Yes. Banks and gas stations.

Also, self-storage facilities and car washes. And churches.

You know what they’re not building? Mixed use, walkable anything.

The first Rage Against The Machine album feels more relevant today then when it was released. Like this is the first time I’ve really, really felt like RATMs intended audience and not a 3rd person.

How about the color corrected version?

Or is the original color variation part of the vibe?

The people in this comic are both monsters.

You don’t touch the thermostat.

Hey…wait a sec now.

Arrive in EU, go through customs with US passport, 180 days later go to the airport, walk straight to customs and go through with your Carribbean passport. Rinse and repeat every 180 days? Hmmm…

The article isn’t helpful for most of the target audience.

Citizens of the Carribbean nations in the article can currently enjoy up to 180 days in the EU visa-free. The same exact visa-free window as citizens of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand are granted.

Citizenship to one of these Carribbean island nations can certainly help you leave North America, but it doesn’t help you get any more access to the EU than you currently have. It just helps you move to…the Carribbean.

Microsoft is a victim of it’s own success.

If they continued to support Windows 10 and basic local MS Office installs, how would they, ya know, make more money?

Most of us would still be perfectly happy with Windows 7 and Office 2010.

I don’t need OneDrive. I don’t need Copilot. My company doesn’t need Azure. But Microsoft needs someone to buy their goods and services.

What else is a massive organization going to do? Rest on it’s laurels?

I really like my first cousin. Just a great person. I like her family, my wife really gets along with her, I like her husband, my children and her children are second cousins and they all get along too. We visit them in-person once or twice a year.

I hadn’t seen her for 15 years and then we reconnected at our grandfather’s funeral about 10 years ago. It’s nice sharing roots with other people.

Really it’s all about what you think marriage actually is. You can have a real partner in life, if that’s what you want. There’s really two paths that you can take when you get married: you and your wife against the world, or you and your wife against each other.

You and your wife against the world feels great and is way better than being single.

You and your wife against each other sucks and being single is so much better.

It takes two for it to work, so if you ever intend to marry, ask your fiance what they think marriage is before you say I do. If they think marriage is some happily ever after fairytale shit then wait longer or just stay single.

Is this a Lord of the Flies joke or a immortal snail joke?

Oh man. Yeah, I remember in middle school reading about WW1, WW2, Vietnam, the Civil War (USA) and thinking that thank god we’re smart enough to be past that.

Yes, also, COVID killed any hope I had left. I remember before the pandemic thinking that if aliens landed all of humanity’s petty bickering would end once we had something that united us all, and when COVID hit I thought “this is it, we have no choice but to come together as humans and face a challenge”…holy shit was I wrong. In the years since the pandemic I’ve had to actively try to forget most of what happened for my own sanity.

I like the “born on third base; think they hit a home run” analogy, too.

These guys look like they’re crawling at first glance. Took me a second to realize they were in a crouch position getting ready to sprint.

Yup…if you’re patient and wait for the heat to spread to the whole pan, the entire thing will be hot and stay hot for a long time…even the handle.

Haha…OK

A seasoned cast iron pan refers to how experienced the pan is. The seasoning isn’t additional flavoring, it’s the result of years of real use.

When cleaning a cast iron pan you want to scrub off any “seasoning” (definition 1) without removing any “seasoning” (definition 3).

sea·soned

/ˈsēz(ə)nd/

adjective

1. (of food) having had salt, pepper, herbs, or spices added.

   “seasoned flour”

2. (of wood) made suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content.

   “it was made from seasoned, untreated oak”

3. accustomed to particular conditions; experienced.

   “she is a seasoned traveler”

Why? There’s nothing on my pans except seasoning when I use them. I scrub any food bits off after each use. Why would I need soap? What would I want the soap to do?

I’m literally going to be bequeathing my cast iron pans to my children in my will.

My family uses our cast iron skillets daily. We have one that is almost exclusively for eggs, and one for meat.

Cast iron wants to be used often and if you really like cooking, will eventually become your go-to. But not everyone gets there; for a lot of people it is counterintuitive to have a pan that you only scrub any bits off and rinse with plain water. Actually, our egg pan only gets wiped out with paper towels because its so slippery now. I don’t think I’ve scrubbed it in months.

If you really want to use your pans:

1. Best: cast iron
2. Better: stainless steel or enameled
3. Good: high quality nonstick like HexClad
4. Never: cheap non-stick

We use the absolute hell out of our cast iron and our stainless steel. They all get scrubbed with a metal Chore-Boy scrubbee. Only the stainless gets soap.

Absolutely. That’s still kinda the point.

You 100% should not trust:

• An epidemiologist’s opinion on inflation
• A civil engineer’s opinion on viral spread
• An economist’s opinion on traffic flow

They’re just as guilty of this bullshit as everyone else.

Entropy is some god damned bullshit.

I had no idea how bad entropy was until I was an adult. I can’t be happy just relaxing because of the knowledge that everything around me is fucking falling apart and I have to spend every waking hour fighting the entropy around me. You can’t just live in a house or condo or apartment, it’s constantly crumbling.

Every single person now thinks they’re smarter than everyone else. No matter what their political leanings are, they’re all smarter than everyone else. Smarter than:

• Doctors
• Scientists
• Engineers
• Economists

It’s absolutely ridiculous and it started sometime around the 90s around when Ross Perot first ran for president and it just got worse with social media.

That’s the real problem right now. Everyone thinks they know more than people who spent decades studying and becoming experts in their field.