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| Topic | have you ever met anyone from new hampshire |
| adjl 01/23/22 8:03:08 PM #7 | My mom's cousin lives there, we've visited many times. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/23/22 2:24:59 PM #60 | Revelation34 posted... In modern usage pudding is really just another word for custard anyway. Yes and no (at least in US English, since UK English still uses "pudding" to refer to quite a few other dishes). "Custard" refers to any instance of thickening sweetened milk with eggs, which means it includes creme anglaise, many ice cream bases (which is really just creme anglaise, so this is kind of redundant), and stuff that has other thickening agents in there like starch (creme patissiere) or gelatin. "Pudding" refers specifically to thicker custards, as well as to some variants that don't have egg at all, such as panna cotta (milk+gelatin) or flour-based puddings. There's a lot of overlap, such that many people use them interchangeably, but they are still different terms. Metalsonic66 posted... I want to try it one day Robbie Burns Day is on Tuesday. If there were ever a good time to try it, it's then. Finding good stuff can be a challenge, though. There aren't many restaurants that do it, and canned/frozen stuff can be kinda hit-or-miss (and you probably don't want to make your own from scratch). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What exactly makes a person racist? |
| adjl 01/23/22 2:15:08 PM #10 | Revelation34 posted... So if a person doesn't like say Mexican food that means they're racist if they don't eat at a Mexican restaurant? No, that's just a matter of not liking the food. What TC is talking about is more a matter of not liking how people prepare it, which is subtly different from that. I went into more detail on that in the second paragraph. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/23/22 2:11:48 PM #57 | Revelation34 posted... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_kidney_pudding ? Among others. There's a lot of overlap between "pudding" and "sausage" in British terminology, as much as the latter has kind of taken over in the modern vernacular. There was actually a point when savory puddings were the primary use of the term. Desserts taking over it has been a relatively modern development. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/23/22 2:09:53 PM #56 | No logic can withstand the paradoxical onslaught of haggis. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What exactly makes a person racist? |
| adjl 01/23/22 2:04:38 PM #8 | Categorically refusing to do business (or resenting doing so) with that race would be racist. Taking a hardline stance against that cultural norm on an individual basis (that is, saying "this price is firm and I'm going to hang up on you if you waste my time any further" whenever they try haggling) would not. Categorically refusing to patronize any restaurants of that ethnicity would be racist. Avoiding individual restaurants because they routinely overprice their dishes would not, even though it can be described as being intolerant of a cultural norm. The key difference is whether or not you generalize your experiences into prejudices. Disliking certain cultural norms is fine, but presuming any given individual will embody those norms based on their race is prejudicial, and you should try to avoid letting such presumptions colour your interactions with them. With something like restaurants, you can justify being skeptical about trying out a new one because of your prior experiences with portion sizes at similar restaurants (cultural norms dictate a lot of culinary practices, after all), but you should be open-minded enough to at least look for reviews before assuming they'll be disappointing. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/23/22 1:47:01 PM #53 | *Makes meat pudding* --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/23/22 1:14:06 PM #51 | Revelation34 posted... I typically don't add salt anyway unless I'm cooking with it. I'm the same way. I grew up with the "too much salt is bad for you!" thing drilled into me, so I never developed a taste for salting my food after putting it on the plate. My mom's also generally a very good cook, so there's rarely any need to add extra salt to her food anyway. It's taken a bit of practice to get there with my own cooking, but I generally don't find myself needing extra salt these days. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mark Cuban, not Congress, will give Americans cheaper prescription drugs |
| adjl 01/23/22 1:05:16 PM #4 | As great as this is, it's unfortunately not going to be able to keep up with anywhere close to enough of the demand to actually pressure the pharmaceutical industry into lowering their prices, and there's a good chance it'll end up getting scooped up by scalpers for resale instead of people who genuinely need the meds. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 9 y/o Sobs UNCONTROLLABLY as she and 6 ANTI-VAXXERS are ARRESTED!!! |
| adjl 01/23/22 11:34:41 AM #13 | Revelation34 posted... They could have just taken her home instead. Cops are lazy. And left her there unsupervised while her parents are in custody? That would be extremely irresponsible. Presumably, the parents were given an opportunity to arrange for some other guardian to pick her up from the station and take her home. It's not the cops' responsibility to babysit kids that criminals have abandoned, as much as you'll get the occasional feel-good story about one doing so. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Best steam game under 10 dollars without MTX? |
