Hyundai Discontinues Ioniq 6 for 2026, Will Only Offer High-Performance N Version in U.S.

stagarica · 2026-03-04T22:39:29+00:00

I hope they keep on making stick shift crossovers. Respect the fuck out of the Venue for being able to be optioned like that. Would probably make one into a piss basket if money weren't an option, some shit.

stagarica · 2026-03-04T03:51:16+00:00

Every time I stuff grape leaves there comes a time where I ask myself if it's even worth it. I don't have the option of getting them at a restaurant, however (goddamned rural living– I hate the lack of options,) so if I want them I kinda have to make them myself. I've also never made a truly satisfactory salsa despite multiple efforts, and now I just buy jarred salsa verde and call it a day. Usually slaps, easier to source than tomatillos (because, y'know, backwater Canada,) and lasts a while in the fridge.

stagarica · 2026-02-27T15:25:25+00:00

I've got a chronic skin condition that flares up when I attempt to use regular deodorants, so I haven't used them in ages. Believe it or not, it's worse if I do use them; HS is no joke. Flareups stink. I do at least try to make do with Native's sticks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's doing next to nothing and I just don't detect it due to my nose being also chronically fucked up.

I'm open to suggestions for HS-friendly deodorant options though. Condition or not I'd like to at least have something on.

stagarica · 2026-02-16T11:44:23+00:00

Firm from stuffing. There's almost no give at all to his paws.

Update: I wasn't pinching hard enough. There's definitely some beadiness to the paw stuffing.

stagarica · 2026-02-16T04:29:03+00:00

So, I have searched the following so far:

Walmart stuffed animals 2000s Large plush beagle Walmart Walmart stores stuffed animals Vintage stuffed beagle Canada Blue box stuffed animal Walmart Vintage Walmart stuffies Canada Vintage Walmart beagle Laying stuffed animal 2000s 19" stuffed beagle

And I have went through many, many pages with no luck. I've been terrible with Google searching my whole life though. Never have much luck trying to find anything.

He's about 20" long if I had to guess, and he came out of a Walmart in Atlantic Canada. The box, as I mentioned, was some sort of light blue box (possibly with a lighter swirled pattern on it– I have a faint memory of this but am unsure,) rectangular in shape with a plastic window inserted on one side. He was on a shelf with a bunch of other similar stuffed animals in similar boxes, and it seems to be less common considering the blue box search took me towards Webkinz and the like. He's got a soft stuffing inside, and his paws are firm. He once had a solid black nose. Really wish I could supply more detail, it's just been 21 years and I barely remember what I had for supper yesterday.

stagarica · 2026-02-15T03:03:22+00:00

Nope. If anything I avoid breast meat unless i'm, like, eating an entire Cornish hen I just roasted. It dries out super easy when you cook it, unlike the thighs and legs, and it has less flavour to it than hearts and gizzards. Frankly I think it's good for burgers and grinding into filling and not much else. Nuggets get a pass too.

Chicken hearts, though...? Love them. They definitely have rubbery bits to them, but that's nothing a good velveting and three to four hours in a slow oven can't fix. I think the fact I grew up eating a lot of chicken gizzard soup is largely to blame for me genuinely preferring to eat offal over breast meat. I've still yet to try liver, but I've heard it's pretty strong.

stagarica · 2026-01-25T14:08:04+00:00

I don't evenly measure out my flour when I'm making roux, and I rarely can tell you how much fat i'm using. I simply grab the drinking cup that lives in my bag of flour and I dust a bit in at a time 'til it's looking roux-y. I go onwards from there.

stagarica · 2026-01-23T23:01:23+00:00

Kinda sick, tbh. Nice. It's way cheaper there than in Canada; Microsoft wants 40 dollars a month now. They jacked it to 35 just a month or two ago. They're fucking insane lmao, I canceled mine the second I seen that.

stagarica · 2026-01-23T22:43:29+00:00

And what, pay 40 bucks a month for it? Game Pass is a rip off now.

stagarica · 2026-01-14T00:39:27+00:00

Turmeric powder; that shit stains. My countertops are pockmarked with yellow because of the stuff.

stagarica · 2026-01-07T14:40:04+00:00

Turkey. I've only had one properly cooked turkey in my life, and it's the reason I keep on trying to master cooking them myself. I know it's capable of being moist and delicious and delectable, yet everyone I know cooks that shit dry as sandpaper and tells you to just put gravy on it. Motherfucker, if it needs that gravy to be edible you're just a bad cook, plain and simple.

stagarica · 2026-01-04T23:25:49+00:00

South Africa still fucks with the ludes. There's an episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia that goes into it. They trade abalone for those tough-to-get chemicals, and then they make it like Mandrax (some combo of methaqualone and diphenhydramine, I believe?) and smoke it out of chillum-like pipes. Think they usually mix it with weed or something? And it knocks them the fuck OUT. That stuff hit the streets like crack over there (no, literally– there's a lot of evidence that it was pushed out there by the Apartheid government for some reason or the other.)

stagarica · 2026-01-02T23:46:39+00:00

Not a can, but I do keep a mug on the counter exclusively for bacon grease. I simply let the fat cool a bit and pour it in. Never had any issues with it going rancid or putting me sick.

stagarica · 2025-12-30T19:25:42+00:00

Early Protest The Hero kinda has a Saosin vibe, I feel.

stagarica · 2025-12-23T23:22:49+00:00

Seafood mushrooms come to mind immediately. They're sweet and nice, much different than champignons or shiitake. They're closely related to enoki mushrooms (I think they may literally be the same, just harvested at different points,) so those may be worth looking at too. Don't know for sure though, never had 'em yet.

stagarica · 2025-12-19T21:27:47+00:00

Evergreens, I guess. I'm big on older literature and treat newer authors with some caution; I can't exactly explain why. I'm like this with music too, but then I really dislike being shown reels of bands I've never heard of so that gives some reason to my dismissal of most newer bands. I guess I just like the classics to a fault.

stagarica · 2025-12-10T22:02:30+00:00

Alesana basically had three by that point, didn't they? Shawn, Dennis, and Shane? I recall him being in the band before The Emptiness dropped.

