I'm sure the dish is delicious. But when I go to a restaurant and I have to do work to eat to food, I always get annoyed. I'm paying for this meal so I don't have to work, dammit.

The only problem they ever had was back in the day they overheated easily.

Very easily.

In college (early aughts), I worked as tech support for fellow students. Several times I had to take the case cover off, point a desktop fan into the case, and tell the kid he needed to get thermal paste and a better cooler (services we didn't offer).

Also, as others have said, AMD CPUs have not always been superior to Intel in performance or even value (though AMDs have almost always been cheaper). It's been a back-and-forth race for much of their history.

Has been and always will be stegosaurus. How can you not love those bone plates and spiked tail? Dude's a beast.

That said, ankylosaurus comes in at a close second. It's armor is pretty boss.

• To-go orders get NOTHING.

My comment is entirely scoped to to-go orders; I agree with everything else you say (though I haven't used a ride share in forever).

I always tip for to-go orders in my hometown. Now my favorite places call out my name as I enter and treat me great. I've seen them replace the pizza stacked with my order with a fresh pizza right out of the oven, for example, or they've given me an extra pizza or side.

When I'm on the road, I still tip $1 for to-go orders because I know the workers are still getting a shit wage.

Granted, I'm in a financial position where I can afford to do this. But I'd love if we could get rid of the whole tipped-minimum-wage thing and just raise minimum wages across the board/enact UBI to make tipping only for exemplary service.

They won't be above it all for long!

Captchas haven't been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can't afford the tools.

To be fair, keeping the script kiddies away has some good value. Whether that value outweighs all the wasted time and impact to sight/hearing impaired people is another discussion.

No matter how much you think both candidates are shit, you must be able to realize that one is far and beyond worse than the other.

Biden hasn't been great. He dragged his feet on issues he campaigned on (e.g., student debt relief), he sounds eve older than he is, and perhaps most gallingly, he didn't unequivocally renounce the genocide in Gaza immediately. Inflation sucks and wages aren't high enough for most to survive, let alone thrive. I can name a dozen progressives off the top of my head I'd rather have as president.

First past the post voting and the two-party system give us little chance at the national level for meaningful fast change.

But have you seen the shit Trump has promised he will do as president? We all learned an important lesson from the first Trump presidency: take him seriously, not literally. I shouldn't need to list the things Trump has promised to do, but here's a highlight reel:

• Enthusiastically support Israel's "invasion" of Gaza
• Waste billions on a useless border wall
• Deploy the military domestically to "fight crime", "coincidentally" in blue states
• Slash federal education spending and let states handle their own education
• Repeal background checks, reopen the gun show loophole, roll back federal laws against gun trafficking, and make it easier for kids under 21 to get guns
• Undo Title IX trans rights

And he won't stand in the way of any of the Project2025 insanity the GOP wants to pursue.

So, on the left, you have an old man who has maybe made things a little better for some too slowly while ignoring a genocide. On the right, you have an old man who endorses that same genocide, promises to make the country an actively worse place for many, and who has empirically proven he will encourage and endorse insurrection and treason to stay in power.

The best play for the future is two-pronged:

1. For the medium/far future: push for electoral reform like IRV/ranked choice voting at the local/state level (to get people used to it), endorse third-party candidates, run for local office, donate time/money to causes that matter to you.
2. For the near term, to allow the first bullet point to take root and thrive: Don't let Trump get elected, which means, unfortunately, voting for Biden.

Ukraine (then known as Ukraine SSR) joined the UN as a founding member state in 1945, then joined as a sovereign state in 1991.

You might be thinking of NATO, of which Ukraine is not (yet) a member state.

Fair enough!

Oh wait, now I realised that's basically r2d2

Is that a bad thing?

I mean, 2011 was 12 years ago.