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Cake day: December 19th, 2025

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  • “I’d like to reiterate how difficult it is to have granola infected with salmonella. It’s even more difficult than chili peppers, and no, it’s not ‘foreign producers’ that are the problem,” Chef Joe Gera wrote on X. “It’s quality control and standards not being enforced.”

    They literally don’t care about us. These giant corporations and rich assholes have almost all of the money and power, but it’s never enough. They’ll relax regulations and standards to increase profits and if people die, oh well!













  • A reasonable assumption to make, but you would be wrong.

    According to Howard Carter, president of the board of trustees at the Water Environment Federation (WEF), a nonprofit established in 1928 that works to protect public health and the environment, this isn’t just a nightmare scenario—it’s a reality for these workers. Carter tells CR that workers can be on call any given night, and it’s not unusual to get calls at 2 a.m. because of pumps blocked by wipes. “We try to keep up with these things by engineering different products to help, but it’s just a very, very expensive endeavor,” Carter says. These costs, part of the NACWA’s estimate of $441 million a year in operating costs to deal with wipes in sewage systems, range from investing in new technologies to track the level of water in pipes and manholes due to blockages from wipes, to investing in new pumps that will actually cut up the wipes. “These are all extra capital costs associated with increased staff time to monitor and remediate,” Carter says.

    Hell, here’s a link to a FAQ from a company that would benefit from more people using “flushable” wipes:

    https://www.rotorooter.com/blog/toilet/wet-wipes-not-passing-plumbers-flushability-test



  • I don’t think most people consider Zelda games to be metroidvanias, so we shouldn’t hold that against those two games.

    While I haven’t played TotK, I did enjoy BotW, just less than other games in the series. I felt it was unique, had great atmosphere and music, was incredibly polished… but very shallow. The long, well-crafted dungeons were replaced with many mini-dungeons that only rewarded you with more stamina or more health. Every single time. I eventually stopped even checking out the shrines I found. Also, I understand why they implemented the weapon degradation mechanic, but it’s definitely not for me. And the missing story. All the cool events in the world have already happened. Which fits the atmosphere, but it’s less fun, and gives us less story-driven things to do…