monsterlynn

Renting forever. Yeah, I’d like to own a house, sure. But on the other hand, I don’t have to remove snow from my place, I don’t have to pay a repair guy to fix stuff when it’s broken, don’t have to mow the lawn, or maintain the swimming pool. If I have problems with my neighbors, I can complain to management and they’ll handle things discreetly without singling me out or involving me.

I suppose it depends on where you live, and what you’re paying, but while it’s not entirely ideal, it’s also not awful.

Every action by the Satanic Temple?

Though they are kind of amusing trolls about it.

My boiled egg slicer. It seemed really frivolous when I bought it, and I probably only use it five or six times a year at best but man if it doesn’t cut down prep time for any salad with boiled egg in it, it also works with avocados!

@weirdbeardgame

If I could go out to this https://youtu.be/BjDaPOWdx6s?si=6dHpGWpFoc1ZKzvE that would be so awesome.

But most likely it’ll be this https://youtu.be/q9RAZxNdCk8?si=CxHNQawNEcqpy47T

@NaibofTabr your comment led me to give op an up vote without listening because I knew exactly what song it was from yours!

@weirdbeardgame @FartsWithAnAccent

@AFKBRBChocolate Rigging or no rigging, if she did endorse or support Biden or whatever, there are enough dumbasses out there that might see a KC win as some kind of Biden endorsement from on high.

I put that down to projection as usual on the part of the GOPs conspiracy theory wing, though.

@DrPop

@lazylion_ca it’s a fast food version of Mexican.

I like crunchy tacos with one packet of hot sauce per taco. Crunchy taco supreme is good. Burrito Supreme is good, too.

Sauce is very important, though. You have to have it. Start with the hot sauce (orange packets), and work your way up if you need to. They used to have green sauce that was pretty good, but it’s only available in grocery stores now. 🙄

For a drink, you need to try a Baja Blast. It’s like their signature thing. Very sweet, has its own flavor you can’t really describe.

Just keep in mind that it’s fast food. It’s not casual fast like Chipotle or Panera - - more Macdonald’s or Wendy’s.

One thing Taco Bell has had over a lot of fast food places for a long time is that vegetarians and vegans can actually get edible meals there. It’s basically all of the same ingredients, just mixed around differently.

They also have bowls you can get. They’re not terrible. I prefer my old standard menu items that haven’t changed in 40 years, though.

The other thing that just occurred to me - - most of us in the thread responding to you are suggesting their old timey comfort favorites. I’m no different (54 years old and had my first Taco Bell when I was 9), so at 50, your palate may not understand or have the associations with this place that ours do.

I’m really curious what you’re going to think about it, though. I think most people going in with realistic expectations don’t wind up hating it, though.

@httpjames Back in the day I liked to dabble in Linux, and I always liked the IT people in the larger firms I worked at so I imagine it’s understanding basics of code, and then a lot of googling for fixes to problems people have already dealt with, composting code with templates and tweaking it to work with the specifics of the job at hand and then taking credit for saving everything because people are dumb.

@IonAddis honeydew melon.

@vettnerk This is the way.

@GreyTechnician @SmoothIsFast @teft

@GentlemanLoser That’s some weird assed etymology on that word. But at least I’m not a dick about being correo.

@SeahorseTreble

@SeahorseTreble I’d say say “no thanks, I’m sober” I guess but I’d definitely invite you golfing (it’s teatotal, like the beverage, not teetotaler). 😉

@mulcahey it might depend on the edit. The album version is pretty long. Still, if you give some gusto, it’s generally a crowd pleaser.

@mulcahey

Mr. Roboto, Tainted Love (Soft Cell version), Mack the Knife, Melikalikimaka for Christmas season,

@greaterthanstupid ISIL bulldozed and dynamited World Heritage sites to rubble. The Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddahs. It’s not always Americans.

@MicroWave

@whenigrowup356 Yup. And then you have the New World animals where we use the name of the animal for both the animal and the meat, like buffalo.

@nydas

@abcd Stars are yellow?

@Melatonin @Alperto

You won’t BELIEVE what these girls wear on Wednesdays!

@Chetzemoka

I just fell in love with West Virginia a few weeks back. So beautiful and while not a blue state, exactly, the people there were so welcoming and kind.

@Anissem

I’d say the best places to reside in Michigan are going to be in the lower half of the Lower Penninsula if you want a temperate climate. Doesn’t mean winter won’t fuck your shit up at least two or three times a year.

Beautiful nature spots are a day trip or long weekend away and quite lovely, though smaller in scale than the sprawling, mountainous naturescapes of California. We don’t have anything quite as epic as Big Sur, Lake Tahoe, or the Redwoods here (souece: Michigander lived 13 years in the Bay Area), but we do have some very lovely areas and they’re imo much more accessible for the average Joe. Oh yeah and when fall comes in, the color is AMAZING. It’s a rather flat state all in all, though. Most places you have to drive to see anything rolling lamdscape-wise. It makes winter with all of the leaves off of the trees rather bleak if you’re in sputhern Michigan.

But, there’s a lot of interesting lore that you don’t really get anywhere else like Great Lakes shipping/shipwrecks, bootlegging hotspots, a fucking shit-ton of musical history, tons of breweries and local agricultural festivals. If you’re willing to pick and choose your urban areas, you can definitely find those spaces that have a Californian vibe about them, but they’re not really centralized.