Nice, my old stomping grounds. I spent a lot of time surfing Monterey Bay and Big Sur as a kid.

I’m really curious where you had this, because as the article says, it’s not available commercially yet. They don’t have their factory up and running, they’ve only offered a proof of concept.

You’re right, I don’t know. I pretty regularly consume the best of the meat alternatives out there, and none of them really impress me as a substitute. I choose to use them not because they’re just as good, but because I believe it’s the direction we need to move. But none of them is amazing. And wild Pacific salmon…

Okay, speaking as someone who is already a snob about the texture and flavor of salmon (wild versus farmed, Pacific versus Atlantic, etc), this seems like the wrong place to be putting our energy in plant-based proteins. If there were, say, four solid plant-based generic protein options like red meat, poultry, fish…

See also: John Kricfalusi, Dan Schneider, etc. etc.

Can’t wait to get sandwiches in which the meat which got splashed with the blood of workers who can’t work the slicers properly has been only casually rinsed off so they don’t have to explain to the manager why they threw it out.

What if I don’t care that my penis is small, and I just like to go fast?

*Sees headline*

I would argue that dressing in drag does not make someone a Drag Queen.

Yes, of course, stupid mistake on my part. I was still thinking of K.I.T.T.

It was K.A.R.R., the Knight Industries Roving Robot, who was the prototype for K.I.T.T.

We are turning into Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. It’s not just the finger chopsticks, it’s our obsession with our own decadent comfort and immediate gratification while simultaneously not giving a shit about social graces.

I have, it’s part of his stand-up that I grew up with. My take on it was it was supposed to come off as a man who is just as intimidated by his wife as his children are, an over-the-top caricature rather than to be taken at face value.

In fairness to the rapist (?!), he didn’t invent that take on parenting. Culturally, the Mom was the authoritarian in the parenting unit, and the Dad had the option of being either bumbling good guy or the absentee breadwinner. He clearly thought the bumbling good guy was better fodder for standup. Knowing now what we…

I never bought into Tim Allen, but I sure did get on the Cosby bandwagon. I had all his stand-up on cassette, I was a huge fan of the show. One of the few times I bought in to the hype only to discover how wrong I was after the fact. I’m usually more suspicious and critical.

I mean, I’d take that if it didn’t come with all of the baggage it inevitably comes with. Homophobia, misogyny, substance abuse, mental illness, etc. etc. find fertile hiding ground in that sort of behavior. It’s healthier just to be open and genuine with your friends, without any protective affectations.

You have correctly assessed the situation, they are once again trying to take something good and weaponize it into something oppressive.

A buddy of mine who worked in military Intelligence told me he maintained one vice, a chosen one that was a manageable and permissible peccadillo, on the theory that if a routine clearance investigation didn’t turn up anything they would just dig deeper. It must have worked for him, he ran in some pretty rarified…

It’s tough, picking your role models. I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, my prime was during the ‘90s, and I think I didn’t realize until the 2000s how fucked up my idols were. Better to have good principles to stand for than to have heroes to emulate.

100% believable. I never got why people thought of him as “America’s Dad” just because he played a father on a popular show. Dude’s always been a skeeze.