Todays mundane story of “I miss when things were easy to Google”

I am currently roasting a whole chicken in my Dutch oven. Tried to find a recipe for “whole roast chicken Dutch oven” just to get an estimate on temp and cook time.

Took fucking forever to find something that wasn’t either a whole one pot meal with a bunch of potatoes and other veggies or straight up not even chicken, like beef pot roast. Did I say and potatoes? No, I don’t have potatoes right now, I have one whole chicken and the roads are frozen, I just want to put it in the oven the simplest way possible and be done.

I don’t care that they’re probably not rich, whoever was on that phone working for UHC should be fucking shot

If you so much as work in a call center for these fucking companies, if you work in billing, if you work for one of these companies doing anything more complicated than mopping floors, you are a monster. You are the enemy, and killing you makes the world a better place.

Wow, now that Trump’s back in office he’s already started lashing out randomly at other countries

Wait who’s president?

Isn’t retaliation against the court also a crime itself? Or is that the ICJ?

Yeah like, sounds like a you problem dude, I see hot people of all genders pretty frequently

I agree, and the “throw a bunch of iron shavings in the ocean” option seems relatively low risk from what I understand?

Oh my fucking gooood lmao

Yeah like this really shouldn’t happen in the first place but California is also absurdly bad at managing fire risk. Do your prescribed burns assholes.

Firstly fuck this guy, fuck his house, and it totally makes sense for insurance companies to not continue to insure houses in areas no longer fit for human habitation, like Florida or Malibu

That being said, I don’t think they should be allowed to cancel existing policies. Like, ever. You can refuse to issue new policies, but if someone buys a home and you sell them insurance, you have to keep insuring them until they move or decide they don’t want your insurance anymore. Maybe you can have the option of paying out the whole amount of the policy to be done with it.

But dropping policies on houses people already owned and insured should be so incredibly fucking illegal and whoever signed the paperwork should be shot. When you buy a house, you do that with the insurance in mind. Changing that after the fact when the person already bought the house and now can’t sell it because it’s uninsurable is evil.

I don’t like Slack for pretty nitpicky reasons but getting rid of the weird email standard of formality is probably the biggest upside

And honestly for that use in particular it’s actually a pretty decent tool. Like, in a socialist system under common ownership that sounds like a good tool for reducing unnecessary human labor.

That’s not what we’re doing, to be clear, but I do appreciate when we can glimpse what actual use these things do have

I think this is it. This is not the behavior of the Rational Capitalist™ this is cult fanaticism.

“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”

Genuinely this is a significant source of my daily anxiety. This shit is unstable and it could pop at any moment or it could go for waaaay longer than it reasonably should, and there’s no way of knowing.

they care about it being more profitable than what everyone else is doing

But they’re not doing that either! They’re less profitable than anyone else on earth! Rolling the dice on the restaurant game would give them a better chance of making More Money Than God because the chance is higher than 0.

Why are we doing this then????

I hate capitalists so much. It’s not just that they’ll do anything to maximize profits. Honestly that would be much easier to deal with than what they actually do.

In reality they’re really fucking stupid as well as being selfish. It’s why they strip the copper out of the walls rather than allow a profitable company to just continue. It’s why they burn their profits chasing dream products that will never turn a profit and have immense costs.

Like holy shit just go do something else with that money! Start a restaurant! Yes almost all restaurants fail but that still gives you a better chance of turning a profit than this!

I want to be so clear that anyone who had any part in this, including every guard who interacts with a trans inmate at any point and doesn’t help them escape from prison, should be shot.

“I’m not mad at the other team for scoring, I’m mad at the guy claiming to be on my team that keeps scoring on our goal and handing the other team the ball”

Ah fuck it, if America is gonna point its military brutality at someone England’s probably the third one I’d want it pointed at.

There are only two countries that I would support the US trying to invade, Israel and Saudi Arabia. England I don’t support it but I’m less opposed than if it was any other country.