The thing about Rory (besides being generally great) is, he’s a nurse. and literally the first scene we see of him he is having his — extremely real and serious and legitimate! — concerns brushed off by a doctor.
…so no wonder Rory is such a good counterbalance to Amy’s near-worship in his dynamic with the Doctor.
Not only is he inoculated by experience against any tendency to glorification, he’s also probably very used to calling doctors out and being disregarded… and still trying anyway, because integrity demands it, and staying around to do his part even when nobody will listen to him, and trying again next time.
He’s exceptionally qualified to be the companion who actually recognizes and honestly calls out the Doctor’s BS, and he does it, and have I mentioned that Rory is great?!?
opened the reblog editor to say the mom is obviously Carmen Sandiego but then realized I have zero justification for that whatsoever I’m just going off of vibes
I mean I always shipped Waldo of Where’s Waldo with Carmen Sandiego, and if you combine the respective outfits of both and whatever deranged bullshit Waldo was on, I can see them producing twin Clown Princes of Crime and Corporations.
Call Heinz Doofenshmirtz incompetent all you want, but he canonically kidnapped and trafficked Major Monogram, an important member of a government spy agency, across international borders and nobody except Carl and Perry gave af.
For those who don't understand, EBT are food stamps (government money for buying food for low-income people). Because the money is from the government, it comes with horrific restrictions, one of which is you cannot buy "prepared" food with it. You can only buy raw chicken, not cooked chicken, for example.
This kitchen is getting around that stupid rule by selling you raw, unprepared chicken, and then charging your EBT account for raw, unprepared chicken.
Then as a side thing, totally unrelated, they cook the chicken for free. Since you bought raw chicken with the EBT, it's legal. There's no law against cooking people's raw chicken for free for them. That's just charity.
This kitchen is a blessing to anyone who doesn't have a kitchen of their own.
It's not a ridiculous restriction, there is zero reason you should be using tax money on fried chicken. It's raw so you have to decide what to do with it, but if you could just use tax money on fried chicken, many people would.
Still great what the kitchen is doing! Mad respect.
Please elaborate as to why 'there is zero reason you should be using tax money on fried chicken'
Keep in mind that unhoused or under housed people often do not have access to clean, safe cooking facilities.
Give me a reason, other than cruelty, why people being able to buy fried chicken with tax money is an actual problem. Of course people would. Why wouldn't they? What would be wrong with that?
It's unhealthy.
Yeah I'm cruel also, what you gonna do about it? Idgaf.
You shouldn't be buying luxuries with government assistence. It's assistance. It's to help you get you back on your feet during a trying time. You do not to be eating fattening, unhealthy food with tax payers money.
I see people at my grocery store filling up shopping carts with garbage and paying with EBT. I have no sympathy for them. Just taking advantage of a hand out.
There is nothing inherently unhealthy about chicken, flour, and oil. You are factually incorrect in that assertion.
What I'm going to do about you being cruel: hold you in contempt.
Food is not a luxury. The human body requires protein, carbohydrates, and fats - fried chicken supplies all of those things. There is no such thing as 'garbage' food.
I feel contempt for you, and hope that one day you will become a better and more compassionate person. Because I'm petty, I also wish petty suffering upon you. Hope you bite your lip/cheek/tongue every time you have a judgemental or unkind thought about a person who has harmed no one.
Mind you, I still think that you - as a human being capable of suffering - deserve ready access to shelter/clothing/food/medicine/etc - the necessities of life. Because I'm not a sociopath.
I...okay. I don't give a good goddamn what you spend your EBT on, that's you.
But fried chicken is very unhealthy. I mean, obviously it's okay once and awhile as a treat, but you should never, ever forget that fried chicken is unhealthy.
Also, it should be noted that when we talk about "fried" chicken, we usually mean "deep fried", as that is the most popular method. It is also the most unhealthy, but baking or air-frying chicken yields a healthier result.
However, the note on the window does not state how the chicken is prepared, so this kitchen could be baking it, which is far more healthy. Kinda classist to assume it's fried, imo. Again, not my business, spend EBT how u want.
Here, I'll give you some resources on fried chicken (deep fried) being bad for your heart.
From Healthline
From Baylor College of Medicine
From GoodRx
From the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
@nerdpoe No one here wants to hear about your bullshit diet culture brain poison. No individual food can be classed as 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'. The idea that more calories = bad is really really fucked up diet culture bullshit. Human beings need calories in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. There is nothing inherently unhealthy about chicken, flour, and oil. You are factually incorrect in that assertion.
Eating fat does not cause heart disease. Ancel Keys will not fuck you.
This article recounts the history of the diet-heart hypothesis from the late 1950s up to the current day, with revelations that have never b
I urge you to visit https://www.fatnutritionist.com/ and to look into patterns of disordered eating, particularly orthorexia.
Rank-ordering foods on a moral/orthdox scale is disordered eating. Like, clinically.
Know that constitutes healthy food? Food that provides you with nutrition in the form of accessible calories and doesn’t rip up your digestive system or cause an allergic reaction (subjective to individuals! Some foods are perfectly health for some people and unhealthy for others!)
Butter pound cake with cream cheese frosting is healthy food.
A chunk of flank steak smothered in whiskey and honey is healthy food.
A giant bowl of chili is healthy food (with or without beans in it!).
Duck fat melted into a pile of rosemary-infused mashed potatoes is healthy food.
Chicken dredged in flour and fried in fat (Ideally lard, really. But any nonhydrogenated fat is fine - hydrogenated fats should not be raised to frying temps for carcinogen reasons) IS HEALTHY FOOD.
The overwhelming majority of foods that haven’t been utterly fucked with through super-refinement and chemical amendment (spoilers this is done most often to 'diet' foods) are, by the grace of four billion years of evolution, HEALTHY FOOD.
