Back in the late 50s/early 60s, a tv season season ran 39 weeks long, and an hour-long show ran for 54 minutes.

Remember all those videos of police screaming “Stop Resisting” at people who very clearly weren’t resisting? Congratulations, you’re now a violent criminal.

I don’t have children, but I relate to the stress that you’re feeling. A question, please: are you making fresh meals every night? While I applaud the effort, that’s got to be tiring, the constant effort of cooking and cleaning up every evening. Can you meal-prep instead? It would lower the effort on both cooking and cleaning up.

When I started this, I designated one hour every evening as “me / work” time. I chose a show I liked but that I felt guilty for wasting time watching - note that it’s important that it be a show that’s aired with commercials. I watched the show and, during the commercials, I went through the grocery store ads and decided what to cook that week. It’s basically just two main dishes each week, but in larger quantities.

After getting the ingredients, I’d spend my hour doing the prep work: sitting in front of the TV, watching my show and peeling, dicing, slicing, etc, and putting all the prepped ingredients into bowls or Ziploc bags. Commercials were used to exchange ingredients with the kitchen. I found that doing everything in front of the tv saved my tired feet and soothed my tired brain - it was lovely!

I did have to find time, usually 90-120 minutes, to dedicate to cooking the meals - but actually cooking them went quickly because everything was already prepped and I even had little bits of time to rinse containers and put them in the dishwasher, so I ended up with a mostly clean kitchen afterward. When everything’s cooled down, divide it into portions, put it in containers or ziplocs, and freeze half of it. The other half, you’ll eat “fresh” for the next couple days.

On Sunday evening, I take everything left over from whatever I brought in, sit in front of the tv, and I make salads. I usually vary them - some may get cheese, others bits of meat, maybe some fruit, etc. Anything crispy goes in a small Ziploc bag on the side, and dressing goes in a small pill bottle on the side. I try to have more veggies than lettuce, and I put the lettuce on top so it doesn’t bruise. I make 10 salads - one each for lunch and dinner every day that week. I’ll also make snack packets that evening, putting together small bags of chips or veggies or whatever. Anything that’s still left over gets put in the freezer as ingredients for later (I just have the normal fridge-freezer, nothing special).

Because I overcooked in large batches, I eventually ended up with a freezer of about 45 servings of like 12-15 different foods: stuffed tomatoes or peppers, eggplant parmesan, French onion soup, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, burritos, pot pies, soup, etc. which means that the first part of the week the food is fresher, and the second half of the week has more variety.

On fresh days, I just grab a main and a salad for lunch, and have a main and a salad and some microwaved or roasted veggies for dinner. For freezer days, I’ll grab two meals from the freezer the night before and move them to the fridge to start defrosting, then have them for lunch and dinner. All this means that I’m only cooking meals one day a week, and all of the cleanup is pretty easy. I get to come home and, instead of immediately jumping into meal prep, I get a few minutes to recover from work.

As much as I can, I do the same thing with cleaning now as well: I’ll watch TV and during the first commercial break, I’ll run to the bathroom, clear off the counters and swish cleaner around the toilet. The second commercial break, I clean the shower surround. The third break (the large one in the middle), I clean the tub. The fourth break, I clean the mirror and the counters. The final break, I clean the toilet, put everything back, and drop the towels in the laundry room on my way back. I’ve spent an hour watching TV and it doesn’t feel like I’ve been working, yet the bathroom is clean. And I didn’t spend the commercial breaks idly scrolling on my phone.

Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

And suddenly, everything the Russian banks do is related to civil nuclear energy …

I would love AOC as president. Unfortunately, she’s a woman and she’s a minority, and this country is just too racist and sexist - and stupid! - to elect her.

This can only end well …

There was a NYT article about three different incidents of ice impersonators back in February.

It’s average home prices vs average wages. Things like property taxes and cost of living aren’t included.

So, question: my cousin had a leaking pipe under his house and they ran one of those pipe lines things through it to fix it. Why can’t we run pipe liner through the lead pipes to at least reduce the exposure? And even if there’s some reason it couldn’t be done on some of the lines, surely it could be done on others?

Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

Bruuuuuucccceeeeeeeeeee!

Facial recognition apps are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to minority faces, but I suppose they think that’s a benefit :(

They won’t turn. And if they did, he’d be there claiming he was against it all the time, people just misunderstood him.

I can only hope …

In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.

Just a reminder that the “border” in the US extends 100 miles inland from any actual physical border - so 100 miles inland from Canada, Mexico, the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic oceans, or the Gulf of Mexico.

And that for the last decade or so, they’ve also been trying to claim that any international airport is also a border, so the “border” would extend 100 out from Denver, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, etc.

And they’ve been trying to claim that an “international” airport is any airport capable of landing an international flight, regardless of whether any international flights actually fly there.

This article is from February, I’m sure there’ve been a bunch more since then.

Elon Musk‘s lawyers are claiming he “does not use a computer,” contradicting Musk’s social media posts, video game streams, employees at his companies, publicly available data, and common sense.

Please be Mamdani, please be Mamdani …