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- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 1 day ago:
I didn’t even realize the 60Hz option existed. I’ve trimmed all functions on the phone, like background refresh, to lower battery usage, but the refresh rate is a new one. TYM.
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 days ago:
You’re the ATM card.
- Comment on name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red. 2 days ago:
Reading a book once in a while instead of burning them helps quite a bit with understanding pronunciation.
- Comment on Be better 2 days ago:
My quote wasn’t intended to be a solution for people with genuine problems. It can be a reminder to take a step back if one can.
Yeah, trauma or other defensive behavior can be like wagon ruts. That’s the well-worn path the brain defaults to and it can be really hard to lift that heavy wagonload of trauma out of that deep rut. Creating other roads and lightening the load is a job for therapy.
- Comment on Be better 2 days ago:
“Just because you got burned doesn’t mean you get to go around setting everyone else on fire.”
A quote I remember often.
- Comment on These gas station pills are getting sketchier 4 days ago:
Great name for an anti-gas pill. Fart tomorrow, not today.
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 6 days ago:
They just had a huge ghost plate bust yesterday on one of the Long Island bridges. Must’ve been 15-20 police cars and 10 flatbed tow trucks along with one of those multi-car trailers. Tons of cars pulled over.
Looking for toll dodgers, fake plates, fake temp plates and all that.
There’s a huge number of people with covered plates of one kind or another.
- Comment on Be careful what you name it 6 days ago:
“ not” is correct. Should be a way to factory reset your monitor. Usually a long press of the reset button for a certain number of seconds or a power off/on while holding the reset. A look online for the manual for your device will show you how if it’s possible.
- Comment on Time of death: 1:19 am October 18 6 days ago:
The cyberpunk reality will be computer users finding any way they can to keep their PCs running on an undernet disconnected but in parallel from the CorpGov web. The latter where you are tracked, monitored, monetized, ruled, caged, where ypu own nothing but the CorpGov owns you. The former an illegal hoard of history, media, software, 3d printing, and information disallowed on the main web.
No flying cars, no cyberpunk body parts, just people trying to keep from being controlled.
- Comment on It used to be a library 1 week ago:
He was wrong about voting.
It would make voting easy and accessible.
They don’t want that at all.
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 1 week ago:
Feels before reals. They buy it bacase “Black Rifle”. It could taste like shit. They pour a cup and, “This stuff tastes like shit lol.” and they’d keep buying it because Black Rifle pisses off the libs, it has a gun on it, and the makers are making the brainwashed snowflakes feel manly for having Manly Gun Label Coffee.
- Comment on It used to be a library 1 week ago:
Ugh. I get it, but I dislike poetry that avoids grammar to make something seem deeper than it is.
I walk to the corner
To the rubble
That used to be a library.
Line up
To the mind cemetary now.
- Comment on I rebuilt a 1997 chat room. First thing someone typed was "lol". Some things never change. 1 week ago:
Making me all nostalgic. Dale’s page needs one of these
- Comment on Glute-dayum 1 week ago:
Frankie LaPenna sat here.
- Comment on Can we estimate the size of the Internet ? If so, what size would it be (in GB, TB or whatever) ? 1 week ago:
I wonder how much of this data will be overlapping copies.
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell, in case anyone was wondering what book that is.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
IDK why anyone has automatic updates enabled, precisely because of this ocurring at frustrating times. Can this not be disabeled anymore or something?
- Comment on Advice for moving to NY? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re from the metro, anyplace north of Yonkers is “upstate.”
Technically geographically correct, but culturally wildly incorrect.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 2 weeks ago:
36 hours, 12 hour shifts, no breaks, and still not a full 40 to qualify for full-time benefits.
That’s what he’d do.
- Comment on They never even notice 3 weeks ago:
They should all be 165° for food safety’s sake when it comes to ground beef. You can play around with a steak’s temperature becuause any bacteria are on the surface and not ground into the meat, though that’s becoming less true with tenderizers being used on steaks.
YMMV, of course.
- Comment on Br*tish breakfast "food". 3 weeks ago:
Having had a Full English, this one’s a bit short…but I’d eat it all. Looks great.
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 4 weeks ago:
Spoken by someone who sits on their ass in a chair all day.
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 4 weeks ago:
Trying to get rid of them and increase turnover by making the job uncomfortable? Drive older ones off the payroll to cut costs?
I’m sure making people uncomfortable will do wonders for their ability to pay attention to their job.
- Comment on POV 4 weeks ago:
Nead aonther one where your partner is banging around making all kinds of noise and you just want to sleep, tiddies or not.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 weeks ago:
Scratch made sofrito? Nice!
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 weeks ago:
Probably tariffs? No idea. Yeah, they used to be like $1 or so.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 weeks ago:
^ Beans FTW.
Dress it up with hot sauce if you can find it.
Getting slightly off the path of “cheap”…
If you have a grocery nearby that sells cheap goods from south of the border, grab some plantains. Wait until they’re good and dark, peel, cut them in half lengthwise and then in abbut 2” pieces and fry them. Making me hungry just thinking about it. Sofrito for the rice.
One of my favorite cheap meals.
(USD) Sofrito jar 2.99 25 lb bag of rice 13.50 (~55 cups of rice, 25¢ a cup) 1 lb beans, pinto 1.19, black 1.59 (2 cups/bag, 60¢ cup) Hot sauce 1.19 Plantains 65¢ each.
Rice and beans, decent serving, 1 cup cooked each makes a good amount, 85¢. Assuming some salt is already available to cook the rice with.
So adding a cup of sofrito, a dash of hot sauce, and cooking up a plantain will add a little over $2 to the total, make it $3 for the whole meal.
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 4 weeks ago:
When would you like to see your primary care doctor? We have an appointment slot in 6 months you have no idea if you can get the day off for, but you can waitlist for an earlier appointment cancellation that you probably won’t be available for either…
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 4 weeks ago:
Indentured servitude for the ability to exist.
