Honestly I’m actually more impressed by the knowledge that oh yeah, this is just something that happens on jupiter sometimes, like oh yeah that planet-sized centuries long storm will pass eventually but you never know when there’ll be another one
you get used to that
we have a saying here on jupiter: if you don’t like the weather, wait 500 years
People are billionaires from siphoning the surplus value of labor from their workers. A billionaire does not work a billion times harder, they just have the structure within capitalism to keep profits, reward shareholders through higher share prices, and not pay higher salaries [or real health benefits] to the workers.
On top of these capitalistic levers redistributing profits to the wealthy, you can add legislative tax breaks that clearly favor the wealthy.
Conservatives want to create the first trillionaire by cutting every contribution that person should pay to society [taxes] and their workers [wages/benefits].
The dried berries are fucking me up someone explain how they do that
This shit probably cost 300 a plate
I’m beyond confused 😭
Sup friends,
This is called “artificial luxury” and is generally used in sorta upscale places to overprice their food with words like “robust” and “complexity” in their food descriptions.
Luckily, this is a DIY guide for making your own fancy plates. Awesome when you want to invite friends over for a fancy tea party, or you just want to lounge around feeling like you’re treating yourself.
I do this with cheese spreads all the time. The point of it is to FEEL luxurious – and the more POUNTLESS EFFORT is put into presenting something, the more luxurious it feels.
Like hand-picked, spring-fed grapes fermented in an oak cask I crafted myself, wine bottled in glass I blew myself…. would be a ridiculous times more expensive than just going out and grabbing a 10$ wine off the shelf. For what? The feeling of luxury. The feeling of consuming and destroying the product of someone’s prolonged effort. Knowing exactly what it took to get that glass of wine that you’re now consuming.
It’s the same satisfaction gained from crafting a huge sand castle and then punching it. Or building a card castle and then slapping your arm through it.
This is also part of the reason street vendors tend to do quite well if they have a performing chef – there’s a sense of satisfaction in knowing the work you’re destroying.
So!
Fancy up your plates. Use celery leaf garnishes! Drizzle your sauce in an artful swirl~ arrange your chicken slices atop your 2-minute rice in a symmetrical circle. Carefully stack your nuggets! Eating that plate of food will be way more fun and satisfying after its prettied up.
It also feels more satisfying and tastier when you learn to cook things yourself – you’ll know the work YOU put into making it, and will appreciate it even more.
We like to crunch leaves and race through the first fresh, pristine snow. We like that first slice into a cake, grinding a footprint into wet sand, and petting fur against the grain.
They’re literally like fickle feathered cats!!! Seriously, they can be snuggling onto your lap one second, and then they’ll refuse to come 10 feet towards you
They also love begging for food even when they’re not hungry, like the chubby little bums they are
And the best part is that they’re so amazingly diverse! like you got the Really Big Boys like the Jersey Giants and Brahmas
And then there’s the itty bitty Serama that can fit in the palm of your hand
Then the fabulously bearded Ameraucana
The fluffy Cochin
The stylish Modern Game
Plus the elegant Phoenix!!!
So in short, all chickens are beautiful and i love them all
IT Guy here. We (the IT and IT Security experts) continue to find that the more obtrusive a “turn off your ad-blocker” site tends to be, the *more likely it is* for that site to serve ads containing viruses or malware.
A great example of this is, I shit you not, Forbes.com. They refuse to let you see their content with an ad-blocker enabled, yet they do such a profoundly shitty job vetting their ads that their site has *repeatedly* served up Malware to end users. Yet they still demand your ad blocker be turned off or you subscribe to their content to see it.
Look, I get that content owners need to get paid. I think we can all agree on that. The problem is that until and unless ad networks are extensively vetted, and until and unless these site owners agree to compensate users infected with malware from their site for lost time or damages, then an ad blocker is more of a *LEGITIMATE SECURITY TOOL* than some mere banner ad blocker, more along the lines of your anti-virus suite or anti-malware scanner. I’d recommend anyone and everyone at home make use of ad blockers by default, to be honest, to protect yourselves.
So yeah. If a website calls you out on an ad blocker in anything beyond static images in place of ad blocks (like Reddit, Spiceworks, and Nexus Mods), then keep them blocked. More than likely, those cretins have served folks malware before, but they’d rather you unblock their dangerous ad networks instead of fixing the problem in the first place.
i was literally screaming about this last night
like holy shit get rid of your malware and i’ll turn off my adblocker you chucklefucks
people who go really hard over like hating villains and hating their fanbases and being so disappointed in anyone who so much as shows the slightest appreciation for anything even slightly morally impure are like the obnoxious vegans of fandom
what’s especially infuriating about this attitude is that the goal posts get moved constantly. “it’s fine to like villains as long as you publicly reassure everyone that you’re not romanticizing them”; “it’s fine to like villains as long as you spend just as much time appreciating the heroic characters”; “being actively interested in a villain’s motivations just proves that you’ll do anything to rationalize their behavior”; “it’s not okay to like villains who may be mentally ill because that’s bad representation.”
people might try to frame it as just being concerned that not everyone is being healthy about their villain-love. but really it’s just about getting you to shut up about something they don’t like.
the human body is so fake like i’ll be reading the news and it’s like “25 year old woman free falls 1,500 feet into 25 feet of snow, found alive and uninjured” and while I’m absolutely reeling over that I don’t even have time to process it fully before I look at the next article “25 year old man falls into shallow end of pool, dies instantly.”
like our bodies literally have the durability predictability of an iphone
one time I misjudged how steep a “hill” was and proceeded to slide down the slope of a cliff for a full half minute and hit the bottom unscathed.
then I tripped on the stairs on my way to see Neon Genesis Evangelion and shattered my entire kneecap.
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