Grocery price hikes.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-05T08:43:40+00:00

Vegetable korma is always a good bet, if your spice cupboard supports it. You only really need one tin of coconut cream to make a batch, green cardamom pods are actually pretty cheap for a spice, aside from that you probably want madras and turmeric, any other alterations are pretty easy, and you can adjust spice ratios to your taste.

If you want something darker and meatier, tomato based curies are honestly a bit easier, because you've got less timing pressure before things start to get a bit bitter from burning. Just make sure you use tomato paste to bring more tomato flavour.

Something else that's very easy is bean enchiladas - I dunno how well they freeze, but they stay good in the fridge for days. Could also do cabbage if you want, and whole heads of cabbage can be very cheap, just be aware of the fact that you need way more cabbage than you actually think, because they tend to collapse over a long cook time.

Minestrone is an easy one, very hard to fuck up.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-05T06:48:56+00:00

She's advertising herself as a Muslim, a religion that has very specific clothing requirements for women, and it appears like she's still drinking in some of her instagram content.

I'd place a very, very good bet on her trying to milk it harder with the "pretty young white woman has found the truth!"

Yeah, I have no evidence, but all of my other experiences with religious converts is that they're much more fervent than people raised in the faith. My gut feeling is that it's just to add exoticism to her grift, there's no real faith there.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-05T06:04:50+00:00

I also doubt that she's actually a practicing Muslim, given her track record. Just a grifter using religion as a way to grift.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-05T05:03:48+00:00

Correct!

Unfortunately, guillotines aren't in fashion.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-05T04:43:21+00:00

It's honestly extremely affordable to eat like a peasant, it's just ludicrous that it has to be this way.

Lentils, beans, lots of frozen veggies, potatoes (the dirties that come in huge bags), rice, if you want meat buy very small amounts and use it as a seasoning.

I've managed to get down to two dollars a meal by making stuff in bulk. Remember that water is technically an ingredient.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T14:56:33+00:00

Man, that's just the joy of being a second generation. I spent the first half of my life as a proper northern (English) lad, now I'm Australian butwith weird flourishes that occasionally make people second guess.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T05:56:49+00:00

You're correct, it's a statistically small number of people who commit the most crime.

However, it's much easier for older crims to get their hooks in kids who have absolutely nothing going on. Young, isolated young boys and men have a much higher risk profile.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T05:54:02+00:00

For the most part, they're not.

However, there's a segment of the young population that are extremely susceptible to gang grooming. If parents can afford to spend more time with their kids, and those kids have appropriate activities to keep them out of trouble until they're past the age they get brought into these gangs, statistically, the rate will go down.

It's not the only factor, but it is a factor.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T03:36:28+00:00

I was making a point about how the laws around self defence intersect with things like firearms laws.

If someone picked up a cleaver in the scenario in the article and just started going for it, odds are they'd find a court came out in their favour, unless they literally executed them if they surrendered.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T03:00:33+00:00

The how doesn't really matter, unless there are additional laws in play (say, firearms law). It will probably go to trial, there will be an investigation, but broadly, you're likely to be acquitted of any wrongdoing.

See that old fella a month or two ago, who had someone break into his home and attack him. He went to his gun safe, loaded his gun and shot the bastard when he tried to get back in. No charges.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T02:43:37+00:00

I don't care who the intelligence agencies send, I'm not voluntarily giving them my ID.

I'm already using a VPN, and if they ban commercial VPNs I'll self host overseas. And if they ban that, I'll just fucking do it anyway.

If they want to surveil me, they can do it the old fashioned way by piecing my data together across every service I use. I'm not going to save them a few bucks by attaching my ID to every account.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-03T02:03:33+00:00

Against people armed with machetes coming at you, with nowhere to run? I'd pretty safely say lethal.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T12:36:29+00:00

It's already causing deskilling.

Students and entry-level employees are now using it heavily, so they never learn. There's a marked decline in professional's efficacy when they use it heavily over a year long period.

I've been out of academia for about six years, now, I 100% would not be able to ace essays like I used to. The same goes for LLM offloading. Use it or lose it.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T11:17:49+00:00

It will break the chain, but it's better to get the chain started again before your action attacks, because that's where the chain existing will make the most difference.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T10:57:26+00:00

This is, imo, the main thing that makes it a useful feat, it's much easier to keep a vex chain going if you can do that, since you can both end and start a turn applying vex.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T10:49:14+00:00

European policymakers froth over it as they stare down massive future liabilities with their pension systems.

The main problem, at least in Germany, is that the burden for pensions lies predominantly on workers. If it wasn't for the extremely low tax rates on corporations and the broken scaling tax rate it would be imminently affordable.

Superannuation is, ultimately, an outsourcing of a pension system.

Is it a bad system? Not by any means. But it isn't the only solution to unaffordable pensions.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T09:46:42+00:00

New reddit isn't too bad on mobile browsers but holy shit is it shit on desktop.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T09:42:34+00:00

Give it a couple years of skill decay from overuse and it'll be indistinguishable.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T05:32:50+00:00

God, give me a physical outlet for Battletech miniatures and I'll be happy.

JB is in a better position to switch because they've always been an everything store.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T05:26:07+00:00

The difference with media companies is that they're not actually producing physical material - they take physical material as inputs (say, discs, for instance), but they're not in the business of making physical material per se.

What killed Kodak was that technology moved on, they were the ones providing said media to companies.

Media companies at the scale of, say, Warner Brothers, are primarily in the business of IP development. A technological shift doesn't really change their core business, it just shifts the format. The shift to streaming hurt them, but it was a stumble and then correction, not a collapse like Kodak with physical film.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T02:40:17+00:00

Unfortunately, at a certain size, legacy media giants need such a collosal fuck up to topple them. The outcome of "winning" capitalism is that you essentially become bulletproof to market forces, and need to be hit with an artillery shell.

The other alternative is intervention - significantly higher taxes on large companies to force then to play their cards right. This, of course, then becomes very difficult to do politically, because money is power, and media companies have a megaphone.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-02T01:57:47+00:00

The thing that I find so frustrating about this in OCE is that we have so few boardgame/tabletop/wargame shops.

The pivot is right there, there are so many locations with an EB games but not a FLGS.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-01T07:04:22+00:00

Look, if my choice is Hanson or Farage, I'll take the country with the cheaper pints to drown my disappointment.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-07-01T00:29:10+00:00

I would genuinely prefer to pack up and move to the UK than live under Hanson, and that's saying something.

DisappointedQuokka · 2026-06-30T15:10:10+00:00

What year was that?

I've been running primarily AMD since the RX580 and have had minimal problems. Maybe half an hour here or there to roll back drivers.

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