I don’t recommend spray foam for a number of reasons, a few being that it offgasses VOCs after installation and can obscure or make future access to repairing surfaces impossible. If, for instance, water in your bathroom seeps into your subfloor, that repair becomes suddenly infinitely more complex if you have to fight through spray foam.

I highly recommend mineral wool batts, even if you do thin ones. They can be cut with a thrift store bread knife/any serrated knife and friction fit between the joists. Very easy install for an amateur, very forgiving. Save the spray foam for those tricky gaps next to doors and windows.

We bought ours from a local contractor supply store, and it was cheaper than Orange or Blue store and they delivered for free. Not sure where you’re at but search around.

But ultimately what we still see is that “girly games” are much less respected and women are harassed in online and competitive games, as well as we’re less respected when we speak on topics of gaming than men. This is especially the case in “gamer” spheres which still maintain a pretty hard-core misogyny problem.

This exactly. As if clicking heads for 100 hours makes you more of a gamer than playing the Sims for 100 hours. As if having guns and gore effects makes a game a “real” game, and no other type of game “counts”.

Hell yeah

I have been hearing about this game and I think it’s worth celebrating because:

A) It was made as a labor of love, spearheaded by a dev who wanted his wife with health issues to be able to make dresses again
B) it was made on a shoestring budget by a small team of devs (non-corpo)
C) It is staunchly anti-AI in its assets and code
D) Its assets are hand drawn with original foley and music composed for the game

Honestly the fact that its geared towards women is one of the less interesting things about it. I’m so happy for them and wish them every success.

Some women do, and making it sound belittling or something worth mocking only serves to continue the narrative that feminine things are lesser and unworthy. Women can rain hell on imperialist scum and make dresses.

Deli meat cut thick, no thanks. I want to see through it or I’m not eating it

I get that a lot of people are hostile to tarot, and the mysticism and hooie around it are definitely something to be guarded against.

However, genuinely, it can be a very useful tool for thinking about your current situation, and planning strategies for future action. It can be a very helpful step to add to making a difficult decision and sometimes the random aspect can reveal your own biases or make you rethink conclusions you’ve made. It’s not going to work for divination, there’s nothing that can predict the future, but it can help you learn some things about yourself.

Obviously, therapy would be better, but to start I recommend reading the companion book that comes with most tarot card sets front to back, and also deciding what those cards mean to you and how you want to interpret them. Then, do readings for yourself until you’re comfortable, then your friends, and finally strangers. You would be offering a third party perspective and helping them through the same decision making process you do for yourself. Again, anyone saying it will help tell the future is selling you bullshit, but sometimes people need a neutral third party to bounce a difficult to chew conundrum off of for twenty minutes and that is worth something.

Not wordy, but all fantastic games to play with young kids:

Mastermind
Blokus
Qwirkle
Othello
Lanterns
Tsuro

For ones that are a little older/can read a bit:

Ticket to Ride (also teaches a bit of geography)
Castle Panic
King of Tokyo/New York
Flip Ships

I started reading to mine at about 4 months, and 1 is definitely old enough to read to. I was asking my one year old questions about the book and the pictures like “can you find the kitty?” and he showed me just how many words he understood and what he knew from that. It’s so important for them to hear language and be communicated with, even if they don’t have the control to speak themselves yet.

I have my four-year-old help me find products in the grocery store, and if he points to something based on how it looks I’ll say “let’s make sure, sound it out!” If we are out, I’ll pretend I have trouble finding a sign or store and tell him to watch out for it for me. “We’re looking for the library what letter does that start with? Ok, look for signs with a word starting with L!” I’m hoping to make him aware of the words all around us and get comfortable with the idea that he is perfectly capable of figuring it out, even if he takes a long time. We read before bed every night as well.

I think as far as making your kid read for x amount of time… probably the most important thing at that age is making sure they love reading and find it fun. I would be concerned that a boring book or reading when they have a lot of energy to burn might make it feel like a chore. So sitting down for 20 minutes close to bed time with a good story after a busy day while you read nearby and are available for help sounds lovely. Sitting down to read a reference book for 20 minutes when you just got home from school and you want to play and your parent is hovering over your shoulder and judging you, no thanks!! So I think the “how” is more important than the “how much”.

Like a lot of things that’s very location dependent. Geographical region, level of development, point in history etc. You and I are both correct, for example my scenario is accurate to ancient Rome or a pre-industrial European village, your scenario is true in 19th century Western American homesteaders or deeply rural communities. A similar thing happened with sewing machines where the invention of a modern tool outsourced a skilled, paid job (making clothes) to unpaid domestic labor. Did some individuals without prior access to those professional services benefit? Of course, but it meant that the bespoke clothing industry and the clothes laundering industries both deflated to the point of not being widely or cheaply available anymore, and the labor that once was a paid job was expected to be done for free.

My point was that it is not such an easy thing to point to that instantly made everyone’s lives better.

It was a time consuming task but it was one done as a job. Cleaning clothes was a whole industry, and getting your clothes laundered was generally affordable and something you could pay others to do for you. The washing machine allows people to do it themselves easier, but with needing to buy the machine, paying for detergent and additives, water use, keeping up with maintenance, it’s not for free. What the washing machine did was take away an industry where people had paying jobs to do the task, and turn the task into a self-care obligation that locks you into consumership. Can you make your own washing machine? Your own detergent? You have to buy those things and then do the labor yourself, unpaid. Who really benefited? The laundry industry was a tough one to work in but it was a paid job for the working class. It’s now a way for corporations to make money off of unpaid labor.

Yes, this: exploration, novelty, a puzzle to work on, building something or towards something. Creating engines that make the next step easier. I love games that offer those things, bonus if they’re beautiful or aesthetic somehow.

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I was concerned about that too, but I finally went ahead and got one, and it’s really not bad. With how briefly the water is in contact, it just hasn’t been an issue. We have fridge temp cold water from our tap as well.

We got a Rinseworks 360 hand bidet, and after trying it for a while I got another one. Definitely reccomend it.

Haha I just made this comment, it took me too many years to think of this

In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.

Edit: someone beat me to it, haha

I know OP and multiple commenters already said OkGo, but these songs/videos have been a micro obsession of mine the past week and I can’t pass up the chance to share them

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c

For this one, the entire song is played via percussive methods by driving a car on a prepared track with improvised instruments. Damian, the lead singer, had to learn stunt driving to drive the car at specific speeds for different parts of the track. They calculated the spacing of instruments over the distance as well as how much time it would take to maneuver to different parts of the course and the speeds necessary to maintain the correct beats per minute. They used over 280 guitars and 55 pianos, and modified the car with audio equipment and levers to control what mallets were extended. The song ends up sounding rough, frustrated, desperate and pained which is perfect for the lyrics, and IMO better than the studio version.

The other one is Upside Down and Inside Out. The song alone is not my cup of tea, and yet with this video it’s really incredible. They recorded the video in 27 second increments of parabolic flight to make the whole thing happen while they’re weightless. In the times between takes, they had to endure 30 seconds of 2x gravity and then wait 5-10 minutes to climb again. The sequences are edited together, so if any of them didn’t make it back to their marks in time the take wasn’t usable. They spent two weeks messing around experimenting with choreography and props, and one week filming.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co

They do making of’s on a lot of their videos, and it’s truly incredible the amount of time and planning and preparation and ambition they have for them.

Are you thinking of Santa Clarita Diet?