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I'm seeing news reports on it from at least as far back as last october may :V

Bifi, if it ain't helped bernie already, I'm pretty sure the only way it's going to is if it actually turns out she did something illegal, and it gets her in court. As per m's statement, that's stiiillll fairly unlikely.

Though ah, to the question of age of learning... the response would be "Not really" to that later in life thing. Honestly, most of the time, so far as I'm aware, folks do their initial forays into baking when they're young -- teen, preteen, that sort of thing. Familial bonding type stuff; work together, learn some life skills, afterwards delicious treats. If there's any sort of conventional age for starting, that'd probably be it.

Though that's mostly because basic baking is both bloody simple and almost entirely safe,* so it's a really good starting point for learning how to follow simple recipes and whatnot.

*You usually don't need anything sharp and the only contact with heat is the oven (that the adult can handle), which is probably one of the least volatile (such as it is) heating element. No spattering grease, no stirring boiling liquids, etc., etc.

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Though yoink, it may have been intentional time management, but it was also exactly the wrong sort needed for job seekers

Has anyone ever baked anything in a college/University dorm other than a custard pie to throw at someone for some stupid prank?

Sure, if they actually have access to an oven. If we'd had access when I was in one, I totally would have baked cookies occasionally just to torment the rest of the residents :V

Regardless, there's a lot of baking that's ridiculously casual, mostly involving delicious cake and cookies (and brownies, etc.). Get the mixes and they're literally stir stuff, put in cooking receptacle (as appropriate for what's being cooked), and put in oven. That's it. The most complicated thing you'd do is crack open some eggs and maybe partition out cookie dollop whatsits. If you can use a tea/tablespoon to measure things and have a working arm you're golden.

... what's that even doing on the website of a kentucky lawyer, anyway? Fake or not, that's an odd place for it to be. Maybe somewhat understandable considering who the lawyer is, but... still.

That's the thing though. There are legitimate criticisms, but just as with Obama what's at the forefront is overwhelmingly the shrillness. Not just among regular people but among major media outlets, and that's an important distinction to make.

... see, that's the thing, at least from my perspective. I'm paying about as much attention to major media this cycle as I did that one (i.e. not much), but I'm legitimately not seeing nearly as much "shrillness" as I did then, from basically any angle I've been exposed to. Exposure and overall noise isn't too dissimilar, maybe, but shrill isn't how I'd describe what's being aimed at trump, while I'd agree pretty readily it was what was significantly aimed at obama. Even the folks I've noticed legitimately terrified of trump don't seem nearly as loud about it as folks did about obama. Perhaps talking with roughly equal frequency, but the volume and insistence is... lower. Folks consider trump a fascist (bad) joke of a thug; folks considered obama the bloody antichrist.

You're experiencing something different than I am, is basically what I'm saying. Which is fair enough, I guess. Probably regional, it's certainly true I run into significantly more conservative inclined folks in the day to day than otherwise.

This hysteria surrounding Trump reminds me very much of the right's hysteria surrounding Obama during the '08 general, and it's just as ridiculous.

In... very broad strokes, maybe? Most of the objections I've seen against trump are considerably less asspulls (and often of fairly different natures, too) than much of what was getting thrown at obama, and there's not that gigantic streak of racism plastered all over it, either. Pretty different treatment overall, really...

Don't see particularly strong parallels, myself, basically. Existent ones, sure, but not strong ones.

Wouldn't be much of a surprise, at least. The real question is who'd be doing the protesting, though, since no one seems quite sure what the hell the guy'd actually do in office. Could be he ends up pissing off the base he riled up more than the opposition.

It could end up with crypto-fascists and what counts for the left in the US protesting side by side against the same person, even, which might be interesting.