Alright maybe just the suburbs

I like this. It feels like something Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett would have written.

What if we dust flyover states with MDMA?

If they could leave a voicemail so I could call them back I’d probably do it.

No I can’t unsee Henry Rollins with Juggalo makeup in Johnny Mnemonic

Like a big, flowy skirt that has a bunch of legs all over it

Which is why I treat voting as an obligation and not have any hope for the future. Because when it works it still looks like shit, doesn’t seem to do anything, and a bunch of assholes can throw a wrench in the works and then we get even more shit.

I’m still gonna vote because I live here and I have to. But I really don’t think it’s the way you get anything done.

Worf was as good of a father as he could have been to that whiny little shit

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Fourth is you’re an influencer and are getting paid to let them shit in your mouth.

Yes, this is a thing that happens. Google “Dubai porta potty”

I live in suburbia and walk to work because it’s in my basement and shipping a brain through meat space to push buttons somewhere else is dumb.

Speed isn’t the only thing that cooking entails. Sometimes I want to simmer something for a couple hours, and the control mechanism for resistive stoves is pretty shit at doing that because it pulses 100% power instead of running at a lower output level.

I’ve never done this on a proper induction cooktop, but the induction hot plate I have will 100% burn anything I put on it to simmer because it’s cheap and bad.

I have an induction hot plate and it’s very good at three things: Boiling water, getting a cast iron pan rocket hot, and burning anything I want cooked on low heat.

This is because it’s a cheap hot plate with a terrible control mechanism, but there must be some out there that can simmer rice without doing 100% power for one second followed by nine seconds of doing nothing. It’s not a good look for induction, and I don’t want to end up buying a stove that consistently burns my delicious marinara. Especially because I also need to do significant electrical work in my house just to have one.*

Resistance electric stoves are not just terrible but also inefficient. But I still don’t trust induction cooktops and when I ask the guy at Home Depot to try to cook a meal on one he looks at me weird.

* Unless I get one of those neat battery-backed induction cooktops that use a 110V hookup.

ETA: Instead of downvoting maybe you could convince me that not all induction stoves will burn my marianara due to shitty control systems

Until 1997 there were fairly strict limits over who could own what broadcast stations in given markets. Then the neoliberal bug bit everyone’s ass in Congress and they passed a bipartisan bill that would let people own as many radio stations as they wanted, and way more TV stations than they should.

Suddenly every radio station became the same, and now most local news is owned by one batshit corporation.

Maybe trusting companies is a bad fucking idea.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is one of the worst bills ever signed into law.

I once hauled about 200 paving stones in a Mazda Protege. I spread them out on the floor and in the trunk so it wouldn’t hurt anything for the three mile drive I made back form the home improvement store

I needed a truck for almost the exact same reasons - including hauling garbage - and made do with a pretty old Silverado 1500. Trucks are built like, well, trucks and with even minimal maintenance.

I got mine in 2013 for about $12k with 180,000 miles on the odometer, and drove it for 70,000 more miles with minimal maintenance until I moved to the suburbs and didn’t need it anymore. Hauled rocks and hogs and feed and garbage, got stuck in a muddy field and dented and scratched it as much as I wanted because it’s a truck for doing truck stuff.

When I had two kids in car seats I upgraded to a bigger car. It was a VW Jetta wagon/estate. Plenty of space for both kids and all our stuff to go on week long vacations. And since it was a diesel it got like 40mpg highway.

I don’t eat at McDonald’s, so I haven’t had that experience. But I love being able to order Sheetz food for the next morning when I’m going on a trip, or schedule it for when I’m going to need a pit stop and just have it ready. Wendy’s is also pretty good about this, too.

The most used word in my text message app these days is STOP