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!tomswifty@midwest.social for Tom Swifty jokes

I was already trying not to spend money on anything, so I’m pretty set.

Makes sense, I’ve done food and wine training for years.

The only thing I can truly control is my own decision-making.

I can rumble, but have never needed to repressurize my ears - they’re “leaky”.

I just learned from another thread that mine is… fantasizing smells and flavors, and being able to mentally combine them to know what two ingredients will taste like together before I combine them. Apparently not everyone can do this?

I’m sure they sleep at least a quarter of that time.

I use iBroadcast — you upload your own library, then stream it anywhere. Free tier has no ads but a fixed bitrate; premium is available. Dev team is super responsive, too!

I thought of a better one: low-competition positions

low-barrier labor

low-investment labor

fungible labor

Where he ruminates on the finger pointing-flicking being like the lights on construction barriers flashing? And he meets Eliza and rubs the foundation off his thumbs? I’d say that’s where it kicks into gear, yeah.

Tom Waits, maybe?

If you only read the pool scene, you didn’t really get into the meat of the book. That said, if the content of the pool scene was a big turn-off for you, there will be several other scenes throughout the book that will also be big turn-offs.

That self-defense is not a justification for lethal force.

Surprisingly little, so far. But I’m not retiring anytime soon, so even if I lose now I hope it’ll be just a four-year blip.

Adam Levin’s The Instructions

Ecclesiastes

Philip K. Dick’s Galactic Pot-Healer — actually most Dick outside of A Scanner Darkly

Neal Stephenson’s… well, anything, but especially Zodiac, Anthem, and Diamond Age

Brian Daley’s Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood and The Blind Assassin

Anything by Ursula LeGuin, ever

Hugh McLeod’s Ignore Everybody

Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain series

Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Trilogy

They have the same amount, but on the rocks is stronger because it’s less diluted.

I’m a sucker for all kinds of pickles on pizza, especially peperoncini or pickled red onions.

No. The games are more fun. There’s so much variety available: A lot more games that you won’t like but a lot more games that you will like, too, you just have to find them.

I don’t like lootbox shovelware, either, but you know what? I just don’t play those games. I play other ones, new and old, that I actually like. So can you.

Seniority is the stand-in for merit. Until merit can be evaluated, it’s presumed that someone more senior in a position has more experience, training, and connections in that position, and thus higher merit.