the 3rd road; Be awkward by making random noises.

I found a solid metal strainer, not mesh for my sink. Holds up forever and much easier to clean. Even if you have a disposal, its not great to just dump everything down the drain [citation needed]. You especially want to catch things like small bones and forks.

The disposals seem common enough, a lot older/outdated homes don’t have them. I have no idea what they’re putting into new houses and renovations.

Never had an under the sink mess like you describe, maybe yours just had a small leak?

I always liked Qui-Gon.

A Jedi who was always true to his faith in the force and never fell into to the politics of the order.

Linux … you guys make money spying?

I suppose, but if you’re going for the American diner experience, you might as well go with a good one. Or just try all of them.

Are IHOP and Denny’s still good in Texas? Where I’m at, you’re better off with a box of your own pancake mix. I tend to find local dinners offer much better food.

RIP

Yes, let’s get the kid started with dark humor.

This is like one of those impossible “wife” questions with no good answer and no clean escape.

“Hey honey, if a clone of me ever replaced me, you’d be able to tell the difference right.”

“Of course dear”

“Well how”

“Umm, how about XYZ”

“What if they copied XYZ too”

“ZYX?”

“ZYX! Is that what you think of me!!”

I saw Jack, and I thought that’s pretty common, then realized I’ve never met a single Jack.

I also hope somewhere in the world there’s a gay couple named Jack and Dick.

Another interesting fact relating to the presidential elections

States are slowly making a pact, once enough of them are on board; fuck the electoral college. Whoever wins the national vote, gets the “states’” vote.

CPP Gray: https://youtu.be/tUX-frlNBJY

Its already a master piece to humans if sold by the right salesperson artist.

“This here represents the canvas of the human imagination and how it has dulled over the years”

Just send them all the alien movies where humans win, call them documentaries and watch them run.

I read somewhere that people have bumpersticks and stuff that say things like “I got the car before he went crazy” or “if I knew him then, I wouldn’t have bought it”

That’s definitely an valid option. It’s a 2007? That car definitely got it years in. If you can do it, get yourself something new (to you), and treat yourself to the modern comfort of cars. If you do a lot of highway travel, a good adaptive cruise control more than makes up for the stupid tablet controls.

Us internet folks just don’t want you getting overcharged by whatever mechanic you’re at. If I had to drop 7k for repairs for a 17 year old car, I’d be looking for a new car too.

I would defiantly take this somewhere for a second or third opinion before calling it dead.

Adding on to the Subaru info, on the new models the fuel economy is a much smaller white bar at the very top and can be changed to something else such as the much more useful “miles to empty”.

Yes the giant touch panel thing sucks, but at least the important stuff like wipers and lights are still physical. Climate control UI is rough, but not the worst I’ve seen. The climate auto mode does a good job. Generally I only have to set the temp which is a physical up/down button and the car will adjust vents and fan speed accordingly (defrost buttons are physical too).

I wound not mind ads if they met the following conditions (in no particular order).

• Actually vet them, no scams and viruses.
• minimal obstruction to what I’m there for. A bilboard on the side of the highway is fine, but when they put in the road, there’s a problem.
• Mix it up. YouTube playing the same ad 500 times in a row is obnoxious.
• No yelling/loud shit. Play your ad, don’t blow out my speakers.
• If on a silent website, video ads must be auto muted.
• if I’m on data or a metered network, don’t auto play ads and keep the total data usage to a minimum.
• Medical and health ads aren’t allowed. You can have PSAs about conditions and that there are treatment options, but it should your doctor researching and recommending specific medicine not a patient going in with some ad.

…we already are in one?

Yes, the “best purchase” questions are a bit frequent. However, where else can you go these days? Facebook? Amazon Reviews? AI article #28462? Paid YT influencers?

Forms like Lemmy are one the last places you can ask and get reasonable honest human answers for purchase advice. Reviews and troubleshooting are last 2 reasons I go to reddit, and even then reviews over there can be iffy on mainstream stuff.

I look forward to the day apple is forced to allow other browser engines to run on iOS.

Unfortunatly, they were smart. To the average lawmaker, Firefox, chrome, edge, etc all run on ios, so there’s no issue.