I acknowledge potatoes. I still like to boil them for a while, but I have certainly given them a head start in the microwave. Haven’t tried the popcorn.

I’ll trade your onions for dill relish, but yeah.

The only things a microwave should ever do are boil water or melt butter.

This. As an American, I firmly believe that American Exceptionalism is a terrible disease and that most if not all of our cultural ills stem from it and the confirmation bias that props it up.

After eating ketchup on hot dogs my entire life, I recently started leaving it off in favor of two kinds of mustard (yellow and course brown). I’m not saying I am now morally opposed to ketchup on hot dogs, but I don’t think I’m going back.

“Find out if your state is reducing tax revenue it could use to properly fund education by eliminating taxes on the items it is requiring you to buy because they are not in the budget like they’re supposed to”

You can say many things about Tool, but mundane is objectively inaccurate.

This is precisely wrong.

Heading to the cabin every Friday seems like an excellent problem to have. And yes, seems like a PHEV would be the ticket until battery prices come down a bit.

There was a dark period in my life when I managed a small restaurant. I am not naturally organized person so it was a bad fit and a bad idea. I had a small notebook on me at all times to relieve my anxiety that I was forgetting to do something important. I would brain dump at night to alleviate anxiety-induced…

Get yourself a Leaf coming off lease for like $10,000. It will be zippier than your Mazda, too.

The Rivian truck is exactly the EV I want. Long-range adventure vehicle ready to tow a camper. Crossing my fingers that Rivian follows through on their plans to build a charging network that covers outdoors destinations. Right now the fast charging is on on the interstate, but I want to see 150 kw+ charging in…

A work van might also have enough roof space to make solar panels worthwhile. If it’s going to be sitting at a job site for hours, it might as well be adding a few miles of range for free.

I don’t have the armor (didn’t come with it when my cousin handed it down to me in 198X, but I still have the core toy, and it’s spectacular.

No, in terms of budgetary priorities. That could buy a lot of health care, education, and infrastructure.

Moana is an excellent film no matter how old you are.

I used this setup with a an early-generation Palm device as my primary writing device for a few years. I loved it and I miss it.

My mom let me do this, but we had to go through the motions of me faking sick and her faking believing me. Taught me a lot of wrong lessons. Definitely would have been better if I could have been upfront about it.

I did this when I was trying to get started in a new field. I got a couple of semi-regular gigs doing freelance work and set it up legit with a basic website. Got my foot in the door for full-time work about a year later.

Is this a regional thing, or available nation-wide?