What purpose does American cheese serve? What problem does it solve?

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default style, and since suits and dresses are both conservative and good-looking they were trying to nudge culture into accepting their worldview.

But with our computers, we are living in some boring-ass timeline where the suits-4-life squares won. We are all stuck using The Office Job OS at home, unless you work in a creative field that got really stuck in with MacOS ages ago. I don't want to wear a suit at home. I want something I think is comfy and pretty, which is why I use Zorin OS.

I did not choose to get into Linux because I think it's better for my workflow or because I am weirded out by all the trackers in win11 or because I care that Microsoft is an evil megacorp. I chose to start using Linux because the last version of windows that i was happy to boot up was Windows 7, and I refuse to use something on my own time that feels gross and looks icky. My preference for something that i can just set up and not have to tinker with makes Zorin a perfect fit for me, and I tend to throw a little fit when i have to do something in Windows specifically. I don't understand why so many people are comfortable using the Office Job OS when they could be using something that suits them.

Preemptive edit because I've seen my post be misread twice already: I'm not trying to say that Microsoft isnt an evil megacorp that stuffs their os with spyware and bloat. I think that was the dealbreaker for most of us here. I just happen to have the sort of personality that Apple targets, and I have been struggling to articulate what specifically made me chose installing Zorin OS on a PC using a TV as a monitor instead of just getting a MacBook like my mom. Also its like 1 in the morning where I live and I need to get to sleep lol

This happens every time. No I will not stop drinking it. I don't have a problem, I can stop whenever I want. I just dont want to stop drinking it.

But why do I have to suffer

😭

it always does this

I will not stop drinking it though

but why does it do this to me

why 😭

it tastes so good

Edit: I have looked at the nutrition label and done some mental math based on how much of the container is left. 80% of daily cholesterol. 100% daily saturated fats. 120% daily added sugars. This was in one glass.

What the fuck is this liquid taco bell bullshit

Postmortem: after sleeping and having a nightmare where I had a heart attack and died while shitting my brains out, I have poured the remaining half of the eggnog down the drain and have resolved to never buy it again because I like being alive

be me, at Rogue's wedding

DM is RPing Rogue's new wife being pleasantly surprised with her childhood pet

Said pet is a house sized spider that only eats men, but likes orphan boys best

Spider gets visibly excited at the words "man" and "orphan", starts boggling and bruxing like a rat

the newlywed bride says her precious pet hasn't been fed in a week

I head out to find an orphan (I think i know where we left some)

Monk: "I'm going to pet the weird doggy"

Be me, out of game: "WTF?"

monk player suggests making an animal handling roll

DM points out this is a flat roll for him; he doesn't have Animal Handling

he rolls a 5

Rogue asks his new wife nicely to spare his friend

bride tells her spider to save him as a snack for later

Spider hangs him from the ceiling

A ceiling of webs

webs woven by her family's spiders

which notice him

snack time!

Monk makes athletics roll (he had a modifier to this one), lands on an in-law's table

Monk is also getting married btw, he landed in his new bride's cousin's soup

said cousin is part of a powerful merchant family

I return with two orphans

monk's new in-laws are horrified as Rogue's bride chops up the orphans and feeds them to her precious bebby

A ttrpg dude on Mastodon is having some unexpected medical bills. Buy some of their punk rpgs or give them money. If I remember correctly their goal on Kofi is $210; I gave them $20. I'm posting this here because there's a lot of you and I think most of us are leftists like them

Unrelated pic is for the clicks. If you see anyone in the comments who clearly didn't read this post, please tell them to donate or contribute to the GDP

When I first saw him, I got so excited I immediately homebrewed a human subrace for him. I was so hopeful that someday in the future we might genetically engineer ourselves into something like this.

I don't think that was the intended reaction.

There's a billion quizzes online that say they can help you choose your first pet, and my 45 minutes of googling before posting this did turn up a single blog that suggested that owners of a class of pet share certain personality traits and lifestyles (although they frustratingly seemed to forget that people own things like snakes, ferrets, lizards, rats, frogs, tarantulas, turtles, mice, etc.)

I am certainly willing to buy that people who have the same kind of pet are more likely to have traits in common, but has there been any research into which traits cause people to choose a hamster over a cat, as well as which traits are partially caused/amplified by the ownership of the pet?

If you have access to any psych papers about this subject, please link to a pdf copy of it because I don't know how to pirate research papers

Edit: Specifically I'm curious about "good-faith" personality traits, beliefs, and preferences that could lead to a pet acquisition. I am perfectly aware, for example, that statistically most hamsters are owned by a child whose parents chose it because it is tiny and can be stuffed into a tiny carcinogenic box forever until it dies of stress and malnourisment, as well as that most guinea pigs are bought by parents who want to see if their kid can keep it alive for a while before getting a "real" pet. I dont think those reasons count and am not interested in those.