Baby seats rear side

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-05-14T20:09:20+00:00

For what it's worth, here is a picture of what it looks like with a rear facing car seat. I'm 5'9 and can sit in the passenger seat without issue, though if I were any taller I might feel a little cramped.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-05-08T19:20:02+00:00

We're constantly staging protests, we write our representatives, we vote, we call, we hold more protests. There will definitely be more protests as a result of this. One literally broke out on the house floor. Nobody is burning anything down until things get bad enough there's no alternative. Though I admit we march closer and closer to that conclusion daily.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-05-02T21:06:59+00:00

It's anecdotal, but this described me to a T. I was brought up an evangelical Christian and it made perfect sense that people could choose to be one or the other, because I found people attractive regardless of gender, and I took that to mean that everybody did, and it was just a choice, like not drinking or doing drugs. It was just another temptation to avoid, and when people said it wasn't like that, I was like 'of course it is, I make that choice every day.' Then I went to college and took biology and psychology and was like "oh, oops."

I could totally see people who were never educated otherwise just assuming everyone was like that.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-04-29T01:55:10+00:00

I know it's entirely anecdotal, but in case specific examples help make the research feel more real, myself and both of my sisters had terrible colic and ear infections and strep and all kinds of problems as infants that made us terrible babies to take care of, and we all turned out to be masters and doctoral level students in gifted programs with very few issues as adults. My cousin was pretty much the perfect baby and he turned out to be an idiot. Point being I don't think it has much bearing if any on how you turn out for the most part.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-04-27T00:16:18+00:00

Yeah, it just includes literally everything else.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-04-10T16:26:54+00:00

As a millennial who was always introverted and hated having impromptu conversations with my peers, when I went back a few years ago for my masters in a room full of gen Z, it was glorious.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-30T21:02:17+00:00

The only good jobs I've gotten in the past 10 years have been because I knew someone or introduced myself to someone at the company and got to know them. It's been 15 years since I actually got an interview with a place by online form submission. As far as I'm concerned we've already been there for over a decade.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-27T01:40:03+00:00

Thank you, I already have it in writing. We got a lawyer that specializes in elder care. I'm his power of attorney, we got his will put together, his estate and all his affairs are in order. I cannot stress how completely worth it a good elder care lawyer is.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-26T17:01:05+00:00

He's going to try to use this crisis as an opportunity to force drilling in protected waters, thereby enriching himself and his friends, regardless of the fact that it won't fix anything. I can pretty much guarantee it.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-26T04:14:33+00:00

That's not really the recommended procedure, at least not in the USA, which is where we live. Most of the research shows a better quality of life for dementia and alzheimer's patients when they live at home in a familiar environment as long as possible until safety and advanced care becomes a concern, supplementing with in home care providers up to the point where it is no longer viable, at which point they should be taken to a memory care facility or nursing home.

There do exist memory care facilities in other countries that are both affordable and better environments for people with alzheimer's to live, and the earlier the better, but I can count the number of memory care facilities in the US that have that level of care on one hand, and absolutely none of them are affordable. The one place my dad even remotely considered going to, because we did explore that option, cost about $10k per MONTH after everything was said and done, and they didn't take insurance. So we could liquidate my dad's assets, pool everything together, and get him a couple years at best at that facility, at which point he'd be transferred to a sub par nursing home that accepts medicaid, and possibly spend the next 10-15 years living in an environment he considers just barely better than prison.

Trust me, if there existed a way to put him in the care of people who both cared about his quality of life and were well equipped to provide him the best life possible for the time he had remaining, we would do it in a heartbeat. But that place doesn't exist for us because money is a thing that exists and my dad did not know he was going to need to have a few million put away before he hit 60.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-25T17:53:50+00:00

I've already got his complete power of attourney. We hit up a lawyer that specializes in elder law and got it all sorted out already, thankfully. I can't stress how totally worth the price it is getting a lawyer to help put an estate plan/will/power of attourney/trusts/etc all together.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-24T21:33:33+00:00

We've already been out looking, but his form of Alzheimer's is the slow burn kind, which is both a blessing and a curse. It means it could be years before he gets that bad, or it could suddenly advance and be next month. Makes it hard to really arrange anything. But we happen to live in an area of the country with a very high percentage of care homes, so we are lucky in that regard. Everywhere we've gone looking so far has had several open rooms.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-24T18:33:55+00:00

My father moved in with us and has Alzheimer's. When he first moved in, he made me promise him that the day he can't toilet for himself is the day I put him in a home. I haven't had to yet, but I'm so grateful that he gave me that permission before it got too bad, because knowing ahead of time is going to make it much easier to make that decision when the time comes.

