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Do people who open carry have any idea how ridiculous they look?

If I thought I had a chance of influencing broadcast television I’d give that a go

Yeah I imagine the sauces and oils I bought at the Asian market today will last my white ass until the end of time

Channel this feeling the next time you consider posting anything related to Ben Shapiro, I’m begging you

I heartily recommend it. You could get away with cutting the recipe in half and you’d be out probably $5 for ingredients. A lot of the spicy food I’m used to eating is South Asian or American, so the fish sauce really adds a different dimension. Dunno specifically beyond some friends saying that the yellow bottle caters to Thai taste and the blue bottle caters to Vietnamese taste.

It’s not much to look at imgur.com IMGUR.COM Imgur: The magic of the Internet I do like it with lime, but this time I didn’t use it in favor of adding a squeeze when I’m dishing it out. Your fish and chip idea sounds incredible.

When I was in Bangkok 8 years ago, I had prik nam pla for the first time and I immediately fell in love. It’s two ingredients, Thai fish sauce (fermented anchovies with salt and sugar), and sliced Thai chilis. Sometimes it also has lime juice, sugar, or a couple slices of garlic, but at its simplest it’s just chilis (prik) and fish sauce (nam pla). Mine has a few slivers of garlic in it but no sugar or juice, and I let the mixture marinade for a couple hours before using it. As you’d imagine it’s quite aromatic and rather spicy. I made myself some basic Chinese American style chicken and broccoli tonight and it was pretty good on its own. But I loaded up white rice with the prik nam pla to go with it and it’s a flavor sensation. My mouth is on fire and I never want this feeling to end. If you like heat in your food and the notion of fermented anchovy in liquid form doesn’t turn you off, I highly recommend you give it a go. My ratio was about 1/2 cups of Megachef brand fish sauce (the one with the yellow cap, not the one with the blue label), 12 Thai chilis sliced into about 1/8 - 1/4 inch pieces, and half a clove of garlic sliced thinly. Stir it up, let it rest for a couple hours, then go to town. It’ll keep in the fridge for a bit after that but I’d eat it at room temperature. I’d also probably keep it in a glass container, I imagine it’d be hard to get the aroma out of plastic. My only regret is that for no good reason, I waited 8 years after my first trip to Southeast Asia to decide I should have it on hand at all times.

Will the game be true to Lucas’ initial vision that Indy started his affair with Marion when she was 12 years old?

They want you to feel that Nintendo fridge nostalgia.

You think people with digital hate crimes on their desktop know how to Ctrl+f?

I mean it’s not lost on me that the “I use social media responsibly” takes are the internet equivalent of “I stopped a robbery with my gun.” As in that case, I’m not particularly worried about the responsible users and those kinds of users undeniably existing doesn’t mean that we should be wary of regulating the joint.

I’ve often wondered about how much time has been wasted lo these many years with the insistence of sticking with the folder paradigm as the number of computer users increased. It’s clear that it doesn’t work for an absolute shitload of people. Anyway.

I’m not going to quibble about the frequency and convenience side of this equation, as I don’t think anyone can honestly claim that unlocking your phone is a higher barrier to entry than the nightly news or reading a paper. But accuracy... yeah I’m going to argue that one. 15 seconds of scrolling through my Facebook feed just now and I’m seeing shit about fad diets, friends from back in the day sharing fake news about the insurrection, the election results, Hunter Biden, etc. And I’ve eliminated the most frequent offenders on those topics from my friend list but whatever algorithm Facebook uses STILL promotes that stuff. I know we all like to shit on the NYT, WaPo, etc., for their equivocating and their whiffs, which happen more often than they should. But I’d wager that minutes a day on social media puts more falsehoods in front of your average user than a week of reading a paper or watching the national nightly news, maybe a several weeks or a months worth. And consumption of that, time with your eyes in front of that content, even if you’re reading it for chuckles or because you know it’s wrong, feeds the beast and you’ll see that shit more often within hours. Traditional media just isn’t like that at all, there’s no equivalence to be drawn there. No but we’re also ignoring the reality of how most people consume social media if we’re saying that accuracy of information you encounter while using it is good. Maybe you, me, the posters here, who are invested in current events bother to curate who we follow and how we engage. This is not normal behavior for the majority of users. Again, think of what @sblfilms has said about how 50%+ of people go to the movies... they just SHOW UP without knowing what they’ll see or when. This is fucking crazytown banana pants behavior that is so beyond my wildest dreams that it wouldn’t occur to me that ANYONE would do it, let alone HALF the people in the joint. Or remember the before times when you walked around an office and saw every inch of someone’s desktop absolutely riddled with icons across three monitors. This is how “normals” use work computers and I worked on the software side of my industry for 14 years. If you’re scrolling through your feed and you’re seeing mostly true things, and if you’re interacting with people and you’re generally not being harassed... congratulations, you’re the outlier.

