Can’t be. No burlap-sack wallpaper.

But yeah, the general point is well taken. They’re so value-priced institutional. You could just imagine the bean counters in Salt Lake revising the approved architectural drawings and paint colors for Tithing Generation Facility, model 1988, rev. 3.

Dude is very possibly a boomer, or I guess Gen X, douchebag, but he’s not necessarily much past 60. He looks like hell because he just totaled his midlife crisis car in memeworthy fashion and had half a dozen airbags explode in his face.

Everybody else has cc already said, but the transmission fluid in particular is why it’s red.

I’ve had it pounded and pan fried. It was like a somewhat tougher, gamier chicken-fried steak or wienerschnitzel.

It was… okay. Wouldn’t turn it down, but also wouldn’t seek it out.

Yeah. I don’t think this is too hard to parse, nor is it likely to be some cogent political protest.

1. New flat surface attracts graffiti.
2. Within a short time, someone else breaks the glass to get access to the balls because they can’t or won’t use the app.

There could easily be an element of “fuck that app,” but the “reward” here is access to a basketball while at the park. I think Occam’s razor is an appropriate initial framework.

It also looks like the city was prudent and avoided a major investment of tax money.

Around here (Texas), it’s the cream cheese and smoked salmon that make a place call it a Philly Roll, and the avocado vs cucumber varies by restaurant. Avocado is pretty popular though, because anything that evokes Tex-Mex will find an audience.

So look, this SCOTUS is a piece of shit SCOTUS that subscribes to some bad judicial philosophies that are simultaneously ivory tower unrealistic and lazy and magically inure to the benefit of these currently in power. That last part is why the Republicans love them.

That said, that all came up feeling like they were honest mediators of a complex system, and that they’re trying to bring systemic thinking to a messy body of case law. Trump didn’t have the political capital in his first term to pick true loyalists and sycophants like some of the incompetent nonentities he appointed to lower courts. He had promised to pick from the Federalist Society’s list, so he did.

Because of that, Trump only gets what he wants the 80-ish percent of the time his (generally rather weak) legal staffs can come up with a halfway cogent argument that works with the reflexive and regressive “originalist” and “textualist” frameworks the conservative majority fancies themselves to be following logically. The other twenty percent, it’s just so obviously an unconstitutional power grab that they can’t even get this court to agree to it. Meanwhile of course, the administration has been doing whatever it wants, but that’s a slightly different issue.

This is also a grocery store Philly Roll. We’re already past simple fusion and into some Red Giant Helium-to-Oxygen shit. If my man wants some ranch, then so be it. He’s not denying himself an unsullied cross-cultural experience.

It’s old American military officer housing, rented out as low income housing for several decades, then after it accidentally lasted long enough to appeal to locals, it was refurbed into a kitschy/artsy commercial area to indulge in Americana through a Japanese lens.

Same, girl. Same.

Mmmm fried gravy!

Flashbacks to some of my first days on the Fediverse. God what a cluster OceanGate was.

Thank you I hate it.

Thank you. I’d have had to see some of them if i were to look up what they’re called.

The weirdest part of ren and stimpy for me was always the smash cuts to the grossout oil painting-like still frames.

Pure nightmare fuel.

I am a heathen, so usually NO-Key, but in culinary circles people who want to nod in the general direction of proper Italian will say something closer to knee-YO-key. Mid-word vowel sounds in American English (all English?) can be extremely variable, though

If you want a proper IPA transcription, this video seems about right.

No clue about Howard Johnson’s, but Howard Stern is a longstanding but steadily declining American shock jock and former TV host.

I would just about bet the texture is similar, but maybe more uniform. I think the goal is to make a goopy sweet and tart syrup reduction that’s vaguely reminiscent of what a proper fruit pie filling would be like, and then construct a cobbler the usual way.

Shout out to Star City, on either Apple TV or the high seas. It’s alt-history set after Gagarin, but his presence looms large, and we might get a flashback eventually. It also shows a similar Soviet tour for the fictional first woman on the moon.

“Why is he just separating families, like, is that what he likes to see? Does that make him, like, happy?”

-14-year-old daughter, Sarah

Yes, to the extent his misery allows him to feel “happy.” She’s a smart kid.

Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven’t gone up as much as DDR5

In absolute dollars, sure, but hoo boy those percentage jumps are ROUGH! I bought 16GB of no-name DDR4 for my aging desktop 15 months ago for USD 22. That same listing is now USD 100, and still pretty close to the cheapest retail I see, though that’s only with an admittedly superficial search of Amazon and PC Part Picker.