An answer to make most people mad:

Interesting, interesting. We call the female lightning bugs here glow worms because they are wingless, but today I’m learning that is not the case for all species!

Also Glühwürmchen is a cute word.

I grew up calling them lightning bugs, and I’m so excited to see a thread full of people calling them the same!

I remember once opening the door to a garage (with a gravel floor), hundreds of the little guys immediately dove in to the gravel. It was… fine. I was… fine.

Conversely, I was at a snake petting zoo and they had an arachnid room. There was a big ol’ scorpion there covered with it’s babies taking a ride and it was honestly very cute! (This was thousands of miles from home, so that helped too.)

In summary: Scorpions… sometimes?

I am apparently not very good at identifying pinnipeds, I’m from more of a dugong kind of area 😅 This lil guy is definitely a cutie, thank you for sharing!

Don’t know if it’s AI, but I think it’s a harbor seal? The angle is a little weird with its left hind flipper, and it almost looks like the right hind flipper is missing.

But who knows what is what in this crazy mixed up data world 😅

I had no idea this could happen, I’ll have to keep an eye out!

I’ve been obsessed with it!! The cooking is amazing and I love the philosophical bits that are woven through everything.

Are you worried the cooking focus might take a back seat as the current storyline proceeds?

Mustard makes many things great ☺️ But I might also try this mayo and cheese combination you speak of, thank you stranger!

Don’t forget the mustard! Do you cut your slices in half of just cut out a sliver (to prevent bowing/cupping)? And are you one of those folks that add cheese??

Agreed, it’s definitely coming from the top! I didn’t realize they had closed a ton of the other offices during the pandemic, but I suppose it’s not surprising either. It also seemed like a lot of remote hiring happened during the pandemic?

Most of the people I know personally affected are in that category (remotely hired or relocated), and most of those people are women. Small sample size with lots of bias, but I’ve been pretty upset the whole situation. It definitely feels/looks like a way to quietly push a bunch of folks out… whether overtly or as a “bonus” for upper management, it has the same unfortunate effect.

I guess it is what it is, but what it is ain’t good. It feels good to commiserate though, thank you stranger!

So this is like an Austrian Cincinnati chili?

For some reason I really want to love Vienna sausages… but I just can’t. Maybe one day!

Thank you for the memory! The first “retail” card I ever purchased (from a small town computer shop), literally just said AGP Graphics Adapter on the box… and inside was a delightfully generic SiS board, with which I had many fun hours.

Noooo, Ferris don’t do it!