In the US it’s cheap but unregulated and full of shit that’s terrible for you. Or you can pay an arm and a leg for stuff that’s better but still not up to the standards of most other countries. I learned this by getting a chemical burn in my eye from sunscreen… meant for my face.

My inlaws took in a Russian family a few years back. It was quite the culture shock for them to get a giant jar of pickled tomatoes and drink hole glasses of the brine. I like pickles and all, but that’s just too much 😆

Generally it’s fine to remove those but I would consider having it put back on if you live anywhere that gets snow. Reason being is that this plate protects undercarriage parts from excessive corrosion as a result of salt on the roads. So your car isn’t going to break down if you remove it, but if you plan to keep the car long-term, it can extend the life of those parts. As someone who works on my own car and has also had several 15+ year old vehicles, I can attest that this plate does indeed reduce corrosion in those areas.

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When I say this, my dog always does a double take. Like his head shoots straight up and he looks around excited, but he doesn’t freak out until I say it again and confirm that we are, in fact, going for a walk.

“hot dog sauce…”

Heinz ketchup once tried to rebrand their ketchup as “hot dog sauce” to trick the good people of Chicago into accidentally tainting their hotdogs with ketchup. We remain strong and stubborn as ever, but that was a close one. Sometimes I feel like the people of Chicago would be more open to adding licorice sauce to their hotdogs than ketchup.

What? Your butthole doesn’t look like an event horizon?

As a graphic designer, I’m currently on the fence. I love the AI tools that make tedious tasks significantly easier such as cutting out curly or frizzy hair. I also enjoy using generative AI as a tool to do things like replace an object in someone’s hand or seamlessly fill in the background where I removed something, but unfortunately those are the things that are potentially stealing from other artists and so is morally wrong to use. It is nice to just play around with it for the sake of generating ideas that you could build off of or to try to create a mock-up before execution. It’s sad really, because I would absolutely love to use the generative tools more but I just don’t see how I can at this point in time. Instead I currently use it for things that are private that I wouldn’t profit off of. For example, I made a puzzle for my father in law using a photo of his family’s farm and used generative AI to recreate the photo in the artistic style of his favorite puzzle artist. He was delighted to have it and it became a highly unique item he could enjoy. I never intend to sell it or even share it with anyone else. It’s for him only and I doubt his favorite puzzle artist will lose anything from it.

I genuinely don’t know how chipotle has survived this long when excellent family run Mexican restaurants are a dime a dozen all over the country and are super cheap to boot. I’ve tried it a few times and just never understood what people liked about it that you can’t get at your local Mexican joint.

The feeling is even better when they let you go because you no longer have a moral obligation to transition anything over to your coworkers. You can just fuck off and not feel bad. This typically highlights all the holes in management when they are ineffective at delegating your tasks and things get dropped. My husband witnessed this happen recently. They let an employee go nearly a year ago, then a client started sending emails wondering what was happening to their project and why there hadn’t been communication.

Just dial down the middle! C-A-L-L-A-T-T

When I recently went off my medication, I would have random days where I was incredibly depressed as my body was trying to return to normal. The first day we moved into our house I started crying because I missed my dog who was staying with my parents temporarily. Without saying anything, my husband ran to the store and got me a pint of Jenny’s darkest Chocolate ice cream. And we ate the whole pint together. No judgement, just love.

“Where we all goin?” - Dog probably

My husband works at an architecture firm. They exclusively use #2 in 3 different colors. My husband has gotten in the habit of putting a few in his pocket during the day while he works and emptying his pockets when he gets home. We have WAY TOO MANY PENS!!! I’ve been bagging them up and giving them away!! They are nice pens tho… very good for drafting/drawing/etc. I just don’t need 300 of them. Beware that the blue ones tend to explode the most.

I mean it this time

You could make the same argument about any pet. There are behaviors that need to be controlled for any pet you decide to keep in your house. If you’re brave enough to adopt a young one, you’ll almost definitely experience those things as you train them. A well trained pet won’t exhibit those behaviors, but it takes hard work to get there.

I second the freezer meals! What I like to do is make things that I can make a very large batch of to make food prep easier when I want a quick healthy meal. My favorites to make are chicken pot pie, pesto, kale pesto, pulled pork (not healthy), and falafel. All of these things take lots of time and or ingredients. So when you make them, you make a big massive batch and then divide them into meal portions for freezing. This way all I have to do is grab 1 portion of say pot pie, thaw it out in hot water or in the fridge the day before, pop it in the oven with some pie crust or crescent rolls on top for 25 min and BAM, I’m eating stuff from my garden in the middle of winter with little to no effort!

I LOVE this sweet potato and peanut stew we found. We originally tried it when looking for easy camping meals, but it’s so good we just keep making it. I’m not even vegan, but it’s so hearty and filling. People we make it for often ask if we’re sure there’s no meat in it. Best part is it only takes 30 minutes to make and uses relatively cheap ingredients. I like to add extra kale to make it thicker and make some wheat rolls to go with it: https://www.freshoffthegrid.com/sweet-potato-and-peanut-stew/#recipe

I also have dialed down the cheese intake, which is probably for the best. But if I want to indulge I have 2 options: take lactase pills or select cheese that does not contain lactose. I particularly enjoy the Cabot seriously sharp cheddar for my go-to cheesening.

Tests bar by ordering an old fashioned. Receives old fashioned with muddled cherry/orange and several ice cubes. ಠ_ಠ