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CosmicShadows posted...

Hoe do i give up meat completely? When i had it my entire life?

lol, don't ask me, because I'm a meat eater and always will be.
But I've known plenty of vegans. You have to be more mindful to ensure you're getting everything you need from a vegan diet, and you have to learn how to meld flavors and embrace eating tons of different veggies to really enjoy it.

Yes, vegan means no meat or animal products, which includes dairy.

I'm weird and am immensely fond of mustard greens. Pungent and a bit spicy.

Spinach, kale, cabbage, and chard are all good, multi-purpose greens that have different flavors or textures but blend in nicely.

Bok choy is crisp and crunchy at the bottom. The greens are pretty mild.

Broccoli rabe and dandelion greens(yes, the famous weed) are both bitter.

Escarole is great for soups(put it in at the end, of course).

Yeah, you have to be careful adhere to the standards of whatever citation system they have you using(MLA is most common, but I have had to do Chicago and APA as well). Always be careful to attribute correctly, but use your own framing and thoughts as well. Your professor wants your paper, not a mere regurgitation of what you skimmed out of your sources.

I wish him all the best in finding ever greater peace with himself.

It's hilarious how woefully inadequate that is, and the liability shield is objectively horrible and would lead to so much needless sickness and death.

They couldn't without legislation, no.
Forgiving all public student loan debt is something Biden could do via executive order, which is why it's being talked about so much: it's a measure which could be done without the Senate.
It's imperfect, to be sure, but even a 51-50 Dem Senate is highly unlikely to do debt relief on a large scale.

whitelytning posted...

RI or CT.

IMO, they should just become part of Mass or NY. There is nothing unique about either of those states.

West Virginia is a good one too. It's like KY but with small mountains.

Wyoming has a unique purpose - tetons/Jackson hole and and an oil industry.

Actually, I think you'll find CT has the best pizza and also the right lobster rolls(lobster sauteed with butter in a toasted brioche roll).
And Rhode Island has its own(really good) take on clam chowder.
Lastly, like half of our country's elite goes to Yale...
I, you know what? Just burn the state to the ground.

It's South Dakota or Wyoming.

CADE FOSTER posted...

he is pro net neutrality

I get *that*, but we'll see how "pro" he is now.

My understanding is that the FCC consists of 5 board members: 3 appointed by the president, 2 by the opposition party(usually by the party's leader in the Senate, IIRC). Pai realizes he's going to lose his chairmanship and wants to collect his reward for doing the bidding of the big TelComs.
Maybe Biden will appoint some one decent, or maybe he'll appoint some one who sucks as a political favor. I can't imagine Joe Biden is terribly invested in the fate of the Internet.

The Bills are the prohibitive favorite to win their division, while the Browns dont have a chance at theirs.

Total War: Three Kingdoms is really good, though it kind of assumes you know about the setting already, because it doesn't tell you very much about it(not a problem for me, who has been playing Romance of the Three Kingdoms for most of my life). The highlight is that this is a game that fires on all cylinders: combat is as fleshed out as any TW, but it also has robust settlement management and really good diplomacy, which is so unusual in this kind of game. The major lords even behave more or less how you would expect them to be(Cao Cao is canny and manipulative, Yuan Shao lords over a horde of vassals, Liu Bei is a backstabbing son of a jackal, Sun Jian/Ce are really aggressive, etc.)
The Yellow Turban, Bandit, and Nanman factions add some spice: they play a bit differently. Eight Princes is a thing, if you want to play through the War of the Princes which takes place long after anything anyone's popular culture cares has happened, but it gives you depressing insight into how things went after Jin crushed Wu and unified China.

NFL IRL right now:

Heh, I used to play chess a lot up until middle school or so. I was even in some little chess club class, and mopped the floor with everyone except this one girl who wouldn't play me, so I taunted her and she brought a board over next class.
I got owned, LOL. But we're still friends, eons later.
I can't play worth crap now, if I ever could before. Good luck everyone!

