I think those 'halberds' are tree trimmers.. it's basically a big pair of garden shears on a stick, for trimming loose branches high up.

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It's a very Indian (as in, India, not American) thing. A very thoroughly seasoned yogurt marinade is usually the first step of prepping meat for a decent curry.

But I'll tell you this: The best fried chicken I've ever made? I used a yogurt marinade.

Yogurt is a wonderful marinade in the first place, so you're off to a good start there. Milk on its own is less so, but I'd say yogurt is close enough to count.

I'd say... don't use the beer as part of the marinade. Instead, marinade in (very well seasoned, of course) yogurt, and then sear the meat, and use the beer as part of some sort of sauce or the base of a stew/soup that you use the meat in.

If you want the meat to be so tender it's practically mush, you could use the beer to braise the meat... But I'd say at that point, you're approaching levels of tenderness that actually ruin the texture, you're essentially making yourself steak-and-beer flavored baby food.

Lispy and insufferable in my (regrettable) experience.

Of course it makes sense.

The big distinction you have to make, though, is that enemy part of 'enemy foreigners.' There are people who move here legally, who have every intention of integrating into the local culture. For all extents and purposes, those people are working hard to drop the 'foreigner' part, and I don't think there's good reason to treat them the same as some invader bashing his way through police barricades with the explicit purpose of exploiting our wealth. The only problem I have with legal immigrants is that we shouldn't have any right now til the damage being done to us by the border crisis is stabilized.... But that's a problem I have with the powers that be for allowing the legal immigration, not really with the immigrants themselves.

Every once in awhile, I like to sit and remind myself that ultimately what all these people are saying is some variation of, "I am mystified by my own genitalia, and you need to respect that."

How the hell did we get here....

There are root-negative-one genders.

Because an imaginary concept deserves an imaginary number.

I think it was about this time last year I finally let go of 7... after my hard drive died and I couldn't find anybody selling new codes for it for less than stupid prices.

If you keep a person at a constant fever pitch of fear, they either adapt, and become forever untouchable, or break utterly, and become forever unusable. Either way is dangerous to one seeking complete authority.

By giving short periods of calm interspersed by terror, a person doesn't have any opportunity to adapt. They will capitulate ever so slightly more each time they feel the stress eating at them, and the relief of the period of calm will make them feel justified in doing it, and serve as a period of adaptation to the new normal.

Thus, the soul is gradually eaten the same way as an elephant: One bite at a time.

Hey there. This conversation randomly popped up in my head today, and I remembered you being concerned and curious about what I'd be doing... So I figured that since all the chaos has finally settled, and I'm properly out of that job now, I'd offer you an update:

My rancher friends don't really have any work they could pay me for or justify supporting me, and I have no intention of just being a leech... So I've looked at my savings and what I can do with it, and I have -just- enough money together to get a Class A license without need of a loan.

Truck driving, in other words.

I've got one of the better truck driving schools in the country right next to me, and a lot of the really big companies recruit from them. And a lot of these companies have outright stated they are going to refuse and defy mandates. With truck drivers being in critical shortage right now, I'll have no trouble picking up a career.

I still intend to keep up cooking as a hobby, of course, whole reason I had a shit job as a sous chef was a hope to get my foot in the culinary industry, because I've enjoyed it as a hobby... A lot of trucking companies offer really cushy sign-on bonuses, and what I don't spend on necessary gear, I intend to devote to putting together a good fold-away camp kitchen and some 12-volt fridge and freezer space. I'll be the travelling, trucking, portable gourmet chef of the road :P

I'll be starting on my classes next week, and I'm feeling optimistic about it~

Don't feed the troll, they weren't actually effectively debunking anything you said anyway.

Antibody-Dependant Enhancement.

Basically, sub-optimal antibodies can act a little like a trojan horse, allowing viruses to enter into cells more easily.

Considering that CRT is pretty deeply embedded in the left... and that CRT is rabidly anti-white... I might just go ahead and say that being a white liberal is a mental illness, in and of itself. Subscribing to an ideology where you hate yourself that much....

I haven't, actually. Or at least, I've never been noticeably sick since the panic started, and I was til recently working a job that had me tested twice weekly and never posted positive....

So call it 50/50, really :P

I think the Delta panic is a combination of them jumping the gun, and needing to keep the fear factor in place against people getting tired of the initial covid panic.

I think that the Authorities were listening to their science advisors about how this whole thing could work, but fundamentally misunderstood that variants aren't all going to move in the same direction, and not all at the same pace. As soon as they saw a variant becoming dominant just as jabs were becoming wide spread, they threw up their hands and said "JACKPOT!" and started going all-in on the fearmongering, before they knew for sure whether it was what they wanted.

It'd be driven by one part over-eagerness and one part them starting to panic because people were grumbling about lockdowns and masks and all that, and states were starting to push to go back to normal.

You're talking about the live action one?

I've seen it precisely once in my entire life. It was 4:00 AM, and I'd just been up all night on a pretty good bender with my best friend at the time. We were in that weird state where we had passed through tiredness and gotten that strange, hollow second wind that you sometimes get, where you feel keyed up, but can tell that you're in no way rational. Pile this on us both being still pretty well drunk.

We fell off the fucking couch laughing at that one scene of all the small-headed dino-goombas shuffle-dancing and belch-growl-singing to the crappy waltz music in the elevator. Because it was exactly that kind of night. And it pretty much set the tone for the rest of the watch. I think we threw a couple six-packs worth of beer cans at the TV, cackling at every little thing.

Objectively, I know the movie is terrible.

But the memories I carry of it are so very fond.

Is that tweenager feeling up her gender-nonspecific-possibly-mother-identifying-guardian?

And sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

To be fair, you may still be right

God, I hope so.

But aren't the politicians using way too much force to simply be seen as doing something? The leftward masses are conditioned to clap for the simplest of actions, so long as it's showy.

Don't you think they'd be more or less happy if the Biden admin just, I dunno... used its force to ensure the jab remains free (and crowed about it much louder.) and does something like mandating free mask boxes in public places, so people can muzzle up easier, or something equally banal like that?

They seem to be pushing far too hard for it to just be clout-mongering. Especially when it's beginning to have even the people on their own side saying that it's going too far, from time to time.

What about the preppy ginger guy on the right side?

Ah, but, in the Marek's scenario, they do have a pretty high population still. Vaccination rate is what, 44-ish percent, worldwide right now? Even if it was halved again in the chaos that followed a die-off, you'd still have more than a billion people kicking around. Certainly enough to maintain high-tech society, especially since it's the more developed nations that seem to be leaning toward heavy vaccination.

Significantly lowered, with the population cowed and controlled into keeping it low, and the main people killed off being the enemies of their policies.

Also, mostly apropo of nothing... I was knocking it around in my head while I was making dinner for my family just now, and don't you think Marek's kind of sounds like Moloch's? Coincidence? Providence? Stupid? (Yes)

Alright, then I suppose it depends on if repeated boosters really do become less effective over time. Right now I'm not sure if we've got the data to say that, since we're only just now being talked into the first round of boosters. They don't even have longitudinal studies of the baseline jab, let alone the effectiveness of boosters.

I'm not entirely sure there are two factions in the government. At least not effectively. They seem to be split between the rabid anti-populist globalists, and the extremely rabid anti-populist globalists.

Besides, wouldn't the antichrist/moloch/the satanic cabal be clever enough to make a plan that eliminates their enemies while implementing the Mark of the Beast? Like a Marek's scenario very well might?