Why put an egg and fresh scallions in your ramen? Why add mustard to the sandwich you got from a vending machine? Doctoring stuff up makes it slightly less convenient for a massive improvement in satisfaction. Instead of criticizing maybe you should try it out.

I like to get the cheese pizzas from Costco (the personal size) and add veggies and maybe some ham or salami. Broccoli mushroom and olive is pretty delish.

The fact that Illinois is helping them makes it less likely the Texas rangers will kidnap them and render them back to Texas.

Not if I’m an underpaid entry level “marketing” employee. Getting each item is a separate purchase order, and your boss will be on your ass to use the digital assets his boss paid for. Shit, the person who composed this image may not have a camera other than the one on their phone and the webcam on their laptop.

You might even say ACAB

Just remember to do Kegels until the bathwater is out before you leave the tub.

If you don’t care about making it look right it’s way cheaper to buy the component images and piece them together than it is to coordinate a photo shoot with a model who is willing to get in a bath and the crew who would be needed (not a lot, but probably a lighting tech and a makeup person at least, if one of them was also willing and able to do things like keep the bubbles looking right.)

A fair point. Kind of like an arsonist could make my next move really easy.

If you pick someone you know will be in a specific place and time, you can make their cause of death “spontaneous fission explosion” and get an AoE on a lot of other people.

I think you’re missing something.

If someone has (say) stomach cancer, and you make them live another decade rather than the six months they have, that’s a decade of cancer eating them from inside, of painful, expensive treatments to keep it at bay enough that they can function, a decade of misery. No one in their right mind would accept such a “gift.”

More reason that other countries developing smaller, regional cloud providers is a good thing. Part of the reason AWS thinks they can get away with this is that there are 2-3 other providers they compete with, and moving is onerous. If there were 200+ cloud providers, there would almost certainly be a standard set of tools and much better customer service.

Bees have always been comrades of the working man.

Ironically, Apple has some of the best odds of coming out of this reasonably healthy. “Apple Intelligence” follows the trend of most Apple services products, in that it is really intended to lock people into their ecosystem and keep buying iPhones. I’m just waiting for someone in the big 7 or whatever they’re called to publicly bow out of AI. I suspect the first one to do it might benefit a lot.

Not sure if this counts because it’s on the same album but on The Mountain Goats album Transcendental Youth starts with “Amy (AKA Spent Gladiator)” and the second to last track is “Spent Gladiator 2.”

Also, their album Jenny From Thebes is a sequel to their album All Hail West Texas.

Also also, there are a number of songs early in the discography that are about the same couple, culminating in the album Tallahassee.

Does Voyager work with it?

Don’t just accept that. Loudly mock people for using ai to make art instead of learning how to do it. Flood the customer service lines of every company using ai to tell them you are not only going to stop using their stuff but convince everyone you know to stop using their stuff as well. Take away the ease ai seems to promise.

I’m wondering if the Frost family involved in this scam has any relation to the Frost family who started Frost Bank in Texas.

There’s a decent Wikipedia entry on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones?wprov=sfti1

Tl;dr is they are a secret society at Yale comprised of legacy kids (I believe both presidents Bush were members, for example) that has initiation rites that are supposed to be humiliating which creates a bond. Apparently they have changed quite a bit from their heyday in the first half of the twentieth century.

I just rewatched Evangelion, and the dubbed dialogue actually made more sense idiomatically than the subtitles. I know there are cases where the translation is not great and the voice actors are doing 5th grade class play level overacting, but that’s not universal.

To be fair, there does seem to be a real tradition of “we get together and do things that are embarrassing and possibly illegal to have mutually assured destruction by way of blackmail.” Skull and Bones is supposedly based entirely on that framework.