Perpetually tired mental health counselor, sometimes retro game streamer, comedian, Mensan, coffee connoisseur, bacon lover, chronic pain survivor, nefarious pirate, and generally all-round nice dude…
Definitely more of an estimate just cause I was eyeballing it and trying to remember what I did before I forgot it all.
Lot of the stuff I cook for work just kinda gets a little of this and a little of that based on how much I need to make. Then when they like it, I have to go and remember weeks later what it did!
Thanks! I don’t really have a problem with mayo either. I’ve never been a fan of mayo based “salads” - potato, macaroni, egg, coleslaw if you want to throw that in there… It’s just not a texture I’ve ever liked. Same reason I don’t do pasta salad with dressing. Cold and slimy just aren’t my thing.
And in case anyone wants a really vague recipe.
Slice and rinse the potatoes and boil for about 25mins until they’re fork tender.
I only had precooked bacon crumbles, so I rendered them down a little more along with some olive oil to use that to cook the onions. Bacon gets chopped and goes into a large bowl. Onions go into the bacon grease/oil mix along with maybe half a palmfull of chives and parsley, couple half teaspoons of black pepper, half a palmful to a full palm of sugar, a few shots of ACV, maybe a quarter to half cup, a good squirt of stone ground mustard, maybe half a teaspoon of salt. Cook the onions down til they’re browned. Drain and mix the potatoes with the bacon, then pour the onions in and mix it all together.
The asparagus is literally just cento balsamic glaze and some extra bacon crumbles. Chicken was nothing fancy either, adobo, a brown sugar bourbon spice mix, and some old bay baked 2 hours then topped with Aldi BBQ sauce. Too hot to grill so it went in the oven.
My clients destroyed it though.
Way worse, I’m sure! I’m sure that’s also largely exacerbated by things like the oil industry suppressing data and the whole anti-global warming movement to boot…
Shit like this pisses me off,
“…It’s a mystery…”
No, it’s not… There’s decades of research in the effects of smoke on people and things. It took a quick Google search to find them. Let’s just say it’s bad…
Precisely how I imagine any political meeting goes with him. It’s like The Emperors New Clothes, except the king is a complete and stubborn moron on top of being vain and naive.
“I know I gave Israel all these weapons, plotted with Netanyahu to commit genocide and start a massive war in the middle east, dropped bombs on Iran, and threatened Khamenei’s life, but this was about getting attention away from all the shit I’M doing in the US! I didn’t want to get caught up in a war, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me and redirect then away from all the constitutional violations I’m committing, the people I’m deporting illegally, all the rights I’m stripping away from everyone, and all the government institutions in sabotaging. Oh, and I was supposed to get a nobel prize and a resort in Israel when Bibi agreed to stop his war, so now he’s screwing that up too!”
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whalehammerhead shark had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whaleshark, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whaleshark before it then had to come to terms with not being a whaleshark any more.
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Jesus Christ…
I just read the first two books of Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series in January. It uses exactly the same sort of AI programs in OP’s commented article. The AI targets people who may at some point change the world in a way they don’t want. Through a series of other AI and human elements, they can track any person, anywhere, as long as they’re using technology. They then send someone to inject the target with a nanomachine version Elon Musk’s neurolink, which rewrites their brain and turns them into a manchurian candidate slave/sleeper agent. They literally start calling them “Rayshaws.”
Good series, but fuck, that’s just way too close to what’s going on in that article…
Our president is a moron who’s been quoted to say, “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
The head of Health and Human Services is an antivaxer with worms in his brain who believes in Chem trails and that HIV is a harmless virus that doesn’t cause AIDS.
It’s not eroding, it’s
Considering we’re not even prepared for hurricane season, either, and our president is trying to dismantle FEMA, I think it’s safer to just say the US is just a little more fucked in general.
This is the shit they’re worried about???
It was totally fine all those times Israel targeted Americans though… Just sayin’
Ignore this… Duplicated my post somehow.
No… It’s not one thing and another, it’s just one fucking thing, ignoring due process and throwing people into a foreign gulag! We may as well just start making oubliettes a real thing and tossing people in…
8% of US prisons are privately owned by for profit organizations that contract out use to the state.
Intellivision did actually have a Kool-Aid game, but you didn’t play as Kool-Aid Man. You played as a couple kids trying to find the ingredients to make some Kool-Aid. It still had the Thirsties in it, but the gameplay was very different.
Also, I’m pretty sure that, aside from the games, the Thirsties were exclusive to the official Marvel Kool-Aid comics. I remember them in commercials, but I’m pretty sure I’m Mandela-ing myself and what I’m actually remembering is Pilsbury’s Goofy Grape and the rest of the Funny Face characters.
The funny coincidence is that almost all of the Funny Face characters are depicted drinking from straws on their packages. Which kind of makes me wonder if the 2600 game wasn’t a subtle dig at them. 
“Be a good little crayon eater, maggot, and do as you’re told unless you want to end up in there with them.” -Commanding officer, probably
Please don’t ruin my favorite movie by honoring these assholes with that name…
Call them what they actually are, terror squads, gestapo.
I bring this up like every chance I get, but check out Libby if you don’t want to go to the library. You just link your library card and you have access to tons of books, audio books, and magazines. I also just found out about Hoopla a couple days ago and will be checking that out as soon as I go get my library card renewed tomorrow. Same principle, access to your library’s stuff, but also includes music and movies as well.