| adjl 01/23/22 9:05:01 AM #6 | A considerable portion of Steam's good games drop below $10 any time they go on sale, and many of them don't have microtransactions. That's a pretty broad question. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Vampire Survivors is a really good game for $3 |
| adjl 01/23/22 9:02:57 AM #13 | agesboy posted... 0/10 it's so great It's been on my radar for a while (nearly since it launched, actually), and every time it goes on sale, I've debated losing myself in another Factorio. Now that it's on sale for more than usual (I think it got 20% off at Christmas, but before that it was only 10%), I'm sorely tempted. I could also just play more Factorio, I suppose, but I like the look of Dyson a lot. I might just have to go for it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Vampire Survivors is a really good game for $3 |
| adjl 01/22/22 9:27:15 PM #5 | I usually try to avoid impulse buys, but my interest is definitely piqued, and at that price there's little point in waiting for a sale. I think I might go for it. Side note: Scale from 1 to 10, how bad of an idea would it be for me to take the plunge on Dyson Sphere Program while it's on sale this weekend? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/22/22 4:43:29 PM #45 | Revelation34 posted... So if you add salt without mixing it in it's neither? You could technically say that, but in practice, salt usually dissolves pretty readily when it hits food. Salt is also pretty invariably considered seasoning. You might see something like a sprinkling of sea salt on top of a truffle being called a garnish, and I'd say that's accurate, but generally, how much salt to add is discussed in the context of determining how well seasoned food is. Of course, it's a fairly arbitrary distinction. The take-away, though, is that if you approach your food with "this food is bland, I should dump some horseradish on the plate to fix that," that's a problem of poorly seasoned food. If you approach it while cooking and say "I want to incorporate horseradish into this dish," then you're seasoning with it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/22/22 11:57:54 AM #42 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Horseradish is a seasoning, problem is you don't use seasoning. Seasonings are cooked/mixed into the food. Anything that goes on at/just before the table is either a condiment (for liquids) or a garnish (for solid stuff or liquids that are used more sparingly). Generally speaking, horseradish falls into the latter category. It has its uses as a seasoning, but that's not tremendously common because it's such an aggressive flavour and many people aren't fond of it. I don't know what makes you think I don't use seasoning. My spice drawer gets plenty of use. My tastes tend toward adding less salt than many do, so I usually have to deliberately add more salt than I usually would if I'm cooking for other people, but I very much do season my food. I just don't use horseradish on everything in lieu of seasoning it, because that would be weird. mybbqrules posted... Oh shit, adjl. It's been a while since my WoW board days. Over a decade, I'm pretty sure, which is kind of wild. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Arv hates when people say if a women hits a guy |
| adjl 01/22/22 10:18:54 AM #7 | Generally speaking, you should walk away from most people hitting you, unless you're in genuine danger (in which case you don't "hit back," you eliminate the threat). Gender doesn't need to factor into it at all. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/22/22 12:33:07 AM #33 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Honey, have you never had horseradish? If you're relying on horseradish to keep food from being bland, I'm afraid you've got a thing or two to learn about seasoning. That said, yorkshire pudding shouldn't be bland. If it is, it's probably because it's been deliberately under-seasoned so it works better as a vehicle for gravy. Adding a bit more salt to the mix corrects that pretty easily, as does baking at a bit of a higher temperature so you get that nice browning without drying it out. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fun Facts about Spousal Support for anyone going through a divorce in California |
| adjl 01/21/22 5:48:23 PM #48 | I've come to the conclusion that notschmen is most likely not schmen. There are enough similarities in personalities that I presumed they were the same person from the start, but after further exposure there do seem to be personality differences that are probably genuine (at least, differences that would require a lot more subtlety than Schmen has ever been able to pull off in order to fake this convincingly). I could be wrong, but there's also absolutely no harm in being wrong in this case, so meh. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fun Facts about Spousal Support for anyone going through a divorce in California |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:30:18 PM #13 | Something rather odd. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:28:49 PM #25 | Zeus posted... 2) iirc, it takes a while to make and you need certain byproducts to make it that you won't always have. (Although I guess there might be other recipes?) Traditionally, you use melted beef fat, which is only really handy if you're already cooking beef, but you can just as easily melt some butter. If you've got your ingredients ready, you could probably get the batter together in under a minute (again, it's just flour. eggs, and milk), and then they bake in about 15-20 minutes if you're using a muffin tin (longer if you do a loaf pan or skillet, obviously). That's not particularly complex or time-consuming, as home-cooked dishes go. Zeus posted... 