The brownies don’t look like they came from that pan. They taper at both ends, and they have rings/segments that the pan doesn’t have.

Apparently you’re a modern horror story.

I looked at their location finder to see how close one is to me. The closest one is a combined LJS and KFC, so yes, in the same category.

And, even after all that, when you go to put the sheet on the bed you still find a sock.

Funny, I live in California where there’s are some LJS’s, but I’ve never been to one. There are no Captain D’s here, but I’ve eaten in one a few times because I used to travel to Alabama for work. It was honestly fine. It was basically just what I expected from the phrase “fast food fish and chips.”

A&W is the best of the top few major brand root beers, but there are some in most grocery stores that are much better. Virgil’s and Henry Weinhart’s probably the best of the easily found ones.

Not only do I not miss it, I’m relieved that it’s not here.

By “ravioli bowl,” do you mean it currently has ravioli in it? If so, put it in the microwave for increments of like 30 seconds.

Reminds me of something from the opposite end of the lifespan. When I was young, they didn’t clear the theater after a movie, and they sometimes had “double features” where they’d alternate between two movies and you could watch both for one ticket price. My dad’s aunt lived with us (she was probably in her 70s at this point), and one day a couple of her friends picked her up to go watch “a double features of animal movies” at the local theater. They dropped her off some hours later and her face was grey - she said it was horrible, and didn’t want to talk about it.

It turned out the double features was Day of the Animals and Night of the Grizzly, basically both horror movies. They didn’t think they were allowed to leave during the movie, so they stayed through both.

Yeah, someone talented and hydrated enough to write something with it.

There’s for sure the “offness,” but there are also things like the lack of veins in the cat’s ear, which we’d see with the like coming through like that. But I agree, they’re getting very good.

This thread makes me so sad about the future. Here we have a bunch of folks who are absolutely convinced that a real image is AI generated, some even after being shown that it predates AI image generators. But we live in a time when there are a giant number of real images online, the only AI generated images are very recent, and most of those have things like extra fingers. What’s it going to be like in twenty years, when image generators are so much better and there are so many more generated images? Having a photo of something will prove nothing.

I always try to explain to people that the key is the last two letters: language model. An LLM is a model of what a conversation should look like. Ask it a question and it’s intended to give you a response that looks like the right kind of thing. So if you ask it for a mathematical proof, it will give you one, but unless the thing you’re asking has the same proof written the same way in lots of places online, what it gives you won’t be correct, and probably won’t actually make sense mathematically, but it will look like the right kind of thing.

So likewise, if you ask it for relationship advice, it’s going to give you something that looks legit, but you’re an idiot if you get your relationship advice from an LLM.

My first thought was “How is this a boomer thing, I see people of all ages doing this.”

Yes, because you’ll be too busy being infuriated by badly designed user interfaces that you realize could have so easily been better.

The box is a name brand cereal. The bag is a copycat store brand cereal that’s cheaper.

I like the idea of tits without the commitment of owning, I’ll go there.

My wife and I love cheese and often have it for a snack, especially if we’re drinking, so I usually keep a few different types to serve with crackers. Our son brought his GF over one time and everyone wanted a snack, so I brought out a cheese platter, and they both loved it, especially the GF, so now they always ask for cheese when they come over.

Today, Christmas, they came over with a couple who are their best friends. We had a couple others too, so I bought close to $100 worth of different cheeses. We had Wensleydale with blueberries, stilton with lemon and honey, aged white cheddar soaked in red wine, havarti, guda with hatch chili, warmed camembert, and regular aged cheddar. It was pretty fun seeing everyone trying them all and talking about which the liked the best.

Very true. The harder cheeses have very little lactose, and the softer cheese have more. When they make cheese, the curds separate from the whey. The whey is liquid, and has most of the lactose.

Okay, I haven’t told this story for a long time, and it’s Christmas, so here we go:

When I was dating my first wife, I went to her parents for Thanksgiving dinner. Among the dishes on the table was blackberry jello with grapes in it. Seemed like a 50s kind of dish, but whatever. I took some of everything, and planned to clean my plate. My future MIL was telling a story when I put the first bite of the jello in my mouth, and my brain screamed that something was horribly wrong. I thought there must have been something rancid in the jello or the grapes - the grapes didn’t even have the right texture. I was about to spit it out - it was revolting - when I realized it was a taste I’d had before, not something rancid. All this was really just a moment, but it seemed like forever before it clicked: it wasn’t grapes, it was green olives. She made blackberry jello was green olives in it.

I thought for a moment that it was a prank, though that family wasn’t the pranking type, because no one else had taken any except the mom, but she had a mound of it and was eating it. I finally said, “It was surprising to bite into a grape and find out that it’s an olive,” and everyone tittered. Future MIL said that no one else likes it, but she does, so she makes it for herself.

It should have been a warning.