I mean the private equity people get rich. It works for them. Sure, the hospitals / software companies / investors / employees / customers all suffer, but fuck 'em.

“Now that we threw all the supplies overboard, we’re going a lot faster now.”

I suspect that, just like Columbia University and CBS, some Hollywood movie studio is going to decide to try to make Trump happy by feeding him the kind of self-congratulatory bullcrap he loves to hear, and they’re going to make a full-on big ticket studio movie about some kind of barely-veiled (if that) MAGA hero busting heads to fuck up the evil Democrats. Basically along the lines of “My Home Village,” absolutely equally shameless.

It sounds nuts from today’s POV, but I think it’s better than 50% that at least one is going to get made before all of this is over.

Oh, also: Deep cut

Chillin’ with Quirrel in the hot springs

Hollow Knight

Running into people in the hot springs randomly is dope, the lore is strong

Maybe like 20 minutes at 325F?

This 1,000% will not work (assuming it’s a cutlet / thighs or something). This is not enough for even a defrosted chicken breast.

There are ways you can do it, other people have commented some approaches (basically, cut it up, if you want it to work). But (a) it’s unsafe without a meat thermometer (b) it will probably be a failure unless you’re pretty skilled. Definitely don’t just throw it in at 325, the most likely outcome is that you’ll have to leave it way longer than 20 minutes, and then give up once it’s getting dried and awful around the outside, and have to take it out anyway and slice it up and fry it or something, because the inside is still raw.

😬

If it was me, I would just throw it in the fridge and find something else, and eat it tomorrow. If you have a meat thermometer you can try to make it work with low heat, or there are other ways to cook it that work fine (maybe thaw in cold water and then cut it to strips and sort of stir-fry it for example), but I think the 1-2 times I tried something like this I was not happy with the result.

Absolutely don’t bake frozen chicken

You can defrost it in the microwave, they usually have a “defrost” setting with some different options which may take 5-10 minutes. It’s a little less optimal than waiting, but it’s fine. Definitely don’t bake it frozen.

I have a feeling they’re going to be fine moneywise whatever happens. Their personal safety is probably fine. Maybe not, but probably they don’t have to worry too much.

It’s still courage that they’re doing it.

Jesus Christ, I didn’t know that. That’s worse.

I highly recommend watching the Joe Rogan interview with David Miscavige’s dad, it’s just wild and weird.

Also, where’s Shelly? Where did she go?

Matt and Trey really don’t give a fuck. They tried to show Muhammed in multiple cartoons, and when the network vociferously shouted them down about it (because it might get them killed or their offices attacked), they snuck him in anyway in multiple places and just didn’t tell anyone. When one of the foundational members of their cast didn’t want them to trash Scientology, they trashed it ten times harder and told him not to let the door hit him on the ass on the way out. They made out with each other for a long time in “Baseketball.”

However valuable or not you feel like their message / their humor is, they are among the very few voices in mainstream media who are simply unafraid and doing their own thing, completely without reservation.

I mean it makes perfect sense. From her perspective, I would just pull it out of my pocket and start gently rubbing it carefully with my finger, or prodding softly at it. She just thought it was weird. Why are you doing that? Okay, your device’s principles are strange.

She actually never got completely used to “buttons” as she called it, any kind of machine that you had to use a separate control setup for other than just the direct valves or levers involved. Turning the steering wheel makes sense, turning the knobs on the stove makes sense. Any time she put something in the toaster oven, though, with its multiple modes and controls, she would just savagely twist or push any knob she could find until the thing started making heat, and then when she was done, she would remove the object and leave the door open to let the thing gradually figure out things out on its own and shut off. “Life is short, man, don’t bother me with your goddamn buttons, I don’t care.”

Read about Kitty Hawk in the newspaper at 16 years old, in 1903. Watch men walking on the moon on your TV, at 82 years old.

