I think I see a bit of steam escaping from the pan, so I think they tried to weigh it after cooking

Which makes sense, there’s going to be some weight change after you cook it because of evaporation and such… hence the steam

Before cooking you couldn’t really call it Jollof Rice, it would just be a big pot of the raw ingredients for Jollof Rice

And they know the weight of the ingredients going in already, they’re quoted in the article, so that’s just simple addition to figure out.

Yeah, don’t get me wrong I enjoyed his lectures, it’s just very much not going to be everyone’s cup of tea and certainly not something that would have translated well to a movie

I’m personally very much a fan of both the comic and the movie

The overall plots are largely the same, the comic of course has a little more space to flesh things out.

Which does actually work against it at times, there’s a point where V just kind of goes off on a lecture about anarchy for a couple pages, which is interesting but maybe not the most exciting comic book reading you’ll ever do, and certainly wouldn’t have translated particularly well to the screen, so overall I don’t mind most of the changes they made of

Both the comic and movie are very much a product of their times and places. The comic is very much a reaction to Thatcherism in the UK, the movie more to post-911 Bush-era America.

The movie probably resonates more with me personally, but I’m also a product of that time and place. The comic strikes me as a little more timeless.

Even more appropriately, it’s V for Vendetta

Spoilers, I guess, for a 40 year old comic (the plot in the movie is a bit different)

I know that when police in my area need to destroy evidence that’s no longer needed (and can’t just be disposed of in normal waste streams, or sold or what have you) they normally take it to a local garbage incineration plant.

There was also a steel mill in the area at one point and their furnace was occasionally been put to use for similar purposes (tangential - there was at least one instance I’ve heard of where the US mint used that furnace to dispose of a batch of coins they were testing a new alloy or process or something on)

Generally speaking, recipes can’t be copyrighted (the specific wording of a written recipe might be protected, but the general idea of combining certain ingredients in a specific way can’t)

The names of the flavors, branding, etc. can be (or trademarked, or various other IP terms)

And aspects of the production process might be covered by patents and such.

And of course non-competes and such could complicate things for the actual people involved

And how you acquire those recipes can be a factor, that could rub up against non-disclosure agreements, corporate espionage laws, etc. you may need to be able to say that you came up with it on your own independent of the original recipe or pieced it together from publicly available information.

But in general, if anyone wanted to start up an ice cream company selling exact duplicates of Ben & Jerry’s flavors,they could do that as long as they called them all something different

Except for a few obvious spam posts, I’m pretty hard-pressed to think of any specific posts or comments I’ve seen that struck me as bots (although to be fair, I’m there may be some bias due to which communities I choose to follow)

There are, however, plenty of idiots, people who don’t speak fluent English, trolls and other people whose motivations may not be purely good-faith discussion, people who probably have various types of neurodivergence and/or mental health issues

And I could see some of those categories being very easily mistaken as a bot under a lot of circumstances.

I’ve seen a couple reports that the ammo they found had anti-fascist and transgender inscribed on them.

If it’s true, that’s not definitive evidence of course, but it wouldn’t be zero evidence either.

It also feels a little too convenient to me after the Luigi thing. It could just be sort of a copycat, or it could be a right wing accelerationist trying to paint that picture.

And I fucking hate that at this point I don’t know which of those two options is more likely.

When I first joined Reddit, maybe around 2009-ish, give or take a couple years, I remember there being a pretty sizeable libertarian/Ron Paul crowd there.

That’s not to say they were like the modern maga/alt-right lunatics,I think the reddit-libertarians of that era probably would have hated maga bullshit

But there’s a definite path from that to the crazy shit we have now.

And there was always some crazy people there, one of the first subreddits I remember checking out was /r/conspiracy, I’m an enjoyer of a good conspiracy theory, I don’t believe them except for a few relatively mainstream ones, after all, who doesn’t have a favorite theory about the Kennedy assassination? But I noped out of there really quickly because holy shit those people actually believed the shit they were talking about.

And with all of the corporate bullshit they’ve had over the last few years driving away people who haven’t been brainwashed, I’m not surprised that the users who are left are completely insane.

Even if we ignore the doodle

And that given all we know about about trump and Epstein, we know that the inside joke between them here is about pedophila, or at the very least about them being creepy misogynistic sex pests.

And let’s assume that despite everything we know about them that somehow this is about something inane, like a shared love of football, or model railroading, or going to McDonald’s for hamberders or something.

Can we agree that this is just a really fucking weird and creepy way to write a birthday letter? Someone tells you they’re going to put together a book of letters from friends for someone’s birthday and this is what you spit out? The script of some weird scenario you imagined where the two of you are responding to a voiceover and jerking each other off about your shared hobby?

If I got a letter, card, Facebook post, message, etc. like this from someone I know, I’d ask them if they’re alright because that’s a fucking weird way to send a birthday message.

I really hate the term gun show loophole

Maybe the situation and laws are different in other parts of the country, but at every gun show I’ve ever been to all of those people with stands set up selling guns are dealers, so to buy a gun through them you have to go through all the legal hoops as if you were buying from a regular gun store.

I suppose there’s a lot of randos wandering around there who own guns who might be convinced to do a private sale, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with them being at a gun show except it’s a convenient networking opportunity. You could just as easily hang around outside of a shooting range trying to find a private seller.

Cracker barrel decided they were going to change the logo

And to be fair, in most respects, the new logo was pretty bland and corporate, I don’t think anyone particular liked it.

But if you don’t tend to eat at cracker barrel, you didn’t really care.

