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‘Pipe down’: Biden allies step up calls for Dems to rally around president
  • How many times in U.S. History have the 3rd or 4th options been elected to the office of President? When the answer is zero, how do you count them as options?

    You are literally more likely to win the lottery than you are to elect a third party to U.S. President.

  • An Auto Loan Debt Crisis Looks Imminent
  • that's not the point. the point is that there are people who can't afford to save money in the long run. not like metaphorically can't afford, like literally mathematically cannot afford.

    they are trapped by their existing financial burdens which they already cannot meet and which are getting larger every month thanks to compound interest.

    inflation, which normally has the effect of reducing the value of debts over time, is instead making their financial burdens effectively larger too. as inflation drives up the cost of living, wages stay the same and they have ever less of their income available to make debt payments as a result.

  • Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media
  • Hey, I'm fully on board with your defense of social media, but I think in this case the commenter is just saying "i miss the social media we had before they started calling it 'social media'". Even 2004 facebook fits this description, and I'm inclined to agree. I miss social media when it felt more like IRC and craigslist, when facebook was a glorified personal guestbook, etc.

  • Gen Z, millennials have a much harder time ‘adulting’ than their parents did, CNBC/Generation Lab survey finds
  • A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What’s the exact opposite of that?

    Well what's happening right now is old men are actively uprooting anything that won't grow to shade tree size in their lifetimes. It's as if their aim is to one day build their own coffin out of the absolute last tree on Earth.

  • What snack are you championing at the moment?
  • if you ever feel so inclined, all you need to make your own tortillas at home is:

    1. masa flour aka specially treated corn flour

    2. a stovetop and a pan for cooking

    3. a plastic food storage bag

    4. something with a flat bottom, ideally transparent

    5. water

    the bag of flour typically has instructions for how much flour and water to mix. you can mix it by hand and form it into balls by hand. the size of the balls only matters if you care about the tortillas being "the right size".

    From there, you press a ball flat, toss it on an already hot pan over medium heat, flip it after a couple of minutes, and remove it after a minute more. to press the ball flat, place it under your flat-bottomed transparent thing and mash on it until it looks tortilla-shaped enough for you.

    the plastic food storage bag is optional/recommended to stop the tortilla balls sticking when you press them. cut the food storage bag open along its seams and remove its zipper if it has one. what you have left is a single sheet of plastic with a seam/hinge in the middle.

    it might be sounding like a lot but it's really just:

    • mix flour into wet balls

    • mash flour in your "press" made of random flat dishes and a plastic bag

    • cook the thing a little

    • eat

    if you iterate on those 4 steps a dozen times, you'll be out like 50 cents of flour and you'll have produced at least one satisfactory tortilla. and it'll be so, so much better than store bought, you'll think about it every time you have store bought tortillas therafter.

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