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  1. Aldarion

    Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

    No, thats rap.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Whats different about it? I'm not even talking shit here. Can you describe the difference?
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    Yeah, its about enforcement. The food trucks I'm referring to were in towns with populations of 1000 and 7000. Not a huge amount of local enforcement, and what are the chances some blue haired city dwelling health department goon ever makes it outside of Portland? It bugs the shit out of me...
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    OR. I have no idea the details of food truck laws here. I only know I've looked in several food trucks and always wished I hadnt.
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    I live in a town of under 1000 and when I visit certain websites, I see ads showing dozens of beautiful, scantily clad women from my small town, who just want sex. Click here. Thats how real online reviews are. This was true by 2010, the fact that some people still read online reviews in...
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    Braised is the way to go for pork chops. You can go with high heat for a short time, and end up with a moist but still really chewy piece of meat. Or (as most of our moms probably cooked them) baked in the oven for too long, so they're shoe leather. Braising avoids the toughness and the dryness...
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    its one of those really unfortunate cases where two cultures use the same word for completely different foods. like pudding the asian meaning of dumpling is obviously superior here, the wet biscuit style ones are generally pretty bland and pointless
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    willingly eats white rice, by choice, but calls Chicken Fried Steak "breaded cardboard" ok
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    Thats just chicken fried steak in its native form. Now I want chicken fried steak
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    Not the ones I'm talking about. That thing looks awesome.
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    Cheap Meals: Eating on a budget.

    Our cheap meal growing up was beans and cornbread. Pinto beans, cooked with a little seasoning but nothing special. Plain old homemade cornbread. I still like it.
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    Fuckin food trucks, man. Like everyone else I liked the concept initially. Variety, price, location, it seemed like such a great idea. But wait a second, wheres the sink with running hot water. Oh never mind, you disgusting fucks arent even pretending to wash your hands. I'm not usually one to...
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    I can't find the details about their definitions, but from figures in supp info I think you're right about how they did it. It looks like its pretty coarse-grained; they looked at national averages, comparing more rural nations with more urban nations. But that doesnt mean the same pattern...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    we just feed our shells to the chickens along with table scraps, it seems to keep the shells strong enough without needing extra calcium beyond whats in feed already
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    Parent Thread

    12 years old is old enough not to cut a giant fart at the dinner table. I get the humor of the situation and everything, and thats a funny comeback, but what in the actual fuck?
  16. Aldarion

    Damsel (2023)

    FML. My wife has terrible taste in movies. Last night she wanted to finish this. I was like fuckit, it can't be as bad the alternatives she suggested. It was worse than I imagined. The summaries early in this thread about girl power magic are spot on, but those summaries were far more...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Eh, fuck names spelled "creatively". Thats actually a good use of auto correct. I wish the whole world would get on board. Like from the DMV to online registration forms, when you enter in in some creatively spelled bullshit it just goes oh you spelled your name wrong, let me fix that for you.
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9223 City people are crazy and now we know part of the reason why. Turns out urban humans have a fucked up gut microbiome that doesnt digest fiber properly. Rural humans have it. Wild apes have it. But city people don't. Combine this with the...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Excel autocomplete. If I type AB20, and hit enter, it records "AB20" in the cell. So far so good. If I then type AB2, and hit enter, it fucking records "AB20" in the cell. No you fucking asshole. I didnt hit "tab enter". I didnt click on a suggested phrase. I typed "AB2" and hit enter. Fuck...
  20. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    This is one of the biggest structural probems with the airline industry. They're not serving a meal. They barely serve peanuts. Why the fuck do we need 7 stewardesses or male stewardesses? I suggest zero is a reasonable starting point and you can try to argue it up from there. Maybe 1...
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    Damsel (2023)

    I agree with you, its a common piece of ridiculousness in most action movies. I'm just saying theres usually some kind of halfassed excuse why maybe its OK. The dudes a super spy. Or part alien. Or a ninja, or something. None of these really explain it but they all make some small gesture in...
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    Damsel (2023)

    Fell asleep early, so can't properly review. Lasted long enough to watch the heroine - a normal human girl - repeatedly fall 100+ feet onto solid rock, and shrug it off both times in a flurry of Girl Power. I imagine by the end she probably solod the dragon in unarmed combat, but what I saw...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Another post implying that theres some mystical quality about "good rice" that only Asians can detect. But without even a basic description of what makes a difference. Rice is rice. Give me at least a description of the difference you imagine you're detecting. I'm reminded of the famous...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Bandwagon, my point is theyre both (fremen and empire) literally alien invaders. neither has some kind of inherent right to the planet. It makes the colonizer complaint ridiculous.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Its hilarious how all the leftists are criticizing this as "colonizer fiction". (e.g. CNN) Complaining about colonizers. On an alien planet. The ones who get there first are magically the good guys and the ones who get there second are automatically the bad guys. The funniest part is how...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    this was a great analysis and I cant disagree strongly with it. but I do think you're underselling Bene Gesserit. The detailed descriptions of Bene Gesserit sex magic in the last two books makes it sound like a pretty tolerable option, considering the alternatives.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Only theaters I've ever been to that served food were Alamo Drafthouse in TX so I dunno how they do it elsewhere. But nobody was eating a "five course meal". You'd order, you'd get served your food and drink, and then just enjoy the movie. Less disruptive than the typical asshole texting or...
  28. Aldarion

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    yeah, its terrible being able to have a burger and a beer while watching your movie instead of overpriced popcorn and candy terrible
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    Constellation

    They actually got a Mandela effect reference in this episode "The joke doesnt work if you don't know who Nelson Mandela is!" "I know who he was" This is great, I dunno what people are hating about it.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah its so much more fun when we all only post about the subjects we have specific, formal training in. If only we'd all follow your example.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I mean the obvious issue here is the automation. There was no human involved in the landing, not even a remote operator. Any human could go "oh shit a rock" and steer a foot to the left. But instead of correctly learning that lesson about the limits of unmanned space flight I am sure they'll...
  32. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    its mcdonalds, arent the patties all steamed or microwaved? In any case, fresh cooked is too much to ask for. Youre not getting it. Freshly assembled is the best you can hope for.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    See this was your problem. You don't ask for fresh. You ask for no ketchup or mayo, or something like that, so they have to make it fresh.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    yeah, its nuts. we had this brief golden age where you could easily search for recipes on the internet, and it looked like cookbooks were dead. then the modern internet ruined recipes and cookbooks are lookin pretty great.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Don't be mad theres a brief, skim-it-in-2-minutes article about it. Instead be happy its not a 50 minute Youtube video with exactly the same amount of content.
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    Constellation

    I put this in spoilers only for those who are wondering whether to watch it I dunno if they're gonna fuck up the ending but if you like weird reality bending theories this show is great
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    AI images

    what? obviously its sheeple
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    Chat GPT AI

    Reading this debate about "when machines have agency" makes me think a lot of people are still missing the importance of LLMs. Its not that they're a real boy now. The important point to grasp is not about them at all. Its about us. Its that a large fraction of human thought and speech is...
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    Home buying thread

    I discovered the 220V heater in my sons bedroom was wired using one leg from a 110V circuit in his room and another leg from a room on the other side of the house. Electrical work isnt rocket science but some of those mother fuckers I swear must just be wiring shit by trial and error. "what...
  40. Aldarion

    Random technology news & announcements

    All you guys talking about how these goggles are so clunky and dumb remind me of me 10 years ago. "Nobody's gonna give up browsing the web on a real monitor and start using a retarded little 3x5 screen instead, thats so dumb" You're all forgetting, clown world has no limits, and the dumber...