So basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie

I suppose it’s impossible to entirely rule out contamination, but the scientists involved are trying their best, and science is always “as far as we’re able to determine at this moment…” never “that’s the truth, and that’s that.”

Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?

I did find an APK on some outfit called apkvision.org, installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓

Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.

I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.

That was generally happening in the fire area.

I’m sure there are/were a lot of ridiculous homes.

I used to join the smokers on their smoking breaks, and I don’t smoke.

It’s true, beans are amazing winter food.

I make big batches and always try to have some ready for a quick meal when I get home.

Chili con carne, navy bean soup, Italian wedding bean soup, (other legumes) split pea soup with ham, lemon lentil soup with chicken

Baked beans with runny eggs sunny side up

Refried in a burrito or huevos rancheros.

Jingle All The Way is an underrated classic.

The “must have” toy mania that it captures was newish then, but is normalized behavior now.

Just that a lot of it takes place over the internet, and there are even more speculators, and the manufacturers deliberately create artificial scarcity to drive profits.

Dishes and pans with dried on crud are the pits.

I always try to soak everything before throwing them in the dishwasher, and even then it takes a pre-scrub to make sure they come out clean.

Huh, whaddya mean? Pans go in the dishwasher just fine. Even nonstick stuff, these days.

edit: Unless you mean cast iron or carbon steel can’t go in the dishwasher, yeah I get that!