What the fuck is up with the beer laws there? I had to stop overnight due to car troubles and I had to walk for like 2 miles to find a gas station to get a six pack. I saw a walk in soda cooler at Sheetz.

I was able to get gas for near $1 after the 2008 financial collapse at a Rutter’s somewhere in eastern PA. It was amazing.

It’s not great when you have to wait for phone menus because you have a weird request that doesn’t fit neatly into the options, so you have to navigate multiple levels, then you finally connect to a human… and the call drops, putting you right back at square one.

I like self checkout and doing things online but I’d not consider these robo bullshit. I can navigate through those at the speed of my own brain, rather than being on the equivalent of an escort quest where the NPC is moving at the speed of smell.

In a world of automated robo-bullshit it’s amazing how far a little human customer service goes. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting older and less patient, have more and bigger problems to deal with, if the robo-bullshit is worse, or all three, but god damn have I gotten frustrated having to deal with some automated nonsense this year.

Who else would they be able to trust outside of the western world? China? I don’t disagree that the US should have honored their original agreement for nuclear disarmament, but Ukraine is between a rock and a hard place right now.

First off, all hail boognish. Ween rules.

That said I think it’s related to cooking. I used Google Ngram to search for it and found a “lost in the sauce” reference in an 1896 cookbook.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cassell_s_new_universal_cookery_book/mf7fq2HT8YwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="lost+in+the+sauce"&pg=PA105&printsec=frontcover

Not the colloquial usage, but the earliest usage I could find.

I’ve been itching for a reason to grab a Mac mini for a little project PC for a while. I’d throw Linux on it and have a little machine for homelab type stuff. NAS, Plex/Jellyfin, Pi Hole, self hosted Bitwarden, etc.

Can you run Linux on the Mac mini? Pretty decent hardware there for a NAS / media server / machine for docker experiments.

For that example, it should be in your home maintenance budget. That’s a major appliance. It’s going to fall into the same “major unexpected failure” category as anything else in your home.

I could eat Italian food, as in actual Italian or Americanized Italian food (not Olive Garden), for my entire life. S-tier cuisine.

CEC has little to do with this; it’s an app that’s installed not a button on the remote. The search button referenced can use copilot but it’s not necessary (ie you can use the default webOS search) nor is the button copilot branded.

CEC is awesome, it just doesn’t address the issue raised by putting copilot/other AI apps on the smart TV itself. For that you just disable the internet connection.

Edge is already installed for the half dozen times a year I need to specifically use a chromium-based browser.

I see no reason to use chrome over edge. I’m a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, I’m using edge.

I don’t know what else to tell you, the airlines tell you specifically not to check those items.

I fly monthly for work and I don’t check anything that isn’t replaceable, so basically just clothes and shoes. There is zero chance I would ever check my camera rig. If I did lose my bag, I can tell the airline exactly where it is from the tracking tag, and they can easily contact me because my contact info is found multiple places on and in the luggage.

This luggage is abandoned. The airline could not find the owner.

The airlines specifically tell you not to check valuables like that. While I agree yes, they should be held liable and try to see out the owners of lost luggage… what happens when they can’t? Trash or thrift resale, you pick. Personally I’m going with the latter.

So you think these items should just be thrown out if nobody claims them?

The scenario is not imaginary. His analogy sucks. The rest of the article isn’t anything remarkable either. Wow, the current digital media landscape is addictive, and addictive things are bad. Can you believe an industry would monetize addictive things? What an incredible observation, never heard that one before.

No, I’m not trolling. Why would I believe this person to know what they’re talking about in a subject I don’t understand well, when I know they’re wrong about a subject I do understand well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

I’ve heard the name before but I’m not super tuned into this area. The analogy just really struck out for me in the first two paragraphs, monumentally so. If he writes with this amount of conviction about something he clearly has no idea about, I’m not likely to trust anything else that he writes in the same article. It’s important to know your limitations.

I read the first paragraph of this article and I already think it sucks. If heroin was fully legalized, zero restrictions, we’d be much better off than the current situation we have right now with the war on drugs, fentanyl analogs, and xylazine. Full stop.

Second paragraph:

Heroin distribution and sales would quickly become a huge, multibillion-dollar industry. They would become a significant part of GDP, even though heroin harms and often kills those who consume it. Given the increasingly naked corruption of U.S. politics, the heroin industry would be able to purchase massive political influence, enough to block any attempts to limit the harm it does — the harm it knows it does, because heroin industry executives would surely be aware of the damage their products inflict.

This is already happening. Who is this author and why is he so ignorant of the past few decades of opiate problems in the US? There is not a significant fundamental difference between heroin and any other opiate/opioid. I say this as someone who has experimented with many types of them.

Based on this I’m not gonna read the rest of the article because he’s already demonstrated a head-up-ass perspective.