moakley

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[–] moakley 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Since you're in Chicago, I suggest finding a restaurant called Au Cheval and getting a burger.

It's been a few years, but it was one of the best burgers I've ever had.

As far as food you won't find much of in the UK, I agree with other commenters to find good Tex Mex and a good diner.

Tex Mex is better in Texas, but Chicago is a major city with great food, so I'd be surprised if they don't have great Tex Mex somewhere. You could also look for a taco truck. Actually, look for food trucks in general. I don't know if the UK got that same amazing food truck fad that the US did a few years back, but you should be able to find a park where a bunch of food trucks gather and you can try a little of everything. (If you find one with Venezuelan food, do not pass it up.)

For a diner, you're looking for something a little more run down, not a chain, and probably off a highway rather than in the main part of the city. It should be open 24 hours and serve breakfast all day. Look for reviews that seem way better than how the building looks. Again, Chicago probably isn't the best spot for it (that'd be upstate New York and New Jersey), but there's bound to be something.

[–] moakley 62 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

What a great idea! Have it confirmed in a court of law that Musk performed a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration.

[–] moakley 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Texas. $7.50, but I buy the organic, pasture-raised, fair trade, small batch, artisinal eggs where the chickens are all partial owners of the egg-laying co-op. It's a chicken coop co-op.

The price has gone up significantly, like $2 or more, since last month. I don't remember what it was exactly, but I've never spent $7.50 for fucking eggs.

Regular cage-free was like $5.50. Didn't see any of the normal sad chicken eggs last time I went.

[–] moakley 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not exactly this, but it reminds me of my first job. I used to work in finance, and I was given the task of automating cash flow reports that were sent out to hundreds of clients.

The problem was that they were made manually in Excel, and most of them were unique. So every couple years they'd get a bunch of smart people in a conference room, and tell them to figure out how to automate the cash flows. The first step was always to create a standard cash flow template, and convince everyone to adopt it.

Some users would adopt the new template, but most of them would say that the client didn't like it, so they'd stop using it and the project would fall apart.

By the time I got there, there were still hundreds of unique cash flows, but then there were a few dozen that shared the same handful of templates, like a graveyard of failed attempts to automate this process.

I just made the output customizable. The reports looked the same as what the client was used to, but it saved hundreds of man hours for the users. A lot of people got laid off.

[–] moakley 5 points 1 week ago

Ok. I'll start commenting more literally right now.

[–] moakley 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe it's not obscure enough, but for me, Starflight on the Sega Genesis remains the greatest space exploration game ever made.

It was unforgiving the way games were back then, which added to the feeling that you're just out there in unexplored space.

More than 800 different planets, most of them empty (except for resources), but that just makes it so exciting when you find an artifact hidden in ancient ruins.

And an incredible story on top of that. A huge mystery unfolds organically as solar flares start destroying planets across the galaxy and your explorable space slowly shrinks.

The back of the manual was a journal written by another starship captain who sent it to you from the future. It serves as a guide and a warning, giving some valuable locations and clues, in case you're having trouble finding the path.

Oh, and the soundtrack! I can still bring it to mind thirty years later. Haunting.

[–] moakley 0 points 1 week ago

Just watched the episode of Hit Monkey where a character does literally this.

[–] moakley 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how any of that applies to what I said.

If you want to focus on the worst proponents of these ideologies, please let's take a closer look at MGTOW and see if it's a reaction to misandry or if it's just straight-up misogyny. Because I promise you it's straight-up misogyny.

[–] moakley 10 points 2 months ago

Rereading the title sent me.

[–] moakley 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can't just make up new definitions for established words.

 
 
 
 
 
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