GET UNLIMITED PASTA: Starting Thursday, July 16 at 2 p.m. ET, Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Pass goes on sale for $100. Passes unlock unlimited pasta at Olive Garden for 13 weeks. The sale window closes once all passes are claimed.

We hope you’re hungry. After six long years of waiting, the Never-Ending Pasta Pass has returned alongside the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl.

Olive Garden is once again offering customers 13 weeks of unlimited pasta for a $100 flat fee. Only 10,000 passes will be available, and they’re expected to sell out quickly, as they did in previous years. So, here’s how you can ensure you’re one of the customers who gets to enjoy towers of pasta in the coming weeks.

The Never-Ending Pasta Pass goes on sale precisely at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 16 at PastaPass.com. It costs $100, plus tax, and unlocks unlimited dine-in pasta meals, with a choice of homemade sauces and protein topping, as well as unlimited soup, salad, and glorious signature breadsticks. The Pasta Pass lasts from Aug. 24, 2026 through Nov. 22, 2026 and cannot be shared. The never-ending pasta is yours and yours alone to enjoy.

The Never-Ending Pasta Bowl is available starting Aug. 31, so Pasta Pass holders get a week of unlimited pasta before the general population. If you don’t secure the Pasta Pass before it sells out, you can still enjoy the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl promotion starting at $14.99 per person.

Set your calendar alerts now for 2 p.m. ET on Thursday if you want to be among the lucky pass holders this season. My stomach is growling already.

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SAVE $300: The Jackery HomePower 1000 v2 in white is on sale for $579, down from the normal price of $879. That’s a 34% discount.

Traditionally, portable power stations have been for function only, with very little attention to looks. But Jackery has noticed that power stations can also look sleek and pleasing to have at home. Case in point: the minimalist Jackery FridgeGuard. The brand recently launched an updated HomePower lineup, and there’s one particular model that has the looks to match the function. On top of this, it’s also on sale.

As of July 14, the white Jackery HomePower 1000 v2 is on sale for $579, marked down from the normal price of $879. That works out to a 34% discount and a savings of $300. If you don’t espeically care about the white colorway, the black is also on sale for $300 off, making it $549.

What’s to love about the new HomePower lineup from Jackery

The latest lineup from Jackery brings three updated models to the lineup of HomePower portable power stations. All are designed for use at home should the power cut out or if you need to bring power to the garage or the shed.

The smallest model is the HomePower 1000 v2 with 1,024Wh of capacity and 1,500W output. Surge protection on the new model reaches 3,000W. Plus, it has a 10 millisecond UPS, so you can rest assured your desktop station or CPAP machine will continue getting power without a gap.

Jackery equipped the station with three AC ports, two USB-C (one 100W, one 30W), and one USB-A port. There’s also a built-in light to make carrying the station around the house while the power is out significantly easier.

A pretty model that’s easy to carry around

Jackery is well known as one of top portable power station brands. I’ve been testing this model for a few weeks now, and I’m always impressed by how lightweight it feels. It weighs a bit over 23 pounds, so it’s always a pleasant surprise when I lift it up without feeling like I’m at the gym.

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While it has nothing to do with function, I love the white colorway. Jackery’s standard color palate is black with orange accents. I’m not mad about that, but I appreciate Jackery made this HomePower model in a white option. It blends in better with most homes and gives it an more aesthetic vibe compared to the black. I still appreciate the standard Jackery black and orange for using while camping since it won’t show dirt smudges.

Quiet operation with quick recharging

Adding to the elements that make it nice to use at home, we have the ultra quiet operation. Jackery states this model operates at under 30 decibles. While testing, I haven’t noticed it going above this. In fact, I often forget it’s sitting next to my bed powering up my bedside lamp while recharging my phone and sleep earbuds.

The Jackery HomePower 1000 v2 is also speedy when recharging. Jackery says it’ll reach a full charge in 50 minutes, and I haven’t seen any different while testing.

Since its stats make it well equipped for using at home during an outage and the white option makes it look quite appealing, upgrade to the Jackery HomePower 1000 v2. You’ll be saving $300 by shopping today, and you’ll be prepared for the next power outage.

