Add a few drops of sesame oil, sesame seeds are also nice

Add a tiny splash of mirin, sake, or rice vinegar

Use stock for the liquid, or add miso paste, or mushroom powder

Rehydrate a pinch of wakame while you cook to add at the end

Experiment with condiments: soy sauce, teriyaki, hoisin, chili oils, etc.

Anything that’s going to add healthy ingredients is probably going to bump you up over 10 minutes. If you’re willing to do that, saute some stuff in the pan before you cook the noodles. I’ve done chicken, pork, mushrooms, bok choy, leeks. It’s a bit more effort for a big improvement.

The difference between persuasion and manipulation is largely subjective.

If this is for personal interest, go into it with relatively concrete questions, and then try to answer them.

This was the first place my mind went when I found out about 6 7

I have. The only reason I can imagine it being fine, though maybe technically not health code, is if certain cleaning chemicals are kept in the bathroom and they’re grabbing them in the middle of cleaning some non-food surface. There are plenty of things to clean on a slow shift, and some of them aren’t really going to be hurt if you ran into the bathroom real quick for bleach or something.

But that’s a weird edge case specifically contrived to make it kinda okay. That’s not normal.

I can almost see the logic in wearing service gloves into the bathroom, and then tossing them after you do your business and before washing your hands. But coming back out with the same gloves? If the business can’t afford for you to change your gloves, find a new job. If you don’t feel the need to change your gloves, find a new job.

I’d guess anyone who drinks Coke every day would notice almost immediately, I’ve seen it happen.

That’s their problem: their product is very good and very reliable, which means once everyone who wants one has one, there’s no more demand.

At least they’re pivoting instead of just doing both.

It’s always been Wankershim

There was a meme that gained some traction a while back about girls asking their boyfriends if they would still love them if they were a worm.

Right, what I’m saying is where do you draw the line at where “in the sun” ends?

What? You didn’t verify anything, you just said you remember being told once. It’s not an obvious fact because it isn’t true, you made it up. It’s not foolish to believe a word means what it means, you can just look up the definition. Are you high or something?

Whoever told you that was incorrect. Literally means the plain textbook definition of the words written, as opposed to euphemism or metaphor. If I say “I would literally die on this hill”, it means that there is an actual large mound of dirt that I am willing to lose my life on.

Any other interpretation is literally incorrect.

I’m thinking about it, and I think they might be right. Sunbeams are a part of the sun, albeit mingled with atmosphere. If they were in direct line of the sun, i could consider them technically, literally, correct.

It all depends on whether you consider an object bathed in the radiance of something to be “in” that thing, but I’m kinda inclined to consider that.

Starship Troopers is not misunderstood satire

I’ve read a lot of Heinlein, and while I don’t think “satire” is quite the right word, I’d consider it more of a thought experiment than sincere belief.

As long as they stay to the right I don’t care that much

I’m fine with language evolving over time, but I reject “literally” being used to mean “figuratively”. Distinguishing figurative from literal is, literally, the word’s one job. Take that away, and the word literally doesn’t mean anything but a generic intensifier. There literally isn’t another word that fulfills that disambiguating purpose, this semantic drift only decreases clarity.

Not really, no. A lot of the major ones, like the Flood, but there’s plenty of original content in every religion. It’s silly to suggest otherwise.

And my point is that if all these same stories keep popping up, maybe there’s some significance to them.

Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/

The typical therapist advice about focusing only on the things you can personally change does not work well on macro issues. Issues that were created by lots of people working together like climate change require a bunch of people working together to fix.

But collaborating with others to address macro problems is something you can personally do.