Dog tax! Here is the unrepentant culprit.

Yes

This meme is art

No, but I cross my legs while standing so that my feet are close to perpendicular. It's comfy.

Bookmarking this!

Holy shit this is awesome

Exactly! It's called planning ahead, get with it NT folks

Congrats

Nope, but YMMV

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1057350

So...the first thing you need to understand is that there are different types of sewing machines, as someone commented on your original post. There are:

1. "Regular" sewing machines, which can be either mechanical or computerized. These are the type of machines virtually all hobbyists use and can handle a huge range of projects, from linen napkins to ballgowns. It's important to note that either the computer or the mechanical system determines stitch length and width.

2. Serging machines, which cut the fabric while sewing it, and make a single specialized stitch.

3. Embroidery machines. These are similar to "regular" sewing machines, but with a wider table and extra parts for stretching out the area you're embroidering. They also have a computer to track/calculate the stitches in a given embroidered image.

As far as I'm aware, software is only available for embroidery machines. The computers in anything less than the most expensive of home sewing machines are pretty simple, and I'm not even sure how you would access them. They don't connect to wifi, and there are no ports in the machines except for power and the foot pedal.

For the use cases you listed, I recommend a basic "regular" sewing machine such as this one. Any regular sewing machine built in the past several decades will be able to use a variety of stitches out of the box.

For repairing socks specifically, I agree with the other poster who talked about zigzag and stretch stitches.

Do you have access to a sewing machine?

I've been struggling to stay on the wagon for more than two days for the past several weeks. Weighed in this morning at 153.

noooo it's horrifying

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My autistic dad frequently said that I was on the spectrum (always that exact phrase) but refused to have me diagnosed. I grew up just assuming that I had a high-functioning (as I need relatively few accommodations; my apologies if this is an outdated term) form of autism.

Now as an adult, I still don't have the resources to get a professional diagnosis. I feel very much at home in groups like this; I have many of the symptoms of autism though not all; I got 136 on the RAADS-R test. That test was the tipping point that pushed me mentally from "strongly suspecting I'm autistic" to "self-diagnosed autistic".

I floss and brush religiously every night, have for many years. I had a cavity when I was young and the whole experience was terrible.

I still ended up with multiple cavities as an adult.

Thanks :D

Not an excuse, but an explanation: ignorance.

Most people don't know how ads or data collection works beyond the obvious uptick in a product after you search for it. They don't know what impact it might have.

Full disclosure: I'm mostly in this camp. I only recently started using firefox over chrome, for example. I know that big tech collects obscene amounts of data, and monetizes it by targeted advertisements, but...beyond that, I don't know what FAANG can do with the data collected on me. I only have a vague idea of what's being collected.

Fundamental rights

Great writeup.

Lmao you absolutely can.

Sure. In the same vein, I'll go back to twitter if elon musk somehow restored it to the way it was before before his purchase.

Neither scenario will happen, of course. But if we're talking about hypotheticals, I wouldn't have an issue returning.

I was working at a grocery store, stocking food in the freezer aisle. Along comes a customer, passing by on the other side of the waist-level coolers that divide the aisle in half. She's unremarkable: middle-aged, white, obese. Indistinguishable from the thousands of other customers I saw in my years there.

So this woman passes me, just looking at the frozen foods. And there, hanging on the back of her shirt, is a lizard. And not just a common garden-variety lizard, but a bearded dragon.

A live adult bearded dragon is just chilling on the back of this customer's shirt as she does her grocery shopping.

Just. What.

I had so many questions. But I was a socially awkward teenager so I said nothing and never saw the lizard lady again.

Lemmy already has jerboa.

I see an androidish icon? (Could be a jerboa icon. Idk) I'm on jerboa on an android.

Hey fellow ex-redditor! I've seen some people post video (youtube) links. I haven't seen a gif or native video yet, so I'm not sure if it's currently possible.

I'm new too, so I don't have a more solid answer than that.

I was homeschooled. Never went to public school. And my parents were christians, so naturally they bought christian apologetic textbooks.

One science (biology I think, high school level) textbook had most of a chapter discussing why the "theory of evolution" was "wrong". Another book from the same publisher discussed at length why global warming (and the ozone-thinning effect of certain chemicals) was untrue.

My chemistry professor in college, wonderful man that he was, was the first person to explain divergent and convergent evolution to me.

If you don't count inactive time, overnight oats are great. I like to microwave some milk with some kind of fruit, then dump in some quick-cooking oats and refrigerate it overnight. My little one loves it!

Fruits and vegetables if your kids will eat them are obviously the best choice, but I realize that's a big "if".

Chicken nuggets can be microwaved in about a minute. Some brands make cauliflower-chicken nuggets.

Plain rice balls aren't exactly quick, but if you make them ahead of time they refrigerate okay and can be a good snack. Personally I don't like the texture once they've been chilled but they're a big hit with my kid.

Cheese (sticks or cubes) take very little time to prepare.

(Edit: i didn't realize this post was this old until after I'd finished. Oops.)

For those interested in learning more about non-punitive discipline, I strongly recommend Alfie Kohn's book Unconditional Parenting.

Heeeyy. I'm another parent who's migrated here from reddit. Reddit had some great communities for parents, and I'm really hoping we can rebuild it here.

The clean energy was the deciding factor for me, since virtually everything's accessible from any instance. There were some bumps around some communities not being found - I assume from rapid growth caused by the reddit exodus - but things are working smoothly now.

Saturdays are for grocery shopping, extra long walks with the dog and my toddler, and various other chores: mowing the lawn, mopping the floors, laundry, etc.

Sundays are for baking, practicing piano and in theory for relaxing. In practice I have issues with just stopping and relaxing.

Interesting food for thought, thanks!

I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.

I'm not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that's not something I'm going to support it any way.

I'm doing something similar! I need milk and sugar to make coffee palatable but I'm gradually reducing the amounts of both.