southsamurai
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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 1 hour ago:
My homie, if you have never had the glory that is milk with a cheeseburger, you’re missing out.
Spaghetti? Bomb.
Burritos? Bomb
I can keep going, and even explain how and why various foods can be paired with milk and not only be as good as any other beverage, but can sometimes be better. It isn’t every food, but it works often enough to be worth trying.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 1 hour ago:
They might not have it in acceptable quantities for drinking, depending on the kind of food served. If they only keep it in stock for specific dishes, the front of house might not even know it’s there.
- Comment on Cruciferae 3 days ago:
Everything in that image is a delight to the mouth when cooked well.
Brussels sprouts, you roast those little green balls and they turn into a slightly sweet, wonderfully deep and complex flavor bomb. Add a light drizzle of balsamic, your mouth and brain will orgasm.
Hell, you can roast any of them and end up with great taste, though the leafy ones can get over cooked really easy that way compared to a nice braise or saute.
Brassicas are awesome
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 3 days ago:
Luckily, once you push enough people hard enough, you end up with an angry army. Look back at the history of anti union efforts and how many ended up with the workers striking in multiple uses of the word.
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 3 days ago:
Pseudonyms are fairly common.
If you go with traditional publishing, your agent can help you get going.
If you self publish, it can be trickier, but the major outlets are fine with a pen name for public use and inky using your real info for the back end. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc, they all are easy to deal with in that regard.
But if you’re trying to do all of your own distribution and payment, you’d likely want to talk to a good cpa or attorney about how to set things up so you don’t fuck up taxes and whatnot, while still being publicly unnamed under your real ID.
Fwiw, unless you’re also pretty good at marketing, monetizing isn’t easy. It’s one thing to have your stuff out there, and another entirely to have people know it exists, and then spend money on it.
- Comment on Anon looks up Danish cuisine 3 days ago:
Dammit, now I gotta fuck an egg for science (this time)
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Dude. Dude. You’re still a kid ;)
Age jokes from an old fart aside, it’s about your willingness to go looking.
It does mean you’ll end up using some otherwise shitty services unless you are active in a local music related scene (like clubbing). But YouTube, Pandora, spotify, and most of the other music streaming services have some degree of recommendations. They aren’t all that great usually, but in the absence of being immersed with real life music explorers, it’s the best option.
You can check out the Billboard top 200 and go the route of hoping your preferred music genres chart in the first place, but also being fairly reliable that other fans have vetted tracks for it to get there.
And radio still exists. You can pick a station that’s genre specific or a top 40 station and find stuff that’s already a little popular that way. It isn’t as reliable as it used to be, but you can find newer raising acts that way.
There’s forums. I haunt the typical lemmy based music C/s, plus the ones for my favorite genres, which keeps me fairly up to date on new releases as well as some new acts.
And, always participate in your local scene when possible. It’s harder with hip-hop since finding local acts outside of cities is damn near impossible, but if you’re into other stuff too, it can be a great way to catch acts before they get going, if your local scene is active enough. I’m fairly lucky in that bluegrass is one of the genres I’m into, and I’m not too far away from one of the better known cities for country and bluegrass music. So it’s easy to find new bands and solo acts performing at a bar or local festival that end up getting popular eventually. That’s an example of what i mean, making use of what’s already there locally.
- Comment on Why is head hair different from other hairy parts? 5 days ago:
Are you asking how they’re different, as in what makes the different hairs come out the way they do?
Or, is it wondering what the point in the difference is?
The first one is pretty easy. Follicles. The follicles determine how hair is shaped, how it feels, and how thick it is. The way they chain the materials together determines how straight/curly it is, how coarse/smooth it is, the diameter, and how long it grows before falling out and getting replaced. You can look at cosmetology faqs for the details. There’s some debate on some of the details, but that’s the gist of it.
As for why there’s a difference in anything but length, that’s harder. Evolution is the broad answer. At some point, the genes that made our hair the ways it can be were advantageous enough to end up fairly universal for all humans.
There are no certain answers, and I don’t think it’s possible to have many when it comes to that side of things. But, the two big ideas I’ve read about or heard about are friction vs scent and display vs temperature.
When it comes to pubes, there are people that have the hypothesis that they’re pheromonal concentration and dispersion assistance. There’s also the idea that they prevent friction leading to skin injury over time, and/or during sex.