Anteaterking posted...

I don't understand why, even at a non-moral level that you'd do this.

Number must go up!

Well, I mean, it's not N who is evil, but Ghetsis. And Cyrus the gen before wanted to erase the universe and make his own as some sort of god, so it's not like a bad guy who was super evil was new, it's just that they executed it way more convincingly.

I dont think thats even ALL the change Bezos found in his couch.

My Whole Foods does.
I don't know why, we don't even do the Whole Body(their ridiculous Mackeyism for supplements, makeup, hygiene products, etc.) sale anymore, and it's not like they ever advertised that much.

Complete_Idi0t posted...

Good thing mars doesn't have 0g

Yeah, but it only has ~38% as much gravity, which will mess with things. Probably a lot, but I don't know really know.

There're probably answers to be had, we're just not investing much in finding them out, let alone in even more pressing problems.

We also bombed striking miners in the infamous Battle of Blair Mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
I mean, if you want to get technical that was a private operation, but they did use some left-over munitions from WW1 on the miners.

The only one that's bad is the first one.

I'm looking forward to quality clownball.

I go in at 6AM. Please kill me.

jumi posted...

McCain wanted to do that. He wanted his bestie Joe Lieberman to be his running mate.

This is true.
The problem is/was that John McCain was probably the only person not of Joe Lieberman's blood who liked Joe f***ing Lieberman.

Also, Republicans are just terrible in general and the party should be destroyed and the resultant ashes salted and pissed on with extreme prejudice.

Geiki Ganger posted...

why wont americans just take COVID seriously

It doesn't help one bit our government doesn't take it seriously.

Paradox patch notes generally always have some great lines like that. But Crusader Kings definitely lends itself to it.

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

I can't wait for real life West Wing
I'm just orgasming at the thought

The most insane thing I ever heard about West Wing was Definitely Not Obama appointing Definitely Not McCain Secretary of State.
Aaron Sorkin shows are like lead poisoning.

Goats are awesome. My Aunt used to have some. Very nice animals, very funny, but theyll try to eat anything.

Phantom36 posted...

Until we forget about diversity and just start hiring the most qualified candidates, with zero regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, etc., racism and bigotry will continue to exist forever.

lol please dont tell me you actually believe our society is a meritocracy.
And definitely dont tell me you think the most qualified subset of people is several orders of magnitude whiter than society at large.

Harpie posted...

wait is jared good or bad what are you saying

I was on an adventure to do homework because Im 3 weeks behind

I'm not an anthropologist, but: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad
That's a pretty good run-down of the bones other anthropologists have to pick with him.
With that said, he's obviously skilled as a writer and is apparently able to present anthropology in a way that is very approachable and compelling, so that's good. You shouldn't; however, take his conclusions to be the consensus of the entire field(this goes for any social science, really).

Turkey is good, but a whole turkey is a massive pain in the ass to cook and easy to screw up, yes.
I really like to get turkey breast and ground turkey now and again though.
And a properly-prepared turkey is great and will feed you for days.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

S7E02 - Varmints - Marceline discovers that PB has been deposed (2 months priot) and goes to talk to her. We see some of their history together and see that they definitely have a romantic past. PB shows some vulnerability for the first time in a long time as she breaks down about losing her kingdom and that she worked so hard that she pushed everything else away.

Hopefully the rest of the season is as good as this episode is.

Varmints is such a great episode, not only because it sheds a lot of light on PB and Marceline's relationship, but because it gives us great insight into how PB processes set-backs. She might be a theoretically immortal being of gum, but I think this episode really did a lot to humanize her.

Girl, I be Scrooge-McDuckin' in my Vault of As, GET ON MY LEVEL!

Your Anthro class uses Jared Diamond? He basically seizes on one idea and runs it into the ground, damn the torpedoes. Oh well...I like Anthropology, History and Sociology are my bros, and it's like their sister discipline.

