What happened to cherry tomatoes? Every grocery store used to have them, now it's all grape tomatoes or those new bland things. Cherubs/angel sweet/etc stay fresh longer but they don't taste the same as real cherry tomatoes. Even when a store does have them, they seem different, less acidic, less flavorful.

Went to ocean for a night. Took this photo at 2:30am. I think it's pretty cool:

It's awful, I had to do that when I worked at McDonald's. I just sort of dissociated and pretended like I was an automaton while I worked there.

They now have a system that says that stuff automatically when you pull up to the drive thru but it doesn't really solve the awkwardness of it. I don't know if I'm supposed to answer, or just ignore it and start ordering. The cashier's seem bothered by it as well, because half the time they just say, "What can I get for you?" immediately after it ends.

"We need affordable housing" says person who opposes having low income housing built in their area

When I was 12 or 13 I used BBS's, which was like a proto-internet kind of thing where your computer would dial in to other people's computers. They had games, message boards and file downloads.

Anyway, I met this guy who lived in my town through one of these. His handle was "Violator". I asked my mom to bring me to his house to hang out. She drove me, a teenager, to where this 35 year old man lived in an RV behind his parents house.

I was not molested, but looking back on it, I cannot believe my mother let me go.

Risky buy unless you know the seller and that they got it from a pharmacy. There's a ton of counterfeit Adderall out there, and it's always meth. Even the XR gelcaps are counterfeit now.

Meth isn't a terrible substitute, but it's not going to be dosed correctly or even the same dose pill to pill. It has a much longer half-life.

Ritalin is probably safer because it's less controlled in other countries, so it might be cheaper to import the real stuff than press fakes.

They would have to have a lot of switches and network wires connecting them and systems to monitor them. Even then, I doubt this draw would be enough to signal to them that it's a problem. Probably not drawing more than a stove on the cleaning cycle, far below a level that would say, "This area is drawing too much power".

I run on a trail that has an osprey nesting platform. When I get near one of the parents takes off and makes warning sounds. Yesterday they weren't there, so I think they've migrated a little early.

Interesting fact about osprey: Juveniles don't migrate with their parents. They make their first migration alone, thousands of miles to a place they've never been. They establish a permanent winter home and then return to the area of their birth the next spring.

The stupidest part of this thing will be the repair costs and corresponding insurance rates. A shopping cart ding can't be repaired with Bondo and paint. Nor can it be repaired by normal paintless dent repair tools because it's 3mm stainless steel. Basically any accident will require panel replacement, since there's only a few shops in the whole country that can repair stainless steel body panels.

A fender repair that would cost $1500 on a normal vehicle will cost $10k. I'm sure we'll see parking lot accidents that total one of these.

I can't even begin to imagine what she'd do about the Gaza war.

Pop pills and give the ok for whatever the Pentagon wants to do.

So not much different than what Biden is doing, just different pills.

There was a republican DA running on a platform of not doing plea bargains on the theory that plea bargains are soft on crime.

I would have voted for her if I didn't know that she would give up on that plan the minute she had to start dismissing cases because they couldn't handle the case load.

Plea bargains are punishment for exercising your right to a trial.

Suffolk county homicide police make $100k+, with unbelievable benefits. Guys later in their careers can get 200 days of paid time off per year, a very generous pension that cannot be taken away, and take home cars with gas paid for by the county.

They are unbelievably bad at homicide investigations, mostly just following hunches and beating suspects.

The problem isn't just the pay, they are rotten institutions that are beyond repair short of firing most of them at once.