Pottersville would be nice compared to the Coal Town they’re actually aiming for. You’ll owe your soul to the Company Store.

And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled shitposts…

Polls regarding voting intent have become incredibly unreliable over the last decade.

I cook quite a bit, so I disagree a little. you don’t need a stupid expensive knife, but buying one or two good quality knives is worth it. They probably last as long as you do so it’s not like you have to keep buying more, just buy quality once. I still have a couple cheap knives too. Also, expensive != quality. Choose wisely.

The cheap knives suck at holding an edge. I spend more time “fucking around” keeping the cheap knife sharp than I do the good ones.

Hand wash the knives. The dishwasher detergent will accelerate the loss of the edge and pitting, especially in cheaper steel. Use plastic or wood cutting surfaces, not hard ceramic like plates, or glass.

It most certainly does not keep the pot from boiling over. I’ve had it happen plenty. Same with the “place a wooden spoon across the top of the pot to prevent boilover” trick. That does not work either.

IDK why anyone has automatic updates enabled, precisely because of this ocurring at frustrating times. Can this not be disabeled anymore or something?

Falling buying power right alongside falling house prices.

I’m not sure how the “multiple countries” has anything to do with the regulatory and economic entity that is the EU that also makes carve-outs to protect local manufacturers. The cars available are not just European makers that suddenly became available to everyone because of the EU, there are tons of cars from Korea, China, and the US as well that somone living in Europe has the option to buy.

backsides? There is no perfect system.

Yes. I find the pacing is bad, it hardly bothers with the politics at all which is the entire point of why things happen in the story. It rearranges things so actors like Momoa pointlessly get extra screen time. I think Chalamet is flat and has zero range acting exactly the same as everything else he’s done and Zendaya does nothing except scowl and glare throughout the production. It’s mid acting, aimless writing, spectacular scenery, all at the expense of the actual story.

If you’re from the metro, anyplace north of Yonkers is “upstate.”

Technically geographically correct, but culturally wildly incorrect.

There are more than double the amount of car makers available to choose from in the EU vs the US, gas and electric.

Only 300?

Wait until they bundle the debt.

I like this idea.

Some.

Keep it up, dude.

You can never go home again.

The act of leaving means you and possibly your home and the people around it are now divergent. It loses the familiarity that made it comfortable.

Nobody gets out of life alive, life is a terminal condition.

Just setting expectations. Hopefully the realization that you only get one go at it, so try to live while you can.

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

I remember this because so many use it as a validation of punishment - the allusion to beating the child with a stick. What it means is to guide a child like a shepherd guides a flock using a crook or whatever. Teach and guide a child so they grow up well.

Everyone can be jealous of what you got, but nobody is jealous of how hou got it

Pretty self explanatory.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Just a tired old truism that young people just don’t appreciate what they have. Either health, time, looks, whatever. It’s true. They can’t. It’s like not appreciating breathing until you have a bad cold and realize the value of not having a plugged up nose.

Yeild, plus….shelf life, ability to withstand shipping, size, and looks.

Not flavor… unless sugary. Things like grapes, apples, or carrots have gotten crazy sweet.

“Learn” hahahahaha

Did having centralized control and monitoring of coolers save a fake number of man-hours on a spreadsheet instead of paying a store employee already on the clock to check temperatures occasionally?

They’re going to keep doing it because the spreadsheet says the risk is worth saving those fictional man-hour costs.

Until they stop supporting the device for OS updates and apps stop functioning. I have a couple older iOS devices that we still use but they cannot update past iOS 9 and 12, and some apps have ceased functioning in one way or another. So they’re fine for a little web browsing and the like, but that’s about it.

Saving up names for houses to raid and disappear people later.