Huh, I'm from MD and I've been thinking "home prices are up but not that much up, doesn't seem like a huge deal". Had no idea that we were one of the states with the least price increase.

She's a frequent poster and the comics often are about her kid or are "not funny" so there are some redditors who immediately start throwing shade when they see her posts no matter whether the comic is funny or not.

There's a pizza place my wife and I frequent called Fratello's, but we call it Felatio's as an inside joke. We have had some close calls with saying it accidentally in front of people.

I'm considering starting a novel of my own, but I've never written much before. I've always known about traditional publishing, and in the last couple decades it seems like print on demand and ebooks have really allowed self publishing to flourish. However recently I've also become aware of serial fiction online, and it seems like a really interesting option. What advice would you give to a brand new author in 2023 with regards to where to start with publishing?

If they do it again this year I'm not participating. I can't go through that again.

Oof. I married into a part Italian family. Whenever we eat with them there is about 3x as much food as the people at the dinner could reasonably eat. When we host parties for friends my wife is deeply uncomfortable with "only" 1 pizza per 2 people because "what if most people want to eat more than half a pizza each?" On the other hand when I went to my cousin's wedding (in rural New England in the US) they served enough food for everyone to have one plate but not enough for seconds. My wife was scandalized that seconds weren't an option.

I gotta know how people ate the jalapeno cheese? Did they put it on food or just raw dog it?

Edit: I'm an idiot jalapeno cheese is a flavor of bagel. I thought there was just a coveted flavor of blocks of cheese.

I'm guessing the southern ocean circling Antarctica allows the polar vortex to stay pretty contained.

This. What's holding them up?

Come on, it's in the sub's name!

We do, they're all dwarf planets!

Haha yeah that one was a gimme for me. I actually spent some time a while ago trying to get Midjourney to reproduce the style seen in Van Gogh's sunflowers and couldn't get it to work.

Yeah I'm an engineer and I came to terms with the fact that most of the science in this movie is hand wavey. That's ok! It's not a movie about technology, it's a movie about mystery.

The napkin of course doesn't even try to make sense, they never even explain what the central idea of Alpha is. The fact that hydrogen gas would leak out of residential natural gas lines is a known problem, but it's an easily solvable problem for a spacecraft or a power plant. In fact a breakthrough in hydrogen tech would be world changing if you just plan for it the right way. Like was said above, the case opens and closes based on when the plot needs it to. The robot dog carrying the luggage was a gag but how did it load and unload the luggage? The fire extinguishing system conveniently came on only once it was too late for the plot.

And again, I don't mind any of this. It's a good movie which isn't about technology, it doesn't need the tech to make sense.

Ah yes, because if my needs were met I would just turn into a human potato. Come on! Who gives a shit if AI can do everything better than me? I already live in that world, other humans can already do everything better than me. Doesn't stop me from finding cool shit to do. What about socializing? Imagine having all year to go hiking with your friends! If your friend Greg writes a song are you gonna be like " fuck off Greg, AI writes better songs than you"? No, you're gonna listen to it with him. And it may or may not be good. Exactly like today!

Have... have you been into that store? They don't do that.

Damn they showed them as 5 pieces of jewelry instead of five gold ring pheasants. I mean come on they're smack in the middle of the bird verses.

Tell this to my aunt who thinks that doctors are hiding mistletoe tea from us as a cancer cure.

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I love the Murderbot series! I'm just wasting away over here waiting for more books.

What should they use the money for then?

I mean I mostly listen to video game dubstep remixes on YouTube.

Popular music bad!

My dad got the movie theater to show me the projection room! They gave us a film strip from The Emperor's New Groove which was playing at the time. It was of the scene where Yzma was tied up like a pinata.