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skippy

Hakkekage wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

i have eaten at three places here (two mexican one hawaiian) and none have been very good :fuckyouskippyiknowyourgame(

what's the urban hipster population like in Eugene

I don't know, really

I think there are some hipsters like portland, a lot of college kids, some hippies, and some more rural folks

there are a good variety of eating places but they are not good (so far)

Hachface

desc wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

when did salon.com careen over the edge into wall-to-wall bitter conspiracy theories? i seem to remember them being sort-of worth reading a few years ago. now it's all complete garbage

did they adopt the huffpo model and stop paying their contributors?

I don't know if there was a single moment where it went over the edge. The proportion of stuff that I thought was interesting just shrank over the years as the intolerable bullshit grew to fill the space.

It used to be the slightly lesser but decent enough analog to slate.com

Then it slid into histrionic sub-huffpo utter garbage

Salon was superior to Slate for a long time.

But Slate has retained something that resembles editorial discipline while Salon has fallen into shrieking madness.

Slate still sucks, tho.

TTODewback

I demand an elaborate crypt full of deadly traps and a rumor of untold wealths.
If anyone manages to reach the end all they find is a custom placard that says "fuck off" and the entire place place implodes.

syndalis

cptrugged wrote: »

My dad's dog is also named Bear. So the PoI dog makes me smile even more.

my dad's dog is also named bear.

Bear seems to be quite the popular dog name nowadays.

Hakkekage

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Hakkekage wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

i have eaten at three places here (two mexican one hawaiian) and none have been very good :fuckyouskippyiknowyourgame(

what's the urban hipster population like in Eugene

I don't know, really

I think there are some hipsters like portland, a lot of college kids, some hippies, and some more rural folks

there are a good variety of eating places but they are not good (so far)

you've been spoiled for food

Ludious

I used to want to be cremated

but now I want my bones to be fashioned into arrowheads and spear tips and used to hunt down Televangelists

TTODewback

Told guy to just restart his PC.
Hasn't ran update on it in like ever so now its installing a slew of updates
GG

get rekt

desc

Hachface wrote: »

desc wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

when did salon.com careen over the edge into wall-to-wall bitter conspiracy theories? i seem to remember them being sort-of worth reading a few years ago. now it's all complete garbage

did they adopt the huffpo model and stop paying their contributors?

I don't know if there was a single moment where it went over the edge. The proportion of stuff that I thought was interesting just shrank over the years as the intolerable bullshit grew to fill the space.

It used to be the slightly lesser but decent enough analog to slate.com

Then it slid into histrionic sub-huffpo utter garbage

Salon was superior to Slate for a long time.

But Slate has retained something that resembles editorial discipline while Salon has fallen into shrieking madness.

Slate still sucks, tho.

Slate has enough edible junk food now and then that I scroll through it periodically but it's definitely no Atlantic

desc

Salon was best in the ancient Web 1.0 days when it still had a Sex section

Bowen

matt has a problem wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

matt has a problem wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

matt has a problem wrote: »

SniperGuy wrote: »

This sounds like a normal Best Buy interaction to me. They're fairly good about price matching stuff, which is one of the few ways I'll buy stuff there. If it's available in the store and I can find it cheaper online, may as well not bother waiting for shipping since I can get the same price.

I was expecting a rejection, because while it was the identical refrigerator, the model number was a single letter off, Best Buy's was a "B" and Lowes was a "T", likely so Lowes could slap the "Only available at Lowes" tag on it. For a $500 difference I figured they'd look for any reason to deny the price match.

What brand?

Samsung.

Their black stainless looks fucking great.

I think the B and T usually mean where the freezer is? So that might explain the price difference. Either way, awesome.

They both have a double icemaker. It really is the same fridge, both sites have all the same pictures, the dimensions are identical, the internal configuration, the color, even the the "original" prices were identical. Searching Samsung's site, the Best Buy model number gets you a whole page of info while the Lowes one gets you "yeah, that's a fridge we use to sell, but we discontinued it." Lowes just had it listed at 40% off.

Change in model number because it moved to a Best Buy brand? Easy way for Samsung to identify which retailer that product line came from to see if it's an issue with their old build process and new build process?

jakobagger

just went to the doctor and had him clean out my ear with a huge scary metal tube

jesus christ that was a big lump of ear wax clogging up the works, no wonder I've had head and ear aches the last couple days

cB557

tapeslinger

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

happy butt day @TL DR @tapeslinger

butts

Aww thankies

Jacobkosh

desc wrote: »

Salon was best in the ancient Web 1.0 days when it still had a Sex section

didn't Salon back in the before times used to have some kind of celebrated magazine editor Tina Brown type person associated with it

that was back when you could be a celebrated magazine editor

nexuscrawler

Shaz wishing her a happy bday before me

all making me look bad

Shivahn

There is a correlation between eyebrow width and how stressed I am

It is hilarious

(Same with leg hair length)

Dynagrip

Salon got taken off of my RSS feed some time ago. I think Glenn Greenwald was a factor in that decision.

desc

tears-pain-and-gay

The user names are the best part of any screen cap

I recently sent someone something and then noticed at the bottom that the poster was "tittyblaster8000"

Shazkar Shadowstorm

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Hakkekage wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

i have eaten at three places here (two mexican one hawaiian) and none have been very good :fuckyouskippyiknowyourgame(

what's the urban hipster population like in Eugene

I don't know, really

I think there are some hipsters like portland, a lot of college kids, some hippies, and some more rural folks

there are a good variety of eating places but they are not good (so far)

hmm

this looks good

http://izakayameiji.com/

also beer

http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/visit/tasting-room?ageVerified=defaultValue

zepherin

Ludious wrote: »

You know, I like Best Buy's customer service in general as much as I hate Geek Squad specifically.

