They’d buy more goods for a few weeks leading up to that month, then buy a bit less during, then buy more for two weeks after

It smells about how you’d think it would.

Because we live in a society

Gonna be bagging groceries the rest of your life, with that shitty attitude.

Killing off PHP is big

Yeah, it IS good for me. Sorry you’re only just now figuring this out. Meanwhile techies sorted it out 15 years ago.

Late to the party, then. Most people I know went on silent a decade or more ago.

Oh and while we are at it, notifications are for important things I need to know, not for fucking ads. Any app that uses notifications for ads gets deleted.

Yeah, they solved that over a decade ago. Both iOS and Android let you override DnD for contacts and or repeat callers.

Also oxygen…

Really? Everything else was fine but this is a bridge too far?

You’ve heard the saying “misery loves company?”

You think about this a lot?

Almost as if that’s the whole point.

I assume Derek Lowe wrote about it at some point.

He has a running series on dangerous chemicals.

https://www.science.org/content/author/derek-lowe

I learned only relatively recently that borsch (which I love for the beets) was originally made without beets. I still haven’t found a recipe I like and we don’t get sorrel here.

Please clap.

Ironically, my overly chatty doctor was ranting about how methadone is a racket and they string people along for years instead of titrating them off. He prescribes Suboxone, apparently.

Thr American Medical Association lobbied Congress to limit how many residency positions they open up. This artificial constraint reduces the supply of doctors so that they can keep their wallets fat.

I just printed out the Basic Rules. I’m teaching my kids how to play for the first time.

I played the very first edition of D&D (the red one) when I was my son’s current age, pretty neat.

No, I’m just odd. :D