Wow, $350 is budget?! I buy $80-$90 Androids on Amazon; I can’t imagine having a budget of $350 for a phone.

Are YOU ok? IS your keyboard BROKEN?

How about an option to GO bottomless there? Air it out on a hot summer day sans-culottes?

This was going to be my take. Like....Google doesn’t employ you. Cognizant does. And they whole “poor me we just got laid off” thing was from Google - not their actual EMPLOYER. They still have their positions with Cognizant, they’re not not working on Google projects anymore.

Lucky for me I figured out years ago that Chick Fil A serves dry overrated garbage so I never go there.

I bought a case for my phone on Temu for like $2, and if it’s scratched or whatever, that’s the point-the phone itself doesn’t get damaged.

I bet if he could, Dave Thomas would claw his way out of his niche and start stabbing executives with a spatula.  There’s no way anything like this would fly if he were still in charge.  

This would simplify the process of deciding where to eat.

You know why you do it? Because we have social norms. And social norms that encourage kindness and decency seem to be few and far between these days. “Please put your phone in airplane mode” is so innocuous, that it literally should offend nobody. It costs you nothing to simply be decent and not yap away on your phone…

honestly, I have more problems with baking good old fashioned “sliced bread” loaves than baguettes. One important step - put a cast iron skillet in the oven as it warms and when you slide your loaves in, add water so you get some steam going - makes a world of difference.

Just plain stubborn is a reason? Yeah, society will agree with that when these kids eventually get out in it. The world loves asshole adults.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you can’t say no/set boundaries about small things for a your kids when they’re little (or also ten years old!* in this case), how are you going to be able to say no/set boundaries for them when they’re teenagers and the stakes are much higher (life ending/permanently…

“When they’re really hungry, they will eat what you cook.”

They way my grandma managed it was eat it or don’t, she wasn’t the one who was going to be hungry.

I know that Lifehacker is no longer a sister site to The Takeout, but A.A. Newton did an awesome breakdown of multiple ways to cook tofu:

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Sorry, where did they say anyone was being tricked into eating anything?

I highly recommend getting a decent sharpening setup and watching some videos on proper technique. I own 50 - 75 knives, and out of the lot, there’s only one I can’t sharpen myself. It’ll save you a ton of money over the years...or just buy cheap shit; it tends to be sharp from the factory...a few runs through a…

It’s not wrong to microwave some items before going into the air fryer

I’ve always loved this dip.  My mom used to make it once in awhile growing up for the super bowl or other shit food eating festivities.  The only difference is she put all of the ingredients in a sauce pan on low, and cooked everything together.  I still prefer it that way to this day.