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frickineh ,

Thank god for that. Imagine the horror of human babies just clawing their way out when they were ready.

frickineh ,

The kind that has a vested interest in an ignorant populace.

frickineh ,

I'm the worst about this. My mom and I will try a new restaurant and I'll be talking about "oh this needs acid, that's the perfect amount of heat, blah blah." Meanwhile, I'm over here "cooking" noodles with a pile of kimchi every other day because that's all I ever have in the fridge.

frickineh ,

Oh I'm the opposite - I'm not a very good cook because I don't enjoy doing it. I'm pretty good with flavors because I'm not afraid of seasonings, but my knife skills are bordering on Worst Cook in America levels. The abuse I have wrought upon poor, innocent, delicious onions is a crime.

Also, if you like the fried onions, have you seen the jalapeno version? So good. I've started putting them on everything.

frickineh ,

Hardness of the Sexbots?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1e883be1-3434-4cb0-932d-f179fecad1ba.jpeg

frickineh ,

Depends on if you care about making set playlists. That's the feature that generally costs more - Pandora is like $5 a month without that option, and $11 with it. I only listen in the car and don't care about picking exactly what songs are on my stations, so I have the cheaper one, but for other people, that wouldn't cut it.

frickineh ,

🚮

frickineh ,

Brb, bout to post this on nextdoor and watch all my neighbors fight.

Seriously though, this dude made a post on there today about how he's "been wearing his army gear the last few days and no one has thanked him for his service." I would walk into traffic if I was ever that embarrassing.

frickineh ,

Some did point that out - about 200 other comments fell all over themselves to thank him and blame "kids these days," though, so it was pretty much the worst. My ex-husband spent a couple decades in the military, and he was suuuper uncomfortable being thanked, so I know that attitude is by no means universal. It's just cringey as hell.

frickineh ,

My area has near constant posts about a vehicle driving by someone's house, accompanied by blurry footage of absolutely nothing of note, and half the commenters are convinced that it's for a crime and the other half are like, "you know this is a public street with other residents, right?" God forbid a realtor ever takes photos for comps. It's the fucking mafia, out to steal all of Janice's lawn ornaments, obviously.

It's just an absolute black hole of suck, but I work for a nearby city, so it's a good way to find out if there are resident concerns that aren't batshit crazy, so I keep my account active. I can only tolerate about 5 minutes at a time, though.

frickineh ,

Oh my god, finally. I've been wearing my Internet Cringe Police shirt all week and you're the only one who has thanked me for protecting the American people with my life or my wifi or whatever.

frickineh ,

They didn't say GIMP itself sucks, they said leaning to use it sucks. Those are two different things.

frickineh ,

My comment history was like 50% shitposting about the beauty industry and 50% hating on Christian fundamentalists. There's honestly no way it won't make AI at least a little bit worse, and I'm not mad about it.

frickineh ,

An A2 and a B3 please.

frickineh ,

My office regulates airbnbs for the city and it's very hard to do anything about it. None of the rental platforms will work with us - we've sent them about a million notices that they're collecting the wrong tax amount and they don't even bother to respond, and they just send a check every quarter but refuse to break it out by address/owner. They won't provide any data on what addresses are being rented, either. Apparently some other cities have successfully sued airbnb, but for a small city with a correspondingly small budget, that's an expense that's hard to justify to taxpayers.

We have some owners that are great - they get licensed right away, get their inspections done, no problem. Then there are other people who have done things like dig out their crawlspace themselves and turn it into non-conforming bedrooms with no egress windows - no permits or inspections, of course, and an engineer basically said the entire thing was in danger of collapsing any minute. Or the person who had a buddy do a bunch of unlicensed electrical work that was so bad the city couldn't even let the owner stay there until it was fixed. I honestly wouldn't stay in an airbnb now, having seen what I've seen - people will absolutely put renters at risk to make a buck. And we can go after them but only if we know it's happening.

