LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 17 hours ago:
I get it, so they’re more worried about misinformation about who won than misinformation that influences the actual voting. Well alrighty.
- Comment on Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fray 17 hours ago:
Unrelated, I can’t help noticing how much Altman looks like the kid who played Luke Dunphy in Modern Family.
- Comment on No excuse 17 hours ago:
My two cats have an odd outside the box thing. One likes to have a back leg hanging out, usually over the edge of whatever he’s sleeping on. The other does it with a front leg. They’ve always been very consistent about it.
- Comment on No excuse 17 hours ago:
Sometimes it helps if you remind yourself that criticizing some group they don’t belong to fills some peoples need to feel more powerful.
- Comment on Honey 17 hours ago:
Sounds like it’s not the honey it’s the production system, so honey from wild bees would be vegan. Okay.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 day ago:
Know what’s real? Stupid troll posts.
- Comment on So tired to see Elon Musk in my home page EVERY DAY 1 day ago:
I just got into lemmy, and compared to reddit he’s refreshingly scarce. Come to think of it so is Bonespurs.
- Comment on So tired to see Elon Musk in my home page EVERY DAY 1 day ago:
Same. At least Bonespurs will probably soon have his final Big Mac Attack and the news will be all about MAGA self destructing as the hangers-on claw each other to pieces to get on top. Musk has a lot more years left in him.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 1 day ago:
Thanks! Noting this for if I’m ever in London again!
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 1 day ago:
A few years ago I was in a local place where the food and service were both entertainingly bad. For decades it had been a wonderful little Greek restaurant, until the couple who ran it moved to Greece for a well-deserved retirement and their son took it over. The son remodeled and reopened it as a combination Greek/sushi restaurant and sports bar, hanging five or six large screens from the ceiling.
I was eager to try the sushi. “There’s no sushi tonight. Dennis isn’t here.” Oh, alright, when is Dennis here? “We don’t know. Maybe Wednesday. He never says.” Well alrighty then. Good for Dennis I guess. So I ordered spanakopita, another favorite. What I received was a brown chunk resembling a giant Totino’s pizza roll, on an otherwise bare plate, where it dryly slid around all by itself. It looked and tasted like a Costco product they took out of a package and over-microwaved. The driest, crispest spanakopita I’ve ever had.
I took a chance and ordered the baklava. It tasted okay but instead of being flaky it was actually soggy - not as in dripping with butter and honey, I mean watery. The only watery baklava I’ve ever had, and also the only serving of baklava in my life that I did not finish.
A guy dining at the next table asked the waitress for the check, but said he would like a cup of coffee first. I was directly facing the clock and happened to notice it was exactly 7pm. At 7:10 she returned with their check and said, “We’re out of coffee.” Wat? They’re open for another 3 hours and they’re out of coffee LOL? And it took a full 10 minutes to return with this info. It’s a tiny place, I could see the coffee machine like 12 ft away. And there are like six customers. Seemed like a badly run restaurant in a sitcom.
There were a couple other things but that’s all I can remember. Anyway, this new version of the place didn’t last long and it’s permanently closed now.
- Comment on No excuse 2 days ago:
LOL I’ve done this many times. It’s a matter of pride. I didn’t learn to park in no barn!
- Comment on Honey 2 days ago:
Many Indians I’ve worked with are sort of semi-vegetarian, eating meat but only on certain days. I think that’s specific religious doctrine rather than a general attitude about animals - like Catholics eating fish on Friday.
- Comment on Honey 2 days ago:
The response I’ve heard for that one is that domesticated animals are dependent on us because we’ve bred their survival capabilities out of them. People originally just captured wild animals and put a fence around them. By selectively breeding the more docile ones we’ve turned them into something they wouldn’t be without our interference. To me that part makes sense, but the present reality is still what it is, and what you’re saying is still true.
- Comment on Honey 2 days ago:
Playing devil’s advocate, this could be sidestepping the issue, because the honey is only an unintended side effect from your friend’s POV, not the bee’s.
- Comment on Honey 2 days ago:
I think that’s actually a very valid point. What level of involvement in producing the food makes it vegan or not vegan? If eating honey is unethical I would think so is eating food produced by the hard work of another person.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 days ago:
Zoidberg once heard Fry say blood was thicker than water and wrote down: “Blood…thicker!”
- Comment on The 1900s 2 days ago:
I remember fearing high school kids. I wasn’t even sure how old they were, just that high school was a jungle and any kid who went to high school was dangerous.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 days ago:
Used to be a rule of thumb that the lower limit for dating was half your age + 7. Dunno if that’s still a thing.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 days ago:
“Before the dawning of the millenium, when the Earth was young.”