I don’t think that anyone calling for regulation of social media would argue that there are NO positives. But stuff like this is the exception that proves the rule. For one thing it’s not ONLY righteous rage about those incidents that spread, it’s also all the fake news bullshit about them that was propagated as well. My guess is that for most of the folks on this board, they saw much more of the “good” side of this than the “bad,” but I’d wager that engagement across the board was more equitably split than the eventual public opinion would lead one to conclude. This is also macro level stuff as well and says nothing about the constant stream of harassment and shit that women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, etc., deal with on social media platforms EVERY DAY that goes completely unpunished. Buddy of mine’s daughter made the “mistake” of changing their twitter avatar to something that suggested that she was female, dicks in the DMs within MINUTES. I don’t have a single black friend whose profile suggests that they’re black who doesn’t get harassed unless they make block list management a part time job and restrict some of the most useful tools on the platform. The list goes on and on and on and on. I don’t think “social media” whole cloth is bad, but I honestly don’t see how anyone can look at unregulated social media and not conclude that it’s bad without themselves saying that from a position of privilege or some degree of willful ignorance. To wit: gamergaters are still at it, Anita Sarkeesian still gets death threats, it’s just that the public has moved on so unless we go out of our way to look into it, we don’t see it... hence my comment about willful ignorance. I don’t mean to diminish the importance of the Arab Spring, nor the role social media played in the initial outrage around Floyd or Taylor. But these tools are far more often used to harass than they are to drive positive change. I’m not saying the tools should be destroyed, but they should be moderated. And again, they CAN BE, because in some places THEY ARE. I’m way more willing to roll the dice on a chilling effect for discourse on these platforms when the dice are so heavily weighted to distribute false information and to drive consequence free harassment.

I agree with this, and I think we’re seeing a dangerous aspect of the endgame of decades of, “hurr big government bad,” thinking, which is that a non-trivial amount of people in Congress have no idea how to fucking govern and only know how to oppose. The result is a cocktail of people who know how but feel bound by norms (Pelosi, Schumer), people with no principles who latch onto whatever will give them the most leverage regardless of their previous history or positions (McConnell, Graham), and a fleet of people whose main qualification is fundraising. This is obviously an oversimplification but something really needs to be done about the notion that one of the things Americans seem most afraid of their government doing is... governing. This isn’t thinking only one move ahead, you’re thinking zero moves ahead. “If we do something eventually there will be a response,” should be the ante, not a justification to fold. That something like The Voting Rights act was eventually gutted should absolutely not be a reason to just not do stuff. Enact policies that do right by and are popular with people, and then let people who don’t like that shit campaign against it and try to dismantle it. And let the threat of it being dismantled be something that inspires people to run for elected office.

Killing your constituents to own the libs.

When I worked as a research coordinator at a hem/onc clinic, the surgeon forgot to bring the appropriate sample collection equipment with him into the suite. So after he cut out the patient’s tumor, he had someone bring it out to me in a surgical glove he tied off. So I had to carry this subject’s tumor to the path lab through the hospital in a bloody fucking glove, holding it out at arm’s length because I wasn’t 100% sure that all the blood was on the inside. The pathologists looked at me like I was a serial killer, for which I cannot entirely blame them, and then when I told them who the surgeon was they all just sighed. Clearly something like this had happened before. So that was great. Anyway my point is if you asked your surgeon to drop your appendix into a Dunkin cup or something, there’s at least a 33% chance you could have made it happen.

I’ve felt this way ever since the first time I finished reading The Return of The King, Jesus Christ.

Do it, you coward.

You cannot post Nazi shit in Germany without being moderated. The platforms have the tools and ability to monitor their platforms, they just don’t unless they’re legally required to.

Obama.

Unregulated social media is decidedly not fine. Fake news and bullshit spread on twitter at a dramatically faster rate than chain emails ever did. Women get harassed on social media to a much larger degree on social media than they do and did over email. The list goes on and on. Facebook has 700 million more users than Twitter, it’s decidedly the most important social media platform. The way you and I use twitter to consume news makes it much better for that purpose, but the way most people interact with Facebook make it the most relevant platform in terms of the influence of stuff like fake news.

ESB has weapon continuity errors between takes that would change the end of the movie somewhat dramatically. This shit just doesn’t matter.

I've been playing a lot of Hitman and I think this is the way to go, if 47 shows up and I'm going to die in the toilet, might as well be potable in there.