I can only see a Vogon.

Edit: I lied, I can also see Rygel from Farscape.

Is Strawberry Shortcake still a thing? If you’d have asked me to bet money I would not have guessed that anyone under the age of 40 would have recognized that character.

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Usually when the news media talk about “the economy,” they’re not talking about the financial well-being of workers, or the average citizen. They’re talking about how much extra money corporations and the ultra wealthy are making. If every time you read about the economy you mentally transpose the words “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money” what they’re writing about becomes a lot clearer.

1. “Everyone is being paid such ridiculous poverty wages that they are functionally unemployed.”
2. “Rich people have tons more yacht money.”

They’re not actually opposing statements. One is a direct result of the other.

I want Devo to do a cover of it.

It wasn’t so much that there was a stigma against watching Monty Python per se. It’s that it became sort of inextricably linked with a certain type of kid who became obsessed with it, could (and frequently would) recite all the lines of the movies from memory, and would tend to be a little obnoxious about their fandom. They were usually nerdy kids who already weren’t well liked by the more popular cliques, and aggressively shouting lines from Holy Grail at people wasn’t helping matters. Like, my friends and I loved those movies, but I guess not as much as the theater kids who were galloping around the school on imaginary horses shouting, “Ni!” at people and demanding a shrubbery.

I’ve never lived in Utah, and we had goths instead of mods, but SLC Punk was a fairly accurate representation of how I grew up, and the people I grew up with. Right down to how the singer (who was straightedge except for his bi-polar meds) in my first band died.

I think the real reason is that the bleeding second that people’s access to healthcare is no longer tied to their employer there’s going to be a mass exodus from the workforce as people go out and start their own businesses, or move to a job with a better work/life balance, or to a job that just isn’t soul-crushing. This will make it much harder for businesses to underpay their employees, and I think there are very powerful business interests who see Americans having unrestricted access to healthcare as an existential threat to their profitability.

If we go to war I’ll be very surprised if they’ll announce it ahead of time. I think it’s far more likely that we’ll just wake up one day and already be at war.

I’m a machinist.

A lot of engines have a big plastic trim piece that sits on top and doesn’t really do anything except make the engine compartment look tidy. I guess you could call that a topper.

This group sounds like something that would have been made up in a Hollywood writers room for a mid '00s comedy police procedural. Like someone who would have been foiled by Shawn Spencer on an episode of Psych.

Gorn.

Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.

I bought one of those on a whim a while back, and I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Quality control is always kind of a crapshoot with those cheap Chinese pen brands so I don’t usually get my hopes up, but even though the pocket clip on mine feels loose and pretty janky, the actual pen itself is really solid, and has a surprisingly good nib for its price point. I ended up carrying it with me a lot because it’s not only a nice compact size for a pocket pen, but it’s cheap enough that I won’t be devastated if I lose it.

And to think, this whole time I was using the rubber band trick like a sucker.

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At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.

There are two types of dashes. One is the “n-dash” (or “en-dash”), which takes up one space, and is most often used to hyphenate words; and the other is the “m-dash” (or "em-dash) which takes up two spaces, and is most often used to bracket off parenthetical information within a sentence, like kind of a lighter weight parentheses. Em-dashes get used a lot in novels and other published writing that is subject to correction from a professional copy editor, but very rarely in the daily typing of regular people. So now when people see it getting used they just assume it must be a clanker.

but hover each one just above the water for about 5 seconds before gently putting it in. This prevents the shells from cracking due to shock of the hot water

If you want to keep your eggs from cracking from the temperature shock, put them in a bowl, fill the bowl with the hottest water you can get from the tap and let it sit for a minute before you put the eggs in the boiling water. Unless you have some crazy volcano of a hot water heater, the tap doesn’t get hot enough to crack the shell, but will warm the shell up uniformly to much warmer than you’d get hovering the egg, or doing that weird thing where you try to lower the egg into the water a teeny tiny bit at a time.

There are horns from a dozen animals which are made of keratin. There are HORSE HOOVES that get routinely trimmed. Why are these not being used to replace actual tortoiseshell, despite being chemically closest to it?

They are. Not by Fender, Dunlop, or D’Addario, but there are tons of little mom and pop businesses making picks out of horn, antler, bone, wood, coins, and anything else you can think of. You can even get picks made from the milk protein casein. They’re out there if you want them, and picks are actually pretty easy to make so there’s nothing stopping you from making your own if you want to.

Also, I’ve had the opportunity to try real tortoise shell picks, and while it had a nice tone, it wasn’t life changing. It was a pick, it sounded nice, but it was hardly the hidden special secret to ultimate tone. Lots of players had already switched to celluloid and nylon picks even before tortoise shell became illegal in the 1970s. Personally, if all the legal and ethical problems around tortoise shell went away tomorrow I’d still stick with the Jazz IIIs I play with now.