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I opened the wtf thread today and there was a discussion about how apple sucks and their users are part of a brand cult.

What year is it

3220, I think. Somewhere in that general region of numerical combinations, anyway.

Okay, it's been like three weeks. Bump!

Today, I'm doing for the second time something I'm pretty sure is just. Good. Not "good to me because my tastebuds are weird", but actually friggin' good.

Beef and potato sorta'-hash (no onions, 'cause I loath onions, so not technically hash), made from curried garlic potatoes with butter, hamburger seasoned with chili powder/black pepper/paprika (one of my usual meat seasoning mixes, I just pre-mix it about 1:1:1 in shakers these days) and a bit brown sugar, finished off with some low sodium ketchup.

Making:
Dice preferred number of potatoes (2 smaller side, russet, this time -- I basically cut them into 16ths long-ways and then about the width of the smaller side of those stereotypical pink erasers), season well with curry powder, garlic powder, parsley, and a bit (serving or less) of olive oil. Airfried at 400F for 20 minutes. Will smell amazing.

While potatoes cooking, do meat. However you prep it, crumble up thawed and cook at about medium heat, season well with the chili powder mix (I haven't been actually measuring, but it's usually two patties in a small-ish cooking pot -- about what comfortably fits a pack of ramen, basically -- with the seasoning mix covering like 80-90% of the top of the meat) and comparatively lightly with brown sugar (somewhere between half and 1/3rd the chilistuff), stir well and cook for, like... 10-15 minutes or whatever, just until it's done. Remove from heat and all that jazz.

About when the meat's done, the potatoes will probably be finishing. In eating bowl, put in about a serving of melted butter. Once done, dump the potatoes in the bowl. Stir well, get a nice coating on the potatoes. Add meat, stir up again. Drizzle fairly lightly, but consistently across the whole thing, with ketchup (or preferred seasoning, whatever). Final stir.

Devour, for it will be good. Onion or other vegetable-y people would probably do great adding whatever plantstuff they enjoy. Hash dishes are, like. Just really simple, really solid foodthings. Nobody fed me enough of this stuff in my youth.

From what I understand, part of it's just due to egypt being... kind of shitty in general, at the absolute least at the moment. There's little to no claim by or expectation of ethical action from them in regards to, well. Much of anything, from what I can tell, but especially not a refugee wave caused by a neighbor's internecine strife. Add on its economic issues and everything else that's been plaguing it for the last while, and I think folks just don't think Egypt's worth thinking much about. There's been pretty consistent minor mention of 'em in chatter about the current conflict, from what I've seen, but it's mostly just been a kind of "Yeah, Egypt's there and doesn't want to get involved, we'd rather talk about babies set on fire or mulched by pressure waves, kthx" thing.

S'kinda' like how a lot of the reporting these days is about antisemitic outbursts from various left-wing organizations while largely ignoring the folks on the right that's been cheerfully going shoulder to shoulder with literal neo-nazis for a while now, or how a lot of US political discourse has basically given up on expecting good behavior of any sort from the GOP or making much fuss about things when they're up to bad behavior.

Folks talk about (what's perceived as, true or not) the unusual instead of the usual, basically. Egypt going "fuck off and don't bother us with your collective mess" isn't unusual, so it don't get much talk.

Probably a combination of that and just not having access to a newer mac environment. Four to five years old isn't particularly old for a decent comp. They might not want to, but also not really have any better options at the moment.

My mom's actually been involved a couple times with trying to open and maintain local art galleries. It's... not easy, and as near as I've noticed they're even more likely to shut down than normal business ventures, which themselves have a tremendous attrition rate.

Passion sees those things spring up but logistics knock them back down sooner or later, often sooner.

Runny yolk egg is fine... for mixing into grits, or sopping up with bread. Eating it straight is kinda' meh, though.

I mean, I think we're all hoping they do, but bibi just passed on an easy chance to boot the far-right nuts out of leadership positions so it's pretty up in the air. If he stays in power after this mess, shit's not likely to go well on that front.

... if there is a bright side, the historic israeli reaction to something like what happened in the last few days is to boot whoever presided over it, once the dust actually settles, and general sentiment towards the haredi and their allies in israel currently seems to be pretty poor, so... maybe. Hopefully. It (and the dissolution of hamas, if that happens) would be the only good thing to come out of this

E: Though as fucked up things go, something to consider: The median age in Gaza is 18. The last election was 16 years ago, and hamas's reaction to getting a small majority of the legislative seats off a sub-majority of the vote was basically to murder the rest of the elected government.

This whole fucking mess, all of it since '06? Most of the people in gaza had literally zero say in it, too young to have voted, and the ones that did -- what they actually voted for was effectively couped, and then basically any dissenters tortured or killed.

Just one more bit of tragedy to the pile.