• 0 Posts
  • 69 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: December 12th, 2024

help-circle
  • I quote Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) from 30 Rock all the time when my kids say they are doing good when asked how they are.

    “Nah-uh. Superman does good, you’re doing well. You need to study your grammar, son.”

    The fact that it is Tracy’s first interaction with Toofer, the black Harvard educated English major on the TGS writing team and the one who says he is doing good in response to being asked how he was doing, just makes it all the more unexpected and funny.








  • I am here for this battle, I will die on this hill.

    Jalapeño, Pineapple and Pepperoni … Spicy, Sweet and Savory

    It is a great blend of flavors across the palate.

    I prefer to have the pineapples drained/squeezed a bit before adding to the pizza as it helps to caramelize the sugars in the pineapple. The oven has to boil off all that liquid before it can start doing so. Also all that excess pineapple juice will be drawn out first before boiling off which can make the dough soggy if you don’t allow it enough time in the oven.

    But also, who cares in the grand scheme of things… pizza is great without pineapple too.






  • Well… now IS the time to act.

    Lots of missed opportunity in the past to act. We can’t change that now, we can only try to do better going forward.

    I feel focusing the narrative on how we got into this emergency situation to cast blame on past non-action does little to affect any future change and demotivates others from trying.

    Can we focus on what we are going to do instead of pointing fingers?

    I know it feels good to cast blame, to get our anger out, and gives us the feeling we are doing something. It also weighs us down, directs our focus to the past when we need to be here now focused on what options are still available to us. We can analyze how we got here and what we should have done later.

    Now is all we have left.



  • Hey, I’ll do my best, here is my take;


    I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

    Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

    My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:

    We were getting back up after the fall of the USSR when everything fell apart and cratered. I don’t agree with what is going on, even though you didn’t ask I am going to tell you how I feel about all this anyway.

    Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!

    This has been going on for 8 years now and you have turned a blind eye to it. I want to watch Swan Lake again at the ballet (referencing Russia’s primary artistic exports historically is ballet, of which Swan Lake is one of the most popular/wellknown)

    Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!

    Not entirely sure what this is referring to, my best guess is juxtaposing story elements of Swan Lake to current political happenings in Russia, ie comparing Putin to a grandpa and lake may be ambiguous as a reference to Swan Lake and Putin’s lakeside palace.

    When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.

    When we, or future generations, fix this you are just going to pretend you had nothing to do with it, you’re a liar, like the lies they tell us about why we have the right to invade Crimea in Ukraine to justify our war with an innocent country. You know it is wrong but you keep lying to yourself about why.

    I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

    Repeat of the first verse; Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

    Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!

    Repeat of the second verse but changing “Fucking inhuman monsters” to “fucking monsters”

    Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”

    Repeat of the first line in the fourth verse but changing fear to tremble, again most likely referencing Putin and him willing to sacrifice the people of Russia in order to keep his extreme wealth and lake side palace.

    Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!

    Solovyov is a famous TV presenter in Russia, which I believe the speaker believes, or is inferring, is a government shill or otherwise bought off to only report what Putin wants him to report. So they are demanding Solovyov be removed from TV and to give the people back their freedom (swans dancing)


    Hope that helped if you were being sincere about needing assistence to understand it. I have ADHD myself and have several friends with both ADHD and learning disabilities (they are co-morbidities of ADHD) so I can understand the frustration.



  • Tech industry sucks for all the reasons you said. Your perspective is not unreasonable but capitalism and how it affects consumer products is unreasonable. Unfortunately we cant change that in any reasonable amount of time at the moment.

    Sticking a tablet to your fridge to make it a smart fridge does provide you the functionality you want from a smart fridge without the ads for all the reasons @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de has mentioned above.

    Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

    You may want the tech industry to be better and provide the product you want to have but that doesn’t mean they have to. They haven’t shown interest in making that type of product and I don’t think that will change anytime soon.

    You can be disappointed in that reality and continue your life without a smart fridge or accept Frankenfridge into your life and live out all your smart fridge fantasies. The choice is yours. Go wild… yolo!

    Edit: The dealbreaker for me with the tablet stuck to a fridge would having to constantly charge it. Having a charging cord laced across my fridge would bother me to no end and so would removing the tablet every few days to charge it then stick it back on the fridge. Neither of those options work for me.

    But I have never wanted a screen on my fridge so I am not bothered by my smartfridgeless existence. I don’t like too much technology around in my kitchen, or any room tbh, to begin with. I try to only buy appliances and kitchen stuff if it doesn’t have an “always on” light source like LEDs, digital clocks and such. That alone is next to impossible nowadays. How many kitchens have you been in recently that don’t have at least one always on light source on appliances or other gadgets?