Of all things I have in common with people outside the US, somehow that’s one of my favorites, haha. I think your comment made my day, lol

Whoa! Is that why I hate Hershey’s? I don’t mind their dark but the milk one is awful lol

Yeah, and there really are much better ways to support creators.

And for real, since my family tends to share accounts and I keep my stuff relatively secret, tracking never gets it right. Hell half the time they just give me Spanish ads. I don’t speak Spanish.

Hmm… People in your comments either conflate ads with telemetry (you can have tracker free ads) or they don’t understand that there is value in ads equal to at least a fraction of sold content. Maybe they’re triggered by the term piracy, which admittedly is a strong term, but honestly your core argument is correct.

I’m pro-piracy, though, and certainly take pride in picking and choosing who or what I put value in. It’s more obvious with paying a patreon or buying a product you already pirated, but allowing ads to play (or at least giving a video view though to trigger the counter, liking and subscribing, etc) is also a form of support. And yes, you can do so without completely violating privacy although they’re certainly making that harder lately…

I’ll concede it’s good at pizza reheats. We don’t do that often but it’s much better than microwave and about the same quality but faster than oven.

Depending on the size, it might not be that useful for secondary dishes but that’s mostly cause mines just slightly too small for my standard casserole dish. At some point it’s just a mini convection oven, which I have used before for Thanksgiving and it’s admittedly a godsend (although I’d only borrow it. I very much do not have the space for one).

Mines also both sides heat, but I think it’s a little different still as only one side will have hot metal pressed against the bread. You get a little different taste/texture with both sides pressed against the hot metal. I suspect it’s also more energy efficient, too. Suffice to say it’ll still be S tier for the standard toast case.

Typo, or likely auto correct for FFXVI. Yup, was autocorrect, as it just did it again just now lol. I’ll correct it.

Reminds me of my own issue with parmesan cheese in things; I taste a vomit smell and just a little will make it bad to intolerable. I followed a recipe that added a sprinkle to a large pot of soup and to be the whole thing just tasted like vomit soup. My wife didn’t notice at all. I think I’m sensitive to butyric acid, the shared factor between the two.

I’ll use your stink bug example in the future when cilantro comes up, though, especially since so many people I know love cilantro and can’t imagine (and to be fair it’s very good without said gene, lol)

Beg to differ, I traded my S tier standard toaster for my dad’s toaster oven because he liked mine so much when I stayed with him during COVID times. The toaster oven is top notch but the added utility of preloaded toppings is offset by the counter top footprint. It also only really toasts one side properly.

The kicker is, most of the best applications are better done on a real oven. That’s how I do garlic bread, for instance. The only advantage is if I want to make something quick and sad, such as a pretend grilled cheese sandwich for the kids while I’m sick, I can slab cheese on each slice of bread and put them together at the end. Luckily little kids have no taste, so they don’t mind.

To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol

Really short article but kind of an interesting point. To be quite fair, the games don’t just take very long to produce but their appeal keeps shifting towards more adult themes so younger players might not even play them. FFXVI was basically Game of Thrones and prior to that you had… whatever the fuck FFXV was what with a road trip royal theme? Hell, even DQ12 was announced to have adult themes.

DQ spinoffs have a better shot but they haven’t been particularly good and FF spinoffs are money grabs, so there’s that too. The article points to more popular franchises in Japan like Pokemon, although at my kids are literally watching Pokemon TV designed for toddlers, that’s kinda cheating with how everywhere that franchise is, lol.

Honestly I noticed too but I kind of like it. You should have a font that offsets how incredibly depressing everything is.

Big difference in real life and lab based prisoners dilemma and I’m sure there’s a billion nuances, although most research is done in the lab. I’ve tried it a few ways, even lowering the stakes to choosing to do dishes or hoping your roommate does it and if no one does it you end up working twice as hard scrubbing, lol.

Interestingly, your last point is disputed in the literature… but not how you’d expect. Historically, research shows women more likely to comply due to societal reasons, but not when someone they know or care about is targeted. They’re more likely to choose competitive options on behalf of others, at least according to research. I don’t remember the studies themselves, though I could refer you to my courses OER textbook.

Here’s a slightly off topic fun fact for you, though. In replications of Milgrim’s shock experiments on obedience, women are much less likely to conform when hurting someone. Typically the OG found it to be upwards to 75% conformity, but the least confirming group? Australian women at 16%. These are the women you want when fighting fascism, lol.

Well, it’s supposed to be a matter of choosing cooperation over competition, but every time I have students demonstrate blindly they always cooperate- no one ever rats out the other. Granted they’re all women, which research shows are more cooperative on average, so I guess the takeaway is to always have female accomplices.

Ten year olds on a journey to get all 8 badges kept disappearing on the island, so they decided to close the gym there.

Tax season is upon us. So glad it’s being used for important issues like… this. /s

Former president and failed 2020 electorial candidate Donald Trump.

Yes except did you know gang leaders are shown to be exceptionally intelligent? Police leaders, not so much.

She’s fairly active as far as house members in the minority. They mostly sit on committees and do boring shit (a reason governors, etc, typically look better for pres) but an interview with her suggested that even working within her own party is a challenge at times since the Dems are so ineffective as a whole.

Remember they chose an old cancer (?) patient over her for an important position since they do seniority rules. It’s apparently quite awful.

I hope not, but I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m aware there’s been a few high profile ICE incidents in Santa Ana in particular, but most of the people there are still citizens; it might be the obvious racism that makes things tense. They’ve always had a hard time dealing with their conservative neighbors, though.

Fucking evil. Know why? My wife got her Green Card in the USCIS in Santa Ana in the same building as ICE is setting up in. They’re 100% going to use this as a way to target people seeking legal status, guaranteed.

I believe the same is true of the federal building in LA, too. One could make the point that no one in the entire state will house ICE except that which is owned already by the feds, but to share buildings with people seeking legal status is absolutely abhorrent.