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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • I just have a fear I might mess up somehow and start a fire or something

    It takes some effort to start a fire. Most oils flash points are >600 F, which you might get a pan to to sear a steak, but to heat a pan of oil for deepfrying or something to >600 F, which would be a dangerous situation, requires you to continue heating it after it started billowing smoke between ~350F and ~525.

    In any case, if you manage to have an oil fire, say by spilling some on the burner, just let it burn out if it’s a small amount or turn off the heat and throw a towel over it if it’s like a cup’s worth.

    Minor burns aren’t uncommon when you’re learning, but that’s just a very quick way to learn “wrap the handle of the cast iron you just took out of the oven with a towel so you don’t grab it like a moron” or “use tongs to place things on hot oil so it doesn’t splatter on your hand”



  • I voted, but I have no power to change the outcome of the election. Only the democrats had this power, the blame lies only with them.

    Genocide lowers turnout. Saying you’re going to appoint republicans to your cabinet lowers turnout. Pledging to shut down the border and build the wall lowers turnout. Means testing all of your campaign promises lowers turnout. Running tough-on-crime campaign ads raises turnout FOR THE REPUBLICANS!

    We’ve been yelling that the dems will lose if they continue to go right for the last 4 years, but the dems either chose to move to the right on every issue either knowing it would lower their performance, or ignorant because blue maga like you helped shield them from the reality unfolding infront of all of us. I don’t know which is more damning.









  • Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

    You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

    Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.

    I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.






  • Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?

    In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.

    Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.

    What would that do, exactly?

    Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.