Afganistan said no when the US wanted Bin Laden. Two and a half trillion dollars later the exact same people are back in charge and now they’re armed with modern American weapons instead of vintage Soviet ones. Everyone lost except the people who said no to the US.

There’s good content to be found on Reddit, but most of Reddit is not good content. It’s like wading through a chest-high river of sewage to smell a rose.

And Lemmy’s not trying to sell me something every 30 seconds.

What sort of mushroom dishes?

Curry. I love curry. Check out this youtube clip for a recipe from Jaime Oliver, which is delicious but also keeps it very simple: Corner Shop Curry

(He says to grate the onion, but I find that just chopping it is fine. And I use powdered ginger because I never seem to have the fresh stuff on hand.)

Good: I have free speech.

Bad: You have free speech.

I think that sums it up.

You generously teach a man to fish against his will, and what kind of thanks do you get?

It’s been decades and this guy is still finding fresh new ways to use that template. I’m mildly amazed.

I don’t know what the US congress is any more, but in other countries it’s because they really really want to expel someone and the deportee’s home country might say “no thanks, they’re your problem”.

What’s this, an attempt to kick an addiction?

I’ve never heard of an extension like that.

Memory training tools. Like the memory palace, the person-action-object method, acronyms and mnemonics.

Visualisations like using the abacus method to do fast and accurate arithmetic.

And human-executable techniques like the doomsday algorithm and George Marsaglia’s random number generator.

You know the answer to that.

Wasn’t 1st edition just a couple of years ago? A new edition seems premature.

I say that when I’m about to ask a question that sounds disingenuous but I honestly feel like everyone but me got the memo about it.

Loved the Revenger trilogy.

Recent, certainly. I don’t know if it’s newest.

I’m getting into Adrian Tchaikovsky myself. He certainly loves painting the future as a capitalist hellscape, doesn’t he?

I’m part way into Shroud, where whole solar systems are being strip-mined for resources, and the people doing the work are skinny because they can’t afford to eat well but they get auto-dosed with drugs to help them focus when hunger is distracting them.

Sounds a lot like burnout to me.

A toasted English muffin, with peanut butter. My usual breakfast.

Your average proper kiwi bird who complies with the right order of things can fit into two large human hands, yes?

Yes, of course. You just need to have your hands further apart than you might think.

I bet if you press your ear against his skull, you’ll hear what it’s like to be attacked by an angry cat.