Words matter. Fascism is a very specific thing. Calling every authoritarian government fascism just dilutes the meaning of the word.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

Learner.

You mention that you have a BA without providing further details as if a BA automatically means your degree is unemployable.

What was your major?

Last Monday we made sausage and spinach strombolis. 1/2 hot & 1/2 mild Italian sausage, chopped frozen spinach (thawed and drained), mozzarella and parmigiana cheese. Brown the sausage, cool it, mix with the spinach and cheese, wrap individually into single-serving strombolis. Roughly three pounds of sausage makes 12 strombolis.

We’ve been eating them every day since Monday and had the last two yesterday.

I wouldn’t make it every day, but only because a recipe makes 12. However, I wanted to make it again after six days of eating them so I could eat them for another six days.

She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

She has the job because she’s on their side.

Well, it was yes.

What we’re all seeing now is that the Constitution ultimately depends on our willingness to agree to collectively abide by it.

It was always just a story, but while we all agreed to believe in it, it was a true story.

I managed to logic my parents out of one thing.

My parents actually asked me if it was possible that the vaccines contained 5G micro robots.

After taking a moment to maintain my composure and put on my “pretend I wasn’t asked a stupid question and answer seriously” face, I asked them to take out their phone.

When the phone was in their hand, I asked them to consider the fact that it must be charged every day to keep working, and that the vast majority of the size of the phone was taken up by the battery. Then I pointed out that a device small enough to be injected wouldn’t have enough power to still be on when it left the needle.

Luckily I didn’t have to go further than that.

I think that’s the only time I’ve had any success pounding logic into them. I think the problem is they can’t think of me as anything but a child, except where computers are concerned.

They paid for my computer science degree, and they know I’ve been working in IT for 32 years, and I answer all their computer questions. So, if the subject is computer-related, I’m their expert. Anything else and I’m just a deluded child.

I haven’t tried talking to my mom about the SSA COBOL AI rewrite yet. I’m not sure if she heard about it or if she did whether she understood enough to even be concerned enough to ask me.

I found this to be an interesting question.

I don’t think of myself in terms like that. I’m American (as in United States of). If people ask where I’m from, I’d say Pennsylvania.

If asked what I am, in terms of what countries my ancestors came from, I would typically just list my four grandparents. Since that encompasses four different European countries, it’s too complicated to think of myself as a hyphenated American. Maybe you’re in that situation.

Ultimately, the label is yours, so you get to decide. No one else’s opinion matters. It’s your identity. Just say what feels right to you.

Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?

That is the real question.

Sounds like Twice Baked Potatoes.

My mom used to make them. My wife does too.

To be extra fancy, use a piping bag with a star tip when you fill them.

Never got it. I never did much drinking there.

Back in the olden days, my order was:

Potato skins

Salad

Filet mignon

Deep Dish Apple Pie

It broke my damn heart when they stopped offering that dessert.

They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,

Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.

Yep.

Sometimes the answer you need is to the question you didn’t ask.

Edit: I’ll add that I’ve tried buying restaurant branded potato skins from the grocery store, and they were absolute crap, worse even than the frozen ones that the restaurant was microwaving.

I don’t think there’s going to be any way to buy what the restaurants purchases, unless you’re able to buy in bulk, or find someone who’s willing to sell you some that “fell off the truck”

My wife would kill me if we wasted any part of the potatoes.

We’ve done a couple things with the insides. Sometimes we pan fry the bits in butter with some sauteed onions to have at breakfast the next day.

Last time was the first time I used a melon baller.

When we saw the almost perfect potato balls, it was almost automatic to deep fry them, add a little salt, and just eat them like that.

You mentioned TGI Fridays.

When I was in college, we’d go to Fridays all the time, and the food was incredible.

Then, over the years, it turned to shit. We stopped going.

One day, we were craving the memory of what it was and decided to give it anorher chance.

When we sat down, the manager stopped by our table to thank us for coming in and informed us that they had changed their process. She said that in recent years all their food was being prepared off-site, frozen, and just microwaved to order at the restaurant. However, they recently went back to doing all the prep from scratch in their kitchen.

The food was incredible! Exactly what we remembered. We started going back.

Then COVID hit. The Fridays that we would go to shut down.

The last time we went to a Fridays, the restaurant was empty, the staff was disinterested, and the food was shit.

Where does Applebee’s get their potato skins?

I’ll give you instructions for making potato skins.

1. Since you referenced food from Applebee’s, first you’re going to need to wean yourself off whatever drugs you’re on so you can tell the difference between food and what Applebee’s sells.

2. wash and dry some potatoes.

3. pierce the potatoes several times, all around the outside with a fork.

4. bake the potatoes in a preheated 400° F. oven until you can easily insert your poking fork all the way to the center of the potato (probably about an hour, depending on the potatoes).

5. take the potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down.

6. slice each potato in half

7. scoop out the insides of each potato, leaving about a quarter inch thickness for the skins. Last time I did this, I used a melon baller and deep-fried all the potato balls.

8. deep fry the scooped out skins at about 375°. I prefer beef tallow for frying.

9. when they are golden brown, take them out and set them aside to drain.

10. cook bacon until crispy, then brake break it up into small pieces.

11. arrange all the fried potato skins on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

12. season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

13. fill each potato skin with shredded cheddar cheese, and sprinkle bacon pieces on top.

14. bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese melts.

Serve with sour cream and chopped scallions.

Scribbled on the whiteboard in the office.

jk

…ignoring that going from disabled to average would feel like gaining superpowers.

They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised

A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.

“You don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”