CerebralHawks, cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

never understood who they are

“Juggalos” are fans of the rap-metal band Insane Clown Posse. (Juggalettes are the women.) The band isn’t great, though this is subjective. What isn’t, is that they’re more than a band, they’re a culture, and their shows are a spectacle that goes beyond just music.

They are also considered a gang in some US states. I’ve never heard of juggalos/juggalettes in organised crime or any murders associated with juggalo culture, but the fact does remain that they are watched by some states for suspected criminal activity. I wonder if ICP bothers touring in those states. I would guess no, but they might.

On the flip side, it’s worth noting that the guys behind ICP are generally known to be good people who have helped friends and family and are positive members of their communities. You never hear about ICP getting a #MeToo moment like Marilyn Manson did. GWAR either (another band that dresses up and puts on a show that their music is only a part of — GWAR are just a bunch of theatre dorks from Richmond VA who make silly music; ICP try harder, I think, to make “good” rap metal, but they’re still not, I guess, winning Grammys or whatever makes “quality").

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Honestly the same could be said about any music festival, like Ozzfest, or, going back to the olden days, a Grateful Dead show. Same energy. Crazier outfits, though. But same energy.

Worth looking into bike rental for a vacation. I mean, vs trusting your bike to not get lost or damaged by the airline. It might even be cheaper or at least make more sense to buy an entry level bike while you’re there, and when you leave, donate it to a youth organisation or something.

First one is either chocolate or pasta. I could take or leave other carbs, but pasta gets me fucked up every time. No-consequences chocolate is the bigger win, though.

Second one is chicken. Economically, other food makes more sense (like steak), but chicken is the better protein IMO. As long as discount/on sale doesn’t mean lower quality or expired. If I have to be specific, boneless skinless chicken breasts.

Third is going to be pasta. Since chocolate is the bigger win for the first one, pasta goes here. Now here’s why. Pasta is pretty diverse. We’re talking spaghetti, ravioli, carbonara, alfredo, Mac & Cheese, hell, even ramen! Ramen is the real win here. Imagine breaking open a Cup Noodles or Top Ramen and you’re getting Gyu-Kaku (Japanese steakhouse/ramen chain with locations in the west, so you can find one, maybe) ramen or better. That’s a major cheat code. As for Mac & Cheese, sometimes you just want Kraft Dinner, but it’s always at its best. Bad pasta can still show you some love, but great pasta for free when you eat the cheap stuff?

Third one is badly worded I think. Second one says it will always be inexpensive, but the third one says it’s always high quality… but, it doesn’t say you have to pay the higher price. So it’s a mirror of the second one. Second one will always be cheap, but it’s whatever quality, whereas the third one will always be good at whatever price. I still keep them in those slots though, because I don’t care if my chicken isn’t higher quality. I control that. And while I can make decent to good pasta (maybe even great, but I wouldn’t say excellent, though my wife might), getting “excellent” pasta with no effort? Fuck yeah.

I also noticed “pasta” is very broad and categorical. If I have to specify which pasta… Ramen. Ramen is cheap (like 3-4 for $1) and good ramen is hard to come by. There are like a dozen noodle shops around me, but none of them are very good. I will drive 3 hours to a Gyu-Kaku for their ramen.

TL;DR: Chocolate, chicken, pasta (or ramen if I have to be specific)

They believed he’d punish the brown people and the LGBTQ+ community. They’re satisfied with his performance there. Many of them who can afford the cost increases think the higher costs are worth it. They still believe they’re making America better.

Snickers is made by Mars, and their chocolate has always been higher tier than Nestlé and Hershey’s. Mars also makes the (god tier) 3 Musketeers, the Milky Way/Mars (not sure which one is branded Mars in other countries), and their plain chocolate bar is Dove.

I think there’s a Mandela Effect around Dove. I, for one, thought Hershey made Dove at some point. I don’t know why. Hershey’s does have a higher-end chocolate called Symphony, but I haven’t seen it in years. It’s creamier than their regular bar.

Look up Wilton’s chocolate buttercream recipe. It’s cake frosting. But nothing says you can’t eat it on its own. Pipe it into Hershey’s Kiss shaped dollops on a sheet of parchment/wax paper and chill, eat them like little mousse bites. It’s basically a stick of butter, I think 3 cups of sifted powdered/Confectioners sugar, and milk to control the texture/consistency. Some people add vanilla extract — of course, you could hit it with whatever other extract to tweak the flavour a bit. Maybe you want minty chocolate? Peppermint extract. There are options.

Wouldn’t change the facts of the past. Just maybe take some heat off her.

Oof. Didn’t know it went up. We paid a total of $15 and we’re happy with it, but we’ve had the benefit of having used it for the past 16 years.

If the price is too high, Google Keep is pretty good for doing a similar thing.

How? Xbox increased more, and first. And Xbox always did poorly in Japan.

