The power bowl is nice combined with other stuff. During Hatch chili season, I roasted up some Hatch chilies and removed the skin, stem, and seeds. Chop one or two up and stick them in the bowl. Combine with a heated tortilla.

Though that varies by country. It is also maybe not meat based but milk based.

And many items can be customized to be vegan or vegetarian with some simple substitutions or exclusions. The only problem is when the kitchen makes a mistake. Not a calamity for someone who is just trying to get a lot less meat in their diet, but a reason to be pissed when a vegan wanders into a region of reduced fat sour cream.

During the US occupation, the Taliban absolutely did attack civilian targets to further political goals. They attacked everything from restaurants to embassies to a university.

Well, it’s going through my head right now, so I will count it.

Ceilings in my ass

You don’t need to look hard and long enough. You just need to insinuate hard and long enough, then people will believe it eventually.

This truly is the strangest timeline, where Serious Journalists write about rumors of JD Vance having sex with a couch.

Because we are in the weirdest timeline.

Merry Christmas!

Can God have mercy on my soul as well?

There is that, but the larger explosion in housing prices can be largely chalked up to under supply in popular markets.

Car prices: supply is constrained because of supply chain issues where often just a small handful of the myriad of chips in the car are unavailable.

Housing: supply is artificially constrained by various laws, often of the NIMBY type.

I just gave the chat bot that was put in place at the IT department where I work at a poke. It answered my question perfectly: “How do I print from my laptop to the library?” And it’s not like the chat bot is the only route for support, but it does divert a lot of routine questions from our help desk so they can focus on questions that require a human touch. That could be people where a chat bot is not a good format or it could be a non-routine question.

Someone with very large fingers?

The most mediocre dining experience (for the money) I’ve ever had was at a restaurant called “Smallwares.” Emphasis on small, it turns out. Case in point, we ordered duck breast, which cost a fair bit. I was picturing at least a fair amount, but it was the smallest smidgen slivered up with a dollop of sauce. It was the same with every dish, high prices for not much food.

Sure there were other places that had worse food. One remote dinner lacked any fresh food, but you can’t really help that when you’re in the middle of nowhere. But never have I felt like I was being fed by Famine from Good Omens.

A painting of a random pope’s son? He has a fan base?

Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.