Hello, I’m from the Church of Hiroshima-fuu Okonomiyaki. Do you have a moment to talk about the One True Okonomiyaki?

But seriously, what do you use for a dashi replacement? I’ve tried kelp dashi with mixed results among other weirder attempts to add depth to the batter.

Some good days and some bad days brain- and body-wise. Doing some coverage for classes at the dojo and had two good classes where I had people work on some bad habits I’ve noticed creeping into the movement of most of the students and one bad class where I couldn’t remember a kata. Sleep and work exhaustion make a big difference day to day. My arms have been aching for two week due to an unrelated reason so I haven’t been able to do much more than teach until yesterday as I was letting them do some healing. It was good to see progress there. Plus all the normal dread regarding the future of the US.

Also, three geese. One for each arm and the leg I’m not using to stand on.

Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy’s face. It wasn’t a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn’t really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn’t worth the risk and I didn’t come back the next day.

You smell wonderful.

Giant sloth, we’re in the pleistocene.

You smell wonderful in this pleistocene.

(Caption mentions Witcher et al and this is the best I can come up with.)

As an awkward fellow, having made hiring decisions twice in my life from a vast pool of three candidates each time, I hate sending rejection emails and it’s legally dangerous to engage in any sort of explanation if they ask for one. Mostly I do it so they don’t continue to follow up. At a larger company, I don’t see a way to have the time to do it unless it’s an automated system, in which case I’d advise not applying.

Actually making progress on getting some minis painted. I had an unsuccessful attempt at making a pearlescent insect wing and got glitter everywhere. Going to try a different method this week. Otherwise, the sword bandits, burning undead, and hives are ready for varnishing and the komuso monks and fire wizards are coming along. My painting is adequate, so they’re nothing that’s going to win contests, but I’m glad to have more things painted when my friends gather to play.

Can’t tell if it’s old Anakin or new Anakin in the bottom right one…

Many criteria are used to pick best in breed for the cyberdog category including traction, the total length of wiring, and quality of audio equipment (especially the subwoofers).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

For some reason when you say colorful dos games, my mind immediately went to some of the Commander Keen games. Doom also has a Commander Keen as an Easter egg in it. And Quake has a dopefish in it. So any of those if Easter egg isn’t too much of a stretch.

It’s Elon’s hero’s birthday (and his last day on the surface according to Wikipedia). And the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. And the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I’m very glad that pot takes top billing.

Well what brought you to degrowth? Why do you see the argument against degrowth convincing or powerful? Why do haven’t you turned your back on degrowth because of the argument? If it’s just that some people have that view and you want to evangelize, I’ve got some bad news for you about changing people’s viewpoints with rhetoric. I don’t need your answers to these questions (though feel free to write them out if that helps), but they might be a good spot to start from to find something that will resonate a bit more or be more useful to you.

Anyway, I’m checking out. Cheers.

carefully composed

I don’t think this adds to the community and it seems others agree. You can blame others all you want, or you can take the hint. If you want to talk about this topic, find a better way that’s clearer and doesn’t have to go through several iterations to get your actual point across. I hope you find a way to have the discussion you want to have.

I’ll bite.

The selections you’ve included are really weak.

Most Americans think wealth is important? Yeah, because the medical system will literally let you die if you’re poor. The justice system works differently if you have money and the poor are more likely to be policed. Lots of people are dangerously close to homelessness and more are becoming so as people get priced out of housing.

Upward mobility is a sham. The best indicator of if you’ll be wealthy in the future is if your parents are. That’s due to a bunch of different factors, but being able to afford healthcare, good schools, being able to recover from mistakes and accidents, and plain old intergenerational wealth.

I don’t know what your point is about scarcity vs abundance mentality, but when pretty much every single aspect of ones life is improved by money, yeah, people want it. Making sure basic needs like healthcare and housing would go a long way towards getting people less desperate for money and exacerbating the cycle by doing whatever capital wants regardless of larger consequences just to not die.

So I don’t think you have any good points that the people in this community haven’t thought about and generally already come to a conclusion about. You’re doing the equivalent of going into a vegan community and saying “bUT aNImALs Are kIllEd farmInG THE PlAntS You eAt” and thinking it’s clever.

Anyway, here’s my down vote. It’s not mindless; it is filled with intention and consideration.

Even when it’s not the main focus, it’s always enjoyable when there’s some real love put into a cooking or eating scene.

That’s pretty surreal like all those family sitcom episodes where they save an orphanage by winning a battle of the bands came to life.

Ugh, making a car mechanic appointment has been on my list since October. Nothing’s actively wrong with it, and I’m not due mileage-wise. I just want to make sure it can handle a medium length trip that kept getting postponed due to a few things I couldn’t be away from home for more than a day for a while.

There’s not even time travel or multiverse Jesus!

Jennifer Connelly and Laura Dern.

All that and we still don’t know anything about the feet or tail.