If anyone doesn’t know the history, I think it was NEC, was a big electronics company in Japan that tried to make computers that competed with Windows 95 (because they ran something else, I forgot which) and they got their asses handed to them. So the Japanese have been salty toward Microsoft since then. The grudge has started to fade a bit, but it was still going strong at the start of the Series X|S generation (2020). The problem is twofold: Japanese developers won’t make games for Xbox, only Nintendo and/or PlayStation. And two, gamers aren’t buying Xbox in Japan.

I wonder if Xbox went up at all in Japan. It never moved much there. I wonder if they even bothered installing GamePass CDNs there. I wouldn’t.

Also worth noting, a lot of gamers/power user types in the west have been turning against Microsoft for issues with Windows 11 and Copilot. I got tired of their shit years ago and went to Mac for computers, but I still game on an Xbox Series X.

I do like seeing PlayStation get taken down a peg, because for all Microsoft’s issues, PlayStation has always been more anti-consumer. Trophies exist on PlayStation because Achievements were so popular on Xbox that PlayStation (and Steam) were practically forced to adopt them. Xbox has pushed for cross-play and PlayStation has always rejected it. Backwards compatibility is what the PS2 was known for, and the PS3 did it at first, but since then, they haven’t been as good, whereas Xbox has been great about backwards compatibility. Not perfect but great.

Always meant to check it out, but in the age of streaming and looser ratings, it’s a real shame we didn’t get Carmageddon instead.

Carmageddon was Twisted Metal but for PC. They made family friendly versions for consoles, but they mostly sucked due to the compromises they had to make. And honestly only the first one was any good, but the graphics were ass. There was an HD texture pack for good graphics cards, but honestly, it just looked a little smoother.

I mean… yeah. Everything’s a distraction for something with this administration. They hope you forgot about Greenland, or the failed insurrection in 2020, or, yeah, the Epstein files.

But seriously, it’s not like anybody is getting arrested in the US over the Epstein files. People in other countries are facing consequences, but not in the US.

If you’re in the US, you can be jailed for seeing video or pictures of CSA, while the actual perpetrators being named and shamed in the files are getting away with it. So is the crime the CSA or the knowledge that powerful people are doing it? It should be the CSA. I don’t think people should be able to possess CSAM, but if the people doing it are known and getting away with it, is it a crime to see what they did or is it a crime to know who did it to whom?

Isn’t it standard for a website to be able to detect browser/extensions?

Funny that the name dropping of Chrome in the link summary implies Firefox users are safe.

OurGroceries.

The year was 2010, and the iPhone was not yet available where I lived. I could have bought one, and I could have activated service with it, but I would never be able to use it at home or anywhere around home. So it would have been pointless. I wanted one. Android was cool, but it wasn’t really what I wanted. Wife needed a new phone, and our carrier had a deal. Two Android phones for $100, and each came with a $20 Android Market (what Google Play Store was called then) gift card. So yeah, we took that deal. The phones were ass, but I was able to put CyanogenMod (now called Lineage) on them and make them a little better.

We wanted a grocery app, and we discovered an app called OurGroceries. Free with ads, or $5 to remove the little banner at the bottom. Even without paying, it offered synced grocery lists and even Web access. As in, my wife is at the store and I’m on the computer, I just hit the bookmark and add something to the list, she sees it in a second or two (provided she has signal or WiFi). We both paid. The app was useful and it was nice.

When I got an iPhone, I immediately paid the $5 again. They since changed it to where only ONE person on the sync account needs to pay. That is to say, if you and five family members all download it, all six of you get ads. But if ONE person connected to the sync account pays, the paid status syncs and nobody has ads. That said, I’m not mad because $10 of the $15 I’ve paid wasn’t even mine to start with, it was on a gift card. It’s been 16 years, and we still use it.

Is it the best grocery app? I think it still ranks highly. Personally I think the one in Paprika is a little better. Our first requirement is that it must support iPhone, Android (my wife still uses Android), and computer. Paprika checks those boxes — so does Google Keep, which is another good option (that is also free!). Apple has shopping list support in Notes, and our computers are Macs, so that works, but Apple Notes doesn’t really work on Android. It actually does, I think, through the browser (since my wife has an Apple account, on the Mac and on her iPad), but it’s not as robust if you actually have an iPhone. Any note taking app should work, but the sync won’t be there.

So if you don’t want to pay, Google Keep should be your first stop. If you don’t like Google for privacy or whatever reason, you’ll probably have to pay. OurGroceries is either a single developer or a small team, and they’re independent, and deserve at least the $5 they’re asking for a whole family to use their app indefinitely (as long as they keep the server up — I hope, should they ever decide to take their server down, they allow a self-hosted option). If you want more features, Paprika is definitely a solid choice, but you’ll want to wait for a sale. Normally it’s like $10 on phones and $20 on computers or something. But it’s actually not a shopping list app. It’s a recipe manager that has a shopping list and a pantry inventory. And a couple other things. (OurGroceries also has a recipe manager, but it’s not great, it’s really just another kind of shopping list that can be copied into an actual shopping list — you can have multiple.)

I always thought “dump him” was followed by an unspoken “and give me a chance.” In other words, incel culture.

