It's not guaranteed if you wash them with a bit of vinegar in the water. That little trick genuinely does make a lot of fruits last much longer.

Super easy IF you have the right climate. IF.

“Our schools should be a place for children to learn, to not feel like they are being pushed or seen as agendas in one way [or] another as it pertains to political beliefs,” he said.

On the surface, this sounds great. In practice, it always only goes one way.

For them: Ten commandments in the classroom is fine. Military recruiters in the school is fine. Inspecting childrens' genitals is fine. Passing out Bibles is fine. Conservative clubs/organizations in school are fine.

For me, it was usually some variation of "Do you have kids?" or "When you meet the right woman." that signals the beginning of the end of our nice, casual, non-awkward chit-chat. But now that I cut my own hair, I don't hold back with my barber when he asks me stuff like that.

In 2026 America, bottoms are increasingly the "breadwinner" of the household. Let's move on from these antiquated 1950's MAGA assumptions about relationship dynamics!

But also, like the vast overwhelming majority of the time, the waiter/waitress is going to give the check to whichever replies "one check" when he or she asks "Is this a separate check or together?"

In 2026, an adult in the USA being homophobic or opposed to gay marriage is simply willfully ignorant. It's not some belief they innocently acquired and never really considered it any further, it's a specific and intentional choice. Obviously, it's probably always been that way, but all I know for sure is that this day and age, it's definitely willful ignorance.

Here's the thing: Even if she could do a video call, that doesn't really prove anything.

Having said that, she's 40 and she's a CEO. If her "webcam is not working" she has the means to rectify that quickly. Not to mention, there's basically no chance a 40 year old CEO of an international organization doesn't have a phone that can do video calls, let alone no laptop/device capable of it. It's pretty much going to be essential for that type of job. She'd buy a new laptop, new phone, get the existing stuff fixed.

Yes it's a scam. There are many variations of how these work and there's not always a one size fits all script. They'll say whatever it takes and it could be anything.

Some will ask for money directly. Some will lure the target into crypto scams. This general type of romance scam typically involves building trust over time, and then suddenly concocting an urgent situation requiring money. The idea is that they need help ASAP, and if the target doesn't act quickly, the scam artist is going to be in a lot of danger/trouble. For instance, she might claim that she traveled abroad and something happened (ex: lost passport, stolen purse) that requires lots of money now. Or maybe because she's stuck in another country without ID, she needs someone in the USA (your dad) to cover some bogus financial transaction for the company or they will face big fines/bankruptcy/lose the biggest client/etc.

Also, people who are being scammed often lie about whether or not they've sent money. Deep down they know they may suspect they've been taken advantage of and feel embarrassed/ashamed about it. Even people that you feel 100% would never lie to you about that, will lie about that up to a point.

This is literally the exact perfect situation to VANCE-IT with a confident "Just whatever makes sense."

My theory is that snitty count would be biologically decoupled from the number of offspring in a single birth because virtually all snake species are self-reliant in terms of feeding themselves once they hatch and thus the role of the snitty would not be for feeding the offspring.

Something that annoys me is the number of people who claim they don't read/watch the news (except the weather) or use Facebook/social media anymore because it's all bad news -- and yet they still seem to have an opinion on everything that's happening AND they still vote based on that opinion.

But I suppose that's also bad news in and of itself, so I apologize for that.

So here's the thing. Right off the bat it's hard to take you seriously when you don't even seem to understand how the pre-order works for the Steam Machine -- and that's even with me agreeing with at least some of your overall sentiment. What compelling reason would they have to shut down the pre-order page earlier than advertised?

Honestly, none of us really know for sure 100% factually whether the Steam Machine will sell out or not, but it's hard to take your questioning of it seriously when your understanding is so limited, and that's the nice way of putting it.

Personally, I won't be surprised either way. I suspect it will sell out, but like you, me, and millions (billions?) of other people, I also know that the price is laughable when appraised only by specs and anticipated performance metrics, so it also would not surprise me if they struggle with sales.

The exaggerated eyebrows lashes on the one snake (but not the other) to ensure we know that one of them's a lady makes me wonder if the artist woulda put some big ole snitties on her if they'd drawn the rest of the body.

When these threads come up, it's always interesting to see how many of the "I was banned for no reason at all, I only said puppies are cute" users have a post history here on Lemmy that makes me think "I don't agree with full-on bans, but in this case, I can kind of see why they might've done it."

Also, I always wonder with these how many people are saying "I was banned from Reddit" when actually they were only banned from a specific sub. It's super easy to get banned from the average sub on Reddit (at least it used to be). Much higher bar, generally speaking with caveats, to get banned from the site itself.