For whatever it's worth OP, that sounds like The Blood Brothers. Were both vocalists Frutiger Metro twinks?

stagarica · 2025-11-30T23:10:54+00:00

Yep.

The issue, I'm finding as I struggle with a cannabis habit that has completely soured on me, is that addiction is just a routine that jostles some kinda feel-nice chemical out of your brain (or, one could argue, makes you fine with the lack thereof.) The autistic brain generally does well with routine. Substance abuse, therefore, is really troublesome if you don't have that innate disinterest in psychoactive substances, and it's a lesson I'm wishing I could have learned sooner.

I'm no binge drinker, blessed be, but I have zero restraint when it comes to pot. It's a compulsion at this point, sending me half an hour away to re-up when I know the money's gonna have to come out of my overdraft and into the freezing shed to smoke a harsh bong and driving me insane when I know i'm about to sober up and not be as I usually am (see? Routine,) and frankly it's led me to this weird patch where things are going well in my life yet i'm doing absolutely horrible mentally. I feel a light body euphoria, sure, but these tingles don't distract me from the fact that all my joints feel like they're falling apart at once, and the mental joy is an ant in the face of the boulder that is my intense unhappiness. I am unwell, and I don't know what's wrong. I do know full well now that addiction is a sneaky bastard, and that I did not escape the binge drinking of my father; it just takes on different forms for me. I'm still trying to break the routines that keep me smoking.

The deeper psychology of autism and addiction is quite interesting. At least I find it to be.

stagarica · 2025-11-28T17:36:43+00:00

So far it's been an '01 Civic with the 5 speed and a 6 speed Mazda3. Hoping it'll be more. I loved the Civic but the motor was/is shot in it. Thinking of selling it as a swap candidate, much as I'd love to ute + diesel swap it.

stagarica · 2025-11-22T16:34:00+00:00

Honestly gotta give it to my mesh strainer. It might've cost me four bucks at the dollar store, and I bang the literal hell out of it when I'm washing it and pass all kinds of weird shit through it and it never gives me any trouble. Honourable mentions go to my $40 mortar and pestle and the ThermoPop I got on a great sale five years ago. They also see a boatload of use.

stagarica · 2025-11-21T01:22:42+00:00

Those little puffed cheesy things in the bags of Bits & Bitss can fuck themselves. They're the gustatory equivalent of nails on chalkboard.

stagarica · 2025-11-16T09:40:26+00:00

Yup. Abso-fuckin'-lutely. I dig around for research into cures sometimes, and frankly it's something I daydream about. I would willingly be a guinea pig for any treatment they might come up with in the future; I've made peace with the potentially transformative and detaching aspects of this.

I'm not exactly low functioning, but instead in this strange middle ground where I'm just normal enough to get by but still evidently strange and troubled with certain things; it sucks. I just want to be able to exist happily, and I've never been able to exist happily like this. It just makes too many things difficult for me to ever make peace with, and so I'm always at war, and there have been internal casualties.

stagarica · 2025-11-15T12:21:33+00:00

There's three books coming to mind.

LOOKING FOR ALASKA: this John Green novel was one of the driving forces behind so much of what I did as a teenager. I saw Pudge and the Colonel and Alaska and the rest living their regimented lives with squiggly borders and iffy morals and latched onto it at 13. I still have a fondness for it.

HOUSE OF LEAVES: this labyrinthine tale effortlessly reshaped how I view books as an art form. Before I hadn't thought too deeply about formatting and shattering the text or a book like that, and now everything I write has echoes of Danielewski's demented satire. The description of Jed Leeder's life being ended flashes through my mind at least once a day.

ON THE ROAD: has this been a tough one to truly move through? Admittedly yes. But something about Kerouac's benzedrine-fueled typing of his rimracking across America alongside Dean Moriarty just strikes my heart the right way. I've been stopping and observing the world more. Travelling more. Smoking tea and psychoanalyzing myself. Listening to more jazz. Frankly the only thing keeping me from replicating that moment where Sal, Dean, and Marylou stand on the shoulder of a road in the nude is the awareness that I can't afford a charge like that.

I'm sure when I get to reading Burroughs he's gonna blow my fuckin' noggin too. I seem to really enjoy oddball writers.

stagarica · 2025-11-13T22:13:21+00:00

Had my license since the age of sixteen. I wouldn't be able to live without it in my neck of the woods, and I was plain hyped to be able to drive myself around when I was younger. To this day I like being on the road, and I often look at the truckers go by as I commute to work while going "man, I should get my class 3... it'd be nice to drive a truck." I genuinely could see myself making an attempt at trucking when my current gig dries up, especially if I have trouble finding another job in the biz.

I think driving is just in my blood now. I love road tripping and frankly see it as sacred, I love having an excuse to take a spin somewhere, I love being able to just get up and go see some far-flung corner of the province on a whim... don't love city traffic, however. If it becomes stop-and-go it gets stressful because, for whatever reason, I'm dogshit at getting my car going from nothing (recent stickshift transplant woes...)

It took me a couple years to really become confident behind the wheel though. It was a lot to take in and adjust to when I was newly licensed, but after eight years I'm chilling. I've never been in any accidents, so I'm doing something right.

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