All/Top 6 hours.

Peanut butter and jelly on white bread.

When I need to eat but don’t want to put in any effort: half a cup of rice, half a cup of lentils, two cups stock (I use veggie stock, but you can use chicken, beef, etc.) Season with whatever you have in your spice drawer that looks good. Bring the water to a boil then lower the heat to low and let it simmer covered for 20-ish minutes. It’s bland but filling, lentils provide protein, it’s ready in less time than it would take to get delivery, and you don’t have to watch it. Rice and lentils will keep in your cabinet forever. You can get stock paste or boullion that keeps a long time too.

You can still have two beers, but now you’re not drinking on an empty stomach.

I am surprised by all the ADHD responses. I have ADHD and being able to see all the tabs I’m not using makes me anxious. I have to close them. If I really need them, I move them to a separate window and pretend it’s not there.

Every video that I ever saw with a like:dislike ratio like the one in frame 2 was being brigaded for reasons unrelated to video quality.

A few years ago I went on a date with someone I met on an app, and she mentioned that she really liked Jordan Peterson and thought he had a lot of good ideas. I got kind of mentally stunlocked because from what I know of him, she seemed like the kind of person he would hate. It turned out she had read his book, and I couldn’t talk intelligently about it because I obviously haven’t read it… She asked me why I seemed to dislike him and all I could say was “he seems like an ass on social media” and she said she didn’t follow any of his internet stuff.

The date did not get better from there. ^^;;

I wish I could recommend the character creator for Phantasy Star Online 2, because in theory it’s great, with the ability to mix and match clothing layers, recolor clothing, fine tune your body proportions, select from various customizable faces, etc. Most importantly, you can attach accessories to your character however you like and adjust their scaling and rotation in ways that let you repurpose them. For example, for a while I was using a head ornament, scaled down, rotated, and clipped into my face, as a pair of fangs, and it looked pretty convincing!

I can’t actually recommend it though because the process of actually collecting outfits and accessories is FOMO gacha hell. (Gacha items purchased with “AC,” the real-money only currency, can also be bought secondhand from other players, but you’ll pay an arm and a leg for them, and you can’t trade items bought with “SG” which is the premium currency that can also be earned in game.)

Yes, that too!

Did we watch the same movie? He didn’t kill him, and didn’t want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.

This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let’s be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.

I guess it’s not exactly the same, because it sort of is related, but I always get tripped up on “ancillary” because it is a totally inoffensive English word… except that the Latin word ancilla means “slave girl.”

This image would be funnier without the caption, I think.

Does Gemini edit images? If it does my guess would be that at some point someone asked Gemini to obscure the identities of the original posters instead of doing it themselves (see: they have the same profile pic but different handles, and the reply has the wrong handle in the “replying to” section). I bet this is also why the color is all fucked up.

Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually “burning” is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.

I use Youtube a lot. If I see a video from a creator I don’t know, or from one I don’t care that much about, and the thumbnail sets off my clickbait alarms, I just open the three dots menu and click “Don’t recommend channel.” I don’t think it’s a big problem, but it does annoy me and this significantly reduces the amount that I have to put up with it.

Sometimes if a thumbnail is borderline I’ll open it in a new tab so I can entertain it for a few minutes and see if they pay off. If they don’t, they get "don’t recommend"ed.

I’ve also done this for creators who put the “like and subscribe” ask before I’ve actually seen the content they’re asking me to subscribe to, if I’m in a particularly petty mood.

Do the githzerai reject violence? They have a whole order of psionic warriors called the zerth. I got the impression they think violence should be used responsibly when it is necessary to defend the freedom of sapient beings against tyranny—they certainly don’t regret the rebellion against the illithids, for example.

This “fact sheet” looks like Lockheed Martin marketing material. I feel like an enthusiast’s fact sheet would be more likely to focus on the plane itself instead of the programs and partnerships.

The machine seems to be called “Cashnado Alert” so I think you’re onto something about the touch screen mechanics.

Granddad was the Adult Pro Max in our family. Since he passed, Mom and I are both bad at adulting, so we just call each other to commiserate. :P

One time someone complimented my hair and I impulsively decided to use the old joke, “Thanks, I grew it myself!” and they didn’t laugh and the rest of the encounter was 10x more awkward than it needed to be. >_<

Also Superman almost always goes out of his way to make sure that nobody dies just because he’s fighting a giant robot. I don’t think these are good characters for this joke.