Damn they emancipated his proclamation

eBay phones ftw. I’ve never bought a brand new smart phone in my life

I was going to ignore it but then you did it again and so now I can’t help but be a pedantic ass: it’s spelled “college”. Collage is those art pieces made of scraps of other art/media

Because they did in 2023

I was taught that resume’s are experience-focused and cv’s are education-focused. Obviously there’s a lot of overlap but the latter is used more in academia, and by recent graduates with little work experience.

I call that a win

Op should apologize

I used to struggle with picking seasonings too, but here’s a strategy that I picked up from the internet somewhere:

1. Decide which basic flavor(s) you need
2. Pick an ingredient that will satisfy one or more of those flavors.

Here’s a baseline “basic flavors” that should always land you a flavorful meal:

• heat (eg peppers, wasabe)
• acid (fruit, vinegar)
• salt (table salt, soy sauce)
• fat (butter, bacon grease)

But there’s a few others that might come in handy, like:

• sweet (sugar, honey, fruit, many veggies)
• mint (thyme, rosemary, basil, black pepper)
• bitter (grapefruit, many veggies)
• savory (soy sauce, meats)
• whatever flavor alliums have (onions, garlic)

Of course, figuring out which basic flavors you need is still a skill to develop, but this two-stage process helped me a lot. Plus, if you’re trying to stay traditional, then the second stage where you pick the ingredient may already be chosen for you. Mexican food needs acid? Lime. Italian needs heat? Red pepper flakes. Asian needs salt? Soy sauce.

TL;DR: Don’t go straight to choosing ingredients you need, instead choose a basic flavor you need then pick ingredients that will satisfy that flavor.

I wish so bad I was better at telling stories. Not that I have many, but still

In my experience, only Brits get corrected, and really that’s just a running joke. “Oi cunt, Bo’oh uh wah’ah?”

Edit: actually that’s not true, we do it to our own too. Ahem, “pahk the cah in hahvahd yard”. See? Funny!

Luckily I’ve only had to use “find my device” whenever my phone decides to catch-up with the TV remotes under the couch cushions

I’ve used this site to do repairs on my last couple cars 👍

Half of my vocab gets stuck on the tip of my tongue, LLMs come in really handy for figuring out the word I’m looking for

And their second album. And their third…

Dude is staring in 4 different directions

I hear this all the time, but I’ve met way too many timid dogs and social cats to believe it. Nothing’s that simple

Instead of thinking that you are a shy person (or whatever trait they are judging), they might think you think you’re better than them or whatever.

I remember in high school overhearing a classmate say something about a classmate who happened to not be present that day. It was something along the lines of

“he doesn’t really talk much though, he seems stuck up”

Hearing that honestly rocked me, I’d never even considered that line of reasoning before. He wasn’t talking about me, but I was pretty shy too (well, socially anxious) - I’m almost certain he thought the same about me, or even said it aloud when I wasn’t around. I immediately thought “Does everyone else see me the same way? Do I appear stuck up and unapproachable?” Anyway, I haven’t seen that dude in years, don’t even remember his name, but I never forgot that line.

🎶 Alligator-lizards in the aaaaairrr, in the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaairrr 🎶

You know, whenever this theory is discussed, everybody seems to assume that this simulation that we’re allegedly living in is supposed to be an approximation of the parent universe, similar rules, but probably lower fidelity (basically the sims).

I think we should forget that assumption. It’s human centric. Who’s to say that the entity running the simulation even meant for it to be a simulation at all? Given our universe appears so much bigger than our pale blue dot from the inside, if our universe is a program running in a parent universe, I doubt that we - homo sapiens - are the point of it, or it’d be leaner, more focused. We’d be the center of the universe. But at every step of scientific discovery, we’ve found that that isn’t true. We’re just noise, sand on the beach, dust in the wind. If we live in a program, I doubt that the person running it is even aware of us specifically as a species, let alone as individuals. I doubt that they’re specifically aware of any particularly galaxy, in the same way a neural network developer isn’t aware of any specific weight in their model.

Granted, you could argue that that the rest observable universe is an illusion, a wilderness mural painted on the walls, designed by the simulation operator to make us think that we weren’t in a zoo. But that sounds a lot like “God put those dinosaur bones there to trick us”, so personally, I doubt that’s it.