Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner
ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo
this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it
this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion
bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro
also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!
oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it
don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.
this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.
this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing
If you have a crockpot, I do a really good pulled pork carnitas that is:
Pork - any cut boneless
Onions- chopped anyway you like
Orange juice - about one cup (you can use about 2 tablespoons of the condensed frozen stuff if you have it)
Root beer, pepsi, or other cola soda - about one cup
Preferred chili mix seasoning - 1-2 packets depending on how intense you like your flavoring and how much pork you put in
Garlic - as much as you wanna, specifically smashed not cut
Canned or frozen corn - to your preference
Dump all that into your crockpot in the morning (or the night before) and let it run on low until dinner. Cook some rice if you feel like it, or just serve over tortillas.
I get this is satire but... like... I dunno man. I don't think copaganda is something to make jokes about when it's letting people get terrorized and killed. Like, this is a gang of murderers, you shouldn't be light hearted about that.
"Looking back, I think I preferred the Accord to you. I genuinely think you act less rationally than them, and that's saying something. How very convenient for the Affini that you turned up at the height of the Accord's abuses, so even while you were saving us from them you could lecture their victims about how unfit we were to govern ourselves. As much as they might have liked to think so, the Accord weren't gods."
"The Affini are not gods either."
"No? But you claim you know better for us than we do, one hundred percent of the time. You've decided that we don't get to opt out of your world. You have the power to enforce your whims down to the level of our neurochemistry. There's nowhere we can go to be free of you! You won't even allow us to hate you in the privacy of our own hearts. What else but a god would do that? What else but a god could?
"There were these old stories, back from the days way before jump drives. They were about unknowable creatures that lived in the darkness between stars. They had the power to change you in horrible ways, inside and out, until you were unrecognisable. At any time they could descend from the sky and eradicate or corrupt entire civilizations and the most horrifying thing of all is that they could do it unintentionally. In fact, pretty much always, because they couldn't even be communicated with. They didn't meaningfully perceive humans; to them we were so small as to be specks. It turned all the dogma of religion on its head - what if gods didn't love us? What if they didn't even hate us? What if they could wipe us out without even noticing?
"You combine all the worst aspects of cosmic horrors, fascists and billionaire techbros. You refuse to allow the existence of any viewpoint that doesn't perfectly align with yours. You think any problem you experience is a failure of technique, not motive or principle. And you have the power to pull all of this off without even being conscious of what you're doing."
"You can't judge the Affini on the neglect and abuse of one member of our species."
"Oh, but I can! Because who was I supposed to appeal to? I'm just a floret, remember! I don't have political rights. My owner always knows best."
"I can't apologise enough for-"
"No! You're right. You can't. There is no amount of apology you or the Compact can give me. It wasn't just that you fucked up, it was that you created a system which makes those fuck-ups inevitable and uncountable. How many florets are out there, trapped with Affini just as bad as mine? I was lucky. How many more are out there screaming silently, in a prison of their own mind, unable to even articulate the concept of pain? You paint smiles on our faces and celebrate that we never frown. You steal our ability to cry, and then pat yourselves on the back for never having seen a tear. If I'm incapable of feeling misery, how is any joy I feel genuine?"
"Why would you want to feel misery?"
"You're still not understanding me! Wanting to be capable of something is not the same as wanting it!"
"If you never want to feel misery, why are you so concerned with having the ability to?"
"Have you ever read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas?"
"No."
"Of course. Why even ask? Why would you ever read anything humans wrote? Too low-brow and cutesy for you, I guess."
"I'm sorry, that's hardly fair. I cannae be expected to have perused the entire literary corpus of a species we only made contact with five years ago, can I?"
"You should read it, though. It's a short story about a utopian city in which the needs of all are met and none suffer, but all of it is predicated upon the torture, pain and misery of a single individual. It doesn't explain how, but for this city to live in abundance and plenty, a single child has to suffer for the whole of its life."
"Sounds utterly barbaric."
"Oh, yes, absolutely! I'm glad you think so. But the thing is, when they're old enough, every citizen learns this fact. They're not kept in the dark about it. They all know the atrocity their society is built on. And everyone is horrified when they learn about it, but eventually most of them come to accept it as the cost of living in their wonderful city. Sure, one kid has to suffer but it's not them or their kid, and the city's nice enough.