But cracker barrel’s target demographic is somewhat older, conservative, white, and obsessed with old-timey Americana bullshit, so they took this logo change as a direct insult to that southern-fried all-American fantasy they hold so dear and had a hissy fit about it.

And with the backlash, cracker barrel rolled back the logo change.

Those same cracker barrel aficionados then started trumpeting about this being some sort of conservative victory in the culture wars.

Which is kind of baffling to liberals, because we didn’t particularly care to begin with. If we had to have an opinion, most of us would probably have agreed that the new logo sucked, but we weren’t going to be major cracker barrel customers either way so it wasn’t worth getting worked up over.

And then in the midst of all of this, cracker barrel decides to roll back some of their DEI initiatives. Some think that they manufactured this logo controversy to act as a smokescreen so they could do that without it being noticed

Regardless of if they’re a major factor or not, or what species they’re targeting, it’s still a shitty thing to do to allow your pet to fuck with the local wildlife.

If you wouldn’t go out killing birds, don’t let your cat do it either.

Care to elaborate a little on the racism angle a bit?

Not that I doubt it, but with the amount of research I’m willing to put into it (basically skimming the character barrel Wikipedia article, and a couple quick Google searches) I couldn’t turn up a whole lot of details.

I did find one class action lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination, but without diving too deep into the court records, a lot of it kind of looked like more of a “some restaurants had shitty, racist managers” than a top-down “this whole company is racist” kind of thing. Not that it excuses the company for that, they’re responsible for hiring decent managers, but unless you’re going to have someone from corporate monitoring operations at every restaurant all day every day looking out for that, I could definitely see a lot of it flying under the radar.

If we want to talk LBGTQ discrimination though, yeah, there’s some outright shitty stuff at the corporate level in their past. Although (again, from just some very brief and not-at-all in-depth research) it does look like they’ve straightened that out pretty well over the last decade or two (and also, let’s not take for granted how fast a lot of people have come around on a lot of LGBTQ issues, at the time that stuff was happening, a lot of the country still hadn’t come around to the idea of accepting gay marriage, for example. It doesn’t make those policies right, but it was more in-line with the country as a whole at the time)

No Nazi would ever collaborate with Jews no matter what.

I feel like that’s painting with a little too broad of a brush. You can find more than a few instances of Nazis working with Jews to some extent, there’s certain instances with the Jewish councils and police that oversaw the ghettos that come to mind for example.

If it helped them further the goals, some Nazis weren’t totally opposed to working with jews, doesn’t mean they weren’t planning on sending them to the camps eventually, but if they could find a use for them, they would sometimes keep them around, maybe even throw them a bone here or there to keep them compliant.

You can go way down the rabbit hole here, you can blame Christian European colonial powers, but you can blame the pre-christian Roman empire for opening that door for Christianity to spread into Europe in the first place, you can blame Jews for being the religion that Christianity spun off of, you can blame various other religions and cultures that eventually morphed into Judaism

You can do that all the way back to the first organism that evolved that had a hint of sapience if you really want to

But that would be ridiculous.

That’s all in the past, and while it’s important to understand how we ended up here, we can’t do a damn thing to change any of that.

However here and now, we have groups like family watch international actively fanning the flames and funding this crap.

They’re not the only ones, they’re not all American, but you have your head in the fucking sand if you think America isn’t the biggest piece of this puzzle.

Thank you! I’ll be sure to let my old classmates know I settled an argument that they’ve probably long-since forgotten about if I ever run into them again.

Totally unrelated, but is “Spaniard” actually a common/accepted term for Spanish people?

It’s not a term I encounter often in everyday life, though to be fair I don’t exactly have a lot of people visiting my neck of the woods from Spain either.

Something about the term feels kind of derogatory to me, or at least old-fashioned, but that might be because the only time I tend to hear it is when I’m watching something like a pirate movie and they’re talking about looting a Spanish ship or something along those lines.

Or maybe because some other more common English words that end in -ard are insults (like drunkard, bastard, and retard,) so my brain kind of lumps it in with them.

I remember having this conversation back when I was in high school while we had some Spanish exchange students, but never bothered to look into it further (and never had the opportunity to ask one of the Spanish kids since I took French) so I guess I’m just looking to settle a debate I had with some kids 20 years ago.

It will of course depend on which place you go to.

I’ve only noticed 2 at this place (but it’s pretty wild how quickly you stop noticing peoples bodies when everyone is naked, so there may have been more,), but one of them is an employee, and another was a performer they had for an event.

The clientele is mostly (but not entirely) middle aged white people, and I’ve seen more than a few trump stickers on peoples vehicles there, but they do have rules about not discussing politics and religion and aren’t afraid to kick people out if they make an ass of themselves, so I haven’t witnessed anyone saying or doing anything transphobic. This place is also fairly popular with swingers and such (behind closed doors, nothing sexual allowed in public) and we’re all a little weird since we like going to nudist resorts, so I think everyone has adopted a pretty “live and let live” attitude towards people with lifestyles that are different than their own.

No shortage of gay, lesbian, bi, pan, etc people though, and there are usually more than a few rainbow flags flying around the campground.

So I can’t really imagine anyone making an issue of it at the place I’ve been going.

There’s also a few nude/clothing-optional resorts out there that cater more specifically to LGBTQ people, so that’s potentially also an option.

Also, weirdly, I feel like in a lot of cases, depending on the state of their transition, it may be harder than you think to tell someone is trans/gender non-conforming there. Can’t exactly base your assumptions about someone’s gender by the clothes they’re wearing after all. Not that people would necessarily assume the right gender, mind you.