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Steroids and Schizophrenia, 0/10
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Time to lose insurance baybee
God why do the devs of STALKER have to be from Ukraine? Such great games
The benadryl and ambien subreddits were amazing, genuinely the things I miss the most from Reddit. The only truly funny drugposters
Xvideos is huge worldwide. Back in my teen years, I literally casually learned Spanish on there while I was jerking off. I told everybody I learned my Spanish by working in a kitchen with Spanish speaking people, but those people had no fucking clue where I got the Spanish
If this solider's actions aren't praxis, posting isn't either. Lib
Olive oil being a struggle session is just so frustrating to me. As someone who has a deep love for food and cooking, it hurts quite a bit to see how the internet has pretty much re-birthed cooking snobbery in this entirely new way. I am an exceptionally knowledgeable cook, having worked in a million different types of places and even fully running a place for a little bit, lots of research into food science and such. I like the nerdy side of cooking that the internet has brought out, but the snobbery of olive oil's smoke point is a great example of when it starts just getting into re-establishing french style elitism based on racism and classism that has kept the true heroes of culinary history out of the public eye. Most of the great dishes we have, some of the smartest food practices around today, were made by illiterate, uneducated slaves and workers, and those people broke a ton of culinary "rules". Modern internet cooks stand on the shoulders of giants and spit on them. The guy who invented modern barbecue ribs was an illiterate slave making food for his owner, where his owner took credit for everything he did. It wasn'
One of the first widespread foods that had a sauce purposefully stabilized was creole Gumbo, which used okra, a veggie brought over from Africa. The only people who had okra at the time were black people brought to America via the slave trade. However, people like to credit the french with sauce stabilization through rouxs because the french could put it on paper and the slaves couldn't. It's why we see white people essentially try to claim Creole food by making some changes and calling it cajun, and they do it by legitimizing and de-legitimizing certain techniques.
Or how historically, Central America uses very little oil in their cooking, preferring the flavor of char over a maillard reaction done with oil. Now the delicious food of Central America is being lost over time because cooks are listening to these online people and replacing unique flavor elements from their cultures with french cooking practice. THAT is why white people can't make tacos, it's literally because they're cooking like white people and have had "cook everything in oil" drilled into them from the start of their cooking. It would be one thing if food was just changing with the times, people having different palettes, but that's not the case, otherwise those gentrified white people taco shops would be a hit amongst Hispanic people.
I see the whole olive oil debate, and similar discussions as a way to dismiss cooks with unique techniques and their food. People saying you can't fry in olive oil are implicitly saying that pretty much the entire middle east and medeterranian were just burning absolutely everything they cooked until white people made canola oil. It's re-establishing elitist cooking standards with bad information. So everybody's food is becoming more and more tasteless, more Americanized, switching to more neutral oils, all in the name of "not burning" something that isn't even actually burning. It's annoying.
It's so fucking funny because if these people knew as much about culinary as they claim to know, they know there are many dishes that are in fact fried in olive oil. The smoke point discussion is pop science going too far in food. Kenji did an article about this. If these dumbass food nerds spent more time reading and actually cooking rather than arguing with people online, they would know how shit actually performs and how to actually cook. But instead we have a bunch of people who nerded the fuck out when The Menu came out, without realizing that they are Tyler, not the Chef.
So yeah, fry things in olive oil if you want them to taste like olive oil. Don't use olive oil if you don't want it to taste like olive oil 
Edit: Adding this because I think some of you fuckin libs need a theory lesson
I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won' t do!
It won't do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!
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III. OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP
Whatever is written in a book is right — such is still the mentality of culturally backward Chinese peasants. Strangely enough, within the Communist Party there are also people who always say in a discussion, "Show me where it's written in the book." When we say that a directive of a higher organ of leadership is correct, that is not just because it comes from "a higher organ of leadership" but because its contents conform with both the objective and subjective circumstances of the struggle and meet its requirements. It is quite wrong to take a formalistic attitude and blindly carry out directives without discussing and examining them in the light of actual conditions simply because they come from a higher organ. It is the mischief done by this formalism which explains why the line and tactics of the Party do not take deeper root among the masses. To carry out a directive of a higher organ blindly, and seemingly without any disagreement, is not really to carry it out but is the most artful way of opposing or sabotaging it.
Holy shit, these people are STILL on Anita Sarkeesian?
I haven't watched Firefly in quite a while, but I generally agree with your criticism. I think the western-ness could have been really interesting if the show had more to say about colonialism, but it doesn't. The show makes fairly milquetoast observations about the west and does very little with them. They're just a cool backdrop to Wheadon. Sci-fi as a genre is one of the few genres I do not think normal libs are capable of writing well. Sci-fi is based in rejecting the status quo, dreaming of a new, better future. Post-modernist irony has essentially ruined lib's abilities to do this. They recognize the American war machine as awful, they recognize a million different issues in the world. But we're widely met by snarky apathy on these subjects, where what's wrong in the world is an unchangeable constant that we shouldn't exert energy fighting against. Plus, being within the imperial core takes away from their ability to even percieve persecution. They can imagine vaguely dystopian future, but can't imagine good enough backing to make the world anything more than a YA book like Divergent. All they make is a hellish world with very little resolve, with no real solutions. The lack of resolve can work, but libs generally don't like it in their stories. I could get into signifiers at this point, but I don't want to.
George Lucas is actually a good example of this. While I don't think he's a socialist, the rebellion fighters of the Star Wars universe were apparently modeled after the Vietnamese fighting American invasion. For all of the questionable implications made throughout the movies, one thing is clear. The imperialists are the bad guys, people fighting for self determination are the good guys. Even though the empire is almost an unstoppable force the rebels will pretty much never take down, Star Wars argues that fighting that hell is the resolve and it is worth it. True freedom in the Star Wars universe isn't making peace with the unstoppable force, or just arbitrarily overthrowing it with good guys. It's about fighting for your stake in the world around you. There is still a resolve here. There is still understanding of who would be on the bottom or top in the sci-fi realm
Let's compare this to what I'd call bad lib sci-fi. Divergent is fucking ASS. People are arbitrarily split into 5 groups based on a single personality trait from birth, but there are some people who have all 5 personality traits and they're DANGEROUS!!! It's arbitrary sci-fi, there's no world where this makes sense. Classes are completely arbitrary, almost ignored. Race is also ignored. In divergent, scifi becomes an aesthetic, a signifier of what it really is. It fundamentally misunderstands what sci-fi is at its heart and leans into what people think sci-fi is. I think this is why Wheadon moved onto Marvel
I actually see Seth MacFarlane as a (mostly) decent person, with much of the humor in Family Guy being the fault of postmodernism and irony melting American brains. Family Guy makes a lot of trashy jokes, but I think the intent of them is to laugh at American culture rather than whatever stereotypes they're joking about. I even think he's kind of moved past it, since he's essentially just been leveraging Family Guy just to get to make his Star Trek show.
Idk, I've learned to set aside people's more problematic aspects as long as they kick their heels in where it really matters. Standing with the writers every time, even back in 2007 when it caused Family Guy to get entirely dropped by Fox. This isn't even him just doing it because he had nothing to lose. He almost lost Family Guy over this. I will almost always respect people putting their money where their mouth is.
Will never get over how much of a joke this trial was. Bro essentially got the Casey Anthony luck and is still whining about it being too much lol
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LeylaLove
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I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so difficult to lose a pet. I still have nightmares about losing my first real pet again.