Right—not everything needs to be seasoned. For an analogy, I’m thinking of food that is served with white rice. Part of what makes it a good pairing is the contrast.

Entertaining! And new to me.  I think I’ve seen Wienerschnitzel places, maybe overseas, but the closest one to me now (I’m on the East Coast) is 700 miles away.

Some random twitter user commenting on food from the driver’s seat of his car. I know this isn’t uncommon, but it struck me as funny.

Nice.

I disagree!

Cool—I knew it had been mathematically modeled but not computer modeled. Thanks for the links.

LOL.  Good one.

In the days before computer-generated special effects were a thing... Pretty amazing.

I’ve seen a good strategy described on reddit and elsewhere: A place of business offers the influencer a coupon code for their followers to redeem at the business. If so many people use the code, then whatever the influencer originally paid for the goods or services is refunded.

Half-kidding.

“Is that food?  That doesn’t look like food.”

Same.

Maybe spoilers and splitters and so forth?

Good advice! I think I do variations on all of these, aside from wedding speeches.

Otherwise we would probably have a planet made mostly of diamond.

I have no answer, just an endorsement. I like to run, even if I’ll never be more than an average runner at best. As exercise, I appreciate that I can adjust the effect in two straightforward ways, speed or distance, and I do both.

I have a similar thought when people talk about snow tires—not everyone has the facilities to store snow tires when it’s not winter. (Maybe I’m missing something obvious, though, like tire places that offer inexpensive storage 9 months of the year?)

Wow, for me a RWD 230hp BMW would be worth hanging onto. (I’m in a 10-year-old AWD 3-series—much heavier, but oh well). The Acura looks good from some perspectives, but FWD and 200hp would be enough to make me think twice.

I lived in Raleigh for 20 years; one of its satellite towns, Cary, has long had the nickname “Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.”

Low six figures gets you about four years of this. Maybe low SEVEN-figures?