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BertramDitore

@ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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  • Having to bond with my daughter's much older boyfriend as a dad is tough

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  • That sounds quite awkward and strange for you. I honestly can’t imagine how weird that must be. But it sounds like you’re handling it the best way possible by supporting your daughter, maintaining your relationship with her, and keeping an eye on the whole thing. She’s an adult who can make her own decisions (granted a very young adult), so from what I can tell you’re being a great dad!

  • Happy Stomp

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  • I bet that adorable dude can move.

  • Petah

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  • Good tip!

  • Petah

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  • Yup! Canned chickpeas also work really well and are a bit easier to deal with, with a slightly different end result. Takes about 5 minutes total for a fresh batch. Here’s my standard eyeballed recipe I’ve been using for decades:

    • 1 can of chickpeas, keep a couple spoonfuls of the water (or use dried chickpeas that you’ve soaked overnight)
    • 1/3 cup (or so) tahini
    • A few tablespoons to a 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice, to taste (you can just use water if you don’t like lemon, but I recommend lemon as it kind of fades into the background with the other flavors)
    • 1 or 2 cloves of garlic (optional, but again, it adds some important complexity to the taste for me)
    • Couple teaspoons salt, to taste
    • Few grinds of black pepper
    • Extra water if needed to adjust consistency

    1. Throw it all into a bowl and purée with an immersion blender, or blend however you normally blend stuff
    2. Serve with olive oil drizzled on top, with some zataar, roasted red peppers, sumac, pine nuts, or whatever you want

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • I’ve been here a while, and that’s an awesome new sub for me.

    This was an even more satisfying find because my beast of an elderly cat is loudly purring on my lap. Thanks softcat!

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  • Thank you. He gets more normalized any time someone talks about this asshole and doesn’t mention his extremist and wildly unpopular views. He is a terrible person, and not enough people know why.

    This article does a pretty solid job of explaining how horrible he is, though I’m sure there are better ones.

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    “Go ruin her” - investigation on men leaking women's photos (sometimes nudes, sometimes even from the friend's wife/daughter!) together with their name, address and sometimes with abuse fantasies

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  • In case you’re not aware (many people aren’t) journalists almost never choose their own headlines. It is usually written by an editor after the article is finished. Journalists, especially at large papers like the Guardian, usually have no say in the headline.

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    Cop City opens after years of controversy

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  • I’m furious about this, and I don’t live in Georgia. The way the state treated opposition to this fascist fever dream was abhorrent and Anti-American. When I think about what these facilities are like, I can’t help but picture those propaganda videos of Al Qaeda training in the desert. I mean, they will certainly be training police to perfect the terror tactics that have kept Georgia law enforcement so racist and untrustworthy (no-knock warrants, swatting, shooting before asking questions, killing every dog they see for fun, etc. etc. etc.).

    Curious though, why include this part? Without any explanation it seems completely out of place. Also, why is this true, tariffs?

    It’s estimated that Atlanta’s 85-acre, $118 million training center — an increase from the previous estimate of $90 million — would cost more than double to build today.

  • Pro-Israel Democrats Blast Washington Post Over ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ in Coverage of ‘Extremist’ Jewish Activists

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  • It has definitely become more obvious lately, but this isn’t new. Anti-Zionism has been conflated with Antisemitism for as long as I can remember. I remember being called a “self-hating Jew” more than 20 years ago, for probing the myth that the IDF was the “most precise and humane army in the world.” That was a common trope in the 90s and 00s, but has always been utter bullshit.

    I was told I couldn’t be Jewish and called an “Arab-lover” for talking about my countless positive experiences being friends with Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims in general. That they thought this was an insult just exposed their bigotry.

    Terminology changes, but there is rarely logic to raw hatred.

  • Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says

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  • This is really well said. Throughout history, you can reliably find people on both sides of moral and humanitarian issues like this. There were Roman elite who spoke out against slavery in antiquity, there were Brits who mocked the American Colonies for owning slaves while founding a country based on freedom, there have always been men who believed in equal treatment and rights for women. Right and wrong is usually pretty clear, and in general regular people throughout the ages have been able to recognize which is which. Our values haven’t changed much, but our systems of power and accountability have.

    That said, I also believe a good amount of the right wing backlash against the internment camps was performative. Because up until relatively recently, many racists themselves understood that their beliefs were terrible, so they at least tried to hide their true feelings and spoke out against obvious atrocities like this in public. But that was only so they could be accepted by the wider culture, and so they could continue to participate in left-coded spaces. They don’t need to hide how awful they are anymore because the president is leading by example.

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    ‘Strong response’: India, Pakistan on the brink after Kashmir attack

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  • In the early aughts, I asked my high school history teacher where he thought was the likeliest place for a global conflict to start. His answer was Kashmir.

  • RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

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  • Yeah that’s very true…

  • burrito?

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  • Culturally? I’m not positive. Personally? Damn straight that’s a burrito.

    When I make burritos at home, they’re almost exclusively made with leftovers.

  • burrito?

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  • Hell yeah! That’s a great looking burrito. Love cabbage salad. What’s the question?

  • Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children, tie them to a tree

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  • This is state-sponsored terrorism. Absolutely despicably evil that anyone would wake up one day and think to themself “what should I do today….oh I know, let’s go traumatize some Palestinian kids by kidnapping and torturing them.” What the fuck.

    What sets this government apart is the level of support and encouragement it provides to settlers, whether through supplying them with weapons or funding the creation of new outposts. This backing has enabled and emboldened settlers to carry out attacks on Palestinians, with the aim of displacing communities and annexing their land.

  • RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

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  • I wonder if I can still find my grandparents’ yellow Star of David patches…seems like I’m going to need it.

  • Ah yes, Because That Is What Makes a Good Logo

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  • Lol “dropped”

    Well played.

  • Ah yes, Because That Is What Makes a Good Logo

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  • Lol try printing that on merch, dumb dumb. That’s an awful logo. It’s really not even a logo, it’s a scene.

  • Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics

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  • Damn that’s a lot of cash. I like to carry some cash for emergencies, but shit, $3000??

  • Van Hollen: If you won’t fight for the Constitution, you don’t deserve to lead

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  • Not only tiresome, which he really is, but he’s also just a stereotypical politician who talks in speeches and doublespeak, even in intimate settings, so you never actually know what he believes. Listen to him give an interview to a friendly reporter from a liberal outlet. He can barely answer the simplest questions without sounding like the most cookie-cutter mainstream Democrat. That’s not what people want anymore.

    We need a down to earth candidate like AOC who communicates like a human being. Not a greasy rich white guy who talks like the most generic politician with no genuine values.

    But I don’t want him to die, I just want him to go away and stop pushing himself on us.