Yeah.

Check out my last chat with them.

I completely even called out how it’s gonna go, and he played it to the letter.

It’s always the same with those fuckers. All one can do — just like you said — is to waste their time and piss them off a bit.

You might enjoy using вахтера as an insult against them. ~ “Watchman” / “janitor”.

There’s a thing called Синдром вахтёра, “Watchman’s/janitor syndrome” sort of. The connotations don’t translate well, as you can’t perhaps see from how my translator considers this site. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Синдром_вахтёра

Use your own translator:

You can’t reason with that person.

They’re a Russian troll.

Sorry, I was offensively drunk 7 hours ago when I wrote that.

I don’t know how to elaborate on that anymore. Apologies.

It makes me think you have good taste, even though I don’t know its origin.

Probably shouldn’t.

I was thinking more about imparting information about the nature, spirit, of fish.

If O understand that, it’ll help me cook.

A sushi chef would be poor in teaching me about cooking fish, yes, but I believe I know cooking more than fish, and a sushi chef would be very good to teach me about fish.

You see? I can’t communicate how amusing it is for me to stay "you see? " to you but I will try; you are Drusas, who one commented about my chosen nickname, as it was similar to yours.

The reason this amused me, or is ironic, is that my name is “Jussi”, which sounds sort of like “you see”. And the thing I like to do is mansplain. So… you see?

Nominative determinism.

Yeah salmon isnt’ too hard and cod goes pretty easy in fishsticks basically, but I don’t know how to optimise it. I don’t get the feel for the meat like I do with when I cook, for example, steaks and want them rare. I mean yeah I do use a digital thermometer with steaks to get them optimal, but my point is I wouldn’t even know with fish what the optimal is.

Like salmon and cod, yeah, easy enough and you find things at the store. But once I tried making soup out of this pike we caught and it was just… way overcooked. I messed it up, totally.

So I’d like to get that sort of intuitive feel and understanding I have for mammalian meat to fish meat as well. Like I understand with mammalian meat if it’s fattier it’ll cook differently, if it’s this or that it’ll affect it this way or that, but I don’t know shit about fish, you know? Like if I was a millionaire, I’d hire a high-grade sushi chef to teach me about fish or something.

Oh no, you don’t have to tell me.

Some people make an excellent lohikeitto, and it’s damn fine.

There’s a restaurant I go in my city for a good one.

But I’ve been on a gluten and dairy free diet. I’m sure I could replace rye bread with decent alternatives and cream with a vegetable one, but lohikeitto has been hard for me to get right.

Any fish foods actually. Fish is such delicate meat I find it hard to get a proper grasp on because it varies so much from fish to fish, especially when its different species of fish.

Meat from large mammals is rather easy, usually uniform. Fish, just… I need to learn it better.

Thank for reminding me though, I think I’ll learn to make lohikeitto next. I’ve been learning to cook a bit more, had porkchops today which I marinated myself with rum and garlic and lime and chili and rosemary etc, have made horse meatballs. Deer stew. Elk fry up. Reindeer ragu.

Mmm.

It was at least a decade, definitely a bit more since I made meatballs. But I think they turned out nice.

Gluten fre spaghetti. I hate to have to have it, but Rummo brand has actually been pretty nice. I tried like a half dozen others before. So sad I can’t have real spaghetti anymore but this is a decent enough alternative, and I make up for the poor spaghetti by improving what goes with it.

Pretty much yeah, because that’s how you utilise the shittiest parts.

I mean I can’t speak for all cultures obviously.

But you know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pâté

It’s definitely this.

Boris Johnson did a super awkward interview where he talked about how he “loved painting models as kids, especially buses, red buses” so that he might bleed a little of the search results for “Boris johnson red bus” so that the massive lie he was caught wouldn’t spread as wide. They know it doesn’t stop the thing, but it affects it and they’re not afraid of being laughed at, so…

I mean, you usually have both. Because while lakes freeze over, ice fishing is very much a thing.

Also, streaming water doesn’t freeze.

I would say there’s sometimes (often, even) a lot more snow than there is water. So idk, do you count snow as ice? I guess technically, because it is ice crystals.