I'd personally love it if rental platforms were forced to provide owner data to cities/states, and for cities to tax the shit out of rentals that aren't also owner-occupied, but I'm not in charge and the people with money have a vested interest in making sure that doesn't happen. It sucks.

frickineh ,

Unfortunately, I don't know too much - most of the contact has been initiated by our sales tax staff to whatever department handles tax collection on the company side, but from what they've told me, they just don't get a response. Our municipal code only allows us to go after owners if they fail to get licensed (and even that is a nightmare for us to try to do) but there's nothing about the actual companies.

It's kind of the wild west at the moment - the problem isn't evenly distributed, so there's not one catch-all solution. One of the mountain towns here said they have 700+ rentals and their official population is only like 500 people. We have <100 in a city of about 40k. It's still a problem here, but nowhere near as bad as ski towns have it. Most of the laws I've seen are aimed at the owners, not at the companies facilitating the rentals, and they range from things designed to just make sure someone's actually inspecting the rentals so no one dies all the way to making it unaffordable to rent multiple properties by charging a fuckton of taxes and fees. I'd kill for something forcing airbnb, vrbo, etc to actually cooperate.

frickineh ,

I mean, paying to sue a massive company that definitely has more (and probably better) attorneys than we do in order to collect a few thousand dollars more a year in sales tax isn't necessarily the best use of city funds. If we were a bigger city, it would make more sense, but it would take us years just for the taxes to cover what we'd spend in attorneys fees and staff time. I don't like that that's the reality, but I can see why the idea isn't popular.

Also, the police aren't involved in regulating short-term rentals. I'm no fan of cops, but this is entirely civil and they have no part in this particular issue.

frickineh ,

No clue - most of that is either a department I'm not in and don't know much about, or it's way over my head. I'm just a mid-level peon. And politicians are the ones who have to give us the tools to actually do our jobs and all of these companies have deep pockets. That's the biggest impediment.

frickineh ,

Oh I 100% agree - when I finally managed to finish my degree a few years ago, I did my capstone research on suburban/rural homelessness, and I'm now an even bigger proponent of housing-first policies. Supportive housing works better than piecemeal programs, and outcomes are better for sobriety and mental health treatment than they are for programs that require those things as a condition of getting housing.

Unfortunately, people fucking love to hate the homeless. Everyone wants to put conditions on every scrap you give them because "I worked for what I have, they should have to, too!" There's not a lot of political support to be found for policies that are based on meeting people where they are. Saying we should use housing that's already vacant to help people get off the streets would get you booed right out of the room a lot of the time.

frickineh ,

She's either an incredibly dedicated troll or suffering from mental illness. She's convinced her extended family is stalking her, that Lemmy users are doxxing her (even though she's posted her real name, photos, and a ton of other personal information - apparently clicking her profile is "stalking"), and so on. That's all from the last week of her post history. You're not going to get an answer that makes any sense, unfortunately.

frickineh ,

That's pretty clearly not what's happening here though - if it's not mental health related, then she's a liar because people have found out that some of her claims were untrue (because, again, she posted her real name). I don't get liar vibes, it really seems like delusions. I'm not trying to beat anyone down, I'm just saying that anyone trying to get a clear answer isn't going to get one.

frickineh ,

Ours do that too. It's so obvious that I'm not sure if they think we're all stupid, except then I remember that some of my coworkers actually are stupid, so it's probably aimed at them.

frickineh ,

Yeah, like I'm not even motivated enough to go to the grocery store most of the time, I'm definitely not working up the energy to pick a victim, plan a whole murder, do a whole murder, hide evidence, go home, and then do it all again later. That's basically a second job.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

frickineh ,

I tried to swipe some word earlier and it decided what really wanted to say was ConocoPhillips. Why the fuck is that even in the dictionary in my phone? When would I ever want to say that?

frickineh ,

Eh, pretty much all of my info has been part of one breach or another and nothing has happened. I keep locks with all the credit bureaus and monitor my report regularly, which I think everyone should do, but there's not much else you even can do about it unfortunately.

frickineh ,

How much do you value access to restaurants, lots of stores, and the sort of activities that are usually found closer to cities (like museums and concerts)? For some, the answer is not much, so buying a house away from those things is great. Other people would be miserable.

