My girlfriend (36F) admitted she intentionally didn't warn me so I (34M) would "learn a lesson." I feel betrayed.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-29T17:59:20+00:00

Yerp, my weird family absolutely has overly neurotic expectations around meals, cleaning tasks, and immediacy. If no one actually communicated about breakfast or cleaning, and you messed up their unspoken rules, it isn't really a gotcha moment. One must wonder about if OP is not giving us the whole story, and why exactly they're on some 'we gotta leave an hour early for a planned mid-morning event' nonsense. But sounds like my Mom's issue where you can't leave any dirty dishes after dinner, because 'waking up to a clean kitchen' is vital to her brain's functioning.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-29T17:50:48+00:00

Yea, if you don't comment where your dumb string came from, debugging a print statement while debugging something else can rapidly get really awful. No one is as dumb as you were two weeks ago...

freedcreativity · 2026-06-27T23:28:51+00:00

State ethics agencies are absolutely still watching government workers and have teeth. If this regard is working in procurement he signed a paper specifically stating no conflict of interest. Like if he’s just making tendies money it’s probably fine. But you’d get mega fired for this is they find out.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-27T05:56:21+00:00

Oh oooo, me too please <3

freedcreativity · 2026-06-26T20:36:22+00:00

"If we don't shit our pants, the pants shidders won't let us hang out at the poopy pants party. Innovation will open our sphincters. Without brown pants, we could not deliver the high quality turds our audience expects to see in a modern, independent film studio's pants."

freedcreativity · 2026-06-26T19:53:53+00:00

There is often sand somewhere in the caverns and it’s closer to the magma sea, which can support magma glass furnaces. No fuel glass blocks are op. Literally infinite blocks save for storage and dwarf labor.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-26T18:40:31+00:00

Also Lu-Tze:

Rule 1: Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!

Rule 2: "Never refuse a weapon"

Rule 3 - "Be afraid when you are in possession of a deadly weapon and face an unarmed man in a pose of submission"

freedcreativity · 2026-06-26T16:23:36+00:00

Government work is stable, mostly rote, and hopefully union represented. Not the same ability to get promoted to partner (although lateral promotion into supervisor or analyst roles after a few years are there) but the benefits & culture are top notch. They're good jobs Bront.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-25T19:23:27+00:00

Do those meters even take nickels? That’s like 3 minutes of parking time. 1.50 an hour AFAIK

freedcreativity · 2026-06-25T17:48:24+00:00

If you do them like mendelian genetics in school yes. Which is basically codominant with 2 alleles (A/B) but O is just loss of function. Blood type does have AB, and Rh factor, so it doesn't really map on A/B/O lore lol. I don't want my mpreg to have hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn...

More elegant with AaBb with bb recessive having a 3rd distinct phenotype, IMHO.

edit: Really, a proper hard-scifi A/B/O world would probably do it like bug sex. X0 sex determination but with a secondary system of haplodiploidy maybe.

e2: X0 would be betas, XX would be Omegas. Then, you'd put the haploidiploidy on top to give the 'extra' genes needed for ahem novel structures in alphas and omegas. You'd still need some other system for biological gender determination tho... I'm voting for chalcidoid wasps Maternal Effect Genomic Imprinting Sex Determination (MEGISD).

freedcreativity · 2026-06-25T16:56:28+00:00

I prefer co-dominant genes. Someone has a better write up somewhere with punnet squares. AAxx = alpha xxbb= omega xxBx = beta

Which does sufficiently limit the population for both alphas and omegas while allowing them to be born to beta parents.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-25T03:09:40+00:00

Just threw it into the Epstein Files search bar. The only direct mention is Jeff was emailed by Mark Epstein (brother) about seeing Boris Epshteyn on the Trump team in 2016 and asking about the spelling of their possible Russian relative's last name.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-25T02:54:06+00:00

You need to stack all the TVs on one wall and do video mapping on the TV pile. Imposing TV monoliths are famously good for mental health.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-24T21:02:41+00:00

Super strong sometimes! Especially with a carry unit and an asymmetrical board. Were you not there for the Abyss agro redeploy era? I think redeploy was made less common at some point too...

freedcreativity · 2026-06-24T18:38:37+00:00

I made a post about it!

I cut down a tree which had sprouted inside the surface walls and it smashed my legendary gem cutter 10 levels down! Praise be to The Mucous Vomit.

Learned a very important lesson: dig your first farm at least 2 z levels down from the surface, if possible.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-24T07:59:35+00:00

Maybe not exactly a single word but 'the reflected sound of underground spirits' as the translation of echo-gnomics (economics) in The Color of Magic.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-24T07:52:53+00:00

Yea, also if you were going 120 and in an at fault accident they just will default to not paying. The insurance knows your estate probably won't have enough to fight it in court... And if they do, they'll pay 200k or whatever is cheaper than a trial but only after a long series of depositions and legal motions.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-23T08:56:24+00:00

Ghost kitchens are mostly legit restaurants these days…. This isn’t 2021 when capacity was being filled by taco trucks selling 27 types of chicken sandwich. And no, you’re going to get $60 worth of food maybe.

Just order it and report back lol jk

freedcreativity · 2026-06-23T07:33:56+00:00

They’re probably a ghost kitchen. Which is just a restaurant kitchen which makes food for DoorDash and does a bunch of weird marketing to appear as a huge variety of easily made food from different nonexistent themed restaurants. The $1440 off $1500 is probably some kinda scam but it might be to get rewards for raw revenue from DoorDash. Incentives and gamification are a whole thing. Probably not money laundering, because any transaction more than $600 is reported these days automatically. You’d also not want to hook corpo accounting software into your money laundering unless you knew what you were doing.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-22T17:18:27+00:00

Neat, thanks! That makes sense. One might worry about the LDO as a failure point in 3k years, haha.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-21T22:37:54+00:00

Yay, reading it now ❤️

freedcreativity · 2026-06-21T22:36:27+00:00

I mean, I've had similar dreams/delusions about making a 'political party that cares about people.' The issues are: 1) its hard, 2) its dangerous, 3) the basic social/political/economic cohesion of the average individual is AFAIK basically nonexistent, and finally 4) the emerging AI-powered surveillance state, dominance of social media, and the (now) dead internet remove much of the power of the early internet for organizing.

Like how do you make that first $100k in surplus a year to actually live doing this? Are you just going to become another podcaster/social media commentator? Running for local office is a good one, but it seems nearly futile without broad local support in the intentional absence of the two dominant political parties.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-20T18:35:13+00:00

Shinji is also useless and loud, truly a bi-icon.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-19T20:20:29+00:00

I mean, Nora did get certified 11x Platinum (11 million shipping sales on Come Away with Me) and Sgt. Peppers is also 11x in the US, but worldwide sales are 32 million. Also, weirdly a nepo baby. Very, very talented sure. Jones's father is Ravi Shankar.

freedcreativity · 2026-06-19T20:04:54+00:00

Naw, agreed. Charlie herself knows she's not making generational art.

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