I went there once and it was pretty decent, but it's a bit out of the way and I literally work at a grocery store(Whole Foods. Can confirm it's a horrible company LOL), so I probably won't go there very often, if at all.

Though the liquor store next to it is good.

Our current Constitution and political system is increasingly strained and showing its age(and fatal rigidity). IMO, it's not up to the challenges of the 21st century. Inevitably, things will come to a head. That could be in 4 years or 40 years; the collapse of a system of government(at a specific point in time) is generally only obvious in hindsight. It could lead to something better or worse, and it could involve the U.S. splintering.

Garioshi posted...

The Jets continue to be winless, nice.

They're actually now mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. They were eliminated from the division race a full two weeks ago!
Nobody executes the tank like Adam Gase, truly a genius.
RIP Joe Burrow.

Edit: Look what's here!
http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine
You can game out scenarios here. Don't forget there's a 7th-seed now, so the top seed is the only one with a bye.

He probably should have invested more in Latinx outreach.

Yadoken posted...

Good luck if you get cancer outside of the U.S.

Youve actually IDd one of the few things our system does better.
But the outcomes really arent anywhere near better enough to mitigate the high chance of going bankrupt because you developed cancer, you lazy ass leech!

AmericaTheBrave posted...

I think the author is correct that Ubisoft has a "blind spot" when it comes to whites colonizing whites. If the Saxons had been black or brown, there's no way they would have gone with the narrative.

Yeah, it makes me wonder how bad an eventual game set in Roman times could be.
Though maybe in that one you'll be able to interact with cats and dogs even more/better.

I Like Toast posted...

https://twitter.com/RyanMc23/status/1330581764176220160

It's like Jameis Winston never left.

FortuneCookie posted...

Considering they had a game where the pope says he doesn't believe in God, and just uses his position for power, I'd say it's the former.

I mean, certainly most Popes up into the modern era were primarily concerned with material enrichment(of the church, but also of themselves) and the expansion of their dominions and those of their families.
That's so bald-faced that it's indistinguishable from (bad) parody though.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I mean, you should probably expect this from any big studio "history" game. Short of specific examples like Paradox which was founded by gigantic history nerds, most studios just don't have the in-house knowledge to properly depict these periods nor the desire to give a fair shake for what they actually were like.

With that said, as someone who reads and studies a fair bit of history, everything I've read from this article seems spot on with my understanding of the period and culture.

I mean, even Paradox is far from perfect, because they can't (for example) resist game-ifying things like complex religious doctrines and severely downplay just how violent colonialism was, for example, but they do seem to try and listen and improve and Sunset Invasion was brilliant. Creative Assembly seems decent about it too.

But damn, that sounds pretty "yikes" from Valhalla.

CobraGT posted...

Truman actually set us back in regard to discrimination against women, against those of African heritage, and against those of Asian heritage. These groups gained credit during the war on the basis of their war effort. These groups moved forward.

Moving forward and then being pushed to where you were before you moved forward is being pushed back literally. Nothing could be done because of being accused of being witches.

Pardon me. The term was communist. Only misguided narrow-minded people like the Pilgrims accused and prosecuted witches. We are above this and so advanced.

Did you quote my post by mistake? I haven't said a thing about Truman ITT. I'm not that knowledgeable on that particular period.

I do regard it as fortunate that the Soviets developed the bomb promptly, because otherwise the temptation to just nuke all our problems away would have been terribly strong...

Dathrowed1 posted...

Possibly the first division winner to get into the playoffs and a top 10 pick. A dubious award

Unfortunately, playoff teams are placed after teams that don't make the playoffs in the draft order. So even a 6-10 division winner could expect to pick no higher than 17th.
Of course, play-off teams are placed in the draft order as they are eliminated(with the usual tie-breakers in effect), so if they actually won, they would end up picking even lower.

That sounds like a question for a lesbian friend(one who won't be put off by a sex question).

lemondrop7 posted...

The lesbian I used to work with told me that it is a porn thing only when I asked

Though I have heard this before.

TheHoldSteady posted...

