u/RadagastDaGreen

TL;DR: Indian dude meeting GF’s gramma, thinks her Seagram’s bevs are soda, and accidentally gets drunk. Ends with Grandma petting his hair.
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Dated a sweet Indian dude and brought him to visit my fam. Sikh guy, non-practicing, an engineer.
Smoked a lot of cannabis, drank a lot of sugary/ energy bevs, but never drank alcohol.

My Scandinavian grandma (in her 80s) offers us Seagram's Bay Breezes; a fridge full from Thanksgiving, encourages us to "use them up."

Around the 1-hour mark, he is cracking #4, and I playfully call him "Drunkie". He immediately goes into panic mode and says, "This is a beer?! I felt so hot. I thought I was getting sick, but I'm just… so… happy!"

He is hammered, grinning and saying: "My frame-rate is decreased." We're cracking up.

Ends with him sitting on the floor in front of her recliner, talking about how much he loves the cows on the farm and the Mennonites’ horses. She's running her ancient hands through his thick wavy black hair and saying, “It's ridiculous! It's so thick! He should be a hair model!" and he was smiling like a happy cat in a sunbeam.

My boyfriend stepped in cat vomit in the night and let out a yelp. I said “babe are you OK?” and he said “I just stepped in cat vomit.”

I responded: “It’s OK, just discard five cards and you’ll get a full house,” and went back to sleep.

When I found out those beautiful red-and-speckled spotted lanternflies were invasive and kill-on-sight, I had a passing thought that I wanted to make stuff out of them. Earrings of the wings in epoxy, some kinda keychain, maybe even a bigger framed thing.

We were gonna squish em anyway. The brightness of the red is so vibrant... Am I a sicko?

Link 1 - 15 hours ago

Link 2 - 8 hours ago

What's the deal with that?

When I was about 11 and my sister was 9 (in the 90s), I found Dad's porn search history in Internet Explorer.

I had heard about this porn stuff ("like Playboy magazine, right?") but never expected my dad to be doing such a thing.

It was garden variety search terms, but I was grossed out and really glad I had found it before my mom did because they fought like cats and dogs.

I took a step back and thought, "Teachable moment." I taught him to clear history. I brought him aside and said, "I saw what you were looking at on the computer." He immediately said, "That wasn't me. It must be a virus." I said, "Well, whatever it was... Let me show you how to clear it so nobody happens to find something like that again." And I showed him how to clear his browsing history.

He finally, in a moment of owning it, looked sheepishly at me and said, "Did you tell your mom?" and I said, "Of course not! She'd actually kill you!" "Does your sister know?" "Yeah, she was there."

He immediately loaded us in the car, took us to the fancy farmers market with all the little booths of classy local stuff, and said, "Thanks for not saying anything and being really mature about this. You two girls, have a great time, get whatever you want." We got two high-end artisanal Amish lemonades with molasses, a big hunk of cheese, and a bag of kettlecorn.

We were paid for our silence and we never told a soul...

Til now.

I ran projections:

1). It's already hotter than ever, leading to Pacific Surface Temperature anomalies and drier/hotter than normal climes in Panama this year.

2). When the thermocline is whack like this, there is way less deep ocean current mixing and therefore, El Niños with wild gradients are typically prolonged.

3). Every 11y, the solar cycle maxes out; just like how pandemics do 100-120y cycles, solar cycles do too. The last 7y El Niño sync-up with the 11y Solar Cycle was 97. Insert "Mafia!" reference here. We get an extra Watt per sq. meter. This year will not just be "climate change"-hot, it will also be "solar max"-hot.

4). Over the Holocene era, fossil beds are showing more and more frequent multi-year events. It's possible this could last a long time, not just 12-14 months.

I am shit at investments and stuff. But I need to be the canary in the coal mine for you guys. Like, I looked at the levels. You can compare it to 23-24's freshwater reservoir levels and refill rates. It's about to get ugly.

Just... Assume what I said is true and invest that way. I don't know puts and calls and whatnot. But if I had one piece of advice...

Capitalize on the upcoming Panama Canal shutdown.

CP, CSX, UNP, MATX

Qualifications: I am a Molecular Genetics major undergrad, 15y HS chem teacher in the Bronx, two Masters, taught AP Environmental Science for years; I am pretty sure no one has noticed this yet. Left the field for medical, but still watch trends. I got about 100 slides of stuff (vetted reputable 'ya-gotta-pay-for-em" journals' worth of research) and I am bugging. US won't be too fucked, but Europe/Asia got potential to feel this bad.

Do your own HW, but soon, all the Liquefied Natural Gas moving through the PC will need to go overland via train. No other way.

In my top 10.