Unless there's a boatload of details absent from that account, it really is time for me to find another country to call home... while I can still emigrate without being renditioned for being a traitor/terrorist.
... but the only thing American troops should be carrying in Afghanistan now, if anything at all, is humanitarian aid. Or vacation equipment, if they came back for a personal tour of non-duty.
Snopes needs to borrow this algorithm and create a subsection devoted to Twitter. It will highlight the unreliable posts and list which criteria made them fail the sniff test. Then, if there's time and resources, a human being might follow up the most significant ones and flesh out the stories.
So are we hopeful for a chance of a playdate with some frisky Vegans, is that it? I guess we'd better be hopeful for more than just that, then, like hope that they have an FTL drive?
I'm a super-taster. My sense of taste isn't so diminished. By virtue of that condition I've also been less adventurous and subjected my mouth to far fewer of the things that could "diminish" it. What the rest of you crazy people are willing to put in your mouths is amazing!
You make it sound as if possessing fresh mass-produced bread suddenly makes it any less insipid. It doesn't. Tasteless bread is still tasteless bread regardless how fresh it is. I never liked bread until the first time I baked my own. Even the fresh bread from supermarket bakeries is terrible. The attention to detail is absent and the ingredients and process are inferior to reduce expenses. Mass production of food just never ends well in general. The vegetables I eat now neither taste as good as those from 40 years ago nor do they even have the same nutrient value. Oh but they do have better shelf life, so there's that.
Considering that nearly all commercially mass-produced bread is insipid uninviting junk made with homogenous inferior ingredients and yet consumers still buy it by the truckload, I don't think "quality feel" will be an issue at all. People who aren't super-tasters won't even notice the difference, if they're willing to eat the junk that is mass-produced now.
Is it possible it was left up to individual store management to offer discounts, and I picked a selfishly managed store? It wasn't just me that didn't have a discount, no one else working at that store did, either. I worked at the store for exactly 90 days; I knew I couldn't tolerate the conditions beyond that.
Agreed... you describe a very real exception and those people exist here, too. I see them but didn't give them a thought when I put fingers to keyboard.
I've got a trailer and panniers for my bicycle, and I've been known to use them to transport groceries on occasion. They aren't cheap to acquire new, and they're far less secure from theft than a car; imagine leaving a store with bags of groceries to discover that your two wheels and buggy have been liberated. They can be had used, but that might require a certain resourcefulness that not everyone in a disadvantaged state might have; I got the trailer for nothing from a fellow "freecycler". Nevertheless, I've seen "upscale" homeless people who have substituted a bike and trailer for the proverbial shopping cart.
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Unless there's a boatload of details absent from that account, it really is time for me to find another country to call home... while I can still emigrate without being renditioned for being a traitor/terrorist.
I was speaking generally, not exclusively of soldiers. :-)
Cognition certainly is an inconvenient burden.
Two syllables: bul-lets.
... but the only thing American troops should be carrying in Afghanistan now, if anything at all, is humanitarian aid. Or vacation equipment, if they came back for a personal tour of non-duty.
What part of the definition of "possible" wasn't clear?
Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying"
It's the strain from Andromeda. Michael had it all figgered out.
Snopes needs to borrow this algorithm and create a subsection devoted to Twitter. It will highlight the unreliable posts and list which criteria made them fail the sniff test. Then, if there's time and resources, a human being might follow up the most significant ones and flesh out the stories.
Do I have to choose? Can I hang a medal on him, and then hang him? I'll make the medal 20 pounds to speed up the lynching.
... home manufactories....
After all the Warhammer gaming, I think I'll be calling mine a Manufactorum.
"My long-term plan was simply to get away from Belize, think, and decide what to do."
If that is now McAfee's notion of long-term plans, I guess his short-term plans include bodily functions I hope even he wouldn't blog.
... interview other Internet head cases that are simultaneously heroes and repulsive.
I presume their first guest will be Richard Stallman?
It sounds more like the name of a dance step than a movement.
I get the impression he hates on Apple because it's popular to hate on them in particular....
Your impression is malformed. Back to the drawing board with you.
So are we hopeful for a chance of a playdate with some frisky Vegans, is that it? I guess we'd better be hopeful for more than just that, then, like hope that they have an FTL drive?
I'm a super-taster. My sense of taste isn't so diminished. By virtue of that condition I've also been less adventurous and subjected my mouth to far fewer of the things that could "diminish" it. What the rest of you crazy people are willing to put in your mouths is amazing!
I'm a super-taster. My buds are a bit more exempt than yours. :-)
Bread from the bakery actually tastes better if you keep it unsliced and properly wrapped for a couple of weeks.
Unrefrigerated? You might be tasting more than just the bread at that point....
You make it sound as if possessing fresh mass-produced bread suddenly makes it any less insipid. It doesn't. Tasteless bread is still tasteless bread regardless how fresh it is. I never liked bread until the first time I baked my own. Even the fresh bread from supermarket bakeries is terrible. The attention to detail is absent and the ingredients and process are inferior to reduce expenses. Mass production of food just never ends well in general. The vegetables I eat now neither taste as good as those from 40 years ago nor do they even have the same nutrient value. Oh but they do have better shelf life, so there's that.
Considering that nearly all commercially mass-produced bread is insipid uninviting junk made with homogenous inferior ingredients and yet consumers still buy it by the truckload, I don't think "quality feel" will be an issue at all. People who aren't super-tasters won't even notice the difference, if they're willing to eat the junk that is mass-produced now.
Your paternal name is Goethe, isn't it?
Is it possible it was left up to individual store management to offer discounts, and I picked a selfishly managed store? It wasn't just me that didn't have a discount, no one else working at that store did, either. I worked at the store for exactly 90 days; I knew I couldn't tolerate the conditions beyond that.
I didn't get a discount in 1998, and I was a full-time employee for the brief time I worked there.
It was around 1998 for me and no discount.
Agreed... you describe a very real exception and those people exist here, too. I see them but didn't give them a thought when I put fingers to keyboard.
I've got a trailer and panniers for my bicycle, and I've been known to use them to transport groceries on occasion. They aren't cheap to acquire new, and they're far less secure from theft than a car; imagine leaving a store with bags of groceries to discover that your two wheels and buggy have been liberated. They can be had used, but that might require a certain resourcefulness that not everyone in a disadvantaged state might have; I got the trailer for nothing from a fellow "freecycler". Nevertheless, I've seen "upscale" homeless people who have substituted a bike and trailer for the proverbial shopping cart.