I grew up with an atari 2600, that’s still ‘retrogames’ to me, everything else is ‘modern’.

By the time Biden dropped out, yes, she was really the only choice, logistically. I think at that point, 3 months ago, there was basically nothing the dems could have done to have won this. They could have made it closer, but any real shot at a candidate people liked, would have needed to have gotten spooled up a year ago, at minimum, two years ago ideally.

The DNC shares so much blame for overall strategy of the last decade+, but the decision for Biden to insist on aiming for a 2nd term the whole time, despite pressure, and only cave when the saw just how grim those final projections really were, is mostly his, personally.

There is utility in some cases; there’s correlations between polling and areas, and the electoral college makes it all complicated (by design)

But, like, here? No, no practical difference between any of the ‘models’ all showing some variation of ‘its a toss up’

I don’t super like coconut animos. They’re fine, but too sweet imo. But, Tamari is good as well, and I do really like this vegan ‘fish sauce’ my local asian mart sells, made from fermented pinapple.

Oat milk is the big one to me. I think its so much tastier than dairy milk.

In addition to what was already said, you probably will go to the restroom more often, as Vegan food tends to be less calorie dense and more fiber rich, so you tend to eat more, in terms of ‘actual volume of food’ (even if, often, its still lower caloric intake). A bigger concern isn’t really ‘more often’ so much as ‘irregularly’, or ‘painfully’.

More or less.

Current odds I’ve seen is that Pa is ‘the state’ that decides the election about 1/3 of the time, with the other 6 ‘battleground’ state making up most of the rest of the 2/3s

Flour tends to not get crispy, starch is better.

In general, I’ll press the tofu, cube it, toss it in starch, pan fry with oil, then toss with salt+pepper or other seasonings, or top with a sauce. Most common sauce is something like:

dab of oil, briefly fry minced garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes

1/4 cup lemon juice

3 tbsp brown sugar

tbsp each of: soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil

finish with tbsp starch in 1/4 cup water

Sometimes add extra seasoning to sauce, like 5 spice

Tofu, soy curls, tvp, rice, black beans, lettuce tomato onion garlic. That list is probably 90 percent of my diet.

Most common dinners are crispy tofu (in various ways; citrus, salt+pepper, Mongolian) or salad (lpts of varieties here; ‘chicken’ salad with soycurls, black bean salad, warm grain salad probably being the top 3)

Hell yeah, love pixel art! Let me know if you want any resources or advice for it, though the best way to get better at art is to just do it a lot imo.

I sill love the Frank Frazetta Eowyn art, where her whole ass is out, as, since she’s dressed in ‘normal’ Rohirrim armor, implies all the Rider of Rohan are thotted up, ass out

I have some resentment, personally. Not that there aren’t valid reasons for it, especially in our broken system, but I have a highly restricted diet (dozens of deadly food allergies), so I can’t eat out ever (due to cross contamination being a roll of the dice), and even most prepared foods I can’t have.

So I spend a lot of time and energy, cooking delicious, cheap, vegan meals for myself, despite having a blue-collar job. And it does bother me, seeing people who can eat ‘whatever’ just eating slop.

Even when I feel like shit, and eat ‘slop’, it’s generally a stir fry, something like rice, (frozen) veggies, and sauce, thrown in a pan for five minutes. I rationally understand the various reasons people might not have the energy or cooking skills for even that, but emotionally, it does bother me.

Exactly my opinion. It is interesting in some ways, but it apes the mmo style of quest design too closely for my tastes.

I do think its hornyposting, but also my barometer for such things is way off, since I’m ace.

Mostly, I hate the trope of ‘lets just draw X, but all hot young (usually anime, though not here) women’

(but also, I usually don’t comment either way, just ignore and possibly block user)

I genuinely hate the description of AI fucking up as ‘hallucinating’. AI doesn’t need more humanized than it already is. Just call it what it is; AI being wrong. Confidently, unfixable wrong. ‘AI hallucination’ was a term that was invented in the early 2000’s, by the techbros of two decades ago. And it sucks as a term.

I feel like the internet loves to shit on people with psychotic disorders, and its generally accepted, even among otherwise pretty progressive circles.

wdym ‘Schizophrenia Simulator’?

Its not really cool to l lie about food allergies; doing so makes it less likely for people with food allergies to be taken seriously.

Though tbh, I avoid eating out unless I literally have too anyway, been poisoned too many times from I assume cross contamination or negligence.

(and, I am also vegan, which doesn’t make ‘eating out’ easier)

is is the case with most health issues, certain deficiencies can cause certain issues. But, outside of having a specific deficiency, its all placebo.

Will taking vitamin D and B12, magnesium, etc. cure your AuDHD? No.

Could taking them make you feel better in some ways, freeing up some spoons/mental space to better handle whatever issues in your life that requires energy and focus to deal with? Yes, its possible. Assuming you are deficient, which, minor to moderate deficiencies in those three aren’t uncommon.

That would literally kill me (well, probably actually just sent me to the hospital).

I thought, when I first went vegetarian (vegan now) years ago, that I wouldn’t need to specify ‘no fish’ when I ordered food labeled ‘vegetarian’. But Fish sauce or Oyster sauce has sent me to the hospital at least once.

I no don’t really eat out ever anymore, as I don’t feel like gambling on the 1% cross contamination chart (got several other allergies too), but its crazy to me that food labeled as vegetarian is allowed to have fish sauce in it.

A lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two.

but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms

You are right. But like, ‘learning to do sportstalk’ to help with ‘socialization’ (especially at work) doesn’t make me like sports. If anything, I kinda makes me think its dumber.

But yeah, sports, beers/alcohol, guns, hunting, all classic ‘guy talk’ I’m decently good at, despite none being things I’m really into.