You can’t just say, “I have 20 people living in my home, just make the check out to me.” The dam company is going to be verifying who they’re paying.

I would be proud of being recognized at a local bakery, and similarly uncomfortable being recognized at a Taco Bell.

I have a bad habit where I stop feeling bad about not eating the food once it’s in the freezer, and then it doesn’t come out until I’m cleaning months later. And then all of my Tupperware is in the freezer.

There’s a middle ground that I think a lot of people miss, and that played an important role in me eating out less.

You can buy things like frozen dumplings, frozen pre-cooked chicken, etc… This isn’t going to be as cost efficient as making from scratch, but it’s wayyyy better than eating out all the time.

I’ve been learning to cook by weaning myself off of ordering out, to frozen pre-cooked stuff (that you should never grow 100% out of, my god dumplings freeze so well), to scratch.

An important dubstep of that has been taking something like pre-cooked dumplings with a homemade soup. It’s like buying level2 ingredients, something a little closer to human readable.

Sorry this edible just kicked in, I think I got lost in the metaphor in that last paragraph.

Something that worked for me is always shopping for a specific meal. Instead of buying ground beef because I might want burgers or tacos or chili, I instead buy everything for a chili. It’s lead to less “oh I forgot I had this beef in here” and more “I better use this nice, fresh beef to make chili because otherwise I’ll go hungry.

It’s not a perfect system, and seems really obvious in hindsight, but has been a paradigm shift for me.

You might call it a shopping arcade. Pretty common in many cities, and likely is a public street, despite having a covering.

Same. School firewall blocked based on host names, so we all learned a lot about the hosts file so we could manually set all of the IPs Minecraft needed to authenticate.

Knew it would be this. I made the noise immediately on seeing the picture

Isn’t the Panama Canal basically running out of water? They should act like they’ve been cowed, sell it to us for a ton of money, and laugh all the way to the bank.

What the fuck

I have an ongoing theory that every time you locate what you’re looking for in a Microsoft project, a random number generator determines if it will be moved, and where to

My god all these admin centers and their old and new versions. Four places to do any one thing and maybe one of them has documentation that’s up to date.

There are at least three locations to disable user accounts. Two of them require a setting of “True” and the third one “False”. Drives me mad.

I feel like I’ve not seen a bug outside of my home in years

I don’t think it could ever add up to a significant amount without the whole planet doing so. Not using the services today sends a measurable number of people who are behind the strike, instead of just most likely making it a very successful day numbers-wise.

Similar, but with my feet/ankles. She wants to be close, but isn’t a big fan of petting. I’m not always great at respecting that desire, so we compromise like this.

Same, but nvidia shield. I’ve tried pihole and pf-blocker with no success.

It’s actually really important to keep your lawnmower blades sharp. Makes the whole process much easier, and the engine won’t have to work as hard.

Relevant XKCD

If only it were so easy to banish the night-spiders. Nope, suburban US has more than you think.

You get a very similar effect if you go outside at night and hold a light up at your eye level, except it’s reflecting off the eyes of all the spiders around.

This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.