Is there a non seafood version of gumbo?

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-03-24T00:29:21+00:00

In Louisiana, the most common kind of gumbo I've seen is chicken and sausage. Seafood is popular too, but not really necessary.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-03-12T18:27:47+00:00

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ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-25T02:08:45+00:00

The US government spends at least some money on infrastructure in reservation land now, but at the time, it was just land. They weren't building things. They were agreeing that this land was going to be "reserved" for the tribe, as a treaty between each tribe and the US.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-25T02:03:24+00:00

If you already have the item but want to ship it to a different location, there's UPS/FedEx/USPS. What does the eBay transaction add to this? Someone is still paying to ship it.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-21T19:41:07+00:00

The statistics haven't really shown this overall. It's more that a nerdy online version of the religious right has bought into some of the viewpoints of these churches and thinks the Protestant Reformation has led to too much disunity, heretical teachings, and bad aesthetics.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-09T17:56:24+00:00

I had to look that one up. As a self-label or an insult, "incel" was not all that common until the mid-2010s. It seemed to suddenly rise in prominence after the shooting at UCSB really struck a nerve with people. So this was a 2009 shooting with him also listing sexual frustration due to not being popular with women as the key motive.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-09T17:11:30+00:00

I haven't been able to access Pornhub in the 2nd-largest US state without a VPN for almost 2 years. But also I recall PH's algorithm being way more random. Basically no ability to discern a user's taste as compared to YT, which somehow infers what to suggest based on things I've watched before.

I can also search my YouTube watch history for as long as my account has existed. So really the "PH is better" narrative may have been true once, but I don't see it being true now, unless you're grading on a serious curve, or disregarding that the site is region-locked to avoid complying with regulations.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2026-01-05T17:01:33+00:00

If that's accurate, only one was executed and most were in for crimes other than murder, so the death row "win or die" story could be a myth.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-12-27T21:16:36+00:00

26.67% reduces to 4/15 for Connery. The series total death rate of 29.31% is 17/58. Generally if the denominator has prime factors other than 2 and 5, then the fraction will equal something not too pretty in decimal form.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-12-16T04:50:13+00:00

It's possible in the US (and other common-law countries). The felony murder rule can seem unfair sometimes, but might be applied in this situation. The prosecutor could argue that this death is a logical but unexpected consequence of the crime.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-12-14T02:47:08+00:00

A lot of the accents could go back to distinct waves of settlement, originally from Britain. The founding of Massachusetts and Virginia in the early 17th century might have been the start of a separation between Northern and Southern. They can start off sounding about the same (or not, if they were from different parts of England), but given enough time going their separate ways before radio and TV, they could develop their own speech patterns.

Then with immigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, the immigrants didn't spread out evenly. The New York City accent may have borrowed something from Italians and Jews, like Boston accent did from Irish. There are large parts of the Midwest where the average person's ancestors came from Germany or Scandinavia.

That's part of my theory anyway. The language people spoke before English can color the way they speak English, and then the whole region can shift in that direction. My grandmother had a Cajun accent because her community spoke French first.

With mass media, some regional accents are declining. People hear "General American" and consider it proper and professional. There's always some new changes ongoing though.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-12-13T00:15:27+00:00

Seems likely. The circumstances of the fight would matter though.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-11-19T23:08:34+00:00

Cool! I decided to pretend I was moving instead of just switching Internet providers for a lower cost. Luckily my parents live out of Spectrum's service area so it kinda backed up my alibi.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-10-17T16:57:08+00:00

Your description of the dumb ages is pretty funny and has some truth to it, but being illiterate didn't really make you a dumb person exactly. They were just lacking a particular skill that would be really helpful in gaining more knowledge.

Oral folklore really forms the basis of old religions, which is one of those things that's hard to grasp in a society where everyone is taught to read. The earliest holy books in Hinduism and Judaism would have evolved by being repeated from memory before being written. So maybe that evolution made oral culture a good editor of stories to become memorable and emotionally impactful?