Might not be all cases, but that is what I generally assume when I see/hear about stuff like that.

This meme also applies to IT by Stephen King. Referring to the scene where Beverly pulls a train at the end. That will never be filmed, but unlike Tom Bombadil, no one’s asking for the train scene.

Floor 796 is a… I’m not even sure what to call it. Mosaic doesn’t quite cover it. There are interactive parts as well. It’s an art piece featuring various pop culture characters together on a space station. See who you can find.

Oh yes, I’ve used diced white onions in my tuna salad as well. I don’t like relish (or celery), it’s just not the flavour profile I’m looking for.

BBQ sauce = ketchup with molasses, more or less, I think, on the off chance you were asking what it was. I don’t think that’s the case, just covering my bases. Anyway, I use the sweet/spicy kind, so it adds a kick. I wouldn’t do both BBQ sauce and Tabasco. Tabasco gives it a kick, but it’s more subtle, the flavour of the sauce is covered by the tuna, but the heat is still there. For heat plus added flavour, I go for the BBQ sauce. Specifically Sweet Baby Ray’s sweet and spicy (or whatever that variety is called).

Not sure I can trust ice cream from Minnesota. I’d think ice cream from Texas or Florida would be better, when it’s a consumable utility for beating the heat. I quite imagine Minnesota as always being at/below freezing.

Joking, of course — it sounds awesome.

Specifically, the person was encouraging people not to vote against the Republicans because the Democrats were just as bad. I mean yeah, both parties are kinda shit, but the party in complete power astroturfing on social media to convince people the other side is no better so they can stay in power, it just seems absurd to me.

I don’t know if there’s a good third option Americans can vote for instead, but it seems to me that keeping the Republicans in power hasn’t done any good for the American people. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote but was appointed, so by the way the system works, he won, and he did a pretty shit job. He lost the popular vote in 2020 by even more and Biden won. He started a riot and tried to prevent the transfer of power. He won fair and square (AFAIK) in 2024, and he’s made things pretty much worse in his first year. So we’ve seen what happens when you keep the Republicans of this generation in power.

And these people aren’t even saying “if we keep the Republicans in full control of all three branches of the American government, they’ll stop these pointless wars for oil, they’ll stop waging war on the LGBTQ+ community, and they’ll stop waging war on their own citizens.” They’re just saying “the other side is just as bad.”

That’s what the conversation was and that’s my point. I don’t lie — I didn’t come to this thread to make my case. I’ve stated it plainly here because you asked. What I came to this thread to do was to support the OP.

The flavour of toothpaste (assuming mint) isn’t what makes it gross, it’s the texture. The taste makes it palatable in your mouth (or at least that is the intention). When I was a kid, cinnamon toothpaste was an option as well. IIRC there are plain options, but they’re worse.

I’ve made mint frosting (since shops don’t seem to sell it, Wilton’s buttercream icing but with peppermint extract instead of vanilla) and my wife says it tastes like toothpaste. Her sister, my niece, and I all love it though. My wife’s the odd one here. Mint aversion isn’t really that odd, though. It’s just a flavour and not everyone is going to like it.

I “get” the hype around the Vision Pro from the Apple Store. They act like people don’t understand it. I tell the guy, “yeah I get it, it’s a whole new computer, and just like the Macintosh in 1984, people didn’t really understand it, so it didn’t sell well at first.” The guy acted like I was the smartest person who came in all week. But then I said, “but I don’t need it, the two Macs I have do everything I need. I’m not going to drop $3500 on something nobody knows what it’s good for hoping what it is good for is something I want.” I have a Mac mini and I have a MacBook Air (both M2, the Mini is a Pro though, both 16GB RAM). And they do what I need.

That being said, my favourite film did come out in theatres, but it only played 8 hours from where I live. Very limited engagement, and it has not returned to theatres (or if it has, I didn’t know and either way I did not have the opportunity to go). So, I could use a Vision Pro to watch it in a virtual theater and almost have the same experience. Is that worth $3500? On its own, maybe not, but when you talk about being able to watch any movie in a virtual theater — assuming the experience is good — it kind of makes sense. I mean, you’ll spend way more than $3500 to build your own home theatre. First of all, you need a place with a big enough room. Second, you’ll want to soundproof it. Third, you’ll want a big TV and a good sound system. The right seats. Raised seats (as in, the ones behind are higher up than the ones in front). And floor to ceiling black carpeting. Assuming you even have the space for it (most don’t), you’re probably looking at closer to $5-8K for the whole setup, but honestly, I’m really not sure. At that point, the Vision Pro is kind of a steal, except it’s strapped to your head and only one person can use it at a time. Now imagine you’re in Utah, big house, seven or eight adults in a polygamous relationship, who knows how many kids, and like five or six of the adults love movies, and the kids all wanna watch Kpop Demon Hunters all day… the theater makes more sense. But to single people or even married couples living in apartments or smaller homes, the Vision Pro might come out ahead for that “rich people” experience.

It’s still a lot of coin, though.