Honestly, I SMS myself occasionally 😬

Know any good notes apps?

I was looking for “buzzword soup website doesn’t say what the product fucking does”

Maybe that wouldn’t fit in a square

Local police is probably made aware in advance so it would end with the dispatcher

Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.

Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”

Dat toaster

If you like both vanilla and chocolate ice cream do you have to prove that?

I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn’t show online

Honestly? I totally saw it

Eastern Colorado might as well be west Kansas. Both areas I mentioned are in eastern Colorado.

I drive through it a few times a year, living in Denver but have family in Minnesota/Wisconsin. As crazy as it sounds, at least you have small towns and corn fields along I-80. There are some areas in Colorado (stretches of I-76, US-287 between Hugo and Kit Carson) where there’s just… Nothing. Like, you’d be surprised at how much more empty a corn field can be, and it totally does weird you out how far you are from a simple gas station, let alone a familiar McDonald’s (neither of those towns have that; I believe you’d have to go from Limon to Lamar to get from one McDonald’s to the next on that road, which is almost 2 hours)

If you wanted to do pineapple and soy sauce together, I bet that marinating the pineapple in some soy sauce (probably the low sodium kind for this one) would work great!

Burgers and pizza (and omelettes) are the perfect “blank canvas” foods. You can be boring with few/no toppings, you can be traditional with the expected combinations, or you can flex your creativity with whatever else your heart comes up with.

Either way, it’s an ingredient with plenty of potential, but it needs to be countered somehow. Canadian bacon doesn’t do it for me, in pizza but pepperoni and jalapeno does! For burgers… I like the comment mentioning soy sauce, but if I had to think of something on my own… Hmmm, maybe grilled with grilled jalapeno, crispy onion, and some cream cheese? Basically a jalapeno popper burger with the pineapple shaking things up and the crispy onion adds some crunch?

Damn, now I’m hungry

What happened after that?

Especially in the last month or so I’ve been noticing how uninspiring technology has been. I used to love seeing whatever the gadget of the season was at Target while my mom shopped. Now it’s all… Phone cords, and um, printer ink cartridges. The same wireless speakers we bought years ago. Nothing about it is cool anymore!

His Bluesky is also a delight

I worked in the airline industry for years and learned a GUI overlay for one system and another entirely green screen system called SHARES (see if you can guess the airline). Honestly I kind of enjoyed working with those systems; there’s some refreshing “back to basics” feeling kind of like driving a manual transmission.

In my current job I’ve been using another legacy system. Well, my job was to create a relatively modern service for the legacy system to call, but none of the remaining developers knew how to use the extensions of that system that does SOAP calls. So I had to learn just enough of that legacy system to hold their hands through the parts that call my service. Kind of fun, to be honest!

At 6 years old, you hardly understand how the world works. People generally realize that and act accordingly.

If anyone is getting divorced from something a 6-year-old did, either your parents don’t understand that (not your fault) or there was something much bigger going on already (not your fault) and whatever you did was the straw that broke the camel’s back (still not your fault, given the grace needed with a SIX-YEAR-OLD!)

If someone else said to you what you were saying to us, would you agree that “yeah, you must have been ‘born bad’* - that sucks”? And hold them to that same standard? Probably not. Don’t do it to yourself

* that’s not a thing, by the way

Not as familiar with that one. But he didn’t explicitly say he sent him up there to rig the machines in his favor. Just that he knows the systems and was there. The meaning is left ambiguous. One could make a not-crazy argument that he meant Elon was keeping the machines from getting hacked.

To be clear, Trump is a piece of shit, he lost 2020, and I feel dirty speaking up for him. But here’s the thing: if there was fraud, it needs to be settled in court. That was the case in 2020 when virtually every court ruling was against Trump, and it’s the case now when nobody has even bothered to bring it up (it’s not like there isn’t any overlap between “people who know what he said” and “people who would bring on a suit”). If we’re going to make these claims, they need to be damn solid - otherwise it just makes us look bad when there are PLENTY of solid things about Trump’s piece-of-shitness we could be bringing up instead.

God dammit, please put this in context because it’s so damn easy to and then it shoots down the argument and makes whoever is saying it look bad.

He was talking about the 2028 Olympics (in Los Angeles) and how that was in the works in his first term. At the time, he said he wouldn’t be president for that because he’d be done in 2024. But then

“They [the Democrats/left/deep whatever] rigged the 2020 election, and now I’m president again [in 2025-2029].”

There is plenty wrong with Trump and what he said there. But the takeaway is not that he rigged 2024 to be president today.

Huh?

At first I thought it was Instacart with fewer things available. After reading the press release “news article” it looks like it’s a way for people to buy things (no doubt at inflated gig economy app prices) for a party they aren’t necessarily hosting. Basically chipping in however many dollars but with a thing “attached” to it.

Yeah, if I’m hosting a party I’m not making people use that.