Well I am happy, but would be happier if the public transit here was good. Because the city would be so much better.

More money would make me less anxious but I have a reasonable lifestyle already (only took a half century and 4 wage earners in the household) and am satisfied with it.

Yoga mat is about perfect for me IF sleeping on my back. Floor not bad. Bed is much better for sleeping on my side though. Absolutely hate sleeping cold though. Cold will wake me up every time.

It’s not busy but Ask Lemmy NSFW is pretty nice, open-minded and certainly hard to shock.

A visor.

It depends. My mom wanted to break even when she died. Not leave us money, and not cost us money, but did rely on my sister to help out, not financially much but with some care. I sent maybe $500 total towards that, so pretty close to what she wanted.

Husband’s parents are loaded, but if his mom needed care I’d help because she has been so nice to me, I was not close with my mom but have been lucky in mothers in law. I don’t expect anything from them, think their plan is to skip us and leave some to the grandkids, but in any case they are rich-ish and do not expect anything in the way of financial help.

I took time off to raise my kids, so don’t expect to retire but no, I would hope to not need financial help and don’t expect it from them. It’s a win if they don’t need any financial help from me!

In your case, if your parents sacrificed their future income to raise you, I understand why you feel you owe them, but I don’t really think that way, you don’t accrue debt for being raised. It’s more like whoever ends up best off helps the others, so my most successful daughter wants to be “the rich uncle” who can do that, she helps out her sisters, and my hope is like my mom’s - to not burden them and to die with close to nothing.

So sorry, but glad you got to hold him through the end.

Cold brew on ice. With simple syrup and some milk. Easy peasy.

Roasted ice is delicious, though. Mmm.

Nah it could mean precocious. I learned to read (like, read the newspaper) by 3 and tested with a ridiculous high IQ at 7 but as an adult I feel quite average, related better with adults as a child but relate well with adults as an adult too.

Wrapping it up with a sidecar variation.

2oz cognac (ABK6)

1oz Giffard Abricot

1 oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro

1oz lemon juice

Shaken. I had one, then a half one, that’s it for the week, back to work tomorrow. Really delicious, cognac and apricot really have an affinity.

My usual breakfast is cafe con leche.

My favorite breakfast is a big fryup, eggs, good homemade sourdough toast, home fries, and spicy refried beans. There isn’t one best food in there, it needs all of them.

Runner-up grits with butter, cheese, and nutritional yeast, topped with a fried egg.

Ok - I have always used unbleached all purpose flour in the starter and thought it so unfussy I didn’t worry about the brand until one time my husband got store brand all purpose flour, and my bread was struggling, it took me awhile to figure out it was the flour! So some all purpose is so low in gluten it’s almost cake flour. Now I am more specific when I ask for flour, but Gold Medal or King Arthur all purpose unbleached work so well to keep it healthy, I do not use bread flour or whole wheat. Used to have a rye starter but this one is so much healthier and easier to use - it’s all purpose starter!

A margarita for Saturday. Gonzalez Reposado, orange liqueur, lime and a spoonful of roasted pineapple syrup.

I do agree. You can’t run the world economy like a pyramid scheme. Not sure there are “too many people” or just technology lag, and I don’t believe EVERYTHING is zero sum (we have increased efficiency in a lot of ways, and solar energy & nuclear don’t seem like they use as many resources as they provide) but easier on the earth if we don’t have as many.

I am not sure it’s even an unpopular opinion, though.

“blueberry, I think” sounds like one of those satirical La Croix flavors, “sat next to a banana”, or “memory of strawberry”

Whiskey with a whiskey float! I don’t usually like old fashioned but that actually sounds good. The soda water would help me taste it, not just be overwhelmed with sweet and booze.

Average 0.16 USD per kwh if I divide the whole bill by the KWH.

Our bill is pretty high but literally everything runs on electricity in the house, the cooking, water heating, A/C, we have clothes washer & dryer, there is no gas line.

I would be happier if plastic surgery, instead of always being aimed at making people closer to all the same, was used to make us look different. Elf ears, horns, tails, big noses, different shaped faces, neanderthal brow lines, creative changes. That is the style I’d like to see happen.

Also, since I’m in Florida, fancy parasols.

Dunno, I think a fake radio show inside a podcast is media inside a different media. But yes it’s the whole thing, and a favorite.

Yes, with a fictional Public Radio host, his show is the podcast.

I have a stepdaughter with schizophrenia, she trusts me more than her mom or dad since I wasn’t part of her upbringing, so I’ve been able to do things like bring her to the emergency room when she thought everyone else was out to get her. But at some points help is not helpful - if your help is only hurting you and not doing much for him, you cannot fix that by trying to help. Wrecking your own life is irresponsible to yourself and to your wife.

I do know it’s hard. Especially here where there is not much mental health funding and they end up in jail (though stepdaughter was calmer in jail for some reason, that is not a good answer). If he is stuck on violence, and crazy so he can’t see his own responsibility in it, just keeps blaming everyone else, you can’t fix that.