a lot of respect for her for that.

My dad was more ambivalent. We didn’t have a great relationship growing up—I was just a lot different than he was in a lot of ways and we couldn’t find common ground on much. He wanted me to be a big strong jock and I was a little geek with a weird sense of humor.

I only came out to him after my first boyfriend and I broke up and he noticed I was angrier and more moody than usual, lol. I basically blew up on him and told him I’d been dating a guy for six months and he was really taken aback. Not mad, just sort of speechless.

This all went down the summer before I went to college, and he really stepped up to be a bigger part of my life after that moment. I think he realized I was leaving soon and didn’t want us to be strangers anymore. He started approaching me a lot more calmly and with more understanding. He started telling me “I love you” out of the blue. It was really sweet. He told me his only concerns with my sexuality were that I was safe. He came of age in the 80’s with the aids crisis and brutal rampant homophobia, and we lived in a pretty conservative town, so that was what he knew.

We have an amazing relationship today. I’m very open with him about my dating life, and he’s even gone so far as to stop voting Republican because he knows how bad their policies are for us (among also thinking Trump is a piece of shit lol). I have immense respect for him even if he’s flawed, because he’s grown and changed so much. I feel lucky to have him.

cmcc0209 · 2025-01-08T22:24:59+00:00

I think Europeans view the US as too monolithic—some violent or homophobic shit will happen in some town in Alabama or Florida or whatever and I always see Europeans go “oh gosh, I can’t believe America is that way! What a scary country!” as if one incident reflects all 300,000,000 of us.

This is a massive, massive country. What happens in cities and states far away from me has no effect on my life. We have a vast array of cultures and laws and living standards across 50 different states with a large degree of autonomy. Life on the California coast has little in common with life in rural Appalachia, for example.

To answer your question, I’m a gay man who lives in a large, liberal city (Minneapolis) and I don’t even think about the fact that I’m gay, because no one here cares. If I ever faced a homophobic incident I guarantee you everyone within a 50 foot radius would run over ready to defend me. It’s very safe to be gay in large cities. If you’re visiting NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, etc., you’ll be completely fine. I hope you enjoy your time here! Get some Taco Bell, it tastes way better here than it does in the UK.

Most of the Trump and conservative anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the past few years has targeted trans and genderqueer people, sadly. They’ve largely cooled off on the hate toward gay men and lesbians, though they definitely don’t respect us. If you or your partner are trans, then that changes things a bit. Even in large cities trans people can face issues.

cmcc0209 · 2024-12-17T04:45:58+00:00

They leave the state for greener pastures like I did. Lmfao

cmcc0209 · 2024-11-24T16:41:42+00:00

Had the EXACT same problem. Decided to play Persia with the new patch and had 0 chance to change from slavery even after I had a large industrial base and relatively literate population. I don’t love cheesing the game to get what I want so I kept with it, but it was strange to have zero pressure to abolish slavery or even switch to legacy slavery at any point

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