Brings that whole Clint Eastwood “Get off my lawn” vibe to another level.

This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.

At which point all privacy will be off the table.

It has to be easy, low effort, and something there friends are doing too.

Their basic shortbread recipe is spot on, perfect.

When you start, you follow recipes. Pick a type of cuisine you like. At some point as you explore recipes you will start to understand the “flavor bouquet” of that cuisine. This understanding will help you with what spices go together in a pleasant way, and in what amounts. Like Thai food. Or Italian food.

That said, bread can be a gateway recipe. It’s simple: yeast, flour, water + a sugar to activate the yeast. Not all bread is sandwich bread. Starting with flatbread (for hummus, gyro, etc) or pizza crust also works. No bread machines, that would defeat the purpose of your original question, but a stand mixer with a dough hook is ok. For sandwich bread, King Arthur Flour has solid recipes (ignore ingredient branding).

If you like vids, Kenji Lopez-Alt is excellent. He also has a book called The Food Lab which is useful but not necessary, depending on how you learn. Serious Eats also has useful guides.

Shut up, Wesley!

The byline for everyone around but not in the Trump administration right now.

The difference a person would know that’s a poster in a frame on a wall and not an actual person.

AI is once again showing its skill level.

On the waking side of reading the alien enemies act will be enacted April 20, but I don’t see how that’s any better.

A large flip book, maybe. Flip it open and use it like a 15” tablet.

Nothing says prime dating material like calling women heifers. I’m shocked he even has to use an app to get dates.

Lib has only been going on for what, 50yrs or so? After centuries of bullshit and borderline slavery. Too soon.

Texas measles has entered chat, followed by dismissive remarks from RFK Jr.

Call it conspiracy theory or good science, either way, as the ice melts I think it’s likely. Especially when we go poking around to see what’s what as it happens.

I still don’t understand the obsession with tamiflu. The data is such that the average reduction in illness time is 16 hours, if and only if you take it within the first 48hrs of showing symptoms.

And yet it’s both pushed and asked for well outside those parameters at great expense. It’s expensive, $75-150, depending, not always covered by insurance, and it’s not unusual for it to make people feel worse.

My running theory it’s the same impetus that has people screaming (sometimes literally) for antibiotics for colds, some of whom genuinely believe it helps. That and pharma selling a thing.

Audiobook narrators don’t “read”. They act. They vocally act the entire book. The ones who don’t generally get returned, unread, to either your audiobook platform choice or the library.

Voice actors in games also don’t just read. They act. They vocally act their entire role.

Jennifer Hale vs AI, who would win? Would any human other than Kate Mulgrew as Flemeth have made the character as compelling?

So let’s hear it. Hand an AI Leviathan Wakes, the first book of The Expanse, and see how it does. My money is on it being garbage, but let’s hear it.

Jefferson Mays is tough to beat as a human.

Worse, hand an AI a Terry Pratchett book, see how that goes.

Why would anyone do this apart from hating prunes and needing a constipation remedy?

I don’t understand public proposals intentionally done before a crowd. Proposals at other people’s weddings are downright bizarre.

It’s a billionaire trough. None of us can afford to buy the education system, as one example.