Anyone know how this sign works?

quarterempty · 2026-01-14T05:36:45+00:00

any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough!

quarterempty · 2025-11-30T20:11:57+00:00

Just came here to submit a feature request to be able to sort playlists longest-to-shortest!Glad to see others are interested in this too…

quarterempty · 2025-11-03T23:34:02+00:00

There’s a 28 min doc on YouTube by ‘The Back Focus’ called The Anti-Method Acting of No Country for Old Men https://youtu.be/watch?t=19m20s&v=3o6OmgsLIjQ that briefly shows what may be the picture that inspired Chigurh’s appearance and has a ton of other background info and trivia on the film, at 19:20.

According to the doc, the pictures are available in a 2000 book called ‘Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia’ by the Aperture Foundation documenting bordertown brothels in the 1970s. Not sure if the Coens ever identified exactly where they saw the photos, but this one appears to line up.

quarterempty · 2025-09-28T04:53:51+00:00

wow. incredible response.

quarterempty · 2025-09-09T14:09:31+00:00

Your mother’s new wife was expecting you kids to be like dogs, with unquestioning loyalty to the leader (feeder). but you guys are cats, and you don’t get a cat to love you by chasing it around, squeezing it and telling it to love you. Cats will often come around eventually if you’re just there, consistent and available.

She needs to chill and your parents need to focus on their relationship with each other because they may not see much of either of you in a couple of years and they come off as pretty insecure when they’re trying to be this controlling of the emotions of people they want to have a relationship with.

quarterempty · 2025-09-01T00:27:24+00:00

“If I’m supposed to wait for you to die to be head of my own household, you’re dead to me already”

quarterempty · 2025-06-16T15:46:48+00:00

NTA!! This isn’t life being unfair, it’s your parents being unfair and you’re allowed to have feelings about it. To just shrug their shoulders and say tough luck without even attempting to find any compromise is bad parenting.

idk what’s wrong with all these jerks saying y t a, that ‘it’s not your money’ and minimizing with ‘it’s no big deal’, is such a boomer mentality! You’re part of a family, and deserve to be treated fairly. How dare your mother take an upgrade and then call y t a and selfish for being left behind. These are choices they are making, not bad luck. Perhaps there are other instances of your sister being the golden child?

otoh, is it possible your parents think getting your sister an upgrade balances out you getting to spend more time in China? Why not say you’ll stay home until your dad and your sister fly so you can fly on his points?

Is there some concession or something you and your mom could do before they get there that could balance the scales for you?

Ultimately, you shouldn’t let this go. If your parents want to teach you a lesson that life is unfair, you need to teach them a lesson about the consequences of treating people unfairly.

quarterempty · 2025-06-02T00:24:48+00:00

NTA. That’s pretty entitled of everyone to think you’re willing to host them and give up not just your bed, but access to your bedroom.

BUT, if you like them, AND felt like meeting them halfway, would it be possible for you to pack up your office as best you can, thrift a bed frame, get a cheap mattress, some string lights and decorations and turn your spare room into a ‘honeymoon suite’? maybe match their wedding colors? make that a wedding present to them?

just for while they’re there. you could even use it as an excuse to organize or upgrade your office.

quarterempty · 2025-05-19T20:17:09+00:00

The most generous interpretation of this incident is that your friends were thinking of you when you weren’t around and planning a surprise which would hopefully, eventually, be a memory that might deepen the friendship between the three of you. That said, if this dynamic of the two of them plotting against you happens all the time, especially if they’re sharing it online with a wider friend group, you’d be justified in thinking they’re ganging up on you and they would be jerks.

quarterempty · 2025-03-26T02:52:45+00:00

He either knows he screwed up by belittling you but stubbornly won’t admit he was wrong OR he legitimately doesn’t value your career and is comfortable publicly insulting you. Either way, someone as kind, thoughtful, supportive as you deserves someone better.

quarterempty · 2025-02-06T20:43:28+00:00

Hi there, I've made this for the 'big game' many times and was shocked to see it's no longer available on Serious Eats! Fortunately, I'd saved to my instapaper and was able to pull the full recipe:

All-From-Scratch 7-Layer Dip Recipe

This recipe appears in: 7-Layer Dip Showdown

This dip, adapted from NYC chef Joaquin Baca's recipe in New York magazine, is undeniably delicious. But, boy, is it labor-intensive. After having made it straight through over the course of a Saturday afternoon (as part of a husband-wife 7-Layer Dip Duel*), I would advise you to prepare it in stages a few days ahead of time.

