Shit’s about to hit the fan from multiple directions and all at once. There is nothing you can do to stop it, but instead focus on how to handle it. In a more healthy way.

That website has a good sense of humor!

He comes in the night.

I saw them at the Fillmore in mid 1999. They were great live.

But what really knocked me out was half way through the second set the singer (sorry don’t remember his name) walked up to the mic and said “this song has been in our heads all week and now we’re gonna put it in yours.”

…And proceeded to play a flawless cover of Hit Me Baby One More Time. The lead singer even did some of Brittny’s moves from the video.

I’m sorry for the downvotes your getting

I don’t think you are correct. However, Philosophy of Science was a kind of sub-major to my main one, so I am always interested to hear other people’s takes on the nature of reality, especially SR and QM.

Could you share more about this, safely?

I don’t know about the day of, because I was downtown in NYC. I didn’t get home to the Bronx until about ten at night.

But I was on Metafilter and a couple of other fora. But these were already mostly asshole free places, so few dicks or tolls as per OP.

The whole day - hell the next two weeks - updates of news and speculation about the ratfuckery this would cause dominated the chat/posts.

I agree with all the posters here that one does not need to baby a hunk of metal. Just keep it dry and clean.

That having been said …I believe in the Cast Iron Spirits. Do not anger them. Two years ago I had my 25+ years old Lodge in the oven making a pizza, and when I went to take it out of the oven, the handle broke cleanly, perfectly off, spilling my pizza on the floor and my arm, giving me a nasty burn.

So um, yeah; don’t make the spirits angry. Maybe sacrifice a drumstick to them once in a while or something.

I’m going to sound like a shill (go through my post history if you think so) but this knife sharpening thing: https://www.horl.com/en-US

Friend of mine in NYC introduced me to it, and I was super skeptical it wouldn’t just strip five time more metal than a whetstone. I emailed the guy who made my chef’s knife, and he said “No, that thing is the bomb.”

My knives are always sharp and if they are not, they get sharp in 2 minutes. And one of the disks doubles as a honer. (and yes I know I should have been honing them more before I got this, but could never get into the habit of always using the steel and being afraid my angle was off).

What I hate the most is, unless I have seen the meme in the before times, I always, always wonder if it’s Gen-AI crap.

Give me back my funny animal memes and videos!

I love it.

What the hell is Alexander wearing? Double breasted with super wide lapels???

1984 and it’s spiritual prequel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .

These books opened up my teen mind to the fact that we are always, individually and as a society, creating, editing, and manipulating consensual reality.

Unfortunately the bad guys are way ahead of us on the manipulation bit, and with LLMs/Gen-AI I fear a total collapse of consensual reality. But if we have enough Hunter S’s in the world, we may still be in the fight.

Not OP but yes an actual scientist would like it. It’s more about the ways in which cultures over time turn to the supernatural to explain something that has a scientific explanation.

It like a lot of Big Science books (Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens), has more than a few “just so” stories, but i you look past that, it’s a very valuable book teaching you to look at things you don’t understand critically and why we as a society, often fail at this.

Getting Uni flashbacks…

Thanks, I should have paid closer attention. In my defense, I’d only had one coffee.

This …is not the NATO alphabet and I also don’t get the joke, aside from the Archer references.

What gives?

My hand made for me chef’s knife.

Cries in Dutch.

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