Notices by Nomdeb (nomdeb@mstdn.social), page 3

@RickiTarr @Nickiquote I'm half Indian, so I've never used a rice cooker, but a time saver for me was when a Bombay friend told me just chuck in a bit more than 2 to 1 water to rice, boil it down till you see the air bubbles, then pop on the lid and steam on low for 5-10 minutes. I used to steam cook it before. For quick meals, that's a huge benefit.

@inthehands @BruceMirken @KimPerales Oh yes, I don't think he's trying to build or govern. He's definitely trying to destroy. But I cannot bring myself around to him being competent, given his track record with other businesses, and having watched him throw things at walls to see what might stick at Twitter. He wastes so much money doing this also, which is the irony.

@BruceMirken @KimPerales Watching Musk's leadership at helm of Tesla it's hard for me to see him as anything but a fool who lucked out and who found gullible investors. I'm reading market analysts "still" thinking Tesla has a future. Based on Musk's "promises" of his AI and robotics. The car Musk did design (cybertruck) falls apart. Tesla while a decent car, is horribly outdated. And Musk is killing the brand name by the hour. I'm just not seeing it. Other firms, yes. Musk's? I don't see it. :)

Remember them for the cowards and collaborators that they are.

"Jeff Bezos fund ends/does not continue support for climate group."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/jeff-bezos-climate-group-trump-bezos-earth-fund-science-based-targets-initiative-decarbonisation-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url

#USPol #ClimateChange #Bezos

Assume Trump is too stupid to immediately back off playing let's pretend powerful POTUS by initiating absurd trade war with OUR ALLIES, and Canada and Mexico will respond strategically by targeting red state products. How can we Americans assist in making it painful for red state legislators & Trump supporters. Should we also boycott the same products to help send targeted message? Wondering if Trump enablers are akin to addicts who need to hit rock bottom before getting help? #USPol

@evan Bloomberg Philanthropies is going to make up the difference as they did the last time Trump and Republicans were derelict in their duty. I am so embarrassed by Americans that voted for Trump or who didn't show up to vote. What a statement about how many ignorant people there are in this country. :( https://www.bloomberg.org/press/un-special-envoy-michael-r-bloomberg-announces-effort-to-ensure-u-s-honors-paris-agreement-commitments/

@mekkaokereke @thadd as a shareholder I would be very upset with any company I invested in that did away with DEI. I know that it benefits me as an investor. Besides the moral matter of course.

I read that Zuckerberg is calling people who leave his platforms, "virtue signalers." Yup. Indeed. I'd also add, "ethics and morality signalers and patriots." We should all signal that we don't support this kind of behavior. With action.

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Ethics #ProtectDemocracy #USPol

@LifeTimeCooking I missed this post. We also lived in Lebanon (Beirut for a few years) and I love Lebanese food also. I have fond memories of street corner schwarma on arabic bread. Yum. Even though I was so young, food memories can be so strong!

@LifeTimeCooking I'm in America now, and I have never had shwarma the way I remember it. I'm still on the hunt. :)

@molly0xfff this is just like masking. I wear a mask everywhere that I am with people I don’t know and in enclosed spaces. In 10, 15, or more years, I would rather look back at some minor inconvenience that turned out to be unnecessary, than have some bad long-term effects (Viruses can be bastards, for example post polio syndrome), and regret that I did not wear a mask.

@GottaLaff Trump has only ever run a small family business. Even though he was POTUS he still has no experience in running things. It was a total clown show chaos before and it will be so again. And as always he'll be scraping the dregs of the barrel.

@btp Or Palestinians who KNOW that Trump has said Netanyahu hasn't gone far enough and that Kushner would like to turn Gaza into a beachfront development, watching Americans claim to care about Gaza above all else, but who won't suffer the consequences of their "taking a stand" vote, who are helping to make Trump and an even worse nightmare for Palestinians a reality. #USPol

Finding a strong financial advisor when you are pretty savvy about personal finance and investing is turning out to be difficult. I've been given inaccurate tax information and cookie cutter information, and I'm tearing my hair out. At least we are saving on fees as DIYers still. But realizing for people who aren't interested in personal finance and investing, how easy it would be to get shoddy advice and not push back against such sub-par advice from this field.

Trump doesn't have the vision or the leadership or management or intellectual skills to do anything other than cheat and lie and be divisive and be an authoritarian. And because he's a big black hole of emotional neediness desperate for approval, he'll always be manipulated by people who will flatter him to forward their own agenda. #USPol

Trump would add twice as much to national debt as Harris, non partisan study finds. #USpol #Economy

[gift link] https://wapo.st/47ZeuYM

@w7voa The only news is that Speaker Johnson belongs to a party that nominated a felon and a rapist and a national security threat. THAT is the news. Why are we parroting these unhinged people and calling it news? #USPol

I have to say that with my online searches about palliative care, hospice, end of life, lymphoma, kidney disease, funerals, etc. the stuff that's being presented to me on YouTube, etc. is pretty funny. :)

#EndOfLifeCare

@tzimmer_history They said we were being alarmist about abortion. Now women are dying. It's real. Take these extremist authoritarians seriously.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/06/21/most-obgyns-say-pregnancy-related-mortality-worsened-after-roe-v-wade-was-reversed-poll-finds/?sh=a6a2f5b55d5c

@Gargron and that would also be a great way for people to learn new languages (give or take, I know subtitles can be really off sometimes. :))