Why would you ask this rather than adding it to wine yourself to see what amount you found satisfying?

Don’t be kinkshaming.

Hear hear! Shaming Americans for their preference for unhealthy food is pretty racist.

Came here to say Dijon mustard. A jar of mustard lasts me 6 months, so a couple extra bucks for the good stuff doesn’t amount to much.

There is also a potential health difference. Lunch meat tends to be loaded with preservatives and falls into the category of “processed meat”.

There’s nothing wrong with new england maple syrup, but yes, real maple syrup not “pancake syrup” with maple flavoring.

I would preemptively confront the security officer telling telling him that woman was nuts or at least mistaken, and seek to straighten things out.

Of course that presumes I don’t have reason to think that doing so puts me at risk of violence or something, if for example this scenario is in some kind of fascist police state, I’m a persecuted minority, etc.

But ignoring the cop and letting him apprehend you while probably interpreting your actions as fleeing is probably not the best choice.

I’m going to use this as an opportunity to reminisce about an insane laptop of the past: I once had a thinkpad W700ds. I chose this because work was paying for it, and I wanted a powerful machine and a 17 screen. This was a no compromises “mobile workstation.” I knew it wasn’t going to be light or slim, but my attitude was, what, am I afraid of getting a little extra exercise carrying it around?

But I really wasn’t imagining quite what I got. It weighed almost 11 pounds (maybe more, because I think I added an extra drive). And it was big. Extra thick. I had to search really hard to find a backpack that would actually fit it, and what I ended up having to get was actually targeted at DJ’s. It was a beast.

And the icing on the cake was the extra slide out screen. I knew this was gimmicky, and didn’t actually want it, but the model without it was out of stock. It slid out of the cover on the side, so as to be next to the main monitor, but it was kind of crappy. The resolution wasn’t as good and it was dimmer, so it just didn’t look right. It was kind of embarrassing and contributed to the cover having to be just that much thicker.

Even the power brick was huge.

Yeah, one of those I didn’t really think things through moments. It was a great conversation starter though, if you didn’t mind admitting to being a dork.

pencil would probably work

By all means. But chain restaraunts are owned by the corpos. If you want to take power from the corpos you need to stop giving them your money.

The algorithm seems to have gotten progressively worse in terms of just continuing to show you the same stuff, especially recently. What it recommends me isn’t worse, just more repetitive. A page refresh doesn’t make much change.

Privacy is the least of it, its just a means to an end for then. They are shaping our entire culture.

I was thinking maybe gramophone or earlier precursors. But looking at those things they’re mechanically coupled not electrically, so not really the same thing.

strikes me as easier to make a working prototype of a phone. at least if simple speakers and mics already exist. did they?

This made me read the second post like they were trying to stealth infiltrate pineapple on pizza into the culture…

The stupid is so strong, we have to fight it at every turn.

or else hose!

I have the sense this is a rich person thing.

Unless you’re the mob.

While I have a few in the medium, and very hot categories, what I really use a lot of is a relatively mild green sauce. I like to be able to add a lot flavor without making something crazy hot. I used to use Tabasco green, later upgraded to Cholula green, but my favorite these days is Callahan’s Poblano green chili sauce. The Bronx Greenmarket is really good too.