By Joshua Tyler
| Updated 1 hour ago

A few months ago, I coined the term “slop eater” to explain people who mindlessly consume content without regard to whether it’s any good. That term has now become widely used because it’s clear that slop eaters are a problem, and they degrade the overall quality of the entertainment you watch because they don’t support any standards. 

However, slop eaters aren’t the only problem. Because there’s another group doing far more to destroy everything you see on screens. They’re called Conseclods.

Conseclod is a term I just invented to describe someone who habitually ignores or dismisses the downstream consequences of actions, decisions, systems, or ideas, focusing instead on immediate gratification, appearances, craftsmanship, intentions, or other surface-level considerations.

Try saying it out loud; it’s a lot of fun. KON-suh-klod!

There are dozens of ways to describe someone who is overly focused on consequences, and they’re all derogatory. Maybe you’ve used some of them yourself. They’re terms like wet blanket, buzzkill, and Debbie Downer. Until this very moment, though, there wasn’t a single clear term to describe someone who doesn’t care about consequences at all, and they’re not only a far larger group but also a far bigger problem.

How Conseclods Are Ruining Movies

Conseclods are ruining the entire world around you in a wide variety of ways, but this is an entertainment site so let’s focus on how they’re ruining entertainment. They’re the people who, when someone raises an objection to the way the media we’re consuming might be negatively impacting our brains, make a non-argument like “lighten up” to shame reasoned critique. 

Conseclods are obsessed with the craft of whatever they’re watching. Their thoughts on the content they consume are limited to how well-made it is, whether it elicits any emotions, and how much fun it is to watch. Those things are worth discussing, but given screens’ proven ability to influence people’s minds, they’re minor details in a much larger picture. 

When a movie handles an idea recklessly, the Conseclod does not examine the criticism. He simply declares that criticism illegitimate. It is “just entertainment,” and therefore nobody has any right to ask what the entertainment encourages, excuses, celebrates, or makes emotionally appealing.

That gives filmmakers the perfect escape hatch. They can deliberately engineer every image, line, musical cue, and emotional payoff to manipulate the audience, then hide behind the claim that none of it means anything. If anyone notices what the movie is doing, the Conseclod arrives to accuse that person of taking movies too seriously.

This produces lazier storytelling. Writers no longer need to defend the ideas embedded in their work because Conseclods will insist those ideas do not exist. A filmmaker can glamorize cruelty, reward stupidity, romanticize dysfunction, or turn destructive behavior into heroic rebellion without ever confronting its implications.

Conseclods believe that if a movie does not instantly cause every viewer to copy its characters, they conclude that it influenced nobody. But entertainment rarely works that way. It shapes associations, expectations, sympathies, language, and perceptions gradually.

Conseclods somehow never make these same arguments about advertising. Everyone, even the Conseclods, admits that advertising on screens manipulates and influences people. 

Studios spend enormous amounts of money placing products in movies because seeing something on screen can change how audiences feel about it. Nobody believes James Bond must stop the movie, stare into the camera, and order everyone to buy an Aston Martin before the placement counts as persuasion. Yet Conseclods pretend the same mechanism stops working when movies sell attitudes instead of cars.

Conseclods Are The Odyssey’s Primary Defenders

It’s happening right now with The Odyssey. The film’s director, Christopher Nolan, recently admitted in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 that one of his primary goals in making the movie was to persuade his audience into abandoning what he deems as “cultural prejudice.” Nolan explicitly stated that he wants to “do away with some of those assumptions.”

Meanwhile, most of the attempts to discuss the way in which The Odyssey is doing this very thing are shut down by a flood of Conseclods who laugh at the idea and call the people engaging with it killjoys. Those same Conseclods then redirect the conversation to how cool the Cyclops looks. 

Conseclodding lowers creative standards. Treating movies as meaningless distractions encourages disposable entertainment designed only to deliver familiar characters, easy stimulation, and temporary emotional release. If nothing on screen matters, then filmmakers have little reason to make anything thoughtful, coherent, truthful, or responsible.

The result of Conseclodism is entertainment that demands to be celebrated when it says something important but is declared meaningless when anyone challenges what it says. Filmmakers want the prestige of shaping culture without accepting responsibility for the culture they help shape. Conseclods create the cover that makes this possible. 

By insisting nothing matters, Conseclods give the people making entertainment permission to stop caring about not only whether any of it is good but whether it’s good for you.