3) iirc, it's very high fat. This, however, is very true. But then so are most American diets, so I don't know that that would make for much of a deterrent. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:22:53 PM #32 | Zeus posted... Oh lawdy... Protip: People will profit from just about anything that happens, regardless of the response to it. That's not any particular degree of conspiracy, that's just the nature of a world in which there are multiple ways to make money from a given problem. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fun Facts about Spousal Support for anyone going through a divorce in California |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:18:23 PM #10 | Aaaand account is closed. That was short-lived. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:09:01 PM #22 | BlackScythe0 posted... ??? So it's a roll? Why would they call it pudding? It's made with a liquid batter (flour, milk, eggs, some form of melted fat), making it more akin to some manner of cake than a bread. Some cakes are typically called "puddings" in Britain (I can never remember the exact delineation between them), so I'm guessing that's where it comes from. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | A Robot Named Fight is an achievement-progress based Metroidvania roguelike |
| adjl 01/21/22 2:04:46 PM #4 | I don't remember when or where I picked it up, but it's been in my library for a while. I should play it some time. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | SHOCKING Poll says Canadians have NO SYMPATHY for the UNVAXXED who DIE!!! |
| adjl 01/21/22 10:38:56 AM #13 | DocDelicious posted... Depends.InfernalFive posted... I mean it's not like I'm happy and start singing when they die. But tbh my sympathy for these nutjobs ran out a loooooong time ago so I honestly don't care. If they wanna kill themselves off then go for it. Pretty much these. They made their choice, they can suffer the consequences and become part of the statistics that will hopefully motivate the rest of their ilk to stop bringing the rest of us down. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Woman tells Jewish kids Hitler should have killed them all |
| adjl 01/21/22 10:10:17 AM #6 | She doesn't seem very bright. Hitler died nearly 70 years ago, long before any of these children would have been born. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/21/22 10:08:28 AM #29 | BEERandWEED posted... You quoting yourself is very weird. Why waste time typing an original response when something I've already said suffices perfectly? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Biden pulling from the Trump playbook. Questions legitimacy of upcoming midterms |
| adjl 01/21/22 10:00:51 AM #37 | Zeus posted... There was less to assure integrity integrity in 2020, considering the mass rollout of previously untested practices. There was a clear risk in 2020, but that risk was not at all realized in subsequent investigations, investigations which not only failed to find any significant amount of pro-Democrat fraud, but actually did find significant pro-Republican fraud. So no, what I really mean to say is that I'm more sympathetic when there has actually been evidence of significant attempted/successful fraud. Which, you may notice, is what I said. If you want to accuse me of lying when I say that, I encourage you to find and cite one or more examples of me excusing evidence of significant attempted/successful fraud. Making baseless accusations isn't going to get you anywhere. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/21/22 9:49:25 AM #27 | adjl posted... Of course, one has to wonder why Sunny's bringing up FDA approval to discredit them here when we all know he'll switch gears to "FDA approval means nothing about a product's efficacy or safety" as soon as they receive full approval. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | CDC study shows natural immunity provides most protection against Covid |
| adjl 01/21/22 9:48:00 AM #4 | Being vaccinated after being infected provides even greater immunity, though, so there's no reason to present it as a choice. Toss in the difficulty of evaluating whether or not somebody still has immunity after being infected, and the simplest and most effective option by far (neglecting "let everyone get infected," since that's too dangerous to be worth considering) is just to expect everyone to get vaccinated for the best possible odds. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Americans not eat Yorkshire Puddings? |
| adjl 01/21/22 9:39:31 AM #17 | As a Canadian, Yorkshire pudding is fantastic and the only reason I don't eat much more of it is because I don't often have dishes that it goes well with (that, and they don't reheat very well, and I usually cook for 3-4 nights at a time). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Welp. Looks like I caught the omicron. |
