Soon to work on my kitchen backsplash as part of a total reno. Have the “layering” figured out for height and need to get an idea of where to start the pattern horizontally so it looks nice against edges and windows and stuff

Or like… Get a job as a cook on a ship. Keep the beer for yourself

Nobody’s said Lenny yet? Ok. I’ll say Lenny.

I preferred the first version.

When you’re being encouraged in a place that supplies your income and with that your livelihood, an “encouragement” becomes pressure.

Similarly, my brother-in-law once bought a rather expensive gift for my father-in-law and asked if we wanted to pitch in for it. He’s truly a great person, we get along great, and if we said no I don’t think it would have been a big deal at all… But being the one who married into the family relatively recently, it’s a difficult thing to push back on. And that’s in the best case scenario with someone you know, love, and trust. We don’t know that OP has that same kind of relationship with their coworkers

I did not downvote this comment, but the approach feels a bit more pushed/forced, which drastically takes away from the sincerity. It’s great to show support on your own volition, but if everyone is required/pressured to do so, I would question who really is “safe”

My tap water (Denver area, Colorado, USA) is pretty good. My fridge has a filter and cold water is tastier, so I end up with cold, filtered water (as filtered as can be from some off-brand filter I got online).

But the coffee maker is next to the kitchen sink and I happily use that. Sometimes I’ll fill a glass from the bathroom faucet and it hits the spot. Neither are filtered, and I don’t think twice about it.

My friend got his townhouse that way. It was a pretty decent place, and nobody was interested because there were, like, 2 almost-identical exterior shots, maybe one of the kitchen? and 5 from the master bedroom. None from the living room or anything like that

Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom’s daughter’s boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the “controversy” in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. “Well yeah, of course it’s a vegetable”

I couldn’t understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.

He was probably thinking of the Bombe, which broke Enigma’s encoding.

I’d be curious to know for funsies, but do you really expect it to be anything that would make one rethink solar?

Very well said. I think at the end of the day, the human element is too easy to overlook and that’s a problem. We have one bot, a search engine, keeping an eye open for content. SEO wants to stand out for that bot, so it demands content (and in a certain way) be created so the search engine picks it up… But that takes effort, so we have another bot creating content to get the attention of another. And the thing a person wants just becomes an afterthought and dead Internet theory is that much more real

I have a bit of a compulsion to scan the grocery store for marked down fancy cheeses and bakery stuff. I’ve tried some pretty awesome stuff I never would have gotten otherwise.

My 2-and-a-half-year-old doesn’t really know what’s going on, but she’s happy to be at Grandpa’s for the third time in her life (first time since being able to walk) and is happy to explore this definitely-not-childproofed house

Sixty hundred.

…How?

If only we had someone to judge if those reasons are valid instead of you assuming you can make your own rules

What would stop a human from creating an account, then having a bot run it?

Oh no, I wasn’t trying to disprove your point at all! Just showing how extreme the situation needs to be to justify a suit. From what I remember most of the guests didn’t wear a suit either, but I can totally see it being a thing on the east coast.

Also Colorado. Granted, covid didn’t give me much opportunity here but I wore a suit this summer for the first time in about 5 years. It was a wedding and I was the officiant 🙃