I don’t think I have that much perseverance. I’m super grateful for cookbooks with easy-to-follow recipes - I’m pretty sure I would have starved under the fail-until-you-figure-it-out approach.

In order to learn how to cook, you must first learn how to cook.

I worked in a group home in college, and part of the job was cooking. When I started, my cooking level was pretty much spaghetti and sauce from a jar. Fortunately for me, there was a set menu with recipes to follow.

I’ve learned quite a bit since then, but I’m still very much a “mechanical” cook. I’m good at following recipes, but I won’t typically be able to improvise a meal with whatever is on hand. I’ll take a look at what we have and start searching for likely-looking recipes.

The horrors persist.

But SO DO I!

Wait, Starbuck is in Star Wars now? Which show was this?

I had one of those in the last place I lived. It was super nice. I wanna say I would just pull it out to use as a work surface and use a second cutting board. Easier cleanup that way.

This may not fully apply to people who have those cool little pull-out cutting boards nestled under their counters.

Those are kind of a cheat code for keeping cats off them.

Heh, I’ve also heard 33x for a 3% rule, but that really starts to get into “well, how cautious ARE you?”

I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(

I’ve heard 25x

True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.

Any mushroom is edible…once.

manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.

Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.

(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)

PRNDL

My brain wants this to be “Purndle”

We make this black bean soup pretty regularly at my house. I still can’t believe how good it is for how simple it is to cook!

ETA: I crib quite a lot of recipes from eatingwell these days. This chickpea casserole is quite good, too.

Ha, fair enough! It just feels like sort of a dodge in this kind of setting with a sort of implied bias towards linux on the desktop.

issues…downstream of capitalism … arm in arm with your fellow man … future that is for everyone.

These don’t sound like MAGA sentiments to me, so you can probably breathe easy.

I can’t think of anything offhand. I really like Chappell Roan – her songs just make me viscerally happy. Eleine sounds great, and I’ve loved Sia ever since I heard Titanium. But chills? No one I listen to provokes that particular reaction.

Oh, give it time.

I’m not sure if I should say I use linux or not:

• Gaming desktop - windows.
• Laptop - Macbook.
• Work machine (programming) - windows.
• Servers running the code I write - mostly linux.

What’s your fav conlang? I dabbled in Esperanto on duolingo a while back.

Maybe I should have kept dabbling; about all I remember anymore is ‘hundo’.