I hope you brought snacks, because you’re late to the party!

While I agree with your point, that is an absurdly simplified graphic. I grew up with Mountain Bell; the breakup happened when I was 5. I honestly thought “Ma Bell” was shorthand for Mountain Bell. Then the mergers started. Just like with banks.

You’ve basically illustrated one leg of an octopus.

Always glad to see him getting more attention. This is an important video.

1 White Onion

1 lb. Button Mushrooms

1 stick Unsalted Butter

2 Tbsp. Minced Garlic

2 sprigs Fresh Thyme

1 1/2 cup White Wine

6 cups Chicken Stock

1 quart Heavy Cream

2 Tbsp. Truffle Oil

2 tsp. Fresh Ground Black Pepper

Use a food processor to puree the onion.

To prepare mushrooms, first remove stems from caps. Set stems aside (I usually just throw them in the food processor bowl after I dump the onion). Peel caps. Slice caps as thin as possible. Puree stems and peels.

In a sauce pot, sautee onions and garlic in butter until golden brown. Then add thyme and mushrooms (stems and caps). Cook for four minutes, then add wine. Cook off alcohol, then add chicken stock, truffle oil and pepper. Bring soup to a simmer and add heavy cream. Bring back to a simmer for an additional 20-30 minutes. Remember to remove thyme stems before serving.

And, of course, get some bread with a good crust to go with.

(Note: Since it’s unlikely you’ll be serving 10 guests at once the first time you make this, halving the recipe is easy. However, I recommend keeping the mushroom and onion quantity the same – just halve everything else.)

Imagine if we were still doing full-height 5.25" HDDs!

So, rebuild the array offsite after swapping in the good drive?

What a time to be alive.

Fuck, yeah!

The crazy thing is I saw the original short my first summer in the dorms, in 1997…

If you’ve got data, reach out the either ProPublica or The Guardian. Sucks to lose the single byline, but they have far more resources.

I only use my phone under duress. The screen is entirely too small. It’s a phone. It’s meant for calls and texting.

I think I’ve made it three episodes into this season, after the abrupt numbering switch. Parker and Stone are still doing excellent work. I figured they’d have gone the way of The Simpsons by now.

Incidentally, “stay curious” is how NotebookLM usually signs off at the end of a deep dive. Could just be coincidence.

Given the source, I was fully expecting these students to be attending UW.

“If we don’t educate them, they’ll fall for bullshit.”

There’s a time and a place for everything, with apologies to John Lennon.

Lemmy is a great place for longform discussions, but the vast majority of my posts and comments tend to be of the one-line, weary-columnist snark variety.

Much of the news this days is “this is objectively bad,” making attempts at discourse difficult.

At the end, spliced in, is the clip portraying the Obamas, which appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.

OK, dump Trump in a jungle and see how long he lasts.

I’m reminded of Saddam Hussein’s first appearance in South Park … “Hey, relax, guy, lake a load off. Look over there.”

“If immigrants just concentrated more, we wouldn’t need these camps.”

I don’t trust any government data at this point. My main reason for staying on Reddit is the local sub, and it’s fucking bleak. People who moved here for $200K jobs send out a thousand resumes, and the best outcome is an $80K offer after a six-week hiring process, six months later.

We are being lied to about the state of the economy.