I hate the implication that these pillows actually exist somewhere out in the world.
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Cake day: November 18th, 2025
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2·14 days agoWe pick a different dish every year for our main.
That sounds actually awesome.
It was fantasticly coffee
I have no idea what that means, but it still sounds pretty good.
Try telling that to your mother who’s been handling the turkey for decades.
You get what you get and you either like it or you shut up and pretend that you do, because that’s your mum and she’s tired and hasn’t seen you in weeks and turkey is always a little dry, trust me I know, I’ve been doing this since before you were born, eat it with some cranberry sauce, have you seen your cous…
I can and have cooked turkey for myself.
I have "won" at turkey.
When I lived on my own and worked in the restaurant industry, I took it as a point of pride to figure out how to do it well.
I tried brines, but found that simple salting and leaving it on the bottom shelf overnight was easier and just as effective.
And that cutting it up and cooking each part via sous vide was a more reliable way to cook the meat to an even tenderness.
And that I could still brown the skin on a cast iron pan on high heat afterwards.
And then experiment with sauces and dressing and spices because that’s where a lot of the flavor and fun came from (for me).
And then decided it just wasn’t worth it. Not when I can cook a chicken, a duck, and a Cornish hen for half the effort.
If you want to go through the effort and expense of doing it because that makes it special to you and you enjoy it, more power to you.
But Thanksgiving seems more like ritual torture for the vast majority of people who do it because we collectively accepted that it’s “what you’re supposed to do”.
I support your right to love turkey at any level of doneness.
I should have specified that it’s not worth it to families (or grocery store employees) to collectively pressure everyone in the country to buy a turkey during the same one-week period.
Rather than all of that stress, I’d rather we collectively agree that it’s just not worth it.
Cook smaller poultry.
It’s easier to cook evenly and it usually tastes better anyway.
This is because the turkey is always so dry.
The stuff saved on my phone’s not for the faint of heart but… you do you, Ancient Terror.
although they can probably mitigate the effects by moving to one of their 500 houses that’s in a safe zone
That’s why they don’t care.
Climate change hits the poorest first and hardest (see: hurricanes in the Caribbean and SEA).
Billionaires can fly in, enjoy the sunshine, fly out and not get a drop of water on their skin.
And they’ll keep “outrunning” climate change on an individual level, and only feel it when it hurts their net worth*.
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At which point, they’ll just re-organize their investments to exploit clean energy subsidies and real estate wherever everyone is fleeing to when the coasts flood.
62·19 days agoThere is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning “ripping off” software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it’s easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won’t be “stolen”.
—Jim Warren, July 1976
And then they bring you steak with bees because the server’s new and she doesn’t quite understand the kitchen shorthand yet.
Hate when that happens.
1·20 days agoAll of your comments in my inbox are immature attacks.
Since you’re not even trying to engage in an argument with me, I’m blocking you.
Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US
Are you talking about this part? If so, what I was saying was that billionaires moved to either the US or the three countries I mentioned.
That means the billionaires from China also did not move to Taiwan.
You can also look at the wiki for Taiwan’s billionaires. Only one was born in China and not Taiwan (Hong Kong, specifically), and I’m pretty sure he moved to Taiwan way before the events we’re taking about in this thread.
That would be… so lame.
Even if Selfridge’s entire existence were a collective fever dream*, the “full quote” is the better quote.
I can’t imagine anyone who has worked in direct sales, at any amount of money, who genuinely believes “the customer is always right” is more correct of a saying without “in matters of taste”.
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If everyone born before 1925 was a fever dream, it changes literally nothing about the state of the world today.
why the fuck would you bring it up as a reason to think Ukraine isn’t losing?
I was bringing it up as a reason to think the case for Russia winning wasn’t a clear slam dunk.
Resorting to conscription to fill your ranks is not something you do when you’re “obviously winning”.
And before you make a claim about Ukraine resorting to conscription, too, at no point have I claimed Ukraine was “obviously winning” either.
This was the statement I was responding to:
It’s basically an island that all the wealthy capitalists ran away to after China imposed economic democracy.
Here was my response :
Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US, have moved to [Singapore (or Switzerland, or the UAE)], not to Taiwan.
Where was what I said dishonest or irrelevant?
Edit: reorganized for legibility
It’s possible, but he didn’t say that, and our argument continued without your help.
It is weird that you’re white-knighting so hard for him.
Why are you here?
Normal Democratic regime behavior. /s