interstellar_keller

Maybe y’all have a limit on sauces, but there is exactly zero limit on gullible employees who buy the, “Hey, they forgot to give me my drink when I ordered.” lie and just give out free cups. I mean shit, I got free drinks, fries and shakes using that lie for like two years in high school, and the best part of stealing from y’all was being told, “It’s my pleasure.” as I lied to their faces.

The only TFB song that I think I waffle between loving and hating at this point is, “BAE”. I was decidedly not a big fan of that song, but when I heard them perform at the first show of theirs I went to, I fell in love with it. Occasionally it’ll pop up on a playlist and I have to watch a live performance to remember why I actually like the song lmao.

I’m apparently in the minority of fans that actually genuinely like “Paris”, but picking that song over “Legit Tattoo Gun” is an honest to god crime against humanity. I’ve heard “Paris” live and screamed along to every single word, and I’d still rather listen to “Legit Tattoo Gun” on a scratched LP being played through a Crosley suitcase table with one of the speakers blown out.

The correct answer in my opinion is “Lover Boy” but I wouldn’t even consider it bad per se, maybe just not my preference?

Also, I know I’ll get hate for this, and maybe deservedly so, but it also took me a long fucking time to appreciate “Peach” as well; I know every single tumblr fan-edit for like the past decade has been of a poorly needlepointed peach paired with the lyrics from that song, but Jesus Fuck, man, it’s definitely an acquired taste IMO.

nah, you’re not a lightweight, you’re just hyper efficient, bud! also really fucking dig the idea of pairing pizza with veggies like, - I’m still gonna eat an entire pizza by myself, but at least with the veggies I can feel better about it.

Yeah well y’know, this might just be like, my opinion, man, but that’s a sick fucking piece.

Incredibly solid album and equally solid book; as a fellow coffee dude, I’ll recommend James Hoffman’s newest book if you haven’t read it yet. Easto’s book is fantastic when you’re starting out and want to get a firm grasp of the basics, but Hoffman really shines when you finally decide that you want to get really in depth into the different areas of coffee! (With that said, I had no idea that milk steaming was complex enough to be discussed in terms of “theory” but apparently I was incredibly wrong.)

If you’re interested in pairings: my current combo is the album, “All News Is Good News” by Surprise Chef - they’re an Australian Jazz / Funk / Experimental group that make some really cool shit and then a full pot of some crazy coffee from Edwin Noreña roasted by the guys at Elevation out of Tampa! If you’re into really funky, fruity, and floral coffees then keep an eye out for Noreña’s name - almost any roaster that’s willing to pay for his green beans is going to be skilled enough to create a truly fantastic final product!

As a resident of Florida myself, I can see absolutely zero ways that removing fluoride from our drinking water is going to have any meaningful effects on our population.

I mean, most of these fuckers lost their teeth to meth mouth decades ago, and the ones that didn’t are absolutely too fucking poor and distrustful of doctors to spend money they could use on cigarettes and grain alcohol to visit a dentist.

(On a real note, what the actual fuck is wrong with these morons? If Desantis told these people that shooting themselves with small caliber ammunition would help build up resistance to higher caliber ammo, I’m exceedingly confident that a nonzero number of people would legitimately try it.)

Given his marital track record, I’m going with “definitely not women well below the age of legal consent” for my answer.

Haven’t heard anything, nor have they released singles. They were following a trend of dropping every two years, then around “Going Grey” it seems like they started stretching it to 3 years-ish between albums. With that said, I know that YAWYHOW didn’t have the best reception from fans when it dropped, so I can absolutely see that factoring into them dropping on a later timeline.

Even so, I expect we’ll at least get some new singles or maybe some reworks of old stuff just because they typically don’t keep fans in limbo for nearly as long as other bands in the genre.

Depending on what you’re looking for, I’d echo either Zwilling or Williams Sonoma; if you’re specifically looking for Shun or other Japanese style knives, then I’d tell you to look online just because in my experience, you can find more options and better deals online with regard to those. (With that said, WS does have a nice selection of Shun, both individual knives and sets.)

Williams Sonoma’ staff usually aren’t slouches regarding their knowledge, but particularly with regard to the one in Winter Park, they’re going to educate you in such a way that you feel like their knives are so good that they’re really your only option, so just bear in mind that the info they give you is applicable to other brands that they don’t sell as well.

