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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • if its rush hour on a highway, everyone is driving under the limit.

    This might be true in a lot of places, but let me introduce a counterpoint: Los Angeles.

    We invented freeways, and I’m convinced we’ve perfected shitty traffic. Get on the 405 anytime between 6a and 10p? Gridlock, everyone is going below the speed limit. Get on basically any of our other freeways at rush hour? Yeah, that’s going to be us doing our best impression of NASCAR, driving bumper to bumper at least 10 over the speed limit.

    It’s so well known that it’s a meme at this point. Every holiday season there’s a bunch of posts on social media about visitors needing to get with the program. My favorite this year was the “stay the fuck away from the left lane” guy.

    Is it safe? Probably not. Is it reality in LA? Absolutely.





  • it’s not hard to make dishes modular

    This is untrue. In many cooking styles using animal based stock as the entire foundation of the dish is completely normal. Subbing veggie stock isn’t always possible given the chef is going for a certain flavor profile. Veggie fond is not the same as animal fond, which also changes the flavor. Animal proteins denature differently, and some proteins are specifically used for their chemical and physical properties (think cream for a sauce, or eggs for a souffle).

    While it is usually possible to sub vegan ingredients to approximate most of the effects of non-vegan ingredients, doing so entirely changes the flavor profile, presentation, and shopping list.

    Can it be done? Absolutely. Is it as trivial as you make it out to be? Not even close.

    I say this as a seasoned chef who has worked in commercial kitchens and cooks 3 meals a day at home from scratch. When I know I have guests coming over for a meal I attempt to accommodate for their dietary requirements (this doesn’t just apply to vegans), but it is rarely as easy as leaving one thing out. It usually means making two (or more) sets of completely separate mains and sides, which doubles the work and significantly increases the time spent.


  • What you’re referencing are Aminita Muscaria mushrooms. The active hallucinagenic compound is not psilocybin but rather muscimol. Psilocybin is a classic psychedelic, while muscimol is a depressant with sedative and dissociative properties.

    It is true that muscimol doesn’t break down completely after ingestion, and shamans have used reindeer urine to consume what was left over.

    I’m not sure how much psilocin (a metabolate of psilocybin) remains in urine, but it stands that the two compounds are very different, and interact with the human nervous system differently, even though the perceived effects are similar.


  • I definitely agree with your main point.

    I need a husband who isn’t dealing with emotional baggage

    Good fucking luck, every human has emotional baggage. I think the point you ought to be making is you want someone who deals with their shit in a mature and healthy way.

    who can be supportive for me

    Don’t forget that relationships are a two way street, everyone needs support, some more than others

    rejection has to be performed with male emotional fragility in mind.

    Eh, not really. If we rule out physical violence (hopefully) you can reject folks however you want. If you’re a jerk, sometimes people will be mean back. Sometimes even if you’re nice people will be dicks. Stay safe, disregard what people say if you don’t care about them, and move on.





  • I don’t know why, I’m pretty sure hotdogs are more expensive per pound than ground beef at my local shop. 70/30 (which is fattier than I normally purchase) was $3/lb last time I was there, hotdogs are almost double that. Maybe that’s just a local thing?

    I think this labelling is just marketing. Given the name of the product contains “hamburger” they can assume anyone buying it already knows they can add ground beef. I think they just added hotdogs to the label to give people ideas about other proteins they can use.

    It’s been decades since I’ve eaten Hamburger Helper, but I recall liking it more with hotdogs.





  • Weekdays: 5g psyllium husk, 5g creatine, 30g whey protein, double Turkish coffee, 1 liter of water.

    Weekends: 3 thick cut slices of bacon, small potato grated and fried into hash browns, 2 eggs sunny side up, pour over coffee, in addition to the weekday supplements.

    My wife eats oatmeal or a French omelette during the week, which I make. And something more hearty on the weekend, depending on her workout schedule.





  • the eggs had more water added than I realized

    Uh what? If that number is anything other than zero I’m pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.

    I make perfect French omelettes nearly every day, and it’s a 90 second start to finish process once the pan is heated. Other than whisking there are no required tools. Folding and flipping are done with the pan and a little wrist movement.

    Unless your pepper is enormous (ex: cracked instead of ground) the size doesn’t matter. Paprika is a garnish in this dish, and even if it were an ingredient its moisture content is irrelevant.

    Getting the heat right can be tricky at first, until you figure out your equipment. I can’t help but feel you’re overthinking this whole thing (or trolling)