That’s how I thought “quay” was pronounced. Stupid me!

Crazy, but it’s almost like parenting can make the environment safer!

Lemmy likes to portray Roblox the same way the 10pm news portrayed the Internet when I was in my preteens and teen years, like it was the wild west, everyone was a predator, etc. I let my kids hop on. Their friends include me, their mom (who has an account for some reason), each other, and the kids who live across the street. They like to play the platformers, and they invite me sometimes and we play them.

They’ll get older and they’ll go explore the internet the same way I did. I spent my adolescence and teen years eventually in AIM chat rooms, then forums, and thn Skyping random people, and somehow didn’t become a terrorist, didn’t get predated. I also am of the school of thought that you need to learn things on your own, rather than have no exposure to things that could potentially be bad.

You know, I’ve had a similar thought to what you’ve offered here. It’s always been a tongue in cheek observation, but because cars are so safe, people literally take their safety for granted driving them. If cars were less safe, people might take the responsibility of driving more seriously.

Make it so, if you get in an accident, it chops a foot off. So not life ending, but certainly life altering. People drive knowing “I’ll be fine,” and then they look at a text, daydream, all that. If you knew, every time you got in the car, you risked losing a foot, you’d take that shit seriously.

I also am part of the “I downloaded jerboa first and it’s good enough” crew.

Yeah the only time I touch canned goods, including seltzer (as I touched on in another comment) is when they’re heavily discounted, and that’s usually something like eight cans for five bucks, so we stock the shelf in the basement a bit, because it’d be real dumb to pass it up at the store on Monday, only to have the world end on Wednesday.

Yeah, I honestly expected it to be worse. Yeah, the dude says Campbell’s for poor people. I’m not poor, but Campbell’s Chicken Noodle has always been a comfort food for when I’m sick. Putting it aside, it is supposed to be food for people on budgets, that’s the whole idea.

And then he goes on to say that their product is shit. I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing, if you’re saying it with the idea that maybe the product should get unucked, which I can’t tell from the limited passages and my near-midnight cognition.

The part about fucking Indians, obviously racist, but I’m also not sure what it means. Being from the US, it feels to me like Campbell’s outsourced production or some service to India and is reaping what they sowed, so to speak, with decline in product quality?

Perhaps it’s an awakening for Campbell’s soup, and with a shithead VP’s tirade comes a rebirth of cheap soup for the non-rich (which will be all of us soon enough).

I also think the canned goods market in general just isn’t what it was when it was first introduced. We had nonperishable goods in a can. We’ve replaced the need for the nonperishables with access to fresh foods (yes, I understand not for everyone), and canned goods have taken a hit. It doesn’t help that the price of anything in a can (looking at you seltzer) is straight up double what it used to be. I used to get four 12-packs of seltzer for 8.88. Now, three for 10 is the best deal there is. And that’s because you can’t really skimp and water down the quality of seltzer, because its about as basic as it gets, versus canned soups where you can apparently 3D print meat (paraphrasing) to save money.

Same. I’m definitely guilty of glossing over community names, but fortunately saw that community the one time it took to block.

Number one rule of weapons safety, treat every weapon as if it were NERF.

What’s crazy is my daughter and I were in the car and she was telling me that a chicken can only lay up to five eggs. And I was like that’s definitely not true, and she said that that’s what her teacher said. I said that it’s definitely not true, and maybe there’s a limit per “egg laying session,” if there is such a thing, but even knowing nothing about chickens, I know they lay more than five eggs.

She then went on to say maybe it was how many kittens a cat can have.

So this argument is a very real thing.

My daughter is 7, so I don’t expect her to have all the facts just yet.

The lice hate the powdered sugar.

Ha, I’ve probably destroyed a brain cell or two, but was never an ace guy. NOS? Different story, but that was after high school, so I was on the downhill anyway by that point.

I’m from Jersey and it’s weird here. I included the whole Irish thing because I assumed it came from there. They were south Irish, but presumably had similar tea habits.

My mother’s mom was from Ireland; Pop was a mutt with an absolutely fucked up upbeinging, so no idea! But my mom and her brother, as well as her 40 first cousins, all drink Lipton tea with milk. They just love basic tea with milk. No sugar, nothing, just black water with milk in it. I bring up the heritage because I assume it’s something they brought over, because outside of my family I don’t know many people who put milk in tea.

I’m a black coffee with a little stevia guy myself. Wife got me into stevia and it placebo’s away the heartburn I got from just drinking straight black.

Were you in middle/high school at the turn of the millennium? Because this didn’t just draw a mental picture for me, it brought back memories.

That’s one hundred percent what I thought I was going to see. We’ve been doing it as people, making movies with black people to appeal to black people, making ghost busters with all women to appeal to women. And I’m by no means suggesting that it is effective, but I’m also just some white guy and everything has been targeted at me. I just figured the ad would look more like you, and it’d make you more comfortable, or that would be the idea.

Milk is fascism. Kinda takes the bite out of the word “fascism.”

I went down to the beach and I saw Kiki, and she was all like awww, and I was like yeah, whatever!

Slapping that ™®© on it and raising the price.

Can’t brick my G500 and my Z5500s. Best in class, approaching decades old at this point.

But as with every company, profits over quality. Fuck em.

Yeah, I think the whole idea of the US wanting the chips produced inside its own borders makes sense in a vacuum. China fucks around (which, sure, is against their character), chips are safe.

Obviously we don’t live in a vacuum, and the US diplomatic mission is, at best, totally unreadable, and at worst, won’t help anyone but itself.

As with just about any other nation, the US is using what is ostensibly it’s only bargaining chip these days, their massive consumerism, knowing that Taiwan sells the majority of its chips to the US.

This play seems to be Trump’s only play: Demand something outrageous, with some thinly veiled threats overlaying the demand. Get rejected. Receive counterproposal that is far, far less than initial demand. Tout superiority.