Great point. It’s probably why I enjoyed Parks & Rec and Brooklyn 99 more than other shows in the same vein. Even 30 Rock only kept me watching because of characters like Kenneth.

Humans are insanely creative sometimes… I’m doing my part! One frame drawn!

Monkey paw: your account gets flagged and eventually you go to jail

I feel like I haven’t seen much Indian-Mexican fusion at all. These look fantastic!

I love this perspective! Thanks for sharing!

I was surprised too, but I’ve also worked for companies that used hardware and software multiple generations behind…

Perhaps a Rotational Monarchy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_of_Malaysia#:~:text=The system originated in the,advised by his Royal Council.

You can’t just say stuff like that without committing to share pics! 😜

For sure! Getting a halfway decent broth is difficult!

Looks great! How was the taste and texture?

I recently (over)cooked a bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin (all from Costco lol) in the air fryer, and it was very forgiving.

This must be the only explanation. Even if you’ve heard it 100 times, that joke is so good that it should force a smirk at minimum.

This is exactly it. They don’t care about your post or you or anyone really. For them, it just feels good to bring down others.

Wow! You’ve articulated my thoughts about the series exactly…

Agreed! I was mildly pleased by some of the bean memes, but this kind of clever but absurd wordplay really flicks my bean.

Highly recommend getting back into reading. I stopped reading books for a while and completely forgot the joy of it. Don’t be disappointed if your reading discipline isn’t what it used to be. It’s like a muscle and I am still in the process of re-training it.

One of the best tools that helped me was signing up for my library’s digital service (Libby). It’s so easy and accessible that it kind of blew my mind. I also invested in a refurbished backlit e-reader that could display the epub files that I borrowed from the library… Utter magic!

Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.

I’m rooting for you, Gen Z. Do and say the things that previous generations were trained not to do…

This is completely “eccentric uncle” energy, and I love it.

Stone fruit allergy gang rise up… Those look worth the hours of itchy throat…

You bring up legitimate concerns, but I think the bigger point here is that the Fediverse is not Reddit, nor should it be. I find that fragmentation mitigates the system manipulation and “gaming” that is often tied to people who rely on exposure.