Notices by Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)

@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?

@compuguy @BeAware easy to say, harder to do.

It is healthy to have a default, good server. It is unhealthy to demand people do a bunch of homework before signing up.

The correct answer is that our default server should be good. And if it is not, that’s what has to change.

This has always been the downside of how a lot of FOSS is actually run: a single person, or small oligarchy, maintain absolute power over a project.

In the beginning it seems like a good idea. But if the project takes off, it always ends up held back by those who built it.

Just as mastodon is dramatically more popular, its leadership refuse to listen to those who want to drag it into the future.

#opensource #foss #mastodon https://h-i.social/@are0h/112876401879203378

@thomasfuchs can a place with no atmosphere smell of anything? 🤔

@thomasfuchs those are great

@thomasfuchs pretty weird that the palindrome is in decimal notation rather than binary, though

@thomasfuchs finally a reason to use a 192.168 network above .2

@thomasfuchs @hart that laptop looks off by a decade or so

@thomasfuchs I know Americans did. Did anyone else?

@beyondmachines1 @HauntedOwlbear but everyone also hates emails

@thomasfuchs you say tomatum, I say Bibendum

@thomasfuchs I’m utterly mystified that everyone who owns a convenience store or fast food restaurant with a parking lot is not adding charging stations. Everyone knows gas is a money loser, and the real money is in crap purchased while waiting. There’s more waiting, so more profit to be had.

At the least, this is a great chance for the US to finally up its vending machine game. Bring back the automat!