hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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I had to laugh when I read this, since it's apparently impossible for me to make the correct amount of rice for a meal. I've never once in my life not had leftover rice haha.

For me, it usually becomes tomorrow's breakfast: reheated in the pot on the stove with a bit of water, then put it in a bowl, crack a raw egg on it, and drizzle with soy sauce and sprinkle on a few toasted sesame seeds.

That seems like one of those cases where the production is only worth it if it's a group/family tradition to get together and enjoy everyone's company while you do it.

Like...no part of my family makes baklava, but if I had a friend whose Greek or Turkish family met up once a year and made it, I would love to come help, as much for the experience as to learn about how to make it.

In my area where I grew up (if not my actual family) that food is pierogi: families will get together and make massive quantities of pierogi, usually with the grandmas of the families directing the process. Everyone goes home with dozens and dozens for the freezer.

From what I gather, it's not worth making like...one dozen for a meal, but if you're going to go through the process, you might as well make hundreds.

Interesting tip...I've never thought of doing it that way but it would eliminate my prime annoyance with the process (cold butter tearing the bread).

Agreed.

My gf and I love ramen and looked into making it at home. I'm the cook of the two of us but she's happy to assist.

...by step 15 of just the broth, and not even halfway through that, I just looked at her and said, "We're not doing this."

Near me it basically was a convenient way for greed to run rampant.

Before the pandemic, delivery meant "your order + delivery fee + tip for driver".

The last time I attempted to order delivery it was my order ($30 minimum) + delivery fee + packaging fee (charging for the disposable containers and forks and stuff) + third party delivery service fee + tip for driver + tip for restaurant staff + delivery service peak time upcharge.

I only wanted a $20 entree, but by the time I added a few apps to get to the delivery minimum and added all the fees up with the tips, it was getting to be over $65 for one meal.

So I cancelled and cooked my own damn dinner.

Pull the stick back, houses get smaller.

Push the stick forward, houses get bigger.

And sometimes it's spelled "covfefe".

I don't necessarily disagree, but this brings up the next round of tough questions:

If your bodily autonomy is absolute, fine, but what happens when your choices and their impact start to spill beyond your own personal life?

If you want to go wild with hard drugs, okay fine, whatever. But when you need medical attention because of that decision, should insurance providers or the state be obligated to spend in order to treat you?

When your addiction costs you your job and support network, should the collective taxpayer have to subsidize your poor life choices?

I don't mind the notion that individuals should have final say over what happens to their bodies, but that sort of assumption of responsibility, at some point, cuts both ways...and the flip side of some of these decisions would suggest that the individual should bear all consequences of their decisions...which seems unlikely in practice. We're not going to see an addict rushed to an ER and the hospital toss them out into the street saying, "This was your decision! Sorry!"

And the mitigation measures seem equally unlikely to fly with the "strict bodily autonomy" crowd: increased insurance premiums or exception clauses in policies in order to keep expenses reined in for the rest of the policy holders/taxpayers who aren't using their strict autonomy in a way that adversely affects others.

While it's fine to conceptually discuss these decisions in a vacuum where it only affects the individual, in real life application, these decisions have impacts outside the individual in almost every case, which fundamentally shift the discussion.

braiding ideas.

Trump in cornrows would be a bizarre improvement.

Because they want to be the only ones who can walk out of the room and tell the story of what went on. Basically: if it's done in public they won't be able to lie about it.

Kinda like how they want to subpoena and question Hunter Biden.

He says, "Sure, no problem, as long as it's done in public, in front of cameras."

And they say no.

It's so blatantly obvious.

I wouldn't say it's common, but I also wouldn't say it's unheard of...and I would never put it past Americans to try an odd condiment application.

Honestly though, when you look at the ingredients, it's not too drastically far off from the ingredients of a sauce you might specifically put together as part of a more traditional rice dish: tomatoes, vinegar, onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin... bit heavy on the sugar but a lot of sauces in Asian cooking are even sweeter.

I agree it seems repulsive on the surface to me too, but now that I've been thinking about it...I kinda wanna try it.

Only all-season radials.

We got standards, you know.

Raw.

With a drizzle of dark soy sauce and a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds.

In theory.

In practice, it has to be approved by your supervisor and is only for times when it won't interfere with progress on actual work.

So all they've gotta do is give you a lot of work to do...or just say no...and you don't get that anymore.

They do both.

When I bought my car in 2015 it came with the free trial but I specifically did not sign up for a subscription. When the trial ran out they started hounding me and I basically struck a deal: I'll get a year subscription but if and only if you invoice me. Mail me a bill in the mail and I will write you a check and mail it to you or make a one time payment on your site. No auto-enrollment.

The first two years they did this no problem. The third year they put up a big fuss and told me that wasn't something that was possible. I asked how it was possible for the past two years and he said I must have misunderstood. So I said okay, if that's not possible then I guess I'm done with Sirius and hung up. A few days later I got another email and called in again and asked that rep for the invoice option and she said while it's not commonly done, she'd make an exception for me.

The year after that I tried three different reps and nobody would invoice me so I cancelled and haven't signed up since. They still sent me mail and email for years, and somehow they fucked up their database and when my parents bought their car (same make, different model) now I'm getting all of their ad email from Sirius again, but they did stop (intentionally) emailing me after about two years of no contact.

Beyond that, I think most of them genuinely believe that A) things were better in the past...even though it's some because concept of the past, B) that when things were "better" for them, they were better for everyone, and C) if that means reverting in ways like rolling back racial equality, women's rights, religious tolerance, diversity, marijuana reform, and LGBT progress...well, so be it.

To them, things were better back before all that happened, and they're so convinced not only that it was better for them but for everyone, that they're basically saying, "Shut up blacks, women, gays and lesbians, and everyone who isn't a straight white Christian male. You don't know what's best for you. Things were better for us back then so they were better for you too...so we're going to do everything in our power to revert back to that time."

Honestly their warped thinking in this regard is disturbingly similar to the bullshit they've pushed schools to teach children about slavery in the South. Basically, "The slaves had no skills and through slavery they could learn some skills, so it was actually a benefit to them."

On a similar note, Questionable Content needs to just stop already if it hasn't. That turd's been circling for years and years, proving everyone wrong every time they insist it couldn't possibly get any worse.

We should dust off the old pillory I assume they probably have in the basement of any old courthouse.

I might even consider airfare and lodging to go down there to throw rotten tomatoes and cabbages at ol Rudy. They could market it and drive tourism!

Each day he spends at least 8 hours in the pillory (doesn't have to be continuous, but 8h total) removes 1 mil from his court decision, down to a minimum of 50 million remaining, for the victims.

At that point the 50 million is either seized from his assets or garnished from any income or enrichment he receives from that point until the debt is settled.

Yup.

A few years ago I needed to print something for a job I was applying for and I had three inkjets, none of which worked. Replacement ink wasn't even a guaranteed solution and was going to cost three figures anyway...so I started looking into whether there was a better option.

Ended up buying a Brother color laser printer. A bit spendy, but now when I need to print something after not printing for months, I just literally tell it to print and it gets it exactly right, first try, every time.

Zero regrets.