Oh I’m sure there’s someone who adds close to three tablespoons of sugar to their tea.

No one sane, of course. Southern US sweet tea? Lol

He’s a talking Great Dane. His talents are wasted on this, he belongs in a lab. We need to study how a dog can learn human language and think like us!

Also there will be Scooby Snacks… and I promise not to dissect his brain until he’s dead.

Good point. Iirc, it’s about 10% after a good reduction. My cooking mirin is 8% by volume, and you wouldn’t want to use much or risk overpowering the sauce, so it’s a pretty miniscule amount.

None the less, people who avoid it for religious reasons or medical reasons should keep it in mind.

I think it’s the oil! I did learn that babies benefit from a higher percentage of fats, especially healthier oils like olive oil. It’s just funny you wouldn’t think of it as a kid food, haha

Pesto pasta with “bowties” is my 4yos favorite food. Fresh is great if I can, but jarred is fine-- just it keeps selling out.

Wanna know my secret ingredient? I add Japanese mirin, boiled down, which adds a unique sweetness. It was a happy accident, as I like to add an alcohol or acid when cooking meat (in this case, Italian sausage), and used it to deglaze the pan and use said pan to mix pasta and sauce together. No idea why it works well with basil and pine nuts, though.

(Also always remember to use pasta water on the sauce too, just a bit to add the starch.)

Oh oh, pick a Post-Transition Metal like Gallium. Gal, who is Post-Transition and into metal.

I saw them back to back too, but the best part is I literally just woke up. It’s all Ruleated.

In 2022 that’s not at all surprising. Not even that surprising in 2026 but we were all glued to the news when he requested ammo, not a ride.

That said, I’d rather my wife not request ammo over a ride.

I find the sobbing really relaxing, ngl.

Yes, but the anime episode of you peeling potatoes also made a bunch of kids have seizures, too.

Ash would have fit right in with Palworld. Can’t catch Mewtwo? Let’s see if his powers can stop every bullet out of this machine gun.

I was just thinking that, lol. He does some very questionable things on his Pokemon journey (I won’t spoil the Arbok bit…)

Haha, it’s even worse in academics because anything from students is protected. Unless they host on campus, it’s a violation even if MS super duper promises not to leak information. It’s also why we can’t use ChatGPT, though fools still do.

Edit: I mean for grading, asking a clanker is still fine but a terrible idea.

I prefer restoration points, stored locally, since most of my work is less than an hour and doesn’t need checkpoints. Sometimes something goes terribly wrong and I want to start over. But if it crashes? Yeah, restore me!

And half the time it’s in a fucking browser.

Hey quick rant, I’m a professor and due to budget cuts they cut our MS Office so it’s online only. I was already getting into non-slop software but now I need to check for compatibility using the browser version, since podiums only have Office and we’re supposed to use that.

So what I’m trying to say is, I’m feeling this right now. Shit doesn’t even have master slides or mathematical formula editing, ffs.

Indeed - the trick was using the wind to blow dust and sand into a separate pit from the rocks that did not blow. Weirdos like me probably are why we have ancient methods of cultivation, lol.

Hard to say for sure. It’s not so much a light/sound sensitivity for me so much as the movement and activity and whatnot. Given I went to school before they really understood these things, I was never diagnosed with anything.

My favorite part of your dark episode is the laugh track playing when he gets into Daphne’s chocolate. Oh Scoob, you rapscallion!

At least at the end he gets to meet Don Knotts up in the afterlife. He even has a great one liner ready for it!

Since teaching about this, I’ve come to appreciate these kinds of rooms. Actually, I wish I had a low sensory room growing up (the type for sensory disorders); I was and still kinda am easily overstimulated so it’s the kind of thing I can get behind.

That said, IEPs and the stigma they bring can easily be a bad thing too depending on school, hence why it’s the “coloring room.” I was already ostracized by 2nd grade for being weird with the sand box, though, so kinda moot in my case (I spent all my time sorting out rocks from sand and dust).

Similar doodles forced me to see a counselor in middle school, once. Lol