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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Double benefit from my perspective. I block people for three reasons, they are not mutually exclusive. Willful stupidity and being argumentative. If someone refuses to learn objective truth or insists I believe their objectively wrong position I have no need to interact with them in the future. I’m done with them. The third reason is getting the last word, myself or them. I have a hard time shutting up sometimes, so if someone meets either of the above criterial and has to continue to keep commenting on any rebuttal I make I just block them. There’s no reason to allow myself to continue the interaction, and the other person has no interest in a good faith discussion.



  • Covid was a mixed blessing in that sense. Moving around and generally having much more privacy and space in public was great, but then the part of you that really dislikes change is faced with the glaringly obvious “this is not normal” public and facing the uncertainty of at least the immediate future.








  • Agreed. Habits are good to have when it comes to some things, for instance putting your car keys in the exact same place every time. I absolutely have to do this. My SO is the exact opposite and puts her phone down, keys, payment card, whatever in random places and constantly has to look for them. Drives me absolutely nuts and she refuses to see it as a problem despite lost cards and having to turn around and come home because missing pocketbook and driver’s license and the like. Ah well, nothing to be done.


  • This is how you cook with stainless. Get a high smoke point oil, get the pan and oil plenty hot, the put the food in. It immediately sears the contact surface and this is what prevents sticking. This is also why you slowly place food in the pan (other than to avoid spatter), it gives a little extra time for this to happen. Otherwise you gotta wait for the surface to brown and hopefully unstick, which might work for things like chicken or the skin side of fish, but anything liquid like eggs or super soft like the fish meat will have a good chance of sticking.

    IOW, just do what chefs usually tell you to do with stainless and get it hot with the correct oil. Best odds of not sticking. Modern non-stick pans are pretty good if you obey the rules about using them.



  • It’s highly likely he’s on the spectrum, at least ADHD. He grew up in a family that couldn’t handle mental “illness” because it looked bad to the press and whatever other reasons. So he basically had his problems completely ignored and swept under the rug at various boarding schools along with having a bitter and verbally abusive matriarch. Couple that with drug abuse and the dude never had a chance.

    He’s basically “run home”, like preacher’s kid that was a disaster in their youth but then came roaring back full-on God Squad Bible Thumper in their midlife of so.

    So he’s just doing the same crap to everyone else that was done to him: you don’t have a real problem, and if you do have a problem, it’s your fault.