All the beanless chili I’ve had has been made with chunks of meat instead of ground meat so more like a spicy stew.

It’s this one isn’t it?

It’s low self-esteem, Okarun doesn’t think it’s possible that someone would actually want to talk to him so he refuses to believe obvious signs to the contrary.

Side note: it’s a huge pet peeve of mine when people use “introversion” to describe behavior like this because it’s not what “introversion” means at all and because it’s conflating maladaptive behavior which you could change with an inherently personality trait which you can’t change. Being introverted just means your preferred balance of time alone or with small groups (one or two close friends) vs time in large social groups is skewed more towards small groups. It doesn’t mean that social phobia/paralyzing social anxiety which causes you to completely isolate yourself 99% of the time is “just how you’re supposed to be”. If this is how you feel, you have legitimate problems which are fixable, you aren’t doomed to suffer in loneliness forever.

Power primarily flows from the bottom up. The top just tries really hard to make sure we don’t know that so we aren’t able to organize and wield it. If power really came from the top then dictators wouldn’t bother to hold sham elections.

It’s really situational depending how much you value the skip prize and what jokers you have.

Skipping is more valuable when:

• (like you said) you have a joker that triggers off of skipping like throwback
• you have jokers that decay like ice cream or turtle bean
• the prize is especially valuable to your build eg. a mega standard pack when you have Hologram
• you’re past white stake and it’s the small blind which now gives no base reward money

Skipping is less valuable when:

• you have a ton of money you could spend on stuff (not if you’re trying to build up a lot of money for bootstraps/bull)
• You have Jokers that build up while playing like Spare Trousers and Burned Joker
• You have Jokers that trigger when you select a blind like Cartomancer
• You have Jokers that affect the shop like Chaos the Clown or Perkeo

I always feel like a rat in a maze when I go to IKEA.

Yup, that’s one of the key identifiers for them. It’s also why they aren’t commonly eaten despite being edible.

More like the majority of Americans have decided not to participate in the democratic process so they won’t feel responsible for the outcome.

The place I’m renting doesn’t have a dishwasher (annoyingly common around this area) so I got an over-the-sink dish rack and established the habitat of washing dishes in the morning while I’m waiting for coffee to brew. The over-the-sink rack holds more dishes than an ordinary rack so I can go longer without emptying it. It drips into the sink so there’s no drip tray accumulating mildew (taking apart a regular dish rack to clean the drop tray never happens). I also make sure to organize my cabinets so that dishes all live in the cabinets which are closest to the sink to make putting away dishes easier for me.

Pu’er (fermented black tea sold in big solid disks or chunks) it’s nice and dark, reminds me of coffee. I also enjoy iron goddess(Tieguanyin) oolongs and white peony.

Looks like they might be coprinellus disseminatus or “fairy ink caps” but I’m not an expert and it’s hard to be sure without knowing more information like where you found them (region/what they were growing on) and what the gills look like.

Inky caps are generally considered “conditionally edible” because they contain a chemical which reacts with alcohol and becomes poisonous. It’s recommended to abstain from drinking for three days before and after eating them. Fairy ink caps are crumbly and generally not considered worth eating even by those who enjoy inky caps.

So does liquid detergent.

GDI, pods seemed really good on the surface: liquid detergent with less water to reduce the amount of carbon used to transport it.

I’m no material scientist but I suspect they probably could have made pods out of materials which are actually biodegradable under normal conditions but chose to use this liquid plastic junk instead to save a buck.

It’s written about Microsoft as if this is their unique dysfunction instead of an industry-wide dysfunction. It feels out of touch and lacking the insight I typically enjoy from this newsletter.

Where’s Ed been? Corporate philosophies are a dime a dozen in tech and they’re always just vague enough to use as a justification for management to do whatever they were already planning on doing.

Microsoft’s growth mindset is no more problematic than Amazon’s leadership principles or any of the other corporate pillars we inevitably need to phrase our accomplishments around in order to get hired/promoted. They’re all the same pseudoscientific MBA BS that’s been permeating the industry for years.

This article could have been written about just about any large tech company with the same concerns and conclusions.

DanDaDan is about modern yokai and gender roles.

Regular Show is about being punished by elder gods because you decided to take a shortcut to the store and how Mordecai is an insufferable piece of shit who honestly deserves it.

There are 801 billionaires in the US out of about 335,893,238 people. If everyone else were to reduce their carbon footprint by even a tenth of a percent then there would be significantly less carbon in the atmosphere than if every billionaire in the US were to reduce their carbon footprint to zero.

I definitely imagined it deep and raspy, like the cat in that HBO cartoon El Perro y El Gato.

He gives you a bunch of stuff in different caves throughout the game.

I thought the point of this instance was to try and start a decent one here.