even when you are clean from showering, you are still covered in delicious skin, refreshing moisture, and things that thrive in the presence of both.

Relay or decrentralize it maybe.

The thing I read about this earlier said Signal is super against decentralization iirc. Or at least against federation? Are they different?

Hey, I’m fully on board with your defense of social media, but I think in this case the commenter is just saying “i miss the social media we had before they started calling it ‘social media’”. Even 2004 facebook fits this description, and I’m inclined to agree. I miss social media when it felt more like IRC and craigslist, when facebook was a glorified personal guestbook, etc.

if you ever feel so inclined, all you need to make your own tortillas at home is:

1. masa flour aka specially treated corn flour

2. a stovetop and a pan for cooking

3. a plastic food storage bag

4. something with a flat bottom, ideally transparent

5. water

the bag of flour typically has instructions for how much flour and water to mix. you can mix it by hand and form it into balls by hand. the size of the balls only matters if you care about the tortillas being “the right size”.

From there, you press a ball flat, toss it on an already hot pan over medium heat, flip it after a couple of minutes, and remove it after a minute more. to press the ball flat, place it under your flat-bottomed transparent thing and mash on it until it looks tortilla-shaped enough for you.

the plastic food storage bag is optional/recommended to stop the tortilla balls sticking when you press them. cut the food storage bag open along its seams and remove its zipper if it has one. what you have left is a single sheet of plastic with a seam/hinge in the middle.

it might be sounding like a lot but it’s really just:

• mix flour into wet balls

• mash flour in your “press” made of random flat dishes and a plastic bag

• cook the thing a little

• eat

if you iterate on those 4 steps a dozen times, you’ll be out like 50 cents of flour and you’ll have produced at least one satisfactory tortilla. and it’ll be so, so much better than store bought, you’ll think about it every time you have store bought tortillas therafter.

this is a grievance i’ve needed validated for a long time. tysm

corporations can’t seem to ever accept a limit for themselves.

This is the result of competition. When success is measured relative to others, it’s forever a moving target. Under this definition of success, self improvement is equally effective as sabotaging another. And as we can see, it’s not just businesses sabotaging one another. If a business can get away with sabotaging its own consumers, as it can in the case of a monopoly, a cartel, or regulatory capture, it will.

Even if the arrest is unlawful, resisting arrest is clearly illegal.

And the punishment for breaking any law is death? Or from your prior comment:

They tried to stun him twice, use a baton, the only option left was to use the gun.

Yeah, the gun was the only option. You definitely can’t just let someone run away for resisting arrest at a traffic stop. Even if you impound their now-abandoned car, they might go on a whole spree of resisting arrests or something.

In case you can’t tell my tone is past sarcasm and well into disgust.

strictly speaking it’s

here’s a gift card so you can give us that money back again we can keep your money but give you something for free later.

Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed

on the one hand, yes. on the other hand, my generation piloted the spoken use of “lol”, “lmao”, and their myriad variations in pronunciation. this strikes me as merely upholding that proud tradition.

it’s hard to know the extent to which the comment represents the marriage. otoh, if one were to read their comment and leave thinking “sounds like a normal, healthy marriage to me”, that imo would be a premium red flag on the reader.

communist because u want a commune = communist

communist because u want tanks and gulag = tankie

Maybe in a sous vide? But a separate issue will be already-quite-hot food being put into plastic. Think they let your takeout noodles/soup cool before putting it in a plastic container?

if xkcd was right about jpeggy porn being niche, i’d bank on terrible AI porn becoming a niche in the future too.

Are you expecting 1TB cloud storage for free?

Your point stands, but let me point out that when gmail started their “9GB free” thing way back when, that was an unfathomable amount of storage for some of us. And gmail’s not the only service that’s offered huge amounts of free storage over the years. So yeah, I think it’s probable that a bunch of us have been primed to expect free storage.

edit: Also given how cheap cloud storage is from ie MS Azure…

Depending on storage type you pay $10-$18/mo once you’re using a full TB. If you use less, you pay proportionally less. Dropbox’s 2TB for $10 is a comparatively better deal if you use it all, but if you use 1TB or less it’s not. Which, now that I’m looking at it, probably means their business model is counting on a lot of underutilized storage caps from their subscribers.

I thought Reddit is a slur now?

Why the hell should i do that?

Read any chapter of history, particularly in the last several hundred years, and you’ll find no end of answers to this question.

Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.

“We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”

They didn’t ask him not to “say ‘gay’”, as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.

Better education and better cultural norms that didn’t prioritize “things” and consumerism would go a long way.

So on the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, consumer spending is 70% of U.S. GDP. If consumer spending takes a hit, we’re all going to feel it.

If this sounds awful it’s because it is. Our economy is not designed to benefit all, or even most.

people assume they already are [magic knowledge machines], and the little warnings that some stuff at the bottom of the page are inadequate.

You seem to have missed the bottom-line disclaimer of the person you’re replying to, which is an excellent case-in-point for how ineffective they are.

someone who’s into communism less for the equality and more for the dictatorship