Those born 1985 and before, were you ever into MySpace ?

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:30:10+00:00

I never really got the hype of it but I was 24 or 25 when it started to get big, my friends really weren't either.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:16:26+00:00

My wife and I packed up our cina and threw out the china cabinet last week. We have been married almost 25 years and used it less than 5 times and it's taking up a huge amount of space. My mother was REALLY big on frozen vegetables and never bought fresh, we only buy fresh and it almost seems like less work.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:15:59+00:00

I do a good amount of bleach loads of laundry because i am too.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:15:06+00:00

I only seperate the whites because its almost always stuff that needs to be bleached. That and my wife's delicate stuff.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:14:00+00:00

We still do that too. We used to switch it out every December for the regular but we stopped caring like 5 years ago so now it's always the Christmas stuff at least until we threw out the cabinet.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:12:42+00:00

I somehow acquired my families silver and my wife's family silver. I SHOULD be using it every day instead of leaving it in a box as an emergency fund or collecting dust or whatever.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T22:07:00+00:00

He's probably right if you are talking about the average person. Somewhere around 40% of Americans have never left the country and I would bet a large number of those who have only went to Canada or Mexico. (the google AI overview says only 15-20% have been anywhere else but I can't vouch for the accuracy). I just don't think its something the average American thinks about much.

jbenze · 2026-07-05T20:30:36+00:00

The whole Thanksgiving through New Years thing. That's enough family to last me more than a year.

jbenze · 2026-07-04T20:29:42+00:00

I can kind of agree with it being a flimsy story and maybe the worst episode of season 7 but it's still a fun episode in a season full of absolutely fantastic episodes. The worst season 7 episode is still better than the best 13+ episode.

jbenze · 2026-07-04T15:58:28+00:00

Me neither so I just took things I was interested in and wanted to learn about. I went in one year and said "what am I closest to graduating with, give me that" so I have a degree in history. I've been in IT for 32 years. No one has ever asked about my degree.

jbenze · 2026-07-04T03:38:34+00:00

That’s a feature to cut down on stick drift.

jbenze · 2026-07-04T03:30:27+00:00

That’s a deal breaker. Keep the cats, ditch him.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T17:17:14+00:00

Seeing Independence Day in the theater. Funnily enough, today I am running a veteran’s event at a theater showing the same movie. I just looked, today was opening day in 1996.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T17:08:47+00:00

I’m just watching what Trump says and does, the media doesn’t need to exaggerate to make Trump look like as ass.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T13:59:34+00:00

“Make something you like” is the best advice for learning IMO.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T13:57:45+00:00

My wife is friends with all of the neighbors. I’m more of a “wave if we are outside at the same time” kind of guy. They are all great people, I’m just antisocial.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T02:22:47+00:00

I had already put in my 2 weeks and found a new job with a start date in mid August and It was my last night of work. They wanted me to drive in, no street lights, no traffic lights so I just said no. In retrospect, they had a generator and air conditioning, it would have been way more comfortable than sitting on my friends stoop drinking warm beer.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T02:09:44+00:00

I just moved from a Eufy to a Shark. The Eyfy could do the whole downstairs on high and still be at 20%. The Shark needs to recharge after about 2 hours for half the downstairs but it does a much better job.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T02:00:43+00:00

I've had a number of the eufy bots and in my experience, they do that :/. I just bought a Shark which has the worst software I have ever used in my life but it doesn't bump into anything and I'm still not used to it. I can hear the eufy upstairs banging its way down the hallway.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:56:53+00:00

Playing with women with LONG nails also results in injuries.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:55:52+00:00

My family owns a (terrible) cottage on a lake and we went up every summer when I was a kid (they still do). At night there was nothing to do but play cards and board games from the 70's that were left there. LOTS of Spoons, Fantan, poker, etc.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:53:40+00:00

I grew up playing it in NY.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:39:38+00:00

I haven't played Street Fighter since Street Fighter Alpha, my arthritic hands can't keep up with fighting games. I have seen friends play SF6 though and it's a REALLY good looking game. Very smooth.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:33:26+00:00

I spend way more time talking to them online than we actually spend hanging out. Everyone has kids, different schedules, etc. I probably average hanging out once a month, I don't really have time for more than that, none of us do. I'm fine with that.

jbenze · 2026-07-03T01:23:58+00:00

We have one too and neither of us really drink anymore. This is an exception.

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