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TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Random Stranger posted:

Oh hey, there's a shittier thing I noticed this week: google has started returning shopping results as the default. As in pricing and store ratings, notnjust shops getting pushed to the top of the search results. Google was already nearly unusable, now it's worse.

I feel like I almost want to go back to a 1994 yahoo style curated yellow pages for the Internet instead of this.

kagi, yo. it’s great. if you can’t get your employer to pay for it, you can cheat it on trials w/ a burner email every 100 searches. kind of a hassle but worth it

^^^highly recommended. give it a shot the next time google is massively pissing you off

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TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022


democrats finally realizing the value of appealing to angry old people :haibrower:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

thathonkey posted:

theres only 1 good energy drink and you can brew it yourself at home :colbert:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Outrail posted:

Well why even bother then?!

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TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

energy drinks have their place, and that place is when you’re standing around in the desert with nothing better to do than chug them ‘till some loser starts puking

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

:lmao: if you drink that garbage otherwise

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Large Testicles posted:

i gave up drinking a lil over a month ago and my sleep schedule sucks now, it's the only thing i dont like about not drinking

if you were a heavy drinker you’re probably still in the withdrawal phase

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

kiwid posted:

Why does AI suck so much?

learned it from us

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

motherfucker. god’s perfect trail runner, the saucony switchback 2, has been discontinued

rip to a real one

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Wendigee posted:

Warm water good for healthy as they say outside the US for some reason.

don’t wanna drink that cold water. that’s how you end up in the chat thread asking for medical advice

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

ya’ll are crazy. shop those sales and learn to cook and you can eat real good for cheap. get to know the vendors at your farmers market and start working out deals for their ugly produce. see what they have going on at salvage grocers. set your price point and don’t be picky. that’s all you gotta do

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

if you have pencilhands cash, consider staging at a nice restaurant or two. you’ll learn a lot about how to eat well and how to respect workers and poor people

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

pencilhands posted:

I used to be a waiter so I always tip heavy :)

:haibrow:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Nettle Soup posted:

I'm curious so I did a bit of working out. Pizza, the cheapest food.

A pepperoni pizza in Tesco is anywhere from 97p to the average of £3. You can go up to £6.50 there, but that's excessive. A pre-cooked one from the shop around the corner is between £6 and £10, and they used to be hand-made. I haven't been in there in a while.


Making two pizzas at home costs 95p for the dough. It's best made a week in advance - Actually, no. It's £1 now, because olive oil has doubled in price. It used to be £7.60, then £10something, now it's £13.40, wonderful. I'm also buying yeast in bulk, so it might cost more to in sachets. This dough generally does two of us two meals each, dinner and breakfast. You can buy pre-made pizza dough, but it's £2.50 a go.

Going without the 20g olive oil would save you 27p, so let's do that, because almost £14 is a lot to outlay at once even if you get a lot out of one bottle.

A block of the cheapest cheddar is around £3. You probably use about 20-30p~ of that? so let's say £1 so far, hoping you already had it in the fridge. Also add the cheapest mozzerella. Good lord, they're up to a quid each now at Tesco, but still 69p at Aldi. Hope you're not somewhere where a single Tesco is the only place to buy groceries, like this place was for decades. You can say "go to a farmers market and buy wonk veg", but the market here is on once a week and their veg is more expensive than Tesco's, because it's all just imported poo poo. Also good luck if you don't drive! Very few people have that option.

The cheapest pre-made pizza sauce in Tesco is £1.80, so we'll make out own. 35p for a tin of tomatoes, 55p for a head of garlic. 12p for an onion, if you can eat those, I can't. Hopefully you have salt, herbs and spices in the cupboard already. Some chilli flakes and oregano can go a long way.

A pack of pepperoni is £1.09 from Tesco, they're big pizzas, at 630g of dough so we'll use it all. It's not a huge pack.

We're up to £3.80 for two large pepperoni pizzas, made with the cheapest ingredients and no olive oil, extra toppings, or the cost of cooking/driving. You need a stand mixer or kitchen space to prepare it, and space in the fridge to store it while it's proofing. The dough has to be made at least a day or two in advance, preferably a week.

Once you've got it out the fridge and it's warmed up, you still have to let stretch it, let it rest a little, top it and then put it in the oven. Add another 27p if you want oil in your pizza dough, which you do. By the time it's cooked you've been home from work for about an hour.



Add £3 for the cheese instead if you have to buy the whole thing at once.

Or you can buy two frozen pizzas for 97p each and heat them up when you get home. Or even better, pay somebody else to make it, pick it up on the way home and don't worry any of this poo poo. Neither of them will be as good, but at the end of a long shift...?

