That’s the kind of limitation I have on mine, but that’s because I have a wireless zigbee plug instead of a real timer, but it’s because I can better change schedules. It’s reliable like 95% of the time, which is good enough for normal use, but I’d be pissed if I paid for an AIO unit that required an active connection to work. At least mine is all on my own network, so it’s (usually) my own fault when something goes sideways

Did you appeal the denial? The automatic system will deny it if it’s outside of the approved window, but I had support override in the past for games that rug pulled.

If you hold a yellow onion and a white onion side by side, it’s actually yellow(ish)

Huh, so Kentucky isn’t the only place with bluegrass

I had a neighbor with a colecovision, that still feels like a fever dream

Then call the number on your card. Anything else is going to make someone else some money at your expense

I never got past making liquid hands soap, is the process any different?

My partner has a coconut allergy, so I had to learn how to make soap, I just find the process a bit existing right now. Hoping to make some bar soap in the near future once spoons are available

So say we all

“need to” and “intelligent business strategy” don’t have to be the same thing.

Sure, they could just find it themselves with the money that SpaceX paid them for fucking yo their land. Or they could do that while also offering people to pay a pittance to join in the fun and further dig the knife into Elon to show how many people hate the sad little bitch with no friends. And, you know, the free publicity from making fun of said sad little bitch.

Yep! Thought Emporium posted a video where he showed off the techniques that humans could have used if the aliens never returned their calls.

Cum-puter

About the only streaming services I pay for are dropout and pbs, and neither one has those issues.

You cut and paste the watermark

You’re already hit with an extra charge for firing within city limits

They said unimportant and inconsequential, both of which do not apply to date formatting.

Backhanded compliments like that can be fun.

I worked for a community college for a few years, and we had pretty high turnover in our department, and they had a rather strict ‘no rehire’ policy for people having worked there (so new people could come in and learn too), and it was always funny overhearing my manager explain that for everyone, but the positives he gave after were night and day. For good techs he’d tout their actual abilities, but for the trogs, they’d get something like good attendance or always on time. The sorts of answers that are technically true and a positive quality, but the person on the other end hears ‘this dude sucks and this is the best I can say about him’.

Did you still get “Will you STOP BLAMING ME!!1!” in response to you being uncomfortable with their behavior?

Yeah, that’s fun.

I’m happy that your dad was smart enough to realize that he was being a dumbass and apologized.

I haven’t spoken to my uncle in a year and change because the stupid fuck tries to compare the horrors conservatives had to endure under Biden to people being snatched off the street by masked thugs or being murdered in broad daylight by ICE. I told the dumb fuck he needed to do some thinking and realize why I was mad if he wanted to talk to me again, and I finally blocked him from even texting me cuz the stupid fuck repeatedly texted me me to call him about one thing or another to try to get me to drop my boundary.

I cut my mother out of my life years before (and he agreed with my decision then LOL) for dumb bullshit, I don’t know why he thought he’d be any different.

L. O. L. That second article has some choice bits. Point 2 is almost good enough to post in its entirety:

“Someone might see a video on TikTok — ‘I cut off my parents, and I’m much happier now. They were toxic narcissistic boundary crossers. And now I’m great,’” he said. “And people mimic that. Or they think, ‘Oh, this person’s getting a lot of attention.’”

Kids are going no contact for attention because of social media

Although he acknowledged that there are no long-term studies that have definitively documented an increase, “that doesn’t mean absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.”

Just cuz we don’t have evidence of the thing I’m claiming, that doesn’t mean I’m wrong

According to Blake, society has shifted away from what he described as a “dignity culture” toward one that places greater value on “victim culture.”

“So now it’s a race to the bottom,” he said. “If you don’t have enough victim status because of the way you were born, you can create a victim status by suggesting your parents abused you or neglected you … and therefore you have value, a reason to cut them off.”

And it gets worse… The very next bit

The expert also pointed to what he described as “therapy culture,” claiming that changing attitudes toward trauma and abuse have influenced how some people view relationships with their parents.

People are now seeing abuse for what it is, and abusers are mad about it

“Another justification is, ‘I cut off my parents to protect my mental health’ — and this is a sort of false belief,” he told Fox News Digital. “There is this huge bias that if you’re struggling in your adult life, it must be because your parents did something they shouldn’t or didn’t do something.”

Yep, we’re just faking being miserable dealing with magat family members how abused and mistreated us from childhood to adulthood. Clearly sticking by them is better for your mental health.

Blake also raised the issue of “moralized language,” or “therapy words” that get thrown at parents — “such as abuse, toxic, boundaries, narcissists, gaslighting.”

Yeah, even though he quickly follows it up with legit advice like asking for evidence of the behavior and using ‘I’ instead of ‘you’ or avoiding ‘always’/‘never’ statements, that is a whole color guard of red flags that tell me this dude needs to go fornicate with a cactus before anyone listens to him.

I’ve had a narcissist parent attempt to try to DARVO my setting boundaries to protect my mental health from her emotional abuse into me being the toxic one because I wouldn’t keep tolerating the cycle of abuse.

“If you look at the outcomes of the gentle parenting or the permissive parenting that we’ve slipped into, we have the most mentally ill generation in history, the least fit for adulthood,” Blake suggested. “Perhaps we should be learning from our grandparents more than the therapists.”

Yeah, we should just beat our children till they fall in line, or throw them in an asylum where we don’t have to look at or deal with them. Much better.

This dude can get entirely fucked.