DarrinBrunner

It’s just a copy. The original still exists somewhere. That’s not stealing.

Reverse Sony logic.

If I liked seafood, I’d be making excuses for why it’s okay for me to eat seafood.

Glad I don’t like seafood.

Every summer, like clockwork, Nextdoor has several people surprised that their electricity bill is “so high”. They never say how much they’re using, just that “it doubled since last month!”. Some people don’t seem to understand that the air conditioner set to 70F uses a lot of electricity, when it’s 105F outside.

Every damn summer.

Towering ice cream? Twin towers?

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With a little airplane cookie stuck in.

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It’s been 25 years, I think it’s time.

Well, with dial-up that could be 10 minutes.

You’d still beat me by 50 minutes, though.

We don’t need to recreate every aspect.

I can draw.

Tip: You can fill it with expanding foam right before you install it. That way it won’t blow off.

I only recently noticed how much alike the two women look.

Traditionally, the message would be that the man wants what he doesn’t have, in a physical sense. I think it stings more when the girlfriend realizes it’s not her body he has a problem with.

P-38 was the best looking fighter, though.

Of all things that don’t matter, whether Pluto is a planet matters the least. It’s completely irrelevant.

But, also:

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Bond. James Bond.

Of course, it depends on the website. I’d be unhappy if my banking site went down for more than a day.

ihavenotv.com could go down for weeks, and I wouldn’t fret it.

I think you drilled too large a hole. I always need to tap the anchors in, they don’t spin freely. No instructions on the package?

You’ll need to extend it to its full height, pull it apart and measure the gas spring, then replace it. Don’t try to repair the gas spring.

Whatever you do, don’t break that wire, it’s nearly impossible to DIY repair.

You could freeze them yourself. There’s no nutritional difference between fresh and frozen. You can find tips online for freezing onions. Cucumbers have too much water, they don’t freeze well and become mush when thawed, but neither are they very nutritious, so no real loss if you can’t finish them.

This is like leaving the dogs in the kitchen to make Christmas dinner.

Meh.

I don’t even look at the date.

People remember things that are important to them, and are used often. I still remember five phone numbers from when I was a kid--my own, and friends-- even though I haven’t used them since then. I used them many times per week then, though.

Today, we carry around a “little black book” of numbers in our pocket along with our computer-phone. No one remembers birthdays, anniversaries, store hours, or even how to get to the doctor’s office, because we’ve off-loaded all of that to our computer-phones. It’s no wonder most people feel panic when they realize they’ve left their phone at home, or the battery dies because they didn’t charge it. That really should be worrisome, but everyone does it now, and it’s normal. It’s normal that no one bothers to remember anything they can find on their phone. What would you do without your phone for a week?

Since Hal can just look on the back of the box he has in his hand for the directions, he has no motivation to attempt to memorize them. He could memorize them, he just hasn’t made the effort, since it’s not important.

TBF, there are a lot more things we need to learn and memorize today than back then.

I sincerely doubt this. They didn’t have easy ways to take notes, they had to memorize everything. Day-to-day living was more complex then, not less.

That meme of pushing one thing into your head and losing another is not real. The more we exercise our memory, the better it gets.

How many phone numbers do you have memorized?

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The No Gun Ri Peace Foundation estimates 250–300 were killed, mostly women and children.

The incident was little known outside Korea until publication of an Associated Press (AP) story in 1999 in which veterans of the U.S. Army unit involved, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, corroborated survivors’ accounts.

But, you don’t need to go back that far in history to see the U.S. doing bad things. We dropped bombs on school children a couple of months ago, and are possibly still doing it right now.

I used Startpage for a couple of years. They started pissing me off, so I switched to the Duck.

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My mom did all the cooking, and she made it clear she didn’t enjoy it.

One of my favorites was “beans and hamburger”, basically what it says, but whatever else she put in it was lost to time and Alzheimer’s. I gave up trying to replicate it.

Probably, tuna casserole was the closest we got to hot dog jell-o. I liked tuna casserole. I liked pretty much everything my mom made for dinner. We often had canned peaches or pears over cottage cheese as a side.

However, she overcooked meat, and I thought I didn’t like meat until I was an adult. My poor dad just put up with it, because the only alternative was cooking it himself, and that wasn’t going to happen. But, even if he had, she would have complained, so the only time he got decent meat was at a restaurant.

The only thing I remember my dad making was rice pudding. he made it with raisins and it was delicious.

Pudding is goop!

There’s comfort food, then there’s food that makes you uncomfortable.

I was just assuming she would.