Yeah, the carnivore diet freaks me out too. I’ve heard it’s helped some folks with autoimmune diseases. I think its popularity grew as an extension of the popularity of the ketogenic diet, which I’ve heard came from finding ways to help cancer patients feel less bad from their chemo and/or radiation treatments. I’ve…

I’m kind of surprised Gojira didn’t have something to do with it. Seems right up their alley.

I just looked at his Wikipedia entry and found a section on “Terryology,” which he apparently calls his own language of logic. I still think there’s a mystical element to it.

This honestly sounds like he’s been reading a bunch of mysticism on his own and came up with his own system (“Flower of Life”). Since a lot of pop physics talk has drifted into simulation theories, and general relativity sees matter as energy, and some ways of thinking see both as information, he probably threw all tha…

How did this become a part of YWG (Young White Guy) culture? Also, while stating the obvious that it’s casual racism, does anyone else find that the sound of them saying it is also somehow really annoying? 

Sounds like a reasonable list of ingredients to me as long as you don’t add chocolate. And that’s just because I’m not a fan of chocolate in general. My dad was the son of pre-depression (possible pre-WW1) Austrian farmer-immigrants  and his cooking style was to use just about every spice but to vary the amount of…

When I was a workers’ comp adjuster, we’d occasionally have to call-out an employer for calling employees independent contractors because it was basically a premium-dodging scheme. Obviously there are numerous other issues with doing that, but insurance fraud is one of them.

As someone who is a Christian, I’ll gladly say this woman is wrong. The overwhelming majority of the OT is about the history of Israel with some promises and references that apply elsewhere. When you get to the NT, it goes global but talks about everyone other than the Jewish people (e.g. most of the US, among other…

I wonder what kind of response an (R) would get get if he/she just said something like:

Overall, I agree with you. That stated, I think he’s only approaching toothpicks with completely vertical entry and exit points and a hot dog in the standard “meat in a u of bread, seam on bottom” orientation, which is not so much arbitrary as it is un-creative. At the end of the day, he’s another politician with…

I’ve purchased games after hearing they had great soundtracks--they became gateways for me. I’ve never played a game just to listen to the music, but I have let the music lead me to a fun game.

If Wendy’s were to do an 8-piece 3-for $3 meal, they’d win the fast food wars.

Good to know. I’d go wiz without. I’d be tempted to say “wiz or without you,” but I get the sense a poorly-constructed U2 pun might cost me some teeth.

1. Taking something good and twisting it is the definition of evil. That’s why the 1-1 fire level works. It’s not that it’s the hardest level from an execution standpoint, it’s that it’s tainting the purity of what for most was a formative childhood experience—the SMB equivalent of “It” of Gacy making clown into a…

They call them palmiers or petits palmier on GBBO, so I figure that’s relatively authoritative. I think it’s just colloquial like “soda” vs. “pop” or the weird ones like “drinking fountain” vs. “bubbler.”

Nah. We were in a training session, she mentioned she was a foodie/food blogger, so during a break I had to ask. I was genuinely curious how/what someone who has a food blog thinks about this stuff. I didn’t agree but working where I work doesn’t feel much like a prison so I decided to let it go instead of settling…

Nope. I don’t agree with her on the connection thing myself. I just connected the two arguments and mentioned her bit to add dimension to the conversation.

A foodie at work talked about the connection as well, but also used orientation:

When I was a kid in the ‘90s, there was a commercial where a skydiver wrapped a slice of American cheese and a slice of bologna around a dill pickle spear as a snack. To this day, I’ll do that when I have all three in the house.

I remember some HUGE events in the Nu Metal world. Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other came out that year, as well as Korn’s “Issues,” both of which were really exciting. I think that’s when FarmClub.com launched a TV show as well. I remember the first episode of that was super stacked—Limp Bizkit premiered their video…