ChickenLadyLovesLife

Donald Trump has done similar things.

Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that's totally similar to turning down a raise.

In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.

Four years of "Merrick Garland is a professional and he is just making sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed before prosecuting trump".

Unrelated, but my elderly uncle drove a minivan with an automatic transmission that he drove like it was a manual. He would start from every stop by putting the shifter into "1" and then "2" and then "D" and then back to "N" when he stopped. He was a former Navy pilot (A-1 Skyraiders) and I guess he just couldn't accept the loss of control that goes with an automatic. It doesn't seem like this could possibly have been good for the transmission, but I dunno.

I remember years ago seeing a video about a company that was supposably developing tactile touchscreens. There was a layer underneath the LCD layer that could be puffed out with some kind of fluid to form bumps where the buttons were shown. Nothing has come of this, unsurprisingly.

My favorite thing is the cop cars that have an actual fucking laptop set up next to the driver. Nothing distracting about that, no sir.

"Fascistic" means like fascism. This isn't like fascism, it is fascism.

My local Shop-Rite still has cheap-ass chicken, at least. They've always had these packs of chicken (breast, legs or thighs) of about 6 or 7 pounds that cost $10 total. Thank god I like hot dogs, too -- stores still damn near give those away.

there doesnt seem to be that many using ACA marketplace.

I went two years after I got laid off in 2019 having to pay for private health insurance. I got one of those ridiculous catastrophe-only policies with like a $7000 annual deductible and was still paying about $400 a month. I priced policies on the ACA marketplace, with the same shitty deductibles but three times the premium as what I was paying. I just don't get why anyone would buy insurance there. Maybe the ACA policies are more likely to actually pay out in case of illness, I dunno.

One difference I know is the fact is that my private insurance did not allow me to get out of the mandated fine you supposedly had to pay if you didn't have coverage, whereas the ACA policies do get you out of the fine. But for whatever reason, I never had to pay that fine.

beef products very rarely (because it’s fucking expensive now)

I was in Acme a few days ago looking through the steak section. There was a porterhouse close to expiration on sale for ... $54 fucking dollars. It was a little over one pound. I'd be astonished to pay that much for a steak at a fucking steakhouse, cooked and brought to my table with sides and drinks.

If I want the taste of steak these days, I buy bottom round and flatten the shit out of it with a tenderizing mallet.

She's me but in reverse. Benjamin Bussin'.

Any day I learn some Dutch is a good day.