I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn’t show online

Honestly? I totally saw it

Eastern Colorado might as well be west Kansas. Both areas I mentioned are in eastern Colorado.

I drive through it a few times a year, living in Denver but have family in Minnesota/Wisconsin. As crazy as it sounds, at least you have small towns and corn fields along I-80. There are some areas in Colorado (stretches of I-76, US-287 between Hugo and Kit Carson) where there’s just… Nothing. Like, you’d be surprised at how much more empty a corn field can be, and it totally does weird you out how far you are from a simple gas station, let alone a familiar McDonald’s (neither of those towns have that; I believe you’d have to go from Limon to Lamar to get from one McDonald’s to the next on that road, which is almost 2 hours)

If you wanted to do pineapple and soy sauce together, I bet that marinating the pineapple in some soy sauce (probably the low sodium kind for this one) would work great!

Burgers and pizza (and omelettes) are the perfect “blank canvas” foods. You can be boring with few/no toppings, you can be traditional with the expected combinations, or you can flex your creativity with whatever else your heart comes up with.

Either way, it’s an ingredient with plenty of potential, but it needs to be countered somehow. Canadian bacon doesn’t do it for me, in pizza but pepperoni and jalapeno does! For burgers… I like the comment mentioning soy sauce, but if I had to think of something on my own… Hmmm, maybe grilled with grilled jalapeno, crispy onion, and some cream cheese? Basically a jalapeno popper burger with the pineapple shaking things up and the crispy onion adds some crunch?

Damn, now I’m hungry

Maybe that’s what he’ll do at the upcoming event? 🤷‍♂️

My “nanopremie” daughter needed a lot coming home from NICU: medications, refilling oxygen tanks, nebulizer, plus the usual bottles and poop tracking, plus we have a dog who can’t be forgotten, etc.

I felt like half my time was spent standing in the kitchen wondering what I should do next. I ended up going old school, printing a checklist, grouped with different colors for things at different times of day and a column for each day of the week. Once I had a list that worked for me, I had it printed on card stock and laminated it, so I could use a dry erase marker to reuse it and have a rolling log of things like baths and poops.

That said, don’t fret too much about tracking that stuff. Of all the things that have advanced infant survival, health, and wellness, apps are definitely not a major driver. If it helps your sanity, fine, but also don’t get too focused on things you think will help your sanity… If that makes sense.

I absolutely love everything Tom has done, and will almost certainly continue watching whatever he does next, if anything. I was so sad to see he was calling it quits when I just started getting into his channel, but after watching that video? He’s done plenty and given us so much.

Honestly, at this point I just want to see him enjoy life, whatever that looks like for him. If he starts a new series, great! If he starts a quiet life anew in South Dakota, I wish him well just the same.

What happened after that?

Maybe we can encourage a tariff on it to distract them. If that doesn’t make sense, we once waged war on drugs 🤷‍♂️

Especially in the last month or so I’ve been noticing how uninspiring technology has been. I used to love seeing whatever the gadget of the season was at Target while my mom shopped. Now it’s all… Phone cords, and um, printer ink cartridges. The same wireless speakers we bought years ago. Nothing about it is cool anymore!

It doesn’t matter if he considered the conditions because he can’t force them to stop exploiting their workforce

Sure he can. Or at least use it as a tool to help curb it. Anyone with the authority to exercise tariffs (in this case, that turned out to be the issue, but aside from that) can say that x industry in y country is exploiting their workers and products related to that industry is subject to whatever tariff they choose to implement. They may even use their powers (if only advocacy here) to help those affected. Thing is, Trump doesn’t give two shits about any of that, so if any progress is made in the areas in which you’re concerned it’s out of dumb luck and nothing else.

If Trump’s message is to be trusted, he wants to make deals and have more people buy from us, meaning global consumption might shift (assuming deals are made and all) but certainly not go down

for me it is a moral imperative that we stop mass consumption of goods produced by people in abhorrent conditions

Yes, I’d love to see a decrease in the cheap utter crap we are producing/consuming on this planet, and of course I’m all for humans being treated properly. But blanket tariffs with no apparent consideration of how people are generally treated in those countries (only how we are tariffed) won’t encourage anyone to solve that.

I would argue that mangoes aren’t a necessity to your diet, you can replace them with fruits that do grow in the US

It was a flipping example. There are plenty of fruits you can replace that with. And in the winter we have hardly any fresh produce and have to rely on, for example, Chile (which has its summer conveniently during our winter. Yay geography). IIRC a ton of the world’s garlic comes from China. Could we survive on our own locally-produced food alone? Perhaps. Would we have the same variety we enjoy today? Probably not. Year round? Almost certainly not. Can it all be done as quickly as these tariffs are implemented? Fuck to the no!

Our economy has progressed from manufacturing to the tertiary sector just as it moved on from mining and agriculture (primary sector) over a century ago.

Not only that, but the way these were implemented is such a big component that can’t be glossed over. We need food - that’s included too? Just how quickly do you think we can get mangoes growing in Wisconsin for us to eat here in America? And if you want to bring up the ridiculousness of that idea… Exactly.

His Bluesky is also a delight

We hate nepotism until President Trump tells us otherwise!

Someone on my local Nextdoor needed to know how much her tree was leaning. She took a photo and overlaid a protractor and it was actually pretty resourceful.

Then she asked people to check the angle. You see, the protector was aligned with the ground, so a perfectly upright tree would be 90°. The tree was at the 65° mark. Damn near everyone said it was a 65° lean, when it was really 25° off from the 90° it should be.

I can’t remember how it came up exactly, but she said she looked up if a tree should be 90° on Google, and Google said that would mean it’s fallen over. I reminded her that Google’s AI suggested glue to get cheese to stick to pizza and encouraged an ounce of critical thinking, asking where the tree would sit in her picture if it were at 90°. She went off about how math isn’t her strength, that I’m being condescending (ok, maybe a little but holy crap don’t take Google’s word for this stuff!) and I think eventually blocked me after a few attempts to explain that she did not have a 65° lean and a tree would be 90° from the ground if everything were perfect.

The future sucks, and it’s only going to get worse.

I was thinking an art museum/gallery/etc may be a great counter! But a museum would be most vetted.

Ohhhh that makes sense. I mean, I hate it but it makes sense.

The first-person statement (Melania and I) I saw was surprisingly typical of what you’d expect of someone in Washington.

I give it 48 hours before we see something from him and not one of his handlers pretending to be him.

Edit: I’ll take a likely-coke-fueled tweet from Don Jr. on Xitter

What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???