Hey remember when a guy who wrote for Stephen Universe and one of the writers of Rick and Morty wrote a memoir where he talked about how much he loved MLP:FiM and was very sad that it had ended?
If you didn’t know it was him, the fact that this happened would be all the more surprising
you cant say things like this, people are gonna believe it
The guy wrote a book where he talked about how much he loved the show, and also the people involved in it, and how much it meant to him and how sad it was that it was ending, so yeah
FRANK.
Yeah! The fact that the guy, who wrote the Rick and Morty script, wrote a book in which he talked about how much he loved the show and the people involved in it, made it especially strange (and appropriate, I thought).
The book and the show are two sides of the same coin: the burning desire of the creator to control the narrative and to share all sorts of interesting personal details.
I should probably read the book, at this point, it sounds interesting.
social media is just oscillating between “cringe culture is dead! enjoy your interests without shame!” and “we should bring back bullying and social ostricization” every couple of months
eminem’s got about lyrics about how the secret service interviewed him, so a journalist FOIA’d info about eminem from the secret service to fact check his rap
it turns out the secret service investigated eminem because of lyrics threatening trump and ivanka
and they really did interview him
and when one of the secret service agents started reading the threatening lyrics out loud eminem started rapping along
Well maybe they should add a second date for consumers because my paranoid ass thinks food is deadly poison once that date passes.
The bad news is that there are so many variables, the actual point at which your food spoils and makes you sick could differ by days, weeks, even months for the same exact item from the same exact batch.
The other bad news is that companies would rather you throw it away too soon so you’ll buy it again anyway.
Depending on the food though, there are some rules of thumb:
Always err on caution with fresh meat, which should be used within a day of purchase.
Use your nose for dairy. Cheeses tend to last until they go moldy, milk is fine until it tastes or smells off.
Appearance and texture are reliable indicators for produce; if fruits or veggies still look and feel fresh, then they’re fine.
Most preserved foods, pickles, canned meats, candy, etc. are safe for YEARS until opened, they just might not taste as good.
Eggs are only bad once they smell bad; they can actually last weeks beyond their date, sometimes months, especially eggs that have never been washed of their outer membrane.
Before mold growth is actually visible, moldy baked goods will smell sharper. Generally however, they will go stale first, so throw them out then.
Meat, dairy, and wet leftover pasta products are the ones that can make you violently ill. Old enough wet pasta or rice can even just kill some people dead in minutes. Otherwise, you’re only risking “discomfort” (heartburn, stomachache) with most other foods.
No you don’t need to use meat with in a day. Between one and five days, depending on the type of meat, whether it’s been frozen or not, how fresh it was when you bought it, and how you’re storing it.
Meat on the turn won’t necessarily smell bad but it will smell strong in a way fresh meat doesn’t. It will also often feel slightly sticky or unusually slimy to the touch, and you may be able to see mold starting to appear (you know when you cut into a sweet potato and starch will appear as white spots on the cut part, the mould generally looks like that but slimier). The best way to learn the difference is just to pay attention when you’re cooking with fresh meat, including handling it, so you know when something is different.
Different meats also keep for different amounts of time - generally any meat that is commonly hung (aged) such as beef or venison will keep longer than meat that isn’t. Pork and poultry, especially white fleshed poultry like chicken, keeps the least time. Dark red meat like beef keeps the longest.
Also smoked or salted meats generally keep longer, that’s the point of the smoking/salting.
If you’re not certain, err on the side of caution, or ask a more experienced cook, but don’t think you have to throw out meat that looks, feels and smells fine because it’s 2 days old.
Also you can test if an egg is bad by putting it in a bowl of water. If it floats there’s a build up if gas in it and it’s bad. If it just sinks it’s very fresh, and if it sinks but stands up on its end it’s safe but will go off soon so needs using up or chucking. Some recipes, especially older cake recipes, will specifically call for eggs which are a few days old because they work better.
Oh and finally, you can fuck around which wheat bread, you’ll be fine, but be more careful with gluten free bread, it’s generally made with at least some rice flour which can be much worse for you if it goes bad. Just don’t fuck around with rice in general, it’s the most common cause of food poisoning in western countries.