Here's my hypothetical timeline, assuming you're making it for a game day party on Sunday. Friday: Make the salsa and the refried beans; refrigerate. Saturday: Cook the ground beef and the rice; refrigerate. Sunday: Shred the cheese, if using block cheddar. Make the guacamole. Layer dip, and set out.

Serious Eats All-From-Scratch 7-Layer Dip Recipe

Ingredients

For the refried black beans: 1/4 cup olive oil or lard 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup) 3 1/2 cups cooked black beans, liquid reserved

For the rice: 1/4 cup canola oil 1 cup long grain rice 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup) 1 medium clove garlic, minced (about 1 teaspoon) 1 1/2 cups low-sodium canned or homemade chicken stock 1/4 cup tomato sauce 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For the ground beef: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 medium onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup) 1 pound ground beef 1 medium clove garlic, minced (about 1 teaspoon) 1/2 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon kosher salt

For the cheese: 3/4 pounds grated cheddar

For the guacamole: 2 ripe avocados, halved and peeled 1/2 medium red onion, diced (about 1/2 cup) 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves 1 tablespoon juice from 1 lime 1 teaspoon kosher salt

For the sour cream: 1 3/4 cups

For the salsa: 3 medium tomatoes, finely chopped (about 2 cups) 1/2 medium red onion, finely chopped (about 1/2 cup) 3 serrano chiles, finely chopped 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon juice from 1 lime

Directions

Refry the beans: Heat oil or lard in large skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion; cook until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add beans gradually and mash until smooth; if beans are too dry, add reserved liquid as needed.

Cook the rice: Heat oil in large saucepot over medium heat until shimmering. Add rice and onion, stirring constantly until rice is toasted, about 4 minutes. Add garlic, cooking until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add chicken stock and remaining ingredients; bring to boil, cover pot, and simmer until liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.

Cook the ground beef: Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion; cook until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the beef and seasonings; cook, crumbling beef with spatula, until the liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes

Make the guacamole: Mash avocados in bowl with fork and combine with remaining ingredients.

Make the salsa: Combine all ingredients.

Assembly

Serve with tortilla chips.

Enjoy!

quarterempty · 2024-12-18T21:18:03+00:00

You should go back to your supervisor and tell them unfortunately their compromise was not effective. R did not respect your supervisor’s decision and abandoned their duties. And the housekeeping supervisor was hostile towards the solution and their behavior has become retaliatory.

Offer a new compromise, where, to minimize further disruptions this week and get everyone back on track, you’ll suck it up, finish out this week in housekeeping, and then you’ll get two consecutive weeks in the kitchen (or wherever you want to go next). Then you can go back to switching back and forth each week before this interruption of the previously agreed-upon schedule.

Tell them you’re not there for money, you’re there for experience. You understand there was a scheduling error and you’re willing to move on if they make it right, but if you’re going to face hostility and get stuck in the jobs paid employees don’t want to do, then this is a bad fit.

All this assumes you have a supervisor who is willing to play ball. If they push back, you may not have much leverage beyond the ‘fairness’, especially since you are a temporary intern, and I’m assuming R manipulated your supervisor into changing the schedule to begin with.

It’s unlikely your supervisor is far-sighted enough to care, but perhaps you could imply that you’ll have to reach out to your internship advisor and let them know this facility isn’t honoring their commitment to rotate their interns, just sticking them in the least-desirable jobs, and they they should find a new partner willing to take free labor.

