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I think it’s okay, the Impossible stuff gets pretty close to what they’re imitating.

But I also think I’m not really their target audience… like I’m okay with a veggie burger tasting like veggie. I’m not really looking for something that tastes like beef or whatever. These products like the Impossible burger aren’t targeting vegetarian/vegan shoppers, maybe their niche are the meat eaters curious about trying to cut down on meat consumption which is okay.

There’s definitely an opportunity to lower or even eliminate all the factory farming and animal abuse if some sort of meat replacement manages to catch on in a big way. We’re not quite there yet but you never know how things will work out in the future.

The eggs are healthy, not sure what style eggs you’re used to but if you just want a different variation on that try something like scrambled eggs with kale/spinach + salad on whole wheat bread or tortilla or similar. I’d also toss in some tomato and red onion. Now that I’m thinking about it avocado would probably go well with that combo too.

A lot of people like hard boiled eggs for lunch, it’s not really my thing but you could do those and slice them up into a salad, wouldn’t take too long once you do it every day.

Superjail, and probably Mr Pickles too.

At least with Superjail the animation was so off the wall that it was worth a watch if that’s your thing. Mr Pickles was just so devoid of anything and the animation was terrible, I stopped watching it a few episodes in.

Not sure if that applies to smaller venues, or Ticketmaster’s other brands (TicketWeb). There are shows at a small venue I go to that are usually sold with Dice tickets, yet there is this one promoter whose own shows at the venue are always sold on TicketWeb. These are all small indie type shows, small venue… my hunch is that the promoter is just too lazy to switch to anything else.

It’s tough since you’re basically stuck with having to use whatever the promoter / venue is using for ticketing. I do hate it when shows are using Ticketmaster / TicketWeb, like why is that even necessary when other options exist?

In the NYC area I’ve seen shows use other ticketing systems like Dice, See Tickets, Eventbrite, KYD, etc. so other stuff does exist beyond the Ticketmaster monopoly. Personally I think Dice might be the best one, it’s nice to have the ability to let the venue resell your ticket via waitlist if you can’t go to the show for some reason - I think it only works for sold out events but still seems useful. Or the reverse, you can put yourself on a waitlist for a sold out show and maybe score a ticket if someone else decides they can’t go.

Groceries for me personally has gone up, not everything but I’m seeing small price bumps slowly hit different products. Right now it looks like the cost of coffee has gone up at most of the supermarkets I go to. And other random foods I buy like noodles/sauces from asia are slightly more expensive.

At work the tariffs are even more noticeable. We import food products from Europe and Asia to wholesale to U.S. customers that eventually sell retail to their customers. Since pretty much all the import costs have gone up we’ve increased the wholesale prices our customers pay across the board. That does mean the customers ordering this stuff to sell retail on their end will have to increase the final retail costs of the product, or absorb some of the cost if they can.

In the tutorial I read that sometimes it helps to enable secure boot

Just as an FYI, normally you would enable or disable secure boot before installing an OS, not after the fact. Otherwise you usually end up breaking the boot process.

Normally you should be able to hit Enter and then follow prompts to get into the BIOS. Maybe hit ENTER then just keep hitting whatever key you were using to get into the BIOS prior (F2, DEL, etc.).

If none of that works try powering off, removing the hard drive, then power back on & see if that lets you get back into the BIOS.

If that still doesn’t work I suspect the laptop is still stuck in power on mode, maybe the internal battery is keeping it on. Try to see if you can actually power it off for real e.g. hold the power button down for x seconds until you see lights go out. Try to keep an eye on how the laptop behaves when powered on vs lower power mode vs full power off.

Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

With tips I generally do 20% across the board so a bartender would get 20% just like a waitress. And it’s always better to have a happy bartender :)

That said I’m also in the northeast U.S. where everything is expensive so it sort of makes sense that the tips aren’t going to be cheap. Maybe I’d rethink the tipping if I was somewhere else less expensive.

