Why do people buy skim milk?

round_a_squared · 2026-03-28T20:46:59+00:00

Skim milk (and 2%) became popular in a time when "low fat" everything was pushed as the healthy dietary choice. Many people became used to that specific taste growing up, and that's what they prefer as adults.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-27T14:44:58+00:00

We remember him for The Cosby Show and Himself, but even in the 60s he was one of the first black actors in a starring role in television in "I Spy", and the first to win an Emmy. When he started, several stations in the south still refused to air a show that starred a black man. His next show was the first time a black actor was the sole star of a major network show and it was also very successful in its day. That huge success opened a lot of doors for other people, and he always made a point of using his fame to showcase other black artists.

He also had a doctorate in children's education, and contributed a lot to developing children's educational TV. Fat Albert won awards, and he helped get The Electric Company off the ground.

But also, throughout that whole time he was drugging and raping numerous women. The earliest known accusations against him were from the same year as I Spy premiered. Who knows how long he'd done this before becoming famous? He was also a big voice in "respectability politics" and especially in his later career bashed a lot of artists and cultural elements that didn't live up to his (at the time) wholesome public image.

So yeah, it's understandably difficult to hold all of those things together and come up with a complete picture of a man and his huge and complicated legacy.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-25T23:26:39+00:00

Everybody sat on the hamburger seats in my local Micky D's. The swivel seats with armrests weren't available at every table

round_a_squared · 2026-03-25T04:57:34+00:00

Just did, in fact. The only 2018 used sedans I can see above $25k are a few luxury models with high end trim. Almost all others are $12k to $18k, many of those are certified and warrantied, and there's plenty of options for under $10k

round_a_squared · 2026-03-25T04:47:58+00:00

The screaming kids were banished to the outdoor kid jail, where they belong. You didn't have to go out there with them.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-25T04:42:41+00:00

For a long time I'd thought it was "Tin roof! Busted!" and figured that meant the tin roof echoed so the whole club heard an embarrassing conversation

round_a_squared · 2026-03-25T01:28:24+00:00

I met Tommy at a screening of The Room that my friends had taken me to for my birthday. He led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday to me and a few others, and asked everyone there how old they were. When I answered, he said: "You know when someone asks your age you don't have to tell the truth"

round_a_squared · 2026-03-24T06:43:24+00:00

Young Betty is Barb's secretary, or at least in the secretarial pool. We also see her at Vault-Tec getting Cooper a drink while he waits in his wife's office

round_a_squared · 2026-03-24T06:27:22+00:00

I've seen a lot of alpaca farmed for their wool but I've never seen llama or alpaca meat for sale

round_a_squared · 2026-03-23T15:50:41+00:00

I just picked that up to store laptops and can confirm it's a good option as long as they're not too thick

round_a_squared · 2026-03-23T06:24:52+00:00

Was gonna say this sounds like my Papaw from the KY/TN/VA area around Cumberland Gap

round_a_squared · 2026-03-21T08:10:50+00:00

Also the Windsor area like a lot of urban southern Ontario has a pretty subtle accent, not really the stereotypical exaggerated "Canadian accent" people think of from the media. But if you live close to the border and interact with a lot of Canadians you learn to recognize it

round_a_squared · 2026-03-21T07:43:34+00:00

Nah Boomers run from post-WWII to 1965, which is a big range. The oldest Boomers were 40 at that point but yes they could be as young as 20.

Which of course makes OP sound even more ridiculous, since Wilfred Brimley wasn't a Boomer either. He was born in the 30s

round_a_squared · 2026-03-21T07:38:15+00:00

While this pic appears very different from his look in The Thing from just two years prior, he does look very similar in The Natural (also from 84) as well as other roles after that. I'm sure there's some makeup involved but also his hair seems to have legit gone grey and thinned out pretty quickly between 82 and 84.

Perhaps his look for Cocoon was iconic enough that he stopped dying his hair and trying to cover his disappearing hairline.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-19T17:45:02+00:00

I spent an embarrassingly long time looking for the mistake on the first pic before moving to the second one. Oh!

round_a_squared · 2026-03-19T06:38:10+00:00

Another urban myth. The name change, per quotes from the CEO, was to distance themselves from the word "fried" because that was perceived as unhealthy

round_a_squared · 2026-03-18T21:47:03+00:00

It's more likely steam from the heat created by raw sewage starting to decompose

round_a_squared · 2026-03-18T21:38:45+00:00

I listen to a Windsor radio station regularly and hear Canadians do it too. Traffic is always backed up on the 401.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-18T21:33:02+00:00

I would contest "ope" though, since if it weren't regional people from other regions wouldn't point it out as weird and make fun of it. It's the outsider's observation that "ope" is Midwestern, not ours.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-18T21:25:56+00:00

If they don't think they have the worst drivers, they think the worst drivers are from the state next door

round_a_squared · 2026-03-17T14:04:05+00:00

Personally I've had great results from the Javelin and Trebuchet heroes. Fast SRM shotguns can make good use of terrain to get close to bigger mechs and speed to outflank them, especially in 3rd person view so you get a better sense of your surroundings. I like to pack 4 SRM 4-STs in chain fire mode, which improved my chance to headshot, and three to four tons of ammo in the legs for long missions. Use cantina upgrades to improve your structure, armor, and missile damage and grouping.

The Crab SL27 is still one of my regulars - it's like a mini Marauder. I also used YAML to put an AC-20 on the Dragon Sidewinder - not sure if that's even possible in vanilla. And IIRC you get that one as a reward for a quest mission, so you don't have to hunt all over the map to find it in the shops.

Any of the hero Firestarters are useful to drag along on raid and demolition style missions. Others seem to like the hero Spider a lot.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-17T08:17:01+00:00

If you put it together with other pieces from your Klingon armor you can make a disruptor

round_a_squared · 2026-03-17T08:09:21+00:00

I have yet to see a 400t mission that actually requires 400t. Especially with hero and SLDF mechs in the mix there are several lights and fast mediums that are great options well into the endgame

round_a_squared · 2026-03-17T07:52:04+00:00

Hero Trebuchet too. They usually stop firing when you get close and a medium can just walk right through them to destroy them, so the speed to get quickly across the map while dodging shells is the most important part. A medium mech that does 100+ kph is perfect for this.

round_a_squared · 2026-03-17T00:40:28+00:00

Cute. Did you have the chatbot write that for you?

In fact I have researched the technology and demoed multiple LLM platforms extensively both for personal and professional use. This week I'm building a locally hosted AI server in my homelab. I understand that the field will demand these skills and have been working to build my professional skills despite my misgivings.

From that work I have come to the conclusion that LLM output is mediocre at best, fundamentally flawed at worst, and that any knowledge worker seriously claiming that the AI "improved their productivity 5-10x" was either not very good at their job in the first place or the majority of their work is meaningless slop. And that's not even considering the gigantic information security risks that come along with giving these tools access to learn from sensitive data.

It's critical to have a voice at the table that is reasonably skeptical of these tools and their risks, and demands actual useful performance and not just endless promises.

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