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Do you have a recipe? While I’m a fan of great slaw, I’ve never been able to make it myself. The recipes I’ve tried are bland mayo mush not worth eating

It’s not a Rueben but it does make an excellent sandwich!

Oh shit, how have I not tried that? And I have plenty of slow-smoked pulled pork left over from this weekend!

I only had pickles on pulled pork sandwiches, pulled pork breakfast burritos, pulled pork mac&cheese ….

I can sell you one with real floppy drives!

I’m a parent of teens, so am mostly in the side of your in-laws.

• for myself, I have money and most of my interests are too focussed for anyone not in those niches to successfully gift me. I would really love a treat or time.

• for my teens, wtf do you want? Let me shower you with gifts while I still can

Last year we built gaming computers. They got something they appreciate all the time and I got a fun activity with my kids! I have no idea how to match that, let alone top that

Yet the administration intervened to help them get what they were striking for.

There’s definitely a place for vital jobs where striking can be illegal, but the administration also made sure they were set

You might also pay attention to the other pro labor actions of this administration, including the first sitting president to stand on a picket line

For sure, I grew up in a rural conservative area. I thought i knew these people. I thought they were just like me and I could understand their perspective even when I disagreed with it. But 2016 went against everything they claimed to believe in, and they just started making less and less sense, they just started getting more toxic, more hateful and spiteful , more anti-everything and everyone. No. No I can’t.

Maybe I’m falling for the echo chamber effect also, maybe I’m falling prey to those who would keep us divided and at each others throats, but I’m finding it difficult to sympathize, difficult to even want to understand them again. Difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are decent people being manipulated with base emotions. No, this is them

Some Americans are. Way too many Americans are. Feel free to disconnect. However not everyone is and there are like 380 million of us

Yes, but no.

For both myself as a kid and my kids now that I’m parent, I’ve done it several times. However it was really more family day, an open house to show where you work and who you work with. It always had activities, my company has a bounce house (that I never got to use as an employee)

It became pretty annoying as my kids grew into teens. I stopped taking them because everything was oriented to little kids, but teens could probably use some exposure to what people do at work. They’re deciding what they want to do, but with no information, while it would be so useful to actually shadow their parent. Not fun maybe, but useful

The entire world of personal electronics and the cloud.

I got in early and my entire life is digital. I used the first mass market personal computers and was on several precursors to the internet before most lemmings were born. I’m a software engineer: I play video games and do home automation for fun. I don’t have much of a lab but only for lack of time. Seriously, my entire life.

When I was 10, I was still a couple years away from joining my first computer club (IBM mainframe), learning my first computer language (APL - I’m a math nerd too). There were no mass market personal computer yet, and even the first kits probably weren’t out yet.

When I was 10, my life was skating through school, playing out in the yard with my brothers, or in the woods. I loved building and fixing, whether with my father’s tools, or model kits, or Lego. i loved camping, sports, visiting my grandparents farm. My interest in technology was mostly reading history. I would not even recognize most of my adult life

Adapters have their place, and I do have a few, but they’re no cheaper than cables and a bit annoying.

They seem more common now if anything

I’m not sure what extra cleaning you’re talking about but if you use them once in a while they don’t stink