Halo is precious! What a cool thing to do 🤍

Haha this is why I pick a DoubleTree whenever I can!

Different strokes for different folks, but I really like fresh sheets so I wash them every Friday. Don’t your sheets start to feel stale?

I just woke up and haven’t had any caffeine yet so you’re getting more or less a copy/paste of a comment I’ve written previously. Enjoy!

They don’t call us the Garden State for nothing. Northwest New Jersey is beautiful, very rural with loads of outdoors activities along the Delaware. Central Jersey has Princeton, which along with the gorgeous campus has a super beautiful downtown. There are farmstands with fresh Jersey tomatoes, corn, and peaches all over the place, and we have a bunch of nice wineries! We also have the Pine Barrens (home of the Jersey Devil!) which are beautiful. And despite that stupid MTV show*, the shore is not just loads of drunken assholes. It has tons of boardwalk stuff to do, and the beaches with tags are usually pretty nice. Plus we have Atlantic City!

*(Side note: the cast of Jersey Shore are fucking bennies from New York, they’re not even from NJ.)

When people shit on New Jersey, they’re thinking of Camden (Philly’s fault) or Newark (NYC’s fault). There are definitely ugly industrial areas of NJ, but that’s not the entirety of the state. Neither is the parkway.

Come visit. Have a pork roll, egg, and cheese on a bagel. Bike down the boardwalk. Spend a day at Great Adventure. Check out Lambertville (and New Hope!). Go tubing down the Delaware. And then when you hear someone bash NJ in the future, you’ll be able to defend us ;)

In my head it’ll always be WWF

Yes! Every time I see someone making NJ the butt of a joke, I feel the need to reply with a love letter to New Jersey, because it’s legit awesome and I love it 🤍

I love black licorice 🖤

I’m not entirely sure what Fae is (I’m guessing a fairy?) but I’m from a magical land called New Jersey so I’m pretty sure I’m human

Aw man you were robbed! RadioShack used to be seriously amazing, a hobbyist’s dream.

It’s got Gowron eyes

Thanks!

I’ve got an overabundance of yellow squash too - can you please share the recipe? This looks good!

RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.

Wow, this made me realize I haven’t seen mayo in a glass jar in years.

Chia seeds

No fucking thanks. These machines are disgusting bacteria farms.

Throw people in jail for driving too fast? That seems pretty extreme.

It’s hard to police speeding on a highway. Typically if you do get pulled over for speeding, it’s because you’re going way faster than those around you. So even in a 55, if everyone’s doing 80, you’ve gotta be doing 95 or more for a cop to single you out and arrest you. (Or maybe the cop has a quota to meet.) And where I live, local cops can’t use radar, so it’s hard to prove how fast you were going.

And then if you do get arrested, you’re most likely to get a ticket and points on your license. Get enough points and they’ll take away your license, but that means you’ve been caught repeatedly. And points expire eventually, plus if you go to your court date and plead not guilty, a lot of the time the judge will just remove the points. So a speeding ticket from years ago generally won’t have any bearing on your life except for the cost of the ticket.

So within reason, you can pretty much speed all the time consequence-free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep! That was the first qntm book I read.

I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.

Yeah Riker has nothing on Captain Jack.

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