There is cooklang which I use in Obsidian. Maybe there are shared repos out there. They have a discord server you could check on

Honorable mention: https://www.completefoods.co/

Meanwhile Americans decry the subversive influence of Hindu-Arabic numbers

Sounds like you might enjoy people being honest to you rather than enjoying compliments or criticism. Criticism is more blunt when said to someone's face, but compliments can seem disingenuous, so maybe you don't believe the compliments subconsciously

Lucifer's Hebrew name is Helel!

Europe and European colonies have been in wars constantly since the fall of the Roman empire. The first and second Hundred Years, the Napoleonic Wars, the first and second World Wars, the Cold War, the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars....

Not to mention capitalism has brought itself to its knees pretty consistently every decade or so in recessions and depressions

They really think they're unique from the rest of the world but can't admit that the USSR and China are the real exceptional ones in history

I'm glad India owns the islands. Not that India is some champion of indigenous peoples, in fact they are an imperial power in their own right. But it would have been worse if some Western nation owned it (like they still do other islands in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, wtf)

The Sentinelese make obvious that lustful chauvinistic gaze of the West that I haven't seen in other countries, except maybe imperial Japan, which was copying the West anyhow. The whole idea that the world is there is be "studied" and that places like the Sentinel islands are some final frontier is fucked up.

I understand the linguistic and anthropological curiosity a little, though I think researchers should be more humble. Most are humble actually, it's the general public that still has chauvinism.

The missionaries bother me the most. Christianization has killed off many local cultures, claiming to liberate them but not saying the quiet part about control and whatever prophecy about the end days where everyone needs to be Christian I think. In India, the lower castes and pariahs mostly are Christian, with the promise of equality, but in reality they still have the caste system within their communities and are just pariahs in different ways at large now. So not much has changed. I am also brown and live in the US, so I have felt the lustful gaze of missionaries throughout my life here. I get missionaries banging on my door every week now. It's kinda scary, considering the KKK were around only a while ago here.

Also interesting fact, the Andaman and Nicobar island were home to British jails for political prisoners. Indian rebels and revolutionaries met in jail there and even founded parties for independence and socialism. In a way, the islands are a birthplace of Indian revolutionary spirit

Phrases like "American Dream" and "Manifest Destiny" are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.

No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.

I think it's just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies "allowed" indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there's no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I've heard of. So it's just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.

Honestly anything fried properly ends up crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.

Protein helps since it's naturally soft and chewy when cooked, but it's not like my mouth and stomach counts the macros. Fried tofu is a cheap and easy go-to for me. I like tater tots too

Sauces don't belong to anyone lmao I add sauces to everything anyways

One time someone said something and I misheard them, so the sentence sounded ungrammatical and nonsensical to me, like something beyond my conventional understanding of the world thus far. I instantly lost my sanity

This is a risky tip, but if you want to cut acidity without having to add a milk or creamer, you can add a pinch of baking soda too. Why it's risky: if you add too much, and it's too easy to do this, it tastes like soap.

Or just cold brew instead of hot brew

literally nobody said that

I'm following your ethical logic. The killing itself is not bad, but how much you use the corpse. Doing nothing with it is bad. Doing something is better. Using all of it is best?

And the deer is dead no matter what. Why not use the body for something useful?

Because using it for something useful is what caused it to be dead in the first place

One time a raccoon crawled under my home and died. We threw it out. Did I waste the resource? Maybe I could have made a quick buck, or saved a few dollars on a meal?

you coming for indigenous practices of ecology next, or what?

No, that isn't for me to discuss. I'm not sure if you are indigenous or not. I'll leave it to indigenous people to discuss.

I am talking about capitalist states exploiting animal bodies because they see "pest control" and read "potential market to exploit," pushing propaganda that we should kill deer because ___ and that not using their body parts is wrong because ___. If those blanks are filled in with indigenous beliefs but are actually carried out by white people and corporations, then we've got a problem

You're saying the ivory trade involves indiscriminate killing of animals and destroying their bodies totally, including the tusks/horns/etc? Not killing animals with the largest tusks/horns/etc. and selling that ivory?

Also that the ivory trade would be marginally okay if the hunters and poachers ate a little elephant meat before sawing off its tusks? The elephant is dead no matter what. The reason for its death is the tusks.

If the goal is indeed to indiscriminately kill animals to reduce their population, the solution isn't to create a market for artificial selective population pressure. This is why elephants are evolving to have smaller tusks: these are the ones that survive the gaze of ivory hunters.

Burn the corpses or something. Quit making animal bodies a "resource" to be exploited. That is how eg. ivory poaching is dealt with.

The solution to everything isn't creating a market out of it to exploit yet more profit

What a capitalist mindset!!

Why is eating deer the first thing to come to mind for that? Just kill the deer and be done with it if you have to do it that way. Imagine calling pest control and finding them munching on bugs in your basement lol

POC. Idk if this counts exactly since it started with bigotry then was reclaimed/euphemized

The part that bothers me is that it feels a little like I'm still being called a "colored person" just in a different phrasing, and later on, in abbreviation. I still call myself brown, white people as white, etc. without issue.

So I think it's more that brown people have always known ourselves to be brown, but not "colored" — that is a slur used by white people against us. Like in our native languages we have a concept of skin shade. But not "coloredness"

Also "POC" sounds a little weird to me, like how saying "people of brownness" or POB feels artificial and awkward.

Not really against "POC" though since people use it broadly already.

One time I smiled at this kid with a little too much teeth showing and he ran off screaming so fast to his mommy

One thing I don't like about horror is when the villain has a tragic past. I mean I get that, horror from the very beginning as a genre was about tragedy or social injustice. But it feels uneasy when the conclusion is that oppressed people turn into bloodthirsty monsters who must be slain because of their trauma. Maybe I'm missing something there

The problem with induction is it works while it works, but when it doesn't work it doesn't work. It's all circular reasoning.

A hydrated person is hydrated because they hydrate themselves habitually. A dehydrated person is dehydrated because they dehydrate themselves habitually.

The word water doesn't even come up in the above. And no consideration of what happens if you strand a hydrated person in the desert: they can't hydrate, so are they still a hydrated person?