Wandering Adventure Party

@manjusrii

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@BlameThePeacock

Yes, extra firm. I can't believe I didn't see that last time.

@BlameThePeacock

It feels pretty firm through the packaging. It says, "I am great for baking and pan frying."

@Substance_P

Thank you.

@cooking @food

I have a question for y'all. I make a lot of chicken noodle soup, but was just given a couple blocks of tofu. I've never attempted tofu before so:

1) Can I even make chicken tofu soup?

and

2) If so, what should I do to prep the tofu? Fry it? Season it?

Thanks!

Why does pluralistic load so fast?

I visit a bunch of sites routinely, and none of them load like Cory's. Some of the slowest tell me they are dealing with security to determine I'm a human. Others appear to be doing the same based on what I can interpret from the chyron in the bottom left.

Is it really that all of these sites are doing some kind of fucky shit and my various blockers are intercepting it? If all websites were honest, would they all load as fast as pluralistic.net?

I had a fun Mastodon moment the other day. I was talking to my dermatologist and, being American, of course we got to the ridiculousness of for-profit heath care. I made the generalized statement that no necessities of life should be for-profit, and introduced the fact the the Brits are having problems with their privatized water supply today. I mean, only air is more important than water. Spaceballs explored that idea.

Anyway, my doc asked how I knew the Brits had privatized their water, so I had to back up and explain Mastodon. "It's nonprofit, has no advertizing, and no algorithm. Basically, it's where the liberals and tech people hang out." I explained that I had a global network of actual scientists, computer- and otherwise, in my pocket, and they bitched about what was wrong with their country same as I did. "It's where I go to get my smart on", I said.

Most people with whom I interact assume I'm an ignoramus. This was an enjoyable way to convince someone I wasn't.

@juergen_hubert

I do. You are promoting a religious mindset.

I'll bet you ten to one you were raised religious, and now you think you aren't, but you're only capable of motivated reasoning because of the abuse you suffered as a child.

It's ok. I run into that all the time. Hell, the president of the atheist association in my area is just a fundamentalist Catholic with a different dogma.

Your thinking is too flawed to even realize your thinking is flawed.

@juergen_hubert

Whatever. You don't have to "believe things we cannot prove". That is a categorically false statement, probably used as a defense mechanism because you know your mind is broken and are unwilling to fix it.

I love how religious people make these incredibly bold statements without any kind of logical or epistemological backup and expect everyone else to simply go along with it.

@juergen_hubert

Naaah, belief itself is the problem. I understand that everybody has the right to choose to believe something they know isn't true, but it's causing the downfall of the species. And the extinction of pretty much all life on planet Earth.

Anti-vaxxers, global warming deniers, flat Earthers--that's all religious thinking. That's coming from a place where you think your emotions are able to determine what's true and what isn't, rather than your mind. Faith itself is the root of all evil. Facts aren't determined by feelings but by logic and reason, which take place in the human part of your brain, not the pack-mammal part.

You might like this. I wrote up a fairly amusing defenestration of the way things work. There's a lot of wisdom here if you're able to see it.

https://poloniousmonk.substack.com/p/here-lies-one-whose-name-was-writ

@juergen_hubert

Ummm...souls and ghosts aren't real. Dead is dead. I'm not sure we should be praising xtians for pushing a different delusion than, apparently, the one most Germans already believe. It's preferring lies and delusions to hard reality that's exactly what allows scapegoating and eventually fascism to take over.

@Klepsis

I'll give you a free edit, and I'm good at it, but you should know what you're getting into.

I had a good friend who wrote entire books, but had never read any. He didn't understand there's an actual talent; an artistry to writing. So he sent me his latest novel to review. I made it a few pages and totally shit on it. He sent me back a revision, and I said the first paragraph was acceptable, the rest still sucked. It turns out he'd rewritten the first paragraph a couple dozen times to get it good. I told him to do the same with the rest of the book. Never heard back from him.

He's also an anti vaxxer who told me he didn't vaccinate his kids for covid. I blurted, "do you make them wear seatbelts?" So there was probably more than my literary critique that blew up the friendship, but I take editing seriously enough to blow up a two decade old friendship over it. Fair warning.

@Zyranka

I have never seen a cat that understands fetch before.

She's better about giving it back than most dogs.

@stux

They're the same red flag here, there just isn't any other "safe" school.