I'm more down for leftover turkey in the days after than on actual Thanksgiving. Sandwiches and wraps for days!

I feel you. Most grocery stores are way understaffed and Thanksgiving is like the grocery store's super bowl. Even Publix, which prizes itself for their customer service is scrambling, either everyone has quit or they aren't hiring enough people.

It’ll probably help elevate property values in its vicinity, too. Win-win-win.

I've always gone for some Rostov's coffee beans...the Cuban Blend is a knockout. But you might want to make that into a gift card so people can go with their own choices.

I've half a mind to bus all the barflies from town hall, HSH and city beach over there for happy hour.

Isn't Blanchard's coffee from Richmond? I've never looked to see if it's sold outside of VA in stores.

Carytown being a local thing is on its way out unfortunately. It's a slow decline (on the order of a decade or two) but it's pretty clear. The rising real estate values surrounding it apply upward pressure on rents that local shops will have trouble with.

My family unit is very small, and since I (the youngest) entered adulthood we’ve been very disorganized and informal about holidays. This year I finally realized that’s why I don’t enjoy going home for said holidays — we sit around and do nothing special for the requisite few hours before calling it quits, dad always shows up late, my sister always gets stressed, yadda yadda.

I feel guilty for not wanting to go home because I do love them and I do feel grateful that I have them. I just would rather visit them on a random weekend than Thanksgiving. But! Duty calls, and I’ll catch up on the It’s Always Sunny podcast on the drive down.

Man, this person reached out and this is the first time I’m disappointed in this sub.

Did you read the article? That's not at all what it said

Shit happens, it's what drove me to make my original comment.

Lady was acting like I killed her kid or something.

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Take 301 and avoid DC entirely. Good luck!

I always wonder about the people who see these posts and actually go to meet up with them....

Yes, probably.

The federated models used by the Matrix protocol and the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon are really cool, but they both suffer from the same issue. Very techie power users will utilize the projects but never reach the critical mass of users to be relevant for a social network. Case in point, I first looked in to Matrix and Mastodon back in 2017 or so but it’s taken Twitter imploding in 2022 for even the more tech inclined general public to hear about it.

Other option is less tech inclined users just signing up on a server and ceding control over all their data to some arbitrary server owner. Both have tons of issues.

That’s why I’m super excited to see what Jack Dorsey and his former Twitter team come up with for BlueSky, since it’s built on top of the Matrix protocol. I’m really curious to see if they can keep the things that attracted the techies in the first place, while streamlining the usability for everyone.

Edit - This is why I love Signal. They took something that was only used by a dwindling amount of tech nerds and people buying drugs on dark net markets (PGP public key encryption), and made it as easy to use as Messenger or WhatsApp.

Just because the motorcycle doesn't take up the whole lane, doesn't mean you can pass! I swear every day I ride, at least ONE person attempts to overtake me in my own lane.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Hang in there. DM if you need to talk.

The Instacart people are some of the biggest pricks! Just this morning I had an Instacart lady go full blown mental because we didn't have any honey ham.

Agreed that it sounds boring. I see their reasoning though. “Exchange was seen as a great fit for the restaurant because it sits at the confluence of several different neighborhoods – Tuckahoe, Windsor Farms, the University of Richmond and River Road.”

Wait til that crowd meets the Segway glitter panhandler

Right?

A turkey club is, in my opinion, totally different and it’s pretty good. I’ll concede on that.

I hate people some times. I injured my Achilles and cant go shopping. Did tip an instacart person nicely though. They came through for me this week!. Hope most people are decent.

A Cheffed up fried or smoked turkey is good. I am mostly here for the sides and put up with the turkey. But a Turkey club sammich is delightful!

Plan is to cook a from scratch baked ziti, watch football (Both the American and international kinds), Imbibe in some 420 and play a ton of God of War: Ragnorok on the PS5 this week.