The marketing of fear into suburbia has been extraordinarily successful. It's remarkable.

Those are awesome! I especially like that first one.

Pure pandemonium!

Outstanding! And you can totally use that as a base to make all kinds of savory grits for dinner. Add some sauteed onion and diced ham, then top with a fried egg. Or just have it as is - that's going to be a delicious side. Yum!

Huh. I thought they were a configuration management database. TIL!

Now apparently a martial arts center, and the barber shop is now a hearing aid store.

I think @tastinghistory.bsky.social made one of these recipes? I might be remembering wrong, but it kinda rings a bell.

While living in the Bay Area we once had neighbors that had just moved from Chicago. They were very concerned about the "orientals" in the neighborhood stealing and eating their dog. They moved back to Chicago within a year. Super weird and creepily racist - glad they left!

"I went to Boston...once."

She is, alas, right. I wish it was otherwise, but we just aren't collectively ready.

My late wife was a social worker and a grief counselor, and I don't need some weird "AI" version of her in my pocket to know what she would think of all of this. Honestly, this kind of bullshit will cause more damage than any brief "comfort" in might provide to someone. Such a stupid stupid idea.

Just madlibs for computers.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

<aide whispers in ear>

Uh, never mind.

seatguru.com can help avoid that, but I once got the missing window treatment despite that. Sometimes you just get some weird plane that isn't accounted for and man, that sucks! (Signed, someone who always gets a window seat)

This is so good I'm going to unlike it just so I can like it again.

It is indeed terrible. At least it's not Nickelback.

As someone snarked, all but Ted Cruz - no one can stand that guy.

They are at least self-consistent. Delusional and ridiculous, but consistently so. Also: yeesh, what a bunch of nutjobs!

Outstanding!