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$22 burger, $6 fries, $6 shake: $34, x2 is $68, not including possible tip.

I used to really piss hippies by telling them that anything food put in a food processor is processed food. This includes your homemade hummus & raw smoothies.

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.

As a former professional baker, nah.

Most of these home bakers talking about how “precise” their baking is aren’t actually that precise. They:

• measure ingredients by volume rather than weight
• have home ovens that vary in temperature wildly
• never consider ambient humidity/outdoor temp at all

Cooking and baking aren’t that different, there are hard and fast rules in both, but also if you’re good at one, you’re also good at the other, because they are the same thing. Can you follow a recipe that involves cooking meat in the oven? Then guess what? You can also bake a cake. I’m sorry to be the bearer of good news

Also check out the Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt, he also talks primarily about techniques rather than recipes

USA population in 2024: ~341 million (according to the US census)

Trump votes in 2024: ~77 million (according to Wikipedia)

That's only about ~22% or a little over 1/5th of the country that voted for him.

Last I checked there were about 50% more registered Democrats than registered Republicans in the USA. Given those kind of numbers, it's actually impressive that the Republicans ever win any elections at all; and it takes a lot of both Democratic incompetence and Republican gerrymandering.

Yes! IMO the 'evil geniuses' had no effect whatsoever. Trump just wins by default when the Democrats run unpopular candidates.

I've been saying this for almost ten years now. Trump is not a popular candidate and never has been. In '16 he got fewer votes than Romney did in '12. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump never would have won. The same is true with '20 vs. '24: if everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump never would have won the second time.

I also don't think Biden was ever that popular; I think any of the Democratic candidates would have won in 2020. I told anyone who would listen at the time, "Biden is a bad choice, some shit could heat up in Israel, and he's very out of touch with the Democratic base on that issue, and it could prevent him from getting re-elected." I will say, I didn't think Trump would get re-elected after J6, I thought it would be some other Republican. But, it also felt like the Democrats also never really went after Trump for what he did on J6 so.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is I agree and I'm glad to hear other people say it. The Democrats are too willing to compromise with Republicans who never compromise with them, and it keeps losing them elections. So even though Americans as we actually exist are reasonably progressive on most issues (legalizing weed and having universal healthcare poll higher than any sitting politician, there are about 1.5x as many registered Dems as Reps in this country, etc), we're stuck with an extremely regressive government. That's the context that leads to progressives like Mamdani winning in "upset" victories and the Democratic leadership is all surprised.

Nah, he’s always sucked. I first heard about him in 2007, shilling Hyperloop, and I was like “wow this is such an obvious grift!” The tech was totally fake and experimental compared to just buying off the shelf HSR tech. Hyperloop was so obviously bad, on its face, that ever since then I’ve been judging everyone who gets into him.

It’s unfortunately definitely a counterproductive thing if it makes you believe stuff like “capitalism is when people use money.” People still used money in the USSR. Capitalism is about transnational social control, accomplished through use of surplus value accumulation & compound interest to acquire controlling ownership of international corporations (which can then use their international nature to dodge legal accountability from the countries they operate in, typically in a highly colonialist way).

Capitalism is not a bunch of farmers at a farmer’s market. It is an act of strategic class violence.

Pickpocketing is not a thing in America. Too subtle. We are a mugging people. However, I will say that your chances of encountering gang violence as a tourist/traveler are quite low. The main danger when visiting here is the government/police.

“The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of one million, a statistic.” — J. Stalin