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Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅

I believe that quote is actually from Julius Nyerere, who, unlike Chompsky, was never a known Epstein associate.

I think people with mental disorders are more likely to be victimized by Republicans. Republicans aren’t mentally ill, don’t let them off the hook, they’re motivated towards self-interest, and know exactly what they’re doing: being greedy assholes.

What is up with the Reagan apologia? Fuck that guy. Reagan walked so Bush and and Trump could run.

The trash bags were there one day a week for a few hours until they got picked up. These things will be taking up space all the time…

Also they weren’t stinkier than dumpsters can be, lol. Trash is trash. The NYC trash piles shock American tourists, but on a global scale it’s a pretty normal way to deal with trash. I’ve seen it in “nice” cities in both Europe and Asia.

Your last paragraph is just how my mom bakes. It’s entirely possible to bake without recipes once you have the experience, like you’re saying.

They just haven’t practiced it. If you’re a good cook, you absolutely have capacity to be a good baker, because they’re only semantically different things. If we called it cooking a cake, no one would draw this distinction, and some other languages/cultures don’t.

If you can prepare, mix, and properly cook ingredients then you can prepare, mix, and properly bake ingredients.

I would argue that even measuring by weight isn’t all that important.

You would be wrong due to the physical properties of flour and how it compresses, but we generally agree that most people who are getting fine results with measuring however they want should just keep doing whatever they want.

At 3AM ain’t nobody got time or the mood to scale everything.

I mean, when I was a professional baker I did exactly that, and so did everyone I worked with. I think it’s more convenient and faster than measuring by volume, so it’s what I’d usually prefer to do at home or at work.

What recipe where you’re cooking can you change ingredients by such extreme amounts? Pasta bolognese or lasagne with 2x as much meat and a quarter as much pasta would be all wrong. Do you put 2x as much oil in a sauce and expect it to go well? When you make a roux, don’t you have to like. Balance the amount of butter with the amount of flour?

When you cook rice, do you experiment with different amounts of water? Or do you just cook it until it’s cooked?

In general, though, yes, stylistic decisions like how much egg vs. flour is how you make different types of cake. There’s not one platonic ideal of cake because baking isn’t as precise as advertised.

100%! This is what I’m saying. If you can cook, you can bake. Sorry/not sorry.

— Carl Marks

Great example: San Mateo and BART. Check out a map. They refuse to allow a station that would let BART make a giant loop around the Bay.

You’re doing fine, it sounds like the people you’re talking to aren’t as politically educated as you think they are.

Nope, no alleys in NYC, nowhere to put dumpsters that isn’t in the way. Not sure where these are gonna go.

Also, Barcelona and many other Mediterranean cities

Yes, when people get to a certain level of rich, they generally lack vision and imagination; they don’t need it anymore.

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.