Not that I can remember, but once, I was working as a server in a restaurant, and I guess one of the guests that got sat in my section had stared in a TV series that I was only vaguely aware of, but my coworkers loved. My coworkers we’re all excited and whispering the entire time, but otherwise they were just another average, unmemorable guest.

I thought I did too, but damn, that’s a whole different level!

Garlic salt?? In regular (not low sodium) cottage cheese?? One of the things I like to add to cottage cheese is everything bagel seasoning, but I have to make my own seasoning blend without salt since cottage cheese is already quite salty.

Oh man, I was there late last year, currently in remission. It’s definitely scary, but you got this! Let me know if you want to chat!

Do you care to share any specifics of your diagnosis or treatment plan? There’s apparently a wide range of chemo drugs depending of the type of cancer.

I’m slowly working on getting away from Google, but unfortunately, Organic Maps doesn’t offer public transit directions/schedules in my region, and since I don’t have a car, that’s like 80% of what I use Google Maps for.

That’s awesome! It’s different enough from the “standard” maps, though, that it doesn’t confuse my brain the way moving the “seam” does.

Wow, I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen a map that splits down the Atlantic ocean vs Pacific! Really threw my brain off for a moment having the Americas off to the right side, rather than the left. I can definitely see why it was done that way, but just so odd to realize how infrequently I encounter maps drawn that way.

Another issue: multiple times I have gone out of my way to avoid Amazon only to find out the company is still using Amazon for delivery anyway. The most recent one was shoes. I literally went to the physical store to try on shoes, but decided on a color/size combination that they didn’t have in stock. The sales person did their magic to order the shoes for me, and they were still fucking delivered by Amazon.

I’d prefer to sleep in total silence, but since that’s not an option where I currently live, I have a white noise machine.

I got laid off almost 18 months ago. I hate relying on the food bank and borrowed money to survive. I love… setting my own schedule?

Cats. I only have 2 “permanent” cats, but am fostering 10 kittens at the moment and have fostered over 150 so far.

Chiming in to say, yep, me too. One example that used to really drive me nuts was when I’d go to the gym and the person at the front desk would acknowledge me by name, even though we’ve never had an actual conversation or anything. It felt fake and forced and I hated it so much.

I also always felt so awkward as a kid talking about my friends’ parents. Mr./Mrs. LastName usually felt weird, but it also usually felt weird to use their first names, so I’d almost always refer to them as Friend’s mom/dad.

I don’t work in a shelter, but I do a lot of volunteering with a foster-based rescue & TNR organization. Do I get a pass?

I’ve turned off the AI summaries, but occasionally ask one of DDG’s AIs a question, and it almost always has blatant errors in the responses. Yesterday, I did a manual search first, then asked 2 of the AI models if Arm & Hammer currently sells any non-clumping clay litters. It gave me a couple products that it claimed were non-clumping, but when I pulled up product listings to buy them, they were all very clearly labeled as clumping.

Makes it really hard to trust AI for things I don’t know when they’re so often so obviously wrong about things I do know and can easily verify.

I had one as a kid, and it came with a little booklet that showed the series of moves to move pieces around. This definitely wasn’t the fastest way to solve, but it worked.

I remember it said to solve the top layer first, then align that with the correct “center” cubes on the second/middle layer. Then you’d get the “edges” of the second/middle layer in place using the series of moves. For the bottom, there was another couple sets of moves.

I’ll never forget one of the first times I visited my parents in suburbia after I had moved away to a very walkable city. I borrowed their car to go to the gym & the grocery store, which were a few miles away, but less than a block apart from each other. After finishing up at the gym, I walked across the parking lot to the car, and as I’m climbing in, I caught myself and was like, “WTF am I doing, I should just walk,” so I did, but it was pretty miserable. The design of everything was just so car-centric and very unfriendly to pedestrians.

My friends created a FB account a long time ago, and I did end up using it briefly. I haven’t logged into the account in probably 10 years and have no clue what my password is. Thoughts on whether I should bother giving Meta more personal information in order to try to log in & delete that account?

I’m a millennial, and regularly talk to friends & family on the phone. There’s plenty of situations where I’d much rather talk on the phone than communicate via text.

Slight edit based on a conversation I had once at a bar with people of widely varying ages:

Nope. I got laid off over a year ago, then diagnosed with cancer. I feel guilty for being detered by how complicated some of them are and for not taking full advantage of the programs while I’m at a point where I really do need them and qualify for them. I’m on the mend now, and as soon as I can find a job again, I’ll be glad to be paying back into those programs.