Yeah it comes out pretty light if you use black chickpeas with normal tahini, but if you use black chickpeas AND black tahini it’s much much darker.

Nope, that could totally be spinach artichoke. I just recently made hummus with black chickpeas, and it looked similar to this. But lots of dips look alike.

Black chickpeas make hummus that looks like that, that’d be my guess.

It’s been so long, but I remember loving the Black Widow and the…Interceptor? Getting myself in the perfect position to just absolutely wreck the other side felt so good, especially when stealthed in the Widow. Again I’m having trouble recalling specifics, but I remember the matchmaking being incredibly solid which is why the game was so consistently good. Sometimes things were lopsided, but more often than not it was was good balanced fun, while still being challenging.

Yess! I put a huge number of hours into this game. It had such satisfying mechanics. Haven’t thought about it in a long time, but one of my favorites.

It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

I moved to California about a decade ago, and I still struggle to fully grasp the scale of this place. Think about this example: CA grows 80% of the world’s almonds, but almonds are not native to CA and they consume an insane amount of water. I saw a statistic somewhere that the few thousand almond farmers in the state use something like 30 times more water than the entire city of Sacramento and all its residents.

I know farming is incredibly difficult with barely any profit margin, but crops like almonds simply aren’t sustainable, so the cost to grown them and the price to buy them should reflect that.

Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.

Same. The cat’s cute, but I hope no pregnant people like to buy juice in that neighborhood…

For those who don’t know, toxoplasmosis (a parasite commonly found in cat feces) usually isn’t serious for healthy adults, but for people with weak immune systems it’s no joke, and it can cause miscarriages and birth defects during pregnancy, which is serious as hell.

That’s not how slurs work. That word is a slur, even if your intention isn’t explicitly bigoted. But in the content of your comment, you’re still using it exactly the way a bigot would use it as a slur.

That’s a wild take.

I think you have it the wrong way around: the movies are for everyone, the comics are for the super fans. Not much more to it than that, but getting this worked up about a fictional universe is not healthy.

Also, watch your slurs, most people don’t like ableism around these parts.

I really appreciate it when colleagues check in right before a meeting via chat just to make sure at least one person has something they actually need to talk about. If not, we skip it and go back to our work. Some teams do this as a habit, others meet anyway just to shoot the shit if there’s nothing work-related to discuss. My team is the former, thankfully.

Ugh, I feel you Todd. I feel you.

Of course we need mass protest, it’s critical for building solidarity and sending messages to those in currently power, but by itself it doesn’t solve the problems. Sites like the one mentioned in the article are kind of a bandaid, sure, but when real peoples’ lives are on the line, and a bandaid donated by the community could save their life, why would you dismiss it out of hand like that? Seems pretty crass to me. Bigger systemic solutions are way better, obviously, but when the current power structure is incapable of providing those solutions, local communities need to come up with their own.

An effective political movement needs protest to expose the problems and bring people on board, and then the movement needs to be get involved in local and national politics by running for office or working to elect people who share the values of those protesting, to convert that solidarity into political power. More than 7 million people turned out to protest last time. What, specifically, would be different about your full massive protest? How would you organize it differently to be more effective than the no kings protests? And would your new mass protest solve the practical problems the orgs in the article are working to solve on the ground right now?

This is a great question, I’ll be watching the replies. I had a similar thought this morning as I was checking how my very humble ETF investments were looking, and I remembered that NVIDIA is a chunk of one of them…

I don’t have much disposable income to invest, but I like to put a little bit in non-fossil fuel ETFs, and I feel like they’ll get super risky once the bubble pops (which I agree, it will).

Ugh I’m disappointed that she ended up apologizing. Nothing she said was wrong, and it’s refreshing to hear a slightly different take than usual on mainstream media. I recently listened to an interview Amanpour did (I think on Jon Stewart’s podcast?), and it’s clear she understands what actually went on in this genocide.

The fact that any of the hostages were kept alive means that they were fed with food, which is more than most Gazans have had these last years. There’s no arguing that they were treated badly, they were hostages in a horrific genocide, but her point is totally valid.

I feel this. A few weeks ago I was having problems with the headset I normally use for meetings, so I had to dial into the call on my phone while still watching the screenshare on my computer. When the meeting was over, I forgot I was still connected to the audio call on my phone, and I made a huge loud sigh followed by “ugggghhhh fuck this shit.” Everyone heard me and cracked up. I passed it off as me cursing out a different technical issue, but the people that knew, knew.

27 - Old enough that my eventual millennia of experiences can still give me the appearance of wisdom and maturity, but young enough to have a body that painlessly does what I want it to.

I would also ask the genie what their answer would be, but like, just out of curiosity, not to try to get one over on them. Don’t fuck with genies.