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I think it’s okay, the Impossible stuff gets pretty close to what they’re imitating.

But I also think I’m not really their target audience… like I’m okay with a veggie burger tasting like veggie. I’m not really looking for something that tastes like beef or whatever. These products like the Impossible burger aren’t targeting vegetarian/vegan shoppers, maybe their niche are the meat eaters curious about trying to cut down on meat consumption which is okay.

There’s definitely an opportunity to lower or even eliminate all the factory farming and animal abuse if some sort of meat replacement manages to catch on in a big way. We’re not quite there yet but you never know how things will work out in the future.

The eggs are healthy, not sure what style eggs you’re used to but if you just want a different variation on that try something like scrambled eggs with kale/spinach + salad on whole wheat bread or tortilla or similar. I’d also toss in some tomato and red onion. Now that I’m thinking about it avocado would probably go well with that combo too.

A lot of people like hard boiled eggs for lunch, it’s not really my thing but you could do those and slice them up into a salad, wouldn’t take too long once you do it every day.

Superjail, and probably Mr Pickles too.

At least with Superjail the animation was so off the wall that it was worth a watch if that’s your thing. Mr Pickles was just so devoid of anything and the animation was terrible, I stopped watching it a few episodes in.

Not sure if that applies to smaller venues, or Ticketmaster’s other brands (TicketWeb). There are shows at a small venue I go to that are usually sold with Dice tickets, yet there is this one promoter whose own shows at the venue are always sold on TicketWeb. These are all small indie type shows, small venue… my hunch is that the promoter is just too lazy to switch to anything else.

It’s tough since you’re basically stuck with having to use whatever the promoter / venue is using for ticketing. I do hate it when shows are using Ticketmaster / TicketWeb, like why is that even necessary when other options exist?

In the NYC area I’ve seen shows use other ticketing systems like Dice, See Tickets, Eventbrite, KYD, etc. so other stuff does exist beyond the Ticketmaster monopoly. Personally I think Dice might be the best one, it’s nice to have the ability to let the venue resell your ticket via waitlist if you can’t go to the show for some reason - I think it only works for sold out events but still seems useful. Or the reverse, you can put yourself on a waitlist for a sold out show and maybe score a ticket if someone else decides they can’t go.

In the tutorial I read that sometimes it helps to enable secure boot

Just as an FYI, normally you would enable or disable secure boot before installing an OS, not after the fact. Otherwise you usually end up breaking the boot process.

Normally you should be able to hit Enter and then follow prompts to get into the BIOS. Maybe hit ENTER then just keep hitting whatever key you were using to get into the BIOS prior (F2, DEL, etc.).

If none of that works try powering off, removing the hard drive, then power back on & see if that lets you get back into the BIOS.

If that still doesn’t work I suspect the laptop is still stuck in power on mode, maybe the internal battery is keeping it on. Try to see if you can actually power it off for real e.g. hold the power button down for x seconds until you see lights go out. Try to keep an eye on how the laptop behaves when powered on vs lower power mode vs full power off.

Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

I think it was a bottle of Miller draft, dad let me have a sip when I was 15 or so. It tasted so gross I stayed away from beer and alcohol until well into my 20’s, I just couldn’t understand why people drank that stuff.

Eventually realized not all beer tastes the same haha.

Agreed with the other comment, the context does matter.

I’ve been featured in one my coworker’s dreams apparently. Not in a weird way, she’s told me and the dream was very funny. More like an inside/office type joke that must have snuck into her dream state LOL.

Yup just started seeding the 64-bit PC DVD .iso since I figured I’d need it sooner or later, the .torrent links are listed there in the Debian download page https://www.debian.org/distrib/

And of course plenty of other Linux distros have their own torrent links.

In the northeastern U.S. I’ve mostly learned to acknowledge them, don’t give anything, and move on with my life.

Not sure if it’s bad luck or what, but nearly every time I’ve tried to be nice and offer them something it always backfires. I’ll be passing by with some food and they’ll ask me for some, I give them some and then they tell me it wasn’t enough and to give them all the food I was carrying. Like WTF?

