sapient [they/them] @ sapient_cogbag @infosec.pub

Autistic queer trans²humanist and anarchist. Big fan of dense cities, code,

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Say you're a control freak without saying you're a control freak 🤣

Coo 4-eyedl demon bat ;p

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

So you think a corpse should have more morphological autonomy than a living person?

People can also organ donate while alive lol ;p

Sounds like the war on general-purpose computation manufacturing

Do you think people (in particular, yourself) should be forced by state violence to donate their organs to someone who needs it to survive? Especially when the forced donation process involves significant risk to your own life and health (though i do not think that aspect particularly important for my own reasoning, personally ^.).

Because advocating for """reasonable""" restrictions on abortion is advocating for forcing someone to act as, essentially, a breeding pod, forced to donate their body and organs.

"Chemicals" are actually good and based when they make food have better taste, texture, and preservation qualities, especially when they are used to make things that replace environmentally destructive and more fatty or sugary alternatives - increasing agricultural efficiency and by-proxy reducing land use and runoff -and especially when the fact they're "artificial" means they actually get tested for negative health effects ^. nya

Also low sugar plant milks are very common, just drank some unsweetened soya milk right now and it was good shit ;p

Often they are only sweetened to appeal to people accustomed to high-sugar dairy too. I started on sweetened soya milk then moved to unsweetened after a bit. Feels good to have less sugar in your diet, in general ^.

It's actually surprisingly easy to do on a OnePlus 5T. I did it after cleaning out the port wasn't good enough anymore (my phone was bought secondhand/refurb, and I also recently replaced the battery too ^. - overall the cost of both endeavours including the cheapo kit to get the thing open in the first place was on the order of £25, though I did lose the two screws for the USB port that connext it to the bottom, still works fine with the other two internal screws though 🤣).

Eventually secondhand parts will stop being available on ebay, but for now its all good ;p. Though if your screen breaks it's probably not worth it to replace, that part alone seems to be half the secondhand-price of a lot of phones all on it's own >.<

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I don't think you understand anarchism.

That's one of the advantages with p2p-ish networks, if you're on the same network, devices can often disover each other and communicate directly, bypassing the bottleneck of an internet connection like traditional cloud services have ^.

Some of it is probably personal preference too. I really like cinnamon, which might influence why i like it particularly much in tomato sauce ^.

Typically for tomato sauce I like it quite umami, so I add things like peppers (the fruit/veg and black pepper), soya sauce, salt, MSG, etc., as well as mixed "italian" (i doubt it actually is, but it's sold as that, and I have limited spice cupboard space) herb and spice mixes (usually with stuff like parsley, basil, etc. in it), as well as sage, thyme, garlic powder, with amounts depending on what I want ^.

Probably the only time I wouldn't add cinnamon is if I was using the tonato sauce as a component of a curry, but a lot of that is because it would get diluted out and I don't think cinnamon goes so well with some curry flavours.

Ehh, liquid smoke is def a lot better for you that actually smoking things, because there is a filtration step that removes a lot of the worse Volatile Organic Compounds that make smoke carcinogenic.

You're probably right it's not fantastic though ;p

And damn, idk what i'd do if onions made me ill... I use them in so much. Though i've found some ways of making them do make me feel ill , just i rarely make them that way so.

This is an awesome victory for fast food workers and unions. People constantly shit on the folks working in customer service and kitchen jobs, but they are often gruelling and unpleasant. The people there certainly deserve it more than the CEOs and shareholders exploiting them (I mean, I'm against the entire structure, but if we're working within that structure, then ye ^.).

I haven't. Once I get more kidney beans, i'll experiment with it ;p

I like to cook pasta in MSG-water sometimes. I also tend to use wholemeal pasta, which I think is important (the wholemeal aspect) ^.. MSG works best for me when I use it with things that already have a decent depth of flavour and/or variety of ingredients ;3. It doesnt work so well if your food doesnt have enough flavour.

Other cool ingredients:

• liquid smoke (works really well in a lot of things including vegetarian chilis, but especially i've found its good in lentil soups when you also have mint e.g lentil and pea soup, lentil, potato, onion soup, etc. ^.) - look for the industrial stuff, its like £5 per bottle but you only need 1 or 2 drops for litres of sauce and it will last you months, kinda like MSG. Add it near the end so you don't evaporate away lots of the flavour, too.
• yeast extract - this shit is delicious in tomato sauces and stews and chili, even if in the uk we typically have it on toast ;p, adds a meaty, mushroomy flavour
• cinnamon - works amazing in tomato sauces, it sounds weird as fuck but tomato sauce without it tastes like its missing something to me now, its so fundamental to any tomato sauce i make ;3
• bonus: yeast extract + mustard makes a really really cheesy flavour in various sauces, and its completely dairy free. I

I like this meme... pretty much a mood for me ;p

We need i2p or veilid torrents ASAP, to protect uploaders and downloaders. One of the main reasons people don't seed is the threat of lawsuits.

The politicians that I hate would like me dead or completely mentally subjugated/repressed (I'm trans, autistic, and part of some other groups, also not exactly rolling in cash 😄 ^.). If I found out one of my friends supported someone like that they would cease being a friend, to put it mildly.

Most of my friends are also trans or have other reasons that fascists would treat them similarly to how they would me, so it's extremely unlikely they would support those types :)

Couldn't be the media constantly lying about trans people being rapists/pedos/etc., nooo, its that some trans people don't just sit down and accept society shitting on us (and constantly Just Asking Questions about our basic humanity and identity) instead of being """"one of the good ones"""".

We are allowed to be pissed off, even if it hurts some bigots' feelings or makes some people uncomfortable. People say the exact same thing about other minority groups (that their support would be higher if only some "bad subset" would stop complaining). I hope folks would have learned of the flaws in that for those groups and can apply it to trans people, but it seems they have to rehash the same bullshit for every single minority group that fights for rights <.<

It's frustrating every time and I want to point this out to people. Civil rights, labour rights, etc. have never been won by sitting quietly and waiting. It often involves protests and even riots (the first stonewall was a riot, as in, throwing bricks at cops, though that one was in the usa). Strikes have in the recent past been broken up via violent police action and often have involved violent responses in self-defense .

This attitude of "don't inconvenience the system or upset people's idea of normality and never complain or fight back against massive amounts of systemic and personal injustice even as it makes people suffer and die" in this country needs to fucking burn in a fire. Nothing has ever been made better by just waiting for it to happen. And the people complaining about minorities not being polite enough, frankly, need to take a long hard look in the mirror .

I'd encourage people to have a read of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder for some context. I think it applies to more than just economics, and is at least part of what i am referring to when talking about "suffer and die" beyond just direct murder.

Creating systems sufficiently hostile, dehumanising, degrading, and autonomy-denying to various minority groups that their suicide rate goes up significantly is something I consider a form of societal murder, and it applies especially to trans people - because the attack is on our fundamental sense of self and often forces us to endure changes to our body against our will until we are deemed """sufficiently trans (and only in the way we deem to be correct and acceptable)""", if we don't go the DIY route. It applies to other groups in their own way a lot as well that I won't list out because it muddles the specific point, but I'm sure you can think of them :(

Honestly, as a trans person in the uk, my interactions with the general public have been mostly ok. Sometimes ignorant and occasionally rude (and I don't mean this as an insult, I mean more asking really creepy stuff unintentionally or just being unfamiliar), but most aren't at least outwardly hateful (though some have been and I live in a very left wing city, and of course lots of people just don't have the guts to say anything).