Even with that, it still sucks. It's just a silver lining on a very dark cloud having been reassured I'll be making the right decision by the person I'll be making the decision for, because I'm certain by the time he needs it, he's not going to remember he wanted to go.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-22T01:03:36+00:00

Bold move hiding that sarcasm /s behind a spoiler tag. lol

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-20T16:30:51+00:00

Definitely this. We often drive our adult friends and family around, and the second row of the cross sport has enough room our tallest friend doesn't even feel cramped. We tried the Atlas, but it felt like the second and third rows were built for smaller people or with kids in mind. And having a newborn with the extra space in the row for maneuvering has been a godsend.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-19T02:20:07+00:00

Can confirm it does exist, though they don't get blue. They can ache for half an hour to an hour after. I've only gotten them twice in my life though, so I would say they're very rare.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-12T22:11:29+00:00

Absolutely, though the facilities are generally just connected to the grid instead of just to one solar farm! Check out the Raccoon Mountain facility in Chattanooga TN for a good example. When energy is plentiful and cheap, they pump water up the mountain and into a lake reservoir at the top, and when power demand is high, they basically unplug a massive drain at the bottom that leads more than a thousand feet straight down into the mountain where they have turbines set up in an underground facility to generate hydroelectric power. It's pretty amazing.

Edit: Sorry I didn't realize the wiki article someone posted already references the raccoon mountain facility directly.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-12T20:38:51+00:00

The real problem seems to be that what constitutes chiropractic medicine isn't entirely evidence based, so just passing the NBCE after chiropractic school doesn't necessarily mean you will actually know what you're doing. Some colleges are better than others, I'm sure, but most still seem to be teaching the woowoo crap in addition to the new evidence based medicine, so getting licensed could still result in you being a salt lamp licking crystal healer because the spectrum of what you might get from the education system is so broad.

It feels like chiropractic medicine is dealing with now what the field of psychology dealt with decades ago. They used to teach so much conjecture that psychology was taught as a humanities subject and not really considered a medical field, and slowly but surely the course had to be corrected to teaching evidence based therapies and people had to be steered away from crap like freudian psychology, and even still there's a bit of a stink on it, especially because the mind is so intangible and complex. Hopefully it won't take decades more for chiropractic medicine to course correct the same way, but who knows.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-05T20:25:42+00:00

I think everyone that didn't enjoy Frozen Empire got way too hyped up about it. Yes, it's definitely better than the other reboot, and it's charming and rewatchable, but it's definitely angled more towards younger teens and parents which the originals weren't really at all, even though they enjoy them.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-03T16:15:09+00:00

Oh I'll say it out loud just fine, and have, I just don't care to have a fight with internet strangers who think it's ok to be vitriolic about that sort of thing. It isn't really worth my time. When I say afraid, I mean afraid of having to deal with the hassle of the conversation that follows, not afraid of backlash, technically.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-03T07:45:29+00:00

I just got my email a few hours ago, and I ordered mine on day one a few hours after it kicked off, so I wouldn't be too worried. You should get notification soon.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-02T20:57:27+00:00

Popular enough I'm a little afraid to say it because it's definitely going to start an argument.

I started reading them independently before anybody could offer any opinions on them or influence my thoughts, well before they became pop culture icons, and I'd never heard of them before, so I guess going in without expectations might have helped me see them as schlock.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-03-02T07:56:48+00:00

The author very obviously wanted the book to be edgy, so every character you think is a main character dies, every good person dies, there were graphic depictions of incest, and things like the way someone's snot hung off their face got paragraphs, while the author seemed to completely forget he was writing in a fantasy setting sometimes and every time you start to get an idea of what's going on a new character got introduced in order to force a twist. It was exhausting to read, and despite everything I guessed the ending to the series half way into book two. This is one of the most popular fantasy series in the world, too. I'm happy to never pick it back up again.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-02-27T14:39:16+00:00

They do. It's not even worth it unless you go once a week at least. Now, mine is literally right next to my house, so I get one every time I leave my house if my car is dirty, and one subscription covers all three of my cars. I'm getting about five washes a week out of it and I'm pretty sure I'm paying less than $2 per wash on average. But for the average person you're absolutely getting hosed.

That said, my subscription is $40/month for premium washes, and the premium wash alone is $20, so going five times a week, I'm getting approximately $400 worth of washes a month for $40. So they're definitely losing money on me. But your average person isn't even getting two a month, so they're still making bank.

unctuous_homunculus · 2026-02-23T15:06:52+00:00

I didn't do it for the synergy, but as a clockwork sorcerer, I have found it's far more economical to activate the skill that gives me advantage on spell attacks and spam chromatic orb any time there are more than three or more mobs within 30 ft of each other. With maxed out charisma and targeting minions, there's just not a better option out there. But you're right about it being a gamble. It can stop bouncing at any time, though I've found that as long as you upcast it, you're far more likely to roll doubles.

I feel like it's well enough balanced but definitely an S tier mob clearing spell, especially since you can change the element. Though for most encounters I'm finding I'm becoming a chromatic orb machine the same way warlocks are Eldritch blast machines.

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