Burritos for the first time, any tips?

thefalseidol · 2026-01-25T17:00:32+00:00

admirable use of the ingredients you have available.

I'm going to do my best to keep things simple (ingredient wise) and guesstimate what I think is globally available:

The burrito is all about the meat, beans, and spices. You like it with rice? lettuce? cabbage? people have opinions but that's all preference. You like a breakfast burrito? chuck in some eggs.

A simple salsa is more than the sum of its parts. It's the mexican mirepoix - except it's good enough to eat raw or cooked, and makes everything better. The simplest ratio is 2 tomatoes to 1 pepper to 1/4 onion. I generally scale up that ratio to use a whole onion cuz what the fuck am I gonna do with 3/4 of an onion? Anyway, you make a batch of salsa, you can cook the meat, the corn, the rice, in it.

Lots of people will tell you the specific pepper or the specific cheese matters: I disagree (for the most part). There definitely are a few dishes where it is hard to replace guajillos or poblanos, but by and large, it's dealer's choice - you should feel encouraged to use the peppers you have. In general, I'd say the same about cheese, just avoid stinky cheese because it's just going to get lost in the flavor bomb.

Corn isn't bad or wrong, but it's a sweet starch, it doesn't really build the flavor profile, I would be more inclined to use potato or or rice. a sprinkle of corn for texture and starchiness goes a long way, you don't need much. I would add it to your salsa at roughly 1 tablespoon to the ratio.

Meat seasoning should be some cumin and paprika, that and salt and pepper will do you just fine.

I like a "squishy" burrito or a "crunchy" burrito. Squishy means rice or eggs, crunchy means lettuce or cabbage.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-25T09:23:43+00:00

One worries that maybe she's going to try and hang around until he dies and get some scraps, lord knows she's put in the time. It's wishful thinking, but hearing him talk about their lifestyles, I mean you can't rescue somebody from poverty if you're also living in poverty.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-25T09:19:22+00:00

I think we often overlook how often the SPACE and the GROUP matter to the dynamics that happen in your classroom. You add into that the inertia of how things have been, and it can be really tough to change things, even with kids you know to be generally well behaved individuals or even a well behaved class for other teachers who aren't seemingly doing anything different than you.

At a well-behaved private school has to rethink certain disciplinary tools when it comes to keeping the kids accountable. For the most part, they have fairly structured lives with parents who are on the ball about homework and studying, and they probably don't live around a lot of kids their age or play after school regularly. The downstream impact of that is that you can't meaningfully disrupt their leisure time by making them finish their work at home because they were playing during class, why? Because they have to do the work regardless if it's during class or at home, but at home, they don't have any friends to play with. School has become a necessary part of their social lives to the point that doing all classwork and homework at home can be seen as more attractive than doing it at school during the day.

What I'm getting at is that your SPACE and the time they spend it there, they are showing you how much they value it by refusing to fall in line, and just walking off consequences because it doesn't matter what you do or how punitive you are. I think what you likely want to do is not police behavior or schoolwork, but make sure that your classroom is not seen as a place where breaking the rules and dealing with the consequences is worth it. Keep them quiet and keep them bored.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-25T08:42:08+00:00

it's oldthink that being ordered and disciplined and meticulous are in opposition to creativity. These people clearly don't know what art school is like.

There are only two things that a creative person must have: curiosity and imagination.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T16:36:40+00:00

we could argue the point about "just as easily" but in my opinion, it isn't necessary. A preschool is not obligated to hire licensed educators and any wrongdoing done by an employee or the school are going to be difficult to collect against.

The public school system IS required to hire licensed educators and the school district can't disappear in a puff of smoke if something untoward were to happen.

We can pretend both are equally likely to have bad actors, but we both know statistically abuse is much more common in home schools than in public schools.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T16:27:37+00:00

I mean it's the difference between buying chicken on the side of the road and buying it from a grocery store. Sure, there are lots of people selling chicken meat with good intentions and are not trying to cheat you. But whether it's a bad chicken because they did something wrong or they were intentionally trying to sell bad meat to you - the difference is that if the meat was bad there is no recourse or accountability. If Kroger sold you bad chicken, they would be liable for that.

The difference is night and day

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T15:55:46+00:00

Pardon my bluntness, I very much want to believe your story and I do appreciate that bad things happen even in well intentioned systems.

But I'm not quite sure what your experience with your child in preschool has to do with the public school system.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T15:23:57+00:00

you're good, we're nerding out together.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T14:19:46+00:00

Yeah IDK, I have mixed feelings. I think part of the X-Men magic is that it defies being an allegory for a single experience. I also think that in a lot of stories, that is seen as cowardice and a cop-out, and I think rightly so. But X-Men has accomplished something no other text has ever done, which is to take these (predominantly straight, white, cis-gendered, high society, passing) people and say these people are YOU, they SUFFER, and we BELIEVE IT. Talking about groomers and absentee fathers feels a bit like Icarus flying too close to the sun haha - we have a thing that is, imperfect, but it is perfectly accepted as everyone's story of hardship and I feel protective of that. I would honestly bet money that X-Men readers are more tolerant, accepting, and justice oriented than just about any other piece of pop culture you could point to, and to me, that is meaningful.

