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27 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
I just think I'd hate it. My fingerprints peel off every couple of weeks due to long-term effects of chemo in 2016. I have to use a password on my laptop because my fingerprint is not recognizable. So I think the screen protector would likely make my phone a brick for me.
But I could be wrong about that.
So, yeah, I'll be sure to ask to try a screen protector at the Apple store.
Thanks for the helping me figure that out.You really don't need to get it from the Apple Store. You could head into a Best Buy or Staples and find one.
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2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Nope.
And no scratches on my current or even more ancient phones.
But I recall the easily scratched eyeglass lenses of the 1990s.
And I've never shattered a phone screen, so I do not see the replacement of non-shatterproof glass with shatterproof-but-easily-scratched glass as an improvement.
꧁--❊ 𝕊𝕚-𝕚-𝕚𝕘𝕙…----꧂
It's always something.
Screen protectors aren't expensive. Worth getting.
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54 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
New iPhone screens apparently scratch easily?
Does anyone have experience with this?My iPhone 7+ is no longer able to be upgraded to the latest OS, which I know means eventually forums like this and online word games will lose bits of functionality. Plus, I could really use a better camera.
So phone replacement is looming on my horizon.
I've decided to stick with the iPhone, but am concerned about this issue of the screens on the newer versions being easily scratched.
I'm not convinced that a screen protector would work well for either my eyes (20 years post cataract surgery) or my fingertips (having side effect of loss of fingerprint ridges 8 years after successful but aggressive chemotherapy).I plan to make a trip to the Apple Store (not near me) but would appreciate any info or opinions from anyone here who is eager to share. 🙃😉
Do you have a screen protector?
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16 hours ago, Yeah No said:
I have foot swelling issues and when I lose weight my shoe size naturally goes down.
But my problem being short and middle aged is that my weight goes mostly to my midsection so gaining or losing only a few pounds puts me into a new size. And that plus not being proportionate makes it hard to find something that fits unless I try it on.
Also I realize I'm fussier than a lot of people about the way things fit me, but I have to be because the way I'm built it's harder to get things to look the way I want them to look or the way they look on other people. Even petite sizes are often not proportioned exactly right for me. I have shorter than average arms for my height and clothing manufacturers proportion things for a younger figure and often don't give enough room in the midsection for middle aged women. And I refuse to wear something that I think looks like a sack on me to accommodate that midsection because it can make me look heavier than I am in a hot minute. It's easy for clothing to overwhelm a short person.
It's funny. Petite clothes used to be MADE for older ladies! But these days, with Banana Republic, Ann Taylor and J.Crew making petite sizes, it's definitely not the case. LOL. And even at 44, there's no way I'm doing Talbots. Lately, I've been shopping local and sustainable. Usually getting pieces from brands that are petite-friendly, but not petite itself. I'm more or less living in tunics and leggings in the colder months anyway.
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Is the season over? I noticed there wasn’t an episode yesterday? I thought they were doing a non-celebrity episode?
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6 hours ago, Bastet said:
I haven't paid attention since I don't have or spend time with children, but it's a shame they're still so often awful, and insulting in the notion kids will only eat things like chicken fingers, mac & cheese, grilled cheese, or plain pizzas/burgers. I hardly ever ordered off one as a kid since the regular menus were so much more interesting, and more like what I ate at home. I just checked several of my favorite local restaurants and none have a kids menu*, but I checked a few chains at random and it's as you said -- same crap they've been peddling for decades.
Update: I looked up "best kids menu los angeles" and found there are good options around the city. My favorite article was the one titled "Where to Eat in L.A. When Your Toddler Sucks".
We had lunch at a reasonably nice/higher end restaurant over the holidays and their skimpy kids’ menu’s pasta offering was just noodles with butter “sauce” and a skimpy sprinkle of Parmesan. My son picked it since he loves pasta but barely touched it. Both my husband and I tried a bit and it was awful. Tasteless and awful. They didn’t even bother to offer a choice of plain and marinara. We suggested that our son maybe pick grilled cheese next time. The salmon my son had was on the kids’ menu.
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I’m not a fan of most kids’ menus since the haven’t changed much since I was one. But yesterday, we had our annual Spin of Prosperity dinner at the CN Tower’s revolving restaurant and was happy to see that they kept the same prix fixe kids’ menu they had last year (or at least more or less the same). My son had roast salmon with mashed potatoes this time (started with a tomato soup. Dessert was a gigantic cookie. All five of us (ie us parents and the grandparents) took some!!). Ate almost all of it.
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On 2/24/2024 at 7:58 AM, annzeepark914 said:
Tierney was a psycho? Was it true that, while pregnant, a fan with measles approached her & she eventually lost her baby ? Agatha Christie wrote a mystery about this happening to an American actress. I think the title was The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side. Elizabeth Taylor played the actress in the (TV?) movie. It was supposed to be based on what happened to Tierney.
