Potatoes are really versatile.

Hash browns are quick and easy, shred the potato, line it flat on a plate, cover with paper towel and microwave for two minutes, then fry. Add in some grated onion or other root vegetables and fry in chicken fat for latkes, great with apple sauce or sour cream (if using the latter, use vegetable oil to be very traditional)

Roasted potatoes with dried herbs and a squeeze of lemon, also easy, not as quick. About 35 min in a 425°F oven.

Potato dumplings or spatzle are also good. Boil peeled potatoes then mash with flour, egg, and some fat to form a dough. Then form into small balls and boil again or, more traditionally, grate the dough into boiling water. You can season the dough with some nutmeg for a simple but earthy touch.

Potatoes can make a good soup, too. Sweat onions, garlic, other alium like leeks, and maybe celery, add in peeled, inch cubed potato, cover with liquid (stock, water with bouillon, or just water) by like an inch, boil until the potatoes are fork tender then mash the crap outta it until its thick and homogeneous. Ideally you'd blend this, but you said equipment is limited. Make it rich with butter or milk. Err on the side of less liquid, it's easier to thin a thick soup than it is to thicken a thin one without burning stuff on the bottom of the pot.

Did having to explain the definition of the word after have you also feeling aglet?

No worries, we're all trying to make it through the best we can and I didn't feel anything adversarial in your critique, just a desire for you and your fellow worker to be treated with dignity in their labor

That's fair. I meant cost as in cost to me, the consumer, which is the price, but I think what you've said here is a valuable thing to consider when wondering why it's so expensive and yet shit now.

I'm no fan of Vance, but I'm really struggling to see why this photo matters.

They should try making good coffee

One's gotta feel so goofy bragging about their truck hauling a load that would fit in most any compact sedan

7zip is also free and doesn't hassle you, for what it's worth.

Sick speedrun strat

Surely this will be challenged, and I'm not optimistic about the federal Supreme Court maintaining the same decision, but, fuck, would that be nice.

Sorry Google.

I'm gonna use YouTube ad free or I won't use it.

And I ain't gonna pay for it.

I'll believe the economics are better when I'm not paying markedly more for everything in my life and my salary increases.

The politicians are so wildly out of touch with the citizens.

This idea that the data is "mistrusted" or "unseen" is ridiculous to the point of incredulity. I don't care what the data says, I know what my lived experiences are and everything is getting wildly more expensive except my labor, it seems. Show me any study you want, it won't change that groceries are 30%+ more expensive, my rent keeps going up, restaurants and bars have gotten nearly 50% or more pricier and my wage hasn't grown to match.