Could it be The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams? If so, I didn’t enjoy it either.

Taking a drive when it’s sunny and traffic is light.

Cooking from a new recipe and having it come out good.

Sliding into bed on new sheet night.

Sometimes you need to rename something that was originally named after someone who became a national humiliation.

What’s the link between Firefly and the other ones?

They might not want to do it, they might feel there are better things to fight for, they may have heavy regret signing and volunteering for the military knowing who the president is. But they do it anyways.

Do you maybe mean the opposite of respect? Because that seems more logical.

I got so tired of them I actually started asking ChatGPT for recipes instead. It’s mostly worked out.

More screen length = more space for embedded video ads.

fart gun

I got my nephews one of those! It disappeared after a week, but what a week.

I believe Thiel’s name is one of the ones found in the Epstein emails.

Global basilisk hack. Everyone staring at a screen has a fatal seizure and tips over. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon basin inherit the Earth.

Pineapple soup?

Is to carry out a death sentence.

Example : at one point it was seen as obscene to talk about copulation, coit and fornication. So, for the houses where the king approved fornication, they simply created a modest acronym F.U.C.K. (short for : Fornication Under King’s Consent) that later became itself seen as (of course) obscene.

I believe that theory has been debunked and ‘fuck’ is from low German, meaning ‘to strike’.

I don’t need a whole pineapple to cook a hawaiian pizza.

Yeah, pineapple pieces in tins.

I bought myself a lava lamp because yes, they’re cool. Takes an hour to warm up, though. I usually lose my focus on it before that.

Burger buns. Salad greens. Tinned pineapple.

As a child in the local library, I always passed the large print section and there was always this one book there: The Spitting Image. It had a furious-looking gargoyle on the cover and it used to scare me at first, but over time it seemed goofier and goofier. And since as an adult I have to fight the urge to be goofy when I should be serious, I felt like it was suitable.

It’s useful if you’re a network engineer or a web designer.

The times I’ve said have been because I genuinely thought the OP was the unreasonable one in the described situation.