Counterpoint: sex is awesome.

My favorite forever ensign

Regularly? Yes. A one-off? Not the biggest sin.

• Watching the blue jays at my bird feeder & birdbath
• My first sip of tea in the morning
• '60s music
• Dogs and cats
• Also horses - I moved to an area with a lot of horse farms and, from my second floor windows, sometimes I can see a horse or two hanging out in a paddock a couple of hills away
• Fun new makeup (one of my most recent new palettes is this:)

And independents

Birdloaf

It already is

Risa

Poor mom. I bet that was peri/meno brain fog. It sucks.

grEGGnat

Yes, he’s atheist, but also ethnically Jewish.

I’m out of the loop, what’s wrong with Brave?

I don’t know how the self-checkout is constructed in Belgium, but in the US (at least, the stores I go to), the self-checkout is a small kiosk with a small weight-sensitive platform where you bag your groceries. You’re supposed to scan each item and then place it in the bag so the scale can register it, and then scan and bag the next item, and so on. The problems are that:

1. The technology is buggy and doesn’t always recognize that you’ve bagged an item, so it locks up and won’t let you scan your next item until an attendant comes to assist.
2. Certain items like cooking wine or cough syrup or matches require proof that you’re old enough to purchase it (again, an attendant has to get involved)
3. If god forbid you take a second to rearrange items in one of your bags to make more room for your next item, the stupid machine nags you and then - yep you guessed it - locks up until an attendant comes.
4. The machine-monitored security camera sometimes misinterprets what it sees you doing. For example, one time I was done scanning my items and realized I was still holding onto my shopping list, so I tucked it into my pocketbook as I was getting my credit card out. The camera must’ve thought I was stealing something, so it locked up until an attendant came to review the video footage.
5. The bagging platform is too small for a full week’s worth of groceries, so it’s really only useful if you’re picking up a handful of items, meaning you still need to go through an attended line if you’re doing your weekly shop.

Honestly I prefer bagging my own groceries, and if the problems with self-checkout were fixed, I’d be happy to only do self-checkout. But the way it is now, it’s annoying to use.

I’ve resorted to appending every Google search with “-ai” because I don’t want to see their bullshit summaries. Outsourcing our thinking is lazy and dangerous, especially when the technology is so flawed.

No, I’m not defending Bill Maher by any stretch! I can’t stand that guy and I do generally like Larry David. I haven’t read what Larry David wrote so I can’t really speak to it. I just think it’s bizarre that Bill Maher is pulling the “6 million dead Jews” thing when he himself is Jewish, plus it’s a moronic cheap shot against a guy who is widely recognized as a Jewish American comedy icon.

Bill Maher is Jewish via his mother but strangely was raised Catholic.

Things like chicken marsala, mushroom risotto, and mushroom soup!

Are there foods that you like but she doesn’t, so you don’t eat them very often? Cook those. I always make mushroom dishes when my husband is away.

Ken Cheng is a gift

One point three two megs