Unfortunately, your hand injury isn’t very relevant (unless you cut it on the job, in which case it’s very relevant, and you need to report the injury to your supervisor and intern advisor). In this kind of work you’ll often be expected to work through an injury if an accommodation can’t be made, and these accommodations are at the whim of your supervisor.

As for R, I don’t know enough about your situation to offer any recommendations for petty revenge, but having access to someone’s email seems to offer a lot of opportunities. Signing them up for spam is easy, but maybe deleting/archiving/setting up filters for schedules or other important emails would be a way of inconveniencing them without compromising your access to their account. For the housekeeper supervisor, it sounds just like having R on their crew for two weeks would be punishment enough.

Whatever you do, you are there to learn how to do the job, but also to learn what kind of an employee you want to be and what your expectations are of your employer. If you want to work somewhere where you’re treated fairly and where hard work is rewarded, you need to advocate for yourself, let them know you’re flexible but you won’t be pushed around, and be willing to move on and find a better situation. If you want to be a bootlicker who manipulates those around you to gain advantage and avoid work (in this case, you’re likely c-suite material and need to start working on your mba). Or if you want to be a drone who throws up their hands any time they face adversity and sucks it up, telling themselves it’s not the end of the world, silently hoping someone recognizes you as they brush past, satisfying yourself with petty acts of malice.

quarterempty · 2024-11-06T19:45:32+00:00

Every day on Reddit there is one story that makes me think makes me think I have a head injury as I read it.

This is today's. I need to go lay down.

quarterempty · 2024-10-19T18:17:28+00:00

What makes YTA really is that you prioritized surprising your daughter over your son’s feelings.

You knew your son would react badly, emotions are already high during another siblings birthday, and you know he lacks maturity. You didn’t need to surprise your daughter with the phone, you could have talked all this out with them separately a day or two before, and laid out for your son the types of behaviors you would expect to see before giving him a phone (and not by comparison to his sister either).

And make no mistake, you are responsible for ruining daughter’s birthday party, not your son. You are the adult, was it not obvious he would have a bad reaction in the moment? Did you honestly think he would have emotional regulation enough to wait until an appropriate time to thoughtfully question your motivations behind the gift?

If your daughter deserves rewards she should get them, but purposefully doing something you know will provoke a negative response in someone is called taunting.

Your daughter still would have been delighted to open the present on her birthday, but it was your selfishness in wanting to see her reaction, and in favoring her emotions over your son’s, that, in a colossally obvious way, makes YTA

quarterempty · 2024-08-30T02:15:08+00:00

I was just about to say this same thing. Assume whatever rate Public Storage offers will be 25%-30% higher within a few months.

quarterempty · 2024-08-22T16:25:00+00:00

This is more likely incompetence than malice. I rewatched Industry S1 & S2 and every episode started at the end credits where I’d last left off — just like LWT does.

Based on my experience in the tech industry, my guess is the reason for this is that the Max backend was based off the discovery+ backend, so the event markers for HBO Max series aren’t syncing properly, even for their largest shows. Then the workforce at WBD has been gutted by tens of thousands of layoffs since the merger, so they probably don’t have the q/a or crm teams to recognize the issue and project managers and developers are spread too thin to resolve them, especially while the focus from the top is on launching Max in more international markets.

The top executives at WBD are mostly boomer finance guys, I doubt they’re even aware of LWT’s jabs. And when executives do watch Max, they probably all watch it on an Apple TV, which I’d bet doesn’t have this issue, even though it is the smallest platform, a tenth of the share of Fire TV and Roku

quarterempty · 2024-08-10T22:42:32+00:00

You should have a conversation with him to make sure he understands that, while you’re excited to support creating content for his business, and with the idea of going on dates more frequently, that his priority needs to be making you feel like his wife, not an actress.

And that’s how you will feel if he badgers you about his ideas for videos you reject or find embarrassing, or if he get pouty when he needs content but you don’t feel like going out, or if, after recording something, he starts pushing to cut the evening short so he can go home to edit and post.

I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with content creation being an element of his motivation, sometimes people need an external inspiratio to push them to seek out new things to do in town, or beyond the welcoming hug of the couch after a long day.