Andrew Johnson set us back over 100 years when it came to racism

In fact one could argue that we still haven't fully recovered from his bullshit.

Yeah, I said this before, but I would like to say it again, just for emphasis: the dude blanket-pardoned every last Confederate. Every single one. Everyone from Jeff Davis right on down to the bottom.
That was how he got back at the Republicans for impeaching him.

Woodrow Wilson isn't bottom-tier, but that's not to say that he didn't screw up badly at Versailles(or the lead up to it). He emphasized several principles, including non-retributive peace and self-determination of peoples, but he never had the power to deliver the former, and he didn't even know what he meant by the latter. The former led the Central Powers to believe they would get a relatively mild peace, but in reality, they weren't even at the table(a departure from precedent: even the French were integrally involved in peace talks after the Napoleonic Wars). This helped create the whiplash that would feed extremist nationalism and fascism in the defeated countries.

As for self-determination, the British and French had made lots of promises of territorial gains to their various allies. These promises not only directly contradicted Wilson's stated principle, they often contradicted themselves: for example, both Serbia and Italy had been promised Fiume. Wilson also unintentionally created the impression among colonials that he intended to end colonialism in general: everyone from Prince Faisal bin Hussein to Ho Chih Minh to Syngman Rhee came under that impression, only to be disappointed, both because Wilson did not have the power to do that, but also because Wilson was a huge racist(at least, in the latter two cases: Faisal was apparently sufficiently dashing and gentlemanly to gain Wilson's approval).

In any case, he more or less sacrificed everything else at the peace table to secure his beloved League of Nations, and campaigned doggedly at home for it when he sensed political trouble, but he only seems to have managed to make people like it less: the Senate failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles entirely, and the U.S. never joined the League of Nations, rendering it virtually pointless.

It's really a perfect storm.

-First, you have the Eagles. The Eagles might be a good team if they were ever healthy, but they're never healthy. Worse is Carson Wentz, who went from a sure-fire MVP a few years ago to just being really, really bad. With nothing but Jalen Hurts behind him, the Eagles would be doomed in any other division. Wentz has to be benched and thrown in the dumpster sooner or later, but it's not clear if Pederson will be willing to do it. If he's not, he needs to be dumpstered too. Clean out the whole front office while you're at it. And this is the team that won the division last year and may still be the favorite to win it this year!

-The Giants feature Daniel "Danny Dimes" Jones. However, he drops those dimes on the ground for opposing defenses to snatch up about as often as he drops them to his receivers. In spite of recently firing their offensive line coach mid-season in a truly spectacular display of dysfunctionality, their offensive line has been playing much better recently. They may even have the most talented offense in the division, even sans Saquon Barkley, or maybe they've just been playing games in their division and they're actually still bad.

-The Football Team is generically bad. New coach Ron Rivera would rather start one-legged Alex Smith than 2019 1st-rounder Dwayne Haskins, in spite of the fact that Haskins may have had the single best outing for a Football Team quarterback thus far this year(the game after which he was benched, though it's not saying much). In any case, their offense is more likely to put opposing defenses to sleep than score points. Their defense is competent enough to prevent them from getting blown out.

-The Cowboys are truly snake-bitten: even given that the game has passed McCarthy by and that their defense is bafflingly incapable of stopping anything, they had the division's best QB in Dak Prescott. But, of course, Dak Prescott was long ago lost for the year. Back-up Andy Dalton looked bad, got hurt, caught COVID, and is still unavailable. For two games, they started 6th-round pick Ben DiNucci before swapping in former AAF star Garrett Gilbert. Miraculously, the Cowboys almost beat the Steelers. In fact, if their once-vaunted offensive line had not rotted away, Gilbert may well have pulled it off.
Star RB Ezekiel Elliot seems to have gone into hibernation, in any case, and their excellent receiving corp more often than not watches their QB(whoever it is) get buried by a ceaseless tide of opposing defenders. This is a team with a realistic shot at a division title still.