How does being grumpy about something help? It’s just an emotional state, not a solution.

And has determined that nothing unusual is going on?

Fans do both.

Just sucking or blowing involves filling or emptying an air reservoir, as the air you suck needs to go somewhere and the air you blow has to come from somewhere. So something like a bellows does them in separate stages.

But a fan pushes air with its blades and other air moves in to replace it, so it’s doing both simultaneously.

On the ice tray specifically, I noticed stuff that wasn’t ice in my ice, like white stuff that didn’t melt with the ice and would float on the top and make a film in drinks. It was particularly bad with these spherical ice molds that surrounded the ice entirely, other than a hole to add the water through. I’d also notice ice would have this flavour that I previously thought was just freezer burn but now suspect it comes from frozen veggies stored in those plastic packages.

I got a metal ice cube tray and my ice is just ice now. Melts clear, tastes like really cold water.

Anyways, at this point I’m trying to minimize the amount of contact between plastic and food I eat but packaging is proving difficult. Not just difficult, but I don’t know how to avoid it completely.

Sorry but I have figured out your secret code and will now reveal your true identity to the whole internet: You are a horse who is trying to obscure the fact that you wear horseshoes but you are also obsessed with them and can’t help but reference them, in the hopes that you’ll prove to your archnemesis, a racoon, that wearing horseshoes is way better for your hooves than the raccoon shoes he keeps trying to sell you.

Also, be aware that he isn’t really in a horseshoes vs raccoonshoes debate with you, he’s just trying to scam you into giving him some apples for some dirty gloves he found in a dumpster. He, just like everyone else, knows very wrll that horse footwear is superior to all others and that you are hardcore af for just standing there casually while your cobbler helps you put them on with nails and a hammer.

Nintendo? Like the playing card company?

One thing I’ve noticed lurking on AITA is that there’s suddenly more people casually talking about being religious. Not like overtly preaching like you’d see in the past, but more people referencing going to church or doing things for religious reasons.

It just seemed out of place and weird. Like the tone of that part of the internet suddenly changed. It’s still more liberal than conservative, though that conflict seems to be mostly just not present, perhaps in part because of their rule against political topics, though even when some slip through, it does seem to lean more liberal or even progressive than conservative. Like plenty of abortion support, no broad support for tribal or hierarchical judgements. But it suddenly seems more religious. Christian, specifically.

Not to mention the richer video the sega CD was capable of showing encouraged most games for it to pretty much just be choose your own adventure movies (from what I’ve heard, since I grew up on the Nintendo side of that deadly console war). Those “games” IMO are the poster child of games that focus all on graphics at the expense of gameplay, though they can be really rich in story. If younger me had gotten one of those, my disappointment would have been severe.

Also don’t forget that they released the Dreamcast in the midst of all that, too.

Funny how you use the term “banana republic” to mean “corruption that wasn’t in the US” when the situation that coined the term was created by American imperialism in the first place.

Edit: not disagreeing with you btw, just found that specific use of words ironic, given the background.

You might regret that when you wake up on a life raft in the middle of the ocean with a family of just as confused German tourists, as your subconscious has predicted and is trying to prepare you for.

email: If you don’t forward this message to 4 friends, there will be a school shooting!

ChatGPT: forwards email Crisis averted!

ChatGPT on 3 of the 4 friend accounts: forwards email Crisis averted!

ChatGPT on other friend account: If you want to pull off a successful school shooting, you need to <6 points of advice: 3 eerily on point, 2 irrelevant or obvious, 1 likely to blow up in face>

KP: We have successfully averted 4.166666 school shootings, but might have caused 0.844444 school shootings, for a net of 3.322222 school shootings prevented!

Yeah, I kinda wish the site generated a hash or something because I’ve got an extension that fakes the canvas results, but the site says those identifiers are unique for me… But are they the same unique (which indicates the extension isn’t doing anything) or different each time (which might even make the others less useful if it aggregates everything?

I did notice earlier today that the YouTube recommendations were all actually related to the video I was currently watching instead of it trying to get me to go down a rabbit hole I’ve already been down even logged out, like it does on my desktop where I haven’t installed that extension.

I like that they covered all the possibilities for the do not track flag, as I saw it as useless from the very start, as by then I realized the honour system didn’t mean shit and it would just be another piece of data.

Yeah, the :P version includes some mischievousness that the icons don’t capture. It’s like banter vs goofing around. They are similar but not quite the same, so the icons miss the mark.

For me, it kinda personifies the whole corporate approach to existence, where their understanding is close but also misses the point in very fundamental ways. Like a charicature of itself.

Which will make identity theft profitable but in a subtle way that won’t show up in credit reports.

If grey’s other opportunity didn’t work out, they probably would have unashamedly reached out to green again for a new date, if that exchange hadn’t happened.

Non-zero chance they will anyways, especially if grey is a guy.

Though I had a woman get surprised and upset when I declined a 3rd reschedule after she went uncommunicative twice when I asked the “we still on today?”. Apparently she didn’t have a mobile plan or internet at home and had to go to some public WiFi to communicate and both times had shit come up with her kids, though the second time was her son’s birthday party, which isn’t something that generally just pops up on you by surprise. It’s not even punishment, just the emotional rollercoaster before we even had a first date killed any interest in having a good relationship with her, just like that cancelation message in the OP would have.

Though if that were the case, I’d figure they’d clear that up rather than no reply and posting the screenshot.

I think the screwup started when companies stopped rewarding loyalty and instead aimed for capitalizing on laziness and lockin, giving the discounts up front to attract subscribers in the hopes of keeping them in a more expensive subscription afterwards.

I think the streaming sites could turn it around by instead offering a discounted rate after you’ve been subscribing for x months.

I’ve seen all the other numbers for the least significant digit up here in Canada.

Though $7.11 per L would be crazy.

Lol yeah, I should have included that the emotional immaturity was such that they believed wanting revenge on a group for things they had nothing to do with or for reasons of jealousy/envy was normal. It was an attempt to continue your joke that the story creators were didn’t even have the logic to consider that angle.

Or they were smart enough to make up horrifying stories that would stick with people and prevent them from doing dumb shit like going to play in a swamp and just saying “don’t play in swamps” will make some people even more likely to play in swamps to prove they can.