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insane closed caption experience in this hotel room

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genuinely fucking enraging how people will employ agab language, terms originally used to attempt to put emphasis on sex assignment as coercive and something that happens to you, not something you are, and then immediately use them in an identical way to male/female while completely forgetting about intersex people, hrt, surgeries, and every other blurred line. its like they think they can just learn the lingo and not actually have to alter anything about how they approach sex as a concept. insufferable. change or fuck off

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important home cooking edicts:

you can sit down to do it

you can buy things pre-chopped

frozen is fine

tinned is fine

microwave is fine

the powder version is fine

the box mix is fine

the correct recipe is the one that you like the most

the correct method is the one that you can do

good nutrition is the food you can actually eat and enjoy

do not eat mouldy or rotten food

you do not need to wash the chicken you are going to cook the chicken washing the chicken just spreads raw meat bacteria all over the kitchen please stop washing chicken it is not necessary and it is the opposite of helpful

don't use raw meat knife for raw veggies or cheese unless you've washed it good

authenticity is a lie, make the version that you personally enjoy you are the person who is going to be eating it

i am serious stop giving a fuck about someone's imaginary nonna disapproving of your food she's not the one eating it you are

the correct amount of spice is the amount you are happy with

food that looks a mess can still taste just fine, your stomach isn't instagram

check you turned the stove off after

all condiments go with all things it is your mouth they're going into

unusal flavour combinations can be really effective!

check the plastic/glass is heatsafe before putting boiling water in it

most foods can be frozen

do not put dripping wet thing into hot fat. regret.

salt

set timer. "i'll just remember it's in the oven" that is the devil talking set a fucking timer

the washing machine is not a cooking appliance

if the cat has sat on it or licked it you need to wash it before you eat with/from it.

see also dog

wash hands after handling raw meat and before handling cheese that you're not cooking.

most germs do not survive being cast into the flames

if you like cheese you can and should put cheese on that.

do not eat the off egg. it will not be fine. you will have a bad bathroom time.

different oils have different smoke points. a smoke point is when the pan starts smoking. it makes stuff taste less good and stick to the pan.

sometimes less heat for longer is what you want. you cannot always do big heat for short time. if you want short time because you're in a hurry: microwave.

do not put the wet thing in the toaster

it can be soup. it can always be soup.

non-stick does not mean no oil

skipping preheating is not a good idea and makes things stick to stuff and cook weirdly

the correct texture for the noodles/pasta is the one that you are happy eating

see also egg

if you add incorrect/stupid/moralising/contradictory/irrelevant/culturally insensitive/insulting advice to my post i will block you :) make your own post.

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youtubers should do reverse sponsorships. just interrupt the narrative of the video to shit-talk some random company for 1-2 minutes.

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keeping myself going by reminding myself that I'm going to outlive all of the conservatives in my life by virtue of the fact that I actually believe in modern medicine

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lets all go FUCK here

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this terrible distant blurry shot of two pigeons is one of my favourite photos out of any pic I’ve ever taken I think

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looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

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self isolating to cope is great until you look up one day and years have passed and you realise no one knew you when you were 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 and now they never will

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went for a walk the other day and there were apples and blackberries growing along the trail and i walked past some teenagers smoking weed in a ditch and overheard one of them point to the fruits and say "bro that shit is bountiful"

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Some people might think I’m an optimist but I’m not. I’m a realist that’s going to try to increase the good things in this world if it kills me.