frickineh ,

I mean, you can, but most people who prioritize those things aren't going to want to make a multiple hour drive to get there. It sounds like they're not your priority in the way I meant if nature is the more important thing. For me, I enjoy nature, but it's more important that I can get the groceries I want (which are very hard to find outside of bigger cities), or go to the zoo for a couple of hours without having to plan it a week in advance.

frickineh ,

I'm vegan, so lots of stuff. Even things like tofu can be difficult to find, depending on where you are, and anything more niche than that is basically impossible.

frickineh ,

Green, purple, brown. I don't really like to cook, but pizza has a lot of variations so that would be nice. Talking to cats would just be kinda cool, and $20 is $20. I'm ace, prefer water, and have estrogen 3 of them would be a total waste, and the others just aren't my thing.

frickineh ,

I've learned that when people ask you this stuff, you can just say no and walk away. It sounds so dumb and obvious, but I definitely felt like I had to justify myself when I was younger and it took until probably 30 to figure out I didn't actually owe anyone an explanation. Stupid socialization had me thinking I had to be nice, even to people who were being dicks.

frickineh ,

I literally just got promoted 5 months ago with a massive raise and I have dreams at least once a week that my boss hates me and wants to fire me. Why is my brain broken?

frickineh ,

Ugh, devastating. I wish I was a cat.

frickineh ,

Based on the number of photos people post on Nextdoor of their package at a totally different house, I'm not sure why these companies bother. Maybe they could train drivers to actually use their brains to see if they're at the right place first.

frickineh ,

I don't disagree. Ultimately it's the fault of companies who expect drivers to do way too much to do it well. Having them waste time on a picture is incredibly stupid when a lot of times all it does is prove the delivered to the wrong place. It feels like the kind of thing thought up by upper management with no idea what the actual day to day of the job is like.

frickineh ,

I want the pattern for this. Dang.

frickineh ,

Fuck yes. I'm gonna do it.

frickineh ,

I'm gonna torture Sally and her father. Not to get the location of the bomb, just because I enjoy it.

frickineh ,

Yeah and Mother Theresa and Gandhi better watch their asses.

frickineh ,

making rude gestures at a a dog

Whoa, why the heck would you do that? Dang, you need to rethink your choices.

frickineh ,

One of the most common complaints I read about dating apps is how many bots there are, so yeah, for sure add AI into the mix. That's definitely what people want. Also, if you have to use AI to start a conversation, what are you gonna do when you meet someone in person? Match has really done the most to ruin online dating over the last several years, though, so this just seems like another step on the same path.

frickineh ,

Yeah they failed at that, at least for me. I deleted my one account over a year ago and can't see myself ever going back. Apps are borderline useless at this point and I'd rather die alone than slog through one ever again.

frickineh ,

I'm cis, so I'm not gonna try to give you advice about your feelings because that's not my place. I can maybe help with the makeup though - check out Lisa Eldridge on youtube. She has some great tutorials for simple looks that are a good place to start. Alexandra Anele is another one who does tutorials focused on the way certain techniques change the way your features look and she's a great resource for learning to blend. Drag queens are obviously the masters of things like color correcting a 5 o'clock shadow and feminizing features, but their other makeup is generally super advanced shit I wouldn't even try to imitate.

frickineh ,

I have Cholula, but yeah basically. Oh, wait, no, I don't have Colorado but that's because I live in Colorado and I think it would create some kind of paradox or black hole or something if I kept it in my purse.

frickineh ,

I do that with poblanos (and vegan chorizo if I'm feeling fancy), and I can confirm that it's so good, and not terribly expensive. The last time I did it, it was probably about $10 for the ingredients, but it made enough peppers for 2 meals each for me and my mom, plus enough leftover filling for at least couple more.

frickineh ,

I have your other clown apparently. Savory breakfast for life.

frickineh ,

This is all so confusing to me because Taylor Swift is so much more famous than Travis Kelce that there's literally no reason they'd need to go through all the trouble of rigging (likely multiple) games for her to do anything. She could just do it at any time. It's such a dumb theory because there's not even one plausible thread.

frickineh ,

That's too many leches. The leche to cake ratio would be all wrong. I could maybe be convinced to do tres y medio, cuatro leches at the most, but no more.

frickineh ,

Maybe you can be a navy blue goth? It could work!

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