Sort of like a deluxe, Peruvian version of Scottish cottage pie, no?

And… gotta love those thinly-sliced red onions (and for me, habanero slices) soaked in lime juice in the fridge, overnight. I used to use them as a topping on all kinds of meals before my stomach finally gave out, lol.

This is a myth. You actually don’t.

No, I think that’s what OP’s question is all about-- more than ever, many/most people DO need to stay informed to a baseline extent. That’s because laws, policy and legal interpretation are changing hard and fast in the USA for example, and citizens who aren’t informed can be critically blindsided. That may result in their jobs suddenly vanishing for no good reason, discrimination being ratcheted up against them, their rights suddenly eroding (as we saw in the wake of Roe vs. Wade being revoked), and/or they’re now facing deportation or being held in a facility ‘just because.’ Or for example, many people depend on Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA and/or SSI to stay afloat, and those are all going to be cut down, evidently. So certainly, you’d want to be as prepared as possible for stuff like the above, while still retaining a healthy mindset.

Or for example, if you were in Great Britain and weren’t paying attention to the Brexit background, you may have been part of (and directly affected by), the voting disaster enabling the plan to go through.

Gonna take a detour here and mention the time that I tried to make tofu from scratch, starting with making soy milk from dried beans that I’d ordered just for the task:

The soy milk turned out surprisingly well, with the help of a semi-automated device, but I realised on the spot that most commercial soy milk has a tonne of sugar added to it, and I didn’t want to go down that route. In fact, it just about turned me off of soy milk permanently.

Anyway, I moved on to the tofu-making stage, and realised that both coagulants I tested (lemon juice and nigari powder) imparted a huge, unwanted taste to the tofu, on top of neither being all that great at coagulating the soy milk. In the end, I think I could have improved on this cooking disaster, but my motivation was gone at that point, and I wanted to move on.

There’s also the fact that no matter what a versatile food tofu is, it’s also a significantly processed one, and I wanted to move in the opposite direction. That said, I understand that fresh-made tofu in Japan and other places can be incredibly tasty, almost worth wolfing down straight with no cooking or spices.

I liked my original Mac too, but certainly missed the deluxe keyboard and two-button mouse. :S

Oh rabbits, was it really… that wild? oO

Exactly.
Such lovely, wonderful creatures, yet also such shameless bastards…

Now, those are some good, pretty-amazing pics, mais non?

(Eh, I’ve seen a lot of stuff in my life, particularly as a Zoo-worker over the years…)

Point is-- it’s a great post IMO!

Soapy-tasting wax, at that.

Hmm, nice stuff; thanks for sharing! I guess my biggest issues with using the IA is that it’s pretty slow, which is probably not a good combination for hotlinking about six images at a pop, up to a meg each, for dozens of offsite viewers at a time. I strongly suspect that it could be pretty pokey given those factors.

The IA of course is also a hot target by IP holders, and has gone down at times, and really, could vanish entirely at any point given the circumstances.

images uploaded to Imgur expire after a certain amount of time or if they get no views after a certain amount of time.

Actually I’ve had stuff that I uploaded privately ~10yrs ago that’s still up on Imgur, and I’ve had some public posts that got traction at the time deleted after only ~8mos or so, plus other combinations of those factors, including file size issues. Right now it’s pretty baffling trying to understand their method, and I would guess it’s more of just some internal issue relative to Imgur, for example, maybe they just say ‘this data bank is having issues, so let’s migrate the paid content, delete the rest, and retire the data bank, replacing it with newer hardware.’ Something like that, anyway…

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Mother of Pearl, I’d be happy just doing up files slightly under 1MB.

Really…??

Thanks!

Side note: my cat is already an expert at such regular donation, altho it’s always good to change things up, so to speak.

lol

Hmm, sounds like a good point. Here’s my sub:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

Can you tell me how our formatting might be messing search engines and stuff…?

(unlike Reddit, for example)

I use bold and italic a lot in post titles. Some of the other stuff wouldn’t make much sense I don’t think, but every little bit helps.

This is probably well known to many, but Steve Martin was a professional musician, magician and TV series writer before more commonly being known as a standup comic, actor, comedian, and later, film writer. Not to mention:

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life.

It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, ‘Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!’ Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.

Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:

What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. --WP

Haha, right…

So a load of wishful geniuses & wannabe comedians commenting here, but where’s someone like Sam Kinison to scream OHHHHHH!!!??

(oh, that’s right)

Wow, some major Jonny Hart vibes there!

I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.

It doesn’t look like you mentioned subscriptions, which gets you out of the ‘all’ / ‘filtering’ side of things entirely. But just as with Reddit, you’ll need to spend time building your personal feed over time and tweaking it.

The good news is that there’s no limit to your subscriptions (unlike Reddit’s cap of 50 displayed at any one time), but that you’ll need to use the right tools to search the Fediverse to find those communities you want to subscribe to.

The main tool I typically use seems to have a bug right now (based on the recent software upgrade?) but I suspect will be back up in a few days. You might take a look at this, tho, plus other resources.

Oh, hay-all yes!

Whoa man… it seems like this hilarious comic *might just* be starting back up after a bloody five-yr hiatus working on their video game. To wit:

https://www.deathbulge.com/comics