I worked for Starbucks during college in 2004. Everything he says they’re trying to go back to is what it was like when I worked there. We had limited food items in a case, some mugs, and definitely sharpies. No hot food back then. Most of the time the only customization requests we got besides an extra shot or a different milk was the “extra-extra-caramel” requests for those disgusting caramel frappuccinos. They wanted us to coat the cup in caramel sauce. We hated making frappuccinos.

Yeah that made me question whether I was right or not, honestly.

Went through my comment replies, only one I found was @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world

Sometimes it’s not the kids’ fault. I’d say most of the time the parents need to be involved in some way with the costume (buying, making, helping to make) and some kids just don’t have present parents so I don’t want to punish them for that.

Also I really don’t want leftover candy in my house (because I’ll eat it) so…

And sell it to them. Capitalism gonna capitalize

We got burned by dieselgate with two cars so they’re dead to me. Which is too bad because I really liked the Jetta that we had. There is a small vindictive part of me that wishes they’d fail, especially since their penance for the diesel scandal was supposed to be dumping a ton of money into their EV side and now they’re failing at that.

Legit though, I would have loved a pregnancy book written in Monty Python style while still being informative. This book was dry.

I wonder if some of it is also being good to work with. I was just having a discussion with musician friends about how I don’t know how some people keep managing to get hired for gigs because I suspect they procrastinate looking at music, but they’re fun and otherwise reliable people so the hiring manager or whatever keeps hiring them because they like them, even if they’re not the most excellent musicians.

Blasphemy, using Mr. Rodgers like that!

The toe thing was definitely a little tongue-in-cheek, but the other two she seemed to fully believe. When I pointed out that Drake didn’t have any children, or at least not legitimized, she acted confused and said it was something that the family had always said. Well… someone was bullshitting someone!

My mom has longer second toes, and she always said “It’s a sign you’re descended from royalty.” She also said stuff like “An ancestor ran away with an Indian princess” and “We’re descended from Sir Francis Drake” so my mom, though I love her, does not have a fully-functioning bullshit sensor.

We bought a Tesla 6+ years ago, and my husband (bless him for being brilliant) called exactly this and we didn’t purchase the full self-driving package. Honestly I hate the autopilot anyway and have posted before about a bad experience with it. No way in hell would I allow it to self-drive. Maybe I have control issues but nothing they’ve done recently inspires any confidence.

My daughter asks me to put on rainbow road, but I can’t because it would force me to use autopilot. No thanks. Sorry kiddo, no rainbows and Blue Oyster Cult. (Well, she can have BOC via Spotify.)

She is so badass. That last line gives me chills.

Yeah unless they have anxiety and leash aggression. Some dogs have PTSD from stuff that happened before you got them. Staying calm only does so much.

Took my dog for a walk once to the local field and this teen with a puppy off leash just allowed her dog to come right up to mine. My dog flipped out. The teen said, “It’s okay, my dog is friendly!” I spat back, “My dog isn’t!” while she flipped out at the end of her leash. Thankfully she has never graduated out of her gentle leader so I always have control, but seriously. My (rescue) dog has leash aggression and anxiety but she still deserves to go on walks in peace.

Hopefully we’re also more prepared this time. Plus the other side is currently in power, at least the executive branch.

I thought you were joking. How is this not the Onion?

He deserved better than what he got. Sadly seems to be a recurring theme for him. See also: Witcher, Man from UNCLE.

One of ours is kind of similar. We don’t put our hand all the way around her head but we definitely squish her ears down and pet her head really heavily and she loves it. If she’s really into it, you can start at her nose and pet her whole face, head, and neck, eyes and all. She’s very aggressively into it, lol.

I know it makes me super basic but… dragons. I know, it’s not inspiring. But I must add a caveat. I prefer that they are intelligent, on par with or surpassing humans in intelligence and willing (if reluctantly) to interact with them. Game of Thrones dragons are cool and all but they don’t really do it for me in the same way as, say, the dragon from Dragonheart.