I don’t know a single millennial or gen xer who cant cook or couldnt cook at 16.

Millennials here, can cook, and pretty much all of my friends are capable of at least basic cooking

But damn-near everyone I know who went to college and lived in a dorm has at least one story about the time the fire alarm went off because some kid who had never cooked for themselves didn’t realize they needed to do something really basic like add water to Kraft Mac & cheese and smoked out the building.

Similarly, my sister (also a millennial, albeit a younger one) had a friend who didn’t realize that after she (successfully) made some Mac & cheese, that the leftovers needed to be refrigerated. She had a Tupperware container of it sitting in her desk or something, and it stunk up her room a couple days later until my sister helped sniff out the problem.

Those are probably some of the more egregious examples, but you can pretty easily imagine that there were plenty more who couldn’t manage or wouldn’t attempt anything that didn’t come out of a box or freezer with directions printed on the package.

I’m personally a kind of mid-to-younger millennial (and a pretty damn good cook if I can toot my own horn)

I have a few friends who are a bit younger than me who are older zoomers. Those friends are all at least competent cooks, not necessarily amazing chefs, but capable enough to follow a recipe and feed themselves.

But the catch that should probably be mentioned is that most of those friends are guys I was in scouts with. They were the younger kids in my troop as I was aging out.

So, I (or one of my millennial peers) are at least partially the ones who taught them how to cook

And learning to cook in scouts is sort of a trial by literal fire- if you can make breakfast over a campfire, bake a cake in a Dutch oven on hot coals, etc. cooking with a regular stove or oven is kind of easy in comparison.

But anecdotally, my gen z coworkers do seem to be pretty clueless about cooking. But then again, I’m a poor judge of that because I do cook at a pretty high level and a lot of people seem kind of clueless to me in general, so I’m probably not the best judge.

You may want to reconsider using “whoresons” as an insult while trying to defend sex workers. Kind of sends a bit of a mixed message.

Have never dipped tobacco, but I can do the motion you’re describing, if I pinch my thumb and middle finger together so that my index finger hits them it makes a pretty solid thwack sound

Can only do it with my right hand though, my left index finger just doesn’t go limp enough or have the same range of motion or something

Civilian side radio users, like fire, ems, or police, have a different one

911 dispatcher here- pretty much everywhere around me uses the NATO phonetics, except one neighboring county that I’m pretty sure doesn’t use any sort of standardized phonetics at all, or at least their officers and dispatchers and such can’t be bothered to use it.

Things aren’t totally standardized across the country though, different 10-codes (or no 10-codes at all,) different terminology, different phonetic alphabets, etc.

There’s some old timers around my county who have been around forever who tend to fall back into other systems from time to time, or people occasionally have a brain fart and have to spit out something different on the spot.

I’m pretty sure APCO at least strongly recommends using the NATO alphabet.

Even if they’re trained on the same data, and I suspect they are, why maintain 2 unfathomably large and probably very similar sets of data

It still might be doing it on its own based on its own internal logic

Like maybe it’s worked out that users who use miles expect the conversation to proceed in a different way than users who use kilometers and is tailoring its responses to fit those expectations.

Not that I’m ruling out that it’s something deliberately coded into it by a longshot, just kind of pointing out another possibility

But both options are terrifying when you think about them.

Camille Saint-Saëns- Danse Macabre

Communism takes this idea and applies it to all companies in all industries. ie, the government has oversight on all companies

Except Communism is supposed to be stateless, there wouldn’t really be any sort of central government to have oversight over anything.

I wish I still had it, but circa 2009 I was in high school taking a web design class, one of our projects was to design a website for an amusement park, being a bunch of nerds in a programming class, we had some pretty weird ideas for parks, mine was MemeLand

Off the top of my head

The front gate was a big circle being held open by 2 hands (goatse, if you’re not familiar I recommend not googling that)

There was a picture on the wall of shame at the entrance saying that Milhouse was not permitted (Milhouse is not a meme)

The tallest roller coaster was the Longcat

A leekspin Ferris wheel

A petting zoo full of cats, mudkips, badgers, and other meme critters

A chocolate rain log flume ride

The RickRollerCoaster

A dark ride “Queen Boxxy’s Castle”

There was a drop tower sort of ride sunken into a deep hole called THIS IS SPARTA

A gravitron ride sponsored by Blendtec

One of the food options available in the park was NONE Pizza with Left Beef.

Bawls was the only beverage option.

