popemichael

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[–] popemichael 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Text capture saves hours and hours

I use Microsoft PowerToys for that and dozens of other QOL life hacks.

[–] popemichael 4 points 1 year ago

This seems to be a "PEBCAK" situation.

[–] popemichael 17 points 1 year ago

It's challenging to cook when one lives alone. I came up with a frozen buffet system.

I make several main dishes, several side dishes, and several desserts. Subsequently, I divide the foods into portions that I would normally eat, then I freeze.

That way I can grab 2 or 3 items, microwave, and eat whenever I'm hungry.

Doing this, I only need to cook once or twice every shopping cycle.

[–] popemichael 2 points 1 year ago

It's rare, but every time it's incredibly unpleasant. It's expecting to bite into a nice soft food, but instead chomping on a piece of metal, praying that you didn't just break a tooth.

It happened to me a few times one year when I started getting neurological disorder. It stopped once I started paying attention to what I eat, cherishing every bite.

[–] popemichael 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't see how people can eat with broken, bent or sharpened tines.

I accidentally bite my food instruments enough that I don't need individual instruments to be unique.

[–] popemichael 3 points 1 year ago

If Dave Chapelle from the early 2000s wrote that post it would have ended with "Go home baby!"

[–] popemichael 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A super bright flashlight is also a top pick for a bugout bag. It punches WAY above its weight, space wise.

Some of them can even be used to start fires.

[–] popemichael 38 points 1 year ago

I believe that a lot of issues lile this would be solved with legalized sex work and the destigmaization of mental health treatments.

[–] popemichael 10 points 1 year ago

It's easier and, most importantly, safer than ever now.

My forming years during the age of Napster, LimeWire, and Morpheus made me learn how to format a hard drive and reinstall an operating system expertly. I had hundreds of CDs with backups of (mostly) clean songs, videos, and crackz.

There was a 90:10 chance of getting a clean piece of media or electrogonorrhea, no matter how safe one was. However, it brought people together trading and downloading, akin to the Pokémon Go craze.

[–] popemichael 2 points 1 year ago

I parents owned a cockapoo while growing up, and my siblings and I didn't like it because it was aggressive as hell and my mother treated it like an actual factual babby.

Once my sister was eating a hot pocket, and the dog wanted it, so it mauled her badly. It jumped up on the table randomly and mauled her face. It took several surgeries to get her face back to normal. My mother lied and told the police she had it destroyed.

About 3 years later, it became paralyzed from the waist down after it attacked me. It jumped for my face and landed wrong. It didn't die, and my mother blames me for the incident to this day, 30 or so years later.

It would piss and shit all over everything until it died of old age about a decade later. All the while, my mother treated it more and more like a baby because it couldn't get away, and it wore diapers when my mother wasn't too lazy.

I'm sure most of my issues with the dog were due to the owner being a shitty person.

Though after it ate part of my sister's face, I'm convinced that it saw everyone but my mother as "meat," which is why I couldn't get along with the dog. I mostly tolerated it until I emancipated myself early.

[–] popemichael 37 points 1 year ago

I'd rather remain comfortable not buying games from Ubisoft and EA.

I refuse to waste a single dollar on every game from both companies, since we were all bent over and continue to get bent over because they just don't care about anything but making more money.

A good example from Ubisoft is the handling of the Driver series. They kept on releasing the games in the series in a near unplayable state before when most people had dial up.

A good example with EA was the failed DRM with Spore. They only let you install the game 3 times, which glitched out to the point where people had to turn to piracy (warez and crackz) to play a game they paid for.

We vote with every dollar spent, which gives me hope when people rally around good companies that do the right thing.

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