UPS the child would arrive with tire tracks on them and be thrown at the house from the road.
Oh I love some polarizing foods.
Anchovies, sardines, black licorice, really spicy stuff, mustard greens. Not together. But love all of those.
Obscure? The Ramsey Midwood song Feed my Monkey is so good.
Yeah this is a good idea. I think I can trust my kids to tell me when I get dangerous driving, they did tell both their grandmas.
Not sure why we don't, maybe cost? I took my driver's test 40 years ago, any other license you hold that long requires continuing education.
That question is way too general. First, try turning it off and back on.
Medical problems - ask a doctor
Emotional problems - ask a really good and not judgemental friend.
Technical problems - YouTube is pretty good for those, if there is nobody you can ask.
That 10k he is paying is on top of taxes for Medicare and Medicaid.
We are already paying taxes to cover the old and the sickest, plus paying for our own care and the profits of the for-profit system.
Kids seem so much nicer than when I was a kid. My kids' friends would sit and talk to me, when I went to get them from school I would get random kids saying stuff like "you are x's mom? They are so cool!" "Your outfit is pretty!" I would never, ever have said that to a mom at school.
I don't just think they are not worse, I think they are better than we were.
My friend says - if you don't like unsweetened baker's chocolate you don't like chocolate.
I'm not sure about this when it comes to heroin. I've tried it and it was meh, but others try it feel like they have never before felt ok. And pot too I can't find the high at all, it feels yucky but so many people love it and feel high on it, so in some ways there are "two kinds of people in the world" situations.
I do agree that anyone can become an addict if they try hard enough, though. Coffee for me, caffeine.
I don't get that - if a mod gets mad about downvotes they can hide them. They did that on the old NSFW, maybe it has to be instance-wide?
It's not something that would ever have occurred to me. I suppose if the Cocktails was being brigaded by abolitionists, or Hair getting brigaded by salty bald guys or something I'd be touchy, but overall I've found Lemmy to be pretty chill, so it hasn't come up.
Charitably, maybe she just couldn't read it?
Oh nevermind, she had to put her foot right in her mouth. What about "what have you done for the least of these?" is unclear?
Dude (ma'am?) I had kids in the 90s and 2000s and was never a helicopter parent and though I do agree with your damned if you do, damned if you don't, the world is judgemental as fuck, that over-involved parenting style is not harmless either. My kids were in a group of kids at school and even in HIGHSCHOOL some of those parents tracked their kids everywhere they went. It's a level of surveillance I cannot imagine imposing. But it wasn't all the kids ever. The surveilled kids did not do well adjusting to freedom, and didn't trust their parents much. I don't think it hurts little kids as much as long as you have a plan to build their independence before high school, which these parents did not.
It is true here that elementary school won't let kids be walkers now without an adult or teenage sibling to walk with them at dismissal. You can arrange a walk-pooling group but it has to have a grownup. From the bus they don't though, can just walk home.
The kids across the street from us still run in the yard by themselves and run up the street to visit their friends, there are I'd say 8 year olds riding bikes alone & in groups, we do not live in an HOA or gated anything just in a neighborhood in the city. Though I obviously don't know if the bike kids are air-tagged or something, they look like when I was little just fewer of them now.
I do have kids, and was a kid, and agree, and the world is so much safer than when I was running around. My mom taught us water safety and made us do swimming lessons younger than that kid, let us walk down the block or up to the corner store past the apartments, made us walk to school through the neighborhood a couple miles, and again, all this in a more dangerous city than it is now.
I was a little more involved, didn't let mine walk to the shop when little as it involved crossing a bigger road, and also didn't leave them unsupervised around a pool or the beach. And bodies of freshwater here have alligators so that's a no for all kids. But some kids can swim and do know how to be safe around water, and aren't idiots.
My husband moved around a lot growing up, and talks about wandering for miles in Indonesia when he was 6. Seeing the water buffalo, the farmers, eventually making it to the town.
And my kids, when they went to college, said they ended up glad I was, by their standards, lasseiz-faire, because they saw what happened to sheltered kids who were suddenly free.
Hopefully she isn't in trouble, kids haven't changed that much. It's good for them to explore.
This was a test-and-adjust drink. I was looking for something with Fernet & Mezcal and everything I saw were stirred very boozy things, I was not in the mood for. I saw one though with cachaca and lime so tried a margarita approach.
Started with these, shaken:
1.5 oz tequila
.75 oz each Fernet and Mezcal
Juice of one lime.
Nope. Too flat, too sour. Added about 1/2 oz Pineapple Amaro, and a squirt of Agave, shook again and THIS is a keeper. I guess Fernet does like sweeter drinks more. This one is balanced and I can taste all the ingredients but they did cocktail into a new taste. I usually don't taste the pineapple in the pineapple Amaro but it's shining in this drink - I may try another Fernet-Mezcal-Pineapple Amaro variation (when I am in the mood for stirred and boozy) as I think those together are the magic here.
So, I saw this recipe that inspired me.
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/green-mango-martini/
But don't have mango eau de vie and not about to make it, and I think as written it would be too sweet for my palate. And of course everything needs ice here in the summer. I did make the green mango tequila.
So far I can vouch for tequila, green mango and sauternes - it's a surprisingly good combination.
This is:
2.5 oz green mango infused tequila
1 oz Sauternes wine
.75 oz lemon
.25 oz Giffard Apricot (because I have no mango liqueur right now and did you hear Chinola is making a Guava liqueur? I am excited for that.)
Squirt of honey.
Shaken with ice.
My thoughts - the green mango tequila is tart and I think the lemon sort of muddies the flavor. I would try this again with more Sauternes and a splash of mango liqueur, leave out the honey and if it was too sweet adjust with citric or malic acid not lemon.
I would also like to try the green mango tequila with ginger beer but not today, this is a one and done.
And I was thinking to convert the recipe into a punch or sangria, a pitcher cocktail using a whole bottle of Sauternes, but I think that it might need to go in a different direction. Again, I do love the combination of the green mango with the Sauternes, and tequila - the main flavor combo is good. I've tried amchur and tequila - the green mango infused tequila worked so much better to get that flavor.
1 oz tequila blanco
1/2 oz each mezcal, Campari, passion fruit syrup, ginger syrup and lime.
Squirt of fire tincture
Shake these together and add 1-2 oz IPA beer.
I had to substitute apricot liqueur for the passion fruit and it's really good so I suspect anything fruity would be fine. Beer I used is Jai Alai and only 1 oz, I don't like it but as an ingredient in here can't taste it, must add something though. This is bitter in a great way, somehow not too sweet, I went a little heavy on the lime but close to the 1/2 oz. If you do like beer I think you could safely increase it past the 2 oz and still have something really nice.
The rainy season is finally here too. So happy to be out here watching the rain.
Biker kitty!
Biker kitty!
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