Not even making a profit yet, but has money to burn in politics and bribing rich kids to do what they want.

Yeah this is exactly where I went too but also add

say “I am a female”
I am a female
Oh my god ^{I am gonna fetishize this so hard}

Can’t believe we consider this “AI” when it has the same spelling skills as the pregnant yahoo answers shitpost video.

Gapalic bike ride?
Goalacc ride!
Obby gapax ride!

Agreed with avoiding it. I have thought occasionally about psychedelics but like my brain doesnt need shit to get weird. And the after affects and possible addiction seems rough.

Lucid dreams never work for me. If I am conscious while dreaming I suddenly get uncreative and I enter into “The Black Void” and I proceed to hang out there in real time until I wake up.

I can maybe summon a bouncy ball to entertain myself but basically the bounce is unreliable…

I am super intrigued what all that would do to me but also yeah I already have adverse reactions to basic medicine. I will stay clear. Maybe just mugwort and lavender.

Sure. Though I chalk that up to the fact that probabilities exist in our world and my brain making up something from the available archetypes of people is gonna end up matching someone just from the sorta averaging probability.

If I dreamed of specifics and truly unique combinations like a pastor with pink hair who rides a horse and met them, I would put more thought to it.

Otherwise it is just chalked up to the average ordinary everyday miracles like a song coming on that matches your thoughts or mood or thinking you hear the thoughts of someone close to you. Incredible coincidence and pattern recognition that the world and we are capable of.

Ok, so that is wild.

I always wonder what would happen if someone like me with already intense dreams would take something like that. Cause people be dying in my dreams all the time. But I do really like the cinematic dreams though. Extra points if you fall to your death and you wake up just as you smack into your own mattress and have to question if it really was just all a dream…

I have taken melatonin before but I swear that and nyquil doesnt doesnt give me sleep but gives me a coma.

Yeah, the ones where you don’t wake up and your brain decides to do the whole hyper realistic pain thing is bullshit.

I once derailed an entire dream about racing dinosaurs in go karts because I got out of the car and stepped on some glass and had to spend the rest of the time dreaming tending to the wound and pain of pulling them out and bandaging my foot because I wouldn’t wake up. Insane what will and won’t wake you up.

I mean I get weird dreams all the time. Cities that don’t exist, whole worlds and people I have never met.

Craziest one I think for me personally was:
I was being held in a hospital for the mentally insane child. Now I was not a child and it made it very awkward cause they did not like me and kept threatening to dissolve my body in acid or let the lead doctor know I wasnt a psychopathic child. Now the head doctor was Frankenstein, the monster, not the Dr who was a monster; who if you stayed still wouldn’t notice you much. So I had to pretend to be into shape puzzles and torture, while hiding at the sound of heavy boots.

Anyways, after 2 months I planned my escape by pretending to be a pregnant woman to get transferred to a new hospital.
I enjoyed the view of the California coastline as I rode away in that limo taking off my fake belly and wig to the shock of everyone in the audience. I had won.

Then I woke up from my 40 minute nap.

Truly some amazing musicians, could complain about his mom dancing with his best friend to a song about depression and not miss a single note.

The Wrecks

Currently love their pushback on anti empathy in the most punk way.
They have a song Sonder and Soapbox that are great when you are feeling like you are stuck with people who don’t care.

They perform great live.

My mom was a drunk and would be unreliable for food and the stuff she made was often bad so if I wanted to eat I needed to figure something out. My first real cooking experience was trying to impress her with a nice meal and it worked. The monster liked me, and food was a great answer for making a bad situation better.

After that it has been… Whatever works. I talk to people about their tricks and try cuisine I might not otherwise like cause it is good to know. Get cookbooks and watch cooking shows sure but also exploring the concepts behind how and why. I chose to learn basics. Why something turns out the way it does from the way you cook it (poached, baked, broiled, fried) and then add to it and adjust.

Humans are great puzzle solvers and cooking is a personal puzzle for what tastes good and what you have to work with. Get the basics down and then be ok with mistakes.

Grok: Hold on let me get more context

Grok: I wish I hadn't

Ah, Another microwaved meal of an ad.

I’m gonna assume not rotoscoped

He went around and handed the worst people that will shout his praises or what he wants to hear shouted for peanuts the loudest megaphones he could buy. And then acts like the noise is millions of people cause of how loud he made them.

Yup, apparently just need ketamine and loud sycophants to ignore the world.

The first piece of tech for doing sous vide was a piece of lab equipment used in chemistry.
Its a technique of making stuff work and can be done with a thermometer and a pot of water.

I would say definitely get a vacuum sealer, you can do the cold water and ziploc trick but it will never really truly work and I had to use a wet towel to keep the food submerged when I was doing it. But that means you can still if you are ok with weighting the bag.
I buy a bulk box of the premade bags from a restaurant supply store cause they are cheap and then I can individually seal meat when I buy it and freeze them, makes portioning and doing a quick sous vide faster too.

Then if you want to be cheap you can get a used immersion cooker, it doesnt touch food, just water usually. I usually use a pot on some cork board wrapped in a towel. Some chefs really like using a cooler cause it is insulated.
ANOVA is a good brand just get controls on the device cause it is just easier and faster.

Ok here is another I am fond of.

Make a large cheap meat, (chicken thighs, pork roast, tritip) butcher into smaller pieces and wrap well and freeze, even better if you can vacuum seal it. You can basically sous vide in a pot of boiling water and then use in lots of ways. Fajitas, casserole, poutine, shredded BBQ sandwich, etc.

I do this with tonkatsu and charsiu which are nice to have and do as a big batch.

Bread machine, and if you can get a cheap pizza stone or large piece of metal you can help it out as that will act as a heat sink and help it maintain a temp