I actually have this thing. The knife thing is annoying and it just sits on the back acting as a brace for the dishsoap bottle. The cutting board rack is kinda dumb because it just dries onto your counter.

But the baskets are nice because they drain into the sink. It was a really cheap kitchen improvement purchase I don’t regret.

What it needs though are raised rubber gasket lined feet so it doesn’t hold bits of water under the base you have to lift and wipe up. It’s cheap material and easily modified.

/product review mode

Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.

Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.

I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.

The first one was fairly clever in that they had probably 50 years of collective ideas and inspiration to work off of. It’s a story that needed to push no boundaries and hold to established tropes, with no expectations because it was a ride: perfect for Disney.

Now when Disney gets their hands on an established franchise full of expectations…

My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was ‘run’ as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.

So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.

Namely: there became another human in our lives. Our children became our central focus in our lives.

Being a family is a different dynamic and being a parent is a significant role in life. It is a relentless onslaught of needs and chores for someone that is neither of you. Babies don’t know boundaries and that has a very real effect on their caregivers.

If you’re birthing a baby: be aware of post partem, don’t be afraid to seek help, talk about it, and you deserve a chance to breathe regularly.

If someone is birthing your baby: giving that someone alone time with themselves (usually by having time with said baby yourself) is one of the most important devices for bringing you all together sans conflict.

Essentially if a mother can get the mental load of parenting off for a day–a few hours even–there should not be any (new) trouble acheiving or maintaining intimacy.

That’s how I get to be wrong more than half the day. The sun knows when the jacket goes back on.

They’ll both be wrong half the day.

So you’re telling me the company that doesn’t have unions fails to deliver?

Yeah. Within the confines of this political cartoon: Fascism relies on people staying on the reform carousel. Reform only has as much power as there are people getting on the revolution bus, and fascists know this.

The hell it would. Fascism will drive with an empty bus, so to speak.

Anxiety, easily.

The American Libertarian sects tend to loosely regard themselves as anarchist, which is frustrating as all hell.

Anarcho-capitalism is opportunistic enough to co-opt anything.

The proper response to being offered something to read, indeed.

The adhesive gave out before the glow on those things.

I never really used Reddit, but I read an article during the API debacle in 2023 that mentioned Lemmy so I gave it a shot.

Remember, communities are more akin to private walled gardens than public open fields.

Most of the time you’re walking into someone’s house to make a post or comment.

The Fediverse is built on the efforts of relatively few individuals on their own motivation and convictions. There are no duties to uphold for shareholders or governments.

People are welcome to be as open and inclusive as they can manage, but there’s no actual obligation to the public at large. So it’s wise just to be respectful in general and let this stuff roll off your back.

I can’t read these runes. Life sense, roll for initiative.

There are workgroups at my job that use it as acknowledgement and for voting consensus as we are allowed to attend meetings camera and mic off.

Post 9-11 America, abridged.

I saw the layout and instantly recognized it for what it was. The trailer park loop is unmistakeable.

But otherwise, man private developers love thematic street names. I got some pirate themed, herb themed, and gemstone themed developments around me. Worked with someone who lived in a house on the corner of Zircon Ct and Zircon St. But not the other corner which was the corner of Zircon St and Zircon Ct. Also a Zircon Ave.