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Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?

I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.

I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I'd just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.

A freeze response is a perfectly common reaction to something like this. Happens regularly in car accidents. People panic, freeze, drive straight into a tree. It's not unlikely that you would react in the same way.

If anything you're the one with the IQ of a cucumber to think otherwise.

Suspect it might have something to do with libel laws and/or Navalny no longer being alive to suffer the consequences of this reveal.

A reminder:

New prime minister refuses to say if he abandoned security for 2018 night in billionaire’s castle ... A trip Boris Johnson made to Italy for a party held by a billionaire socialite ended with the then foreign secretary at an airport “looking like he had slept in his clothes”, struggling to walk in a straight line and telling other passengers he had had a heavy night, the Guardian has been told. Pictures of the now prime minister along with an account from a fellow traveller shed further light on Johnson’s weekend away at the home of the media owner Evgeny Lebedev, who is known for hosting uproarious parties for the rich and famous at his converted castle near Perugia. ...

Italy ‘was monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson visit’ ... Intelligence service believed property was being used for espionage purposes, documentary claims ... Italian security concluded in a secret document that Alexander Lebedev, a former Russian spy who became a wealthy businessman, had continued to enjoy the “favour and friendship” of Vladimir Putin and queried whether he had genuinely severed ties with Russian intelligence after leaving the KGB decades earlier. It stated that Lebedev’s resignation from the Russian spy agency, for which he served in London between 1988 and 1992, was “considered by many to be unclear”.

It's absurd. Biden's position is shit, but at least he's slightly critical of Netenyahu. Trump is quite clearly worse than Biden.

I mean, Trump's position on West Bank settlements is that they're perfectly legal. That what amounts ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is perfectly legal. Biden reversed that, restoring the longstanding policy that it is in fact illegal for Israeli settlers to (violently) chase Palestinians off their land.

I honestly wonder if these people actually give a shit about the Palestinians, or want them to become martyrs for the cause because it's more politically expedient. If deep down they wouldn't rather the Israelis kill as many Palestinians as possible, because they think it'll help them 'win the argument'.

Disgusting.

The Russians regularly and egregiously violated Swedish airspace, they accused Sweden of producing the Novichok used in the assassination attempt on the Skripals, threatened Sweden with serious consequences (including nuclear threats) if they considered joining NATO, and basically treated them like cunts.

Wonder how NATO forced them to join. /s

The Russians regularly and egregiously violated Swedish airspace, they accused Sweden of producing the Novichok used in the assassination attempt on the Skripals, and threatened Sweden with serious consequences if they considered joined NATO.

Better out than in, if that's how Russia treats non-NATO members.

Are they really?

Throwing in someone potentially suffering from PTSD into a classroom filled with sociopathic teenagers sounds like a great idea.

Pay your parents some rent, help out around the house, treasure them while they're still alive.

Save up and invest as much money as you possibly can.

I'm a former (recent) language teacher. Foreign language education is shit in much of the world.

The natural way to learn a language is listening, speaking, reading then writing. Then you slowly perfect what you've learnt. It's how we learn our native language. When learning foreign languages, you'll inevitably start with grammar or writing exercises almost immediately.

It's dumb. The results are predictable: people who know obscure grammar rules but are barely able to have a conversation.

Want to learn a language? Listen to audiobooks, watch movies (with subtitles), go to a foreign country and actually immerse yourself in the language.

IME most British people barely speak English.

2016:

https://time.com/4544562/donald-trump-supporters-lugenpresse

He might also drop dead. People focus on Biden's age, but Trump's fat, old, and likely suffers from dementia.

TBF they're unlikely to suffer from PTSD. Because they're dead.

Meh. To achieve peak Germany you need to sprinkle in some homeopathy and naturism.

AI.

For example:

https://www.dw.com/en/ufos-and-aliens-in-germany/a-58077707

However at least of the German UFO clubs seem to be perfectly reasonable:

In Germany, there seems to be an endless list of hobby clubs and nonprofit associations. The Association for UFO Research (GEP) is one of them. Their databank includes 140,000 entries, and 95% of them can be explained. Aside from satellites, strangely shaped balloons is one common answer, as well as weather phenomena and insects that zoom across photos. The remaining 5% "perhaps also have natural causes, which we just can't explain yet," Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP's head, told DW. Members of Germany's UFO clubs — there are at least three — are not blind alien believers, Leipzig-based Fleischer said. They are rational, engineer types who use limited resources to analyze what curious sky watchers send them. The result, however, can be a great deal of information about what is happening above us. The really interesting cases "are a matter for the military," Fleischer said. "They control the skies and have instruments and radar."

As my Dutch grandfather often angrily said, the Dutch resistance gained most of its members in 1945.

But I think it was a useful lie at that point. Better to get on with things, rather than settle scores.