And here I was, just making ice cream with the basic custard base and considering it done.

Lol sounds plausible.

It was due to petty bougie covid boredom here for sure, they had to find a way to go spread that shit in close proximity to others.

I’ll have to go do a bike tour of all the big padel halls that opened here because of it and see how many are now closed. Nobody even mentions padel anymore.

Oh yes we did this too. It’s so much fun. There was a version where you threw the ball to the wall and called out someones name who had to catch it while others run away. Then the person with the ball had to try and catch the others by throwing the ball at them, if they got you, you would burn out from the game.

I thought it was padel? Like a hundred of these popped up where I am from and all the petty bougies started doing this during covid. It’s sort if like squash, but in an aquarium of sorts I think. It’s the sweaty bougie display.

1.USA

2.Israel

3. UK

4.Germany

5.France

But premature or overdue, the revolution – the locomotive of history – and with it the communist society, of necessity asserts itself, and is carried through by the workers themselves, for the previous course of history has created a condition which permits of no other solution, because that solution is identical with the present life necessities of the majority of mankind.

And the proletarian revolution, while it changes the world, will not neglect to educate the astonished “educators.”

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When I got what it actually is (learning past the revisionist takes) and truly understanding that it’s inevitable. Like the whole “I might not see it in my lifetime, but historical forces…”

I read a memoir of a long passed local communist and she ended her book with exactly these thoughts. I remind myself of that anytime I start feeling doomer.

Well true, this is known

But could there have been a slower spreading variant first, circulating in stealth mode in the world? I fully believe that Western neoliberal healthcare could have missed these if they were singular unexplained pneunomia looking things in the elderly or anyone, we just treat symptoms if people aren’t dying.

Maybe whatever got introduced to China was already a variant that was able to take off better? Tourism could have a role here that nobody would want to look into as that too is important to the economy.

I know that the og variant got completely eradicated from my country and the following one was introduced by a single group of petty bourge alpine skiiers that travelled to Austria. It took months for the new variant to take off here, but it was traced back to those tourists.

Afaik even cats can get it. Stray cats are common in touristy places like the mediterranean cities. Who knows honestly, but the white paper does claim it wasn’t found in wildlife around Wuhan.

A stuffing of zucchini, rice, onion, maybe some shrooms is always nice. Essentially a vegan gemista.

Edit. I’ve never precooked the peppers before stuffing, they still get nice and soft, especially if covered with foil. The recipe above seems overcomplicated, here is one that is more like what I have done. CW for second link, milk products, that can be left out just fine.

Well this. We know now that it thrives on fur farms for example. What if it originated in those, plenty of such farms in the “West”. In Finland for example the conditions are notoriously bad and there is no oversight.

I remember when it finally got aknowledged that white-tail deer are a coronavirus reservoir. Our local food and safety department announced that there is no need to test anything because there is no risk for spillover and covid-19 isn’t foodborne. They just stated that. So the motivation to test, track and understand just isn’t there in capitalist states.

The bird flu also thrives on fur farms and the “solution” this country chose was to allow the fur farmers to shoot the birds, even rare birds, around the farms to protect their industrialized animal cruelty business.

Huge malpractice, cruelty and overproduction issues were also revealed in local salmon farming. Dead birds in the tanks, the fish are suffocating and sick.

I don’t necessarily think the lab leak is likely, but I definitely think it could have started somewhere else than China and been imported there. Due to the general lack of oversight, lack of systems to notice a novel pathogen and just neoliberal capitalism being the way it is.

The Chinese hypothesis seems to still be that frozen food was the source.

Thank you! Will definitely make these.

Oh great, I’ve just been buying the ready made vegan "meat"balls like the Ikea ones or Hälsans kök to make this classic favourite, never thought to make them myself from the dark soy granules. Do you let the mass sit/hydrate for long?

Looks like you even have the lingonberry jam there. Comfort food heaven!

Might stick a bit more to the pan. Maybe adding a bit more water could help so it doesn’t?

Could also do this in a kettle on the stove and just use water, it’s more like risotto then. I’d pan fry the veggies and beans and throw them in towards the end if doing this.

Not really, but I’ll list what I used in it, ballpark-edition:

3 deciliters of cooking oats, a can of black beans (230grams drained), one whole red bell pepper diced, one onion diced, garlic to taste & olive oil to taste. Spice it with stuff like black pepper, herbs or whatever feels nice.

These are mixed and spread in an oven pan that has a bit if olive oil in it as coating.

Pour over about 700ml of hot water with a stock cube melted in it.

Cook for about 45mins or so, oven was 175C. Add water if it goes too dry, but some crispyness on top and bottom is the goal. It has a fried rice/paella type of vibe.

This can be done in numerous spice variations and with different beans and veg. Tomatoes or tomato paste work well too.

These oats also make a really good pan “risotto”.

Any predictions or thoughts from US comrades on how long usaians will roll over and play nice with all that is happening?

Used to play WoW and it was impossible to not hear about this guy when doing that. Never going to forget how this guys mom basically burnt alive due to smoking close to an oxygen tank and this guy was her “caretaker”.

I was in conversation with a friend who works in tech and we were talking about a thing that we wanted to find some science on. So I found a paper on it and started to read, but before I got done he replied by sending me a chat gpt summary of the paper. And I could already tell it wasn’t correct from reading it myself even a little. What I really wanted to say to him was that I’d rather think for myself, tyvm.

If students are all doing this now, nobody will think of anything themselves anymore or form an actual deep understanding of a thing, be it whatever. Not really. Anyone who has done reading knows how that shapes us and then can develop into something deeper. It’s the f’n “innovation” these same tech types go on and on about that dies with this tech.

Absolute demons. I’ve been around on the internet since irc and remember so well how FB became a thing and how fast it all went sour. As far as I remember FB rolled out these anonymous comparison “games” early on and there were also stuff where you “bought” your hot friends or bidded for them. It brought out bullies and mean behaviour out of people in ways I can’t describe now and it was all downhill from there. The testing for this vulnerability was there from day one.

And the way it disconnected us. I remember noticing how pretty soon nobody would call or text you anymore. Old “friends” saw each other less and less because “I follow you on FB, so we are connected.”

Then came IG. The number that and the modern selfies started to do on my grown-ass womans mental health was so clear in hindsight. I started to notice this when I began to see how I felt about pictures taken of me by others compared to the selfie cam filtered stuff that never actually looked like me.

Tried to disable all the filters, tried to adjust the timeline and follow things that would harm me less, but eventually deleted my accounts and it has been one of the greatest things I’ve done in the last 5 years for my mental health, self-image and body image.

I found some of these IG selfies a year or two ago from my old phone and it was legitimally kind of scary how foreing and weird they look to me now. The unnaturally big eyes, the altered jaw line, the ridiculously smooth skin. And I was willingly doing that, most of us are.

A huge treat related whine about capitalism -> “I’m all for capitalism…”