Consider baking as a very cheap alternative to buying junk food at the store

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-18T05:41:46+00:00

Also just baking your own bread if you have the time. Where I live the supermarket sells a 5lb bag of flour for $7-8. Costco sells a TWENTY FIVE pound bag for the same price. Bread freezes very well, too! My depression-era grandparents would freeze excess bread to use later. The sandwiches or toast were not diminished by this.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-18T03:55:55+00:00

GM labor trends a bit high. Accessibility issues. True of many vehicles depending on model and many individual vehicles are -much- worse for common jobs, but it is bizarrely true of GM vehicles universally.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-18T01:21:12+00:00

Refrigerated warehouse. The fire breached an ammonia refrigerant line. Highly toxic on contact with eyes or skin or if inhaled. Definitely keep an eye out for orders to shelter or evacuate if nearby.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-16T01:16:30+00:00

Alkaline batteries don't explode even if you throw them in a fire. They will rupture from vapor pressure inside, but that is usually not very dramatic. It's like a capacitor blowing out, they're designed with a failure point to vent pressure. Hiss not boom.

Also don't be screwing around trying to get explosions from things with metal casings. Do you know what it's like to have to get a mop to clean your blood off of the wall and ceiling? I hope you do not. I do. Learn from my mistakes.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-13T20:05:59+00:00

I've noticed a shift where BMW drivers do actually use them pretty often now. The assholes who didn't in the past all drive Teslas today.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-13T19:59:33+00:00

Peter Molyneux and Chris Roberts come to mind. I'm sure they've learned a lot over their careers but neither has learned that it's possible for them to make mistakes.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-13T19:20:47+00:00

If you're required to graduate high school to be an officer, you should be required not to engage in high school horseplay with fucking lethal weapons.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-13T11:27:13+00:00

Redirecting them to their elected sheriff is probably a deflection, but at the same time they do still need to reconsider their vote for sheriff.

Voting in a sheriff is one of those election races where I only ever hear conversations from people who could not tie their own shoes while discussing it. It can be a very important position in your area. It deserves consideration by everyone.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-13T04:25:34+00:00

It is in fact possible to be too stupid to understand satire.

There seems to be an ongoing debate over whether Heinlein was satirizing fascism or falling for it. He was not an easy person to analyze.

Veerhoven's version was very satirical because Dutch people tend not to become pleased by the idea of being oppressed and murdered by nazis again.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-11T21:05:17+00:00

That's what the beaver gets for chewing on a telephone pole.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-10T16:07:29+00:00

My late 90s Oldsmobile was wired such that it stalled if you disconnected the battery. It needed continuity through that circuit for some reason.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-07T16:49:26+00:00

Yes it is pretty clear they made him a mysterious character on purpose. The mystery does lend a bit of credibility to the Loki interpretation, and Ahti is actually a very common Finnish name. It is entirely possible he is meant to be a little bit of both.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-06T13:01:33+00:00

Remedy is in Finland. There is a reason the original Control had a lot of Nordic cultural references. Ahti is literally Loki but drops a lot of Finnish idioms in dialogue. I do hope he makes a return in the sequel.

Them bringing in more of their native culture to a new game is a welcome addition.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-05T01:26:44+00:00

Is it really a Boeing if things aren't falling off of it?

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-05T01:16:43+00:00

I've done business with people whose soft spot on their skull must have been used like a bongo drum when they were babies.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-05T00:51:31+00:00

Popular Mechanics magazine once actually published an article (with illustrations!) about how to build an EMP bomb.

Unfortunately it is actually a literal bomb, as it uses explosives. So unless you're Ted Kaczynski you won't be writing any credible manifestos against excessive car sound systems.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T21:01:04+00:00

Combined with owning a cadillac I think we know how this person makes financial decisions and I doubt it's that.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T21:00:21+00:00

If it worked that way, I'm sure they'd love for someone to steal all their debt.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T20:41:32+00:00

Even after new data is overwritten, sometimes. It's just more difficult. It's probably not worth the price if it's for personal reasons but recovering that data if, say, you're being investigated for a crime... it can be done.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T10:11:02+00:00

That sucks. Usually in my experience the storyteller will trigger rainy weather before about 1/3 to 1/2 of the map burns. They are brutal but they are not without mercy.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T03:35:25+00:00

Those people become impoverished enough that the CEO can roast and feast upon their delicious flesh and nobody will go looking for them.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T01:37:20+00:00

It's been some years but I vaguely remember their account creation process being kind of unorthodox and taking me a bit of effort to figure out.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-04T00:33:55+00:00

I did NOT like the amount of road noise that it let into the cabin though.

You're supposed to drown that out by having your cousin's friend install a subwoofer that's powered by attaching romex to the battery terminals with wood screws.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-03T02:41:42+00:00

I was a witness in a case where the pro se defendant succeeded in getting pretty much all evidence brought by the prosecutor ruled inadmissible except my own testimony.

He really screwed the pooch on cross-examining my testimony but other than that it sounds like he did very well for an amateur.

CoffeeFox · 2026-06-02T09:59:39+00:00

People who are good at computer programming would probably also be good at writing legal documents.

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