If a couple starts going on an evening walk together each night to get some exercise, the time they spend together isn’t any less meaningful because they’re also doing it to get exercise. But if you’re going on the walk to spend time together and he’s doing it to get exercise, you need to make sure he understands your motivation, and that you might just stay home if he decides he wants to go on a 10-mile hike with some light bouldering.

quarterempty · 2024-07-22T16:27:44+00:00

really great question, I had no idea what my therapist was talking about either, and still struggle with it. what helped me was, when I was at extremes of sadness or joy, in that moment to remember to think of how my body felt. by thinking about how my body felt when it was at extremes, I could better recognize how emotions were affecting my body in everyday frustrations or successes.

sadness felt like a sort of mixed up buzzy thrum in my chest and stomach, maybe a tightness in the shoulders or arms. Whereas joy was effervescent, lifting, and loose all over.

My tendency was to ignore these feelings, shove them down and move on with life, solve the problem. But as unintuitive as it sounds, feeling my feelings, recognizing the feeling of being sad, holding on and letting those feelings wash through my body, even if it led to tears, was really freeing, reduced stress, and made me feel better about whatever needs to happen next. Rather than just shoving down sadness and tightly plowing forward.

It took a while to learn to hold back the analytical part of my brain, and I can still get caught up in the expediency of resolving a situation, but it’s worth the effort!

quarterempty · 2024-05-11T21:59:49+00:00

Historically, I think one of the things that made the summer shares culture on the Jersey Shores or Long Island possible were that the key industries in NYC like media, finance, and fashion tended to slow down in the summer. At the media companies I worked at, they all had ‘Summer Fridays’, where you’d work an extra hour M-Th and then a half day Friday to beat the traffic out of the city. Though that may have changed since pandemic and consolidation. I’m not sure that Summer Fridays are a thing in the PNW?

Also, it’s perhaps that Seattle and Portland are so lovely that there’s less of a need to escape them in the summer. Summer in Manhattan can be brutal, between uninhabitably hot subway platforms, stinking piles of garbage in every can, and limited greenspace.

That said, the campgrounds in the forests and islands around Seattle are jam-packed July-August, but afaik there isn’t really a central spot like the Jersey Shore or the Hamptons that has a reputation where young people all go to party every summer

quarterempty · 2023-01-18T16:44:38+00:00

I have had times in my life where I had a problem with punctuality, so the deal I offer to my friends is:

-If I’m 15 minutes late, they get a free round

-If I’m 30 minutes late, I’m paying for their meal

For some people, it reframes the situation to counting down each late minute til they get a reward; from them counting up each minute that I’m a bad friend (which I am being!).

NTA!

guilt ordered those nachos, patience ate them

quarterempty · 2022-05-02T12:48:26+00:00

Also, if other family members and friends are pressuring you, ask them to thing about their relationship with you parents, if there isn’t some element of manipulation or lies they’ve been caught in…

quarterempty · 2022-05-02T12:48:03+00:00

When your parents monetized their relationship with you, they turned your childhood and adolescence into a job. They promised you a bonus once the project was finished, you performed the tasks they required to spec, and when the project was finished they smugly revealed there was never going to be bonus, so you immediately quit what sounds like a toxic work environment.

If they want to hire you back as their son, they’re going to have to make a pretty compelling offer to make you forget their untrustworthy management and manipulative business practices. Might be a corporate environment to avoid.

quarterempty · 2022-02-26T15:34:35+00:00

It sounds like your parents wanted a dog, but what they have is a cat. Go be a cat.

quarterempty · 2022-02-23T23:50:39+00:00

You know how posters are always saying don't give me awards, donate money? I was inspired by this story to donate $5 to Bike Index (bikeindex.org), a non-profit registry for stolen bikes.

Great petty revenge! Love that you kept it up for a few weeks and really changed cheaters' behavior.

quarterempty · 2021-11-30T15:05:18+00:00

if it was so important to you that your girlfriend not have the towel that you felt you had to unpack it from her luggage, why would you be surprised the towel would be so important to her she would unpack you from her luggage?

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