| adjl 01/21/22 9:36:19 AM #74 | LinkPizza posted... Probably wouldn't stop people from trying, though. Like when they made alcohol. It might not be the best, but they would probably still try... Alcohol is incredibly easy to make, though. Chuck some juice and some yeast in a bottle, and in a few weeks, you've got booze. Distillation is more complicated, but you could build yourself a still with a saucepan and some aluminum foil, in a pinch. Hydrogenating fats, on the other hand, involves metal catalysts and very high temperatures/pressures (an Instant Pot isn't going to cut it). Most artificial colours are petroleum byproducts, and backyard refineries aren't really a thing. HFCS involves a series of enzymatic digestions, followed by separating the different fractions by liquid chromatography and blending them to get the desired composition, and that requires expensive specialized equipment. These are industrial processes. They're really not feasible to do in a home kitchen. Hypothetically, you could get black market production happening, as happened during prohibition, but that's going to be very high risk and therefore probably too expensive to really be viable. That last point brings us to the biggest issue, though: These products are not things that are put into food because people like them. These are things that are put into food because they make food cheaper to produce, store, and sell. Those cost savings, however, are only realized because these products can be made and consumed on an industrial scale. If they can't be, then they stop being cheaper than alternatives, meaning demand for them completely evaporates. People will continue to want fast food, yes, but that demand is going to result in people emulating it without whatever products are banned, not illicitly creating those products to reproduce it exactly. These products are just too expensive to make on small scales and don't have enough of an impact on the consumer's experience to be worthwhile. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/20/22 7:01:28 PM #25 | captpackrat posted... Except that these are FDA approved tests. I believe all available antigen tests still just have emergency authorization, rather than full approval. Of course, one has to wonder why Sunny's bringing up FDA approval to discredit them here when we all know he'll switch gears to "FDA approval means nothing about a product's efficacy or safety" as soon as they receive full approval. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | microsoft spent more on activision than how much nintendo is worth |
| adjl 01/20/22 6:58:43 PM #34 | MetalGarurumon posted... ignoring the fact that rare was nothing like the n64 era rare even before they were purchased. They were N64-era Rare pretty much right up until they were purchased, with the purchase being one of the last straws that resulted in much of the creative talent behind their best games leaving the studio. It's inaccurate to say that Microsoft killed them, but joining Microsoft was part of what did. MetalGarurumon posted... but the game they made before they were bought was starfox adventures, and we all know just how terrible that f***in game was It was a decent enough game, it just really didn't need to have Starfox shoehorned into it. It was also very clearly rushed, which makes sense given that they had to get it out before Microsoft took ownership of the studio (which is part of why Fox was so glaringly shoehorned in instead of being integrated more meaningfully). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Biden pulling from the Trump playbook. Questions legitimacy of upcoming midterms |
| adjl 01/20/22 6:50:06 PM #15 | BEERandWEED posted... That's both parties and almost all politicians. One party and its politicians side with the ultra-rich 100% of the time. The other party and its politicians side with the ultra-rich like 95% of the time, throwing in the occasional policy that benefits society more than the ultra-rich for the sake of appeasing their voter base. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Welp. Looks like I caught the omicron. |
| adjl 01/20/22 6:45:45 PM #69 | LinkPizza posted... It would depress some poeple. And other would just learn how to make all of it, anyway. So, it probably wouldn't help at all... Eh, a lot of the really unhealthy stuff isn't really possible to make at home. Anything hydrogenated needs to be produced industrially, and while you could technically probably pull off HFCS at home, it'd be a ton of work and considerably more expensive than just using regular sugar (it being cheaper is the only reason it's used commercially). People can still gorge themselves on sugar at home, certainly (though even then, the simple act of putting all of that sugar in tends to turn people off of the product), but actually reproducing everything that's unhealthy about fast food is beyond the vast majority of home kitchens. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/20/22 6:41:01 PM #23 | SunWuKung420 posted... Putting unreliable test kits, that haven't been approved or cleared by the fda, in the hands of the not medically trained doesn't help anyone but the profits of the test makers. It's picking your nose with a q-tip. It's not exactly something that requires extensive medical education. The reliability is clearly inferior to what you can get from a PCR test, but the convenience, reduction in staffing requirements, and speed of results do a lot to make up for that. You're going to see far better early detection of Covid cases (and subsequent isolation, ideally) if people are routinely using rapid tests at home than if they aren't, especially if you offer confirmatory PCR tests for anyone that tests positive at home and recommend that symptomatic people get a PCR test regardless (both of which mitigate the potential reliability issues). The fact that it's not as reliable as giving everyone two PCR tests a week does nothing to change that, especially where giving everyone two PCR tests a week isn't remotely feasible in the vast majority of areas. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Welp. Looks like I caught the omicron. |