"For your idea of the universe to be valid, a universe where you can do whatever you please, you can't ever be wrong. In a world where you've set yourself up as the ultimate authority - against which no appeals can be made - you have to be right every single time, literally no exceptions, or it all falls apart. There can't be even one person you get wrong, one person you can't save, one person whose life you make worse. But you keep claiming the Affini aren't gods. So you're fallible. You can make mistakes. And over the sheer vastness of your civilization, I can't possibly have been the only mistake you ever made. Why did I deserve to be the child who has to suffer to fuel your perfect city?"
"..."
"And you know what, while we're at it, why does a nation dedicated to the happiness of its subjects have such massive warships? Why was this thing even built? What are the Affini so afraid of? I know this isn't even close to the biggest ship you've built - I know there are things ten times the size of this one. What does the Affini need with three-hundred click dreadnoughts? Benevolent rulers don't need to build warships the size of cities."
"There is no ulterior motive behind the Compact."
"Okay, and suppose for a moment I could believe that - is it supposed to make me feel better? That you genuinely believe this idea of perfection that you intend to spread to the whole universe? When I've seen how that can fail, and how even when confronted with that failure you'll never change your point of view?
"You don't see me as a person, you see me as an... intriguing problem to be picked apart, to be solved. To you, I'm an equation whose sides need to be balanced. You think there's some magic set of words that, if you work on it long enough, will make me accept what happened to me was a tragic outlier rather than the inevitable outcome of a system where we are always held as inferior to you. There isn't. And I guarantee you will go to whatever the plant equivalent of a grave is failing to understand why there are perfectly legitimate reasons I can want you monsters gone without being some sort of fascist.
"For all the awful things fascists did to us, for all that they ruined everything and turned every joy in our world to ash, at least my heart could hate them and my bullets could kill them. And somehow I miss them for that now, because to kill even one of you I need a tactical nuke, and if I hate you the parasite you put in my spinal cord feeds me drugs until I stop.
"But here's the craziest thing, the fascists weren't scared of our hate, even though they were infinitely more vulnerable! You somehow manage to be more cowardly than them, which is damn impressive! If even one human doesn't love the Affini with all our hearts, that must mean something's wrong with us. Why would you ever need to work on yourselves? After all, you always know best! Except we both know that's not true. Everything around us speaks to that.
“If humans were truly so below you, if we couldn’t understand our own best interests, and you really did have to control us for our own good, maybe that could be okay. But that would make us animals, and animals can’t consent. So which is it? Are you raping animals, or are you raping people?”
There's a story that goes into the inherent unethical principles of the affini's imperialist practices. It's called "For a Better Universe" it's about a war general who realizes the compacts faults and decides to fix is by creating a whole new universe that cares for people's well being. Like, she makes a universe that cares.
It's aware of the inherent issues with affini's society, including disrespect of consent and expansionist nature. It *tries* to fully absolve the affini of wrongdoing but keeps true absolution up in the air by maintaining the existence of florets while allowing them to ignore their implant. It also goes over late stage post pacification t
it's really really funny to me that like "people under 18 might consume porn and that's generally fine actually" is some shocking take. like were you not also young once. is it not normal to develop sexually around the age of 12. is it not normal to experience sexual thoughts as a teen. like it's fucking absurd that we're suggesting mass surveillance of children to ensure they will never see a boob ever outside of a classroom instead of just teaching children how to interact with adult content safely. you're just arguing for abstinence again, plugging your ears going "lalala" when someone tells you that kids should learn about sex or they will have sex in worse more dangerous ways
Is consent even a sex thing? Being able to understand enthusiastic consent seems like a basic social skill everyone should have. Even if someone is somehow magically destined to never have sex it's important they still understand consent.
This is not the issue at all and is low key an idiotic take. As far as power consumption is concerned, production MUST equal consumption, with very little margin of error. There are people working around the clock to shut on and off portions of production to ensure that this broadly remains true. Solar is prone to short term spikes and dips dependent on how sunny it is, all at once, across every solar panel in a local area, so it adds to the complexity and potential pitfalls if not managed properly.
"Negative pricing" is not just about how much money the power company is making. It's a proxy for this problem: when price is negative, it's essentially an automated response to the grid saying it's overloaded and people need to consume electricity NOW. This is a very difficult demand with 0 reliability or coordination, especially when peoples homes are unoccupied during large portions of, for example, a workday.
