First you have to put a regular stew in an old copper still (if you have tomato paste in your stew it also polishes the copper too!). Mix in a bit of Meth+Tylenol to make methanol, which will blind you for a day if you drink the heads and tails of the distilled stew.

I will say that VLC, which isn’t in a rounded square is one of the most recognizable icon in my launchpad. But also, it’s a literal traffic cone. And I never hunt for it because I remember its name.

My launchpad in general is like 60% rounded squares and 40% whatever the developer wanted to do. Patchwork, gemini2, AmorphusDiskMark, HandBrake, Ryujinx, blackmagic disk speed test, supernote partner, vintage story etc. It’s more frustrating to me how inconsistent the iconography is since I never use the icons to figure out what I want to open and wildly different looking icons don’t look well in the dock. Spotlight search (or specifically Raycast) is what I use to open apps 95% of the time, so I might be a bit outside the norm. If I had to scroll through the 8 pages of my launchpad apps every time I wanted to open an app, I’d just throw my computer out the window.

I figured that at this point, app icon design is like website favicon design. Superfluous and unreliable for remembering what it belongs to considering designs change so often.

The issue with this framing is that I’m not sure if I’ve seen Apple apps all together on my computer ever. They might be a set of similar looking app icons but they aren’t viewed together like Adobe apps. They’re alphabetized in the apps folder and are in separate sections on my dock.

I assume that’s not what you want because you’d hold any amount of water for someone perpetuating a genocide. That’s not even taking into account that the efficacy of voting and getting your choice of genocidaire is highly dependent on what state you live in. The discussions sucks out all the oxygen from actionable things that might actually solve problems.

That’s why I said “huge swath of people like you”. In groups, we have the power to solve these issues, but instead, you would rather make a choice between murderers and blame those who don’t want murderers in charge at all

Without US money and US bombs, the genocide couldn’t continue.

Contrary to what you believe, the US is in fact trying to be world police and are succeeding in that mission. 128 military bases in 55 countries. Russia has military bases in 12 other countries and China has 3. The UK has 13.

Do you think it’s more effective to try to convince anti-genocide people to become a bit more okay with genocide rather than joining their side and remove both ICE murder and genocide together?

Genocide is only inevitable because a huge swath of people like you agree that it is something that isn’t too important to fundamentally change.

Fell for it implied they wanted more than treats for themselves, which I’m not sure is the case.

Cowbee might say that great man theory isn’t real, but I think they’re a real great person

Woah, I didn’t know Benn Jordan made videos about audio ;)

Out of a cannon

It’s probably that everything they share to their child or grandchild is met with a “that’s AI” response and it’s frustrating to not get a “haha that’s funny, grandma. Nice find!” That beast (an addictive routine of sharing and getting nice responses) is being starved emotionally and there’s no way to get it back, so might as well leave Facebook.

Kind of tangential, but the Reddit community I was in made sure to auto-block all mentions of people asking where to find food/diapers and what gas stations have gas and where people could charge their phone during Helene. Mods said they were just following in r/ashevilles footsteps, but it felt like it did way more harm to real people looking for help for the sake of keeping the subreddit tidy. Fuck Reddit and especially fuck those subreddits.

I also built a Gopher/Gemini text-only website around that time for completely different reasons, but I agree that more websites should be like this. Half the time I can’t load modern web pages is because my network ad blocker breaks load bearing trackers. I’ve since switched to the Obsidian plugin DigitalGarden, which lets me convert obsidians markdown structure to a website in a way that’s super simple to a non-web-dev like me.

Try whole grilled onion and you’ll leave animal style behind with the tourists.

Me whenever someone tries to say that In N Out fries are the best while dunking them in a gallon of ketchup. Good fries should stand on their own.

Oh my god Chinese bitter melon. During lockdown, I wanted to try cooking something new every week and ended up with a Chinese bitter melon dish and, not only did the shallow fried Thai chilis in the recipe make the air unbreathable, but the entire dish was probably the most bitter thing I’ve ever tasted. Though I still get the feeling like it might be better in a different dish cooked by someone who is familiar with it and likes it. I don’t like disliking foods. Finally starting to be okay with olives now.

That arm and hammer toothpaste was such a surprise

Some say that vfx editors and post houses within a 5 mile radius have a fire-department-esque alarm whenever it is muttered 3 times. They’ll show up to grab dailies, curse you for not figuring out a solution in pre-production, then begrudgingly fix the issues.

Say fix it in post 3 times. Then shoot clean plates and hope the studio has a vfx budget.