Yep. Our Prius is getting old. We have been looking at what's available for smaller vehicles.

It's a Prius or some crossover that loses fuel efficiency and has similar interior space.

We can't do EVs as our apartment management doesn't want to invest in chargers (even though we're in L.A.)

I honestly expected fuel efficient smaller cars to be way more popular than they are.

But between marketing and cheap gas, huge head poppers are the norm.

One other advantage of a small vehicle is a small tank. I don't worry about finding the best deal. 50c savings isn't much for 8 gallons.

We planned this ahead, but we schedule a MetroLink day with our car-happy friends this weekend as part of my wife's birthday. And already a friend was like, "well guess it's time to learn the train system here."

I feel like many American kids of central European roots grew up with some combination of sausage, potato, and cabbage.

When I moved out of the house it was the first meal I leared to cook since it's cheap, simple, and delicious.

I want to say a snarky comment of, good thing I drive a Prius.

But a Prius can't haul 40,000 pounds of food cross country.

Enthusiastic Consent gets in the way of their kinks.

Guy sounds like someone who needs his friends to hold him back at the Waffle House parking lot because the friends know he will get his ass kicked.

Or how to get a donkey down a minaret.

One was built by a bunch of nerds, the other is mad at a bunch of nerds.

(obvious joke) I don't believe you. You had to have flipped the side that holds the drawer at least once. That no matter how much you squint at the tiny picture and make sure the holes go in the the right direction you still flipped it and didn't realize it until you tried to fit the rest of it.

There was a huge moral panic when some people lied that RPG games made a kid commit suicide. But yeah, actual harm and sucide that can be prevented? Total Yawn-fest man.

Said it on YouTube - but re-reading Jingo now. Don't know what world events is making me worry? Anyone know what is going on that would make Jingo relevant again?

(I read it a half a dozen times around 2003 to ~2005. Again some weird world event happened.)

Pac-Man took Ms. Pac-Man's fame and reviews of "It's a much better game" to heart.

I wish blatant lies had consequences.

Drawing of a pastry saying I AM SALT BREAD!

I live in a Korean neighborhood and they sell them here.

Fair warning they seem sentient and out to hug you.

You forgot Bulgogi Tacos!

The fate of NFTs was what I thought Bitcoins fate was going to be. A quick cash grab and crash. Hence why I sold the ~50 I had mined when it hit $100.

I think about that anytime I grumble about work.

Given that everything is a lie with this man. We must be already running low?

I just learned about Seymour's grandfather.

When I saw the cabbage my immediate reaction was, "Feed me, Seymour!"

These fucks really think it's a video game. Heat up some Pizza Rolls, play some matches, and then call it a day when you're bored.

When they changed the line from Purple to D I made a cranky remark and my wife was like, "What are you talking about? You can tell people you ride the D all the time."

My wife usually "just tolerates" my sophomoric jokes, but for a rare moment she went down to my level.

I am very insistent with my wife that we never succumb to a "cheaper place in the country" when we hit retirement.

I want to stay in the city and within a short walk to a grocery store and a restaurant or two.

Even if we can't walk we will have services.

Yeah! Why blow up children abroad when we can be kidnapping them here in the to good ole' US of A.

America First!

These things are all over here in Koreatown (Los Angeles).

Also I really hate being in stupid cyber punk. Instead of guy with a Mohawk and a bionic arm called "High Voltage" we get a smiley ass go-cart named "James."

Maybe this is why I am "comfortably middle-class" and not "stupidly rich" but there is a LOT I am not willing to do to make a buck. This is one of them.

I think it's pronounced like GIF.

Admittedly most of my experience is Italian YouTubers farming reactions for content.

I get that learning good techniques is a good thing (using pasta water to get a creamy texture). I just get miffed that people get annoyed for US using cheap easy to get bacon over expensive hard to get Guanciale.

The best internet food discourse is putting bacon in your carbonara or pineapple on your pizza. I get a sick joy out of Italians getting upset on modifying Italian recipes based on what is cheap and available to the cook.

I would argue it should be toward the top. That's another data point to argue that the presidency for Trump is all about enriching himself, his families, and his cronies.

That most of his decisions are not for the interest of the US or Americans but for him.

At the end of the day, we are all selfish little pricks. So if you can move the needle with self interest do it.