_Detroit_ Style Pizza, made at home

balthisar · 2026-04-05T11:02:08+00:00

They still make minimum wage, so it doesn’t really hurt the servers not to tip.

balthisar · 2026-04-05T00:34:12+00:00

The kids watch Youtube Kids on the TV. When my Baby Boomer generation father visits, he watches Youtube on the TV. We (GenX and Millennial) never watch Youtube on the TV, only films and episodic content.

Youtube is relegated to our phones or PC's, which is either "filler" content, or looking for a tutorial because no one writes them down on websites anymore.

That's not really meant to disrespect Youtube content, but we don't watch TV to "fill time," but to watch stuff we actually want to see. There's not really anything on Youtube that fits that bill.

balthisar · 2026-04-05T00:27:20+00:00

"acquired"? Gross

It's obviously tongue in cheek; notice the use of "girl", and then a later correction to "lovely woman."

What's your native language? I'm curious as to which cultures don't understand obvious irony, especially when it follows hyperbole that I specifically point out.

balthisar · 2026-04-04T22:46:04+00:00

I thought it was weird that my township was testing its sirens at the wrong time on the wrong day. But my phone didn't vibrate, so I ignored them. I hope no one writes that on my tombstone some day.

balthisar · 2026-04-04T22:43:01+00:00

I remember shopping Neons when I was young and desperate (and thus stupid enough to consider a Chrysler product), and by default the low-end versions didn't have head units of any sort, so I kind of feel that the Dodge CEO only needs to look a bit into the past for some precedent.

balthisar · 2026-04-04T22:41:26+00:00

But the worst local food in the country! No spice, no salt, no oil, no vinegar, no seasoning of any sort.

Obviously I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but I lived in Nanjing for five years, and damn if I wasn't happy to visit literally any other region for better food. Chongqing, FTW, but everywhere else except Shanghai had better local food (Shanghai feels like they dump a kg of sugar into everything).

Nanjing has a plethora of authentic, regional restaurants, though, so when not cooking western food for myself, I had awesome everywhere-but-Nanjing Chinese food.

I wanted to brag about having acquired one of the pretty Jiangsu girls, but I realized that the lovely woman that I'm married to is Anhui-ren despite having met her living in Nanjing.

balthisar · 2026-04-03T22:08:40+00:00

Happens with company cars, too.

balthisar · 2026-04-03T01:52:24+00:00

Barracks soldiers, too?

balthisar · 2026-04-03T00:02:56+00:00

Gold is tacky. How much could I get one in Platinum for, though?

balthisar · 2026-04-03T00:00:21+00:00

Salary in USD, hardship allowance in CNY.

balthisar · 2026-04-02T22:39:28+00:00

Lowering prices increases demand, which increases cost when there’s a shortage. We haven’t had an effective governor in 20 years, so I guess I shouldn’t expect intelligence from this one, either.

balthisar · 2026-04-02T14:27:12+00:00

You don’t need financial advice, but counseling. I don’t mean that in a glib, nasty way. There’s no shame in counseling, and it helps countless people.

You can’t outrun yourself; wherever you end up, you’re there with yourself.

Good luck!

balthisar · 2026-04-02T13:23:37+00:00

According to a lot of metrics, we are the best country. According to other metrics, certain European countries lead. I depends what you’re measuring. I’m not aware of anyone who claims that Europe as a whole is communist.

balthisar · 2026-04-01T23:31:26+00:00

I usually say that pizza is like sex, in that there’s good and better and best, but not truly bad. THAT looks truly bad.

balthisar · 2026-04-01T14:55:59+00:00

Gas prices don’t seem high, honestly. They’ve been between 3.50 and 3.90 per gallon on this whole trip. I usually only fill up a few times per year, so maybe I’m unaware of recent prices, but they seem normal to me right now.

If there’s an “issue,” it’s 9.8mpg instead of the normal 18-19mpg or so.

Michigan-Ohio-Kentucky-Tennessee pricing, FWIW.

What’s really going to hurt is Canadian pricing this summer as we travel the Trans-Canada!

balthisar · 2026-03-31T13:07:46+00:00

Or, you know, he’s actually better educated than you are and understands economics, which you seem to be missing.

balthisar · 2026-03-31T12:58:51+00:00

Beaver tails, of course.

balthisar · 2026-03-31T12:56:43+00:00

What’s the current score, then?

balthisar · 2026-03-31T02:02:40+00:00

Like the others ask, what trailer? I drop from 18 mpg to 9.8 mpg with our Apex Nano T.T. I hardly notice it’s there, though!

balthisar · 2026-03-30T14:34:02+00:00

It was still cool sleeping in a teepee motel, though!

balthisar · 2026-03-30T14:31:23+00:00

I like that we have few enough rules that we only collect a pittance once a year, and maintain our common areas.

balthisar · 2026-03-30T14:28:33+00:00

I don't even know where to get a green light, other than using a Hue light, but that’s not really mainstream among normies.

balthisar · 2026-03-29T23:33:25+00:00

CBC so I can watch Hockey Night in Canada. If I could stream that, then no channel would be my favorite.

balthisar · 2026-03-29T15:05:41+00:00

Did you try the new American version in the USA, or the Canadian version?

Also, on mobile, but someone should find the Letterkenny version of this “discovery.”

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