the content of the proposed emails were never fully disclosed 😏 much is left to the imagination, is allimsayin

much luck! I wish I was able to help more, but I don’t use Mastodon and I’m not too familiar with this issue unfortunately 😞

could be however you’re making the posts is configured to default to NSFW? 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know what platform you’re using, but based on the tags I assume Mastodon?

did you mean to mark this post as NSFW?

/r/thanksimcured

best tofu prep I’ve learned is from Bryant Terry Vegan Soul Kitchen which describes a method by which you press tofu (as always), then you bake the tofu in an oven for an hour

it’s the long cooking time that really helps the flavors from a marinade or spice-rub penetrate - it works better than marinading overnight in the fridge (I find the flavors don’t really penetrate the tofu as well).

I either put it in a covered dutch oven when I want a softer and more wet product, or I put it in my toaster oven when I want a crispier outcome, but in both cases I’m baking at a lower temp for a long time - maybe 300 - 350F for 30 - 60 minutes (usually longer is better, if in the dutch oven, I often will flip the tofu after 30 minutes, then bake another 30 minutes with the lid off).

I made this today with TVP, and made some cornbread to go with it.

Ingredients I used and approximate cost:

• 200 g (~1 cup?) dry pinto beans, ~$0.75 (estimate based on what I paid for kidney beans; these were some beans I’ve stored in my pantry for a while, I don’t know what price I paid)
• 157 g (2 small) onions, normally ~$0.55 for this amount, but I found a deal and actually paid $0.07
• 25 g canola oil (I don’t have cost estimate for this, but oil is expensive)
• 13 g garlic, ~$0.14
• 79 g (~1 scant cup) dry TVP, (I don’t have cost estimate for this, but TVP is usually fairly cheap)

I don’t bother to measure lots of ingredients, so I don’t have a cost estimate for other things I threw in there to help it out:

• spices (like paprika)
• miso
• better-than-bouillon
• soy sauce
• mushroom seasoning powder
• MSG

It sorta tastes like it needs more veg, like maybe a can of diced tomatoes. It’s a lot like a chili in some ways, so I keep wanting to add tomatoes. I bet potato would be good in it too, if you wanted to make it more like a smoky potato & bean soup dish.

tbh that’s most places - a city of people surrounded by “barbarians”

at my workplace when I first transitioned there was a single gender-neutral bathroom in the entire building, and it was frequently occupied because every white woman in the building had the same idea to use it as the “pooping” toilet … so when I was early transition and didn’t pass, instead of use the women’s restroom on the same floor as my colleagues (where I might run into them and make them uncomfortable), I would have to walk to another floor of the building to use another business’s women’s restroom so I didn’t run the risk of seeing anyone I know.

I understand trans people aren’t that common and it can feel absurd to have all this infrastructure for a small minority you never see, but … like, sometimes we do exist and need to use the toilet that was built and set aside for us to use. (I’m sure people with disabilities feel the same way, as the gender-neutral toilet is also often the one built to be ADA compliant and accessible.)

as a woman I see so many boys in the women’s restroom, it is very common

Most people chose their name, sometimes choosing a name similar to their real name, sometimes choosing completely different names. The only time I saw someone assigned a name was when their name conflicted with another student’s.

I think it depends on how mushy you want them to be - you could add them with the mushrooms if you don’t mind them cooking down, but if you want them firmer you might adjust.

That said, I’m no authority on how to cook curry and don’t have any sense of the “right” way to approach this according to a particular food culture.

I find opiates kinda boring tbh, and while they can be euphoric (sorta mixed for me) they can also make me feel sorta ill, so I don’t really like to take them.

When I was depressed, though, that was a dangerous drug because I had so little “happiness” and it felt like a special treat - so I could see it being very dangerous if I didn’t have other sources of happiness / mental well-being.

So glad you got that corner room and you had a good experience, that is such great luck and so heart-warming.

Also probably worth mentioning that recreational drug use of heroin is probably dosing more than the hospital is giving, if I had to guess - so stronger euphoria, but also stronger depressant effects, etc., so I’m not sure how accurate your hospital experience was to what recreational users are experiencing.

I kinda hate how quickly dilaudid fades, tho - but I have never had morphine to compare against, so 🤷‍♀️

but yeah, it’s annoying having to ask the nurse to administer another dose of dilaudid so frequently, I think I had to do it three times when waiting in post-op to be discharged, and even then it was only moderately helpful - maybe my doses were too low (I should go check the paperwork and see if I can figure out how much I took).

EDIT: I was given 0.5 mg each time, and I had to request another dose roughly once an hour (it was administered by IV) - so, I don’t know how that compares to your dose / experience … I think the max amount they would allow was 2 mg.

People tend to survive by working together - those with the capacity to form groups and cooperate will do best.

I forgot there was a movie; it’s such an excellent piece of literature it’s hard for me to imagine wanting to watch a movie adaptation. The book is gripping, really - it’s an easy read in that sense.

Either way, the perspective of the book is of a father and son who are essentially on their own. This is just not a realistic basis of long-term survival, especially not with hostile groups to contend with.

I’m not really sure it’s a matter of good or bad people - to be honest the same calculations about who to trust and when to cooperate or break with cooperation exist now, and forms a lot of the political dynamics you see today.

I also think this literature promotes too much a delusional sense of individualist survivalism - this is why I keep harping on the improbability of surviving a situation like in The Road. Go read about conflict zones in the third world and the way society breaks down. Usually gangs cooperate together and do whatever they want. You as an individual might find safety by joining a gang, but if that’s not an option, then escaping is your best bet. This is why conflicts create mass migrations. This is also why people in safe countries should probably be less cruel and more welcoming to immigrants.

I think the point is that you wouldn’t.

Agreed on most of that - but I don’t know that violent removal of his administration from power after a successful coup is the most likely outcome - the US military was in the hands of other side in the case of the Confederacy … a successful Trump coup would maybe lead to schisms within the military or between state National Guards and federal forces (maybe), but it’s also possible Trump just takes and holds power and there is no domestic military force that is willing or able to remove him. Maybe California and other states would band together, but I’m not sure they would have the military to fight off the US military if they are loyal to Trump after a coup.

It’s possible Trump’s coup will be more like what happened in Russia, where they find a way to do it without much bloodshed by undermining the democratic institutions of elections, media, etc. so that it all appears to be constitutional and legal, but the government has clearly become autocratic.

not sure why you think that’s “foolproof” - he has no authority to do that, and it seems tantamount to a coup to stop elections without constitutional grounds

that would be good to know, but based on their analysis here I would absolutely not be surprised that they just ignored extra-judicial methods like a full-on coup …

not sure, but I doubt it’s that close