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Absolutely no judgment here, but I’m genuinely curious: Do you know how to read an analog clock?
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See Resultsarturum-expectare asked:
Doc, what are the top five items food banks LOVE to receive? I'm doing a collection soon and want to ask for specifics.
docholligay answered:
MONEY. WE WANT MONEY. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. WE CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT. WE HAVE ACCESS TO DEALS YOU COULD NEVER. MONEY
That aside.
I’m only going to talk about food items but if your food bank takes personal items, a lot of times diapers, feminine hygiene products, etc, are very very welcome.
1) Canned chicken and beef
looooooove this stuff. It’s expensive, it lasts forever, it tastes good and it can be used a variety of ways. This stuff is fucking catnip to food banks, it’s so hard for us to provide proteins.
2) Fancy nut butters
Peanut butter is a standby for food banks as a shelf-stable inexpensive protein, but if we have a family with a kid with a peanut allergy that’s not going to work. Non-peanut butters are expensive and it’s something we hardly ever see donated. (we also like peanut butter, but that’s easier for us to buy ourselves than non-peanut butters)
3) Canned or packaged tuna
You may notice a trend here in shelf-stable proteins. And yeah. That’s basically it, so I’m not going to keep harping on it. But this stuff is a godsend.
4) Easy breakfast things for kids (Granola bars, instant oatmeal, and the like)
Whatever Donald Trump tells you, most people who get food from food banks are actually working their asses off and so they have to leave Obama to raise their baby or whatever, and they don’t have a lot of time in the morning. Things like this that kids can make for themselves are expensive. (Another trend you may be noticing–donate shit that costs a lot of money. That helps us more than all the shitty green bean cans in the world) But they are so helpful for busy working families where the parents may not have a set schedule and sometimes little Amanda is making her own breakfast before she runs off to school. Don’t let kids go to school hungry.
5) Shelf-stable juice
This is one people never think of! But if you show up with a bunch of (preferably reduced sugar stuff) bottles of juice at my door, oh man, you are gonna get so many check mark and okay hand emoticons. This stuff is great for kids, and it doesn’t require refrigeration until it’s opened, so it works great for food drives.
But seriously, give money
And it’s way better food, too, anything you get prepackaged has A TON of sugar and/or salt in it…collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done
Yoooooo heads up for those of you with kids, I know this time of year schools start holding canned food drives so keep this in mind if you’re able to give.
collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done .
hint: the point should be to help people.
Also, please consider setting this as a scheduled post for June/July. A lot of food insecure families with children rely on school lunch to make ends meet, and that’s obviously not an option during summer vacation. Lots of people give during November and December, but summer is a lean time for food banks. Which is a shame, cuz fresh produce is at a boom during that time of year, so not only would summer donations boost how many people the food banks can help, it would boost the quality of the help they provide.
To give you an idea of the deals food banks can get on food: there used to be a synchronized light show at a house near my parents house. The only thing that they asked for was a monetary donation for an area food bank as they could take a dollar and get four cans of vegetables while, at the time, you couldn’t get two cans of vegetables for a dollar; unless you went to a specific store on certain days where you could get two cans of vegetables for just under a dollar.
This was back in and before 2017, but I doubt that much has changed.
Shamelessly poaching someone elses idea, social media poll but the options arent solely geared 2wards 15 year olds
what was your first social media before tumblr??
Tumblr was my first social media ever <3
Amino
DeviantArt
Google+
LiveJournal
MySpace
MSN
one of the big three (twitter/tiktok/instagram)
other (add in the tags!)
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What generation do you belong to
Generation Alpha
Generation Z
Millenials
Generation X
Baby boomers
Silent Generation
See ResultsAdded Generation Alpha because maybe there are some 13 year olds on this site and added Silent Generation because maybe there are some 80 year olds on here too
where did u start reading fanfics? i wanna see smth
ao3
ff.net
wattpad
tumblr
quotev
youtube
deviantart
smth else (tell me i'm nosy)
i don't read fanfics
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YOUTUBE???!!???
I mean, I guess I believe it could happen? Christ.
(And I feel so ancient.)
(chuckle) 1973.
Bound paper Trek fanfics from underneath a dealer's table at (I think) Lunacon.
(pausing to check the date) Yeah, it was '73: Harlan was the GoH that year. :)
I was a latecomer! I started reading fanfic on hand-coded individual geocities sites in the 90s.
Same @beatrice-otter. Same.
My siblings and I discovered Harry Potter fan fics on some Harry Potter forum we were on looking for updates for the books and movies.
They weren’t really appropriate for young kids as one of them had Harry and Hermione half naked in a sleeping bed when they were 15.
I don’t remember if we gave up on the site because we figured out that there wasn’t anything useful there, or if a change to the formatting just made it too difficult to read (the posts became backwards, meaning the most recent posts were first and the first chapter was either at the end or who knew where as the writer might have posted multiple fics on the thread after finishing them) or if our parents asked us to not go back after hearing about teens trying to have sex with each other.
For context: I was 12-14 and there were at least two younger siblings reading along, 10-12 and 8-10; we might have been a little younger or a little older (if there was another younger sibling in the mix she is three years younger than the one that was 8-10 at the time).
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Don’t fuck with flamingos
….. Didn’t know most of that
Hey guys, I’m going to be at the construction site across from the mall this weekend! If anyone else is going to be in the area stop by and say hi!
My parents said that they would ground me for eternity if I walked into that place.
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I’ll be there!
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ao3downloader: works with Python. Does what it says on the tin.
FanFicFare: works with Calibre. Can download from many sites, including AO3 and FF.