• SNES was the ultimate From childhood until the release of Nintendo 64
• In high school it was a PC with a mouse and keyboard.
• Now it's a PC with an xbox controller. Using a mouse and keyboard reminds me too much of work.

There is a PS5, a Switch, and a Steamdeck, in the house plus several more devices in the garage. I'll watch other people play but gaming on dedicated hardware just doesn't grab me. I've never tried gaming on a phone.

I love this comic. I'm extremely curious about the experiences of attractive women. So curious I sometimes think I wish I were a woman. Sometimes I feel jealous of all the validation they get. However the more I learn about their lives the more glad I am to be an attractive man.

The majority (>80%) of people who have an Internet connection.

Amen! I try to always prepare from dry beans. Canned beans are never as tasty and cost 10 times as much. The InstantPot makes it take under a minute of work and less than a 40 minute wait. If you can plan 40 minutes ahead there is no reason to bust into cans on the regular.

One of the worst parts of traveling is the difficulty of finding my daily helping of beans.

spinal fluid as a base for perfumes

I can't find any evidence of that. Are you perhaps thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris made from stones in the whale digestive system?

The other benefit of having a proper emergency fund is being able to say no to your boss without any fear. It took me 10 years but I have enough accessible funds to go a year easily without any new income. The freedom at work is so nice. I've noticed that my confidence at not needing the job makes them take me way more seriously and offer all kinds of benefits they don't afford everyone.

These are Linux laptops. But yes, they'll work better if you put your preferred distro on them.

If you look 16 you'll be too old for someone actually suffering from pedophilia. They are attracted to children before puberty has done its thing.

Not really. In fact, I enjoy how often queer relationships are featured in media. What I am tired of is straight writers trying, and failing, to write queer characters.

Python is probably the top non-systems language for productivity and expressiveness right now if you use type hints.

What sort of behavior does the salad represent? Catcalling? Something else?

They are humans who have forsaken their humanity.