My damn kid left the refrigerator open

Sure. There's a rather vibrant writers' community, plenty of visual artists (including photography that isn't just cats and hiking), and the endless political shit.

You don't get as much of the random people running their mouths though.

The key to Mastodon is the # curation over time. Search your interests, use the hashtags to set up your feed, and only use the full federated feed to find terms you didn't think to search for, or that aren't obviously connected to your interests.

As an example, if you're a writer, you'll obviously follow something lunge #writing, but you might not find #pennedpossibilities, or #writerscoffeeclub by searching, despite them being active prompt based groups that end up having a lot of good interactions between writers (casual, amateurs, and pros).

Tbh, the least represented segment is the typically nerdy stuff. Much more prevalent on lemmy. There's plenty there, it just isn't as common as other segments.

Yup, best keyboard I've ever used. They made slightly different versions over the years that fit my hands as well, but none that lasted the way those do; mine is still fully functional.

Some of us write books too :)

Luckily, those things are still vulnerable to things like a molotov cocktail

They're pretty cool, but I always have trouble making aure the twine doesn't dig in too far

It was the single biggest waste of time of any sport this century

I hate to say this, but if the general populace actually gave a fuck, there would already be riots and revolution.

People just don't care. The status quo, keeping things stable on the surface is all people give a fuck about.

So that's where we are. There just aren't enough people willing to rise up and fix shit. It didn't happen after Mr Floyd got murdered on camera, and it ain't happening now.

Fwiw, and I don't know if it was intentional or not, it's embarrassed and wielder, not imbarrest or wilder.

The vibrator of slicing.

This is a knife with two saw-like blades that move back and forth, allowing enhanced slicing of cooked or raw meats.

It gives advantage on all intimidate checks, with a +2 if wearing fishnets and/or high heels

Conures are so sweet. I'm sorry yours has flown away.

It's kinda weird to wait until the last minute to ask if someone else can come along on a planned outing.

But the rest? I dunno. Looks like a pretty standard mixup.

Man, I'm basic as hell. A little Elijah Craig, and I'm happy.

Edit: oh wait!

There's a gentleman I am able to get home made bourbon from on very rare occasions, at a steep price, and in small quantities. But it's one of those things you can't even just know the guy and get any, you have to be friends, or have done something really valuable to him, ideally both.

Dude won't say where he gets the barrels, and he only ever has one or two a year put back.

He started doing them back at the end of the nineties, as a personal stash on the side of his usual distilling "hobby". No two batches are the same, but they're consistently good. As good or better than anything reachable by my budget that's available legally.

His first batch was kinda mid, but he was proud as hell of it just from having made a batch that was distinctly bourbon rather than just shine of some variety.

Like I said, it isn't consistent, but that's part of why it's worth the extra hassle and cash. You don't know what you're going to get exactly, beyond it being unique and good. The last little sips I have right now, the batch was sweet, vanilla, and had hints of tobacco to it. The one I had a pint of a few years back was more or less a wild turkey clone iirc, the one I had before that was less enjoyable, it ran hot and smoky, which isn't really my thing.

¿Porque no los dos?

Dude, I am happy as hell for you that it took this long to experience one.

Considering how rare it is for anyone to pay enough attention to the complex and difficult processing needed to feed an obligate carnivore a vegan diet without fucking it up, I'm going to call bullshit on a vegan being allowed to have a cat. If you believe that strongly in whatever it is, just don't have a cat instead of screwing them up.

Even a dog is dubious, because again, most people can't be trusted to make their own dog food with meat and not screw the animal up. The extra steps to make it a vegetarian diet is beyond most people, and a vegan diet is harder to manage. So, you know, pick a companion animal that doesn't eat meat at all, you'll all be happier.

It isn't the diet itself that's the problem. It's humans being fucking morons and thinking they can handle the job when they can barely handle picking their nose. It's like the idiots that feed their dog grapes, raisins, and chocolate because "it hasn't hurt him any". Yet is the word they forget to add.

And, as shitty as it will seem, vegans aren't smarter or more reliable than anyone else. If anything, the kind of zealot that's going to try and feed a cat vegan instead of just picking good foods that are sourced well are less capable of using their brain properly because blind faith is a sign of stupidity.

Instrumental metal is what you'd search to get where you want to be. There's plenty of bands that don't have vocals at all, and even more that do instrumental tracks here and there.

Thing is, you'll run into a pretty broad range of styles under that heading since a lot of sub genres are defined by vocals and/or lyrical content. But instrumental is a sub genre of its own. It just gets defined by the lack of vocals rather than any distinct sound like the way thrash is going to have that "thrashy" vibe.

Edit: Animals as Leaders is pretty much the go to recommendation for instrumental metal. They run closer to prog than death, but so do most instrument only bands.

It's about methodology and motivation, really.

Narcissistic abusers tend to things like gaslighting more than insults, or pushing the victim's buttons to make them seem unstable to get sympathy/attention. It tends to be about manipulation over direct abuse, though there is direct abuse sometimes.

An example would be a parent that constantly criticizes their child indirectly, by comparing them to "bad" kids, and then saying how good their child has it because some parents wouldn't put up with whatever imagined flaw is present.

Not that a narcissistic abuser never does direct abuse, they can and do. It's just that they tend to worry about appearances, so they reserve it for limited use. Like, the kid that makes a mistake in public and then gets beat at home because they made the parent look bad.

Nothing new to add, but since crowd sourcing answers is more reliable when you have more of them, I figure it's worth it.

As everyone before this said, it isn't a perfect compatibility, so you can't just grab any random kit and be certain it'll be 100% right. But, there's a decent chance it will be, or that you can improvise things enough to get it to work long enough to get the exact right bits.

Biggest problem I've run into over the years is flappers not making a good seal, and the pipe not fitting well. The flapper is harder to deal with, but the pipe can usually be made to work with a gasket cut to size, long enough to get a better one at convenience rather than having to run right back out.

Joke question: jeez man, why you gotta make the post all about you?

Serious question: have you engaged in narcissistic abuse of anyone?