My family freezes chicken and lamb as soon as we get home and it lasts like, weeks? Is this 1 and 5 days talking about if you don’t freeze it?
1 to 5 days is fresh meat, yeah. So that excludes deli meat (which is cooked and will last weeks) and frozen meat (which can last years modulo freezer damage).
remember early on in the pandemic when everyone was giving me a hard fucking time for suggesting that wearing a homemade mask might be a good idea worth doing
GOD YEAH. People were so weirdly aggro about it and resistant to the idea that reducing particle spread by 50% is better than by 0%. I really wonder how things would have panned out of the CDC had been more transparent from the start.
at this point I can’t tell if politics attracts grifters and con-men, or if being a politician melts your brain
non grifter politicians are never successful enough to get to the top/ last long. so you either start a grifter, become a grifter, or don’t get very far.
See that’s just it: a competent grifter would have dropped the Russia angle by now. At this point it costs them political capital to keep banging on about. I’d say it’s to fire up the base but they’ve won. They have all three sections of federal government. Modulo Manchin, they should be able to push through bills with the slightest bit of lip service to compromise.
Talking about Trump being a Russian puppet after the last few months of consistent republican humiliation is a total self own.
this must be what people in china and new zealand feel like looking at american news. solved the problem here but totally helpless to stop it elsewhere
Human Pet Guy does not only believe that wood was a material completely unknown to the Romans, he also believes that every single Roman lived in varying levels of mini-Colosseums.
more discouraging is that the person the human pet guy is talking to is memeufacturing
not to be a conspiracy theorist but these two have a few threads like this and i’m positive it’s some kind of mutual clout farming scheme by way of internet toughguy abbott and costello routine
honestly i believe this. i’m a cybersmith truther now
To add to this:
his current behaviour is kinda different compared to his past behaviour, leading to suggestions that the current guy isn’t even the real cybersmith.
I have absolutely 0 evidence for this but I firmly believe with my soul that contemporary human pet guy is a fraud using the abandoned handle for clout.
SIMPLE ECONOMIC FACT: RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE CAUSES AN INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT this is a FACT not an opinion take a fucking economics class
This is the result of a 2009 meta-analysis of 64 separate studies on the impacts of raising the minimum wage on employment elasticity. To quote directly from the study:
“The minimum wage effects literature is contaminated by publication selection bias, which we estimate to be slightly larger than the average reported minimum-wage effect. Once this publication selection is corrected, little or no evidence of a negative association between minimum wages and employment remains.”
It’s worth noting too that the funnel plot should be symmetrical; the fact that it isn’t is (if lightly) suggestive of bias, potentially of what kind of research gets published or what kinds of studies are performed.
I think a common mistake people make about puns is that they often believe puns are meant to make people laugh. This is not so! The emotion that puns are meant to elicit isn’t joy, it’s rage.
TIL that former US presidents continue to get classified intelligence briefings after they leave office. Never mind Trump, why the hell are we doing that for anyone?
once youre hooked on briefings you cant just quit cold turkey
Maybe they should wean them off of it by slowly reducing the amount of real intelligence and putting in more and more crazy made up shit until eventually it’s all about secret alien bases hidden under Antarctica.
To be clear, I am adamantly opposed to Trump receiving further intelligence briefings.
But this sort of presupposes that President Attention-Span-of-a-Goldfish was actually taking intelligence briefings in any meaningful sense to begin with, a fact publicly disputed by numerous sources.
Wasn’t he famously not even attending intelligence briefings at the beginning of his term?
I’m trying to figure out how to add a prediction that the coup attempt is not actually over yet without it being seen as endorsement and getting me put on a list.
Important update/retraction (in this specific case):
if you reblogged the previous one, please reblog this one
I’m trying to figure out how to add a prediction that the coup attempt is not actually over yet without it being seen as endorsement and getting me put on a list.
don’t want to judge a book by its cover but I suspect he was up to no good
The coup attempt is never going to be over, it’s just going to asymptotically hemorrhage institutional support until something reinvigorates it or it becomes unrecognizable.
people making little content noises in their throat when you hug or cuddle with them is the best thing ever because that noise is the human equivalent of purring
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