Fuckin’ unreal. Hang out with people who lived through the 20th century, if you ever can, though they are reduced in number now. The perspective they have on things is hard to match. I knew a woman who grew up with black servants in the house who couldn’t vote, then marched with MLK, then watched Obama get elected president. And that’s everything. Every single aspect of human life, basically, except for a few of the very basics. She was always sort of surprised and amused that I had a “phone” that was a smooth black rectangle that I would control by “stroking” (as she called it) this smooth black surface.

I watched her meet a new person of her generation. First question: Was your husband in the war? Answer was yes. Second question: Did he live? He’s not trying to give offense, he just wants to know your situation. He was in the infantry…

Thanks, corrected, IDK what I was thinking.

Yeah. Super sad. There will be more good ones, other skies and stars, but these good ones are gone, they will now not shine again.

I feel like this is bait for one specific answer… okay, fine, I’ll be the one.

MLK Jr, Anne Frank, and Yasser Arafat were all born in the same year (1929). They were all born after Tom Lehrer, who died yesterday, 97 years old.

Edit: Math is hard

Another really interesting thing is the way they conduct themselves in the comments during a back-and-forth. It’s a separate set of behaviors from the low-effort cover comment “mode,” but it’s still a very recognizable way of interacting.

1. They never come off the main point. It basically doesn’t matter what anyone says, they’ll basically just stick to the same script of two or three main arguments, and they’ll just keep saying them over and over (and they don’t seem to be interested in stopping, ever).
2. They frequently tell other people in the conversation what the other people believe. Of course, plenty of real human Lemmy users do this too, the weird accounts don’t have a monopoly on it. But these go to it a lot more shamelessly and consistently (often just straight-up ignoring other people’s statements completely.) Look at the whole exchange that starts with “Are you trying to say chicago doesn’t have a problem with violence?” “No.” and really just kind of study the pattern of the conversation. It’s almost like a Magic 8 Ball, where one participant is just repeating a variety of the exact same thing, over and over, without regard for anything else going on in the conversation. Well, it’s not “almost like” that, it is that. And, crucially, they’re filling in both sides of the argument that’s taking place in their half of the comments, which means they don’t even have to pretend to respond to questions or real arguments.
3. Their non-cover-argument participation almost always lines up with some kind of stock talking point or other, and there’s usually a variety. Again, just look at the profile, and this time focus on the talking points: There’s social media censorship, big cities are violent and dangerous, Democrats are bad, it’s like a little bingo card. But they don’t argue for them. They just repeat them, forcing them into the mental landscape, in a little waiting-on-hold-message type loop.

This one’s actually a little bit unusual in that their messaging is lining up with traditional MAGA messaging. I honestly have no idea what’s up with that. Most of the time, they’re on a little bit of a different script (like Russian ones will talk about “deindustrialization,” they’ll be mad about green energy, they’ll obviously have stuff to say about Ukraine and NATO and BRICS, they also don’t like Democrats, and so on.)

I spent way too much time arguing with dbzer0 people yesterday, and I never once got the impression that anyone I was talking with was any kind of propaganda operation. It’s not just that someone’s “not with me” and so I jump to that they’re obviously one of the weird accounts. But, yes, this is definitely one of the weird accounts.

Okay, so there’s a super instructive thing that can be done with this user. Look over their profile. Just sort of let your eyes wander over a couple screens worth of it, let it sink in (especially on the comments side). It gives a really good flavor of what kind of “cover” comments these accounts like to spread around to dilute their payload of weird MAGA-friendly talking points. There’s some generic tech stuff, there “imma smoke a bong fellow kids,” you know, but there’s just a very particular flavor of kind of low-effort one or two sentence messages, with no followup intended or desired, that starts to get recognizable after a while.

Of course not every user that doesn’t try to make a masterpiece out of every comment is automatically a troll. But, in combination with the inevitable:

It will reveal more democrats that shouldn’t be in office.

… type of comment, it actually does start to look recognizably different from the type of “human voice who is typing a comment because they care on some level about what’s being talked about” comment that most people leave most of the time.

No. They’re trying to say its problem with violence is substantially lower than all those places with substantially lower violent crime rates. That’s how crime rates work, in fact it’s why they are useful.