Notices by Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte That game is so stressful. My kids love it, but even the thought of playing it blows my brain up

@skinnylatte @jalefkowit “oh no, my meshtastic setup needs some tweaking”

@skinnylatte seems pretty short on seals

@skinnylatte have you read Parable of the Sower by Butler?

It’s very American, more American than almost any work of fiction ever. But it’s a lot of what prepared me for this.

@skinnylatte I started playing last of us 2, got to that scene, quit, and have not played since.

@skinnylatte I just (finally) dropped my prime membership.

I assume I will signup and binge this at some point. But… not quite ready.

I also just reread the whole series. So it may be a bit soon.

@skinnylatte @be absolutely. I never ate frozen or canned food as a kid. But my kids have grown up with canned beans (and a few non-staples).

I think the frozen meals showed up because as the kids entered teenagerhood one of them just one day decided to try some of TJ’s, when they were shopping with us. Then it was a feeding frenzy between the two, always fighting for who got what. Since then, we’ve had to keep them stocked.

I think for my kids it’s that they aren’t quite willing to cook, don’t really like leftovers, and want the independence that they get from grabbing a frozen meal (as long as we’ve shopped recently).

It’s quite foreign to me, but, for them, it’s better than just plain ramen, and they actually are stretching their palate.

@skinnylatte it’s weird to say, but somehow Trader Joe’s frozen food made my kids more adventurous eaters. Neither used to tolerate any spice. But a Mac and cheese with some hatch green chile put them both on the path. And both of them eat stuff from TJ’s that they’d never order in a restaurant or eat if we cooked.

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@skinnylatte is there a non-orange habanero? I feel like I’ve only seen the one.

It is right at, but above, my spice tolerance. I love all spice. But my love does not match my tolerance. (My wife is the opposite: she can handle almost anything, but does not crave more of it like I do.)

@skinnylatte I don’t think I’ve ever tasted California water that didn’t taste too treated.

But then (for better or worse) Portland is the largest city in the country by far with (largely) untreated water.

Although I’m in sf right now (I would have reached out but you seemed to be in Monterey), and it’s not as bad as I remembered.

@skinnylatte s/Monterey/California/

@skinnylatte ah, interesting

@skinnylatte does it literally have sweet potato in it adding scent? Or does it just smell a bit like it?

(I’ll tryanything (veg) at least once)

@skinnylatte 👀

I love tofu. But… it’s not exactly long on flavor. I love it best when surrounded with fats, chile, and umami

@skinnylatte I’d be very interested in whether we had any overlap in how we like tofu.

I grew up vegan, with a soy/tofu “dairy” (as we called it) on the commune. I am confident we were the only ones making tofu within hundreds of miles in the 70s and 80s in Tennessee.

We may have done some “yeast cheese” crimes, and should not be forgiven for “soysage”. But… we never tried to recreate the flavor of meat. And to this day, my whole family avoids the fake meat that tries to taste like meat meat.

I just use tofu to add protein to dishes that otherwise would lack it. And I have many — but mostly American-ish — ways of doing so. (But I make no promises that anyone else would like any of them.)

I have loved most of the veg Asian dishes I have had with tofu. But as you point out, it is hard to find a restaurant selling a tofu dish that a vegetarian can eat. For me, korean is the worst combo of “that sounds delicious and amazing” and “oh there’s shrimp in it?”

@mekkaokereke isn’t Billie Jean a song about denying paternity? I can’t hear it any other way, and I just can’t appreciate it as a result

@mekkaokereke I have a mixed race friend who had a southern redneck (his words) grandmother. You can’t ever hear stories about her and think white women are innocent. She was racist to her own grandkids.

That, and who is in all those pictures spitting on the Black girls integrating schools? White women.

Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country

@thomasfuchs …how do we stop even looking at the dog? Am I reading that sign right?

@thomasfuchs welcome to town!

That’s quite a drive.

You here for xoxo like everyone else?