Real parm instead of the canned stuff.

Chicken breasts - you can get massive pumped up chicken breast for the same price as “normal” chicken breasts. The problem is when you cook the big ones, they just leech out all their liquid.

GWB : Hold mah beer.

Here is the thing… You can work on both of those. Literacy is not capped by your intelligence, unless you are exceptionally challenged, like mentally unfit to live by yourself challenged. You can read more books, and journal articles, and expand your reading ability.

IQ is mostly bullshit. The test can help identify if you have a disability, but it’s relatively worthless for determining how intelligent you can actually be. You can practice pattern recognition and then take an IQ test, but all that means is that you are good at recognizing patterns. There are plenty of “High IQ” people who can’t figure out basic shit, like how to put on a spare tire.

So don’t feel bad if you don’t score well on those tests. They only measure how you did one time on one test.

Part of this statistic is because we have a high immigrant population that doesn’t speak English as their primary language.

Let’s not blame the immigrants for this.

First, there is no official language of the US. Literacy tests can be administered in Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, or whatever language the subject predominantly uses.

Second, the US does not have unusually high ratio of immigrant. That’s a lie that had been created by right-wing bigots. The US is about 14% immigrant, which is not unusual compared to European countries.

Anecdotally, most of the complete dipshits I know are born in the US. The people that manage to immigrate are the individuala who can read and write well enough to understand immigration documents (with the help of a lawyer), and have a decent chunk of money, or necessary skillset to sustain their finances in the US.

It’s a time commitment I’d rather fill with masturbation and videogames.

Yeah. Flag Code complaints get misused almost as much as HIPAA. Flag Code is not a law, it’s a set of recommendations on how to respectfully handle the flag. It’s really only enforced for military personnel, but it is recommended that civilians adhere to it.

Yes, burning a flag is proper disposal, but it should be done privately so not to be seen as a protest. If anyone really cares, Fire departments in the US will do proper flag disposal for free.

This is probably one of the most disrespectful things you can do to a flag though…

Using an LLM to play chess is like using autocorrect to write a novel.

And that’s the big problem with AI right now. People don’t understand what it is, they just want the label slapped on to as many things as possible.

AI is the new IoT, it will be integrated into everything, less than useless for 99.9% of consumers, and yet, still wildly successful.

Here’s to hoping that I never have to find out first hand.

Just a literal Life Pro Tip for anyone still reading, sign up for organ donation. It will cost you nothing, the urban myths about hospitals harvesting the organs out of “locked in” locked in donors are total BS, but the lives you can save are very real.

Wild

That, and tooth pain is particularly bad.

I had a wisdom tooth come in, smash itself against the molar next to it, and then start grinding the nerves together.

Literally blinding pain, like my vision went white and it overrode every other sensation in my body.

That being said, what ultimately helped me cope was a maximum does of ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Fair warning, I am not a doctor, and I was a young healthy man with no liver issues. I was able to take both at the same time and it cut the pain. The two meds work in different ways that compliment each other. This is not a long-term solution, this was to last 3 days for a dental appointment to have both teeth pulled.

Yeah, how long until this idiot cooks this liver too?

Honestly, getting a liver transplant in a week is the most unbelievable part of this story.

I’d imagine that there isn’t a rule explicitly prohibiting this… And also that they would still confiscate it.

Make sure to die in a peat bog, and then give it a few thousand years.

Touché

Totally not going to judge you for showing empathy to animals. My MiL has gone full cat hoarder. House smells like cat shit, there is a thick layer of cat fur on everything, there are multiple pukes or turds in every room of the house. If you can’t manage it, then that’s the problem. She has no real plans to downsize, no limits on the number of cats she’s willing to take in. Ultimately, if she doesn’t change, then when she has an accident or becomes unable to care for them, then they will most likely go to a shelter, and the shelter is probably going to dispatch of them, since taking 9 indoor and 20 or so outdoor cats at once is unfeasible for them to maintain and adopt out.

Just set some limits and have an exit plan.

In that they shed non-stop and will take over your life?

No cats, but I do have 3 bunnies, 2 snakes, 2 spiders and a Leopard gecko.

Get a snake.

Closest thing I can find going back in the thread is this.

You use them in busy public places that require movement. Like a zoo.

Let’s see here… Is it necessary to take your kid to a zoo? Is it necessary to leash your kid at a zoo?

You didn’t even read my last comment.