Kolanaki

I need to know if I am stupid or crazy or what here...

As far as I am aware, non-prepared food items no longer have sales tax or a snack tax like they did when I was a kid. The only taxes I know I would be paying for a canned soda would be the CRV/California Redemption Tax, which is a flat $0.10 per aluminum can ($0.15 for glass bottle).

If the can of NOS is priced at $1.98, I expect the total price to be $2.08. However, the price ends up coming out to $2.21. Where the fucking hell is the other goddam $0.13 coming from? Are they charging me the fucking bag fee even when I don't get bags?

I know it is classified as a tax and not just the price being mislabeled because when I pay for it using foodstamps, I am only actually charged $1.98 period since the system automatically removes taxes from the payment (I only see this reflected by the SNAP balance, not the POS system at the store, BTW). It's still disconcerting to clearly see a discrepancy in what is attempting to be charged, tho.

Is there some other tax I am not aware of or something? Everywhere I encounter this happening does not have itemized receipts (which I find pretty scummy), so I can't just find out by looking at that.

Awkward title probably, but lemme explain:

The question is "This piece of French architecture was finished on January 26, 1887." You know this is the Eiffel Tower. But when you buzz in and give the response, you say:

"Who is the Eiffel Tower?"

Would you be awarded the points for being correct, or docked the points for being incorrect since you didn't say "WHAT is the Eiffel Tower?"

IMO the worst feeling is when your finger goes through the toilet paper and you end up going up your own poopy ass. 😖

This is more for my console friends out there; maybe even Playstation specific because I haven't so much as touched an Xbox since the 360.

Do you prefer Performance Mode or Quality Mode? I'm really curious to know if anyone even uses Quality Mode. Whatever you use, what kinds of games are you usually playing, and why do you prefer the mode you prefer?

I am 100℅ Performance Mode, personally. The only thing I could really play in Quality Mode without being bothered by the low FPS is like Civilization or a card game. If I have to actually move a character around, I can not stand for less than 60fps. I will happily sacrifice everything that makes a game look good to make it run smooth as butter. But I do tend to like action games and especially PVP. Every millisecond matters.

And if so, are they unique to the animals they live on or is it pretty much the same as ours?

Growing up, I didn't really question why this band would be played along side Nirvana, Bush, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, etc. because my radio station of choice was not just grunge, but also "adult alternative." So it would play pop shit, too, sometimes.

But I still, to this day, often find U2 listed among grunge artists, or their songs get played on grunge playlists. The fuck? How is this shit grunge? It doesn't fit in any way! It doesn't have the sound, it doesn't have the style, shit it doesn't even have the same emotional resonance. It's happy and hopeful.

Let's imagine that organs can be perfectly grown in a lab and installed into a body without any chance of rejection or other complications usually associated with organ transplant.

You, a perfectly healthy adult human, go to the doctor and have them put a second heart in your chest that is connected to the circulatory system with your original heart.

What would be the effects of this? Could it even be done in this hypothetical situation at all?

Let's say I took a bunch of different characters from various media; a head, 2 arms, 2 legs and a torso, glued them together and then traced over to create a more homogenized image... Is that a new thing? A remix? Or ripping other's work off?

I've just had this idea for a while (wanna try making my fursona from photos of a dog for the head and my own body for the body) and got curious if this proposed technique was done using others' material would be a violation or if it would be more like a remix.

I just randomly remembered something about Steam coming to PlayStation, in a capacity where you could just access your chats/groups and upload content to your media center (not playing/streaming games at all) which made me wonder why it's not still a thing, but I can't find a single fuckin' thing about this... Did... Did I just make this shit up subconsciously? 🤨