Put it this way… mine also broke, within 6 mths of buying it, snapped a support bar on the bottom, and whenever anyone complains about shoddy furniture, it’s almost certain to be ashley.

I’d never get another piece of furniture from them. Terrible build and material quality.

I built a chicken fence this way.

Hammer staplers are glorious but fucking difficult to get right!

Whack whack whack whack fuck!!! Hit the fucking wire whack whack whack whack goddamnit whack whack whack

To be entirely fair though I fucking love my hammer stapler and my complaints are entirely user error because hammer staplers are fucking amazing. So much better than hand-grip-activated staple guns.

I’ve used tack nailers as well and they also rock the socks off. Any pneumatic or mecnical driven device, oh boy fun!

Ashley furniture?

You could go for something like this, just without the face flap bit. They look kinda goofy but work pretty well

The row of milks on the far left in the cart don’t have caps, and thats plenty for me to agree :)

Edit: the giant box for one pair of rubber gloves is pretty damned sus as well. Mostly because I’ve never seen rubber gloves in boxes like that. (disposable latex or nitrile gloves are sold that way but 10+/box) they are usually sold in clear plastic bags or loose and hanging like gardening or work gloves.

And either the sponges are different sizes or theres just a tiny bit of each one that isn’t scrub pad. You can see a thin yellow stripe, and they could be packed on their side as a result (tho the furthest one has a yellow stripe above the green which isn’t possible in that sideways configuration), but in that case they aren’t cut the same size and are umm very long sponges (the pack looks like it would fit 2 side-by-side lengthwise based on the dimensions of everything else, and that makes little sense with how it actually looks)

Also on the sponges, theres no way there’s 10 in there when its 4 sponges tall packaging. It just doesn’t math out. You’d have like a third row of packaging behind the thing for just two sponges?

Those sites will be dead to me :)

QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.

Sounds like something chef would sing.

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Hot take: companies shouldn’t get tax breaks, sweetheart deals, etc. ever, for any reason other than being non-profit public good companies. Succeed or fail on your own merits. Bootstraps and such, just like us poors are supposed to be able to do.

In fact, taxes should scale with a company’s purported value, profits, something along those lines.

The more you make the more you pay, until eventually you hit the ceiling, and everything above that is taxed at 100%. Same with money hoarding individuals.

I’m so tired of these welfare queens living on the public dole. They come into our communities with their hands out, trying to get something for nothing, while giving basically nothing back to society and spawning more of themselves to continue the leeching. And they take so so much more than all the social programs combined would. At what point do we say enough is enough?

I had a site I was gunna buy stuff from ask me for a video selfie to “prove” I was over 21.

First if all, I wasn’t buying anything controlled, so thats ridiculous over-reach, and second of all LOL FUCK NO I’m not giving you, some random-ass e-commerce site, my fucking biometric data. That’s absolutely insane.

Needless to say, I blocked that site on my pihole, so it no longer exists to me as an option. Sent them a message letting them know they lost a rather substantial sale from that shit. I’ll do that for absolutely every one, same with ID or whatever else. I could just use the tricks kids use, but that still rewards them for this bullshit with money.

I’ll just stop using the internet if it becomes a thing everywhere. It’s not really worth being on anymore, for the most part, anyway.

I wouldn’t be able to take a selfie of my back without a mirror or the timer function, either, so thats normal I think. Frontal selfies aren’t too hard though.

You might benefit from a selfie-stick, or learning to use the timer on your camera app, they really help if you aren’t already accustomed to the hand contortions required to selfie with phone alone.

Otherwise it’s a weird and uncomfortable balancing act where you frame the phone with your index finger up the side, pinky supporting the bottom, two middle fingers holding the back, and hitting the photo button with your thumb.

Examples:

These are both landscape, but the idea is the same for portrait mode.

it does seem to be significantly easier for women to take artistic nudes.

I think what a lot of people don’t realize is just how many shots are needed to get that one good one. Especially if doing it yourself.

I sent a really classy-looking black and white (because it evened out my skin and made the lace look extra nice) once, and it took me about 40 tries to get one I liked enough to send it. It took awkward positions, my arm got tired af, and if you’d been there in person it looked dumb as hell. Arms in weird places to hide them, legs bent funny, you get the idea. I had to try numerous poses to see what worked and didn’t, and it took about 45 minutes.

I’m by no means a photographer, I’m by no means a model, I’m not even a sexually-inclined person, but I am stubborn and persistent, and I’m introspective enough to know that if I think it looks nice and classy, most others will too.

I think that’s why women tend to have artistic photos and men tend to look like the swamp thing. Dude nudes tend to be the first pic they take, quality be damned. And often in dirty mirrors (do guys not know how to hold a phone to take a selfie without a mirror?).

Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?

I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.

Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.

You can, but I found that roku forced my apps (specifically plex, the only app I really ever used, which should have needed an update exactly never because my server doesn’t get updated either) to break in such a way that I needed to unblock everything and redownload exactly once every 3 months (I assume to collect your stored data), and that wasn’t worth it to me, so I factory reset it and left it that way, because idgaf. I have enough old computers to have one in every room, so roku gets nothing. They are just dumb tvs now.

Maybe that’s changed, but I’m not risking fucking it up to find out.

Mine haven’t been connected to the internet since about a year before they pushed out that update that forced you to agree to their revised surveillance terms or you could never use it again.

My googleOS TCL never got internet access in the first place. Who needs integrated apps when you have tons of mostly old computers kicking around?

Only one of my trips outside the US was “lavish” and it really wasn’t. It was an all-inclusive week trip in Jamaica, in the middle of hurricane season to save money. It was very affordable. Totally great trip, though!

Other than that I walked across the border into Mexico for lunch (this was before a passport was needed), and went on a week-long camping trip, 2 days of which was in Canada.

My passport is lapsed now though because I can’t leave for more than 2 days without arranging to have someone take care of things for me, which I can’t really afford to do, so why bother.

I get mine fitted Monday. I’ve already got the speaker, but my tinnitus is an entire… octave? above the sound from the recording, incredibly high-pitched static. Tho I use a babbling brook because the other ones are just… very annoying. I don’t really find the speaker helpful, but my audiologist said it was unlikely to do much on its own, so.

I’m really hoping the hearing aids work better. But at least I got obnoxiously colored ones!

Mostly because they have nothing better to do than vote, so politicians cater to them pretty heavily.

It depends heavily why i feel they look scary, ime.

Purely aesthetic? Probably chill; i assume you don’t put on an intimidating aesthetic to become an abuser, that’s stupid and counterproductive. Bad vibe? Probably not chill.

Then again people apparently find me, tiny little person I am, intimidating and I’ve never understood why. Guess I need to whip out the chanclas. Live up to it. Not Hispanic in the slightest, but if men are already intimidated…. 🤷🏻‍♀️

But also i mean i was that weird psuedo-goth (never came close to having the money to be goth, its so fucking expensive, so i winged it with thrift store stuff and creativity, i liked the look) so i get that looks are deceptive.