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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure! What you can do though is use habanadas together with a habanero as a way of diluting the heat. If it’s a saucy dish you can just cook with a small piece of one as needed, then use nadas for the main pepper flavour.

    If it’s something like a stir fry then just cut the pepper, remove the seeds, then stir fry with half or two halves of the seeded pepper, then remove or otherwise don’t eat it. It’s common in Chinese dishes to include a very hot pepper that you’re not supposed to eat which just imparts a bit of its heat to the dish (because it’s not chopped up or crushed it doesn’t release too much heat unless really cooked a lot).


  • A quick warning for people interested: do not make a sourdough starter unless you intend to bake bread at least once a week. A sourdough starter is basically a pet that eats flour every day. If you don’t bake bread regularly then you’re going to be wasting tons of flour feeding this thing that you don’t even use!

    I made that mistake and wasted a ton of flour before finally giving up because I really didn’t have the time for it. It’s not just about using some starter to mix a dough and then letting it rise and then bake. You gotta do bulk rise, stretch and fold, proof, shape, and bake. The timing can vary specific to your starter, the temperature of the dough/room, the dough hydration, and more. This means monitoring the rise and proof to make sure you don’t under/over rise. It takes a lot of practice. It’s a legit hobby to learn how to bake really good bread.





  • My dad moved a lot actually. He lived all over the country. He moved to be close to his parents (my grandparents) who helped raise me.

    I’m sorry you experienced the hardships you did. Are you saying you’d rather do a 10 year prison sentence in Norway instead of the poverty you experienced on the street? That’s pretty unfathomable to me.

    Anyway, I never said anything about it being “free and easy.” Life is hard. But being in prison is neither free nor easy, even in a fancy Norwegian prison.




  • Is that the poverty only experienced by a true Scotsman?

    I’ve never had to live on the street, if that’s what you’re asking. I was raised by a single father. We had as many as 4 roommates at various times, including alcoholics and drug addicts. I’ve had to call the police on some of them. I’ve had to stay at my grandparents’ while my dad drove across the country as a salesman just to pay the bills.

    I dropped out of high school at age 16 and only managed to go back and finish in my 30s. I got into university and graduated with a degree, thanks to generous government loans and grants. Now I got my first job post-graduation working in a mail room at age 41.

    Was my life easy? No. But I wasn’t living in a slum in central Africa drinking contaminated water and suffering from Guinea worm disease. I think anyone in North America who grew up in a working class home is a long, long way from that kind of poverty.






  • A gilded cage is still a cage. I’d rather work and pay rent and live in a modest apartment than be imprisoned in a luxury hotel that I’m not allowed to leave. Prisoners in Halden prison don’t get to set their own schedule, don’t get to quit being a prisoner and move across the country, don’t get to code with whom they live and associate.

    Even with a minimum wage job you can save up enough money for a plane ticket to anywhere in the world and just leave. Or even just a bus ticket across the country to live somewhere else.

    Or how about taking your girlfriend/boyfriend out on a date to a nice restaurant? Or rent a cabin in the woods for a weekend and just relax? Or go out to the bar for a few beers with a friend? Or volunteer to spend time with some elderly folks at a nursing home!

    Being in prison sucks, no matter how much they dress it up. The vast majority of things you might do are closed off to you just because you can’t leave. Every single one of those prisoners knows they’re being punished. Every single one of them counts the days until their release.





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    Ever since the change which let energize identify potions I never chug a potion unless I know I can benefit from the effect (mainly strength and heal). I’d rather turn all my potions into useful energy and risk losing a potion of experience than just waste all of my potions chugging them for useless effects I don’t want/need right now.