the_itsb (she/her)

You can reset your voicemail, which on some carriers will result in callers getting the, “This voicemail box has not been set up yet,” outgoing message (which will not let them leave a message). From the quick search I did, it looks like it’s a pretty carrier-specific process, though, so you’ll need to search “<carrier name> reset voicemail” to get anywhere.

Does your carrier’s online account management allow you to block numbers yourself? That will prevent them from leaving voicemails. If they don’t let you do it yourself online, you’ll probably have to call, and regardless, there might be a charge per number - the last time I looked into it, it was $10 to block a number for my Verizon account.

I love this! I feel this too.

I’m 41, so a lot of my age-peers are running up against the cumulative effect of decades of neglecting their bodies and starting to curse the aging process, but I’m secretly kinda loving it. I made a conscious choice to be more active in my 30s, and now I’m in the best shape of my life.

I have much less energy and so many fewer fucks to give, and this means I’ve had to learn to be strategic and learn when to cut out things - including relationships - that aren’t edifying.

I’m a traditionally cute petite cis woman, and I had fantasized my whole life about shaving my blonde curls off and freeing myself from those golden chains, so I finally buzzed it this spring, and it looks great. And I am in stealth mode all the time now!! Nobody ever recognizes me until they see me with my husband, it’s hilarious and awesome every time.

I know myself and my own capabilities better, so I am better about not getting myself in over my head, and I’m more able to ignore skeptics and naysayers. Most of the time, I no longer feel the need to be overly polite and accommodating to their desire to give me unsolicited advice, which is awesome.

I am having a tremendous amount of fun getting old, and I think you will too! I love your attitude. ✊

they are showing “Porky’s Butthole”, which is what he calls the “That’s All Folks” ending to a Looney Tunes show

Ohhhhhhhhhh 😂 omfg, I love this guy. I was able to understand him pretty well - a version of that dialect is still spoken by some of the older people here in Appalachian Ohio - but I could not figure out what he meant by “Porky’s Butthole” and lost interest after the rant started circling back on itself, and didn’t think to look at the comments there.

There is a dude at a tire shop here who has an even thicker accent with more colorful language, and the bits I can understand are fucking hilarious. He absolutely cracks my husband up - people who don’t care to listen closely enough to understand him often think he’s got some kind of disability, and meanwhile he’s cussing their idiocy and poor driving. 😂

Both my husband and my dog got Lyme disease this year because of the wild amount of ticks who made it through the mild winter, but we’re hoping our new flock of guinea fowl will help control them next year, because it seems like we’re going to have a lot more warm winters in our future.

It sounds like you’ve never had the experience of being the woman used as a lesson, and I’m really glad for you. I’m sorry you think my lived experience is weird! Blessed be.

Maybe push him to try and become friends with a female coworker.

Please ask her before you use her to teach a lesson.

I’m a little disappointed that the article didn’t clarify whether this will also apply for business taxes. I assume it will, since they mention the goal of everything being paperless by 2025-2026, but an explicit statement about exactly which classes of taxpayers will be paperless next year would have been nice. I did not enjoy printing and mailing a fat stack off to them for our tiny little home business LLC.

novelty comment bots don’t bother me much either as long as they’re not drowning out actual conversation

Same - honestly, I generally find them legitimately amusing! - but I worry that most Lemmy instances are too young/inactive for this kind of bot yet. I don’t think we’re past the tipping point where the people commenting will automatically outweigh the bots, and I don’t think those bots are fun unless they’re dramatically outweighed by normal human interaction. It’s not novel if that’s all the comment thread ever is, you know what I mean? And novelty is the true spark of humor imho; things usually have to be at least a little surprising to be actually funny.

The grammar bots were so annoying! I love good grammar as much as anyone, but really, what help are we actually adding to the world with the they’re/their/there bots, the your/you’re bots, the payed/paid bots, etc. I really can’t imagine those changed anyone’s behavior or spelling.

Direct link to Lionir’s comment on bots - it’s very near your comment in the discussion right now, but adding a link just in case these drift apart.

Maybe there could be a community on Beehaw where people could post about their bots and associated commands, so we could learn how they could be called into threads where they would be helpful?

I agree - these seem to me like very common-sense rules.

I hope you are having the BEST time! ❤️ May every lovely moment together stretch into blissful eternity for both of you.

people who bag groceries that aren’t cashiers also clean messes, gather shopping carts, face aisles etc,

I misread this at first as referring to the customers who bag their own groceries, and I was surprised that there were so many other people like me that are happy to bag their own groceries and will also pick up trash on their way into/out of/through the store and tidy up the cart situation when stashing theirs that it is noticed as a trend by employees and also that the others are tidying the shelves too…!!! And then it sunk in that you’re talking about the “cart pusher” job title, not my fellow Tidiness Fairy customers 😂🤦

It says a lot about your character that your reaction to your own hardship is that you want to work to make sure other people are protected from it. We’re lucky to have you in the world and on this instance. Thanks for being you.

Am I the only person who keeps meeting medical professionals and support staff who don’t realize that insurance is unhelpful in some situations? The only insurance with premiums my family can afford has deductibles and co-pays/etc so high that we only ever paid premiums when we had it, we literally never once were able to also afford to go get care. Once the mandate dropped and we didn’t have to pay premiums anymore, we could use that money to self-pay our appointments.

Sure, yes, if I get cancer or my husband is hit by a truck, we are fucked. But also, if we go bankrupt paying for insurance we can’t afford to use, I’m gonna be pretty fucked for that cancer anyway because I can’t afford the co-pays etc. Idk what part of “I can’t afford to pay premiums and co-pays until I potentially reach a $1.5k out of pocket maximum,” is so hard to understand.

I helped host a local protest to raise awareness about Single-Payer (anybody else remember SPAN, the Single-Payer Action Network?) back in 2004, and holy fucking shit that was almost 20 years ago.

the 12 hours of identical dungeon corridors underneath the dwarf city

ugh, this just gave me real, visceral dread, and I haven’t played that stage in at least 5 years!

it was so, so HARD. Also I’m a filthy casual and everything is hard for me, but jfc that area kicked my whole ass repeatedly.

I love your enthusiasm and positivity even more than I love your clever username. I hope you get your epic American meal someday!

I’m in Ohio, and my reluctant suggestions for your meal would be Buckeyes (the chocolate-coated peanut butter candy, not the actual nut), that weird “Cincinnati-style” chili served over spaghetti noodles, and a big buttery ear of sweet corn. “Reluctant” because the idea of eating all 3 in one sitting really grosses me out, let alone in combination with anything else from any other state.