Yea, sleep studies suck. You’re in stuffy room tethered to a machine by a million wires everywhere from your knees up and covered in smelly glue and sticky pads. After a night of that, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to stay for the entire next day and try to force yourself to take naps every couple of hours.

Before the last word.

I have never had a single landlord where this isn’t the case, except in instances where they are too cheap to even hire professionals to do things that they don’t have the skill to do, and they get their dipshit son to “fix” the sink that fell clean out of the kitchen counter with a lumpy bead of clear silicone and a 1’ piece of 2x4 wedged underneath.

Forgive me.

KDE’s KOrganizer supports journal entries

With Yunohost being a thing, I’m down to nothing.

“free” is a relative term. Driven by addiction might be more accurate for many.

You can become addicted to anything; that doesn’t mean the government should step in and prevent you from doing something that you enjoy and only harms yourself. People have the right to bodily autonomy, and that includes allowing consenting adults to take actions that are harmful or unhealthy to themselves. Plus, what happens when you ban tobacco or tax it to oblivion? A massive unregulated black market appears and people wind up smoking lead from China. This literally happened in the UK, right around the time when I was buying loose tobacco from less than legitimate sources because it was so expensive in the shops. This is is the kind of thing that happens every single time any kind of prohibition is enacted; you’d think we’d have learned by now!

I don’t personally believe companies should be allowed to encourage addiction to make money.

Agreed. Ban tobacco marketing of any kind, ban tobacco product logos, branding, etc, sell them in brown paper bags, ban smoking in publicly funded media, I’m all for it. These companies are evil, for sure, but preventing the sale of tobacco isn’t the answer. Prohibition literally never works.

The warnings do absolutely nothing as well.

but they do though…

This is a bit much; I’d rather see UK-style warnings on tobacco products, and a ban on smoking in public places, including outdoors. That way those who choose to consume tobacco are free to do so (as they should be) but they are thoroughly and completely warned of the consequences, and they can’t pollute the air around them for others. There are few things worse than being stuck downwind of a smoker on a public sidewalk (especially as an ex-smoker — you never stop missing tobacco in my experience).

This. How an advanced use case is accomplished is not a point against a system’s usability.

(Addressing the US because I live there) Even people with “middle class” incomes are living paycheck to paycheck these days. How can you contribute to a 401k when you can’t even maintain a balance in your savings account? Let alone other investments, etc, even if you do know what you’re doing with the various financial instruments.

The cost of living is beyond the pale right now anywhere in the US where you actually stand a chance at making decent money, so your choices are to A: suffer now under severe self-imposed austerity, saving a pittance for retirement knowing that you’ll still almost certainly wind up destitute in old age, or B: enjoy your youth to the extremely limited degree that you’re able to, have the odd nice coffee or dinner with friends, and then also still become destitute in old age.

Frankly, a huge percentage of the US population are simply fucked, and given the political landscape where you are given a choice between the “do nothing” party on the center right and the “eat the poor: serfdom now” party on the far right, you can’t blame people for having absolutely zero hope. As for me, I’m extremely privileged to be a dual citizen of the UK/US so I’m going to be running back to Scotland as soon as humanly possible. Come what may, at least Scotland’s position on poor people isn’t to let them die on the streets like it is here.

I’ve long maintained that if every US citizen got to experience the basic social safety nets that even the UK provides, politicians would find themselves strung up by their intestines in short order. I think people here just really lack context as to how truly distopian this country is.

Yes

These beyond chickens eat beyond insects

It is the chicken that’s vegan, yes.

I usually buy the gardein nuggets as they have a really good texture for it. You can use the big TVP chunks. If you do, you should hydrate it in stock with a splash of vinegar, press the moisture out, sautee in lots of fat until a good sear develops, and then coat in breadcrumbs or corn-starch and fry.

I’ll do tofu as well. You have to buy good tofu though, not that mealy garbage in the plastic container full of water.

Fried cauliflower is delicious, but devoid of protein, so I never use it here as I don’t want to be hungry in an hour.

It’s pretty easy to make at home too. I make vegan orange chicken often.

Edit: the downvotes you get the minute you mention the “v-word” are hilarious. Some of you people are so touchy about a stranger on the internet just having a nice time and eating whatever food he wants to, god damn.

It may be because I have all history turned off, and I run a pihole + ublock origin.

Since I started using a privacy respecting browser and moved to GNU/Linux, my whole life is captchas.

Yep!

So bizarre; foods like this already exist everywhere. In india they’re called far far, in UK chinese restaurants they call them prawn crackers, in Mexico they’re chicharrones de harina or duritos, and if you don’t have access to any of these options where you live, you can literally just fry rice noodles or spring roll wraps and they’ll puff up. So why the toothpicks?!

Invidious. It’s to be expected for something like that though.