Do you think they read the Bible? (Or read any books at all?)

I find it “funny” that most of the world celebrates labor/workers day on May 1st to commemorate the Chicago protest to fight for 8-hour shifts and workers rights but in the US they don’t even talk about it.

Labor Day in the US was chosen kinda arbitrarily to fall between independence Day and Thanksgiving Day

I recently found this (it can be replicated with many values):

Last year my family doctor quit from the hospital to open her own practice but unfortunately she’s not in network with my insurance

I called the hospital to get an appointment (for a regular check up) with another doctor and none of their doctors 15 miles from me (2 big clinics and 2 small clinics) had any free appointments from May to December. The closest one was about 50 miles away with and the appointment and the waiting was 4 months

At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)

I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that “just works”

I disagree. Even if the leaders condemn the invasion of Venezuela all of them were against Maduro, specially since the 2018 “election”, their response is mild because they are kinda happy someone did the dirty work. Also the country is not connected to the global economy. Greenland is part of Denmark (EU), Mexico has a lot of foreign investment and Canada is friends with everyone, the response won’t be the same

My brother used AI to create “professional portraits” and they looked like this.

I mocked him and flooded his inbox with local portrait photographers until he changed his profile pic

nobody bought the ps5?

Key Figures & Estimates (Late 2025/Early 2026)

PlayStation 5 (PS5): ~84-86 million units (crossing 80M mark by late 2025).

Xbox Series X/S: ~34 million units (estimates vary, but well behind PS5).

Nintendo Switch (Original): ~154 million units (still selling well, nearing DS).

Nintendo Switch 2 (New): Starting sales with ~12.4 million units by late 2025 (estimated).

84 mil seems like a lot. PS games have always been discounted, contrary to Nintendo games

I have one Aldi I usually go and another 2 relatively close and one never had any issues with the meat or produce. The only thing is that there is a super market that gets very fresh produce so I prefer to get it from there, but there’s nothing wrong with Aldi, and the quality seems to be the same as three Walmart or the Kroger that are any a mile away

I agree with the limited inventory, it’s rare to complete a grocery trip at an Aldi, I have to go to another super market after but the low prices and experience makes it good enough to make it my primary market

But that non zero is extremely close to zero. But it’s making more fun about the fact that January 1st is very arbitrary cosmically. Even the solstice would make more sense

I’m not sure if it’s still the case but most of the population in Mexico is above 3000 feet so recipes had variations for sea level instead (the recipe was made for 1000msnm)

Sometimes it was confusing if you got something imported from the US or some brand that needed to be adjusted for high altitude

scotty doesn’t know don’t tell scotty

My father is a workaholic, even after retiring he found a couple of jigs to keep him busy almost full time. I tried to get him into videogames after retiring (he used to play a lot of SNES and Sega Genesis back n the day) and he didn’t find any joy in it

I hate working, I do it as a means to get money for traveling and for my hobbies and I spend a lot of time playing videogames

So I guess my father gets his dopamine directly from working and I work to get money to fund stuff that give me dopamine

20 years ago it was way easier to install Linux from a boot disk (like ubuntu or suse) than windows from scratch. Sometimes XP didn’t have the necessary drives and you’d need to find bootable drivers and load them from a floppy disk

It was even easier to install OSx86 on my laptop than windows vista from scratch in 2007

Maybe this is one of those thinking that 20 years ago was the 90s

They mock people that know facts and they are proud to be ignorant

I feel the same as you, my wife loves celery and puts it on everything but I feel like it subtracts flavors on most stuff. She eats raw celery all the time, I can maybe stand it with a lot of ranch next to some buffalo wings

Pinchi pendejo cabrón

My wife always gets excited when a book she loves is being adapted (right now Verity and project hail Mary) but I learned from many disappointments to not get excited. I still watch most of them but I don’t expect too much

Many years ago I made a library for Arduino to control an 8x8 LED matrix to display running text. It was not very clean but I like it enough to upload it to the forums (I couldn’t find anything similar). One week later it was complely different to what I uploaded and it was super efficient and a bunch of people added new functions and availability but my name still appeared as a main contributor. Of course I put it on my CV and showed it to my professors!

After 8 years my wife finally told me that she will leave her friend’s “family” account because she doesn’t want to support Spotify. I’ve been using YouTube music since it launched (as Google Play music) but I’m not sure that is any better (ethically)