loreasaurus

joined 1 year ago
[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fucking nobody wants to go back to an office full-time.

As someone that strongly prefers working in an office, this makes me sad. I do my best work when I’m surrounded by other people doing the same kind of work as me. Coworking spaces and body doubling on Discord don’t work the same (and one of those is $300-$400 a month to boot). I realize I can’t make my coworkers come in. But god damn do I wish they had any desire to work in person. I haven’t seen most of them in person in 3 years, and half of them are within walking distance of the office!

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

As such, there's one death to mourn and like four to actively celebrate.

No death should be actively celebrated, imo. No matter who they were, or what they've done, they were people. Every single human being that has ever existed, or will ever exist, deserves at least the same level of baseline respect. And for me, that includes not celebrating their death.

I'm not telling other people not to feel the way they do, to be clear here. Emotions are individual, and no emotion is inherently wrong to feel. I just want people to leave me out of that celebration, and not assume I feel the same way they do.

(I realize that I started this thread here, so obviously not talking about you in particular. More people on the other parts of the internet I visit that don't take "please don't have this conversation with me" as a valid response to a topic I dislike)

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I always have subtitles turned on for games. Audio processing isn't my strong suit at the best of times, let alone when fantasy accents and weird vocabulary end up involved. I usually end up using them for TV shows and movies as well, at least when watching by myself. I just wish real life came with them, haha.

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

You should see what applying for ODSP is like when your spouse has a mental illness and the doctor "doesn't have time" to sign the papers for 10+ years...

I'm very glad I don't have that experience! I know a couple people on ODSP and it's definitely a nightmare trying to apply and then managing all the restrictions they place on you.

I agree that some things are a little confusing about Rose's scenario in particular. And she definitely needs some help navigating the legal and tax side of all of this!

 

This is… absolutely horrible. I fully support the concept of MAID, but this isn’t what it should be for!

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Freezies! Orange is the best, followed by red and then white/clear.

 

Personally, I think Questionable Content, Kevin and Kell, and Dumbing of Age are great for this. They all have a ton of history, and Kevin and Kell is actually one of the longest running webcomics ever.

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m going to miss the non-technical subreddits I visit. I’m sure all the ones geared toward techy people will end up migrating, but the others… I’m not sure. And I’m not interested in running anything myself, it’s more responsibility than I want. The niche ones will be hard to find as well - sometimes I just want pictures of snakes with hats!

  • r/thesims
  • r/fountainpens
  • r/snakeswithhats
  • r/shittygifrecipes
  • my city’s subreddit
[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That’s the issue I’m currently running into as well. Along with a lot of my communities probably not switching over because they’re very non-technical, haha.

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Potato is a cutie pie! I love his face, it’s super unique

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man, that sounds brutal. Grew up in a house with no A/C, so I have a couple tips that might make it a little more bearable.

Fans don’t technically make anything colder, but the air circulation at least feels nice. Flicking some water in front of the fan feels extra good. Frozen treats like popsicles are a godsend, though you’d obviously want to do homemade ones for the kiddo.

It’s not a lot, but hopefully it helps.