Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Yeah, they’re definitely pricey. I tend to buy in bulk when they go on sale, and they freeze just fine.

    The Beyond breakfast sausages are absolutely delicious. There’s two, maybe three, varieties available in my area. There’s the links, which are my favorite, and also the patties. I’m not sure if they stopped making them or my grocery store just stopped carrying them, but there used to be a maple sausage one that was beyond amazing.

    Impossible makes a ground sausage that’s also really good. It comes in a sleeve like regular ground sausage and, IMO, tastes better than the real thing.

    If you’re talking about the brats, then yeah, AFAIK there’s only one type of those.

    The meatballs are kind-of sausage-y and also excellent.




  • The reasons for high dollar amount compensations are usually, at least, threefold:

    1. Cover the plaintiff’s legal fees. Lawyers often get a percentage of the award or settlement and typically are the ones to set the dollar amount being sought. Even if they “just” bill hourly then the plaintiff still has to pay them (win or lose). Often, though not always, lawyers are expensive (especially good ones).
    2. Actual compensation to the victim
    3. A deterrent to future violations that led to the lawsuit / encouragement to do better

    Edit: That’s against companies and large entities, though. I’ve never understood awards of millions of dollars from regular people who could never in 10 lifetimes pay that amount. Maybe it’s just symbolic? I’ve never really known what happens when Jim Bob who makes $1000/mo on social security gets sued for $10 million and loses.