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[milo christiansen]

Don't worry. Virtually all portable propane heaters put out very low levels of CO, as they are intended for indoor use. It is possible for them to be dangerous, but the danger is minor unless they are really high output.

Or you have little ventilation. A normal house should be fine.

[Yoink]

Isn't a diner a subset of fast food place, though?
I guess mainly I just counted it alongside the others due to how recognisable it is.

[hector13]

My stepdad is running a propane heater in the basement to keep the pipes from freezing. He also cannot find his carbon monoxide detector.

There are reasonably cheap wires he could buy to do that without the chance of poisoning your family. Home Depot or whatever should have them.

[Lord Shonus]

Isn't a diner a subset of fast food place, though?
I guess mainly I just counted it alongside the others due to how recognisable it is.

No. A diner is a traditional "waitress takes your order, brings you your food on a real plate instead of in a paper wrapper, you eat it with real utensils instead of your hands or disposables, then you get the check and pay" restaurant. They're considered to be lower-end, and focus entirely on cheap but filling working-class food, but they're not fast food.

"Fast Food" is "pay up-front, collect your food at a counter, unwrap it and use the wrapper as a plate".

[Rolan7]

I noticed a Golden Corral near my new location just yesterday and was thinking of trying it, how funny.

WTF:  I attended a local Ingress meetup with my dad and had a decent time.  Did some... bleh... networking.
Some people were also very rude, accidentally.  I played it cool, and the mild anger feels *very* pleasant.  Mmm, warm thoughts with none of the regretful actions.

[heydude6]

People still play Ingress?!

I thought Pokemon Go completely took over.

[Rolan7]

A few people there do play GO, due to GO stops being a subset of Ingress portals.  But even they dripped with derision, heh.
That's not the rudeness I was talking about (though one person openly scorned the Wonderful stats, max-CP-for-me chikorita I caught).  That was just amusing irony.  "Ohoho, a children's card game?  How unlike our very serious game where the only PVP is literally based on refreshing a shitty UI faster!"

Honestly...  Ingress has a flat-out amazing community, but the game itself is garbage now.  Innovative when it started, but completely resting on its obsolete laurels.

[Frumple]

Though I don't know how enjoyable it would be to eat there nowadays... back then I was only vegetarian, and there were plenty of potato salads and meat-free pasta dishes to choose from. Now it would probably be a nightmare, haha.

I'm pretty sure golden corral's buffet lineup has been largely unchanged since... basically ever. It's rare joints like that in the US have much of a shakeup in offerings, outside a few things that rotate throughout the week and maybe a couple others that are seasonal or somethin'. Basically, anything you ate once you'd probably be able to eat again, even if it's been like a decade. Or two. Or more. Place more or less has the same friggin' bread rolls they did in the 90s, last I ate at one. _{Which has been a few years cause I kinda' hate eating buffet, but eh.}

Most country buffet type things tend to have plenty of non-meat options, though. Most buffet type things in general, stateside. Hell, usually there's more variation there than there is with meat, both due to customer inclination and cost. Folks like their meat but most like their sides pretty heavily, too, and the restaurant would really love it if you ate less of the generally (much) more expensive meat.

Your biggest conceptual problem as a vegetarian would probably be stuff cooked with meat. Greens cooked with ham or bacon for flavor more than to be ate, that sort of thing. McDonald's fries kinda' stuff.

[redwallzyl]

looks like we got a bot again.

[Arx]

Though I don't know how enjoyable it would be to eat there nowadays... back then I was only vegetarian, and there were plenty of potato salads and meat-free pasta dishes to choose from. Now it would probably be a nightmare, haha.

I'm pretty sure golden corral's buffet lineup has been largely unchanged since... basically ever. It's rare joints like that in the US have much of a shakeup in offerings, outside a few things that rotate throughout the week and maybe a couple others that are seasonal or somethin'. Basically, anything you ate once you'd probably be able to eat again, even if it's been like a decade. Or two. Or more. Place more or less has the same friggin' bread rolls they did in the 90s, last I ate at one. _{Which has been a few years cause I kinda' hate eating buffet, but eh.}

Most country buffet type things tend to have plenty of non-meat options, though. Most buffet type things in general, stateside. Hell, usually there's more variation there than there is with meat, both due to customer inclination and cost. Folks like their meat but most like their sides pretty heavily, too, and the restaurant would really love it if you ate less of the generally (much) more expensive meat.

Your biggest conceptual problem as a vegetarian would probably be stuff cooked with meat. Greens cooked with ham or bacon for flavor more than to be ate, that sort of thing. McDonald's fries kinda' stuff.

I think Yoink moved to Vega at some point, more than GC changing their line up.

[Zangi]

Holy shit.  Temperature was warm all weekend, even at night.  Now it is suddenly fucking cold.
...  Good thing I was being a dumb shit last night.  Cause I would have woken up half frozen and on my way to a cold or something.  Stayed awake long enough to feel the temperature shift and thrown on extra layers.

[smjjames]

looks like we got a bot again.

At least it's not one of those rampant ones.

[MrRoboto75]

Saw some interesting valentines the other day.  They were cards that came with little 45 records of random love songs and such.  Another place had the usual assortment of obnoxiously large plush animals, which for whatever reason included giant llamas.  Which must work as upon seeing them I thought "Love Llamas".  Either that or Will Wright siezed control of the valentine's day market.

Either way the discovery's rather ephemeral.  If social lives could be geography I'd be some rock in the Pacific.

[AzyWng]

CCleaner, made by Piriform, has the abilty to delete an old windows installation.

I tried this twice today.

Both times, Explorer.exe shut off suddenly and I ultimately had to wind up resetting my computer.

If that sounds like it was irritating, it's because it was.

Thing is, I remember selecting the option before and never having any problems like that...

[hector13]

Can you not delete old windows installations through windows itself?