Seth MacFarlane feels so 1-note. Just can’t get into Family guy stuff, or any of the other shows that seem to be the same thing, with a different cast of characters.

South Park lost me during the “Stunning and Brave” cut your dick off haha funny stuff. Further reflection made me feel not so great about laughing at, or at least not thinking about, all of the other stuff that in retrospect looked like punching down. Either it’s all OK to make fun of, or none of it is. I’d imagine some other groups of people felt similarly as I did when they were “made fun of”. There are still some jokes that I find hilarious, and some parody they did that respected those that it made fun of. It’s just easier to not watch.

Avast! Hello! I said with a smile!

To claim my spot at the top of the pile

For my words were brief but my thoughts aligned

So that everyone knew I was always online

I would have preferred something even more ridiculous, like… “Acutally, I’m applying for the primatology school to become a primatologist and just happened to be sharing some observations I made during my internship at the zoo that I thought were very interesting. I would never purposely do that in front of a person of color’s apartment from my composition 120 class that I followed home.”

I preach the gospel of the Instant Pot (stand alone pressure cooker) whenever I can. Can be had for <$50 on Marketplace. Stews, soups, ribs, and more. Make a big batch, eat for 3-5 days, then make something different. Kimchi Stew is my favorite thing ever. So many recipes for it are: dump a bunch of stuff in, set the time and press start. Crockpots are good too, but the Instant Pot cuts down on cook time substantially.

Burrito bowls: Airfry (a feature some Instant Pots have) boneless skinless chicken thighs, chop it up and put that over rice. Add corn and beans (from cans), some shredded cheese, taco sauce, prepped pico and guac, and sour cream. One of my fave things. Eventually you can make your own pico and guac.

Experiment with different seasonings on the chicken thighs to make it work in other dishes.

You can do this!

I call myself a cook, and my son a chef. I have a few dishes that I know so well that I just wing it on measurements. He creates dishes on vibes. He has this intuition about what he does. Part of that does come from his mom and I, but I think a lot of it comes from his maternal grandma.

I did not know how to do much “grown up” stuff when I moved out 20+ years ago. I don’t think this is a generational divide. If anything, Kids These Days™ have short form videos that they can lean on for cooking and even basic home maintenance. Car repair videos on YouTube are ubiquitous. They’ll be fine.

I didn’t use them much until I moved out. Up until then, I burned CD’s if I really needed something portable. PortableApps changed my workflow. I could plug that into a computer at the computer lab at college, and have my custom portable FireFox (pretty new at the time still) as well as OpenOffice, MediaMonkey and some others. I don’t recall how much I paid for the drive, but I think it was 256MB? This was around 2005.

Just woke up. All of the things I need to do. School work needs to get done tonight.

Supreme Court enters the chat

Now, hold on there. Are these beliefs…sincerely held? This changes everything. Also, we don’t like weirdos. So…there?

Lower fuel economy = more gas consumed = more money for the oil companies (and the Trump family). All part of the plan.

The one that we are all waiting for. He can’t have that much time left. Recreational sales will reach record numbers that day. Parties will be had. The next day will suck, but for that day—that night—we will fucking party hard.

Yup, we lose either way! ^.^

What’s a big to-do going on that you just don’t care about?

[The situation I described]

Ethan Klein’s cheating scandal. Don’t care.

The entire crew sucks, for a myriad of reasons. I stopped caring about his crashing out like a year ago, and even then it was just enjoying the moments of him going completely off the rails.

I have not watched Hasan for a while now, but only because I couldn’t handle hearing about the shit things going on in the world and drama. I imagine he is pleased with the news, since it likely means H3 will be going offline.

Hopefully this prevents H3 from harassing and suing other content creators going forward.

But ultimately, I don’t care. His wife served in the IOF; she deserves no sympathy.

I don’t think you would have that opinion if you read the linked Wikipedia article. What she did was beyond horrific. She should remain separated from society for life for what she did to that girl.