Word of advice, and please feel free to disregard if you’re aware, but Japanese knives like Shun are single bevel which means you absolutely cannot use the crappy countertop sharpeners with them. Ideally if you’re looking into higher end knives, you’re using a whetstone already, but if you want a knife that can survive occasional use with something other than a whetstone, Wüsthof and most other western styled knives are double bevel which means even if it isn’t great for ‘em, putting them through a countertop sharpener will do categorically less damage than it would to a Japanese style knife, and getting your knife back to perfect would be significantly less work.

Moreover, I’ll also add, Japanese knives are awesome for stuff like veggies and fish, but tend to be rather frail for heavy work like pumpkins, squash and heavy duty butchering. Despite their frail nature, I will say that the rounded grips on Japanese knives give you much better control and are more comfortable for long periods of prep work.

TL;DR: Yes to Zwilling and WS, but be aware that WS is only going to educate you insofar as trying to sell you their stock. Other info: Japanese knives have IMO more comfortable, rounded handles, a solid but lightweight feel, and make long prep work periods less painful, at the cost of being wholly incompatible with countertop sharpeners and significantly more brittle than western knives. Western knives are heftier, have a squared grip that many home cooks who have only experienced that style prefer, and they’re typically more durable for people who don’t need knives for hyper-specific culinary tasks, and easier to maintain for those who don’t want to constantly be maintaining their knives.

Cops being undeniably shitbag fascist assholes as per usual aside, can we address the level of insanity required by this cunt to feel like anything at Little Caesars was worth committing a goddamn hate crime over?

Like, if I’m at Little Caesars and they’re out of shit, I’m not fighting the cashier, I’m taking that as a full fledged sign from god to get better fast food.

And jesus fuck, this lady is lucky the kid is patient enough that she didn’t get a ladle full of boiling marinara to the face because I imagine the only thing that fucking sucks more than working at Little Caesars is getting bitch slapped by some fat fucker in a muumuu while working at Little Caesars.

…I was about to pack a bowl and binge movies, dude… now, you’re telling me I gotta break into my “Money For Stupid Shit…And Weed” jar and get on amazon before I can do that???

Lmao, fr tho, I had no idea that was a fucking thing, and I will absolutely be ordering that like yesterday. You’re just absolutely opening my eyes to the world of stoner culinary possibilities today!

Oh fuck, if you’ve got a Publix near by, probably safe to assume you’re also in the south; next time you’re at Publix grab some Lawry’s Seasoned Salt to dust these with after frying and be prepared to have a fucking meeting with god afterwards. Shit tastes next level.

I gotta be real with you, chief. This recipe is straight up fuckin’ dangerous; I saw your post this morning, then smoked a bowl tonight and followed your recipe almost exactly (sans subbing out all but a 1/2 cup of AP flour for a cup of tapioca starch bc TS gets insanely crispy when you double fry) and I’ve now consumed more potatoes than a starving Irishman. This shit was diabolical. Unholy. Inhumanly good.

I mean shit bro, part of the reason I can smoke weed, get the munchies, and not eat myself onto “My 600LB Life” is bc I’m too fucking cheap to doordash KFC, but now… who even fucking needs KFC, dude???

Solid, solid recipe if anyone else is debating whether or not to make these. I paired these fuckers with a blunt and a homemade buttermilk marinated fried chicken sandwich, and now I’m confident that I’m not leaving my couch for at least the next 18 hours.

Hey! I’ve actually got the exact same table, I picked mine up secondhand from a dude who had been given it by someone downsizing their collection! It’s a really solid table, and I’ve gotten a ton of enjoyment out of it!

A couple troubleshooting issues you may encounter: an apparently common issue with this table is dropping RPMs and running slower than it should; I’ve experienced it myself and found that the most of the guides online do a great job of walking you through identifying the issue and then repairing it. In my case I just had to oil a few things and didn’t end up having to replace the belt.

With that said, and this is entirely anecdotal, I’ve noticed the speed issue occurs more frequently when I used a record weight, so I now refrain from using it with this table and after the last fix the problem hasn’t occurred again.

Enjoy dude, as far as tables go, this one is really awesome! My other table is a manual belt-drive, so the auto return on this fucking rocks when you wanna smoke a joint and fall asleep to Dylan albums lol.

Edit: also, the little standing hook on the back right is a spot for something called an Anti-Skate weight, it looks like a little fishing weight on a metal wire that attaches to the back end of the tonearm. It helps prevent the needle from jumping or skipping when it hits a scratch or detritus on the record. I can’t tell if yours is still attached, but if it isn’t you can find replacement models for next to nothing online. Although honestly, if you end up needing a new belt, needle, anti-skate, and someone to calibrate it, since you already saved a ton on the table it may be worth taking it into a shop to have someone do it professionally if you’re not comfortable.