Interesting fact. I had a federal govt contract with Best Buy once when I was a Fed. Their Gov branch is so disorganized and just not good, it's the only time when that was worst than their standard customer service, in my Fed Tenure. Most of the time vendors gov lines are like 3 seconds to talk to a person and they fix everything, especially if you are putting in the big orders, and if you call as Joe average you have to wait 20 minutes.

Best Buy. Good customer service. For whatever reason.

Jacobkosh

jakobagger wrote: »

just went to the doctor and had him clean out my ear with a huge scary metal tube

jesus christ that was a big lump of ear wax clogging up the works, no wonder I've had head and ear aches the last couple days

the pleasure of watching one's own ear disgorge pound after sticky pound of horrendous wax into a howling machine is borderline erotic

desc

Jacobkosh wrote: »

desc wrote: »

Salon was best in the ancient Web 1.0 days when it still had a Sex section

didn't Salon back in the before times used to have some kind of celebrated magazine editor Tina Brown type person associated with it

that was back when you could be a celebrated magazine editor

This sounds vaguely true

To be honest even then it was second fiddle to the 90s apotheosis that was suck.com (rest in pepperoni)

Ludious

yes...
borderline.

nexuscrawler

Jacobkosh wrote: »

jakobagger wrote: »

just went to the doctor and had him clean out my ear with a huge scary metal tube

jesus christ that was a big lump of ear wax clogging up the works, no wonder I've had head and ear aches the last couple days

the pleasure of watching one's own ear disgorge pound after sticky pound of horrendous wax into a howling machine is borderline erotic

:winky:

Shazkar Shadowstorm

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Shaz wishing her a happy bday before me

all making me look bad

well

tbf i did say butt day

Hachface

Ludious wrote: »

yes...
borderline.

the border in this context is a demilitarized zone

nexuscrawler

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Shaz wishing her a happy bday before me

all making me look bad

well

tbf i did say butt day

*fist shake*

aioua

good morning nerps and slurps

desc

Let me throw a wild curveball your way chat: try cleaning your ears

zepherin

tapeslinger wrote: »

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

happy butt day @TL DR @tapeslinger

butts

Aww thankies

Oh shit, birthday glitter bomb.

desc

Skippy enjoy Applebee's for the rest of your life lmao

P10

desc wrote: »

Let me throw a wild curveball your way chat: try cleaning your ears

*ruptures ear drum with qtip*

TTODewback

I might cooked some smashburgers this weekend. cast iron skillet. when doing a smash burger do you want any oil at all or will that fuck up the crust making?

tapeslinger

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Shaz wishing her a happy bday before me

all making me look bad

It was p cute that you did not remember at all this morning

Elki

desc wrote: »

Let me throw a wild curveball your way chat: try cleaning your ears

Let me live in peace.

jakobagger

P10 wrote: »

everything is so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czY9kWNXDDI

Ludious

TTODewback wrote: »

I might cooked some smashburgers this weekend. cast iron skillet. when doing a smash burger do you want any oil at all or will that fuck up the crust making?

the oil needs to come from the meat. You want a good burger? go big and get some ribeyes and have them ground.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

TTODewback wrote: »

I might cooked some smashburgers this weekend. cast iron skillet. when doing a smash burger do you want any oil at all or will that fuck up the crust making?

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/03/the-food-lab-maximize-flavor-by-ultra-smashin.html

in J. kenji lopez-alt we trust

RMS Oceanic

A controversial North Carolina bill that would prohibit people from using public bathrooms that do not conform to their biological sex has brought transgender rights into the national spotlight. The Onion presents a timeline of transgender rights in America.

1776-2016: Sanctity of American bathrooms remains pure and inviolable
1789: In a huge blow for transgender rights, North Carolina admitted to Union
1959: A fight breaks out between Los Angeles police and transgender patrons at Cooper’s Donuts, a watershed moment indicating that the trans community is now large enough to be afraid of
1966: Dr. Harry Benjamin publishes The Transsexual Phenomenon, a pivotal book detailing how transgender individuals could medically transition from one sex to being completely ostracized by society
1969: Historic riots turn New York’s Stonewall Inn into an LGBT cultural mecca, much to the annoyance of the bar’s everyday regulars who are forced to find a new low-key happy hour spot
1975: Minneapolis is the first city to outlaw discrimination against trans people, forcing the trans community to accept the fact that living in Minnesota might be their best bet
1980: The revised Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders officially recognizes the term “gender identity disorder” in an attempt to be more open-minded about exactly what is wrong with transgender individuals
1993: Virginia man William Meyers, 51, definitively states that he can’t think of any reason why someone would want to do that to themselves
1994: A trans-dedicated AOL chatroom draws thousands of visitors each month, marking the first and last time an AOL chatroom had any positive effect on humanity
2012: Girl Scouts of Colorado welcome anyone identifying as a girl so long as she can fucking move boxes of Thin Mints
2013: Father gently asked not to use word “tranny”
2015: John Boehner does damnedest to maintain neutral facial expression as President Obama talks about transgender rights in State of the Union
2016-2020: Anti-LGBTQ lawmakers forced to get pretty creative

Sir Landshark

syndalis wrote: »

Fuck tombstones.

I am pretty much against being put into the ground. Cremate me, compress my ashes into a perfect diamond, and use it as the focus of a laser that is used to destroy my enemies.

you can still have a tombstone with cremation