And especially before the industrial revolution, you could just grab a bucketful of snow and put it on the stove if you’re too tired to walk to the extra 10 steps to the well. You still don’t have to go far into the woods and the snow would probably be more or less edible (it definitely is, but like per regulations idk), but especially before the industrial revolution it would’ve been ultraclean.

And also if you’re taking it from pine branches you’ll get a nice piney sort of hint of a taste. (I ate snow from the trees as a kid, just don’t eat yellow snow)

I got curious about it several decades ago have had some time to ponder and read.

https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/

Amathia. It is often translated as “ignorance,” as in the following two famous quotes from Socrates:

“Wisdom alone, is the good for man, ignorance the only evil” (Euthydemus 281d)

“There is, he said, only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance” (in Diogenes Laertius, II.31)

That’s the opening lines of the article. It’s only 2-3 pages, a couples of minutes read. I really do strongly suggest it.

But I’ll paste a a core bit

Here is the last interview given by Arendt, from which I will quote a few selected bits that are very pertinent to our discussion (boldface is mine, the interview is also found in the book Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview And Other Conversations):

“During the war, Ernst Jünger came across some peasants and a farmer had taken in Russian prisoners of war straight from the camps, and naturally they were completely starving — you know how Russian prisoners of war were treated here. And he says to Jünger, ‘Well, they’re subhuman, just like cattle — look how they devour food like cattle.’ Jünger comments on this story, ‘It’s sometimes as if the German people were being possessed by the Devil.’ And he didn’t mean anything ‘demonic’ by that. You see, there’s something outrageously stupid [dumm = ignorant, unwise] about this story. I mean the story is stupid, so to speak. The man doesn’t see that this is just what starving people do, right? And anyone would behave like that. But there’s something really outrageous [empörend = shocking, revolting] about this stupidity. … Eichmann was perfectly intelligent, but in this respect he had this sort of stupidity [Dummheit = irrationality, senselessness]. It was this stupidity that was so outrageous [empörend = shocking, revolting]. And that was what I actually meant by banality. There’s nothing deep about it [the ignorance] — nothing demonic! There’s simply the reluctance ever to imagine what the other person is experiencing, correct?”

Yeah sound’s decent enough.

I haven’t driven new cars since like 2019 so I’m a bit behind and not aware of the most recent developments

Could work? I edited the original, but thanks for the laughs :D

Haha it’s a formatting error.

I only used one line shift on Sync and formatted it wrong. I’m sorry.

But that’s hilarious though because I genuinely can’t tell if people can’t tell

Well the most use we ever got out of parking brakes was when driving front wheel drive cars in the winter so you can lock your back tires so you can slide around the snowy corners.

God I miss that now.

I’m just under the line of “toxic” in Finland and you could drawn the line a bit further south.

Finnish national dish? Traditional version? Here you go, the entire recipe;

Pound of beef, cubed

Pounds of pork, cubed

Water

A spoonful of salt.

Put meat in pan with water.

Take pan off heat after enough time.

Done.

That’s literally the Finnish national dish “Karelian stew”. Obviously nowadays it definitely includes black pepper as well and bunch of other things, because the traditional version is literally just a bunch of boiled meat without any spices.

edit haha enjoyed that but yes, the formatting was off, although you could obviously used water cubes in a pan as long as you still put it on hot. Actually, it might be an interesting experiment to put a pot on a hot stove / flame with beef & pork & ice. Insofar that maybe a tiny bit of the meat would brown before the ice melts and becomes water idk. At least then there’d be browning resulting in some taste. The classical one has none.

I’m 37, I’m not old

I genuinely used to wonder as a kid how the Nazis ever got to power. How people could just stand by and let people like that take power? How could they just allow all the horrid shit?

I don’t wonder anymore.

“Shat the onion”? Naah that doesn’t too right either.

See, it’s just like aways, my little sweetums.

Just. Like. I. Said.

I most certainly don’t agree with your sidetracking.

**You can’t admit to the crimes of Putin without going “but only if every other leader is corrupt as well” you’re a coward, WHO DOESN’T TAKE A STAND.

There’s an ICC warrant for Putin. For a reason.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

Just like each and every time. You won’t accept Russian warcrimes which are very well documented. You’re just too cowardly and really bad at playing smart.

It’s always the same. You really should pay attention to my nickname and avoid it, lil’ вахтера