Not quite 100% yet - I still check in with R every week or two vs looking in on Lemmy daily.

Meta? You mean the holding company that owns that social media site I never use? Good luck getting it.

Bubba Ho Tep

OP specifically asked for a random line but everybody’s posting carefully selected lines.

The feeling you’re talking about pretty much always happens when you find a small community. Like when you move to a small town and life just somehow feels more personal. Those are still around, they just aren’t well known (but they never really were). I mean it’s like there are a lot of very large cities today but small towns are still there too.

MAGA hat

Just ask them to pass the potato salad.

Putting the Bang back in Big Bang!

I wonder if they could develop this into a tooth coating. Preventing biofilms would go a long way to preventing cavities.

Some background, as memes inevitably lack details:

During the Reagan administration an Islamist military group called Hezbollah took some Americans hostage in Lebanon. Oliver North was one of a group of Reagan staffers who came up with a plan to sell arms to Iran in exchange for help persuading Hezbollah to free these hostages. North’s contribution to the scheme was to use money from the arms sale to fund the Contras - an unrelated US-backed group of rebels in Nicaragua (freedom-fighters or terrorists, depending on your POV). It was all negotiated in secret because the President didn’t have the authority to conduct such deals.

When the plot leaked out there was a congressional investigation, in which many documents disappeared, and North was the fall guy. I remember him testifying at length on television, sitting stonefaced and ramrod straight in uniform, a caricature of the perfect soldier loyal to his chain of command. There were diagrams of the office showing the locations of desks, phones, the shredder, etc… An office underling named Fawn Hall was also interviewed extensively on TV because she had shredded/hidden documents and was also extremely hot.

North ended up doing prison time for his part in the whole thing. Hall pursued a brief modeling career, dated Rob Lowe, married the fomer manager of The Doors, and according to Wikipedia was last known to be working in a Hollywood bookstore.

Seeing a lot of flags in the No Kings protests was very satisfying. We have to take genuine patriotism back from MAGA faketriots.

I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance (I mean, that shows true dedicaton but holy crap dude), it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot of sense than somebody having to foot the bill for a big-ass server. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin on a project like that, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…

I’ve been making bread regularly for years. A 1-lb loaf costs me about 90 cents USD for ingredients and 15 cents to run the oven. “Nice” Safeway bakery loaves that roughly correspond to what I make cost anywhere from $3-$6, and the whole process takes me 10-15 minutes of actual effort (including cleanup). I don’t count rising and baking times because I’m doing other stuff.

Having also consumed a lot of packaged food (I’m not a crusader against it) I would say cooking meals from store-bought ingredients costs around half as much. Home-growing vegetables adds a huge amount more work. I did a garden for 2 years, many years ago - it was more of a fun project. On the scale I did it I never felt the hours of labor paid off dollar-wise. And what with mulch and other things gardening is something you can pretty much spend as much money on as you want lol.

Fun fact: if you go to the deli counter and get them to slice meat for you it’s about half the price of the store-brand deli packs on the shelves, which are the exact same meats, sliced and packaged by the same people. The only difference is you stand there waiting for a minute while they do it instead just grabbing it off the shelf. The high price of even marginal convenience.

I figure more like 15 cents to bake a loaf of bread (gas oven, 15 minutes preheat, 30 minutes bake). Maybe another 20 cents if I rise it in the oven. In cold weather running the oven is essentially free, since the heat stays in the house and the furnace runs correspondingly less. In warm weather I just leave the kitchen door open to let the excess heat out.

DIY bread is a real winner. Costs me about $1.05 to make a 1-lb loaf. That includes flour, yeast, salt, and gas to run the oven. An equivalent quality loaf of Safeway bakery bread costs anywhere from 3 to 6x that much. And it’s like 10-12 minutes of actual effort, including cleanup. I also make hoagy-style sandwich loaves, soft dinner rolls and other things. Same basic recipe, just a few minutes more effort to handle the dough differently. I’m totally addicted to fresh bread.

I have a theory - if you were recently disassembled and reassembled, were there any parts left over?

Just like Fusion power! What if AI and fusion invent each other at the same time?

Maybe that’s what the aliens have been trying to tell us ALL ALONG!!!

The first way sounds polite enough for me.