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Blood pressure complains, at least.

... well, more than that, I've definitely started noticing from taste a lot just how goddam much of the stuff we use. Sometimes I just want to taste something other than salt, y'know? Especially without having to friggin' recreate a supply chain in my kitchen to prep it.

Ended up ordering something fairly low sodium shipped, but I was looking into just making homemade bbq sauce as a quick way to make low/no salt bbq and like. By the time I gave up I was three or four bloody steps in on other stuff I'd have to get and prep without salt to make it. Friggin' capitalism gives me all its damn problems but it won't give me food without salt in it. That's breaking the covenant, man, I sell my soul and my health to the bonfire of suicidal greed and in exchange I can buy shit like saltless bbq, that's how it's supposed to work, but no.

You're talking to a teacher's kid that's currently got an income below the poverty line, mate. I'm aware

The places teacher incomes aren't just pure shit, they're pretty much never middle class in scope. Generally not straight up poverty line, but it's pretty damn rare they can, say, support a household on that income. It's either second (or third) job or a partner of some sort. Gods help them if they've got their own kid(s).

Weekend at Bernies, the tabletop campaign, in other words. Rather than a stupid idea, it's one that netted something like twenty million in profit at the box office between it and a sequel

I just cooked the weirdest thing I've made in... years, I think. Egg noodles, cooked with beef broth, with egg and cheese and turkey bacon and milk cooked in near the end, eventually with some bacon bits and pepper added.

And, like.

It didn't have a flavor. They were borderline tasteless.

But.

I ate that bowl of noodles like I was starving. They were basically tasteless but incredibly eatable, for whatever reason. Inexplicably edible non-noodles. It was like it was orthogonal to food and my stomach really, really wanted it. I can't call it good, really, it was just... something. Something really enticing but also something that really shouldn't have been.

someone that actually knows cooking please help what did i do

Huh. Did they fix that major security problem with the online features?

Eh... modern war, maybe, but world? Who exactly is going to jump in on Russia's side, here? They're not exactly a top tier power anymore, nor do they have a bunch of allies that'd be willing to throw in on something like that.

Yeah, like... if you want to throw shade at dawkins, there's plenty of material. The Selfish Gene was one of the handful of things he did that was actually pretty solid. Just go after one of the myriad easier targets -- the guy's kind of an asshole, there's plenty to choose from.

For what it's worth, several of the tax prep services (check the IRS website for some vaguely vetted by the actual tax organization) offer the basic deal for free, and unless you've got several income streams, some of them variously esoteric, or are making a good deal of money, they work just fine. S'what I've been doing since I finally made enough money to legally be required to file, heh. No need for paper whatsoever, can do it online if you feel like. Takes like 20-30 minutes or somethin' if all you got to deal with is the single W-2.

e: though standard notice it's still horseshit compared to countries that just send you your tax paperwork pre-filled, you look over and sign, and then send back. Let's not forget it could be much bloody better!

e2: but yeah, the post made me remember to do mine using... whatever it was I used last year. Already forgot and/or don't care enough to refer/recall, but between first edit and second edit frumple filed their 2021 taxes. Took like 25 minutes or something to e-file. Super simple stuff if your tax situation isn't complicated.