| adjl 01/20/22 9:27:07 AM #62 | Revelation34 posted... Fruit also has sugar in it. No sugar added products have sugar in them. There's no reason for a sugar tax. "Sugar tax" is a colloquial term for adding a deterrent tax to products with excessive amounts of sugar in them, given how objectively harmful such products are when consume in excessive quantities (which is often very easy to do because of how cheap they are). Nobody's actually suggesting a tax that's calculated per gram of total sugar with no regard for where that sugar came from or how healthy the overall product is. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard |
| adjl 01/20/22 9:16:04 AM #47 | Blightzkrieg posted... They have been sitting on Banjo for how many years now? True. Arguably, that was because they expected to be able to do more with it, failed to do so, and now it doesn't have enough value for anyone to be really interested in buying it (even Playtonic probably wouldn't be able to do much with, given that Yooka-Laylee kind of dashed people's hopes in that regard). I could believe that the most profitable use for that IP now is to sit on it, occasionally re-release the games, and to sell it to Nintendo for Smash. MetalGarurumon posted... i meant activision Halo's an IP that they've been actively profiting from for the entire time they've been in the console market, though. Of course they want to hang on to that. Crash and Spyro are not, and there's a fair chance that they'll profit more from those IP's by selling them to Sony than by making them exclusive and hoping they can convince long-time fans to jump ship and buy an Xbox instead of a PS, given that most don't consider them system-sellers. Of course, they could also keep them and just make the games multiplat, since that's probably going to be more profitable than any exclusivity plan would be (again, they're not really system-sellers, so that generally won't cost them system sales). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/20/22 9:06:49 AM #18 | BEERandWEED posted... People are making money from them. Do you think people aren't also making money from high Covid rates? That many of the politicians actively opposing masks and vaccines under the pretense that they benefit corporations selling such products don't have stock in companies that service ventilators and sell oxygen so they can directly profit from increased hospitalizations? People are going to make money off of Covid regardless of how it goes. To that end, you might as well ignore the money angle and focus on saving/improving lives. BEERandWEED posted... I have principles and stand against pointless spending. Principles with no basis in practicality are useless. Principles at the expense of practicality are stupid. Principles at the expense of literal lives are evil. Krazy_Kirby posted... which is ridiculous... why do they need to test twice a week? Generally speaking, if you're infected, you can expect to start testing positive (and therefore being infectious) about 2-3 days after exposure. By testing every 3-4 days, you ensure that the longest you can possibly go being infectious without knowing it is 4 days, which is a lot better than waiting a week for symptoms to show up. You can improve that even further by adjusting your testing schedule to reflect when an exposure might have been possible (e.g. if you went out on Sunday but didn't interact with anyone on Friday, Saturday, or Monday, the best day to test is Wednesday because Sunday was your only possible exposure) or testing right before going somewhere that might result in you infecting somebody. It's a matter of being proactive and identifying infectious cases as early as possible to limit the number of people they can infect. Obviously, if you're only leaving the house once a week, testing twice a week is kind of pointless (the best schedule would be to test right before leaving for that outing), but for those that are going out regularly, testing twice a week strikes a nice balance between early identification of positive tests and ensuring there are enough tests for everyone. SunWuKung420 posted... Taxpayer dollars being funneled pointlessly into the greedy hands of profiteers and Americans are unsurprisingly ok with it. Remember kids: Being proactive for the sake of limiting the impact of the greatest public health crisis in a century is "pointless." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Biden pulling from the Trump playbook. Questions legitimacy of upcoming midterms |
| adjl 01/20/22 8:35:25 AM #7 | Yeah, I'm a little more sympathetic to it when there actually has been evidence of significant attempted/successful fraud. In fact, I would even have been sympathetic to Trump's claims of fraud if there had been evidence. Because there wasn't, though, he was just throwing a very dangerous temper tantrum. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests? |
| adjl 01/19/22 8:46:22 PM #4 | I've been picking some up whenever convenient. Supplies have become considerably more limited now and there's only a handful of pop-up sites where you can grab a batch (of 5), but other sites are handing them out by appointment because they've become the default test for most people (which I think is pretty stupid because they're less reliable than PCR tests and mean the province is basically no longer counting the vast majority of cases because the health authority only processes PCR results, but that's another issue). We've currently got 6 left between the two of us, I believe, since we've burned through several in the past week. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I watche Ratatouille and then I made Ratatouille |
