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i am actually fine with animals just doing animal things. i'm not neurotic or a control freak or anything. my family have had dogs. i've been around cats, at a safe and confined distance (typical mad cat aunt, etc.)

the cat was specifically playing up and acting out all summer though. even my other half expressed alarm and said she had never encountered behaviour like it. it was being a shit, and part of its shittiness was targeted at me. not something you want to contend with when you've just bought into 'your' home. this town ain't big enough for the two of us, etc., kinda vibe. why should i have my first 4 months in my new home scotched because of an undisciplined, spoiled animal?

inevitably, most of it came down to her not training or socializing the cat whatsoever. they lived together in some dyad, where even her sisters or relatives visiting her former place equalled a showdown. the animal was given everything, and denied nothing. and somehow i was expected to just fit into this extremely unhealthy and overindulged atmosphere. while paying into the mad scheme.

'luminous orange rice snacks' honestly sound like rice crackers, which should just have a soy sauce or vinegar brushing. pretty much the same additives cautionaries as for any other processed, packaged food. not like the west is short of any of that. eat bar mix sparingly.

if microsoft had enough update power to randomly splash ad widgets onto my startup screen, necessitating my going into MICROSOFT EDGE to have to turn them off one at a time, it can very well keep up with security updates.

m$ trying to have it both ways.

is it because people aren't moving to 11?

never could understand how americans could handle their urbanism. it's practically designed to promote atomisation, anomie, and patience-testing rage.

i understood this intuitively when i first visited the states at like 12-13 years old. having to pile in a giant station wagon even to go get a bottle of milk for morning cereal. driving down an actual multiple lane highway just to get to the nearest small store. carparks for as far as the eye could see. just fucking exhausting to anyone from the 'old world' who merely has to slip a coat over their shoulders and 'pop out' for 80% of the essentials they need.

a lot of migrant families from europe have a trail of genes all over the country. nomads in yurts had stronger ties to their land. once again, i don't want to hear about ted's 13% irish ancestry from dnasnoop, inc, or spiritual connection to braveheart. about as celtic as a chinese toaster oven. nothing wrong with moving around, but be real about it, y'know. and reject the melting pot at risk of furthering cultural blandification.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-01-17 12:36:51)

i'm sure there's like the equivalent in mormon communities in utah or whatever.

yes, apparently. corporation masquerading as church, very tight grip on communities. even the idea of afterlife is heavily tiered and reminds me of what i've been told about amazon's internals. meanwhile if i was starving on the street, i'd hit up a mosque before the lds.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Isn't the Mormon Church growing? Can't argue against success.

As a guy who tells people he is a "Proud Catholic," I have no issues with the Mormon Church. I almost welcome it as its own center of gravity.

It is funny how different our lives can be in this big country. You are literally the only person I ever hear complain about the Mormon Church. (It is actually endearing and unique.) We don't even think of you guys over here. I don't see too many Mormons walking the streets with their pressed shirts anymore. They were always nice and people never bothered them. I think there is some local Mormon thing around here but is made up of Hispanic converts that stayed rooted. They don't send their kids to school for Halloween or allow them to eat candy that day.

What do people in Utah understand about Catholicism? Is there some 35 year old "Proud Mormon" dude in Utah who is like 'I have no issues with the Catholic Church. I welcome it as its own space." The guy really doesn't understand the blood and body cracker/wine thing too. But then again most Catholics don't either. That is a bit strange.

I grew up around a sizeable minority of Mormons. Even where I live now in LA there's a huge Mormon church on Santa Monica blvd. As a Christian I disagree with their beliefs but I gotta say they were solid people and most of the ones I knew are pretty successful. Tight family unit, against alcohol and drugs, they go on missions around the world learning different languages and cultures and probably constantly getting rejected. Makes for strong people

i don’t really see where i was complaining about mormons. europeans hardly think of them at all either. they’re considered a part of the zaniness of american life and religion - like ‘get a load of these guys who obviously fell for a deeply weird huckster’.

all these religious weirdos left the old world in the first place because their beliefs were too kooky/leaders too self-aggrandising and cultish to get along with ordinary folks back home. even the virginia settlers and what you consider the ‘southern aristocracy’ were ultimately a bunch of LARPers and soiled cavaliers on the make. their contemporaries found their airs and graces in the new world faintly ridiculous - and that attitude of bemusement is basically the main tenor of all old world–new world relations. there’s definitely no ‘hate’ or strong feelings going on.

my point about the mormons was indeed that ‘america is a very big place’. you talk about all these inter-generational dynasties on the east coast who evince the benefits of ‘staying put’, but my point is america has been capacious enough - geographically and socially - for there to be entire other dynasties elsewhere on the continent made up precisely of those ‘who moved often’.

Last edited by uziq (2026-01-18 02:00:47)

i was gifted a bag of apples. i like apples. but these are red delicious. likely the cheapest there were on the shelf.

pretty sure i've stated my unfavorable opinion on red delicious apples in ancient bf2s history. i'm pretty sure styrofoam tree ornaments have as much flavor.

still thanked them for it. sure i'll find some use. maybe as smoothie thickener.

gift horses and such.

i need to log a reminder to grab some jazz or gala.

That sucks. Work started buying curved monitors a couple years ago, 27in or so, no issues so far but there's nothing special about em.

My 27in flatscreen ips 1440p from 2012 is still chugging along at home.

I don't know what my next meal is to cook.
I spent sunday morning as I always do, looking through 3 dozen saved recipes printed out shoved in a folder plus another half dozen cookbooks of various ethnicities, found 3-4 I felt like having, wrote down the ingredients for all of them, bought those ingredients, made 1 each night, and now I'm on my last one and I don't remember what recipe I chose.

I have a random assortment of ingredients, but I don't have a corresponding recipe.


Am I an idiot?

I would not want to attempt to manufacture a curved screen.