Chemistring

Also a valid option.

We're in our "reality is optional" era. All reboots and sequels are AI hallucinations and therefore nothing but a collective fever dream.

Rebecca is annoyed that her theoretical kids still get invited to their friends' houses, but she is not allowed to come over anymore.

*Somebody* is obviously no longer invited to other people's homes for very good reasons and is unbelievably bitter about it.

The eternal fight between self-patterning yarn and fancy stitch patterns 🤣

This is exactly the sort of shot that makes curling worth watching.

What is physics?!?
How is friction?!?

I did not expect the US Government to use knockoff "Who's That Pokemon" as a CAPTCHA when submitting tax info. 🤨

Yeah, you don't exactly need to be psychic to see where things have been going, but sometimes the offhand snarky commentary from 4+ years ago is painfully on the nose for current events.

But there are also Christmas non-bastard episodes! :)

Per incident.

There's no one-and-done payment here.

Probably both, although as someone who has not yet listened to It Could Happen Here, I feel like Behind the Bastards is probably less depressing?

More of history's greatest villains (some of whom you didn't know), with occasional Nostradamus shots on the future by Robert.

Moments later:
Sophie: "Robert's not allowed to predict things, guys."

Are we sure about that? Like, really *sure*?

Robert Evans: "Our world war 3 might have started by the time this episode drops!"

Sometimes, being a few years behind in the Behind the Bastards archive is...more worrying than usual. (And it's usually pretty worrying)

My congratulations and/or condolences. 🫡

Somebody should have told the race announcer about the brewery thing. I was briefly excited because he reminded everyone to pick up their post-race beer and kolaches and called out the brewery...but we were all of us fooled.

"New this year, we've added two food lines!"

My kindred in fun runs, it is still literally faster for me to *walk home* and make breakfast than wait in line for my free kolaches. And it means I get home before my hips start screaming at me.

I am mildly annoyed that the last of the 5k walks I participate in has also dropped their brewery sponsorship (no more post-race beers), but can they PLEASE get at least ONE drink sponsor that ISN'T an energy drink (or hot coffee)?

I also want a fancy drink, but not heart palpitations, thx.

Sometimes the things you love die. Sometimes it's after a good long life, and sometimes a tragedy takes them too soon, but you need to realize when they're dead, give yourself time to mourn, and move on.

Do NOT keep burying them in the old Pet Semetary, you know they always come back w̶̛̜̝̻̚r̵̼̀o̸̘͊̈̒n̵͇̄̈̈̑g̸̮̲̦̀͝!

New professional goal (I didn't know I had) unlocked! Coworker in another location spent 15 minutes post-meeting showing me parts of their mineral collection after cool geology was mentioned during the meeting.

Bonus, now I know about blue halite crystals!

We weren't a casserole family, so this is new information.

We did throw a can of cream of mushroom soup plus a bit of water over a pack of pork shops before baking, but then we're back to gravy (sauce) at the end.

Most casserole recipes that I've seen call for condensed canned soup (aka soup base), not ready-to-eat soup, but there's a soup to sauce pipeline in there.

I'm leaving basic broths out of this since those can usually be substituted by water, and then we hit the soup vs beverage boundary.

No, no, this is a valid point. Is the chili eaten as a standalone dish, or is it served as a sauce on top of something else? Sloppy Joes, chili dogs, chili cheese fries - all of these are sauce use cases.

Chili: the platypus of wet foods

Now a t-shirt
jaunty.art/product/be-k...

Today I sat in a pointless meeting for almost 3 hrs in which people argued over incorrect math done with mostly imaginary numbers, and later had to rip out ~20 rows of knitting because I can't be trusted to count a stripe sequence up and down at the same time.

I'd say it's all Greek to me, but that's still a problem when it should be Latin! 🤣

I looked a bit lower and don't think crop tops are standard military issue either, but what would I know? 🤷‍♀️

I think we've all collectively realized that Microsoft is only going to keep making their products worse, so even if it's just speculation, it's only a matter of time before at least some of it ends up being true anyway.

We're getting the disappointment out of the way early.

On reflection, "what if the same logo as Win 11 but in red" should have been a clue. Microslop does love at least a trivial rebrand between versions, and I doubt they'd abandon their signature blue.

Ah, but how much really changes if you replace "Windows 12" with "Windows 11"? Questionable hardware requirements and AI shoved into every conceivable space that isn't filled with advertisements, with a death drive towards subscription at all costs...it's all still there!

TEA is an even higher stakes risk... triethylamine or triethanolamine? Usually the latter in my world, but not always.

They haven't even managed to successfully finish "deploying" Windows 11, FFS.

Ah well. I've already decided I'm sticking to Win10 on my desktop until it dies completely, and will probably play with converting my ancient laptop to Linux as a trial run for what comes after.