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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Eh, you can’t rely on votes made, unfortunately. Too many people use it to disagree for it to be a sign of an opinion being deemed not unpopular, or vice versa.

    Fwiw, I agree that this is currently unpopular, though I disagree with it and my vote was up.

    My disagreement is in the colloquial usage of idiot vs a stricter usage. Old school, idiot was a term to indicate functional intelligence, or rather the lack thereof. Now, it has come to mean someone either making poor choices via bad thinking, or someone that’s ignoring any thought at all

    Musk -definitely- fits the looser usage. Not specifically because of twitter, it is reflected in all his business decisions of the last decade. Twitter, he isn’t making decisions, he’s following someone else’s plan, and that’s the decision he made.

    I don’t think his actual iq is relevant tbh. You can be a genius (and he isn’t) and still fail to use that. He makes poor use of what brains he does have, which makes him an idiot overall.





  • Imo, you aren’t going to notice any issues regarding speeds

    The t480 is still pretty damn solid for the exact reasons you said. Unless you’re going to be doing some crazy stuff where you’d need a more potent device to begin with, it’ll serve most needs.

    Mine is similarly specced, and handles even some video editing and photo editing without any problems at all. I can play games on it, assuming they aren’t batshit. And, I can have a dozen windows open and flip between them with no lag at all.

    The battery upgrade is a must, in my book. The regular version is okay, but the extended lets you work on documents all day, while also playing music. That’s pretty damn nice.


  • I mean, a six day temp ban for being a dick? That’s what mods are supposed to do, keep assholes from assholing more than the bare minimum. And that’s coming from an asshole that has, and probably will again, been banned temp and permanent for being an asshole.

    Like, once you start calling names, you’re off topic, and disrupting the community. You don’t need a warning, you don’t need the rules explained, because you didn’t care in the first place. If you had, you would have just blocked whatever asshole you were insulting and moved on.

    I get it, sometimes you just gotta slap back. It’s a human thing.

    But when you do, you need a cool down time. A week is just about right for most people to chill the fuck out and get over it. Some take less, some take longer, but a week is just about right.

    It’s one of those things where if you’re being a dick, you take your lumps and that’s that. You don’t go whining about the moderation.

    A mod lets shit slide like that ends up up with entire threads of bullshit to deal with, and all the other users that decided to jump in are now also fucking up the community spreading the drama. So, yeah, you got a temp ban. You should have. If it had been permanent, you’d have something to complain about on a first offense, though imo, it would be justified as well since we’re all supposed to be grown ass adults that shouldn’t need to be told to play nice. But complaining about it would be justified too.

    Now, if the other person was also being an asshole and didn’t get a temp ban, that’s bullshit.


  • You know, I agree, especially about Alton not being the cause as much as it is the viewers looking for am excuse to feel holier-than-thou about something.

    You’re dead right that people took his work way too far and assumed that because he was breaking things down into the underlying food science and methodology that the exact preparations he used were default the best, period.

    He wasn’t prone to that himself, though he did go hard against myths.

    He’s a terrific food educator. One of the best in television history imo. But you’re also dead right about the entertainment side screwing things up. His on screen persona, combined with the structure of good eats as a show made it too easy for food snobs to glom onto the wrong parts



  • I haven’t had access to good, fresh strawberries since I heard about it, but even grocery store ones were yummy. Maybe not the best thing ever, I would prefer a strawberry shortcake pretty much every time. But it’s essentially the same flavors (excepting the sour cream); the textures are what makes it a new experience.

    This is the recipe I used.

    It worked really well, maybe fifteen, twenty minutes of work total. I kept things kinda medium chunky. Used a potato masher for maybe ten mashes. Tried it both warm and chilled. The taste was more strawberry forward warm, but it was overall better chilled since the sauce hits the tongue different. It kinda rolls across, deploying the strawberry in layers with the sour cream more. Made for better mouth feel and general taste, at the expense of that vibrant strawberry kick.



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    Man, people miss out on so much good eating because of preconceptions and gatekeeping.

    Berries go with almost anything. And yeah, technically strawberries aren’t berries. But the point is that pretty much every berry is a blend of acidic tartness, sweetness, and complex flavors. There’s no world in which berries make something bad.

    Any fruit has the potential to go with any standard food. Meats, pastas, breads, even veggies. It’s a matter of balancing the specific fruit with the other ingredients.

    That’s why pineapple on pizza works. Tangy, sweet, and with that hard to describe tropical fruitiness. It brings out the sweetness of a good tomato sauce while cutting through the fattiness of toppings and any oils.

    Pork chops and applesauce baby, it’s a classic for reason. Pork stuffed with apples; and other things, orange chicken or duck, blackberry glazed venison roast (seriously, you want to try it), apricot beef (or lamb), curried goat with prunes (or apricot, or peaches even), roasted brussels sprouts with apples and cranberries.

    It’s all about the balancing with other things.

    The Polish strawberry pasta? It’s balanced out with sour cream that mutes the sweetness some, and works as a bridge with the pasta.

    I know I’m talking into a void here, what with this being a meme, but I’m always so amazed that people will dismiss a food combination without trying it, or sometimes without even trying to imagine the possibilities.



  • Gods, the first time I saw the documentary about her was in an intro psych class. I broke the fuck down in class, just ugly sobbing.

    Which may not seem like a big thing, but me breaking down in public is very rare. Three times in my adult life, and one of those was being told about a friend’s suicide death. The other was when my dog at the time died unexpectedly.

    Like, I didn’t know genie. No personal connection, and it was long before the class, so it was history. But the hell that girl went through was just too fucking much. I’m tearing up remembering it tbh.

    I don’t believe in evil as some kind of external thing, but if it did exist, her parents would be the definition of it.




  • It really does!

    Just the shift in cerebrospinal fluid in response to progesterone explains not just the obvious symptoms that come with that part of the cycle, it points to things like increased migraines, memory issues, and that’s huge.

    Having a correlation shown like this could possibly revolutionize how women get care. Just the correlation. If there’s a definitive causation, just the ability to better customize hormone regimens in birth control could improve millions of lives.

    Considering the extremes I’ve seen women in my life go through with no real ability to get predictable results from medical assistance relating to their cycles, this is fantastic news.


  • Absolutely the hardest part was the shrinking. Most of the damage, I had access to both sides of the panel. Which means you can use a hammer and a block thing called a dolly. But you have to hold the dolly on one side and hammer on the other. Which is awkward as hell. It’s slow work, or was for me; I suppose a pro can go faster. And you have to be careful because if you overdo it, you can end up hardening the metal and end up with cracks.

    All the videos and tutorials say to practice on some scrap sheet metal, but I didn’t have any, so it was trial by fire.

    This was back in the summer, but my left shoulder is still being pissy about the positions I was in to reach the dolly to the middle of the roof and still see what I was hitting with the hammer.

    Tbh though, it was much simpler than I thought. There’s plenty of good tutorials out there,and the concepts aren’t complicated at all, it’s the skill that’s fiddly and detailed.