It was purely me not getting the hang of the amount of powder. I also have a lot of plasticware (kids), and so it amplified the residual issue.

The problem is that I have zero issues with pods. I out in pod, turn on, close door, and that's that. It's the lack of problems, and the fact that powder requires some fine tuning, that had me lose interest in it.

And I basically scrape food matter off plates and load them in. Only time I ever rince is when we have lots of tiny food matters on plates and it'll be a pain in the ass to scrape each individually into the garbage, where a jet of hot water will blast them into the strainer ezpz.

So yeah, I'm running the dishwasher daily, and for me I need the path of least resistance.

I tried the powder thing. Couldn't get the hang of it. Back to pods and I'm more than satisfied. I trust Alex implicitly, it's clearly an "operator error," but that's where I'm at.

Self-inflicted oppression is like autoerotic asphyxiation.

For real, people try their absolute hardest to be miserable, instead of trying half as hard to be not miserable.

We all get it, shit kinda sucks now. Talk about other stuff sometimes.

Yeah, a million ain't getting you two chicks at the same time anymore.

Ha, niacin was our go-to for passing drug tests as a kid. That full body sunburn was something else. Not even sure it actually helped, but hey, never failed one!

I took this last night. Definitely not the worst, but whenever I stumble upon a grammatical or spelling error I like to share with people and pretend I'm dying.

It's banned forever!

Or until it is unbanned.

I'm confused by the whole "fault" thing. I EMT'd for about a decade, and there were times we had police escorts, and they'd absolutely come all the way in and stay with the patient the whole time. Just my experience, and maybe I'm confused by the point you're making.

That being said, the hospital is private property. The hospital presumably has an understanding, and it may be written and memorialized in some sort of agreement, that cops are welcome on the property, in the same way just about anyplace that exists in society does. Maybe not a private residence, but anywhere public may go.

It would feel wrong not to.

I'm just curious: is there a reason we don't want the empty threads? And I get it, but I feel like the threads themselves would be to drive the engagement. Like, I'm probably not gonna @ the bot, I'm a simple man, but if I pop in here and there's a thread for the Rongos, I'll certainly pop in and share my thoughts.

I think this is it. I don't think people are making music for the love of the art and all that. I think they're taking a shortcut to potentially produce some sort of side hustle. It's presumably a "make a song that sounds like a mix between artist X and artist Y," and then a fine tuning via prompts from there. We live in a generation of hustles and influencers, and AI is great for both of those things. Those things are, unfortunately, just terrible for society on the whole.

It's cool though, it'll all come to a head, and we'll see what happens!