Can you work around it? Yes! Is solar still a good thing? Yes!
But does doing that require extra manpower and energy storage infrastructure to maximize solar efficiency? Also yes! And that's a problem worth noting, discussing, and writing articles about.
And I need you to completely understand: I am a Californian on the "fuck PG&E" train. Fuck power companies. But it's their job to address these problems, and if they aren't doing that, articles like this are how we call attention to it.
Why don't they just wire the energy into magnet hoisted flywheels held inside vacuums. Cut off the energy when the fly wheel hits a certain speed and speed it up as needed.
things have been depressing recently. All of my basic needs are met, and I'm not in any immediate danger. But I don't know how to progress in life.
Going back to school sounds like a traumatic hell, I don't want nor need to work, therapy has been a consistent let down, and it's all felt rather meaningless.
I know I'm living in the aftermath of a pandemic, in the decline of the society I live in, and things aren't going well for 90% of everyone. So I should have grace. But I still want for more. Some kind of meaning I guess? I don't know what to reach for that doesn't look like a red hot lump of iron.
His statement there implies he doesn't love being a cartoon character-- but then he states that he's given upon trying to be anything else.
All this stuff he says about being an archetype, too. Guy resigned to his lot in life, pretends he loves it. We know the tune well!
Interesting that does his cheeky little motioning-to-his-own-body move from his "ain't I a hottie" jokes, by the way. Put a pin in that.
Anyways, he's insisting he's choosing to be who he is, right after referring to becoming "who he is" as "becoming part of the machine." He's lying again, about liking the way he is. Duh, right?
Canonically transgender character has some interesting comments about this. Comments that echo Jax's mysterious comments about Zooble from earlier.
Now, I'm not always the best at this, but the only connection I can think of between Zooble, bartenders, and tattoo artists, is that they're all..........kind of dykey? It's giving "two toxic homosexuals interact at atarbucks." But that might just be me.
Anyways thanks Zooble, back to the stupid purple twig thing.
Wow, Jax, making fun of your own romantic prospects on the basis of your gender in relation to the hypothetical romantic partner? Interesting choice! It would be a shame if it stopped being straight somehow.
Oops! I tripped, and Jax's very particular metaphor for having his deeper feelings and true desires revealed fell out of my pocket!
.................which could mean anything!
Anyways, I now draw your attention back to his particular word choice when he jokes at the expense of his own appearance:
I swear there was another instance of him joking about his appearance specifically in regards to masculinity but I can't remember where. You get my drift though.
He's not the pinnacle of masculinity, and he knows he's not, so he jokes about it-- because it's funny! It's funny that he's not a "real man!"
Being funny-- that's a type of guy you can be, even if everything about being a man doesn't appeal to you!
It's a role! A role he can fulfill! His role that he's stuck with, that he's given up on fighting. The funny one. Nothing else underneath the funny egshell, thank you very much!
There's just no use even thinking about changing who he is. That would just be depressing! And it's no good to anyone if the funny one can't be funny. If he can't fulfill his role. If he ever wants anything else, anything more genuine.
Jax already lost a friend once when he was too open about how he really felt, too obvious about who he really is-- and he clearly won't EVER let that happen again!
I've had some speculation about this since I saw this doodle board from Goose back in 2023, where he also states that he is the pinnacle of masculinity:
There are also a couple of asks she answered that also come to mind:
The first two make me think of the advertising for the maid Jax plush (sorry that the dialogue is slightly different; the video doesn't have subtitles in English so I chose French>>English):
The third ask reads to me like he probably has some internalized misogyny. However, all of them have multiple possible explanations; these responses aren't definitive.
HOWEVER however, Goose has stated in a LOT of asks how she projects onto Jax and has stated she relates to him the most. This can easily include any struggles she's had/having with her gender identity.
As far as theories go, this one has more to it than I initially thought.
I'mma be honest I think the discussion of Jax being trans is stupid. Jax is a trans girl. That's obvious. If they aren't then goose worx is queer baiting.
The REAL discussion is how it'll be handled in canon, and the implications about making the meanest and most annoying character the trans girl.
If it's just jax going "I think I'm a girl" and zooble going "yeah, I know" followed by a "well that just happened" quip from kinger I am going to piss myself.
Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
