Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 3

@mattsheffield I'd think that "rather than" should have a prepositional object. I'm not a native speaker, but I've never seen this construction. I'm familiar sentences like "God is a Being which nothing is greater than," but this doesn't seem to be that.

@mattsheffield Here's a sentence in your article that you didn't:

"Throughout his political career, Trump has always betted on getting people to vote for him who didn’t like him based on what political scientists call “negative partisanship,” people basing their vote on opposing a candidate rather than."

@leslienoon @b_age

I can't believing all of them are racists. Not because I think people are angels who would never harbor racist thoughts, but because in every other Western country, the racist vote hovers between 5%-35%. And arguably, immigrants in those other countries present more of a cultural divide than in the US.

I'd sooner believe that many Trump voters are desperate and have given up on any establishment politicians looking out for them. They voted Trump because he's chaos.

@Reiddragon But it wasn't just a far left tantrum. If what you say is right, then Trump's own top general Mark Milley calling him "fascist to the core" and Trump's own chief of staff John Kelly saying he fits the definition of a fascist should have moved the needle somewhat. As far as I can tell, it completely didn't.

@b_age The fact that Trump won the popular vote makes it impossible for me to ignore the fact that the Dems' inability to understand those folks is how he won.

In a previous post, I whined about how undoable a recipe for Crepes Suzette was.

I would like to amend that post with the following review by Swatra:

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon

Lancaster's Tree Frog (Isthmohyla lancasteri) photographed by Raby Núñez

I’ve been trying to stay calm and positive, but fuck it, I’m so angry

@farah anger can be a positive thing, especially now.

@willie1foot I don't think they're dumb, just ignorant. As in, not interested enough to know anything at all about politics.

Maybe this headline is the most important of all today.

https://www.latintimes.com/did-joe-biden-drop-out-google-trends-presidential-election-trump-harris-564875

On days like these, it's important to look at crows, pigeons, seagulls and other animals outside your house, or at your pets if you have any, and contemplate their unawareness of, and indifference to, who's the President of the United States.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Nombre de Dios Tree Frog (Isthmohyla insolita) photographed by Eduardo Boza Oviedo

@n1xnx Jamie Oliver published a book of 30-minute recipes. I remember that they tried to get average home cooks to cook these within the allotted time. They went overtime very often.

@madies That's more manageable. I apparently also need to buy a crepe pan and spend 20 bucks on a bottle of cointreau (I need 90 ml).

@WearsHats

Can't wait to go to my fishmonger to ask for sturgeon. They'll say they can get it for me, but they have to order it. I wait for two weeks. They call me to tell me the good news. I go there, they present me with a whole-ass sturgeon, and I say, "Took you long enough! One ounce, please. And... can you slice it paper-thin?"

@UkeleleEric "Step 1: own your own restaurant"

@xconde Until I have access to a massive, industrial-size kitchen of a major restaurant, I don't see I have any choice.

This utter lunacy from a recipe for Crepes Suzette (serves 4) from Le Cordon Bleu Classic French cookbook.

Somehow, this cookbook not only expects me to have room in my kitchen for 16-20 individual plates, while I'm cooking, but also for all 16-20 individual plates to somehow be warmed, while I'm cooking.

Talamanca tree frog (Isthmohyla infucata) photographed by Eduardo Boza Oviedo