Red. Circle.

Red circle.

You’re digging the knife into the pit to get a grip on it without damaging the avocado flesh around it.

To do so, place the knife as shown in the picture, then hit the back of it with your hand to drive it in. I usually just take a swing at it with the knife itself, but it’s probably a little more consistent to do it this way.

Avocado pits are slippery. You can’t usually just grab them with your fingers.

So just do what the picture shows, and then do what the instructions say, in that order.

This is Agatha. She’s so god damn fluffy.

I’m trying to downvote fewer posts on Lemmy, so thank you for this test.

Personally, I like a treadmill.

For years I planned to get one, and all the runners in my family would talk about how awful they are, how no one ever uses it once they have it, and getting outside is so much better.

I finally got the treadmill a couple months ago, and I use it several times per week. Some weeks I use it every day. It’s convenient, I can control the temperature in the room, I can watch something on my phone while I run, and I like being able to set a consistent pace.

You’re thinking about it the right amount. It’s a fill word.

I learned the game as a kid and it was one of those things everyone just knows to say, like “olly olly oxen free” or “eeny meeny miny mo.” It’s just what you say.

“Woke” has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means “Aware of systemic racism.”

When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, “Stay woke,” he meant: “Stay aware of systemic racism.”

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

That’s just instead of saying, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, SHOOT!”. “Shoot” is when both players put out their hands, just like RPS.

And yes, the players have to agree on which one of them is Odds and which one is Evens beforehand.

When I used to play a game where we had to randomize who went first, my best friend and I decided in advance that I’d always be Evens and he’d always be Odds.

There’s no difference, but if you absolutely can’t agree on who’s what you could always flip a coin for it.

Every time Rock Paper Scissors comes up, I like to point out the superiority of Odds and Evens for resolving disputes.

Rules:

One player picks Odds, the other player picks Evens.

Someone says, “Odds, Evens, says, SHOOT”, and both players put out either one finger or two fingers.

Count the fingers. If it’s odd, Odds wins. If it’s even, Evens wins.

Exactly 50% chance, no ties. RPS has always been obsolete.

Cutting ribbons for grand openings.

I had great, loving parents who tried their best to get me interested in my education. It didn’t matter. ADHD meant I was never going to be a good student.

Craig has actually said that the serious tone was a reaction to Austin Powers existing. It was too on the nose.

Any time someone can’t tell the difference between centrists and fascists, I just have to assume that their stance is more about arguing than it is about a sincerely held ideology.

There was a Hubcap Grill in Houston that had the best burger in a city that has a lot of great burgers.

They say they named it that because of a method of cooking a burger on a skillet, where you place a metal plate over the beef as it cooks to reduce splattering. The joke was that the burgers were so big that they needed to use a hubcap instead of a plate. And it was pretty close to true. Those burgers were massive and incredible.

They still have a few locations, including one in Hobby airport. But the original, which was a hole in the wall in downtown Houston, was the best.

“Just getting in my reps.”

That doesn’t bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.

So much worse is:

OP: “This [noun] is [adjective].”

Commenter 1: “This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY.”

Commenter 2: “[Noun] isn’t [adjective]… BECAUSE IT’S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!”

At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he’s so funny on reddit. She doesn’t really listen.

Censoring a meme on the internet is stupid.

Or the opposite of that.

And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

That doesn’t really track. You think that allowing everyone to use existing characters would incentivize them to create new characters?

A lot of the original works we do get are because not everyone has access to the “safe bets”.