You can say "people should live off rice and beans" forever, but people don't want to live off rice and beans. We're back to the Road to Wigan Pier and I'm arguing with VAST on facebook again.

you could also just choose to eat something with less expensive ingredients

e: sorry, forgot i was talking to goons. yeah, you’re not gonna do much better than store brand on pizza and chicken nuggets

TrashMammal fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 25, 2024

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

big mean giraffe posted:

Weird how despite growing up poor and both my parents working full time we still cooked meals at home and didn't eat fast food, even though that's impossible

sorry, but have you considered that this youtuber says you’re wrong? :smuggo:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

speaking of things getting shittier for no good reason, i’m staring at the label of this fancy rear end 32oz bottle of mixed berry syrup that i picked up at grocery outlet for $1.47 and you know what they’re marketing this poo poo as? super fruit syrup. why’s everything gotta be a super fruit these days? it’s just blackberries and raspberries. first ingredient sugar. gonna be real good on this homemade french toast though

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

what the hell is a super fruit anyway? why does that include apparently every berry in existence?

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

burger family just trying to afford a house in trudeau’s canada

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

oxo peelers are crap. gotta go swiss if you want something decent

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

thathonkey posted:

encarta 99 fit on one disc and was dope as hell :colbert: i remember it had this little fantasy setting trivia game built in that i used to circumvent non-gaming time on the family computer growing up

(yes it was in the kitchen)

mindmaze was good

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

bad news if they’re finally pulling tricks to up measured engagement in drive :whitewater:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

goons all about that dr bronner’s. the time cube of soap

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

anonumos posted:

The grocery store gopher subbed meth crystals for the menthol I requested...what now?

apply it directly to your butthole for a burning sensation and a little pick-me-up

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

operating systems that don’t pester you with boomer news are in fact less suck. sorry if that offends you for some reason

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022


maybe try nobara? it’s mostly preconfigured for all of the game stuff. only needs tweaking for edge cases for the most part
https://nobaraproject.org

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

i guess opening your mouth nice and wide and begging for more poo poo to be shoveled in it is an option too

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

credburn posted:

What was the "height" of Suprnova? I stopped using it around 2006, but in those days there wasn't really a moment my modem wasn't torrenting something and I've still never gotten a warning, not back then, and not now (though I don't really torrent much now). I never use a VPN, I use Comcast, how come I never get yelled at??

that’s how stats work. sounds crazy, but it’s true :spooky::ms::spooky:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

DemihumanResources posted:

I have many linux torrents, thank you. Also I trust Proton more than my ISP for tracking me. And I occasionally lock myself out of some cloud machines with ban by IP

do you pay for things in stores with either a debit or credit card?

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

went to the drugstore for a glasses repair kit—specifically, the “deluxe” one that was advertised as including nose pads. everything in the package clear and on display except for the pads, all hidden away behind the label. popped it open, the pads are just pieces of foam tape :mad:

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022


have you tried to reserve a campsite within the past decade? this might actually be an improvement to the bullshit they’ve pushing since the park service’s “digital transformation”

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

mawarannahr posted:

i never have, but I don't think a smartphone should be required. I've known some crusty trekkers who don't use smartphones and it's ridiculous to condition Access to Nature on owning a phone that's powered by Google or Apple.

sucks, but currently all campsites are reserved months in advance by people who only show up half of the time. nothing impromptu possible at all anymore

best solution would be to toss all this computer nonsense, but that genie’s never going back in the bottle

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

yeah, lots of stuff out there if you just give up on national parks

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

run on sentience posted:

The YouTube android app currently has a non-removable banner suggesting users join the depraved anime pervert fandom.

finally figured out which cash cows have the most milk

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Giant Metal Robot posted:

3-12% improvement in MPG, depending on how much stop and go traffic you drive in, shown in repeated tests both professional and by YouTubers.

On a base level, I think you start saving gas as long as the car is stopped for at least 7 seconds, although some say at least 30.

also, if you gotta deal with a squirrelly situation at at a light or whatever, you can bypass it by pumping the break pedal once. tap over to s-drive while you’re at it and you’re pretty much set to jump out the gate like an rear end in a top hat (unless you have one of those weak rear end non-turbo 2.0l subarus)

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

quite frankly, every engine that needs more than a simple lobstersaurus for service is a steaming pile

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Woolie Wool posted:

lmao no these were sedans and the mini-minivans, hippies don't give a poo poo about driving fast

maybe not them mountainfolk hippies

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I don't care, I hate it and I want it to go away. It should be an option that is easy to turn off for the stubborn morons like me.

you can get little override dongles that patch into your canbus for that. if you don’t have the chops to install one yourself, guaranteed you can get it done at any shop with a giant trump flag out front

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

so is twitch like the wheel of pain from conan except for work safe pornography?

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Houle posted:

Before this wasn't it to help digitize old books?

to train ai models with, yes

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TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

who would have guessed it was mechanical turks all along?

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