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Sweet jebus, I’m sorry to hear that. You’re absolutely right though: “have you tried PTSD?” may not be right for everyone.

I can only tolerate it in ridiculously low amounts. Anything “typical” and it tastes bitter like aspirin.

I’m inclined to still call ceviche “raw”

IMO, the line is whether or not we rendered the food at all safe, from a bacterial contamination standpoint. I’m not convinced that the volume of acid in a ceviche is enough to sterlize the fish - I love the stuff but I wouldn’t let it sit out overnight.

Once you get past the heat, some peppers have amazing flavor. Jalapenos and bird’s-eye chilies are my favorites for that.

American cheese.

I say this as someone that much prefers the expensive aged stuff. Once I learned that it’s just cheddar with sodium citrate in it, I saw it for what it was: enhanced for things that normal cheese can’t do. Granted, it’s not top-shelf cheese by any measure; you wouldn’t put this anywhere near a charcuterie board. That said, it works great as a cooking ingredient.

Also: I’m going to guess that not many would like salty licorice. I once had a bad head cold and took some of those I picked up in Iceland to help with the symptoms. They were just the thing to keep my sinuses clear.

You may not like it, but this is what building wealth and saving for early retirement looks like.

Maybe. Is that the one with a floor-hole through to the cursed basement?

Exactly. This person has/needs a full or queen sized bed, but their bedroom isn’t big enough for it. So, it’s blocking the closet, because that’s the only place it can go.

This is why I follow reviewers and curators that sift through the bottom 99% to find interesting indie stuff. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping what never shows up on Steam’s store landing page or queues.

Splattercat is one such reviewer. He tends to prefer dystopia and post-apocalypse style stuff, and clearly works hard to bring interesting titles some more exposure: https://www.youtube.com/@splattercatgaming

You can survive Phantom Liberty. Bad news is that you’ll live on with at least five completely new forms of PTSD.

$0.02: above average intelligence is abundant. The opportunities and support that enable those people to achieve greatness (read: privilege), are not. This situation will only get worse with the like of Bezos squeezing the people that work for them. This “1000 Mozarts” line only serves to illustrate how intellectually bankrupt this person is.

Good news is: you’re now functionally immortal.

Bad news is: everything tastes like metal.

The Ascent. I am now an indentured servant sanitation worker with a poor sense of self-preservation, but just so happens to be really good with a gun. Oh, and the arcology that is my home has been thrown into complete pandemonium because the head Corpo AGI shit the bed.

Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.

What really gets me is that the compounds responsible for this hue in food are called “anthocyanins” which means “blue flower.” I can’t even.

Ah, that explains why the article smells like an LLM wrote it.

That’s my understanding too. It’s like empathy just ends at one’s own line of sight. If I can’t see it or touch it, there may be something wrong with it. It’s infuriating.

I fucking love these.

My favorite is the Waffle House: https://wandering-nobunaga.com/stories/a-waffle-house-at-three-in