I used Smart Audiobook Player to listen to an audiobook recently and it worked great.

We are not to the point of climate change where we can expect rapid, radical changes to the way the majority of Americans live. And when we hit that point, it won’t be made by complaining to the people driving cars, it will be made by politicians abolishing zoning laws, setting stronger restrictions on rent within cities, and heavy investment into public transportation.

Blaming the huge number of people who can’t afford to live in a city and must drive an hour each way for work just makes you an asshole.

Model 3 backseat is pretty awful for anyone over 6’. And I say that as someone who owns a model 3

The UI is not the worst I’ve ever had in a car, it sacrifices a lot in favor of simplicity and/or software but a lot of simple tasks can be done through voice or happen automatically.

Wipers are auto, headlights are auto, but if you need to adjust them without using a voice command, you’re gonna say “why can’t this just be like a normal car”

You do get used to a lot of the quirks pretty quick. But there are a lot of quirks to get used to.

Not an Elon fan, just got one for a steal of a deal through a family member.

Yes. That was my point. Definitely not that children are a handful and many people would rather not have that responsibility thrust upon them.

Canned soup is especially bad about sodium, and they’re sneaky about it. They’ll say that each can has two servings and each serving is like 800mg of sodium.

Yep. My favorite hot sauce has 1200mg of sodium per two tablespoons… And I would drench my food in that shit.

Same with soy sauce. Each of those little packets you get from your favorite Chinese place is probably at least 300mg of sodium.

2000 Cal is probably within 30% of what most people should have daily. But your typical American food is going to be 100-200% higher than the daily recommended amount. A Panera Bread French Onion soup in a bread bowl is literally 90% of the daily sodium, but not even half of the daily calories. Remove the bread bowl and it’s still more than 1200mg of sodium for less than 400 calories.

The biggest thing I look at now when picking out meals is the sodium to calorie ratio. Anything over 1.2 is probably not good.

Stories I’ve heard in the last year from my friends and co-workers:

• Bragging about how they got 5 hours of sleep last night because their newborn finally slept until 6am

• A “funny” story about how their 5 year old managed to get a hold of some chewing gum and got it stuck in their hair and all over a rug

• A potty training “success” story about how their toddler remembered to pull down their pants, but remembered mid shit they should have sat on the toilet, so they shat all over the bathroom.

• They found a juice box their kid bit a hole into and then tucked under their car seat… By smelling it rotting

Trojan just needs to get a group of parents together to tell stories about their kids and paste them word for word on the back of their boxes.

Congratulations on your resistance to chemical addiction then. I still seriously doubt your claims though.

That’s a fair point. But there is definitely a “tolerance” you build up and can be reset. After being on a low sodium diet, anything like what I mentioned before is almost inedibly salty.

I’m calling bullshit that you get minimal effects going from regular (the most important part is regular) over 400mg (and upwards of 1000mg) caffeine in a day to zero.

Unless you’re just a natural freak who doesn’t become dependent on stimulants, you absolutely should feel like crap for at least a day or two.

In the same vein, salt.

Try to stay under the daily recommended amount of 2500mg of sodium and see how limited your food options are.

Everything is loaded with salt now. Especially fast food. For example, my previous go-to meal at Zaxby’s (the boneless wings and things plate) is over 4000mg of sodium for one meal. Add on a 1300mg sausage, egg, and cheese mcgriddle and a fried rice with soy sauce for dinner and I had several days worth of sodium without totally blowing my calorie budget.

I love Japanese architecture and Japanese food. And I’ve watched my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga.

Anyone who doesn’t know how terrible Japanese culture is to outsiders needs to educate themselves, there’s a reason they sided with Hitler. That culture never really went away like it did for Germany. Talk to an actual Japanese person, who went to school in Japan and see how much they know about their war crimes, and then talk to a German.

Maybe it’s the anglophone in me, but going 1 - 10 then 11,12 (3+10) - (9+10) then adopting a repeating pattern to infinity is more explainable than going 1-10 then 11-15 then a regular pattern for fifty numbers then getting freaky with that pattern up to 100, then keep that pattern until one thousand, then just repeat that pattern til infinity.

What I’ve found helps me is picking three or four character traits I’m going to roleplay and run them through a translator twice (ex. English -> Hawaiian-> Czech turns ‘tenacious’ into věrnost. Then I’d judge how badly I’d pronounce it and English-ify it a little to Verno or Varnost)

It helps to pick languages that have a few language barriers between where they originated. Like English -> German doesn’t work because they share a common root language and half of German speaks English as a second language now.

I never really got what was so spooky about it. My unpopular opinion is that it’s a pretty mid story that’s saved by good illustration.

I can understand using a knife and fork, especially if it’s a really messy slice… But starting with the crust is some serial killer shit.