I tried this once but it corroded the fittings on the drain so maybe don't 😬

Assuming you're talking about leggings in the form of stretchy, form fitting pants, I would recommend going to a second hand clothing store and just picking out a bunch. Pick different sizes, different brands, different colors, and then try them on at home. A lot of second hand stores allow returns for clothing within a certain time frame and you will pay much less than you would for new ones, plus have a greater variety of brands to try on. Most department stores might have 3-5 different brands if that, some second hand stores will have a dozen or more. See what is comfortable and what you feel good in.

If you're thinking of tights or the sheer or semi-sheer layer you wear under a skirt you'll need to buy them new, and just get a size up from whatever size you think you might be. They are always too small!

Last new content I was able to play in GW2 was the beginning of the astral place with the pretty floating sky palaces. I haven't had much time to sink, didn't even get a Halloween achievement skin this year 😫 I like Wintersday so I'll need to make sure I set some time aside for bell choir. Tough to do new content sometimes

I have more hours than I'd like to admit to myself logged in Guild Wars 1 and 2, and haven't booted 1 in years. This is exciting, looking forward to a reason to dust off my old characters.

The best apple I ever had was a Fuji. Still chasing that dragon years later

I don't recommend spray foam for a number of reasons, a few being that it offgasses VOCs after installation and can obscure or make future access to repairing surfaces impossible. If, for instance, water in your bathroom seeps into your subfloor, that repair becomes suddenly infinitely more complex if you have to fight through spray foam.

I highly recommend mineral wool batts, even if you do thin ones. They can be cut with a thrift store bread knife/any serrated knife and friction fit between the joists. Very easy install for an amateur, very forgiving. Save the spray foam for those tricky gaps next to doors and windows.

We bought ours from a local contractor supply store, and it was cheaper than Orange or Blue store and they delivered for free. Not sure where you're at but search around.

But ultimately what we still see is that "girly games" are much less respected and women are harassed in online and competitive games, as well as we're less respected when we speak on topics of gaming than men. This is especially the case in "gamer" spheres which still maintain a pretty hard-core misogyny problem.

This exactly. As if clicking heads for 100 hours makes you more of a gamer than playing the Sims for 100 hours. As if having guns and gore effects makes a game a "real" game, and no other type of game "counts".

Hell yeah

I have been hearing about this game and I think it's worth celebrating because:

A) It was made as a labor of love, spearheaded by a dev who wanted his wife with health issues to be able to make dresses again
B) it was made on a shoestring budget by a small team of devs (non-corpo)
C) It is staunchly anti-AI in its assets and code
D) Its assets are hand drawn with original foley and music composed for the game

Honestly the fact that its geared towards women is one of the less interesting things about it. I'm so happy for them and wish them every success.

Some women do, and making it sound belittling or something worth mocking only serves to continue the narrative that feminine things are lesser and unworthy. Women can rain hell on imperialist scum and make dresses.

Deli meat cut thick, no thanks. I want to see through it or I'm not eating it

I get that a lot of people are hostile to tarot, and the mysticism and hooie around it are definitely something to be guarded against.

However, genuinely, it can be a very useful tool for thinking about your current situation, and planning strategies for future action. It can be a very helpful step to add to making a difficult decision and sometimes the random aspect can reveal your own biases or make you rethink conclusions you've made. It's not going to work for divination, there's nothing that can predict the future, but it can help you learn some things about yourself.

Obviously, therapy would be better, but to start I recommend reading the companion book that comes with most tarot card sets front to back, and also deciding what those cards mean to you and how you want to interpret them. Then, do readings for yourself until you're comfortable, then your friends, and finally strangers. You would be offering a third party perspective and helping them through the same decision making process you do for yourself. Again, anyone saying it will help tell the future is selling you bullshit, but sometimes people need a neutral third party to bounce a difficult to chew conundrum off of for twenty minutes and that is worth something.

Not wordy, but all fantastic games to play with young kids:

Mastermind
Blokus
Qwirkle
Othello
Lanterns
Tsuro

For ones that are a little older/can read a bit:

Ticket to Ride (also teaches a bit of geography)
Castle Panic
King of Tokyo/New York
Flip Ships

I started reading to mine at about 4 months, and 1 is definitely old enough to read to. I was asking my one year old questions about the book and the pictures like "can you find the kitty?" and he showed me just how many words he understood and what he knew from that. It's so important for them to hear language and be communicated with, even if they don't have the control to speak themselves yet.

I have my four-year-old help me find products in the grocery store, and if he points to something based on how it looks I'll say "let's make sure, sound it out!" If we are out, I'll pretend I have trouble finding a sign or store and tell him to watch out for it for me. "We're looking for the library what letter does that start with? Ok, look for signs with a word starting with L!" I'm hoping to make him aware of the words all around us and get comfortable with the idea that he is perfectly capable of figuring it out, even if he takes a long time. We read before bed every night as well.

I think as far as making your kid read for x amount of time... probably the most important thing at that age is making sure they love reading and find it fun. I would be concerned that a boring book or reading when they have a lot of energy to burn might make it feel like a chore. So sitting down for 20 minutes close to bed time with a good story after a busy day while you read nearby and are available for help sounds lovely. Sitting down to read a reference book for 20 minutes when you just got home from school and you want to play and your parent is hovering over your shoulder and judging you, no thanks!! So I think the "how" is more important than the "how much".

Like a lot of things that's very location dependent. Geographical region, level of development, point in history etc. You and I are both correct, for example my scenario is accurate to ancient Rome or a pre-industrial European village, your scenario is true in 19th century Western American homesteaders or deeply rural communities. A similar thing happened with sewing machines where the invention of a modern tool outsourced a skilled, paid job (making clothes) to unpaid domestic labor. Did some individuals without prior access to those professional services benefit? Of course, but it meant that the bespoke clothing industry and the clothes laundering industries both deflated to the point of not being widely or cheaply available anymore, and the labor that once was a paid job was expected to be done for free.

My point was that it is not such an easy thing to point to that instantly made everyone's lives better.

It was a time consuming task but it was one done as a job. Cleaning clothes was a whole industry, and getting your clothes laundered was generally affordable and something you could pay others to do for you. The washing machine allows people to do it themselves easier, but with needing to buy the machine, paying for detergent and additives, water use, keeping up with maintenance, it's not for free. What the washing machine did was take away an industry where people had paying jobs to do the task, and turn the task into a self-care obligation that locks you into consumership. Can you make your own washing machine? Your own detergent? You have to buy those things and then do the labor yourself, unpaid. Who really benefited? The laundry industry was a tough one to work in but it was a paid job for the working class. It's now a way for corporations to make money off of unpaid labor.

White "chocolate" is not chocolate, it's a chocolate byproduct and has no place being called by such a lofty title.

There's reasons not to do spray foam. Batts are great, mineral wool is the best but fiberglass will be fine if you can't afford it yet. Can save up for more in the future. Just doing 8 inches now and making sure you have a well installed membrane/air barrier will probably be a huge improvement

Yes, this: exploration, novelty, a puzzle to work on, building something or towards something. Creating engines that make the next step easier. I love games that offer those things, bonus if they're beautiful or aesthetic somehow.