Hot and correct take from LA foodie friend: ‘when I say we aren’t a burrito town like SF, I mean to say we have MANY, many types of burrito, not just one; not that our burritos aren’t good’
@skinnylatte I mean, is always taken it as "just because the other Mexican food is so good that you don't always order burritos doesn't mean the burritos aren't good"
A Singaporean cook I follow lives in Amsterdam. She was asked for her thoughts on food there.
"The food scene in the Netherlands is very potato-centric - mashed potatoes, fries etc. People are just more utilitarian here when it comes to food - the complete opposite of Singaporeans haha. The silver lining for me is the amazing Indonesian restaurants here"
(It's true, we don't love potato in Singapore and we are never utilitarian about food)
@skinnylatte I alternate between the two extremes, but I tend to reserve potato for "actually care" foods, and lean towards peanut butter (or trail mix) for "utilitarian" foods.
Potato is great for making stews and curries thicker without having to add something like corn starch. It goes well with carrots, celery, and onion.
So, this has probably already been done in some comic book I haven't read, but, I was half-awake semi-thinking this morning about how they had to upgrade Batman from "millionaire" to "billionaire" due to, among other things, inflation since the 1930s.
And I was thinking : What would batman be like if he were a single-digit millionaire in 2024?
And I think the character would still kind of work.
Wayne Manor is a condo with a two-car garage. The garage is the bat-cave.
The "batmobile" is a black painted Chevrolet Corvette. Yellow bat symbols can be attached by magnet and removed (also to hide or reveal the license plate)
The "bat-computer" is a gaming laptop.
"Wayne Enterprises" is a small IT consulting firm. Alfred is the other employee (rather than being the butler). Alfred sometimes sleeps on the couch.
The batsuit still has a bullet-resistant vest, those are affordable.
This batman can still be an expert in martial arts, but, instead of learning them in Bhutan, he just practiced really hard at a couple of strip-mall dojos.
Obviously this Batman would still have to be a clever detective.
To put his enemies away as a non-lethal vigilante, he has to somehow capture them, leave them for the real police, leave the real cops with enough evidence to convict, and not get caught in the process. So of course it makes sense that his enemies keep coming back.
I was thinking of going in a different direction : have "Commissioner Gordon" be a Chesa Boudin type of "District Attorney Gordon" whom the cops will sometimes refuse to work for for political reasons. Hence he sometimes needs help from this batshit vigilante.
But having loser-batman sometimes fight crimes that aren't really crimes would be pretty funny, and totally in-line with the problems that regular batman presents as a "hero"
Wait, I had a better idea : mere-millionaire batman is both characters. He gets caught roughing up some mostly-harmless graffiti-taggers, gets brought in, and "District Attorney Gordon" cuts him an off-the-books deal that requires him to help with real crime instead.
It makes both characters morally muddy (as batman characters should be). The DA is sliding into amoral pragmatism, while batman is a douchebag who only does the right thing for reasons outside his own control.
There are more people on here complaining about other people complaining about content warnings, than there have been people complaining about content warnings
Users of other social media platforms can probably handle an unexpected picture of a sandwich every now and then.
I don't really have a reason for doing it, it just seemed to be the thing to do here, and I'm kind of a follower. I do have a separate content warning for meat, though, because I can understand that different people have different reactions to eating dead animals.
I've found a grilled sammich trick that I love so much I'm sharing everywhere.
So, here goes, grilled turkey-and-cheese with pan-fried thin-slices of fresh apple (pan-fried to apple-pie taste) and honey mustard.
In this picture I used turkey and swiss, pan-fried the turkey to keep it hot and help melt the cheese, and used one of those healthy breads that only tastes good when fried in lots of butter.
I think it's kinda cute how people sometimes just punch in the info on their driver's license and call it a day when making a profile on here, like being one of the token human characters in a muppet movie
Having worked for a variety of companies that attempted to make closed-source graphics middleware ...
I think making a good engine (game or general 3d) that suits all uses your customers might want is a lot of work, and making a closed-source one that isn't both limited and terrible is an extremely difficult proposition.
I do have to tip my hat to the authors of modern commercial game engines for managing to make things that actually work for a lot of users.
God bless me with the confidence of a San Francisco person who brings El Farolito to a fight about whether SF or LA has better Mexican food (I mean, there’s no fight, and that place is pretty awful too)
Also, while I wouldn't compare it to what I can get in LA, I still do have a soft spot in my heart for places like La Victoria in San Jose.
I wouldn't trade San Jose food for LA food (even if the best banh mi I've had was in a strip mall in some ass end of SJ), but when I swing by the area, I often try to stop by La Vic.
Part of the reason why I’m learning Cantonese more seriously this year is that when I hear instructions for tai chi or Buddhism in English, it makes me very uncomfortable. Like, it’s just the wrong language and I don’t feel connected to it. Same as with someone saying romantic things to me in Mandarin (Mandarin is the language of teachers and taxi drivers yelling at me. No intimacy allowed in it)
I can only read the characters on the chess pieces, and my conversational skills are mostly confined to childcare and food. (that last bit probably gives clues as to why I'd want to learn it)
Oh hey, it looks as if duolingo finally has a course on it.
p.s. what are your thoughts on italki? I'd never heard of it, and it looks interesting.
In talking to a lot of people about their food habits and preferences I’ve realized that I don’t really have any element of disgust for any foods. Not sure if it’s a function of my cultural upbringing or exposure. Everything is interesting to me, very few things are disgusting. I also feel I can be uninterested in eating something without being disgusted by it.
All to say, I will defend the Cheetos burrito at Aguachiles El Tamarindo, and the grasshopper tacos at La Oaxaqueña with my last breath
@skinnylatte I'm reminded of the time I discovered that a Southeast Asian immigrant I know, whom I'd always thought of as an adventurous eater, was disgusted by prosciutto.
The idea of eating pork that wasn't cooked by heat was repulsive to this person.
The funny bit is that a few years prior we'd had a conversation about what the weirdest foods we'd eaten were, and I couldn't think of anything, because I didn't think of prosciutto as "weird".
Oh God and by God I mean N'yar Lat-Hotep, I just realized: the New Management is into longtermism. After all, a future with a billion inhabited planets hosting ten billion humans each, all mired in existential despair, is a vastly more enticing prospect for the Black Pharaoh than anything He'd gain by maximally immiserating everybody RIGHT NOW ... surely that's got to justify a little TLC for His flock in the short term if it gets Him there?
TESCREAL is perfect for sadistic alien chaos gods!
Guess my housing options in this lifetime are ‘US$1M public housing that you have to give back in 99 years’ or ‘US$1M crumbling Victorian home that will take you years to fix’
Hopefully the smaller apartments at least cost less?
It seems to me that the social engineering could be modernized if they changed it to a function of "number of adults in household" and "number of children in household"
