Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 14 minutes ago

Pineapple pizza really is kinda meh by itself. But, pineapple + jalapeno + a salty/savory topping like pepperoni can be amazing.

Semi-tangential non-sequitor: The news algorithms offered up the recipe for an "Italian treat" recently that had me appalled and curious in the same way I expect pineapple pizza haters are. It was very ripe cantaloupe slices wrapped in prosciutto. I don't even really know what to say. I just don't want to be alone in knowing about that monstrosity.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

YOU usually couldn't tell. I guarantee that everyone else can tell.

Excerise doesn't make you instantly stink, you'll just smell like sweat. The stink happens over time as bacteria eat that sweat, regardless of how much you sweat. Since you're not regularly washing away those bacteria and their byproducts, you will stink.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

First of all, yes, those look like shit. Brown gravy? Square flat bricks that I assume are meant to be biscuits? Just awful.

But, an over easy or sunny side up egg is always a welcome addition to biscuits and gravy. That's the only thing they got right.

I really don't get how people screw up the gravy so badly. It's just sausage crumbles in a pan, coated with flour once the fat has rendered (melted) a bit, then adding milk or cream and pepper to your desired consistency and taste respectively. Simmer and add spices until it looks good. Maybe add some minced sage if the sausage doesn't have it already. If you're not starting your gravy recipe for biscuits and gravy with sausage, you're doing it wrong and should be ashamed. It doesn't come from a box. It's not white as a sheet and devoid of spice or flavor. It's not vegetarian. It's not gluten free. It's also not brown gravy, which is made entirely differently using fond to give it the brown color.

The biscuits are no better. Even Bisquick biscuits from a box would turn out better for most people than these depressing bricks.

What's wrong with tuna salad? Potato salad? Macaroni salad? Coleslaw (a kind of cabbage salad)? Mayo isn't really all that different than many other salad dressings either. Also, pretty much any decent deli sandwich is basically a salad with meat and cheese dressed in mayo between two slices of bread.

You're missing out.

I can't tell if you're making a very subtle joke with a straight face and your tongue in your cheek or if you really haven't actually read the book. The irony is just fucking delicious. I prefer S. Morgenstern's original text.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, absolutely no existential dread from the Cold War. And we all just instantly stopped believing that the world would end in a nuclear holocaust just because the Soviet Union collapsed. Then there was the Gulf war, then 9/11, then another Gulf war. And we've known about climate change and how capitalism is killing our planet for practically the entire time, that's not new. Oil crisis? That's been a slowly building crescendo of apocalypse since like the 70s.

I'll buy existential dread as an excuse for not wanting to breed, not as an explanation for teenagers being less horny.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bicycles (and electric scooters) are vehicles that should also be following the same rules as car, i.e. not driving the wrong way down a one way street and not bombing down the sidewalk. I mean, I still look both ways, but that's because people are dumb maniacs on the road, not because bicycles.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

That's fair. Never really had any attachment to the comic character myself, just enjoyed the 90s blockbuster craziness. Serious, it absolutely is not.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 5 days ago

He was TOO good at the satire. On the left dum-dums thought he was actually right, while on the right dum-dums thought he was on their side.

Also, I think people are hitting their limit of joking about the collapse of democracy and civil society. I know I am. I know there are now movies, TV, and books that I might have found interesting in less interesting times; now it all just hits too close to home. John Oliver can hit those "too close to home" topics and move on to other things. But it always felt like when Colbert was doing his conservative pundit schtick, he was trapped in it. It was harder to laugh along with him about other things that weren't specifically about that kind of satire. He might have had some more material of a particular idiom if he'd stuck with it, but that idiom can wear thin.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Those are fighting words. New Dredd has no riz.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aggressive is modifying "virtue signaling". I guess I could have been more clear by adding an "ly" to make it clear that aggressive was an adverb.

But, honestly in my experience there is ALWAYS someone finding some new way to understand your comment so that they have something to argue with. I was both making a joke AND making a point. Complicated, I know.

And it is something to criticize: OP asked about "X", commenter replied about NOT "X".

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