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I like the pickled cucumbers, daikon, carrots. That's about it.

I've been saving veggie scraps and using them to make my own veggie stock. It's been very good.

I've also more or less perfected a vegan chili that I'm going to start entering in chili cook-offs. My first competition is the end of October. Eggcited!

I usually use textured vegetable protein. Does a decent job mimicking ground beef or ground turkey. I'd like to find a non-processed alternative.

uziq wrote:

i am in general not keen on pickling and don’t think anything can be improved by being made into a kimchi.

the cucumber one i’ll just about take so long as it’s the asian-style cucumber and not the horrid water-filled ones we get in the west.

I have plenty of both (Asian) cucumber and zucchini for fresh eating. They grow really well in my area, with minimum effort once planted apart from watering and cursory harvest checks. What I don't eat relatively soon can be preserved into something like kimchi, a dish I actually enjoy the (acquired) taste of and find myself buying in large jars every so often. I've a slight preference for when components taste and smell a bit fresher, although I know it's supposed to be more fermented. Controlling the process myself, my rules.

Wish I had more nasturtiums for late summer salads.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I like the pickled cucumbers, daikon, carrots. That's about it.

I've been saving veggie scraps and using them to make my own veggie stock. It's been very good.

Pickled radish is a must for my gimbap. I haven't actually tried pickling any radish though, just buy it from the store.

Picked a small bucket's worth of (Asian) cucumbers and zucchini that seemed to have appeared today out of nowhere. Might be able to trade a few for eggs. I see stir fry in my near future anyway. Might have to go grab a napa.

Felt snackish. Two small avocados, halved, topped with red taco sauce. Whole thing probably cost less than a dollar, discounting my time.

Small avocados.

Pre-industrial medicine knew best, though. We should go back to general exsanguination and trepanation. All this modern tech is too untested. It's obviously bad blood and foul spirits.

Dilbert uses an abacus and quill/parchment instead of stuff like graphing calculators and engineering suites.

Dilbert_X wrote:

People who get high don't need to get drunk - amazing, who could have predicted this?

you are idiotic.

a single dose or course of psychedelics can create long-lasting changes to people's habits and impulsive/addictive behaviour.

it's not about not fancying a drink when you're 'high'.

psychedelics are not impulsive and they are at the very bottom of the drugs scale for addictive potential. many people take them once and never feel the need to interact with them again in their lives. it's not about swapping getting drunk for getting high.

it's about a 4-hour trip and a few counselling sessions equating to long-lasting addiction/depression/trauma recovery.

the current treatment paradigms for these things are nowhere near as effective.

you can take SSRIs for 6 months or 1 year, ruin your seratonin receptors, become a zombie, become physiologically dependent on daily medication, in fact ... or one trip with some mushrooms can create long-lasting benefits to mood and depression. as for current cures for alcoholism, that is, giving people drugs that make them violently sick if they try to metabolize ethanol ... or endless AA meetings ... well, you can check the statistics on their rates of recovery yourself.

if you don't see the promise in this, you really are much less scientific than you fancy yourself. your obtuse remarks only mark you for a bigoted idiot.

Last edited by uziq (2022-08-25 05:01:02)

I am going to write a book about how my service to Queen in Afghanistan prepared me for life teaching in partitioned Leicester. I got a cover picture ready to go.

it's actually kind of funny that dilbert, a supposedly rational and intelligent person, mirrors the rhetoric of the most funny Fox News chyrons. 'no go areas in britain! this city is off limits to locals!'

yeah i spent half my 20s living in neighbourhoods where that was the norm.

don't check the news footage of the crowds and queues for the queen. a lot of non-whites and commonwealth citizens taking part and being 'proud to be british'. doesn't fit the narrative!

you can practically hear dilbert rubbing his hands with glee whenever something makes the news that involves a non-white minority group, or a fascist nationalist party enjoying some political success.

i wonder why he's so invested in these narratives and cherrypicks such conspicuous news stories?

but he's not a fascist, apparently. he's just, erm, a disappointed socialist. or something.