If the always-available soups aren’t on the menu, I agree that’s dumb. However, I highly doubt that’s what’s happening to OP.

In theory, sure,

In reality, I promise you no overworked restaurant staff wants to bother with updating a website daily on the off-chance someone needs to know the soupe du jour. You’d probably just get the wrong information because no one updated it.

If you absolutely must know the soup availability, you can always just call the restaurant. The employees will make fun of you behind your back, but they’ll pretend to be glad to inform you!

A lot of places do soups and salads based on seasonal availability, and IMO having something on the menu that’s unavailable is a worse customer experience than not having them on the menu and having the waiter/waitress tell them the daily offerings.

If they only serve a single type of soup per day but listed all of them on the menu, the staff would definitely have to deal with disgruntled customers who don’t understand why they can’t order the thing they’re reading off the menu.

I recommend IronFox on Android!

You can still download Wikipedia, the entire English version (as of 2022) is only 95GB (including images!)

Steinem worked with the CIA to promote reactionary propaganda and helped direct the women’s liberation movement into a corporate-friendly, anti-socialist direction.

Source: Jacobin

They didn’t imply feminism is a CIA initiative, but the CIA definitely worked with her to influence the feminist movement.

For sure giving SCP vibes. I’m currently working on a play (loosely) based on SCP and I’m definitely sharing this with my collegues, thanks OP!

If you’re pirating you should really be using ad-blockers anyways.

I’m assuming as opposed to steamed milk. I’m curious what the “strawberry” part is referring to, personally.

As a barista, I have mad respect for anyone who puts in the effort to learn latte art at home. It took me 6 months of full-time café work to get consistent at latte art, I can’t imagine I’d have the patience if I weren’t getting paid and had to drink that many lattes!

Do people even use Windows anymore, outside of office and gaming use? Most people I know either do everything they’d do on a computer on their smartphone, and the rest all use Macs.

It was a vineyard prior to the picture as well, it had been cleared due to an phylloxera infestation.

Bliss is still in my rotation of wallpapers. Something about a standard KDE install with the XP default wallpaper tickles me.

The nostalgia is for sure a big factor. Windows 95/98 were my first memories of computers, but XP was the first OS I was really allowed to discover on my own. I was quite the fan, when my family “upgraded” to a barely-meets-the-minimum-specs Vista Ready™ PC I soon after tried to “downgrade” it to XP.

During which I managed to bork something and nothing would boot, not even the recovery disc I had burned. Thus started a three day troubleshooting journey to fix the family PC. I think my parents were too startled by my determination to figure it out to get angry at me.

And here I am almost two decades later, spending the last three days trying to manually setup a seedbox despite there being a myriad of easy deployment methods. Most of those three days have been focused on setting up a firewall, restricting access to docker containers behind a VPN, and of course the ol’ troublemaker DNS.

The feeling when I figure out something I’ve been struggling with is still just as exhilarating as when I saw Windows XP boot up for the first time on the family PC way back when. Seeing the familiar rolling Californian wine-country hill, immortalized by Charles O’Rear on film in January 1996. I often wonder if Charles knew at the moment, when looking upon the bucolic scenery, that one day the image would become synonymous to many with the advent of the digital age. The hill is forgotten, but the 1s and the 0s live on forever.

I’ve found that DNS-level blocklists usually take care of the ads that are added into podcasts on download.

Now if only we could have something akin to Sponsorblock for podcasts.

I don’t have a lot of ideas for more summery flavors

I recommend lavender. Simple syrup infused with the stuff is delicious in an iced latte on a hot day.

A mix of over and under extraction could be a couple of things, but IMO the most likely culprits are either inconsistency in the grind or pouring technique.

If you have a mix of really fine and coarser particles in your grounds, that’ll definitely cause these problems. If you’re grinding at home, you can try getting some beans ground for pourover from a café to see if your grinder has this issue.

As for ensuring your pour is giving you an even extraction; start from the centre, pouring in a spiral until you reach the edge, making sure to water all the grounds. You can also give your pourover a swirl during the brew, I tend to do one right after pouring the water for the bloom, and one after my last pour.

The mix in over- and underextracted might also come from me not stirring before drinking the coffee.

I honestly prefer not stirring the coffee afterwards. I like the slightly different notes on the first sip vs the last, but maybe I’m a weirdo.

How often are you fixing your dishwasher??

I guess you just have to sit with that shame, shame which I’m assuming from your post you already feel because of these thoughts, and figure out what it means for you. I hope for the animals’ sake that you stay vegan, but for your sake I hope you do whatever you need to have your peace.

I’ve definitely struggled with these exact thoughts a lot in the past.

As the longer I’ve been vegan, and as I’ve gotten older too, my perspective on veganism (and other decisions I’ve made for the environment, such as being car-free) has shifted.

I used to be really motivated to try and save the world. Surely, by leading by example, and sharing the facts and science, I could inspire the people around me to make more eco-friendly decisions. While a couple people I know have slightly reduced their meat intake, or now opt for a bicycle instead of a car for the occasional commute; most people only offer excuses and refuse to put their money where their mouth is, values-wise.

My perspective is now somewhat egoist; I’m vegan (and car-free, and other things) for myself. It makes me feel better to not participate in systems which actively harm society, our planet, or any living beings. So I do it. I’ve accepted the futility of trying to keep our planet livable for our species in the face of capitalism, but it still feels better for me to be vegan.

Do you think you’d feel better if you started eating meat again?