You apparently also must lead a humorless life.

You must lead an unhappy life.

The manifesto is worth a read. Kenji’s fundamental premise—with which I agree—is that a BLT is a tomato sandwich with bacon, rather than a bacon sandwich with salad. It is, however, the perfect sandwich in my book—crunchy, acidic, salty, smoky, fatty, creamy... A little of everything.

The best condiment on a tomato sandwich is bacon. See Kenji’s BLT manifesto here.

Fidelity’s benefits calculated is botched somehow. It produced results for me that were almost twice as much as SSI’s own benefits calculator. Do yourself a favor—just go to the SSI site and use theirs. It is based on your actual data.

Does it change your view of the situation now that the Dallas Morning News has reported that the car was driving away from the officer, that he used a fucking rifle, and that the video shows the car was not being driven in an aggressive manner?

You buried the lede with the revision. The DMN article also notes, in addition to the fact that the officer shot him with a rifle, that the car was moving away from the police officers when he shot and that video footage reveals that the driver was not “driving aggressively” as originally claimed.

I’m sorry, are you saying that we should trust the cop who shot a 15 year old kid as the only communicator of the truth of what happened? Great fucking idea. Give them guns and then make them the sole arbiters of whether force is lawfully used? I can’t imagine anything wrong with that scenario.

I just mentally backtrack from serving time for what you are calling “square” meals. But you should see my spreadsheet for a holiday meal where there’s a three appetizers/noshing foods, the main protein, a half dozen sides, a bunch of condiments, plus pies and homemade ice cream. I usually have scheduled prep for a…

+1 That’s the one I bought as well, believe it was recommended by a number of places, including CI. It seems big, but you can grind small stuff in a big mortar much better than you can grind big stuff in a small mortar. My recipe for pollo asado calls for pouring hot oil (infused with annatto) into a paste of…

It is interesting to see the DOE material and interesting to learn—as Pedantry points out—that the D in the first professional degrees is “doctor,” not “doctorate.” But it also illustrates the sort of silliness of ranking these things. The idea that a Masters in some of those fields is “less learned” than an MD is…

I think I need a citation for that one. They are all doctorates, so I’m having a hard time understanding the context in which one would have to decide—and who is entitled to decide—which degree is “more advanced” or “outranks” the others.

I think the title should refer to “graduate degrees,” not “masters degrees” since both medical professionals and lawyers typically get doctorates (MDs and JDs). In theory a doctorate is a more advanced degree than a masters and takes longer to achieve.

And yet Mr. Sessions wants to pare back the terms and enforcement of DOJ reform agreements with local PDs because they might affect morale. Welcome to the new world order.

You’re answering a completely different question. The question is “do I get 4x as much of topping [A] by ordering a 16" instead of an 8" pizza,” which relates to whether they hold the [A]/sq in density constant across sizes. It may be true that if you as for toppings [A] and [B], instead of just [A], that you will…

No, I clearly stated it was a hypothetical in order to illustrate why your comment clearly missed the basic statistical point I was making about differential representation. Of course that all seems too subtle for you to comprehend, notwithstanding that I actually stated as much (and even anticipated your comeback,…

Way to firmly establish yourself as a mouth-breather:

Oh good lord. There’s a lot of misinformation in the comments. The FCC has mandated Enhanced 9-1-1 for carriers since the 90s. That means that PSAPs equipped with the right tech (and many of them are) get your location (based on GPS/GLONAS, cell sector and cell triangulation if possible, or a combination of the…

Oh good god. You are the second person to make basically the same observation, which is “hey, people without headphones do this too.” But you—like JescoWhite before you—have completely missed the actual point. So, I’ll render it as an extreme. Assume 25% of the people in the store are headphone-wearers. My…

Like I said, based on my experience, as someone who does the family shopping every week, the percentage of aisle-blockers wearing headphones is greater than the percentage of grocery shoppers wearing headphones generally. So statistics tells me it does have to do with headphones, and my hypothesis—which doesn’t…