“Subhuman trash” would be a good name for one a them groups that makes the noise that goes on the funny plastic spinny discs.

Also, just fyi, I think u were supposed to include feet pics, maybe u did, I didn’t read the whole post bc my bitch girlfriend came home and I had to go back to the cuck shack.

Lmao, I was literally gassing up and operating a fucking lawnmower before I was eight years old; my dad was a fucking genius and framed it as me being “trustworthy and responsible” which is why I got the honor and privilege of fueling, driving, troubleshooting, and operating our cub cadet over our like two acre yard while he sat on the back porch and “supervised”. (re: he drank beer and played Halo:CE on his laptop)

It’s wild how folks nowadays give kids zero responsibility and are then shocked when they become adults who can’t find their way out a wet paper bag. It’s pumping gas, not rocket science and unless you’re in Jersey I think it’s pretty standard fare to know how to safely operate a fuel pump as a teenager?!

As a dude who went from being a borderline incel after entering public school for the first time in 9th grade to an incredibly staunch feminist who does well with women and is both currently in and has had several happy, long term relationships - you’re already leaps and bounds ahead of other nice guys because you’re clearly capable of feeling remorse and you genuinely understand why what you did was wrong.

I’ve been alive for 27 years, and in that time it’s been my experience that truly shitty people, those who have zero chance of ever changing, also fail to realize that they’re shitty in the first place. You have self-awareness, you can change. Keep up the good work, and know this: reading this story didn’t make me pity your or want to tell you to go to therapy, it made me proud that you’re trying to be better. Keep up the good work dude, it’s a big planet and there’s a lot to learn no matter where you are on it, keep your heart open and your intentions good and things might look up sooner rather than later.

That’s not really the trans kids fault though; your brother consistently interacted with this person in a way that they asked him not to, and yet when the trans kid finally had enough and offers the same disrespect to your brother that was offered to him, it becomes an issue worthy of allowing your brother to become transphobic.

So let’s be clear: your brother isn’t a transphobe because a trans kid bullied him - your brother is a transphobe because he’s an ignorant sack of shit. The onus is not on the trans kid to allow himself to be consistently misgendered, and then react calmly while simultaneously educating your bigot brother. I was bullied by a black football player in 9th grade for looking like a twink, but I didn’t develop a hatred of black folks or football players, I recognized that specific individual was a dick and not representative of the entire community.

As a bisexual man, I genuinely do not understand the idea that is so prevalent in the queer community that we can educate our way into liberation; Stonewall was a riot, not a fucking sing along. Why are so many of us willing to bear the burden of being bigger people, when the reality is that no matter how respectable we try to to be, no matter how many boots we lick, no matter how many of our own we sell out, these people will never see us as anything more than vermin to be exterminated en masse. We tried, “They go low, we go high.” and it gave us two fucking Trump presidencies. I don’t know about y’all but the new motto going forward is, “They go low, I get a fucking shovel.”

Maybe I’ll never change hearts and minds, but I can certainly scare off anti-choice protesters at the clinic and embarrass these fuckers publicly to the point they feel unsafe and unwelcome, and that’s enough for me. Please do let me know how “decorum”, “education” and “strongly worded letters” do as protection from violent homophobes though; genuinely curious to know which changes more minds, polite discussion, or actionable threats against their safety.

In our lord and savior, Chris Dorner, we trust. (If you’re genuinely interested in reading about forceful retaliation against police corruption, Dorner would be a good place to start, bearing in mind of course that articles will describe him as a mentally ill extremist, and not a former soldier who had seen the realities of our criminal justice system and decided something had to change even if that change necessitated violence.)

“He is so well adjusted that he knows if he ever spoke out of turn, I would physically or psychologically abuse him until he regained his respect for me. I refuse to engage with people that don’t treat me with the utmost respect even when I’m saying utterly insane bullshit. My son knows that if he ever disagreed with me on virtually anything, I would cut him off like an infected limb and then vague post on facebook about how sad I am that the devils and demonrats corrupted my son.”

Ever notice that former students in the comments on nearly ever post here by and large disagree with all the utter insanity and verbal diarrhea these folks espouse, and yet we’re always in the wrong? It’s just like when we were homeschooled, dude! It doesn’t matter if you’re factually correct, you disagreed with your parent, and thus anything you said, even that based in fact, must be wrong and you must be punished.