Between those two, I kinda doubt the first. Humans just don’t have much in the way of pheromones, and we suck at detecting them. Seems pretty strange to need the coarse and curly hair down there when the associated senses aren’t there. The second makes sense on the surface for sure; just shave your junk and put on some stiff pants and you can tell the difference with and without pubes in five minutes. And there is a degree of increased skin irritation without hair, but I don’t see that as being as big a factor. I personally suspect air flow has a factor in there, but I have nothing to back that up with other than genitals being very temperature responsive and humidity needing. But I admit it could be both or neither, I sure don’t have the expertise to say (and there aren’t many people that do)
Head hair, you get the usual debate on it growing the way it does for environmental protection against heat and cold, usually versus the possibility of it being for display. I say it’s both because it’s pretty unusual to find any critters with a major trait like that not having multiple functions.
Anyway, years ago, I asked the same question and went digging. I didn’t give enough of a fuck to write things down, but that’s the basics I picked up.
- Comment on Conifers 💚💚💚 6 days ago:
I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 6 days ago:
Being real, it depends on what people think marriage is.
There’s multiple concepts out there, which may or may not conflict with each other.
What really matters is the people involved agreeing on which concepts they will be engaging in. That’s the truth no matter if it’s arranged or not.
Now, when arranged = forced, that’s some fucked up shit. But the two aren’t inherently the same thing.
When it comes right down to it, “marriage” is just a word for a formalized union between people that is recognized by the community/state. How the people involved get there is kinda meaningless. A carefully arranged marriage in a culture where marriage is done for practical reasons is no worse of a concept than two random drunks in vegas getting hitched just because. It’s not even a worse concept than two people that love each other choosing to formalize their bond (and it doesn’t even have to be romantic love, good friends can sometimes a marriage make).
I’m not saying the culture in Afghanistan is good or bad. I do have my doubts that the marriages arranged are done so in a healthy and equitable manner, but that’s a separate issue from assuming that arranged marriages are somehow a relic of the past and that it should die out. They still exist because people want them to.
- Comment on ITS. DAMAGED. 1 week ago:
Man, I once opened my door at the grocery store after shopping, loaded groceries in the back seat, and some woman climbs out of the vehicle next to me, screeching that I hit her car.
She’s got a puppy with her arm wrapped around its neck, gesticulating and screaming while this poor dog is flopping around.
I look at the damn car and there’s a quarter inch white smear. I rub it off with my finger. It was leftover wax I hadn’t cleared away. So my door did indeed bump her car. It left no dent at all.
I point this out to her, and she’s screaming about it being a brand new car, and this puppy she’s strangling is whining and crying.
At that point I decide I’m just leaving, but this woman decides she’s going to jump in front of my car.
I get out and ask how fucking crazy is she, she could have gotten that dog killed.
Luckily, her husband comes out of the store and she’s telling him all kinds of crazy shit, but he’s chill. He can’t even find the place where the wax was, he ushers her into their car, and we exchange info, just in case.
It’s kind of the inverse of this video, where the lady was crazy but right, but it still reminded me of it
- Comment on Thiccc 1 week ago:
If you’ve never fucked a tree, you aren’t a real environmentalist
- Comment on what goes around 1 week ago:
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
A friend of mine is so much a fan of Transmetropolitan that he has a spider tattoo on his head in the same place.
He kinda looks like the character to begin with, but with the ink and a bit of cosplay, combined with a shitty fake accent, it’s almost like he sprang from the pages lol
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 week ago:
I shoulda popped some corn before entering the comment section to this.
Whew.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
You have been hanging in the wrong places lol.
There are absolutely identity politics driven US liberals (as opposed to the use of liberal by the rest of the world) that are ranting, raving assholes. Always have been.
But, here’s the thing. Those assholes are much more likely to be ostracized and/or shut down by the less batshit US liberals, progressives, socialists, etc that form the “left” writ large. But echo chambers for it do exist anyway. There’s a few on lemmy, though they aren’t federated with most of the rest.
Here’s the key difference. What conservatives want to conserve is their sense of power. It’s mostly straight, cis white people here in the US. There’s plenty of exceptions, but they tend to not be as loud and asinine as the ones you’re talking about.
That’s where the anger comes from: fear. Fear of black/brown/yellow/red people. Fear of anything different. Fear of a non Christian based world leaving them behind.
The ones at the top also want to stay rich and powerful in the political sense, and are perfectly willing to weaponize their voting base to do so.
The ones at the top of the various non-conservative branches in the US also want to keep power and make money, and they’ll use different fear to mobilize, but they don’t usually weaponize it.
Fwiw, if you’re one of the ones that does want to play petty, childish games instead of doing something useful, it’s good you’re shamed and muted. Shit or get off the pot. Engage in real work for real change, and do it like you know how to pretend to be a civilized human being. I’m not even talking about peaceful efforts. If you really want to force change, step the fuck up and do something about it. Start the revolution you want to see. Just don’t be some douche harassing churches and pretending it’s anything other than self congratulatory masturbation.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Yup, and no matter how the DM handles it, it’s still a pain in the ass.
