Oh boy. I totally skipped over the white part lol.

I agree with you. I guess some of what I said will hold true for white Americans, but may be more generically Southern than white

I grew up in the south.

Sunday dress was a thing. Modern day, it may not have been as special because you didn’t wear the same two outfits all year. But it’s still different from funeral and wedding attire.

Sunday meals were special too. Maybe we didn’t always go out for food after church, but guarantee there was BBQ involved. If not BBQ, then fried, and/or with a salad filled with carbs and mayo.

Uh, speaking of Sunday, you could say being a Christian is a big cultural thing. My family rebelled a bit, we were Catholic.

Don’t bother Daddy while he’s watching his sports. Don’t put more work on mommy (no dirty clothes, keep your shoes clean). Mowing the lawn takes all day because we live in the boonies (or you don’t have a lawn because you live in a triplex).

All holidays are Christian. And you spend them with extended family.

It’s actually pretty funny that universalmonk is banning people for downvoting

Seconding Spiritfarer.

I also became entirely entranced by Horizon: Forbidden West. A death in that game hit me unexpectedly hard, and I had to take a couple days off from playing it to kind of deal with the grief. I tried the first Horizon, but I feel it didn’t get anywhere close to the depth in worldbuilding and character development of the second game

Ngl I like the last one enough to buy myself a couple pairs of fishnet socks lol

You don’t have to be barefoot in sandals

Data or data?

Most of the fun was chasing my friends around and smacking their heads with bug nets. And finding things that they wanted and leaving gifts on their beaches. The game itself wasn’t fun, which is why I haven’t played it since we all went back to our lives after covid.

I bought a switch during covid, and very quickly realized that nostalgia does not make up for the lack of games that catch my attention. I have more time in games that don’t run well on switch, like Civilization, than I do on Nintendo releases. I got close with Animal Crossing, but after quarantine ended I never picked it up again xD

Definitely going to pick up a steam deck as my next big gaming purchase, because I really liked the portability of the switch.

He’s also the front man for Thirty Seconds to Mars

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1671767547/legend-of-zelda-breakable-pot-with

This store has a few variations of pots

I lived in an area that had more or less migrant workers depending on season. I did pick up some of the language as a kid, because I had friends who were part of that population, but honestly I can’t speak it now. Sometimes I can pick out the general meaning if I read it, but not often enough to be confident in my understanding.

It’s used in the US too. I’ve heard it in both Montana and Arizona, at least

There is a melting point experiment I did in a college chemistry lab that involved melting glass tubing just to the point that we could stretch it to create a much thinner tube. Glass (depending on type) melts at a much higher temperature than what you’re using here for splicing, so that might be an easier and more reusable method for you?

Edit: search for “glass delivery tube”, should get you to what we used. Make sure it’s borosilicate and not polycarbonate

My friends and I have all started doing this, because we immediately jump to trying to fix each other’s problems, and half the time we’re just needing to be heard lol

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I’m with you. This year has been incredibly difficult

I’ve been no contact for almost the same amount of time, so I’ll tell you how I’d feel in the same boat.

My dad had no backbone to protect me while I was in his house, and he didn’t bother trying to stay in my life after I left. He may not have done the abuse, but he definitely allowed it to happen due to inaction. I am always going to miss the parents I thought I had, but it won’t add anything positive to my life to have contact again.

He is a stranger in a familiar coat

Sentencing isn’t always done at the same time a verdict is given. Often a judge will take time to research the punishments available in the law. Sometimes they’ll take advice on a person’s character, and consider the level of remorse the convict has for the crimes.

There was a small public outcry last year when a celebrity was convicted of sex crimes, and other celebrities known for their work against sex trafficking wrote to the judge to ask for leniency. It made the news because famous people were involved, but it’s a common occurrence.

He also wanted to wait to see what the Supreme Court would rule in the presidential immunity case, and I honestly can’t blame the man for delaying indefinitely following the results of that. This judge and his family received a lot of death threats and harassment from Trump’s supporters, but he also had to consider that Trump is immune to whatever crimes he chooses to commit in office.