My solution to that has been fostering! I technically only have a sensible 2, but there’s currently a total of 7 under my roof, and a few more on the way.

I could be wrong, but I have a suspicion that you still won’t be able to once it’s paid off. I’ve run into the issue a few times in the past when buying an “unlocked” Pixel from Amazon that was carrier unlocked, but the bootloader was still not unlockable. A “carrier unlocked” phone allows you to use the phone on any carrier, but doesn’t always guarantee an unlockable bootloader.

I don’t even like podcasts, but where do I subscribe to your’s??

My extra dumb brain initially read that as “any dumb iranian” and was momentarily infuriated.

I was definitely still drawing/writing on my walls in high school, and I’m not even “artsy”.

I was dual booting, distro hopping to figure out what I liked & didn’t like. After a few installs, I got cocky and thought I had the hang of things, and instead somehow deleted the bootloader, or something like that. Couldn’t boot up at all to any OS.

I got banned from Tinder. Possibly because I refused to give my real email and just kept entering temp mail addresses, or possibly due to a photo I included that was taken from behind at an outdoor (public) body paint event.

Same, but lying on my left side, so the mattress?

Hey! I know some of those words!

I also most definitely heard about a similar experiment years ago using lipstick.

Yeah, I really don’t understand what changed or why. By the time I was in high school, pretty much everyone had a cell phone, but they’d get confiscated if they went off in class or we were caught using them during school hours, and that included all break periods. I remember a teacher threatening to take my phone away when I was using my phone to call my dad for a ride home after I had finished my exams for the day. For high school kids, I could see arguments on both sides for whether they should be allowed during breaks, but definitely not during class periods.

Things were a little more flexible in college, but they were still expected to be silent, and some professors would ask you to leave the class if your phone went off or was otherwise causing a distraction.

Currently unemployed, so I can’t exactly remember, but I used to launch a call with just myself. By default, that will change your status to “in a call”, but I believe you can override it and set it to available. Alternatively, a mouse jiggler is around $20.

I sure asked for that, huh? Lol.

Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of “whinge”. I know it’s a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling “whine”. I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.

Thanks for listening to me whine.

I’m a loser and made my own. I ran out of q-tips, so it’s not perfect, but damn close.

This post inspired me to make my own. I started by laying 10 q-tips on the table, then another layer of 10 perpendicular, and kept going until I had 10 layers of each. In hind sight, I recommend doing 9x9, because the next step was to poke q-tips through the grid vertically, and that pushed the other layers around and some fell off. Once you have the 9x9x9 cube, you can fill in the edges to get 10x10x10. Note that the final cube will actually be a few short of exactly 10x10x10 due to the way the shapes hold together.

And here, I thought maybe it was a joke about all the stuff people deleted during the API drama, or maybe a joke about all the stuff getting removed in recent times, but nope, just good old ml censorship.

The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I’ve lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.

I believe I technically still have an account, but I have no clue what the password is, and I’m not about to give up more personal information just to delete it. I haven’t used my FB account in years, and it was actually created for me by some friends back when Tinder still required a FB account.

There’s also an IG account out there that I did create for myself more recently, but also haven’t used in many years, and again, deleting the account feels like too much effort when I can just continue not using it.

I mostly try to avoid clicking any links to content on their platforms, but unfortunately a lot of people/businesses only exist on those platforms, plus some other volunteer work I do kinda requires it, so I do begrudgingly click them sometimes. Thankfully my closest friends have learned to send screenshots instead.

Probably because the bulk of the products tested were likely kids toothpastes.

Lead Safe Mama community members nominate products for laboratory testing and then the LSM community uses crowd-funding (including through GoFundMe) to raise the funds to cover the costs related to testing and reporting of these nominated products. This is how the toothpaste and tooth powder products listed in the chart below were chosen for testing, and how the testing and reporting was paid for.