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Second for Half Baked Harvest. I love how cozy the site looks and the recipes are great

My first instinct was to say no, but as I thought about it more it became more of a gray area. Comics use art and illustration to convey scene, and the only "reading" per se is dialogue and sometimes narration. Most novels lean more on description and imagination. But certain books/plays like Hamlet or The Iliad are also mostly dialogue/narration yet we consider those to be "reading", essentially just without the art.

I've been a Steam only buyer for a long time. There are so many cool features and extra stuff, most games work out of the box, and they've been putting in a lot of effort on the linux scene with proton and the deck. But even despite all that, I'm starting to move to GOG. The sad truth is that you don't own any of your games on Steam. I've been having more and more games be removed from my library, and games that either just don't work or are "updated" into something worse. Not Steam's fault really, but GOG is much more consumer friendly and I actually get files I can use and keep forever, no required updates or DRM. I really like Steam, and am having a hard time leaving it, but GOG is just the better choice from a long term and consumer ethics perspective.

XMPP/Jabber comes to mind. You can self host or pay for hosting on a service like Snikket. The protocol supports OMEMO encryption and you can use whatever client you want (Cheogram, Dino, Gajim, etc) on any platform like android or linux. Cheogram is even coming out with a web interface for it, and it supports calling and video calling.

Threat model wise, whatever server you pick would have to be targeted directly, and would therefore be immune to sweeping regulation that directly targets big hitters like Signal. And if you pay for servers outside the EU, even more so

Ironically, lots of food actually has wood in it. Any time you see "cellulose" or "cellulose powder" on the ingredient list it's actually just wood pulp. It's used as a thickening agent

Garbage plates sound horrible in theory but they are litterally so good. They hit hard after a night out or if you have the night munchies. I'm not sure if they're popular elsewhere but they are a staple of upstate New York

Lol I was half asleep when I read that ngl

Fun fact, Ramen was originally Chinese, derived from a dish called la mian

These three from Babish are my favorite, especially the chili garlic one.

If you wanna go really cheap you can just add colby jack cheese, curry powder and onion powder to chicken ramen, which was my go to in college

Highly underrated, but a good thermometer can help a lot with cooking meats. Getting the right temp is much more accurate than cooking by sight or feel, and having one that reads in under a second is super convenient.Typhur makes some quality ones that I like to use

Hard agree. I feel like you can cook almost anything with just a cast iron pan and a chef's knife. It's the essentialist's gadget of choice

Canned chipotles in adobo are really good additions to anything savory. Add it to mayo or mac n cheese for a smoky & tangy depth of flavor. Plus where I live it's like 70¢ a can, which is a great price for how much it upgrades the dish.