Sure, unknown, and likely not at all related to this: Russian spy ship escorted away from area with critical cables in Irish Sea and the fact that Russia has said they have a free hand to destroy “enemy” undersea cables.

Perhaps we’ll never know what happened to those cables in the Baltic Sea /s

Black Mirror didn’t do that one, but American Horror Stories did:

https://screenrant.com/american-horror-stories-season-3-episode-2-daphne-ending-explained/

Which is surprising because that show normally kinda sucks. Got roped into watching it last year, and I forgot I was watching AHS halfway through and almost thought it was a new Black Mirror.

It’s like we’re on a speed run toward the near-future Charlie Brooker warned us about.

But TBF, “Hang the DJ” was one of the few Black Mirror episodes that wasn’t a total downer.

More like:

1. Burn it all down
2. Declare himself king of the ashes

A department led by anthropomorphized ketamine and cocaine. What could go wrong?

(No idea if Ramaswamy is on coke, but he sure gives off coked-up, business school frat boy vibes)

(Referencing what appears to be a Captain America shirt he’s wearing in the booking photo)

Yes, that’s exactly what Steve Rogers would have done. /s

I was thinking it but didn’t want to say it.

I’ve seen those both on YouTube and at festivals. They’re pretty cool.

Personally, I don’t even like opening a can of biscuits because of the ‘pop’, so I don’t know how I’d feel about using one of those at home. lol

I do prefer to pan pop, but sometimes I’m just lazy and want to throw it in the microwave and only press one button.

With a 218 majority, that means 100% of the Republicans have to toe the line.

They’re already working on that. Seems they want to go after anyone who doesn’t toe the line.

Tommy Tuberville threatens to end career of any GOP senator who blocks Matt Gaetz

I did eventually learn that (read it somewhere), but by that point, I’d started using the air fryer. I’m also not above eating cold pizza straight out of the fridge lol.

Air fryer is the best

It really is. I was late to the air fryer game assuming they were just another kitchen gimmick, but once I caved to peer pressure and bought one, I can’t imagine not having one.

but I find it works way better with a reduced power setting and a little longer

I think that’s what the “Pizza” button on mine does. You can hear it kicking on and off at a weird cadence similar to but more frequent than defrost, so I assume that’s how it works.

Frying in a stovetop pan can work for hand tossed or thin pizza

I’ve never tried that, but we have baked deep dish style in a cast iron frying pan.

The pizza button works pretty well (I think it varies the power kind of like defrost does), but civilized people should always either eat leftover pizza cold or reheat it in the air fryer lol.

Mid 2000’s microwave. Has buttons for popcorn, pizza, potato, bacon, and beverage.

Maybe I’m remembering early/beta Teams with rose tinted spectacles, but at the very least the silver lining was that I no longer needed to keep a separate Windows machine running just for work IM.

I even tried adding it to Citrix, but it refused to install on a server version of Windows.

We used to use it before switching to Google Workspace (don’t get me started on how much I hate that), and Teams wasn’t too bad. But it had two things going for it then:

• It was replacing Skype for Business which never should existed because it was so awful. Compared to SfB, literally anything was an improvement.
• At the time, it was basically a Slack clone that didn’t have everything and the kitchen sink bolted on yet and was decently lightweight if you used the browser version.

That’s why I’m trying to block out all this and enjoy this last month and a half as best I can.

If you’re a rich asshole, everywhere is your Utah.

I’ve said before (and will say again) that US elections are like our national-scale county fairs: idiots that your normally never see come out of the woodwork.

Update: Found the banner. Thanks, Wayback Machine!

Wait until you hear about the Windows file copy dialog.

xkcd 612