I decided during COVID to try to work on my health in whatever way I could get to stick. And I think flossing was my most successful endeavor. I did 2 things that really helped me ease into the habit: 1) I bought a water pik 2) I thought about what it is that keeps me from flossing and I let those things go. So I started off just using the water pik. I did that for about a year and sometimes I would forget, but I’d just hop back on it next time. Just doing this alone helped me to physically feel the difference in my mouth and after a bit, I didn’t like how it felt if I forgot. After about a year I started using floss and this brings me to the things I needed to let go. I needed to learn how to use floss properly, but growing up poor, I would often get in trouble for using too much of something including floss. But some of my teeth are tight and I need a longer piece to get enough leverage. I also don’t like being wasteful and didn’t like using longer pieces especially since it’s plastic waste. I decided to let all of those things go and just use big ass pieces of floss so I could learn how to do it properly. This helped a ton and over time as I got better, I used the water pik less and less and now primarily use floss every night. And now that I’ve learned how, I can use smaller pieces and also have switched to a more environmentally friendly floss. I would say this process took me about 2 years, but I don’t have issues at the dentist anymore like bleeding gums or metal tools jabbing at me. It’s made a big difference and helped me to look at other problems in a similar light: what’s stopping me from doing this and how can I remove those barriers?

I just want a picture of a got dang hotdog!

It’s framed very inaccurately in the news as well. You’ll see articles about how ford reports people aren’t buying their electric lineup. Meanwhile the dealership is marking them up so high that they are now priced too high for the target market. But the articles never mention that part

This is the adult version of the kid that ate the dandelion.

This is precisely why I don’t actively seek promotions. Not only are there very few paths for someone to move up with my skill set, but if I do, I won’t be doing what I enjoy doing anymore. I just want to find the medium where I can make enough to live off of and also just do my work most of the time.

“Damn you Deal-breaker Jones! That wasn’t part of the deeeeeeal!!!”

This made me laugh too hard first thing in the morning. I sure do miss clever starter packs like this one.

Salt-less saltines? Ines?

Well they’re not wrong lol

Bold claim when you remember all of the horrific UI that car manufacturers utilized before everyone started using Apple and Google’s UI. Sometimes I have to borrow an old car from someone and you just can’t find anything. Really, I’m more in favor of bringing back physical buttons for all basic functions, but a good UI will not only make it quick and easy to say change to the next song or view trip details, but it will also prevent you from performing more complicated tasks while in motion. We’ll see what GM’s solution is, but I have little faith.

Oh man. In my fucked up family, this is the Christmas album we would listen to every year. I’m sure some songs were very inappropriate for children, but I’d like to think I turned out ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I generally try to check every few years to see if they sell to the US yet. Last I checked they would finally ship FP4 to the US, but it will only work on T-Mobile :/ gonna check back in a few more years.

They got rid of my beloved double decker taco 🥺. And I’m even more mad about it because they didn’t get rid of any ingredients to make it and it wouldn’t be hard to make either. They just got rid of it and then put self serve kiosks in so you can’t finagle the staff to make you one. I feel you, brother. 2020 did a number on all of our favorite taco bell menu items and definitely not anything else.

I got pancakes on my head but don’t call me a pancake head

Depends on how often I make crepes. I usually split it into smaller containers and freeze it so it lasts me about a year.

I absolutely love all the opossum memes. And this one is top tier!

Also stored in the balls

I’m not big into Mac and cheese on account of the lactose intolerance. But I discovered that my version of this bucket is a 2 gallon bucket of lingon berry jam that’s sold on Amazon.

Stock the stacks with stonk stocks!

GRAB A BRUSH AND PUT A LITTLE MAKEUP!!!