No, I think I’m with you with NBC. Knowing full well it’s a cliffhanger ending, I’m not sure I’ll be able to look away anyway.

Oh my. I hope that ends up being an interesting night rather than a tragic one. Then again, if y’all serving alcohol… might be very lucrative.

Interesting. I obviously knew most weren’t his but a few surprised me, like Apples and Bananas. Not about to rabbit hole down trying to find the history behind them, though!

As others say, premades are generally less healthy and carry more preservatives like sodium. I personally keep them on hand anyway in case I need something in a pinch, but even then I have a few easy meals if foods are stocked (like carbonara, which i make tonight!)

If you do go frozen for the wife, be sure to check what you’re getting. My step father has been having heart issues lately and I don’t think he realized his diet of mostly frozen dishes were putting him at like 300%+ daily intake of salt.

What perplexes me is, this guy came up with a ton of songs that are regularly on my kids rotation, but I’ve never, ever seen him credited.

I generally don’t trust .io for that particular reason. It’s the Steve Jobs of the world picking that for buzz; the Steve Wozniaks of the world would simply choose .org.

And…, to make sure my joke didn’t lead me to find it Woz had a fucking io website, I looked it up and his personal cite is fucking org. Lol

I’ve seen it once, although more recently met a Genevieve which feels even rarer and just as pretty.

Sleep got a lot better for me when I followed medical advice and avoided my bed for anything but sleep (and the other thing, lol). Your brain needs to not associate your bed with work, school, video games, etc., so it can work as a trigger. Ever since I did that, I sleep within minutes of laying down.

I’ve worked mostly as a data scientist / analyst but regex was being user to identify various things in the SQL database (which was viewed locally via R table). I forget the exact is cases, mostly remembering how complex some of it got… Especially after certain people were using GPT to build them.

And GPT like to make up extra bits not necessary, but my coworkers didn’t exactly have the knowledge to read regex, which lead to nobody really checking it. Now it just gives me anxiety, haha.

Please have Harris win so this guy can go to jail or whatever the fuck he’s so desperate to avoid.

Thanks, I now have insight into my own personal hell for when I die.

I had a friend move there a little after COVID because he was learning Spanish and his job permitted remote work. He’s a naive Missouri boy, makes decent wage, and makes for a perfect mark. Yet, the people were very kind to him, a landlady kept an eye on him and he enjoyed it a lot. It helps that he got to live in a fairly affluent neighborhood, though, and certainly aims to make mainlanders comfortable.

His main complaints were mostly comfort-- boy didn’t comprehend how bad plumbing was there and his giant Missourian shits did not jive well with dated plumbing. It’s typical complaints of anyone living outside their upbringing, though.

I don’t think he could have made it if his company didn’t illegally force him back to the US, though (they cited taxes, but they signed a contract and just guilted his easily conned ass). I have a native PR friend who survived Maria and the grit to do that, I don’t see many Americans able to handle 6 months without power.

When it just came out I had AI write fanfiction that no sane person would write, and other silly things. I liked that. That and trail cam photos of the Duolingo mascot.

I think my complaints are more with how capitalism treats new technology, though-- and not just lost jobs and the tool on the climate. Greed and competition is making it worse and worse as a technology that AI itself, within a years span, has been enshittified. There are use cases that it can do a world of good, though, just like everything else bad people ruin.

I’ve got these emails before, almost exactly like this. I have a PhD, but sure, I guess I’m qualified for this too.

It’s not really that hard to implement AI as far as I can tell, even if it does produce garbage results. Any CEO that thinks otherwise is getting bamboozled.

Not that I’m defending AI, boilerplate is still boilerplate and a crappier product is a crappier product. But they’ll take that trade off anyway which is why heads need to roll, lol

I don’t know if you can’t actually flesh out six families backstories if it’s a multi-season show (especially if it’s written well and not just six boring ass nuclear families.) Just not… you know, an idiotic “oh he’s friends with X from work.”

Modern Family did that mostly fine with multiple arcs, I think, although my fucked up head canon is that’s the sequel to Married With Children (even if it really doesn’t make sense, haha). In the Brady’s case, I’d make one of the characters awkwardly racist-- let’s say, Cindy, and have a laugh at her expense. Wait, actually that’s starting to sound like It’s Always Sunny so probably not!

I’m probably not a TV writer for a reason.

She’s a real pile of garbage BUT I do kind of agree on the risk of a token black character-- I could absolutely see that happening in a fucking Brady reboot. Now, if they got a diverse writing staff and actually wrote something interesting with the premise, that’d be kind of amazing but we’re talking a blatant boomer nostalgia bait show. You know that’s going to be terrible.

My mom still goes there but only picks things up when it’s the right “color” if the day, for the 50% off. The fact that she won’t get things that aren’t in sale at a thrift store should be enough evidence to know it’s not really thrifty.

I wanted to make a joke about my first search engine, MetaCrawler, and then found out it’s still around and still does search. Going down that rabbithole, it’s changed hands a ton and was only relaunched kinda recently at some point. Is it any good? Nah, probably not.

I guess I’ll just have to rely on my other aggregate search engine, SavvySearch (no, no the first search engine does not in fact still exist, much to my disappointment).

It’s like the intro text scroll to a Star Wars movie…