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  • What's your best habit?

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  • Celery I don't mind, it's just pretty bland without PB or cheese or w/e. I think you're thinking of cilantro though, and.. probably a combination of nature and nurture; I'm sure if I ate more of those foods as a kid I would like them more too. shrug

  • What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from?

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  • I wouldn't really say I was addicted to soda, I just don't like the taste of water and soda was kinda the only alternative that I liked until my body decided 'nah fuck it, let's do something different' on me.

    And yeah I drank mostly Mt Dew, so the super sugary/caffeine-loaded stuff. Blech. I can still drink it, but only in small quantities, vs where I was before, going through 4 2L bottles a week of the stuff.

  • UN Officially Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza [Kit Klarenberg]

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  • Respectfully, you clearly don't know how I meant it.

    I am biased against Israel because I do not judge it impartially. I tend to assume the worst about it (which I believe is justified through many years of reading about the awful, awful shit it does to people), in a decision about which side gets the benefit of the doubt in some matter I will never give it to Israel, and I am disinclined to believe pretty much anything it says, even after I filter out the propaganda.

    If that's not bias then apparently we're using different dictionaries. Try this one.

  • What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from?

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  • Drinking soda. I drank it pretty much to the exclusion of all else for decades, it helped ruin my teeth and probably contributed to my developing diabetes at age 50. How it happened was kinda weird, one day I just felt like drinking something else, got some sweet tea at a restaurant or something, and it tasted great without being syrupy or too sweet and just perfectly hit the spot. That day I bought a tea maker and by the end of the week I poured out what was left of my soda stash and never looked back. Once in a great while I'll have a craving for Barq's root beer or something, but it's all soooo gassy and syrupy.

    Also quit smoking 2 years ago.

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  • So the color isn't what bothers me obviously, but the color is affected by the same things that affect the flavor. There's a very strong green taste in stuff like spinach and broccoli that either isn't there or is quite a bit milder in peas, and that's what I have issue with.

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  • I mean I know how it's spelled, I recognize it when I get it backwards, it's just muscle-memory fucks me about half the time.

  • UN Officially Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza [Kit Klarenberg]

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  • Judging from the number of downvotes my comment got, I guess I am too now.

    And yeah, I've been calling it a genocide for more than a year now, but even I know not to take such a biased source's word without some corroborating reporting from elsewhere.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • The bomb, for the record, is capitalism, and it's going off all the time but the blast radius has started growing sharply of late. The only even theoretical way to stop it from encompassing everyone is to dismantle it and replace it with something else, but that requires a level of political will that we'll not see until even the oligarchs are feeling it. So we're absolutely going to get an earth-shattering kaboom, no getting around that, it's just a question of what we build in the smoking crater.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • Nah, more like 'Let's get rid of the ozone hole', which we said, and then did.

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  • Green beans, broccoli, spinach, brussels sprouts, stuff like that. Peas are green but they're kind of a lighter green instead fo the darker green of those foods.

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  • Yup, I get seize backwards a lot cause it violates the i before e except after c rule.

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  • I really dislike tofu, the taste and texture both are just blech. However, I don't universally hate green beans; a friend of mine makes this green bean and potato casserole with dill flavoring and that shit is great. But just by themselves, boiled or whatever, meh.

    Asparagus painted with butter, grilled, then served with lemon juice squeezed over them are heavenly.

    At that point you're just burying the flavor of the asparagus with butter and lemon juice, and I can think of better-tasting things to convey those flavors. ;)

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  • I like some but dislike most. I love peas, corn, (soft) carrots, black eyed peas. Green beans are meh, depends how they're cooked. Can't do broccoli or asparagus or spinach or any of the really green stuff.

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  • This. Been doing this for decades and it's great. Still fuck certain words up for some reason tho. Separate, people, etc.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • No doubt, I'm not saying fascism now is better by any stretch (which is why I said 'boom tomorrow is definitely better than boom today' in the comment that started this thread), I'm saying we should be pissed about the fact that our only choices are both fascism and do something about it.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • Stopping the bomb from going off is wishful thinking, but I agree, that's why I said 'boom tomorrow is definitely better than boom today`.

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  • A bit, sure. But while I'm happy people can marry whoever they want, it's not meaningful change for like 90% of Americans. It's not economic change. What little they've done there in the past 30-40 years has been weak, stop-gap, pared-down versions of good progressive ideas. How's that universal healthcare going again? Oh right, we got the ACA instead which did some good things and helped some people, no question, but it didn't change much for most Americans.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • If such a mythical creature exists then feel free to correct me, but meanwhile I'm going to wonder how they have been accurately predicting the future for 40 years and aren't the most famous person on earth? Like you get a couple billion dollars in the bank and every motherfucker who knows how to operate a keyboard is asking your opinion on stupid shit, how is this guy not on the front page like every day? Elon Musk has only been publicly-known for like 15 years and I can't buy a pack of smokes without hearing about his opinion on some bullshit or other, so your guy must be flying way under the radar.

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  • Then it's a good thing I wasn't asking for unbiased reporting. What I asked for was more reporting, because I would like to verify it with multiple sources. Unbiased reporting doesn't exist, but there is in fact an unbiased (or at least minimally-biased) version of the news itself, and the most reliable way to get there is to hit a subject from multiple angles. If the people who love Israel are also complaining about it then it's safe to say it's legit, for example.