CarbonConscious [he/him]

This is great! Checking out Blame! now.

I’ve had it!

It’s bad!

Taste is very strong extract, no actual pepper flavor. That’s on top of a pretty bland chicken noodle. It had some heat, nothing crazy but more than nothing, but without the flavor it just felt completely separate from the soup. Like you just did a shooter of Da Bomb and then ate some (very mid) soup back to back.

As an aside, I feel like Ghost Pepper is going pretty mainstream right now, and there’s some great stuff out there. Melinda’s Creamy Ghost Pepper Wing Sauce is amaaaaazing, I go through practically a bottle a week; pretty hot for normies but sooo much flavor that I got acclimatized very quickly and it’s pretty much my baseline now. Great for sandwiches/wraps or mixing with other sauces to pump up the heat (I put a bunch in all my Cane’s sauces these days).

As an aside to the aside, Tobasco is no pepper-head’s favorite, but their Scorpion sauce is actually pretty dang good. Flavor is decent, heat is awesome; very sharp and electric, gives very much the ouchie. Great for soups and chilis.

Yeah I feel this. My dreams are usually very realistic and very mundane. It fucka me up because I’ll dream about planning an event or doing a project at work or something, and then I wake up and feel like I have a bunch of stuff on my todo list, but none of it is actually real. It’s not nightmare-bad, but it is goddamn annoying.

When I was a much more regular user, that mostly went away and it was great. Now I only rarely get to have any and it’s boring-town dream city, basically every night. Looking forward to recreational sales in this area soon.

Seriously, I’m always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the “fuck the government”, you can’t tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they’ll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you’ve got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you’re riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

Yeah I can’t really stand the guy, haven’t really like him since anything after “Snowball Fight”, but I gotta admit his late night show is easily the best out of any of them right now. Notwithstanding of course previous goats like Conan (or Ferguson a little).

Congratulations, you have a conscience, and are therefore unsuited for management.

Also the confrontation thing, yeah big time. Moving up means more crushing downwards, which feels bad no matter what. Either somebody genuinely fucked up, and it’s some degree of your fault for not training them right or catching it sooner, or they really did what they thought was right (and may have actually been the right thing) but a customer is mad or your bosses are mad or another department is mad, and you have to discipline them anyways.

You also have to fire people, which is probably the worst interpersonal interaction you can ever have at work, let alone in most areas of life. Again sometimes it’s fully justified, and it still sucks, but plenty of times it’s something like a layoff where it’s “nothing personal, just the bottom line ya know”, or it’s that the bosses decided that this person needs to be fired for some arbitrary reason you may not even agree with, but you still have to be the one to pull the trigger and ruin this person’s day/year. Additionally, you usually can’t talk about the reasons with anyone else, so you have to field questions from the rest of your team that are usually good and valid, but you have to explain the away with vague corpo-speak and can’t really tell them what’s up.

So ya know, if any of that sounds fun, I mean, get checked out, because yikes.

I could have written this exact post, down to most of the same numbers lol.

If you think you’ll actually like management (which probably means a lot more meetings, reviewing other people’s work and time sheets, and making high-level decisions instead of actually doing any of the work involved) (and also means taking the flak for any screw-ups your subordinates make, trying to implement new procedures in a desperate attempt to make things better but your underlings hate the changes and your bosses are never as impressed as you thought they’d be, and watching other people excel and grow and learn new things doing the stuff you probably got into your industry to do in the first place), then by all means go for it.

I fell for this trap a few times. I was desperate for the pay increase at the time, which go figure never feels like as much as it looked like on paper, but I still needed it anyways.

These days, I keep it very explicit with my bosses that I have no interest whatsoever in doing those roles any more. It might make me a slightly less attractive employee, and it might hamper my career growth to some extent, but it means I get to actually do the thing I’ve always wanted to do every single day, instead of getting sucked into a bullshit-conjuration position vaguely adjacent to that thing, and I am grateful every day for that.

I was just listening to this today! It’s really good!

They’ll tell you at the beginning to go back and listen to the introductory episode, and if you’re someone like me that doesn’t have a strong background in Chinese history, I agree that it’s really worth doing, since they give kind of a high-level overview of the whole thing, and then this series really dives in deep.

It’s just yummy, and the flavor is way more intense. I brew and drink some pretty fancy coffees sometimes, but even still I don’t really care about the differences between anything above mid-tier, so that’s where I usually live. It’s just nice to have something to sip on that hurts ya back, ya know?

Though admittedly, I’ll sometimes go for a brown sugar shaken espresso monstrosity, but those are on pretty rare occasions, and usually when I’m already making one for my spouse anyways.

Snap always seems to me like a red flag for poly/enm. Like, it usually seems like people insisting on that are often the ones looking for plausible deniability about their conversations and activities.

Like I guess if you’re sending a lot of lewds, they are slightly less likely to be sitting in the storage of someone else’s phone, but if you don’t trust the person you’re sending it to to keep it safe, then you better not care what happens with it after you send it anyways.

Beyond the disappearing thing, the rest if it kinda sucks to use. The only really good thing it has going for it is a super robust camera filter marketplace. They’ve got really good face swapping and image manipulation filters, and that shit is genuinely fun to use. I really wish they would just release the camera part on its own, with no connection to anyone else at all. But ofc that’s jot their business so they won’t.

Rep. Gregory Meeks

Nominative determinism for cowardly shit-libs.

Yeah it was fine. A little unwieldy to eat what with the big pile of stuff on top, and the base is pretty fragile and falls apart easily, but decent flavor.

Right? If you ignore the dumb-looking decals, at least.

Edit: pretty dang low bar though, tbf.

Oof, it’s even the perfect shade of orange, the kind that evokes extreme citrus flavor. Crush orange soda levels of orange. Beautiful!

Shame that awesome cars are so often owned by awful people. Should get the exact same one and convert it to fuel cell just to spite him. ;P

Gotta be honest, as someone that really likes orange cars, that orange is very nicely applied and looks slick.

Obvs the rest of it (and super obvs the car itself) looks like trash, but that’s no surprise.

My uniform! For outside of the house at least. Jammy shorts for inside time.

Yeah but the thing is, there’s a huge portion of the population out there that just flat-out refuses to eat any kind of “meat substitute”. Some on a purely ideological ground, but plenty of otherwise well-meaning individuals that are just used to meat, and so anything else “just tastes weird”.

To be fair, plenty of those same folks would still be against lab-meat for the same reasons, but I think it has the potential to bridge the gap a little and bring some more of those folks over, if you can say that this is “actually real meat”, and particularly if the taste and texture are really on par.

I agree with your point though - soy proteins are about 90% as good as most meats (especially for something ground up like nuggets), and that’s way more than enough to make it worth it imo. And it’s even better when you’re just not trying to replicate meat products in the first place - which I think is really the better approach - you can eat lots of great new things that aren’t just burgers and nuggets and steaks! Being willing to eat meatless opens up such a huge new world of culinary space! It’s wild that people that claim to be super invested in their food “tasting” just right are so unwilling to try the huge world of new flavors and experiences they are missing out on.

Yes, that does sound amazing. Not many things chili crisps don’t make better!

I’ve done sweet oats for a long time, usually with some peanut butter and honey. I’d never even considered doing savory before this!

Tried some this morning, just some old-fashioned oats cooked in milk, then added some chili powder, shredded cheese, and bacon bits (I know, shame on ye who cannot say ). And holy crap, it was really good! Thanks for the idea, lots of fun experimentation to do here.