Having said all that, I did get a temporary site-wide suspension from Reddit, the REAL DEAL, for using the word "retard" in the accurate non-abusive way when discussing methods to slow the growth of mold. So, there's that.

As for what made me join this place? I was already ready to be done with Reddit. I was aware of Mastodon, checked it out, definitely not for me, but by looking into that I found out that there was a news aggregator style alternative of similar principle called Lemmy.

Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

Highly unlikely, so I'll say no.

The big appeal (for me) would be simplified gaming for the 1 television in my home, but I almost never get that tv to myself. The other big appeal to me would be to buy the mega max pro pro plus pro maxxx xxxl super mega 2TB with controller version and then sell at a higher price (i.e. scalp), but that's a little risky and not really a thing I'd ever really do.

I was only interested in the new controller to begin with, which that release has been botched to hell, so I'm not really likely to get one now. I simply do not want to pay that much AND wait that long to replace the crappy, god-awful, unreliable piece of shit PS4 pro controller of mine. There are a myriad of easier to find and/or cheaper options.

Going back to the Steam Machine itself: I assume it's highly unlikely that Valve is selling this kind of hardware at a loss. Given the current pricing, I'm even more confident in that assumption.

Thousands of people have "done the numbers", and while I'm not an expert on the parts and prices, the general consensus is that you can build something from off the shelf parts much cheaper. On the one hand, the Steam Machine is using some amount of custom parts and obviously using more expensive stuff for the smaller footprint, but on the other hand, they'd also likely be getting some amount of discount on a good portion of the parts/materials that wouldn't necessarily be available to hobbyists putting together a home PC. So, I'm going to say that's a wash.

You'd have to be very clear and very specific about what you mean "sells well" to comment there. I suspect that Valve knows that regardless of whether the price is competitive on a singular "by the specs" or "per performance" metric, there will be a solid number of people who will buy it. As long as they were relatively conservative with their estimates on the size of that crowd and produced fewer units than that, it will sell out. Selling out is certainly one way to define "sells well". This hardware was never going to sell at a magnitude similar to established console brands, so anybody using that as a metric for selling well is, I'll be nice, not being realistic.

Kind of reminds me of my step-mother. It's not the lifetime of heavy chain smoking that caused/causes her to keep getting cancer and worsening respiratory illness. It's the chemicals "they put in everything". It's "they used to put mercury in our vaccines". It's "all the drugs they make you take these days". It's blamed on everything else and the 60+ years of almost non-stop cigarette smoking just contributed but didn't cause it.

And, of course, plenty of common things besides cigarette smoke can cause cancer, so it's not like I'm denying that. Just that Occam's Razor being what it is, I'm going with the simplest and most obvious explanation that there's evidence of to explain all the health issues.

The way I see it snakes have approximately half as many holes as mammal ladies, since the have no ears and a multipurpose cloaca. So by my calculations, if you round up a bit, and carry the 5, then snakes got 1 and some change snitties.

Honestly, for years folks on the internet gaslighted me this same way about Amazon.

Oh, they have THE BEST customer service. They would never do that. Any time I've had a problem they've always fixed it 110%. What did YOU do wrong?

But in reality, my experience was that for a good long stretch, there was an issue with almost every order I placed, and it was a literal coin toss as to whether customer service was going to do the very minimum to make it right or if I was in for a weeks long ordeal just to maybe get some degree of resolution and not get screwed.

So, what I'm saying is, just because YOU personally have had zero issues, that's absolutely no reason to think it's "strange" that someone else might have had a different experience with the same business. Personally, I think it's extremely bizarre that you'd find it strange.

I don't think dinosaurs were taking x-rays of beaver tails, my dude. Go read a book sometime.

I know this is preaching to the choir here, but that is so very out of touch for many/most/all of us.

Those things cost like $5 - $9 in my area, and you can even get the "old" ones for a couple dollars cheaper at times. It costs very little more than raw chicken, and in some cases, the rotisserie chickens cost less. Then you factor in time for cooking, clean-up, products for clean-up, and other time / material costs, and the difference comes out a wash.

So, they are apparently suggesting that having chicken in a meal at all is a splurge. Sure, in some idealistic world where we all eat a vegan diet to save the earth, that might fly. But in the real world, it's literally insane propaganda to suggest that chicken is a splurge.

If this turns out to be true, and really even if it doesn't, I'm just tired of MAGA on MAGA gang violence in the USA. Can't these people just settle their differences over a Bible or the blood of baby Jesus?