No, but I don’t use cloud at all, I have a system for doing manual local backups for all my machines. I also have two Windows machines for gaming (that I will be switching to Linux in October) and a Linux media server.

I subbed to salty caramel apple. Love the retro vibe.

I stay several generations behind on purpose now. For one thing, shit costs too much. My Mac is a 2020 Air I got from a friend when his dad died for $300. I can’t see myself getting rid of that anytime soon, as it replaced a 2012 model that is still going strong (and is the computer I take into the field for work).

I cannot stand the size of Apple’s phones, I had an 8 and then an SE and I tried then to move to a 12 and I absolutely hated everything about it, size, weight - the bullshit camera switching between lenses and turning my zoomed-in photos into bizarre cartoons.

I also far prefer the button, as I have to take hundreds of pictures a day for work and FaceID fails, either by not waking the phone up when I pull it from the holster or by just outright not recognizing me in the sweat and sunglasses, making me have to manually open it, shake it, enter the code, swearing the whole time.

I’m now on an SE2 and when I have to get rid of it I’ll go to SE3, but I don’t know what comes after that. Androids aren’t any better.

This exactly. At some threshold of worth, you should get taxed an amount based on your worth that will be big enough to force you to realize some gains in order to pay it.

This is an illustration of why it’s a problem in the first place.

Google “tetragammaton.”

We need a word that describes “questions that cannot be answered with a simple yes/no asked with the explicit intent to make a sound bite for stupid people.” Germans do this kind of thing all the time. Some compound word like “stupid dummy-faced shitheel question.” Studu-fashtion.

“Give me 240 Sterlings for a Pound,” you’d say. Now where was I… ah, yes. The important thing was that I had a kipper in my waistcoat, which was the fashion at the time…

Why do they call the guy “sir” instead of “dipshit?”

Came here specifically to say “Black” FUCK I hate that song.

DO DO DOOT DOO DO DO DOOOOOOO

I’m not exactly sure - far from it - but I have this theory that we might be witnessing the death throes of religion (via its secularization) even though it doesn’t quite look like it from the outside. All that repressed sexuality really fucks people up and when they get unmoored from it they go into a sort of psychic apoplexy, which is what we are witnessing. I’m grasping at straws here because goddamn is it weird rn.

The place I’m referring to is called Pita Jungle. Their baba is a bit healthier I think than the Serious Eats one, can’t find a super great picture of it, but this is it. My copycat is below, instructions are for a gas range but would be similar on a grill.

2 medium eggplants roasted
5 tbs tahini
3 tbs plain yogurt (not Greek)
5 roasted garlic cloves
Juice of 1 lemon
1/4 tsp cumin
1.5 tsp kosher salt, or more to taste
1 tbs Extra virgin olive oil

To roast the garlic, cut of the top of a head and wrap in foil. Pour some olive oil over the top, twist foil closed and roast in the oven, 45 minutes at 400F (no preheat). Poke eggplants in several places with a fork to vent. Roast eggplants by covering in foil and roasting over a gas flame set to Medium. Use the biggest burner, set at the halfway point - it has to burn the eggplant somewhat to get the smoke flavor. Roast the eggplant 7 minutes per quarter-turn until eggplants are soft (28 minutes total, 1 full rotation over the flames). Remove eggplants from foil/fire and allow to cool. Peel eggplant and put half in the blender, set aside the other half.

Along with half of the eggplant, add the rest of the ingredients to the blender and blend until thoroughly creamy. Add the second half of the eggplant and blend, but only slightly, leaving some texture.

Chill, serve with charred pita (char over a big burner on low for 1 minute per side), garnish with a drizzle of olive oil, sliced cucumber, tomato wedges and kalamata olives.

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We have a place here that has Baba that is unbelievable. I worked for years to perfect it and managed to make a perfect copycat. When it’s right, it’s just one of the best things.

Yes, when you make it back into the tunnels, the game considers it a finished loop and advances to the next day segment, which is sort of like a save point but you can’t save your progress during a loop and come back to it. When you make it back to your “save point” at the tunnel and the day advances, if you hit escape and exit the game, the game is all “Are you sure you want to do this? All unsaved progress will be lost” - as if there were some further action you could take, but there isn’t. It’s like they had a save function in at one point but decided against it, then never fixed the exit verbiage.

I had the same complaint about Deathloop. If I’m playing the single-player only version, then why do I have to restart the loop if I suddenly have to quit? And why does the game warn me that I will lose all unsaved progress? You literally can’t save!

Particularly if you’re a good person and you tend to internalize what others say about you. Lots of Internet Famous people are sociopaths who thrive on people trying to tear them down.

I feel like a well oiled reading machine.

Trump comes out with a Tweet calling out “Horse Face Marjorie” and she falls right back into line licking his boots in 3… 2… 1

This reality practically writes itself

Mounted phones […] are exempted

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