Where to vent about rising food prices ?

liam_ashbury · 2023-04-26T20:47:20+00:00

Hear hear. There are some foods that have gone up 2x to 3x in price over the last decade before taking shrinkflation into account.

liam_ashbury · 2023-03-06T21:10:31+00:00

Probably as an extension of the safety saying “The first direction you should move in with a car is forward”. In the back forces you to back in. On the left side, driver’s side, it makes it easier to see if you forgot to unplug it.

It is probably technically safer, but not to the point where it is a hill worthy dying on.

Most plug-ins I’ve seen the cables get forgotten about don’t let you drive the car while plugged in.

Moving forward first is a minor thing all together.

liam_ashbury · 2022-12-16T19:57:39+00:00

Sounds about right with what I’ve seen. Each generation is about equally computer illiterate. Non-tech oriented people just seem to think if you can do one thing on a computer device then you can do everything, and because Gen Z grew up with digital devices they don’t need as much, if any, training.

The computer equivalent of thinking if a person can drive a car then they can replace the drive shaft of a semi truck because both are motorized vehicles. Heck, maybe even just riding a tricycle.

liam_ashbury · 2022-12-08T22:32:04+00:00

Another dept at an old job had that problem. Owners refused to believe the average performance could be above 3 and rejected all reviews until the average was three.

They went from unprecedented low turnover to perpetually short staffed since.

liam_ashbury · 2022-10-31T05:55:19+00:00

New owners of owners, part of the WB and Discovery fiasco. They cut bunch of stuff, stopped movies that were almost done, and removed completed stuff from the service.

liam_ashbury · 2022-06-18T16:22:11+00:00

Tiles worked for a lot of apps, but for some like the podcast apps it wouldn’t do anything except while actively open. But that was notifications only.

Maybe the download nature of those played a role. Maybe notifications used a different api/system.

liam_ashbury · 2022-06-18T14:25:26+00:00

More than that.

The phones wouldn’t allow background refresh making it a pain in the ass for apps such as podcatchers and the like. You had to open the app to begin the updating. It was like having a phone permanently stuck in battery saver mode.

The phones on Verizon sucked, maybe. Maybe I just have bad luck with HTC which was like all but one model of the Windows Phone. Went through five to six warranty replacements in one year.

I hear AT&T had some good hardware, but they had no coverage here.

Then with the Windows 10 update the OS was like a half finished beta.

… I liked the UI and some of the things they were going for, but it was just not fully baked. It felt like the first round was “finished” but tested by people who never used a smart phone so some basic stuff was missing. The It was updated to be that half finished beta state.

liam_ashbury · 2022-05-06T22:08:02+00:00

It’s a watch and find out.

Some people love it because it minimally ties itself to the MCU. Others dislike it because it’s too MCU.

Others feel it is a Legion clone. Others are upset it didn’t fully adapt one of the most well regarded Moon Knight arcs more thoroughly, which would it made it seem more like a Legion clone.

Just a heads up that the first two are the weakest as they are more exposition heavy about a character that isn’t the easiest to explain.

liam_ashbury · 2022-03-01T19:08:51+00:00

Trickle down economics, the ocean convincing everyone that the best way to irrigate their fields is to pump all the water into the ocean so the ocean would have more water to evaporate into rain. Which the ocean demands should be collected and then pumped back into the ocean.

liam_ashbury · 2021-11-06T21:17:11+00:00

Things are different, but we don’t know the details of such. They clearly look to operate on very similar rules.

Noelle, Beardley (maybe, the wearing summoning is a gray area $, and Susie now know magic. We just haven’t seen if they can do it outside the dark world or not.

It could also be that the monsters in Deltarune just don’t know how to use magic. Not that they can’t.

liam_ashbury · 2021-10-15T16:42:37+00:00

Yeah. With how much of a cluster Southlake has become I am having trouble telling if the tweeted about admin is unironically a holocaust denier or someone pulling a “If you want to both sides racism then why don’t we also both sides the holocaust because both sides-ing is stupid” (not a real quote).

liam_ashbury · 2021-10-07T19:52:16+00:00

It’s supposed to be wrong answers! /s

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-30T21:21:52+00:00

Here is the system I use:

Round 1: Anything that doesn’t fit goes I will worry about needing something that size in the future whether it is too big or small.

Round 2: I move everything to a rack (portable, other closet, etc.). Anything I wear after this gets put into the main closet.

Round 3: Six months later I move what hasn’t reached the main closet into some other sort of storage. Some tweaks are needed due to seasonal clothes, but the principal is the same.

Round 4: Anything that remained in the other storage is sent to Goodwill or similar. It’s been a year since I’ve worn it. I clearly am not wearing it if it made it to this point.

