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please don't tell my mom that some of my colleagues got nobel prizes the bar is already high enough

@kinda_busy @Molls_Robinson It looks like it was coming from somewhere next to the highway in the industrial area

@Molls_Robinson I don’t know, I saw a bunch of black smoke in the west

Big fire in Berkeley but I can’t find any info on it

@madelineefry we like to ask for handmade cards instead of gifts; my son keeps them and pins them up in his bedroom & playroom. they're great treasures.

Are you a parent of young kids? Did you ask people not to bring gifts to their birthday parties? I want to hear from you!

@C0ll3ct0r_D0LL in case it makes you feel better, hanging bird feeders from a pole doesn't deter rats. they are excellent climbers and jumpers. capsaicin helps a bit with both rats and squirrels but the only real solution is getting rid of the bird feeders entirely

The elderly are GENUINELY a different breed of humans dawg I've offered to help my neighbour put her bird feeder up on a higher platform multiple times, she's declined EVERY SINGLE TIME And now THE WHOLE FUCKIN BLOCK HAS RAT PROBLEMS DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST SAW???

@ad0rnai I want to be able to carry things around my home or office without carrying a bag around with me all the time

I never understood the obsession with dresses that have pockets, it feels weirdly millennial and performative don’t you have purses? tote bags?

@MatthewLeonhar5 he got there and something we've waited for for three months didn't fit ahahaha

@__apf__ But how did he know that was cause of the measurement error unless he knew to check the level but waited until AFTER it was too late?

appreciate the chutzpah of the contractor who just called me to insist a measurement error isn't his fault because he, the man who took the measurements, had no way of knowing that the surfaces are not level

@BasedZillenial @EmbracingTara that black and floral fit is so cute where are the pieces from??

@EmbracingTara I’m Pentecostal too, and this is what I wear to swim. Modest swimwear doesn’t have to mean being covered from head to toe. A lot of it is Pharisaic and performative.

If women are truly seeking to be "modest", undefiled modesty is first found in the heart, and includes a pure desire to not draw attention to one's self in a performative display of piety. The type of swim attire in the post would attract far more attention than simply wearing a fuller coverage 'regular' bathing suit (e.g. a tankini with boy shorts). In fact, my example doesn't even accentuate the curves as much as the first and blends in even more, attracting less attention. So, if "modesty" is the goal, try less performative attention seeking behavior.

@SassySouthBlond @Alexandrovna805 and the one in the video is a technical fabric, it won't absorb much water

@SassySouthBlond @Alexandrovna805 I've done it 1000 times. It is fine. A wedding dress or party dress would be dangerous, but how would a sundress be? It weighs nothing (holds little water) and you have full range of motion. By what mechanism would you drown...?

Sir, your trad wife is at the pool scaring everyone

@SassySouthBlond @Alexandrovna805 nah I jump in my pool wearing sundresses all the time. assuming you aren't wearing wool or jeans, it's fine. much easier to swim in a sundress than everyone makes it out to be. they don't get heavy. not gonna win a race but won't drown from it

@Alexandrovna805 They are gonna drown in those dresses

@tablefourthree @the_transit_guy the area in the original photo doesn't even have office workers, it's entirely a tourist area. that's a Roman ruin and a very popular tourist destination

@__apf__ @the_transit_guy No where near the same. Who visits the Embarcadero other than tourists and for lunch with teammates?

I find it statistically impossible to believe that in a “rich” country of 330 million people, there’s no demand for a single coastal city/town that looks like this.

@nicholascarrigg @Oroborous2 we also have a stone stacked wall, but deer need fencing at least 7' high. I don't think we could build a purely stacked wall to 7' without using mortar. so we have secondary fencing (either wood or metal mesh depending on where on our property) behind the stone stacked wall

@segfaultering @the_transit_guy me toooo

@__apf__ @the_transit_guy man I miss that office so much. such a nice little commute on bart from east bay.

It's completely unrelated to her post. She's saying: among Americans, those of Italian and Irish descent have intermarried at very high rates due to being Catholic immigrants in the same cities and trades. And then she asks: do actual Italians and Irish people intermarry at similar rates? She clearly already understands by the question itself that Irish people and Americans of Irish descent are two distinct groups

@CatholicCharm Your first reply after my comment was very defensive imo. If there's a mis understanding I apologize. I merely said , you are American, and we are Irish. Italians are Italians. In Ireland we class you as foreigners, Americans and some say 'yanks' . That's it. What's offensive ?

Do native Irish and Italian citizens find each other irresistible the way Irish and Italian Americans do 💀

@JMGregorchuk @CXCarroll That's how all brick buildings work in California anyway for seismic reasons

@CXCarroll So you can build a wood home and put a brick facade 🤣

Can you build a brick home and meet CA energy requirements?

@benpicko @the_transit_guy most of the length of the embarcadero looks like this right? it is very lovely. it would be even nicer if they knocked down the waterfront buildings and had it straight open to the water on the other side of the embarcadero like Venice or Santa Barbara

@__apf__ @the_transit_guy One renowned exceptional building vs an entire town and waterfront

@gamergate2077 I love the backstory: a group of guys easily took the unprotected fort and then realized they were going to be treated as criminals unless it was a political act, so they hastily made this flag with supplies in hand. And then Gen Vallejo just shrugged and rolled with it

The original Bear Flag looks so shit in person lmao

@FreshMezcla @drvolts @systemlayers this is super interesting to me. says a lot about how our habits have repeatedly changed over the last 100 years!

@__apf__ @drvolts @systemlayers I am not saying this is good or bad design, mind you. Just an explanation why a graphic depicting the room usage of my house would show the formal dining room to be the least used spaced in the house, yet we have all our meals together in the “informal” dining room in the kitchen

So, yeah, I do a lot of Zillow surfing to relax. And some of the design choices of contemporary homes baffle me. This house has something 99% of new houses are missing: a mud room! Who wants to tromp straight from outside into a living room? zillow.com/homes/for_sale…

@flvmartorelli like many Californians, I speak Spanish and do not speak Italian. puta in Spanish means whore or slut. I guessed at the meaning of the cognate with Italian and was very surprised it's a true cognate, not a false friend

@__apf__ What does Spanish have to do with it? 🙄

at lunch I had pasta puttanesca and I thought, surely that doesn't mean "whore pasta." it must be a funny Italian/Spanish cognate. but actually it turns out it really does mean whore pasta