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Dunno if this has to do with the local weather, but for me it's every time I buy them — a week later and they become soft rocks. Even if I use dry spoons and avoid steam from the pots.

Eventually I simply gave up: if a recipe requests either I swap it with the fresh stuff. Except for my fried chicken mix, but then I try to use the whole package ASAP.

Essential: refined salt, white sugar, some tasty fat (see notes), garlic, black and red peppers, limes, smoked paprika, cinnamon, vanilla extract

Important: ginger, brown sugar, soy sauce, red wine vinegar, parsley, basil, thyme, oregano, cilantro seeds, MSG, cloves, EVOO, lard, butter, some chicken stock

Nice to have: allspice, juniper, coarse salt, sage, rosemary, cumin, sesame oil, fish stock, nutmeg, dill, aniseed, bay leaves, curry powder (I think it's garam masala?)

Typically not bothering with: onion and garlic powder (I like them, but they clump too much), store-bought spice mixes (I like making those at home).

Notes:

• by "refined" and "coarse" salt I mean solely the texture. Both are typically sea salt where I live.
• the white sugar in question is cane sugar.
• what I call "tasty fat" means EVOO, a yellower lard, or butter. I want at least one, in addition to the soy oil I use as an ingredient (not as seasoning — stuff has no taste, that's the point).
• I'm fairly specific on red wine vinegar. I'm not really a fan of apple vinegar, and what's locally sold as "alcohol vinegar" (it's 4% acetic acid, 96% water, and nothing else) is for me a cleaning agent, I almost never use it for cooking.
• "chicken stock" usually means bouillons for practical reasons, but I do prefer homemade stock. Same deal with fish stock, I usually buy Japanese dried dashi.

Numbers are all made up stuff, and they're all the same. Here, lemme prove it; let a=b, and...

a² = ab             // multiplying both sides by "a"
2a² = a²+ab         // adding a² to both sides
2a²-2ab = a²-ab     // subtracting 2ab from both sides
2(a²-ab) = 1(a²-ab) // isolating (a²-ab)
2 = 1               // dividing both sides by (a²-ab)

From there you can prove any number is any number. 36=36 or 36=8 or 36=π.

Guys, please don't call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.

On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.

It's like one of my cats. When she's doing something silly, and I grab the phone to take her pic, all I get is a picture of her butt. Because to observe something you need to interact with it, and when I interact with her she collapses into the "I wants buttslaps!" state.

And before I watch it, she's in a superposition of states. Much like Schrödinger's cat. However her states aren't dead vs. alive; they're "sleeping", "licking her own buttocks", and "ruining my Christmas decoration".

Ouch. That's awful.

It's a Troy under the glorious Soviet Russia protection, tovarish.

In Soviet Russia, you don't stuff the horse. The horse stuffs you!

Pick the one you like the best, really.

Also note that, no matter which one you choose, the developers don't matter that much. What matters is the admins, the people running your instance. Your PieFed account is in piefed.social where the dev (rimu) is the admin, he looks fairly chill.

Reminder the Nazi put "work sets you free" (Arbeit macht Frei) on the gates of multiple concentration camps. Don't let capitalism treat you like a camp prisoner of Nazi Germany.

This looks like a twist of what I call the "cat shit problem":

A cat shitting on your front yard is bad. But an elephant doing it is even worse. Both are shit and you want neither; but elephant shit is a considerably worse problem.

However, every bloody single time this subject pops up, you'll see two sets of muppets:

• "They're both shit, so there's no difference."
• "Elephant shit is worse, so cat shit is not shit."

So. The orange guy in your comic is in the first set.

nyaa.si has a bunch. Just be careful to not download the manga instead. (Both are under the same section, "Literature".)

Siegfrieda sometimes watches anime with me. Pic related:

The series is My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1. But she basically watches any series.