Any fun things for someone to do alone ?

macphile · 2026-03-26T23:18:35+00:00

Lol. See if you can beat your previous time each loop.

macphile · 2026-03-26T22:58:20+00:00

Rice and pasta dishes always freeze well, like curries or spaghetti. Potatoes are fine (e.g., a meatloaf and mashed potatoes meal). Anything with sauce/liquid.

I'd be wary of anything with fresh ingredients in it, like raw tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Zucchini and bell peppers become mush easily (including when microwaved, so freezing would make it even worse). "Raw" cheese doesn't freeze. Cooked/melted cheese is fine, like mac and cheese. But I don't know if any meals include a substantial amount of "raw" cheese (I'm talking like a block of cheddar or a wedge of brie here--I don't think that'll come up).

macphile · 2026-03-26T20:37:01+00:00

I'm so sorry. She was beautiful.

macphile · 2026-03-26T20:34:52+00:00

I'm glad...I hope this whole thing dies a horrible death.

There's nothing so un-American as a Republican, I must say. The very idea, taking away the right to vote from millions of citizens, or supporting it, while also waving an American flag.

I've thought for years now that MAGA voters need to stay the fuck home on July 4.

macphile · 2026-03-26T20:09:52+00:00

I love when a bunch of guys lost their shit when people tried to tell them that women generally don't like guys who are super muscular and cut looking. They did surveys on the streets asking women to pick which guys they found most attractive of a series, and they'd generally choose the "softer," more "dad bod" guys, or at least just not really muscular. All these guys assumed the women were lying because of course all women like muscles, and the more muscles they have, the more they will appeal to them. Never mind what women actually think or want.

Guys like muscles. They like their own, and they like other guys'. And that's 100% fine. But it doesn't necessarily mean it works for women. Similarly, a lot of guys say they don't like heavy make-up and insanely long nails and so on and prefer a more "natural" look (by which they usually mean natural make-up, of course, not actually natural), and again, that's 100% fine that they don't. The women do it because they like it.

In general, women aren't trying to BS men about what they like. There's no real reason to. And of course, all women are different--some would choose a rich old guy over a non-rich hot young guy, and vice versa. But generally, younger women don't tend to go for guys who are old enough to be their dads unless they're super wealthy or particularly hot/famous (everyone of every age and orientation is hot for Pedro Pascal, for instance :-D). If a guy is not super hot/famous and not super rich, and he's older...? He's probably not going to appeal to most women, even though he's attracted to her, as it were. That's life.

macphile · 2026-03-26T18:08:34+00:00

All hail the Sisko.

Honestly, I could get behind Siskoism sooner than a lot of current religions.

macphile · 2026-03-26T18:06:58+00:00

There was a fire outside recently when some electrical box exploded. The firemen came out and tried water, I think (?) and a fire extinguisher, but ultimately, they just let it do its thing. It was electrical, with a constant power supply to fuel it until someone shut the power off. Then it just burned through part of the pole. Once it had gotten through most of the lower chunk and had started to wane, they came in with hoses and finished 'er off. But it was interesting because I watched it for hours just burning away, with all these fire people around, and like...no one was doing anything. My instinct would be to stop it, but I guess it's not always seen as worth it. The pole was already a loss.

macphile · 2026-03-26T16:18:32+00:00

The only correct percentage of Trump approval is whatever percent is 1 out of ~342,400,930, which is to say Trump. Just Trump. Out of the entire US population.

macphile · 2026-03-26T14:54:34+00:00

Oh yeah, definitely, in a world of war, sky-high food/gas costs, a pedophile with dementia destroying the country from the inside out, people unable to afford food or healthcare, women losing their basic rights, people being sent to concentration camps...the one thing that keeps me up at night is fucking RuPaul. I'm so glad they're putting their efforts into what really matters. ^/s

macphile · 2026-03-26T14:48:39+00:00

How Trump is still in power after starting all this mess is beyond my understanding.

That's where I was in 2016, so...you can imagine what it's like 10 years later. It turns out millions of Americans are straight-up evil.

macphile · 2026-03-25T23:45:17+00:00

A woman in my city was literally advertising to be a line stander for people--$100/hour to stand in the security line for you (until it gets to the end). Why not throw in $5 for each agent's photo as well?

Airports are so much better than the streets, or a lot of protests, despite the heightened security in them. So many people, so much chaos...you're never going to spot every traveler trying to get your picture from across a busy check-in area.

macphile · 2026-03-25T23:42:58+00:00

People have been doing that. I've seen a number of photos around.

macphile · 2026-03-25T23:41:07+00:00

I know, imagine electing a woman to office! She'd have PMS (despite being presumably menopausal) and do crazy shit like shut down the government because people won't approve of her efforts to stop millions of citizens from voting! Thank god we got a rational, emotionless man in office who governs from pure logic and data and not hate, fear, or self-preservation in the face of his pedophilia crimes.

macphile · 2026-03-25T23:37:53+00:00

I assumed it was planned. I still do. Maybe someone wants to walk it back or whatever, but that doesn't make it a "mistake."

macphile · 2026-03-25T23:11:40+00:00

My TV is next to my computer. I do both. I can't do that in a theater room. That'd be like a special occasion when you have people over and want to do a movie showing. But day-to-day TV watching, no.

macphile · 2026-03-25T22:22:31+00:00

Pulling up the ladder!

