The Play Store is honestly full of malware, be careful.

It makes it even more of an insult that Google wants to mandate a registry of approved developer accounts in the name of “security” when they can’t even guarantee the security of their own store.

And I feel like those pointy edges are just going to cut your mouth eventually.

Maybe it was a typo and they meant to write ‘wound’?

I used a MacBook for 10 years that was one of the first models to come without a disc drive, it was a 2013 model.

I recall it being a bit ahead of the curve at the time, but it was a pretty fast curve before you really couldn’t find a laptop with a disc drive anymore.

Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?

Can I see the bench?

And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.

Rice. Beans. Seasoning.

Throw in a crock pot and forget about it for half the day. Prepare in bulk and refrigerate leftovers to eat throughout the week.

Cheap, filling, not terrible for you, takes like 5 minutes of effort.

This was my experience as well.

Fresh out of high school, I started working at a store that was union, but everyone in my generation was on a different contract from the people who had been there for 20+ years. A lot of the benefits paperwork that went out to everyone had to clarify different terms depending on whether you were hired before or after a certain date, with the terms for the “after” group usually being worse.

Unions in general are great and necessary, but bad unions are still out there.

It’s like a scone but softer and airier. It’s a common breakfast staple for sandwiches and eggs benedict and the like. Or sometimes just toasted and eaten with butter or jam.

Some rice cookers have an extended “keep warm” setting where the temperature remains high enough to prevent the growth of bacteria, allowing you to start a batch in the morning and use it all day or even the next day if needed.

I assume it’s referencing the controversy of Colin Kaepernick kneeling instead of standing for the US national anthem.

4 days at 10 hours with 3 days off is the way, as long as work-life balance is respected by the job. That would definitely go a long way towards both aligning schedules and giving enough time to address other needs with some leftover for personal care and maintaining social connections.

Not to say I don’t appreciate finally having a full-time gig that at least gives me weekends off, which I desperately needed after years of irregular part-time work that made it impossible to plan my life more than two weeks out and never seemed to align my days off with other people. But I already essentially work 7:00-17:00 Monday through Friday (and of course that extra time over 40 hours isn’t paid). The 10 hour days aren’t a problem for me, but I would really like to have an extra day off in compensation for that.

Some friends I see more often than others, just by virtue of schedules coinciding a bit more conveniently. I try to see someone in person once a week or so. Usually we can get larger groups together for occasions like birthdays and holidays.

Some friends moved too far away to see regularly, but we still keep in touch online, sometimes with video games. I count this separately from the “once a week” statistic above.

There are a small number of former friends (I don’t even want to say former because I still like them, even though I haven’t seen or heard from them in years) who just drifted apart due to differences in interests or just being too caught up in their own priorities to make time (getting married, having kids, juggling multiple jobs, etc.), but the majority of my friend group with kids still make effort to spend time together, and we never mind the kiddos being part of the social fabric either, so as not to make it feel like the kids are any sort of barrier to hanging out.

And then you fuck right?

Nope, I made it up while bored out of my mind at work and trying to think of random scenarios just as thought experiments. This one seemed good enough to share, but I’m not a good judge of what people are into, I can remove it if it’s shit.

This may be one of the better ideas I’ve read so far. Incredible, kudos!

I think you caught me there on a verbiage technicality.

I probably should have worded it better in the additional details of the premise, but my intent was that your old self simply doesn’t exist in this timeline. Your family is there, but they had some other kid instead of you on the same date you were born.

If your name is Jarnathan Smith, you like baseball and your favorite color is puce, you’d instead find that your family had a kid named Archideld Smith who likes rugby and whose favorite color is mauve.

Yep…you have a diary which likely covers big life events and chunks of recent history, but I hope you’re a good actor.

My thoughts were similar to what others had suggested, find some way to simulate an accident, some sort of head trauma, or a serious illness to help sell why you suddenly can’t remember much and why your personality is different. But I think a whole lot is going to require trying to be as invisible as possible for a while and try to pick up context clues from observing people around you.

And in the scenario above, even if simply explaining your situation honestly didn’t suddenly kill you, I would hate to imagine the reaction of these parents who realize their child is effectively dead and has been replaced by some sort of fae changeling.

Well you’re in luck, one bonus of the scenario is stipulated in the body of the post!

Your biological sex matches your gender identity (flip a coin if you are enby)