Another time I actually had some change on me so I gave him some and he said it wasn’t enough money and started following me, wanted me to go to an ATM so I can take out more money for him. I was forced to tell him to stop following me or I’d have to call the cops.

I have even more stories like that… going through those motions repeatedly it feels like the homeless have taught me not to give to the homeless. But hopefully your experiences have better outcomes.

Yikes, even without knowing for certain if someone was literally trying to kill me I’d still be avoiding their cooking after the first 1-2 near death experiences. After that I’d politely throw out anything edible coming from someone I’d suspect of being a terrible cook.

It’s hard to fathom how this guy ate tainted food from the same source four times, maybe he just really hates seeing food go to waste.

Right? I find it hard to believe the stripped down government (courtesy of DOGE) is going to spend much effort on mailing all those checks overseas, or doing international wire transfers, etc.

At the very least they’ll take their sweet time and it’ll be a few years after the trip that this “bond” money actually gets returned.

Yup, most times when a business gets set up for accepting credit card payments they need to set up a bank, merchant account, gateway, those things integrate with the CC companies. Often they aren’t even the same company so you’re kind of dealing with a bunch of different entities. I’m not sure if I missed any other middlemen.

The new thing is for the POS system / website / whatever to sell you the merchant account/gateway under their own systems so everything besides the bank and credit card companies are integrated through them (& they collect more money).

In my early 30’s still felt like I was in my late 20’s so never really gave it much thought. Maybe around 33-35 I actually started getting into a more 30’s mindset.

Anyway, don’t overthink it :)

In the U.S. with insurance you would have easily hit the deductible and out-of-pocket costs though that does mean you would have been billed a few thousand dollars easily (on top of the regular monthly insurance costs). Everyone has slightly different health insurance plans so the actual amount would be hard to predict for a hypothetical question.

One thing you got me thinking, I’m not too sure how often U.S. insurers would actually cover someone to literally stay 4 months in a hospital, maybe in rare extreme cases? Insurance companies typically only approve x amount of days/weeks in hospitals or rehabilitation facilities so once you use up those approved days the hospital has to figure out how to get you out or start billing you directly at a few thousand per day.

On a weekday would take 24-48 hours, work would probably start making calls if I just randomly stopped showing up. It would be odd enough if I didn’t show up for one day without calling/emailing anyone, 2 days would become concerning.

Might take longer over a weekend, depends whether I have any family trying to text or call me.

The sole does end up slightly more worn than the right.

You should check this out with a doctor, you could be developing leg length discrepancy. It might be very slight right now if you haven’t already noticed any obvious limp but if it’s developing you may be able to catch the source of the issue early on. Could be a hip issue, scoliosis, something else. I don’t want to make you worry about stuff, just something to check out.

I’m going through something similar right now, sort of started years ago with one of my shoes always wearing out before the other. And I always wore a backpack that would rub against the back of my shirts/jackets walking around. Never put two and two together, figured I just had a crappy backpack and crappy shoes but over time this morphed into a slight barely noticeable limp that turned into a more noticeable limp. Eventually that turned into a little bit of hip pain that kept getting worse. When I finally did see a doctor it turned out I developed leg length discrepancy due to osteoarthritis in my hip, apparently this hit me early on in life most people get something like that in their 60s-70s so I’m 20 years early. Going to get hip replacement surgery soon and get it fixed.

Hopefully you’ve got nothing like that but it’s good to check.

Only browse old.reddit when searching around for info I might no run into otherwise but haven’t needed to log in there in the last 1-2 years or so. Beyond that usage it’s just Lemmy for the normal browsing/posting/commenting.

Years back when I checked it out it was full of people into conspiracy theories and general bigotry. Interestingly they weren’t specifically right-wing at the time and in fact when the site was originally started it was named something like antiextremes as a reference to not wanting to be left or right leaning.

But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit. You’ll get an idea of how people in general are there by reading through the posts and comments there.