I guess my brother has been a NEET most of his adult life. He’s been in jail, rehab, or living at our parents’ almost since he was born. He’s occasionally had a job, but probation made that hard. IIRC he had to call up his probation officer every morning to find out if he had to drive a county over for a random drug screening that day, which would eat 3+ hours. It’s hard to hold down a fast food gig if you can’t plan your hours a day in advance.

Legit. I’m agender, but also accept the non-binary and trans labels. It’s like an Euler diagram of concentric circles for me, though I understand others see the overlaps differently.

I’m not likely to go on hormones or change my gender presentation. I like my body. It’s practical and my clothes fit it. I also hate clothes shopping, so getting a whole new wardrobe for a body whose shape I’m uncertain of sounds like a nightmare. I have enough problems bra shopping.

I am changing my name to be less gendered, and that feels right. I also use they/she at work, and advocate for trans issues when they come up.

MS-DOS 5 or 6. I guess technically I used whatever Apple IIes had, first, but really I just loaded games from disk.

Makes sense. I’m a librarian and we still use cards from the old card catalog for notes.

Come on, I’m counting on you!

I did popcorn this year. 3 ingredients: corn, salt, coconut oil. Also had oranges and bananas as options.

Thanks for the clarification. It’s hard to tell these days and I don’t always have the spoons/mental bandwidth for it.

By “they elected Hamas” you mean maybe 15% of the current population? That’s a broad brush you’re wielding.

(Based on 70% of the population of Gaza being under 30 years old, meaning they’d have been 13 or under in 2006, when the last election was held. And Hamas got ~45% of the popular vote in the 2006 election.)

Congratulations! I’m wicked happy for you, Internet Stranger :) and hope you a smooth recovery.

I have a stash of nonfat dry milk for cooking because it’s cheap and has a good shelf life. For cereal and coffee I use almond milk because it’s tasty and doesn’t come with that perpetual “has it gone off?” cow milk has.

I feel for the cows and hope that those that need milking are still milked and, in general, that this strike does not lead to animal neglect. Other than that, good on the union for fighting for better conditions.

My mom bought a form antique store/hoarder’s storage building that felt haunted, on account of still having all the stuff inside. It was full of interesting coincidences, like when you’d cut yourself on something you’d find a first aid kit in the next box. Or when my aunt from Ann Arbor came down to visit and we found a set of post cards from Ann Arbor, MI. Also, the painting of a lady hung up above the ceiling via a nail through her chest was a bit creepy.

What I’m saying is that ghosts can be a comforting concept and find you bandages.

“they/them” is literally ungrammatical in the sentence “Should we tell they/them?”

The slash (/) is generally used to show that either word could be used. “They” doesn’t work in the sentence “should we tell they”, so shouldn’t be listed as an option.

But now that I reread your comment I think you’re agreeing with the parent post and saying that the person that xitted the ungrammatical xit was doing the virtue signaling. [Insert SNL Church Lady saying “never mind” here]

Reverse image search sent me here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-demands-condemnation-hamas-meeting-security-council-takes-103823471 . Caption gives 8 October at the date and credits AP Photo/Fatima Shbair.

Good pupper.

Look into textured vegetable protein, too. It doesn’t have much taste of its own, but gives a ground-beef-like texture when you add it to pasta sauce. Wicked cheap, when you take into account that it’s dehydrated.

Edit: good room temperature shelf life, too.

I wonder how much of the rise in reported latex allergies is the prevalence of tire bits in the environment. Iirc, some of the rise is from increased awareness and some is it attributed to increased latex glove usage in medical settings due to the AIDS epidemic. But are tires also a relevant factor?

(Am latex sensitive, have never used latex gloves even in an educational setting because my high school chem teacher was allergic so we had nitrile in the lab)

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TBF, she’s not a boomer (famously those born after WWII). She’s 82 so was born around 1941, making her a member of the silent generation.

And besides, older millennials (the oldest millennials are 42) and gen-xers might have been paying their loans for 20 years. It’s not just boomers.

Even those in heterosexual relationships could be bi.