You’re not the only one wondering why the Trump administration has its head completely up its ass.

Upside: live 50 years longer

Downside: spend it staring at your hands

Solar is too woke and Marxist for the current US government.

I srsly doubt that the Pillsbury box design is still under patent, because it’s been used in hundreds or even thousands of products I’ve opened over a span of decades - for example, pretty much every breakfast cereal box works that way. Two main flaps, two little tabs under them at the ends. The store-brand box is something I’ve never even seen before. Could be that it’s designed to be opened along one side, with the “front” of the box opening as a lid. Then the structure would actually make sense. I dunno, next time I make pie I’ll have a closer look.

Not gonna go back and search for “AI” but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by “AI” in this case), and this was not at all the point of OP’s post.

Pillsbury pie crusts - the kind that come rolled up, 2 in a box, come in a very standard box with the typical two big flaps at the end, one glued over the other, with two little side flaps inside. Safeway store brand pie crusts seem identical but have a slightly more complicated box. One flap peels open easily but the other flap is sort of latched into the little side tabs with little slots, making it hard to peel open. You have to rip the corners apart. It’s totally unnecessary. The simpler Pillsbury box works fine.

Until just now my low-stakes conspiracy theory was that the store brand box was deliberately designed to create the disadvantage of being a slight pain in the ass to open. I figured Safeway pie crusts, like most store-brand products, are made by a major manufacturer - probably Pillsbury - and that Pillsbury probably made them under the condition that the package be harder to open, to create a tangible difference between the products.

However, when I started typing this I casually googled and found that Safeway buys their OEM pie crusts from Albertsons. This blows my conspiracy theory but now I wonder even more why the box design is so stupid.

There’s a good girl.

In the US the term “informed electorate” is a joke. Big elections are advertising competitions. Or in the most recent case voting machine hacking.

They mean as opposed to inherited, not in the way you mean it.

I used it to get some big decals off a car I bought.

Even if you’re not going to Puerto Rico you can volunteer to escort adopted pets all over the place. Just contact animal shelters and rescue organizations and let them know you’re willing.

My guess is never. He’ll have his final Big Mac Attack and sidestep justice the way he’s been doing all his life.

“Step in?” Well, because the world isn’t run by a mom and dad who step in and make governments do the right things.

ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about AI being good/bad, as usual.

Anyway, I’m glad you got your server going - hope you enjoy your flight!

I didn’t even know sunglasses did that. Remember that when you’re out in the real world you aren’t on social media. Go ahead and wear whatever you want.

Title of your sex tape!

Loveble Sidekick: The Untold Story of My Rise to Fortune

starring

Lovable Sidekick - as Himself
Scarlett Johansson - as Lola

It had no business being made, so it wasn’t.

Good catch! The internet loves simpe rules for whether somebody deserves a black hat or a white hat without pesky details like a thought process.

I was wrong to call you the Psych 101 student, since you weren’t doing the Psych 101 student behavior I described. “They’re not the same thing” is more of a typical social media comment from someone who simply likes to argue, as you’re continuing to do. Not interested.