I have you tagged as “thinks people can’t ride bikes”

So not sure you have a whole lot of room to talk there

The majority of hunters and fishermen I know, which may not be representative of them as a whole, are in it primarily to supplement their food budget

Not that they don’t enjoy it, but the enjoyment comes mostly in the same kinds of ways they enjoy camping and hiking and such- being out in nature, sometimes with friends, seeing wildlife, etc.

A lot of them also come at it at least partially from a conservation standpoint. In my area deer are pretty overpopulated and they do need to be kept in check, and I don’t think wolves and mountain lions are going to be reintroduced to my east coast, largely-suburban area anytime soon.

And from an ethics standpoint, if you’re going to eat meat, I feel like there’s something to be said for eating wild game that got to live a free natural life as opposed to factory farmed meat. As well as knowing where your food is coming from and being willing to do the dirty work yourself, a lot of people are really disconnected from where their food comes from and don’t fully appreciate that meat comes from a living animal, and at least the hunters I know really try to respect that, regarding it as something almost sacred, and do their best to make sure that it’s not going to waste.

A lot of things of course come down to individual state and sometimes local laws/regulations

But crossbows are definitely very popular for hunting in areas where they’re allowed.

My state lumps them in with the regular archery season, wouldn’t be at all surprised if other areas have a separate crossbow season.

We also have a muzzleloader season, and a season specifically for flintlock muzzleloaders (as opposed to muzzleloaders that use a percussion cap)

Apparently there used to be Halloween packs of Pokemon cards that my friend would give out for trick or treaters, I don’t know the details if they were cheaper or smaller than a regular pack or just Halloween-themed, or what exactly their deal was, I just know that they’re a thing that exists

By they couldn’t get their hands on them this year. I don’t know if they discontinued them, or if someone snatched them all up, but in either case I’m pretty sure the current pokemon card investment bullshit is to blame.

And I think that’s a real shame, it sounds like a fun thing to give out or at least have as an option for the kids that are into pokemon, and probably appreciated by kids who maybe have food allergies and such and cant really enjoy the candy everyone else is giving out.

Some sort of Europa probe perhaps? Drill a hole through the ice and slurp up some of that liquid water underneath.

…solar punk…

I’ve been reading it as slurp-nik in my head

I’m not anti-nuclear by a longshot

But I think the time to be building new nuclear plants was probably 20 years ago and that window has kind of passed.

The unfortunate truth is nuclear plants take a long time to get approval, build, and start generating electricity for the grid, and there’s only so much you can or should do to try to speed that process up, because if you cut too many corners the potential for things to go wrong is enormous.

Solar and wind can be deployed a lot faster and we need that grid capacity now and at this point I think we’d probably be better served by building out as much solar and wind as we possibly can

You cannot have a cake in your possession and also eat that cake. Once you eat it, it is gone.

Iodine free salt does matter in some applications, like pickling.

Also for some things you want coarser salt, which doesn’t really have anything to do with iodine but most of that is going to be iodine free.

For general table salt and such though, yeah, doesn’t matter.

And for gluten-free stuff, in some cases, the macros might just be better for your dietary needs/goals. My wife has occasionally gotten gluten free stuff because of that, not because of any issue with gluten.

I find that there’s a pretty wide range in matcha quantity, and the stuff that’s actually really good is going to cost an arm and a leg, and it’s probably become a victim of its own popularity, to satisfy the demand they’re just importing more lower quality matcha.

The first time I tried it was probably like 15 years ago, I grabbed a little tin from a fancy grocery store on a whim that I think I remember costing about $20 and probably had less than an ounce of powder in it. And that stuff was really good. I then got a bigger bag of cheaper stuff somewhere and it tasted like straight-up swamp water. Most of what’s out there now that you’ve probably tried is somewhere in between. I don’t mind it, but it’s not good enough for me to want to seek it out, and the good stuff is hard to find and probably even more expensive these days.

And to make matters worse, I don’t think there’s really any official standardized grading or labeling for it, so it’s kind of hard to figure out what you’re getting, you might see things like “Ceremonial grade” thrown around, but that’s pretty much just a meaningless marketing term.

Almost Human

It wasn’t exactly breaking new ground, the writing and such wasn’t the greatest, but it was all good enough, and better than a lot of other shows out there, and I was definitely enjoying it enough to see where they went with it in season 2

Years later after I met my wife, I discovered that she felt the same way about it.

And I have a sneaking suspicion that someone at Quantic Dream felt the same way too and that’s how Detroit: Become Human came to be.