Curious, how were The Codefendants? I had wanted to see them when they were opening for NOFX during that run of shows last year but arrived late to the venue and missed their set.

I think it was a bottle of Miller draft, dad let me have a sip when I was 15 or so. It tasted so gross I stayed away from beer and alcohol until well into my 20’s, I just couldn’t understand why people drank that stuff.

Eventually realized not all beer tastes the same haha.

In the U.S. older people still get by fine without all this stuff. I have family that still has a landline, nothing else, so I guess maybe that’s #3 in your list. It does mean they physically have to go to places to get things done (e.g. physically go to a bank).

Older people don’t care as much about social life beyond visiting/seeing the people/relatives they’ve always been seeing. A smartphone isn’t required for that.

Agreed with the other comment, the context does matter.

I’ve been featured in one my coworker’s dreams apparently. Not in a weird way, she’s told me and the dream was very funny. More like an inside/office type joke that must have snuck into her dream state LOL.

Yup just started seeding the 64-bit PC DVD .iso since I figured I’d need it sooner or later, the .torrent links are listed there in the Debian download page https://www.debian.org/distrib/

And of course plenty of other Linux distros have their own torrent links.

I’ve returned back to an old job but I had left on good terms, and in fact my old boss ended up wanting to keep me around as a freelancer… eventually when my newer job wound down and I needed something more permanent it just kind of made sense to go back to the old job where the boss there still wanted me around anyway.

So when it is on good terms it’s easy. In your case it doesn’t sound like you left on great terms, and it is quite possible your former boss is going to give a bad recommendation on having the company allow you to come back. Personally I might consider that a burned bridge at this point, but hey anything can happen so all you can do is give it a go. My suggestion is to talk to your former boss and just accept blame for whatever they want to throw at you, and hope they at least give a neutral recommendation on you coming back to the company. In the end you’ll have a different boss anyway so coming in it’s a new start for you.

In the northeastern U.S. I’ve mostly learned to acknowledge them, don’t give anything, and move on with my life.

Not sure if it’s bad luck or what, but nearly every time I’ve tried to be nice and offer them something it always backfires. I’ll be passing by with some food and they’ll ask me for some, I give them some and then they tell me it wasn’t enough and to give them all the food I was carrying. Like WTF?

Another time I actually had some change on me so I gave him some and he said it wasn’t enough money and started following me, wanted me to go to an ATM so I can take out more money for him. I was forced to tell him to stop following me or I’d have to call the cops.

I have even more stories like that… going through those motions repeatedly it feels like the homeless have taught me not to give to the homeless. But hopefully your experiences have better outcomes.

In the U.S. at least around me people tend to use Facebook or the Nextdoor app for selling or getting rid of things locally. I don’t like either app but that seems to be what the general public is into at the moment.

Haven’t touched Ebay in ~ 15 years or so and don’t plan to go back to that mess. Last I used it PayPal decided to lock my account in the middle of doing a few buy/sells on Ebay causing both my Ebay rating to tank and losing PayPal in the process. Back then Ebay was so integrated with PayPal that it was hard to do anything there without PayPal so I happily ditched both of them.

Also a reminder that Ebay really is a shitty company from the top down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

Yikes, even without knowing for certain if someone was literally trying to kill me I’d still be avoiding their cooking after the first 1-2 near death experiences. After that I’d politely throw out anything edible coming from someone I’d suspect of being a terrible cook.

It’s hard to fathom how this guy ate tainted food from the same source four times, maybe he just really hates seeing food go to waste.

Right? I find it hard to believe the stripped down government (courtesy of DOGE) is going to spend much effort on mailing all those checks overseas, or doing international wire transfers, etc.

At the very least they’ll take their sweet time and it’ll be a few years after the trip that this “bond” money actually gets returned.

Eh, to be fair appletinis are pretty good. Orc dude likes his drinks on the sweeter side.