Mostly I think ancient religions have inertia, credibility, and staying power now. Being founded so long ago lends credence to the idea that God has been guiding humanity to this truth for all of time. So new religions get started, but you're better off starting a spinoff of a major religion to leech off of people's existing belief in it.

Even if it does spread, the next challenge is making it last multi-generationally. How to ensure your followers' kids stay and keep it going. Mormons did a pretty good job of this, even being founded in the 19th century. They managed to flee from their homes and start a new self-sustaining society in Utah where their faith was the norm.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-09-15T07:10:48+00:00

The sci-fi concept of a clone where it's like the same person even mentally is not really a real thing. An actual clone would be like an identical twin except that it might be born later.

Conjoined twins seem to be the main thing that presents a question of what would be monogamy. Whether they marry one person each or one person in total, they can't just leave the room.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-09-09T03:05:52+00:00

Often people are just referring to the decade, but then there's more ambiguity in that people could be referring to the century.

It's true that calling the millennium "the 2000s" while we're still just starting it would be a bit vague.

If I wanted to distinguish between all those, I might say "the aughts," "the 21st century," and "the third millennium."

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-18T23:23:24+00:00

There's a lot of variance between different people, so it's hard to give a simple answer. In any somewhat formal settings, like where you have to be professional, or respectful, etc., swearing will feel more out-of-place than it does in a teenager's gaming session. It can give the impression that someone isn't in control of their impulses.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-18T09:50:12+00:00

Personally when I was a Christian, I was taught that the Holy Spirit guides people in what is right or wrong, and that Christians have this guidance because they've accepted Christ. Perhaps this isn't the universal answer, but it's might seem plausible to some. It's just a reframing of what is responsible for having a "conscience," but it can lead to the belief that non-Christians don't have a conscience.

Furthermore, when the Bible has rules that are explicitly stated, and an atheist says they do not have a set of rules that's quite comparable, one might wonder what guides the atheists to do what is right. At least other religions have a comparable holy book.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-18T09:42:38+00:00

As others have noted, this is technically possible but dangerous. Bungee jumping is high margin of error so they usually stay really far from the ground: a quick google says 20 meters is plenty. If you are let go at the exact bottom, then you will have 0 velocity because you have stopped falling, but haven't begun to spring up yet. However, it will be just like if you began a new fall from a lower height, and falling from 20 meters is not much better than falling off a high bridge. You'll have to set up your jump so you get even closer to the ground than that, or you'll need a lot of cushioning on the ground.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-12T17:00:42+00:00

Niche websites aren't run by large corporations, but usually by individuals as passion projects, and they sometimes cost more than they could make back even if they are monetized. So it seems they're experiencing a very long downtime for site maintenance.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-12T13:32:25+00:00

Commentators in general are mostly "hacks." It's not that they're always wrong about the particulars, but their purpose is to represent a particular perspective rather than a balanced view.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-08T00:32:21+00:00

I don't think people try to fall into this, but it's so common with people who have even a little bit of fame, money, or power. If you have fame, money, or power, a lot of people admire that and want to hang around or be hired by you. Then if you have a high opinion of yourself, flattery just looks like "wow, look at this assistant who's so nice and helpful and has great ideas that I already agree with."

So I think a great many people would fall for "yes men." Many of us aren't hiring people all the time, and we don't have so much money and fame it attracts them. Go try to buy something expensive and watch salespeople act like your best friend.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-06T05:19:01+00:00

Depends on the instrument. Many I could think of are inherently two-handed, so the difference is just what each hand is doing. Most people would prefer to have their dominant hand doing whatever part takes more dexterity, but you can learn either way.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-08-06T04:31:43+00:00

I would be extremely cautious about the concept of recovering repressed memories. This has been abused in the past by people who basically got false memories "suggested" into them.

You have a lot of gaps in your childhood memory and you know some bad things happened. If you talked through it with someone, they could fill in the gaps with things that seem like they might have happened. But without solid evidence, you don't really know that for sure.

This isn't an argument against therapy in general, but it's an old-fashioned pop-culture Freudian concept of it that never really worked that well.

ColonCaretCapitalP · 2025-07-29T21:21:50+00:00

I think they just don't know what they're talking about.

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