| adjl 01/19/22 8:18:05 PM #3 | hypnox posted... I mean isn't it just super thin cut veggies that most people use a mandoline slicer on, with a pretty basic sauce and baked? Ratatouille is a pretty basic vegetable stew. Eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, tomato, garlic, thyme, and basil. Traditionally, you sautee the veggies separately to get them cooked properly without turning them to mush as the whole thing simmers, then add them in once the tomatoes break down, but you can really just throw everything into a pot and call it a day if you're feeling lazy and don't mind a downgrade from doing it properly.. What they do in the movie is "confit biyaldi," which is Thomas Keller's (head chef of The French Laundry) gourmet take on ratatouille (which he was asked to come up with for the movie). That entails cooking the peppers, onion, tomatoes, garlic, and herbs down into a uniform sauce consistency, then slicing eggplants, zucchini, squash, and tomatoes into rounds. Those get layered, then steamed in the oven, then given a final roast to caramelize them, then served with the sauce. It's notably more complex and labour-intensive than the traditional dish, but still nothing too crazy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Blonde Girl Loses her SCHOLARSHIP after LYING about being POOR!! Is She Hot??? |
| adjl 01/19/22 3:23:23 PM #9 | OneGrumpyUncle posted... I absolutely love this. She is doing exactly what she was indoctrinated to do. She simply "Chose" to identify a a poor foster kid, which she actually was technically a foster kid for a bit, and now she is being punished by the academic community that trained her that she can "choose" to identify as anything she wants. Duckbear even posted a picture of her with there one of their heroes AOC. This is epic levels of irony. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that somebody managed to shoehorn transphobia into interpreting this story, but here we are. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard |
| adjl 01/19/22 3:20:41 PM #42 | MetalGarurumon posted... i would assume that a large key role in the acquisition is that they get all of activision blizzards ips I could see them selling off any that they don't expect to make much from, or that aren't likely to perform very well as exclusives. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I can make up my mind on where to blow some money. |
| adjl 01/19/22 2:33:57 PM #30 | Revelation34 posted... Why mention any shelter at all? It is random. Because he thinks that would be a better application of the money. It's arguably arbitrary from an outside perspective, but presumably he has his own reasons for picking that, so it's not random at all (unless he did in fact select it using some sort of randomness). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 6% of Americans DO NOT know how to ride a BICYCLE!! Are you one??? |
| adjl 01/19/22 2:18:26 PM #14 | Kyuubi4269 posted... For everybody who chose the second option; It's like riding a bike. Indeed. Most of learning to ride a bike is getting confident enough to get up to a stable speed (which isn't very fast, but being timid about it makes it hard to get there without losing control) and trusting that bikes naturally stabilize themselves so you don't have to make major balance adjustments yourself. If you've ever managed to figure it out, it comes back very quickly. Now, being comfortable and confident enough to ride in traffic? That's another beast. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So did the vaccine mandates in some big cities actually help reduce numbers? |
| adjl 01/19/22 1:36:14 PM #40 | ReturnOfFa posted... I don't think framing them as 'vaccine avoidant strains' is responsible, considering those vaccines still have a massive effect on whether or not you will die or end up in hospital. The vaccine simply doesn't reduce transmission as much with Omicron, although it still does via a reduced contagious period. That argument can be made, but it's still true that Omicron is dodging much of the immunity conferred by the vaccines to infect fully-vaccinated people almost as readily as unvaccinated. There are nonetheless still benefits to being vaccinated, and I agree that emphasizing that is a good idea, but identifying it as vaccine-avoidant is still an accurate way to look at things, especially in a discussion on raw case numbers. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So did the vaccine mandates in some big cities actually help reduce numbers? |
| adjl 01/19/22 1:21:01 PM #38 | For that matter, why are we citing case numbers of a vaccine-avoidant strain as though they indicate anything about the effectiveness of the vaccines they avoid? ReturnOfFa posted... What does Eli David mean by 'the only quadruple-vaxxed country in the world' when only 66% of Israel is double-vaccinated? What a clown. Also, if fourth doses are a thing, that data may be counting "additional dose" twice for each person that has one, so that 55% may be an inaccurate representation of the number of boosted people. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Think of a favorite game of yours |
| adjl 01/19/22 11:12:01 AM #13 | KJ StErOiDs posted... I just wouldn't play the game with them again. I'd leave them to their opinion and move on from the subject. Pretty much. Differences of opinions are normal, and many games do require more investment than some people are willing to put into them before they become really enjoyable by any metric (DotA is very much one of them, if that's the one you're talking about). If your friends are outright harassing and belittling you for your tastes, that's another issue and those might not be people you should be subjecting yourself to (same with lying about their opinions after the fact), but there's nothing wrong with friends not liking the games you like. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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