She didn’t lose the baby, the baby was born with special needs and spent most of her life in an institution.
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On 2/21/2024 at 8:38 PM, meep.meep said:
Tracy Morgan was in a horrific auto accident several years ago, he barely survived. I'm pretty sure some of his reactions were related to that.
Thanks for letting us know. The way he reacted to things made me worry about him a bit. He felt a bit "off."
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15 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
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Lambchop had the peanut allergy and saw the allergist, but just before he turned 2 he was officially determined to be no longer allergic.I have my opinions about this, but, as my daughter (his mother) reminds me, my sample size (of young children and peanut allergies) is too small for a basis of any scientific conclusions.
Nevertheless, I don't think kids younger than 1 year should be exposed to potential allergens in so-called micro-doses (for example, peanut dust from the bottom of the bag) in hopes of preventing the allergy.
That's not the view of pediatricians and pediatric dieticians these days. They feel that it's important to expose early to limit the risk.
For many years, it was recommended to delay giving a child certain highly allergenic foods until after age 1 year. But new research shows that for babies at high risk of developing peanut allergy, giving them peanuts between 4 to 6 months can greatly lower the risk for peanut allergy.
Article from Mayo which says the same thing, research comparing Israeli kids and kids from the UK:
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I read my book to students at my alma mater today. I'm not sure if it's because they're all girls or if they're two years older (I read to Grade 2) or both, but unlike the Senior Kindergarten kids I read to when I read at my son's school, the kids mostly sat still and waited until the end to ask questions or make comments! And their questions were good, including how books are written and why I decided to write the book.
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On 2/19/2024 at 3:44 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
Taking a little bit of a break from job hunting for the time being and decided to redo my master resume using an AI tool. I was resistant to such things but thought hey why not. It made my resume look pretty good, better than what I was coming up with while writing it on my own. Would love to test it out on the job search again once I figure out where I’m going. Hopefully I at least get some interview calls.
Now, if only I knew where I was going and what I was looking for. My problem is that I can’t seem to pick a path and be confident in it. I wanted to go marketing since I’ve never been able to stop thinking about wanting to work in it, then I decided I should do accounting because there are better job prospects and salaries, but I keep thinking about doing marketing and doing the one thing that’s always been on my mind before I even thought of going into accounting. I guess I have to make the choice between what’s the most practical and what would make me happiest.
What are you best at? What do you have professional qualifications to do? Have you thought of freelancing?
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Peeve: some people in these age cohort groups on social media seem to take pride at their marginalization growing up. It’s like they thought it was wonderful that their parents didn’t give them things that the “typical” middle class kid would have had. And that people like me weren’t “normal” because we had bikes and Christmas/other holiday presents (though here in Toronto, getting a bike at Christmas would mean it’ll end up being stored for the next few months anyway). They make it sound like we’re wimps. What’s the deal? My dad didn’t have much growing up (but they were never destitute. Always had food on the table), it he wouldn’t go around saying that it was better when things weren’t as good.
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10 hours ago, isalicat said:
I'm not on reddit, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. Not missing anything! Try it, you might like it! (pet peeve: the world telling the world you gotta be on line 24/7. No, you don't!)
Can’t when you’re trying to promote your book and you can’t afford PR. Plus they would recommend that you have at least Instagram, anyway.
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42 minutes ago, kassa said:
I think a big issue is that they work backwards - finding celebrities willing (or likely) to participate, and then working their family trees to find interesting stories. And statistically speaking, the barriers imposed by slavery and colonialism narrow the possibilities even further. Spain appears to have kept/maintained better overall records in their colonies, so people with roots in Latin America appear to have better paper trails to follow than those in English/French colonies.
I don't have access to the UK version, but I wonder if they have better luck finding records for their celebs of African descent or are the roadblocks the same?
I think it depends on which colony, too. Hong Kong was colonized by the British, but relatively late, and in Chinese culture, kinship books have kept record for thousands of years. I'm not sure if a small fishing village would have kept GOOD records (compared to, say, a family with a long history of working for the imperial government - many people in Hong Kong are children and grandchildren and maybe even refugees themselves from the post WWII era), even before Britain, however. Of course, finding info about women, as I've said before, is DIFFICULT.
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1 hour ago, Wiendish Fitch said:
Same. I think the biggest reason some people (myself included) struggle with saying "no" is that people never take their "no" for answer, or question it. If you're taught early on that your "no" doesn't matter, well...
My advice? Forget everything you've been told, ALWAYS take "no" for an answer*.
*Rare exceptions notwithstanding.