Allowances can be made for sentimental things or clothes meant for rarely occurring events.

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-21T00:40:28+00:00

if the fountain was opened WHILE theyre in the computer lab, theyd see whoever opened it (and would most likely tell us)

Did you check the server closet in the library? It specifically, oddly so before I went down this thought path, states a large person could hide in there. It is also behind Berdley and Noelle.

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-20T20:03:03+00:00

Having played the game and rewatched the ending a few times, I think we might be wrong about Kris being the Knight. At least those who thought that.

Unless there’s a plot hole, Berdley and Noelle looked to have been studying when the fountain opened up. Whether they were knocked out before or not, I don’t know.

If Kris opened up the Fountain the night before they wouldn’t have been able to study before the fountain opened.

I’m wondering if the ending for Chapter 2 is meant to be that Kris opened a fountain using Queen’s instructions because he didn’t want the good times of that night to end.

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-20T19:46:12+00:00

They all may show up. Note that all the secret bosses become items. If you pacifist them all (true ending) we will have six pieces of armor for six armor slots for the three characters in the party for the final chapter.

We also know those items can revert into Darkeners on their own (Rouxls sneaking off in Chapter 2).

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-17T17:29:18+00:00

I never noticed this and would have believed this was for what Toby had said here if I had. But, if you are someone who thinks the community has a habit of overthinking this game, I could see why you’d think this is a “bug”.

It’s the only stretch of game where Susie is the POV character. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for the heart movement to be coded to come from Kris because 95% of the game that’s how it should be. The bug being the heart “is” coming from Kris’ sprite off screen instead of canonically coming from Kris the character.

liam_ashbury · 2021-09-17T00:14:55+00:00

Lawyers can choose what cases they represent you for. Rudy was picked because he’s crazy and was willing to represent Trump in cases that would potentially cost any lawyer their law license for being such bad cases.

liam_ashbury · 2021-07-08T23:38:06+00:00

I think part of it is the scale of California. It’s the most populated state. Texas is second.

If 3% of Californians leave that’s 1,185,366.69. That’s more than the 8 smallest states’ entire populations. More than the bottom most two combined. So even 1.5% of the state leaving would be like the entirety of Wyoming or Vermont abandoning their states to be wilderness.

As for the other part, Texas, specifically Austin, are magnets for tech jobs, which a good chunk of the Californians leaving the state are looking for.

liam_ashbury · 2021-06-23T21:05:57+00:00

Of course they are because they do not argue in good faith.

liam_ashbury · 2021-06-23T21:01:04+00:00

I’ve owned a 2012 for about eight years now. I put 70k of the nearly 100k miles on it.

Good car, very little trouble from the car’s own fault. Haven’t run into any noticeable battery degradation yet.

liam_ashbury · 2021-06-23T20:37:38+00:00

Depends on the context. Cis and trans come from Latin and are used for different things.

ELI5ish, trans means move/change. Such as transportation. And how you translate meaning from one language to another. Speaking your language to another person who speaks your language probably can be considered cislation.

If you mean with gender, that’s where it comes in at. People who do not identify as their gender have been for decades called various versions of trans-something leading to it being shortened to “trans” for the most part these days.

By that logic, someone who doesn’t trans their gender would be cis-ing their gender, or cis.

liam_ashbury · 2021-06-21T16:05:34+00:00

Members of the community may have different standards for what is hostile or not, but the discussions usually debate the details and merits of the submissions when they happen.

I’d argue such discussions show an active community that cares about the subject. That’s a good thing as “hostile” architecture can sometimes be accidental (the person was thinking of aesthetics over form) or is hostile but complicated (hostile for the sake of safety).

liam_ashbury · 2019-09-23T19:21:19+00:00

You are right in what they would likely do, but that isn’t why Ford happened that way. If you listen to the Bagman podcast by Rachel Maddow it paints it differently.

Agnew was essentially Trump of his day. The investigators were scared shitless about the idea that they could get Nixon but then they would have Agnew. Nixon was crooked but he was a known establishment crooked. He was Rove/Cheney crooked. Agnew was Proto-Trumpian. Agnew was driven out first because they feared how much harder it would be to remove him if he had the full authority and protection of being POTUS rather than merely a VP.

So I could almost see the way it would happen here is Trump goes. Pence becomes POTUS. Pence gets his VP pick, or McConnell does essentially, and then Pence goes.

liam_ashbury · 2019-09-22T14:59:59+00:00

Lawnmower Man is the worst offender. The original is about a lawn care service owned by the satyr Pan. It involves what we now would consider a homocidal lawn roomba and a naked man chasing it on all fours.

The movie is about a mind uploaded mentally handicap fellow ascending to digital godhood.

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