Boiling a slice of potato in oil does not render it unhealthy. Boiling a chicken breast quarter in oil does not render it unhealthy.
You are fucking WRONG and would do well to sit down and shut up.
And even when foods are unarguably unhealthy? When they cause the people who eat them to be ill?
EATING THEM IS NOT A MORAL CONCERN. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON IF YOU EAT UNHEALTHY FOOD, REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU DO IT.
Healthiness is not a moral choice. You are allowed to make decisions in the full knowledge that they are unhealthy, because your body and your life are your own. It can get dicey if your health choices legitimately cause harm to others (I.E. cause you to neglect or abuse other people for whom you are responsible, like children or elders) but if that’s off the table? YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN. And in any case whatsoever:
NO ONE IS OBLIGATED TO BE OR STAY HEALTHY.
Sure, health is nice. Many people choose to pursue it. Longevity is nice. Many people choose to pursue that. But they are not the only legitimate choices on earth, nor are they inherently ~better~ than making other life choices that counteract or sacrifice the above.
If you tell me that eating all-butter pound cake will cause me to die at 50, whereas not eating that cake will allow me to live to 100, my choice becomes
A fifty-year life with the cake
vs.
A hundred year life without it
And know what? If I decide that fifty years of delicious cake is a worthwhile endeavor and a well-spent life, one I’d prefer to a cakeless life no matter how long? THAT’S MY CHOICE. WHY DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE IT FROM ME?
(Note: Any civilization that is not attempting with all of its effort to ensure that every single person in it can CHOOSE maximally nutritious food if they want it is a piss-poor civilization in need of serious overhaul (the US in the year 2024 is a fucking dystopia)
Being poor should not mean being REQUIRED to eat either 'Healthy' or 'Unhealthy' food. Humans should be able to eat whatever they want with informed consent.
As an extremely poor person, I will point out that the unhealthiest option is not being able to afford any food.
Sadly, cheap crap is the second unhealthiest option, but if that's all you can afford, it's what you get.
This whole discussion is an example of the weird moralizing we do about feeding the poor.
People gotta eat. Being mad about "my tax dollars" (reminder: people on EBT pay taxes too ya dingus) paying for "unhealthy" food options is just WILD. Prepared foods (of any kind) are the most appropriate option for people who do not have access to kitchens and cooking supplies. Whether the chicken is fried, baked, boiled, or sauteed isn't your fucking business if you're not the one eating it.
How To Start at Rock Bottom: Welfare Programs and the Social Safety Net
I saw a post going around a while ago (including from a non-US moot) about getting comfortable lying to law enforcement
Here's the thing. In the US.
DO NOT TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
If you are in a situation where you're lying to law enforcement, you are already interacting too much. STOP TALKING.
You can ask if you are free to go. You can keep asking.
Per the National Lawyers Guild, ESPECIALLY do not lie to the FBI. Do not say things to them that could be construed as lying. Those are serious charges. The best way around that is NOT TALKING.
In the words of the National Lawyers Guild: SHUT THE FUCK UP.
If yes to that: "Why" then "I am going to remain silent and I would like to speak to a lawyer."
If the cop won't answer the question "Am I free to go" just keep asking it until you get a yes or no answer. Tell them "I don't want to say anthing else - am I free to go?"
Specifically saying you're invoking your right to remain silent may reduce your risk of a cop pretending to misunderstand you and a judge going along with it. Similarly, "I am also invoking my right to an attorney" may help as well.
“…Animals often share food, but these birds understand that metal rings can be exchanged for treats, and they share the rings with no promise of reward…This sophisticated behavior, which requires an understanding of both currency and the needs of others, has only been described in primates before…”
A 'no questions asked' food pantry means no questions asked.
When we're stocking our pantry, we are not looking at a person's clothes or their accessories or what kind of car they drove there in. We are HAPPY to see it BEING USED AT ALL.
I don't know anyone's situation. Maybe they got that designer bag at a thrift shop. Maybe its a knockoff. Maybe it was a gift. Maybe they got it when they had money and now they don't have money. Maybe they're getting stuff for a friend.
Maybe they have plenty of money, don't need to be taking stuff from the pantry, but they are anyway because we said-
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Do you know what happens when someone takes from our pantry when they don't need it? We're down one item. But maybe they tell someone that the pantry is there. Or maybe they come back to it when they need it. Or maybe they throw a dollar in the donation box. Or maybe they put an item on the shelf. Or maybe they come to our food drive.
WE DONT CARE.
We don't care who used it.
We care that it was used.
Im not a cop. Don't make me do cop stuff, I wont do it.
and if you see someone who “you KNOW is well-off” and absolutely CANNOT untwist your pants about it:
financial abuse is an incredibly discreet and pervasive form of ‘no-marks’ abuse among otherwise “respectable and well-to-do” couples, ESPECIALLY single-income families or ones where only one spouse controls all the finances.
Remember how women couldn’t have their own bank accounts once? Even when they were finally allowed to have jobs? Who do you think handled their money, do you think?
There are STILL people living off “allowances” from their partner, and frankly it doesn’t always make ends meet.
Also, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but if more people get their food from a food pantry, then that food pantry can use those numbers to ask for more funding and resources, right?
Not always the case- sometimes a 'take what you need' pantry thats just a shelf outside a building is run by volunteers out of their own pockets.
However, some of them are run by nonprofits, who do use the expenses from their pantry as proof of impact when applying for grants, and then in turn supply it with more food.
But you cant always guarantee that you know which one it is. All the same, I would rather see any pantry being put to use than seeing stuff sit for a long time. The one we run has some potential grant funding allocated, so we want people using it. But even when we didn't have a grant and the pantry was run strictly on donations, we were still happy to see that people were using it because it eant we were helping people.
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