Sometimes it's cultural (especially when it comes to food or gifts). You're supposed to say no three times. But if they ask any more, then it's rude. Sometimes, however, family members will expect you to say yes. And they really upset when you ask about ingredients (which I have mentioned several times before). And these older "Auntie Karens" just don't get that you're technically from a different culture, even though your parents are immigrants (as if their kids didn't grow up here - most are parents of children who were either born here or spent a significant part of their childhood here)!
Update on my cooktop situation: I need a brand new cooktop!!!!! They're ordering parts, so I'll be living with a single portable cooktop for the next few weeks, should I need to make things like, say, pasta. At least it was still under warranty so I don't have to pay a cent!
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On 2/14/2024 at 9:00 PM, Driad said:
The current USA was not the only place with slavery. Have they had guests whose ancestors were enslaved in the Caribbean or South America? Mentioning the available resources could be useful for people in that situation.
That's true. And I also notice the lack of diversity in US media for Black History Month. I get that the majority of the population are descendants of those enslaved in the US, but Black communities are diverse. Maybe it's just who has media power/voices. Many people I know who have immigrant parents from African countries are, like many kids of Asian heritage, kind of pressured into certain industries like medicine or finance. Because THAT kind of office job is "better" according to the parentals. *le sigh*
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3 hours ago, Yeah No said:
I was lucky, I got a new fridge in 2020 right before they became harder to get. I swear by Whirlpool, always have. I never liked Samsung - saw the bad reviews. We actually still have our old Whirlpool, which is over 18 years old and other than needing a new sensor a few years back it's been a super-reliable workhorse. It's in our garage now and comes in handy for beverages and Costco runs. Our new Whirlpool is a side by side (my preference). It's the biggest one they make. It's not a smart fridge but I still get emails telling us we need a new water filter.
How do you like induction so far? We live in a no-gas area (on a mountain so no gas lines) and found out that installing gas for a stove in our house would be a little too expensive so I was thinking about induction. The only drawback I've heard about is that I'd need an adaptor to use certain kinds of cookware.
I love the induction! I have had no issues with using my Le Creuset dutch ovens on it - I thought it would be a problem at first, but since they're magnetic, it works. And the induction is A LOT easier to clean! :)
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Speaking of appliance deaths, my cooktop died last week. It's less than a year old - we replaced our gas with an induction in March. Since then, I've been limiting my stovetop cooking and working on a portable induction cooktop when I need to.. Good thing I have two ovens plus an InstantPot and a multifunction toaster oven.
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7 hours ago, sempervivum said:
This episolde was the same old, same old. Can Gates give the audience some credit, and not feel the need to repeat the same basic history lesson TWICE in the show. Really, once you tell the ignorant that the KKK was active after the Civil War, why repeat the same thing (including the same images) for the second guest story.
The best thing they uncovered was the wonderful name Dolphin Duke.
That said, Dionne looks- and is- timeless and elegant. Can't believe she's 83; one of my favorite voices of all time.
But almost EVERY African American with ancestors tracing back to when they were enslaved would have a similar story? Are there any Black celebrities who are descendants of recent immigrants (former President Obama doesn't count)? Them learning about their ancestors from whatever country their family's from would be different and fresh.
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1 hour ago, annzeepark914 said:
Whenever I tried to be friends with men (in my single life), they wanted to date 😐. Sheesh. But then, a lot of men think, "If I need a friend, I'll get a dog". I used to hear that a lot back in the day.
I kind of had a "kid sister" look, so many guys didn't see me as dating material. This was especially the case in my 20s when I was hanging out with a group of people about 5-10 years older. I wasn't "hot younger woman" material.
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In cultures where multiple/sister wives were historically common, the child of the subsequent wife is seen to have lesser status - unless the child is male and the children of the first wife were all girls. Whoever has the first male child, well, wins. Even though it's 100% HIS fault.
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3 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
Males are so different from females. I've wondered, over the years if it's because females are the (physically) weaker sex. We always need to be on guard/alert. There are many things boys/men can do that girls/women can't (e.g., walking down certain streets, sitting alone in certain places w/o fear of being harassed, hiking alone, etc). So does this bring out the meanness in *some* girls?? I keep trying to understand this nastiness towards each other that doesn't seem to be as prevalent among boys. Some boys in grade school & high school do get bullied. Just thinking about it all 🤔.
Bullying for boys is more physical while we are more likely to pull the emotional thing. My son is on the smaller side and though he has tons of friends, I do worry (as do all moms) that he’d be picked on as he gets older. Or maybe girls won’t like him because he doesn’t have the “jock” look. He’s a very nice kid and very bright. I also worry that he could have body image issues. We try not to talk about weight and food portions in front of him, but I worry he picks things up anyway since my husband is on meds for diabetes.
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Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"
in Everything Else
As in why they're closing forums or specifically the Shopping Channel one? Because I don't see either?