Well let me think…

I know a few local supermarkets sell frozen chickpeas in bags of 500 grams. And I think, off the top of my head, the price ranges between 15 dkk ($2.24) and 40 dkk ($5.97), depending on if there’s a sale on and which supermarket I go to. I know that Rema 1000 is on the cheaper end, and frozen vegetable products tend to go on sale pretty often, but it’s never the same products, so it’s very unpredictable when chickpeas go on sale. These prices include tax, as tax is not excluded from products in stores.

That means that 3 kg of frozen chickpeas would be between $14.44 (uaually when on sale) or $36.02.

Now, I can get dried beans and peas in much larger bulk from the various Arab stores in Copenhagen, but buying bags of dried goods from those stores comes with the risk of getting pantry moths. I’m still battling those little fuckers from the time I bought a large 5 kg bag of really high quality rice two years ago.

I live in Denmark.

There’s no Amazon in Denmark. Basically anything bought from Amazon either comes from Germany or the UK, which makes Amazon probably the worst, most expensive option for any reason.

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Sure you were. Sure you were.

Israel maybe has Judaism as its state religion, but that doesn’t make Israel Judaism. Does Israel really think people are that stupid?

I can buy oats and flour on the cheap around here, but chickpeas and dried beans? That’s very quickly sounding like $10 a day.

How to tell everyone you’ve never actually read a single Batman comic, method A:

It wasn’t even in a controlled lab environment. Literally some apartment.

Well then, let’s put this to the test, shall we?

Since Spiderman is the one presented in this, comic, let’s first look at all the spiderman villains:

Toby Spiderman 1: Green Goblin. His motivation is revenge for being taken off a project due to a lack of favourable results. So his, motivation was greed.

Toby Spiderman 2: Doctor Octopus. Guy got his brain rewired with robot voices in his head. Only motivation is the base programming of his robotic arms.

Toby Spiderman 3: Venom is an evil alien parasite. Makes people into edgelords. Green Goblin Jr. wants to avenge his father, as he misunderstands the circumstances of his death. Sandman is a petty criminal in an unfortunate situation. He has no real motivations besides his daughter and doesn’t have much agency in the movie.

Amazing Spiderman 1: Lizardman’s motivation is the trauma of losing his arm. He then decides to force his lizard transformation on a densely populated city for no real reason, and without consulting anyone about it.

Amazing Spiderman 2: Electro is a hurt fan. Doesn’t feel like he’s appreciated, but now that he got powers he thinks people will appreciate him by being a murderous dick with them. There’s also Green Goblin in here, but I honestly can’t remember his motivation as he was just shoehorned into the plot.

MCU Civil War: Spiderman is here just to impress Stark. The guys he’s fighting don’t like the shift in governance that Stark helped create, but they’re not considered villains. Stark could be considered as changing the status quo here, but he’s not presented as a villain either. Baron Zemo is the villain, but his motivation is only petty revenge and Spiderman doesn’t even fight him.

MCU Spiderman 1: Vulture and Co. feels fucked over by the way things are run these days. But his motivation is not changing the status quo. He wants to get rich and have revenge on Stark.

MCU Infinity War/Endgame: Thanos is the first villain on this list who is genuinely trying to change some sort of status quo as his primary motivation. Not greed or revenge of any sort. However, the method he decides to use is incredibly destructive, and equally as stupid. No, deleting half of life in the universe is not a permanent solution.

MCU Spiderman 2: Mysterio is just… Petty revenge again. Like, the guy’s motivation is so shallow. He has absolutely zero intention of changing any status quo.

MCU Spiderman 3: The struggle in this movie has nothing to do with status quo. Mysterio fucked over spoodermahn, which leads to a bad decision, which leads to villains from other movies, which leads to a good decision that fixes rather than defeats. Wait, no, this movie is about changing the status quo, and it’s Spiderman who’s changing it.

Hmm… Let me think about villains from the MCU for a bit…

Obidiah Stane: Corrupt greedy cunt.

Loki: Power hungry maniac.

US military (in the Hulk): Trying to “fix” a mistake.

Red Skull: Power hungry maniac.

What’s-his-name with the whips: Revenge.

Justin Hammer: Corrupt greedy cunt.

Loki again: Even more maniacally power hungry.

Guy Pierce Mandarin: Corrupt greedy cunt who’s also a power hungry maniac.

Hydra: Power hungry maniac with new world order ideals. Yeah, they’re trying to change the status quo, a first on the MCU list. But I’m pretty sure we can all agree straight up executing unruly members of the population, even if they haven’t done anything, is not the kind of change in the status quo we like seeing.

Dark Elves: Revenge.

That guy from Gaurdians: Power hungry maniac.

Ultron: Wants to change the status quo by introducing everyone to his friend, extinction. Pretty sure most people would want to be alive to exist in a changed world. Preferably one with better living standards.

Hella: Revenge.

Ego: Narcissistic maniac.

That one evil wizard: Can’t remember what his personal motivations are, but it involves introducing an extra-dimensional destructive force of nature. Pretty sure whatever it is, it isn’t justified.

So… My only conclusion is whoever made that little comic never watched any of the movies he’s criticising. Or maybe he’s secretly Garo.

Just like ba haha ha ha hahaha ha ha ha haha!

You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Batman has a principle of not killing people.

I don’t get it. I mean, yeah, I get what’s going on, I just don’t get what makes it funny, or what point it’s trying to make.

I haven’t bought Palworld yet. What is the current state of the game?

I didn’t want to buy it because I saw some friends playing it many months ago when it released and it look janky as fuck. Buggy AI pathfinding, janky enemy AI, NPCs getting stuck on terrain objects or player objects, physics bugs.

Have these things been fixed/improved since launch?

That’s alright. I wash my butthole every time I got to the toilet. Basically I keep an old water bottle next to the toilet. It’s much more hygienic than simply drying off all the wet bits with toilet paper (as that’s essentially just what you’re doing. Your butthole isn’t really clean, you just removed all the moist stuff that’d stick to toilet paper).

Interesting…

Need to keep Cobalt Tools in mind. Was looking for something like that.

You just need one: uBlock Origins.

If you’re still seeing ads then the adblocker isn’t turned on.

I think it’s more like they don’t care.

Good for you! You played a game so much you personally stopped caring. But that’s just you and you alone.

There are whole communities out there that are all about retro games. You’re throwing them all under the bus for being perfectly fine about something no longer being playable due to an arbitrary and otherwise avoidable reason.

This citizen initiative, if successful, has the power to change the way games are built from the ground up, and is the sort of “tide lifts all boats” thing that’ll only end up benefiting everyone.

I don’t know what counts as a “world war” these days anymore.

A significant portion of the world’s militaries have been involved in various Middle Eastern conflicts, yet those haven’t been called world wars…

So… What qualifies as a world war?