So that second one is interesting, because it brings up the whole pants things. Pants appears plural, but you don’t wear a pant. Seems to be a similar situation for tights here. A pair of pants. Hmmm. Got a do some research here about the history of pants.

The same but for my broken Xbox, after a little sticker art.

If you said fendero bendero, though, it would have a latin flair.

This tracks. I got to spend some time on a Dutch boat during some training in Norway (I’m from the US) and each meal came with an assortment of meat, and there was one that was like a 10" tube of meat that we called horse cock, because the Dutch sailors mentioned some of the meat was horse, and so it was obviously the 10" tube.

I assumed they meant aliens.

The first time I went to SF was summer 2008 to move my brother out there. Packed shorts and tshirts, because it’s fucking August, why would I need jeans, and especially why a jacket?

So that’s how I bought jeans and a jacket in SF, as soon as that fog rolled in, RIP.

Yeah, I listened to earlier stuff, the ones you mentioned, even when he had Tom DeLonge on. Hamilton Morris was good. When he has guests on that talk about drugs, and the paranormal, and outer space, or just weird shit, it was interesting, and like him or not he can talk about anything with anyone.

It’s when it comes to the politicking that his agenda is very clear, and whether it’s his own agenda or just the money talking, doesn’t matter.

Rage seems to win elections.

Jersey City, in Journal Square, when they adopted the JSQ 2050plan in like 2008, included mandatory zero parking.

There are community bonuses for things like parks and theaters that allow developers greater density and height. There’s a million bonuses, not all necessarily community giveback, but with an idea around building a more walkable city.

The amount of pushback they’ve gotten since then had been crazy, but it’s been great to watch their boards and council be pretty good about sticking to it. It’s a difficult thing for a lot of people to understand, but if you build it, they will come very much applies to parking.

Jersey City has really tried to push itself to the forefront of smart planning over the last 20 years, modeling ordinances around things they’ve seen around the country that have worked, as well as taking a hard line on certain ideas. Project Zero has been huge in JC, and while they’re not there yet, taking a city that, 30-40 years ago, was dangerous as fuck and recovering from being essentially a train depot that built Manhattan, they’ve come a long way. I’ve gotten to watch a lot of this take place from up close and it’s been a real pleasure.

Yeah, I don’t know if it was my time in or what, but I came to the conclusion one day that we should just do a good job for the sake of doing a good job, and stop expecting people to fellate you for it. And I’m saying this having benefitted time and again from just doing a good job. There are times I did and times I didn’t, but I’m at a point where I won’t feel satisfied if I don’t do it right. Maybe I’m just old now.

Kenji could write an article on literally anything and I’d take it as gospel. Could tell me the best way to drive my car was with one eye closed, and I’d be pirating the next day.

I have friends who quit working. Two kids in daycare, you got a clear 30k take-home to make it work, and if you’re barely making it work with that, on top of killing yourself, that income stream just doesn’t make sense. It’s dumb.

I had a friend who was the director of a YMCA daycare, and I have no idea how they kept functioning. I crunched numbers and they barely had enough to pay their teachers. She made jack shit. It was crazy. And we still paid a fortune to go there.

That is a good point. I see a lot of people suggesting it hasn’t been a thing since the '90s, when for me it stopped probably shortly before or shortly after COVID, and mainyl because I have kids. But I won’t disagree that shits expensive everywhere, and I’ve certainly said to myself “Yeah, that ain’t worth that.” So I’m with you there.

I think I could still hop on down to my local watering hole and meet up with some friends and put some beers away though. The beers there have always been expensive, and so that at least hasn’t changed.

I appreciate that your reply is both sardonic of the haters, yet respectful of OP.

When I was younger, certainly before kids, yeah, we had a couple different restaurants or bars where we’d meet up fairly regularly, for either a couple beers or some food, or both, or more.

This thread highlights the reality of Lemmy, and how it’s representative of only a sliver of the population. The number of people saying “Friends?” is depressing.

Childcare is closer to 1500 per child, FYI, at least in Jersey.

Yeah, this seems like part “things are bad” and part “I’m bad with money.”

The right potato will work just fine.

I believe it means something.

You reawoke memories of summers on Reddit, hard to believe that was a thing, because it’s been all year summer for the last decade it feels like.

I still post. There’s niche subs that I still think are quality. I completely understand anyone deciding to leave, though, it’s really a shell of it’s former self. The algorithm that decides what’s on top of your feed kinda ruined everything. I can sort by new, and somehow it’s not sorted chronologically. It doesn’t make any sense.