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- Comment on I love it 1 week ago:
That’s not what saying something like that would mean but I’m not going to laugh at someone who isn’t a native speaker for that. It’s a weird reply though.
My point is that you don’t have to use olive oil. I just said it in a silly way. It’s a prompt for the realisation of “oh yeah, I could use other oils. Other oils exist.” You don’t seem to have picked up on that and have chosen taken it personally, on behalf of olive oil. Theres no need. The oil doesn’t care.
Good luck with the olive oil fried rice though!
- Comment on I love it 1 week ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble but I’m not American. However, your assumption that my view must be American, specifically due to you intensly eurocentric view, is painfully ironic.
For some people making Indian, Mexican, Thai or Chinese food with olive oil isn’t tasty, as (believe it or not) olives don’t actually go with everything.
I mean, I listed more than just Italian but I guess that’s inconvenient for the point you’re attempting to make.
I am being free. It’s just im using my freedom not to make my food taste weird. People can use a neutral oil like vegetable oil for almost everything.
Careful climbing down from that high horse.
- Comment on I love it 1 week ago:
Maybe they’re not making Italian food?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, it’s the latter. Sorry. Without trying to be ironic, it’s the over generalisations and lack of nuance in their views of other cultures. It’s also like you guys are worried any positive feedback might go to our heads and we’ll start invading the world again or something.
Also, the only people who tend to be that negative towards our food tend to say it in French and be a lot more specific, almost constructive in their feedback (by French standards that is). Even then, I’m yet to meet a French person who isn’t partial to a well made fish and chips or a shephard’s pie and I’ve met a fair few. In fact, the French have their own version of shepherd’s pie that isn’t as good as the British, can you believe? Maybe it’s the exception that proves the rule lol.
Most British people tend to make the poor French version and not slow cook the mince down in stock and stout beer until thick or use a proper buttery, cheesey mash to go with it.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, apologies if I came across too strong.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Pointing out that I think someone is being a bit unfair and overly generalising isn’t making something a competition.
It genuinely does take time for people to adapt. That’s not point scoring.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Tbf, some people just throw mash potato over mince beef they’ve cooked with chopped tomatoes and soggy carrots. I used to think I hated it too, until I made it properly.
However, I feel thats like deciding how good American food is based on next door’s poor attempt at a dry meatloaf. We have plenty of bad cooks here who panic and make poor food that they take no time over. Maybe more than our fair share.
Also, we don’t cover up the taste of spoiling, poor quality, food by drowning it in sugar syrup and seasoning powder. That can take some time for palettes to adapt to.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not taking the “that’s not indigenous food” from an American who im sure will unironically attempt to claim pizza and the hamburger steak.
Sad to hear you don’t like apple pie though. I thought you guys loved that one.
- Comment on Eat more fibre or something 2 weeks ago:
Too much meat and not enough fruit and vegetables. Not just your bowels, your heart will thank you too.
- Comment on cluckthulu? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the matter, babe? You’ve hardly touched your roast nightmare of the deep.
- Comment on Corn or something idk 3 weeks ago:
And God, despite being male presenting, identifies as non-binary.
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 4 weeks ago:
Because yahweh likes the smell of rotting foreskins, per his own words.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
The point isn’t the apparent health benefits of applying the worlds mildest buffer to a ph 2 solution, it’s that it’s the sales equivalent of dehydrationmonoxide.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 months ago:
The chats amyl and the sniffers The viagra boys (more kind of 80s dance punk revival)
Music has been captured by business now more than ever. I think you’ll be be very hard pushed to find anyone who can make a living from music that would meet everyone’s definition of a strong message etc. now. So, mines a lot less that and just more punk now.
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 2 months ago:
Still preferable to having to live for all of eternity.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst, a banger.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 months ago:
This is almost exactly what brought me out of christianity. I was institutionalised into it from birth. So, I always just glossed over the most obvious problems that people would bring up. If anything, it entrenched me further.
However, I started realising that I had more love and compassion for people than, not just christians, god claims to have, by their own admission.
How can I love a stranger than an all loving God?
It was all downhill from there.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 2 months ago:
We welcomed skynet when it first came
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 months ago:
So true and it’s a great to remind them of that sort of thing.
You know, you’d think all of the people who say it’s purely down to genetics would be natural allies with, you know, molecular biologists (applied genetics). They’d be all like “it’s a Y chromosome or nothing” and the biologists would be all like “yeah chromosomes!” because we fucking love chromosomes but no. In fact, it’s noticeably absent when you start to think about it.
I wonder why that might be?
The short answer is “because it’s infinitely more complicated than that.”
Just because you carry the genetic code for anything at all, it doesn’t mean you’ll express it. The default setting for our DNA is off. So, if something isn’t telling it to transcribe, it won’t do it. A whole load of reasons could cause that, even before we get to mutations and partial expression or chimeras etc.
Anyway, what i mean is yeah, this meme!
- Comment on The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street | The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds 4 months ago:
I imagine AI’s use will be to use the vast amounts of data we all have collected on us to manipulate us into buying things and never leaving our screens.
The problem is, it’s not something you really want to advertise and it’s not viable unless you’re someone like skynet. I mean Google, sorry.
- Comment on **Mission Accomplished.** 4 months ago:
Fake Italian. Olive oil just makes them stronger.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Online therapy, self help books, right-wing grifter rabbit holes, medications with varying degrees of efficacy and legality
All else fails, adverts for bulk order discounts on paracetamol, strong alcohol and sturdy plastic bags.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 4 months ago:
It’s bizzare, you started off by saying “No” in a willful display of poor social skills but then went on to say very little that I’ve disagreed with.
I mean, I didn’t say that each country didn’t have their own lobby, now did I?
The pressure and the money to actually change things and control your country’s entire online media narrative is controlled by a very small number of US companies. They use this power to rig elections and force law like the above through. I understand that wi be difficult reading for some Americans who don’t like that they’re now the colonising Empire but, that doesn’t change that the main problem with sorting our own digital data laws hasn’t been meddling by American business interests.
Have you got anything more than “I don’t like this. So, it isn’t true?”
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 4 months ago:
You say this as if the problem isn’t American corporations and pooled special interests bribing, blackmail and rig elections in every country they can until they get what they want.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 4 months ago:
But, if people chat privatelywith each other in public spaces, how are we meant to control the conversation and tell people what to think?
No, A.I. generated kompromat-capture is the only possible way people can receive therapy.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 months ago:
Why would the tories oppose thier own bill?
I don’t think you’re fully aware of all the factors here.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 months ago:
“Oh, i see. You want to help paedophiles do you? Why do you hate children then, hey? Of course keef comes out to help the Jimmy Savile brigade again.”
Congratulations, you just lost the media narrative and now all but one paper is going to write about how all the things that hurt every child in the UK is your fault, for the next 3 years. The whole system is compromised and they’re passengers, only a little more engaged than we are.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
This makes me feel like they were in a bind here. The so called “online safety bill” was a tory concoction that took years to pass through the courts because of how invasive it is and how anyone could easily bypass it.
If labour want to stop it, they’ll be accused of not wanting to protect children.
Whatever anyone thinks of labour, what option do they have other than to let it play out as the spectacular failure it was always going to be and making sure everyone knows who’s fault that was afterwards?
- Comment on He's camera shy 5 months ago:
And ghosts too. You’d think we’d all be up to our eyeballs in ghosts videos by now but no.
We all know why of course. Ghosts are just lazy. How can I be expected to believe in a group who clearly don’t believe in themselves?
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 6 months ago:
In other news, my toaster absolutely wrecked my T.V. at making toast.