I’m really confused by you speaking parenthetically, and I can’t get past it.

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I’m talking more “can the chef come up with something vegetarian?”, and they have, say, something where they use mushroom as the protein, or construct an array of sides in a way that feels like an actual main.

There’s off menu and there’s off menu.

Yeah, my wife got into a Bragg’s kick a few years ago, and it was a bit much for me straight. But it’s GREAT with fizzy water.

Never heard of them before, but these look exactly like my kind of thing.

Technically, the funding of all US federal agencies has been legally authorized for over a century, formalized with the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, and fully vetted for compliance with the US Constitution by the US Supreme Court since at least Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe in 1971. So…

Huh, so should I see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? In my 30's and childless when it came out, it seemed pitched very much not at me.

Don’t forget that we’re securing middle east, especially Saudi Arabia! https://militarybases.com/overseas/saudi-arabia/

As I illustrated in my paraphrase of you, it’s the same dumb take as Fauxcused’s.

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

The Japanese fruit thing is about novelty and just the expense itself. The crazy high end stuff is meant almost exclusively as gifts, as fancy gifting is an important thing culturally.

EMP was the last super high-end place I thought was worth it.

Yeah, that was off. It existed back then, but I think it was firmly and almost exclusively in African American vernacular. Of course, we don’t know anything about Miguel’s background (right?) so who knows, but it definitely felt like he was talking about something sourced from Etsy rather than something legit from the…

Ha, yeah we face exactly the same level of existential threat as Israel, and definitely definitely need to undertake 38% of GLOBAL military spending to secure the “safety” of our 4% of the world’s population.

“I know: Same logical fallacy, but a different angle this time!” - Dr. Strangegun

“But I don’t have a chip on my shoulder about it.”

He stated the money was not wasted because of its make-work value in providing jobs/paying salaries.

And spending that same money bridges, solar installations, libraries would just be pissing it away with nary a mortgage paid or baby fed?

This one was just too sad for me. Felt so bad for the guy, I couldn’t laugh at him.