Corporate America is operating on the Car Dealership model: there are enough rubes to fleece it’s not worth the effort to get quality customers/employees.

I wish these strikes would normalize talking about your salary in the US.

It's such a huge source of power employers have over workers heads. People always say "research what equivalent roles get when negotiating" but the data that's out there is crap. Companies work hard to obfuscate what they pay people.

Yeah -_- if any of the alternatives had been as low VOC as Odie's I probably would have used them instead... But in this case, since it was indoor with kids I didn't really want something fumey.

Agree. The number of people I know who "don't" cook blows my mind. 75% of my repertoire takes less than 30 minutes of involvement to cook. It's cheaper, healthier, and a great zen thing that's totally different from my day job.

For those trying to get started, do a meal kit that involves cooking, and start there. Not having to buy ingredients or plan things out makes it less intimidating.

How do you combo it with epoxy? I'm curious.

Tilley FTW.

I live in the desert, they are common even if unfashionable lol.

This.

I live in NM, so there are wild Neomexicanus hops (the Amalia and Multihead are that variety) but they are all up in the mountains. In the city, there are not really any male plants around.

Only issue is local nurseries sell ornamental hops that might be male... But thankfully my neighbors hopyard is all female varieties for home brewing.

Hot and dry lol. They have to be irrigated.

I wish Apple was transparent enough to have a real comparison of their privacy.

Personal guess, Apple is generating just as much personal data, just using it less offensively than Google. That's not good but it's betterish, I guess.

Main things I'm stuck using Google for at the moment are Gmail and Maps. Gmail, because my address I've had over there since Gmail was invite only. Maps, because they are one of the only decent sources for restraunt reviews these days (why did Zomato have to kill UrbanSpoon :( )

That's part 2 of this project. We will see, the hand rails are not in great shape. May replace, or paint them. The banisters have more visual impact anyway, and are a significantly nicer wood.

We've been dealing with the smell of citristrip this weekend lol, we can deal with the poly smells. Our house uses evap cooling which provides a ton of options for ducting air away from where the people are.

Wish that was an option, but whatever dingaling installed this stuff put all kinds of caulk on the bottom edge and then nailed it in...

Somebody committed a series crime against wood with this lol. Just trying to come up with something reasonable.

Why would you go with a stain+poly vs a finishing oil of some sort?

Toyota 2UZ-FE. Powerful, torquey, and near indestructible. Also, Toyota had the ah-hah moment to take an engine designed for pickups and heavy duty applications and cram it into the 4Runner.

I don't mind Pho, but I won't seek it out.

My favorite pho uses Udon rice noodles, lemongrass spicy broth, and beef brisket... But that's so far from traditional Pho I'm not really sure it counts anymore lol.

Oh awesome! I actually have a couple of recipes that would fit there I can cross post as well. Need to actually write them down rather than just continue to throw random stuff together to make it work.

Is this a shit post, or the wrong link?

What hops you should grow is more determined by your growing conditions than what you want to drink.

I live in NM, so I have two varieties of NeoMexicanus, plus a new drought tolerant variety called Vista.

I generally shoot for varieties that are hard to get new, so that's a good fit for me.

However, if your in Sweden I don't even know if you can grow hops outdoors. Your climate is about as opposite mine as we could get and still both be growing hops!

Yeah all fair.

That's pretty much how I feel about apple. I think at this point I'm leaning towards going to Graphene OS. I used to use custom ROMs a bunch back in the CyanogenMod days.

Yeah, I'm not trying to go full paranoia on this.

The main thing I'm worried about is Google's response to geolocation based subpoenas. That combined with the US political environment is concerning.

The second thing is the stupid advertiser tracking. That's just not cool.

Yeah, this is what concerns me.

Stock Android is neither. So for the average user, Apple iOS is probably better.

I'm on lemmy so I'm probably not the average user lol.

Pure personal preference. I've traditionally gone back and forth almost every time I get a new phone. It's really only in the last 2-3 years I've hit the point I significantly prefer android.

For me, some of the interface choices on iOS are no Bueno. Additionally, the lack of a button, or simulated button is not something I'm fond of.

I'm also not convinced they are more private. I think Apple's incentives line up more with mine than Google's, but only barely. Independent researchers are pretty mixed on whether Apple is actually blocking all apps, or just making it so Apple is the only one who can profit off of people's data.

The only reason I think they are probably more private is the giant hissy fit Facebook threw over their settings.

Went to signal awhile ago, mainly because it's secure and cross platform.

Hmm that would seem to do the trick then. Curiously, by that same definition reddit would have an argument to being exempt.

I guess lemmy's lack of trackers would also help with that problem.

Thanks! One of the keys for me is there are no screws with pure sheer loads, unless it uses a joist hanger.

I used some of both. Just depenended on which was right for the particular joint.

Nice part is both have engineered ratings.

I'll do both for a bit and see what happens.

I'm done posting on reddit, and I'm only interacting with specific subs (maybe via web with an ad blocker). But until the community here gets a little bigger I'll probably still go there to look at content.

That said, I'm trying to make an effort to post a few things daily somewhere in Lemmy. Be the change you want to see and all that jazz.

Me neither! TIL.

I always have mixed feelings on these. On the one hand, sure as heck ain't saying no to another 1k$. On the other, I figure there have got to be better things for the state to spend money on....

I think the mod tools are what will blow reddit up ultimately. It's why I'm here.

The third party apps are a hard self own, but I don't use reddit because of third party apps. I use third party apps because the reddit official app is... Special. If they'd forced me to sue their app I would be annoyed, but still interested in reddit.

If you destroy the key tools that enable volunteer moderators to manage communities, the community will die. Example: two of my favorite subs were legaladvice, and bestoflegaladvice. Both required extensive moderating to function (and even then, it was prone to shit shows particularly at LA). No mod tools would make it unmoderatable... Which turns you into Voat pretty fast.

So, I don't think reddit dies July 1. I think reddit spends the next year turning into Twitter, and lemmy has to run as fast as it can to scale.

Hopefully, this is my last post on lemmy talking about reddit, but I doubt I'm that lucky.

6 players is usually the threshold where I split into two games, so 5 is usually the mex I look for a game to support. Others have listed some great games in this slot.

One more obscure one Ill add is Veiled Fate. Great twist on thehidden role game, and supports up to 8 players.

Went to go get some errands done, and come back to find I have more Lemmy upvotes than I had karma in the last 10 years lol.

Had a mid relatively recently, so Thursday was my first game session in a couple of months.

Played Chinatown and won handily. Love that game. Very straight forward rules, lots of good interaction and decisions, and a great narrative over the course of the game. Glad to get back to the table.

This worked lol.

Drive slow car fast better than fast car slow.

I'm curious to see how many go away now, and return to lemmy on July 1 when a whole bunch of apps get killed.

I have RedReader, which has been exempted for the time being. However, if this is as bad for moderation as it seems like it will be, I doubt I'll be using it long.

I've done some GF brewing, mainly for. My parents.

Made a really good lodge style porter that used Sorghum, Belgian candi sugar, molasses, and Dextrose as fermentables.

If anyone is looking for some "training wheels" to dip your toe into to gluten free brewing, label peelers has some excellent kits.

Daddit was the closest thing I had to an "irreplaceable" subreddit.

This looks promising.

I still have like 1 or 2 communities I don't have replacements for (yet), so I plan to treat them as forums essentially. Just the specific subs I care about.

Basically I'm thinking I'll quit using the front page.