Fellow REST exile here. It took some getting used to at first since the engagement was lower, but I prefer it over Reddit now for sure. For one, it still feels like the early days of Reddit, most posts don’t just go unreplied or ignored. Most of the content is fresh and not a repost. Meme posst are a steady stream but not overwhelming and recycled.

It’s like living in medium sized town and I quite like it.

Hole lotta DNA on that flyswatter.

• Get some catfish and some cornflour and an egg. Cut the catfish into nuggets. Dip in the egg wash. Roll lightly in the cornflour and salt/pepper mixture. Fill a pan with oil. Deep fry. Yum!
• Get some mahi mahi. Place on some tin foil. Add a pat of butter on top of each. Grill it up until flaky but not dried out. Salt to taste. mahi is so mild, like no fish flavor. Delish!
• Get a tuna steak. Soak it in a bit of ponzu sauce. Get an iron skillet nice and hot with a little splash of oil. Toast some sesame seeds on it. Put those to the side. Then get your tuna and sear it on all sides. Add a dash of salt (if you want, the ponzu may be salty enough) and the seeds. Enjoy.
• if you like spicy, get a good blackened seasoning, it can help mask the fish flavor
• also, try sushi, but like from a good place. Rolls will hide the taste much better than sashimi, which is meant to showcase the fish. Fresh sushi (yellowtail, salmon, tuna, mackerel) has almost no fish taste. Eel has a steak like taste, but can be a bit fishy. Do not go for urchin, it’s like a straight up fish umami bomb.

Hey yeah can I have 1 crunchy taco with, 3 extra shells, 3 extra meat, 3 extra cheese, 3 extra lettuce and 3 extra tomatoes? Just To confirm, I’m only ordering 1 taco.

Also please print the entire novel A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens on the receipt.

Dude reaches out for community, in the right forum for that matter, and you cast a stone. Why are you here stranger?

John, I highly recommend that you do not use that beeper.

Or do.

• welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
• We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
• Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
• Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
• That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
• 99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• The Truth
• What’s Ray Saying

Well, you are missing out.

This sounds like a job for malicious compliance! Anybody got a Lenny bot for Alexa?

AskHistorians

Sure, buy the 50 lbs of honey now. Convert it to mead. Profit.

How does this make America greater or safer?

If dumpster fire wants to get 50% of Ukraine’s rare earths on the pink side of the map, then I hope he goes over there and tries to grab them himself.

I hear that when you’re a plant, they just let you do it.

He campaigned on it the first go round. His actions also during that presidency reflect it - remember he was the one that brokered the awful deal with the Taliban.

He cozies up to dictators because he doesn’t want to fight them and he abuses our allies because he knows they won’t fight the US, which he thinks gives him leverage.

Or as I’ve heard it, he speaks loudly and carries a little stick.

Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

Throw some blues in there and baby, you got a stew going.

Same as it ever was.

• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to do their bidding.
• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to fight their wars.
• The dumber and more obedient, the better.

They want to rule, not participate. Same as it ever was.

Never go bud to mouth.

We are a nation of citizens.

1. When you’re chasing your next meal, you don’t have time to complain. Western society enables us to shift our priorities to higher levels on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
2. Feelings project differently in different cultures. For example, Spanish speaking people often align depression with physical exhaustion.
3. You many not know the people well enough to know their most intimate thoughts and intentions. Complaining in autocratic societies could be considered dissent and get you killed.
4. Similar to 3, they may be treating you as a D-list celebrity or a tourist because they have something to gain from doing so. Refer to point 1.
5. Consider the audience. Who are the kind of people who have frequent access to Internet in these countries and would want to talk to Western citizens?