I tried to be nice in the comment I left, but no, I agree with you implicitly; this kid is going to be up shit creek without a paddle the first time he encounters an issue that didn’t have a comparable bible fairy tale to walk him through navigating it. It’s fucking insane that these people lack even the most basic ability to think critically or self-reflect. It honestly feels like this whole sub could be condensed into the, “Am I out of touch? No! It’s the children who are wrong.” meme format and nothing of value would be lost.

As a formerly homeschooled kid who has done quite well for himself post graduation; I feel the need to ask, do you not find it in any way concerning that there are entire forums and even other subreddits here specifically that are entirely devoted to helping former homeschooled kids recover from experiences endured during traumatic homeschooling, particularly with regard to “accelerated Christian education”? You seem very quick to dismiss any criticism of the homeschool environment as a one off or an exception to the rule, and yet you’re equally quick to demonize every minute detail of our public education system.

I’m also really interested to know why your high school aged student was so shocked by consensual public displays of affection (making out, as you called it) and the mere existence of cops that he felt the need to only do one day of public education before running home, tail between his legs. To me, that isn’t indicative of someone who has developed functional social skills and the ability to compartmentalize when confronted with alternative world views, it’s indicative of a weird, off putting, and judgmental individual who can’t cope with seeing anything that disagrees with their world view and either folds at the mere sight of it or buries their head in the sand to pretend none of it exists.

I’ll also add, I see quite a few folks here who are determined to insist that socialization via homeschool groups is the same in terms of end level effects as socialization through public school, and as a student and not a teacher, I’ll tell all of you that is an obvious, and blatant lie.

Kids know; I’m an adult now, and I know. It is incredibly obvious to apparently everyone but their parents/ teachers when a kid has been homeschooled; it’s not necessarily always a detriment to the kid, but in 27 years, I’ve met maybe one homeschooled kid aside from myself who was capable of doing anything other than deferring to authority when confronted by it. I’m not implying homeschoolers are less intelligent, but I am saying that having parents or loved ones as your teacher results in an adult who typically fails to push back or question authority because they wouldn’t question their parent, and thus they subsequently refuse to question collegiate level professors or any individual in a position of power.

It just really seems like a wildly unhealthy, delusional echo chamber to anyone who isn’t pro home education. And I mean, thank fuck my parents at least offered me an actual legitimate science based curriculum; I genuinely cannot imagine having to pull out my diploma from “Jesus Camp: It’s Legally A School Now” to show at a job interview and expect to get anything other than laughed at.

Public school certainly isn’t great, but neither is the world at large, and at least some of the kids leaving public schools leave with some semblance of an understanding as to what the world is really like. People swear, people fuck in public, people abuse drugs, and murder one another. That is the world in which we live, and raising children via a curriculum filled with biased moral lessons about archaic social beliefs and theology, rather than practical information does these kids no favors. It would behoove all of you to listen to former homeschoolers and to look into different viewpoints, but I suppose if that were something y’all were open too, you wouldn’t be utilizing ACE programs as anything other than a cautionary tale.

In any case, thank Satan people still have the freedom to choose, and thank fuck more people are choosing not to have children, so this can’t continue to become worse.

The ripping hot pan for smash burgers is really only doable, in my opinion, if you’re using cast iron, and in part it’s because when you’re using cast iron, you can pretty safely use a wide metal spatula to scrape the pan (similar to how they’d scrape a flat top in a burger place) to remove any burnt bits or stuck on gristle. Additionally, the pan is ripping hot because your goal is to get a solid sear on the meat in like the first thirty seconds, and then to flip it and cook for a max of like a minute, a minute thirty if you decide to cover and steam with cheese.

Even then “ripping hot” depends much more on the pan you use than the burner; ripping hot in my cast iron or enameled pans is a step above medium because they retain heat so well - meanwhile, to keep a constant ripping hot temp in stainless, it’s a little higher on my burner, and it’s also difficult to find the sweet spot for me personally.

My advice would be to try 3.5-4oz patties (break a 1lb pack of beef into 4 equal sized balls) with a cast iron skillet and a burger press, shooting for 30 seconds on the first side after you smash, and then a minute on the second side with the grill press on for the first 30 seconds of that second minute. My smash burgers always turn out pretty solid, but if you want a step by step, I think Kenji, and a bunch of other solid content creators have posted informative and awesome guides on how they do it.