A nugget ice machine. Nuggets ice is the perfect chewing ice - not too hard it will crack teeth, even consistency unlike crushed ice, firm like tight packed snow. It’s like chewing on frosty heaven.

But it’s absurdly expensive for what little it does. At least a couple hundred dollars for a counter top ice maker that does nothing but make perfect ice.

Authoritarians don’t care about what the hoi polloi think.

We had one cat and didn’t expect a second but it was a conversation that we had started and expected that maybe the first cat was alone and sad when we left for work (in the long ago era of 2013, a pre pandemic life). Given that the shelter was locally well respected we took a look and, yeah, it’s risky but that’s the nature of impulse purchases!

A cat. In line at the pet store for kitty litter and saw a literal pile of kittens near the check out. Turns out that the local shelter was having an adoption day and my partner found a black cat that immediately nuzzled into her shoulder and the little kitten motor purred so loud it sounded like snoring. They bonded in that moment and have been best friends for the last 14 years.

Fuck toll roads and private cell towers!

Oh shit, Elon is cutting out fascists from the military. Guess it takes one to know one. Good use of his only trait.

At first he was cool and would wash people’s cars and picking up animal poop from yards. But it turns out he wasn’t helpful. He was gathering materials and was stealing polluted dirt, piles of shit, and anything else he could find into grotesque golems that roam town and do his bidding. It’s unbearable to go to the market for some bread and milk only to discover the waste elemental made of animated shit and cigarette butts is there to get groceries for him. It’s a fucking nightmare and it makes me want to wear anti magic pendants to fuck up his errands - but that leaves behind unanimated filth that has to be moved by us mundanes. It’s so one sided it’s like tyranny.

“If a service needs to be online to play, it will eventually be offline at peak times”.

Why are people obsessed with the production level of a thing? Such weird fucking hierarchy minded motherfuckers out to weigh and judge every fucking thing.

Activision has prevented Game Pass from being seen as “not worth it” by many. It is helping Microsoft retain value.

“You’re a fuck up but you’ve made it this far so something is working. Good luck.”

I remember Dauntless before the Epic store. It was like Monster Hunter but stripped down to the same 3 moves you could chain together to attack a monster that had 3 different attacks. There was simply less of each aspect of Monster Hunter in Dauntless and no cooking. Now Dauntless has removed some more features, weapons, and damage types. I don’t rightly know what is left.