My table? That shit don’t fly, but it’s still going to mean some dude getting butt hurt and needing a firm talking to. Might go years without it happening, but I don’t know a DM that hasn’t run into it it once or twice with new groups or new players.
One of my long term players is a woman. She was a “girl” when she started with the core group, if you count 16 as a girl still.
She’s a great player, and a good friend. The number of times I’ve had to tell guys to fuck off and not come back is absurd. Shouldn’t even be once, though you’d expect teenagers to pull it. No, it was grown ass men. The last one, we were all 40ish in the core group, and the guy that pulled it was older than us. He was an acquaintance from where I used to work, and had always been chill with women. No bullshit, no problems. But he still couldn’t get past the idea that she was there and obligated to give him a shot just because they shared a hobby.
- Comment on The Force should be plural 1 week ago:
Man, I still haven’t figured out how the weak nuclear is combined with electromagnetic.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
Truth? It all depends on the parents.
My folks when we all lived here together were kinda difficult.
My dad was fine, other than occasionally swinging dick to having remind everyone he was paying the bills (despite refusing to cash any checks given to him, and outright shoving cash back in pockets).
But my mom, who living here post divorce was a fucking nightmare lol. I love my mom, she can be an amazing person. But she is a horrible housemate. Like one of the kind you want to bury in the yard.
It wasn’t ever intended to be long term though. I moved back after deciding I fucking hated living in the city. My and my best friend were roomies there, and it was great, but city life ain’t for me. Commuting was actually better, and I fucking hate traffic.
I’m talking about finding a place back in town, one Sunday at my grandparents were everyone would get together on Sundays. My sister speaks up and suggests I move back in while we’re looking. My dad is okay with it, my mom was grumpy, but shrugged.
So me and my buddy move in. Shit happens, my mom moves out to take care of her aunt (my great aunt that we all loved) so things get chill. My dad likes having me and my buddy around because we handle shit, and he had to travel a lot for work. So we end up just never moving out.
My dad runs into an mlm scam and fell deep. So, instead of letting the house go into foreclosure, we bought it. Before that, my sister bails because. Because why? She’s given ten answers over the years, but I think it was me telling her to either shit or get off the pot when we were all scrambling after my dad confessed how far he had fallen for the scam. The first plan was just for him up suck it up and take help for once in his life, but that meant my sister paying her share too.
Anyway, point is that we bought the place. My buddy got married and moved out with his husband (who lived here a while too lol), we did some paperwork shuffling and I bought out his part.
My dad after the debacle stopped swinging dick about anything. We’re friends now as well as father and son. So it’s fucking great overall. He’s secure in housing because ain’t no way in hell me or my buddy will let him go homeless. We get along better than ever, and he gets to play papaw to my kid.
My mom is great now that we don’t have to live together. We can enjoy each other’s company, or not, according to our mutual needs.
If I have my way, my kid will live here as long as they want. Any grandkids can too. Ngl, I’m set in my ways a bit, so I don’t see it being a forever thing, but I say fuck the idea that you have to leave family just because. Fuck that noise. Do what works for the people involved.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 2 weeks ago:
Coulda just asked for fresh fries. Most places will do it, and not even question it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
Dude is smoking crack. I’ve been using firefox for, shit, I don’t even know how long, but it’s gotta be creeping on at least fifteen years. Feels like forever any way.
Never had any kind of problem like he’s yakking about. Not once.
- Comment on They lied to us 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, but that’s a salad
- Comment on palaeoartists are dreamers 2 weeks ago:
How could anyone not?
If you have arms, and meet this charming giant, you hug it. From behind because that’s a big fucking bird and it will try to eat you, but you still hug it.
- Comment on Anon gets upvotes on reddit 2 weeks ago:
If that’s true, it wasn’t the reddit user, it was the soldier. You don’t fucking give out that kind of info for this reason exactly
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 2 weeks ago:
Man, I’ve been arguing that point for decades.
Also, I want to fuck that animal as well.
- Comment on [Article] "How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter" Has anyone been following his later work? 2 weeks ago:
Swiss army man was brilliant. My favorite of his performances as an adult
- Comment on [Article] "How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter" Has anyone been following his later work? 2 weeks ago:
He’s a brilliant actor, and he picks his roles well. I haven’t seen anything he’s been in that I didn’t like. And I’ve loved his performance in all of it. The guy is setting himself up to be life of the greats out acting history eventually.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 weeks ago:
I get that.
The first section does look akin to the usual defenses of authoritarian rhetoric.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly :)