So you’re saying we just need someone to help like that in the US? ET, where are you?

Regardless of kidnapping a foreign head of state, there’s a matter of invading a sovereign nation

Of course not. Yet they have a unique and valuable culture that others may wish to experience

As someone who lives in a city that’s a major tourist destination, I appreciate that our visitors learn more about us and the money they spend encourages development of more destinations that I also can appreciate

I don’t see how a visitor wanting to experience a cultures food takes anything away from its citizens, nor is it necessarily more expensive.

I don’t know - I found it well done and suited my needs so I paid for it.

I get wanting to fleece the tourists, the same logic pick pockets and other scammers use, but it seems misplaced. I seriously doubt most tourists are wealthy. You’re advocating tfor exploiting people who’ve saved up for that dream vacation in a faraway land

Then what do you do when the next step requires “verifying the number”?

I generate a new email address for each vendor that forces me to specify one, but there’s not much I can do about phone numbers. I suppose it’s good from a security perspective that they want an additional authentication factor even if it’s only SMS, and good from a usability perspective to verify a path to resetting a password, but I can’t generate a new 🆕 hone number for every vendor

I’ve seen some with impossible cook times but I assume that’s just different ingredient expectations or something.

For example I want to look up a time and temperature to cook chicken breasts but the time is impossibly short. At that temperature it may take 2-3x the time. Are we already at the point of ai recipes with unnoticeable flaws or do “chicken breasts” mean something very different in different places? Or maybe it’s a flawed conversion from metric?

It’s kind of like music. I used to have a collection of cookbooks to do exactly that, just like I used to have a collection of music in various formats as technology changes. But it’s too limiting. It can never compare to a digital search among all the world’s recipes/music.

My approach was to buy a recipe manager. I generally search online to find something new that looks interesting. But then I import it into my recipe manager so I can use it without all the life story, the excessive ads, the really annoying screen redraws to show yet more ads, the popped to display additional ads or the inline partial recipes that are more ads in disguise

I’ll second that but also depends on the chili

• if I make chili, it’s intensely flavored and spicy. Ground turkey is oddly bland so doesn’t really work
• if my ex makes chili, it’s more of a mild bean and vegetable stew and ground turkey goes well with the other mild flavors

I use Paprika on iOS, which does this.

• import a recipe from any URL - including source, photos, nutritional info
• keeps a database of recipes
• create meals or calendars of recipes
• generate a categorized grocery list

I have a folder full of recipe files from before I got that, but haven’t really looked yet for anyway to import those

For me it worked with a family as well, given that I do all the cooking.

A big part of it is I buy in bulk when possible. Not only do I have a large stock of laundry detergent but I have a chest freezer with large stock of meat.

• I don’t need a list for Costco runs because it’s every few months and the things I’m low on are top of mind. Also, I try to buy ahead and keep them in stock so no big deal if I miss something and have to go back a couple months later.
• what I buy at the grocery is much smaller and dominated by things I buy every week

Eggs, milk, bread, produce every week. Meat if it’s not in the chest freezer. Double it if a kid is home from college

Mayo is from Costco. Normal size, Believe it or not, they’re the only ones I know who carry kewpie mayo. So I’ll get it and an extra to keep in stock, and worry about it next Costco run. If I forget, no big deal, we can go without mayo or I can get something on next grocery run

I do use a recipe manager, which can import recipes from any URL, and can generate a categorized grocery list. If I want a recipe, it’s probably there, so I’ll look at that list

For me the meal planning is more important than the shopping list.

Even with a list I still may get a bunch of random stuff and no meals. But if I know what meals I want to make, I can do a decent job even winging it

Both.

• for something unusual or occasional I make a list
• for my usual stuff the fastest approach is to just take every aisle and wing it

For example for dinners in a week

• I’ll just wing it to get a couple packages of chicken and some veggies. I do the same every week
• I’ll need a list if I’m out of a spice or need rice or scallions or something

And plenty of people would be offended that you chose this imagery as offensive.

As a straight guy with gay friends, I considered myself finally accepting (or maybe desperate) when I could take the attention of a gay guy as a compliment and be kind about redirecting them

Arguably we need more housing. While I do support the few local farms we have left despite how expensive they are, there’s a good argument for that being an inefficient choice for a densely populated area

Almost all of our food comes from red states that are already shitty places to live. Those red states voters are free to vote themselves a shittier place to live, if only it didn’t also hurt everyone else

I’m a single parent so would be hypocritical not to.

Then again my kids are in college, soon to be adults, I’m an older parent who doesn’t have the energy I did 20 years ago, and my focus right now is trying to make up for lost retirement savings so I can eventually retire. I do love kids but I’m not up for doing it all again

Actually I have been. I asked my kid to preferentially park their car there, but it just seems kind of silly

My company has been threatening us with this, but the joke is on them: my current spot is the worst. The chair is broken, there’s a tear in the carpet that keeps catching the wheels of the chair, there’s only one monitor when most have two, and my docking station is glitchy with the monitor

But we rent the entire building, have extra desks, and can’t coordinate consistent work from home days. Something would have to change drastically for them to be able to save money on hot-desking

Yeah I ve been pissed at this all summer, that people keep parking in my spot.

My street has street parking but everyone has driveways and garages so there are rarely cars parking on the street. Why the heck has someone been parking in front of my house?

The street is practically empty, much of the time literally empty, so they can park in front of wherever they’re going. But my house is the only one with a tree, creating one spot with shade on the entire block. Sometimes there is only one car parked on the entire street, and it’s in front of my house. While I know I’m not entitled to the spots in front of my house, this is just wrong.

Yes, eSIMs are much more convenient plus phones can have multiple. While I’ve never tried the multiple eSIM feature, I find it so much nicer to set up a new eSIM online than to have to deal with a physical SIM from a physical store. It’s also more convenient when getting a new phone, at least for iPhone. The setup can just transfer the eSIM from one phone to the next so your number gets moved with no effort on your part