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But you described it as "suffering." The subjective experience of a person in that culture is that the food is less pleasant to consume.

In other words, the enjoyment of the food is actively discouraged, in favor of another criterion (the suffering that comes from eating it). So we can point out that the culture does not prioritize the enjoyment of food as much, and can stand by that particular metric as having directionality on that spectrum.

Some dedicated bread lames are curved (see OP's frontmost lame) which can make certain swooping curved cuts easier. I generally lack the skill to be able to do it consistently, though, so a flat razor blade holder generally works best for me.

Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun "hedonism", food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.

Yeah, but one can view that cultural tradition and conclude that their culture does not value the deliciousness of food as much as some other cultures.

I eat a legume at pretty much every meal. Not all of them are high fiber foods, like peanuts or peanut butter, but most have some. Peas have 7g per serving. Peanuts have 2g per serving. Green beans have 3g. The actual beans start running away with it, though, with something like 15g of fiber per serving.

All those go a long way to hit 25g per day.

Basically legumes are how I get affordable protein, too, so it's hitting multiple needs with a cheap and easy ingredient.

I moved cities about 5 times between 18 and 30. Each time I had a pretty easy time making new friends in the place where I found myself, and learning a bit about myself and what I'm looking for in friendships, what I have to offer in a friendship, and the types of people I get along best with.

By the time I sorta settled down in my 30's in one more new city, I had decades of building that actual skills of meeting new people, becoming good friends with the ones who got along with me, and then maintaining those friendships over time.

Now, in my 40's, even with kids, I still make friendships at work, in the neighborhood, through my kids' schools and activities, etc. Making the leap of "let's hang out outside of the context where we met" grows easier when you've done it a million times before. And the act of scheduling friend interactions on your personal calendar becomes second nature over time, as well.

All this is to say that it's a feedback loop, and you want to be in the virtuous cycle, not the vicious cycle. But if you are in the spiral, breaking out of it can pay dividends faster than you'd expect.

This is several of the plotlines running through Superbad.

I buy stuff from all sorts of places. I'm pretty serious about food and cooking, and I run through a pretty wide variety of cultures and regional variation in making my food. So for me, this is how I buy:

Fresh produce in season: street markets

Fresh produce out of season (greenhouse grown or shipped in from another latitude): Whole Foods

Mainstream American prepackaged foods: nearest big box corporate supermarket.

Day to day meat, dairy, and seafood (chicken, beef, pork, shrimp): Whole Foods

Specialty meat (aged stuff, unusual cuts): local specialty butcher, ethnic grocery stores

Specialty seafood (live seafood, less common items): specialty seafood shop

Fancy cheeses: cheese store in my neighborhood, occasionally Whole Foods

Various ethnic specialities (Kim chi, tortillas, paneer, certain types of Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese vegetables, Mexican/Indian spices) that are perishable: ethnic grocery stores

Unusual or imported prepackaged or shelf stable foods/spices: ethnic grocery stores, Amazon, other online stores depending on the item.

Maybe the real toast was the strokes we had along the way.

The current ratio is probably 10 to 1

In terms of compliments you give, what's the ratio? Be part of the solution.

I compliment my friends all the time. It's an easy way to support the people you care about.

I had the luxury of watching it twice in a week (was visiting family for Christmas that year, not a ton to do around the house but watch movies), and I thought that it was a really satisfying film to watch over two viewings. It's definitely an interesting artistic choice to make a movie that benefits from a second viewing, and I can see why that turns people away, but I really enjoyed it.

I thought we were posting corn to return to actual shitposts, this one is too informative and interesting.

obversion

obsevation

I was hoping that by observing your comment these would collapse into the spelling "observation."

What does "malicious" mean here? Structural racism often doesn't have ill intent from any individual people, and nevertheless still affects people's daily lives.

We think in terms of tokens, too, but we have the ability to look under the hood at some of how our knowledge is constructed.

For the typical literate English speaker, we seamlessly pronounce certain letter combinations as different from the component parts (like ch, sh, ph, or looking ahead to see if the syllable ends in an E to decide how to pronounce the vowel in the middle). Then, entire words or phrases have a single meaning that doesn't get broken apart. Similarly, people who are fluent in multiple languages, including languages that use the same script (e.g., latin letters), can look at the whole string of text to quickly figure out which language they're reading, and consult that part of their knowledge base.

And usually our brains process things completely separately from how we read or write text. Even the question of asking how many r's are in "raspberry" requires us to go and count, because it isn't inherent in the knowledge we have at the tip of tongue. Someone can memorize a speech but not know how many times the word "the" appears in it, even if their knowledge contains all the information necessary to answer the question.

Even if we are actively thinking in the context of how words are constructed, like doing crosswords, these things tend to be more fun when mixed with other modes of thinking: Wordle's mix of both logic and spelling, a classic crossword's clever style of hints, etc.

Manipulation of letters is simply one mode of thinking. We're really good at seamlessly switching between modes.

On which scale? Because that kinda matters.

The rate of sweat I produce, in terms of ml of sweat per minute.

Italy was never a great empire.

Modern Italy does argue that it is the proper successor to the Roman Empire, but if you do look at the history of the nations (and city states) that rose and fell between the split of the Roman Empire into West and East/Byzantine around 395, and the formation of a unified Italy in 1861, that's a bit of a stretch.

Yeah, it's funny either way, but would be even funnier if the answer had been correct.

"what you said was kinda racist"

"How dare you, I'm not a racist!"

The unacknowledged shift from the adjective form "racist" to the noun form "racist" is the best indicator that someone doesn't really get what racism actually is in real life.

As an example of why that's wrong, I can do something stupid without being a stupid.

Friggin euro steppers ruining basketball