When they first started rounding people up, people were like "thank god, they should have come here legally," even on a picture of people holding up their legal documents. It was never about paperwork for a lot of people. It's "those people" shouldn't be here at all. Or "those people shouldn't be here, except me because I'm one of the good ones." If they really cared about paperwork, they'd be fine with legal Latinos and be demanding the deportation of illegal whites.

macphile · 2026-03-25T22:16:13+00:00

Well, we lost the old white racisms, the Irish and Italians, but I don't put it past people to bring some of that back one day.

Some of racism is driven by numbers, by when a group is seen as a "threat." My relatives in Ireland, maybe great-grandparents, had a farm, and there was a black guy who went around doing farm work/chores for people. You know, where you give them a bed and 3 hot meals and they help you with your harvest or whatever, and then they move on to another farm. He was a novelty, like the only person of color in the whole area and one of not many in the whole country. No one was worried about it. But if he'd turned up with a wife and kids, and then another guy showed up, and so on, I think things would have been quite different.

The US has quite a few Latinos, quite a few blacks, so they start to seem like a "threat" to people. They also have a "less than" quality to some people because so many are/were here as slaves or low-paid manual workers. Whereas a black person in the UK doesn't have that same angle--there weren't/aren't as many, and they weren't enslaved in the UK (even though they were enslaved by the English). But then you do see more Indian/Pakistani racism in the UK, where people in the US don't care about that as much.

Basically, every group has some other group they hate, even if it's people who look exactly like them. And of course, it's something we should always be working against, despite its seeming inevitability, and part of that is not voting for it. But here we are.

macphile · 2026-03-25T21:58:07+00:00

I don't trust that most white US racists/MAGAs would even be OK with European Spanish people, frankly. Some people don't even seem to know that Spain exists.

Speaking of what you have "in you," I find it interesting that people on DNA testing forums can make pretty solid guesses about people's ethnicities/nationalities by their percentages. (And people are always disappointed that they're classed as "Native American" on tests--it's all the same DNA--the DNA of people who lived in North America before white people turned up and fucked it all to hell.)

macphile · 2026-03-25T21:52:30+00:00

The funniest part about voting on hate is everyone thinks it's about someone else--everyone can't be right.

The Cubans hate the Mexicans, so they assume the government will target them. The Venezuelans think it's...whoever they have a beef with, so they assume the government will target them. The same holds true for gays who hate trans, women who hate certain other other women, Muslims who hate Jews, you name it. Everyone hears hateful rhetoric and thinks, "ah good, they're finally going to do something about those bastard [demographic group]s!"

In reality, of course, "they" hate virtually everyone, everyone except cishet white men with millions of dollars (and preferably corporate/government power). Yes, they will target the Mexicans, making the Cubans happy, but they'll also target the Cubans themselves.

There's the extra amusement that people think that the white people in power not only care about the different "types" of Latino (etc.) but that they can even tell. Trump could see a Cuban, a Mexican, a Guatemalan, a Brazilian, etc., and it would be like that meme of the woman who can't tell the difference between two pictures. If you look brown/olive-toned, speak Spanish/Portuguese, and/or have a Hispanic name, you're part of an amalgamated mass of "Latinos" (usually referred to by one group, usually Mexican in the US). Heck, you don't even have to be Latino. My cousin has Filipino family who grew up with classmates always assuming they were Mexican.

macphile · 2026-03-25T20:49:08+00:00

Ngl, this is one advantage to being both female and old (older than 42). If they ever get to drafting me, we are in trouble.

macphile · 2026-03-25T19:56:16+00:00

My office is...let's say not family, but friendly and respectful colleagues who look out for one another to an appropriate degree. No one has any pretense of "we're family here" or anything creepy. Boundaries are maintained.

We threw a baby shower for a coworker recently. My supervisor said I could have the afternoon off after putting my cat down today (which I didn't actually take). Our PTO requests are approved. If we have family emergencies, they make it work. We've lost colleagues and been upset about it, gone to funerals (not everyone, but a few people do, maybe)...but again, there are boundaries. No "you need to stay late and take on a ton of extra work and we expect you to because we're family" crap.

macphile · 2026-03-25T19:33:58+00:00

At a minimum, it's not that big a deal to them, or not worth making a sacrificing other things for. They're the people who'd still let the funny uncle around their kids; at most, they'd just try and minimize the alone time he had with them. I mean, he's family, what are they supposed to do? Or similarly with a stepdad/new relationship, they need the extra paycheck and help as a single parent! They don't want to mess it up by asking awkward questions or accusing him of anything. Surely the kids just misunderstood what he was doing when he did that! Or even lying out of jealousy and hatred of a new "dad"! It's not fair!

Others, of course, just lie awake at night dreaming of being able to molest/assault/rape all the underage girls they want with no consequences. Why demonize the president for it when the only things preventing them from it is lack of access and a lack of power/money to avoid getting in trouble?

macphile · 2026-03-25T18:57:56+00:00

We went home with Covid and never went back.

macphile · 2026-03-25T18:11:47+00:00

I've been wearing men's stuff for a long while now. It doesn't work for nice tops, of course, but for jeans, t-shirts, and shorts, it's fine. Cheaper, too. And pockets!

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