my advice to you; put a little dijon mustard in any cheesy beige food. whisk it into your cheese sauce just before u add the cooked macaroni. spread a thin layer in your cheese toasties. add a spoonful to your mashed potatoes with the butter. anything thats gonna be heavy on rich dairy and starches will benefit enormously from the hint of warmth and acidity that dijon mustard will give it, even if you don't add enough to make it Taste Like Mustard (which, ideally, you shouldnt). itll cut through the richness and stop your tastebuds getting fatigue from too much fat&starch, which is important for the overall enjoyment of a dish. ur welcome. take this knowledge and change the world
im still consistently getting notes on this post and i want u guys to know that every single time someone in the tags says they tried this im filled with peace&love. my legacy is teaching the world to put dijon mustard in their mackercheese and i couldnt be happier.
my controversial opinion is that people who insist on insulting people's appearances the moment they're revealed to be bad people will never be able to realise their bias towards conventionally attractive people. as long as people continue to equate beauty with goodness and believe that only good people can be pretty, the beauty standards which are used to oppress people will always continue to exist. when i say you need to break free from beauty standards if you want to be like progressive you need to be committed to it. a kinder world for everyone is much harder to make if we all insist on prioritising our satisfaction in being mean over the greater good of others
Hey since it's getting colder in the US for the next couple months here's your reminder that a lot of physically disabled people who use mobility aids are going to get stuck inside because of snow and ice. This is your reminder that the world, while it is always inaccessible, is about to become even more so especially for those who use wheelchairs and electric chairs. If you have a friend who uses a wheelchair or an electric chair please check in on them and see if they perhaps need some groceries or even just a visit (make sure they know you're coming especially if they're immunocompromised.)
I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture
And asking them what Greek god it represents
so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.
and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.
...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.
see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.
while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.
especially if the president of the united states is on board.
yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.
and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."
but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.
...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.
not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.
yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.
but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire
There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian values.
The USA is not a country founded on Judeo-Christian anything.
(Yes, I may repeat this 500 more times as we’ve apparently decided that all presidential elections must take approximately 2 years and also must take 50 years off of my life.)
I’ve already gotten asks in about this, so I’ll add a little more meat to this:
1) The value systems between Judaism and Christianity are not the same;
2) There is nothing Judaism shares with Christianity that it does not also share with at least Islam and Samaritanism (actually, Judaism has far more in common with Samaritanism than it does with nearly any other religious group), and often with many other groups;
3) Judeo-Christian, as a term, is largely rooted in supercessionism (the belief that Christianity is the successor of and rightful inheritor to Judaism);
and 4) the term Judeo-Christian, given all of the above, is a term that is at best meaningless and is, more often, supercessionist and, in its attempt to other Islam, Islamophobic.
babe wake up a new disaster in applied libertarianism just dropped
it is already KNOWN that cryptobros are goons and always up to clownery but this is truly the FUNNIEST example i’ve seen in a long time
please take the time to at least skim the story
3 guys buying a yacht,
planning to make it into a floating town where you can only spend cryptocurrency while in the freedom of the ocean,
immediately discover that maritime laws exist,
end up blowing all their money to be three guys and a crew of 40 on an empty ship they are unable to sell for scrap,
one guy spends christmas alone on a waterslide…….. it’s incredible
like i do not feel remotely bad for them, literally any amount of research would have revealed their plan as unfeasible, they CHOSE to waste their money like this
The rooms:
Did not allow pets over 20lbs and would not allow barking for over 10 minutes (or else the pet couldn’t live on the boat anymore)
Only had a mini fridge with no microwave (the only food on the ship would be from a restaurant)
Cost $560/month for a small, windowless interior room
And the “seastead” was supposed to be in the shape of the Bitcoin sign
absolutely hysterical that a bunch of libertarians thought a cruise ship was the way to escape regulation
Okay, so Friedman started yammering on about libertarian seatopias in 2010, three years after Bioshock. You cannot convince me this is a coincidence.
Cryptocoin, cruise ships, and libertarians are like three things that are all constantly dangling by a single frayed thread over total disaster and they put all three together.
@fugicross I feel you would enjoy this.
The notes of this post are full of references to a town overrun with bears and I NEED someone to fill me in on that
I absolutely cried laughing reading about this. I have the book on order.