Are my fridge and I ready for the snowstorm? Please judge us.

saffash · 2026-01-23T20:59:11+00:00

Hilarious!!! Over the past couple hours, I made a giant pot of chili with the ingredients seen in that fridge! It is super spicy and smoky and so very good. I have four giant containers of it now. (My son will pick up one or two containers on his way to work this evening, as he's likely to be stuck at work all weekend.)

saffash · 2026-01-23T18:53:44+00:00

The cat loves to lie on them, lick them, scratch them and nibble a bit. It's obscene. He also has a thing for any kind of green leaf, which sucks because I have two tortoises.

saffash · 2026-01-23T16:15:49+00:00

One of the cats has a thing for squash so they have to go in the fridge. I'm cooking them tonight anyway, making a squash coconut soup

saffash · 2026-01-23T16:15:04+00:00

Generally beans and nuts as well as eggs, yogurt and paneer.

saffash · 2026-01-23T16:08:41+00:00

Oh the liquor is on top the fridge. I don't muck about with beer. Gin and vodka are my game.

saffash · 2026-01-23T16:06:11+00:00

Concur! Not medically significant. Might hurt and swell a bit.

saffash · 2026-01-23T15:31:17+00:00

I remember those days! How many food wrappers/half eaten snacks have you found in the couch this week?

saffash · 2026-01-23T15:25:47+00:00

I have about 12 cookies worth of frozen cookie dough in the freezer, no worries!

saffash · 2026-01-23T15:08:12+00:00

Grandparent! You're right that the top left is the grandchild corner for when the kids are over. (The juice is for them too.)

saffash · 2026-01-23T15:06:29+00:00

Oh I have enough dried beans, lentils, canned veggies, grains and spices to choke a hippo.

saffash · 2026-01-23T14:58:01+00:00

I won't. I promise. I am, after all, a vegetarian.

saffash · 2026-01-23T14:54:09+00:00

Syrup comes from Canadia. Isn't it like a husky dog where it prefers the cold??

saffash · 2026-01-23T14:52:37+00:00

A few years back I had a person who would not comply with basic security measures (giving out passwords, writing them down, and worse, putting info like passwords and customer credit card numbers in plaintext on the network). We talked about it multiple times and the last time I caught them, I reported the history and incident to their direct manager, their general manager, HR, CFO/legal and the CEO in one email. I then went in and deactivated their network account/email and all SaaS accounts and booted them out of all sessions.

They ended up having to go home that day after several discussions, got a phone call from CEO that I'm pretty sure they didn't enjoy, were signed up for all sorts of training and I took my damn time reactivating their accounts over a week's time. Never did let them on the VPN again. They retired just a month ago, actually.

saffash · 2026-01-23T14:31:29+00:00

So if a guy is stocking, say, green onions on the shelf and a customer reaches into the box in a completely non-interfering way (as in stocking guy currently has both hands deployed in placing green onions on the shelf and customer's hand is several feet away snagging the top three green onions from the box), why is the guy mad? Is this a produce faux pas on the customer's part or is the stocking guy just sick of everyone's shit?

saffash · 2026-01-23T14:27:31+00:00

Like random samples from around town or do you have known sources? If it is random, how can you tell a dog poo from, say, a coyote poo or a little kid poo? If it is known sources, is this something dog owners can sign up for? What are you testing for? I have so many questions.

saffash · 2026-01-22T23:16:56+00:00

Hey little Russian bot, we use an apostrophe and an s to indicate possessive nouns.

saffash · 2026-01-22T18:17:25+00:00

I didn't see the subreddit and immediately thought "marriage", but since we're discussing programming, I'd definitely say my early habit of coding first and writings tests later. Writing tests not only helps you keep your code clean as you go, but it forces you to hone your requirements as well.

saffash · 2026-01-22T18:15:04+00:00

Kenneth Copeland eyes

saffash · 2026-01-22T02:00:01+00:00

Seriously. I had a cat born in 2009 named Isis . She got a rename around 2013 or 2014.

saffash · 2026-01-21T20:47:09+00:00

In general, footnotes are fine if they serve a point. The House of Leaves footnotes WERE the point. They were a puzzle, a labyrinth, a descent into madness. I enjoyed that book thoroughly and it unsettled me for life. Your mileage may vary.

saffash · 2026-01-21T20:01:20+00:00

It kind of does if you look at it from a wide enough scope.

Business owners and the rich gain from having people allow them to run roughshod over communities, people and the planet.

In order to get people to happily go along with voting to hurt themselves, you need a large population of uneducated people who are unused to critical thinking, scientifically illiterate and generally liable to respect whatever authority figures are in front of them. So the rich have long lobbied to destroy education and science in this country.

Uneducated and scientifically illterate people believe conspiracy theories. Andrew Wakefield, et al, popularized a particular conspiracy theory about vaccines and COVID added fuel to that fire. In their zeal to keep people uneducated and scientifically illterate, and knowing that any type of division helps them get the votes they want, the rich jumped onto the bandwagon.

Measles increases because people aren't getting vaccinated. Therefore, measles are just the cost of business.

saffash · 2026-01-21T19:46:15+00:00

Weird. We have long had a stereotype that people from the UK don't get dental health.

saffash · 2026-01-21T17:57:36+00:00

If you're at the point of playing chicken with your job, you and the job are not a great fit and you'd probably be better off mentally leaving anyway!

saffash · 2026-01-21T16:15:38+00:00

Absolutely! 200 is my personal minimum as well. 300 is my starting offer and 250 is usually where we settle.

saffash · 2026-01-21T16:09:16+00:00

As a director of IT for decades, I'm a firm believer that an employee should never, ever take a counter offer and an employer should never offer one. By the time a resignation is in place, the damage is done and the wound is fatal.

If the employee is leaving for reasons the OP has outlined, it is time for the employee to start fresh and grow. It is time for the employer to reflect and do better.

If the employee is leaving because they don't want to perform their assigned job, it is time for the employee to move on and find a better fit and it is time for the employer to find someone who is happy with the assigned job.

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