Yah thats part of the real answer here. The $6 rotisserie chicken at Costco is sold at a loss to bring in customers and the store makes profits off their other items.

The Costco rotisserie chicken is phenomenal, though. Tastes better than other chickens, too. I make it into chicken salads frequently, after the bf claims the wings

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A cheese or margarita pizza is a great litmus test for a pizzeria. Anyone can pile toppings on sauced bread, but it takes skill, a well honed recipe and practice to make a simple pie sing.

Pretty sure the Klingons fill the role of the Clans fairly well.

Death Stranding 2 and Alien?

Not actually all that bizarre, I think

Had no idea there was a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House.

In return, here’s a David Byrne cover of Crystal Water’s Gypsy Woman.

Neither really capture the original, but they’re interesting.

When I struggled to get up in my late teens and early twenties, I used a submarine dive horn as an alarm. That worked well, but my roommates were not a fan.

When I struggled to get up in my late teens and early twenties, I used a submarine dive horn as an alarm. That worked well, but my roommates were not a fan.

Edit: This is a fun post and I kinda ignored the game, my bad!

I use Fleet Foxes’ Sun Giant as an alarm, the deep inhale in the beginning gets me up instantly then the soft music is comforting as I stir awake. But might not be as useful for a teen who can’t wake up.

Streetlight Manifesto’s Everything Went Numb starts with horns and quickly gets upbeat and fast, great track that seems hard to sleep through.

Moxy Fruvus’ King of Spain has a good mix of upbeat, percussive vocals and a slightly embarassing Weird Al/comedy acapella vibes that might make it insufferable to sleep through.

I could easily see Blue Swede’s Hooked on a Feeling becoming a dreaded familiar wake up call. Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka…

Maybe set up a subwoofer under their bed and hit em with something like Aquagen’s Ihr Seid so Leise.

I also use a safety razor, a Merkur 34C with the same Feather blades. They’re the best blades around and thank you for posting and reminding me to order a new pack of em

Nana Visitor, Terry Farrell and Nicole de Boer.

I’d love to get one from Avery Brooks, but I don’t think he does that anymore.

Expiration dates are mostly bullshit, that said, I have seen very old pasta get a bloom on them and while it was perfectly edible, the texture was marred slightly.

Saw a neat tip today for poached salmon that had you place the salmon in the poaching liquid skin up, but only use enough liquid to cover the flesh, leaving the skin exposed, and place it under a low broiler to poach, so you get tender poached salmon with crisp skin.

Not a dish I make often and my partner abhors the skin (Monstrous, I know) but it seemed like a good tip!

I make some pretty damn good Tamil-style goat curry, or green Thai curry. If they’re afraid of flavor, I make boef bourguingon and fondant potatoes made with duck schmaltz.

If I really care about em, I make Peking or Canton-style duck, a true labor of love, and if they want something sweet, I make one hell of a pumpkin cheesecake with candied pecan topping and Graham cracker crust. Or creme brulee, especially if I have fresh fruit. That always impresses, despite being one of the easier things to make.

If you’re in the US, use your best judgement. Those labels are largely marketing or wildly conservative so you throw out perfectly good food and buy new stuff.

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It’s really a shame companies strive to reduce their payroll budgets instead of reducing the tedious burdens of the masses.

You’re sort of mixing metaphysical beliefs here.

The Ancient Greek concept of gods don’t align 1 to 1 with the Abrahamic concept of god, etc.

Each faith has a different concept of god, omnipotence, and what that means. It’s also changed over time. For example, the Romans saw wealth and prosperity as signs of piousness, as one would have to be blessed by the gods to possess so much. Christianity (ostensibly) argues the opposite.

Though, in short, god(s) demonstrates human traits because they’re abstractions from humans, the creatures that created them for various reasons throughout history and modernity. To get specific answers about each faith, you’d be better off speaking to spiritual leaders of those faiths.

I was just looking into this. I’ll parrot the other commenter and say the Samsung Galaxy line of a few years ago are solid gets and you can reliably get one for around that price point. I’ll add on Nothing phone’s previous models, too. Get em both from a reseller, not the brand store. Pixel devices have privacy focused 3rd party OS’s that are supposedly easy to use, but I haven’t looked into it.

Fully Linux phones are not quite there yet for the general marker or the price point you want.

If you’re outside the US or in the US and on Tmobile, you can look into Xiaomi or other Chinese devices, just double check that the radio bands actually work with your carrier. Service is better around cities, from what I saw when looking into an Oppo folding device then deciding to keep my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. I’m not sure how they work with hotspotting.

Double check the models as some have SD card slots, some do not, if that matters to you.

Find a drain pipe to shout into, that’s your best option.

Everything else is a nuisance to your fellow humans.

As much as I’m laughing at people spending more than $50 on a kettle or toaster or toothbrush or what have you and calling themselves clever shoppers, I think it’s worth spending on anything that goes between you and the ground, e.g. tires, shoes, bikes, etc.

Though I’m sure that adage has also been incorporated into modern pricing models and every damn thing is a fucking scam to manipulate you into thinking you’ve made a shrewd and balanced decision when you spend just a weeee bit more.

I despise every company with a fiery passion.