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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Vodka

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep the title, keep the cover art, completely replace the content!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a entrepreneur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It can, unfortunately. We might celebrate Steve Jobs as an entrepreneur who started building computers in a garage and grew it into one of the world’s largest companies but that’s not common.

  For me the scamminess is pure internet “entrepreneurs”. We’ve all seen those who have no real product or service except self-promotion, and it seems sketchy that part of that is calling themselves an entrepreneur. Basically word inflation: using a more important sounding word to seem more on the level

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity has “lost the fight against climate change”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me in the us, it was the election. We finally had goal, funding and progress toward renewable energy. We had the government working for us, not against us. We were building momentum on the switch to EVs and residential electrification. Sure, it was too little too late, but it was progress and it was a huge change of “attitude “ and direction. No longer fighting the idea but actually responding.

  Then the pendulum of politics in the us swung the other way, all that slow painful progress undone, an administration actively working to make things worse. All those corporate resolutions to become good corporate citizens disappear under the slightest pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’ll publish opinion articles about trolleys causing problems, blame some marginalized group like homeless, and organize protests, appeals to politicians. NOW the trolleys got a real problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But you can’t opt out. It scams the vendors but also the people who don’t take part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks great, but I’m not sure I’m willing to go that far. I do see some great designs there, but am more likely to go with the Minecraft style or Yggdrasil!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll create a guest room somewhere, just to freak someone out with this pillow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part of it was the rise of credit card perks like cash back, supported by higher credit card fees. I gotta admit, why should the vendor be paying for our cash back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's flashing lights⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla always had “light show” as a fun gimmick. It’s one of the first things you show friends and family.

  There’s a few canned versions but apparently you can create your own on usb stick. Supposedly it was an outgrowth of qa, so it includes things like windows and trunk opening and closing, side mirrors folding and unfolding, all timed to music, etc. Even before the active matrix headlights were approved for regular use, one of the canned light shows used them to spell out “Tesla” on whatever is in front of you.

  A recent update mentioned new light shows and a way to synchronize. I can certainly imagine a Tesla club having great fun with this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A succulent meal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an argument that it’s morally fair to be chickenarian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was well before that. French were saddled with the white flag, from results in wwii, whether deserved or not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps they could realize that honking your horn is free speech and have some sense of perspective - there should not have been an assault rifle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You just have to get older. I have it on good authority that the law of supply and demand turn things around - men can be old enough to have made money while still being able to date women young enough to not have made money (and no, we’re not Epstein related)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or alternatively, why don’t we run with that approach? So many things would benefit from “save to text”. A bit farther afield but why not save to image, save to html, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?

  Generally I plan it outside if I can but, true, that’s an exception. It’s just not worth trying to deal with that: clean before, clean after, and don’t worry about it.

  Amusing story though …… new friends, kids in scouts, “pinewood derby” crafting day where we all got together to help the kids build. I automatically took my shoes off. In the workshop. sawdust, dirt and nails everywhere. Didn’t even think until someone noticed and looked at me like I was an idiot. Oh. I am an idiot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also always wonder if it correlates with wall to wall carpet. Carpeting makes dirt disappear, so there’s nothing wrong with wearing shoes around the house.

  But once you realize how much dirt collects there, how disgusting it is …… I no longer believe in either inside shoes or wall to wall carpeting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read this on the internet many times. I’m not sure who those barbarians are but it’s clear the internet believes the US is shoes on.

  My experience is the opposite although I second the motion of whether it’s regional. The part of my family from the Midwest are “those people”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta say it’s one of the benefits of kids being at college - everything constricting comes off as I walk in the door. You might not want to make a surprise visit unless you’re ok with seeing me in my underwear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoes off is both nicer and keeps the house cleaner. My family has always been on this side of things, except the folk in the Midwest, so I don’t care if this gets me on a lair somewhere. What? Are gonna send ice to deport me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style

  A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs

  Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you want from it? How long?

  • I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
  • any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
  • I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
  • realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap chains
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that’s like “milk toast “. My dad used to make that but looking back it’s likely from lean times on the farm when he was a kid…… put some milk on the stove, briefly dip slices of bread, then serve with a giant pat of butter. Also clearly influenced by the farm he grew up on being a dairy farm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams and unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

  It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

  And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

  • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
  • slack for texting
  • files in a variety of tools specific to the need
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep up the pressure. We went through the same thing, but after a year of Teams misadventure, except finally realized the savings wasn’t worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like this example. All too often we hear a kernel of truth, “the moon rang like a bell”, without context or explanation and can just apply logic that that seems reasonable with things we understand without questioning the result

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you want out of it? Owning adds responsibilities and costs. If you don’t have a reason to own other than you can, why take on those responsibilities and costs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not realistic. Taxis barely exist in small towns and rural areas. You might try to claim that ride shares could respond to actual usage and they do in urban areas, but the one time my kid tried that it was a 2 hour wait. Also not realistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adequate transportation is a need for anyone living independently, and yes we share expenses for common resources including needs that don’t serve us personally. If my contribution can go toward a physics lab that only serves a subset group of students it can also go toward taking that serves a subset of students

  My taxes and tuition are paying for literally billions of dollars for stuff at my states public university system that I never use. It’s a great investment giving us one of the best education systems in the country.

  No one said parking is the only solution. Buses work decently even at everyone else’s expense, but if you’ll read my responses you should see I advocate for going further, even at everyone else’s expense: many universities are even better served by trains. There’s a difference between advocating only one solution vs advocating for one solution that works now vs one you hope eventually works. And both are far better than just depriving a subset of people of basic transportation