That the name of their unofficial national dish is in Persian/Hindi also suggets something, but I’m sure I don’t know what…

Americans are borderline obsessed with hotsauces and spicy food, though. IME, the pushback about english mustard is usually the same as with vegemite - its too easy to use way too much, and thus obliterate the flavours of the rest of the dish. (Plus it doesn’t pair super well with a lot of regional menus). In many restaurants (diners) there’s always at least tobasco sauce next to the salt and cracked black pepper, and nowadays most have a selection of hot sauces on the table to choose from.

Most american stereotypes I understand or even represent (fat white guy with too many guns here) but I’ve never understood the “american food is bland” thing - I can’t think of a region of the US internally known for bland food. Even the Hot Dish parts of the country strive for bold flavors. Why the hell do you think we’re all so fat, if not because we have so much good food to tempt us into excess?

Deep Fried Beer is a pretty good one, too. Not very tasty, though…

Walking out of the port like nothing’s wrong, trench coat ringing with the sound of 300 containers worth of unrefined copper clanking with every step…

No seriously, the export company did this. There’s no fucking way this wasn’t fraud from the start. Honestly I just doubt that the company inspecting the containers before export wasn’t in on it. Swapping the contents of, again, three hundred containers out in the dead of night is so much dumber than just slipping the inspector a cool hundred grand to say the shipments were legit.

We also appreciate those. But not actively, at least not while in a professional setting. That’d be rude.

It’s a shitposting community, I’m sincerely not sure what your point is.

Why?

The old adage “The worst-dressed nerd in the meeting is the most important one” could use some updating for the modern era to include trans folks with really good fits…

Okay but… are we gonna make fun of them for this? No, seriously, if they’re happy and nobody’s being hurt, what does it matter to any of us what they’re doing? Besides the sign, I mean.

I don’t understand, it’s 2am and my memes aren’t in german, what’s happening?

No, we’re just not their target market. Most of their users, inexplicably, actually like changes like this.

Where do I sign the petition for this.

It wasn’t the trip itself thats particularly viewed as problematic, it was the atrociously patronizing marketing surrounding it and that Katy Perry is just a generally vile person. Nobody is begrudging Amanda Nguyen or Aisha Bowe being along on this trip, they’ve dedicated their lives to the celebration of science and supporting the work of legitimate astronauts (and I suppose arguably so has Shatner, though he’s not exactly a man of flawless character)

Is it really that bad, though? Compared to spending hours fighting with 3rd party drivers or wine or etc. every time there’s a change to the software in question, restarting to a different partition is pretty trivial. Configure both OSs to mirror non-sys files to network storage or a shared partition (and there’s plenty of ready-made utilities for this) and it’s honestly a pretty easy solution to being stuck with “iNdUsTrY sTaNdArD” software.

I get where you’re coming from, I do. The only reason I’m saying this is because the difficulty in dual booting is often brought up when discussing switching, and it really discourages people that are curious about trying linux (but are still tied to the apple/M$ world) from making the switch when they’re constantly told how hard it is to use both.

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That’s not gonna be hard, fortunately.

Morticians hate this one weird trick!

Edge case here: my hands are constantly dirty with things I don’t want to get on my phone (relevant hobbies include machining, gardening and calligraphy). A smart watch means I can check to see if a message is important (ex: kids/partner attempting to get ahold of me) and I can answer calls and texts just using my nose/tongue + TTS. I never understood why they were such a mainstream accessory, but they are very convenient in some circumstances.

(Edit: I just remembered another use case, my partner is medically “a dingus” and constantly loses their phone as a result, but habitually is always wearing their watch. Upgrading them to a smartwatch has meant our relationship no longer suffers the daily turmoil of tearing apart several rooms looking for it. Again pretty niche, but a wonderful QoL improvement)

I know it’s the whole point of them doing this shit but it’s getting so hard to cope with the constant fucking around. What in the fuck are we going to do? At least for now they’ve realized how spectacularly stupid this move was, I guess.

Thank you, jfc this shit is tiring to keep up with.