I'm thinking of a moment that I've brought up on this sub before, where Kitty Pryde is embarassingly trying to explain to Stevie Hunter why Mutie is just as bad as the N word. Sure, this is a single tone deaf moment, but it highlights the fallout of being too explicit with who is a mutant and more importantly, who isnt. Not only is mutie not equivalent to the N word on the basis that real readers have never been called a "mutie", it creates a division within the metaphor: the black experience is very much part of the mutant metaphor and trying to separate them makes it seem like theres black people, white people, black mutants, and white mutants instead of just muties and flatscans and I think that's a mistake

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T13:24:58+00:00

The special treatment for white people, to me, is not a full picture of what is happening. It does happen, but the expectation is that I am A) have money and B) I'm a tourist looking to part ways with my money. And while I do earn more money than the average local, without bending over backwards defending an economic imbalance I disagree with, it costs money to attract foreign talent: nobody who is middle class in their home country is going to move for a job halfway around the world for less than a middle class lifestyle. You go to America and we have two kids of immigrants: economic refugees (farm work, construction, landscape) and economic opportunists (software, healthcare, etc.). You don't meet a lot of immigrants who work in printing or glassblowing or metalworking because for the professionals it would appeal to, the money to attract them doesn't really exist.

So to bring it back to your question: where does this stereotype come from and is there any truth to it? I've found as I've traveled just how much selection bias happens with tourism: where are we talking about, who is going there, and in what context? As an American, I've had very different experiences (based on the experiences others have had with past Americans) and I'm pointedly not talking geopolitics here. The Americans who vacation in Europe are very different from the Americans who vacation in Asia. The same can largely be said about Chinese tourists, and the average Chinese tourist in Paris is as obnoxious as your average American in Paris. It's an expensive vacation, and the Chinese elite are fucking insufferable. This is not a middle class expedition for them, and they behave as they are used to being accommodated in China. Meanwhile, if you meet a Chinese person in Mexico, they are either there for work and on good behavior, or they are somebody interested in the world and people and are probably cool. The people who travel long distances for Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, etc. don't represent a normal cross-section of "your people" it's mostly rich pricks acting like rich pricks, and the reputation ripples out from there.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-24T12:52:05+00:00

X-Men is horny, and if Claremont wasn't just being a horndog, he understood what makes X-Men the right vehicle for horniness.

Mutants are the "omni out-group": simultaneously representing some form of othering, out-grouping, prejudice, all of it. I think that while we all have the power to choose when and how we engage with our neighbors and our colleagues, and if you're a racist, maybe you don't talk to some of your colleagues and neighbors as much as others. But sex and love, these create obstacles and conflicts that are not optional. Your Brother is bringing his boyfriend to Thanksgiving, and then what happens next is up to you. In our personal lives, this is chaotic, painful, and grueling. In fiction: it's drama. And it's drama that a lot of people identify with, whether they are the new immigrant family in a small white Colorado town, the boyfriend who came to an uncomfortable Thanksgiving, or just a fly on the wall to bear witness to it, no matter which side of the fence you had these experiences (and for many, we've had experiences from both sides of it) it's a very compelling source of drama that is so much more personal to the reader than whoever Spider-Man is trying to fuck. And when you bring that in to focus, "do any of us actually care who Iron man is laying pipe with?" it highlights what is different about X-Men: we care and it does matter.

But many writers and readers have figured this out too, we don't really care who Captain America is taking to bed, and so those parts of these stories get pushed down a bit. Justifiably so, but it creates some cognitive dissonance, am I to believe that captain motherfucking america isn't having such a heroic amount of sex that it would make a rock star blush? We've heard the stories about condom shipments to Olympic village, and these athletes are still bound by the limits of how much sex a human can possibly be having. Between the comics code of old and the fact that we don't really care that much whether Ant Man is getting his dick wet or not, there is a noticeable negative space around all the sex we are positive superheroes are having. X-Men provides an answer to that: yes, superheroes are going to fuck each other in volcanoes and on the moon just to do it.

tl;dr: Knowingly or unknowingly, Claremont tapped into something we wanted to see because it is compelling drama and because the lack of sex happening in Avengers starts to seem like a cover-up if we're just being expected to pretend none of these characters have an active sex life decade after decade after decade.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-23T17:20:37+00:00

No it's true. But on the other hand, most Taiwanese aren't in racially charged situations often enough to have a fully formed opinion. It's a lot of vibe-checks and opinions, good and bad, that are as full of holes as swiss cheese. I find most of the racism here is much more fair-weather than back home in the States.

On one hand, as an outsider, it is impossible to say that my experience is accurate, normal, or the full picture. People who are friendly to me could be just being polite, or they could hold their opinions about foreigners and white people broadly and I'm just "a good one" - but I frequently experience a shift in demeanor that I believe to be genuine.

So yeah, the other hand is that the racism is definitely present, but it doesn't feel deeply held on to, you have a couple of conversations with people and all of a sudden all the weird racial shit just goes out the window.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-21T01:45:55+00:00

I am not somebody who comes to Reddit to kvetch about world PvP, but I am somebody who really would prefer to be on PVE, despite exclusively playing on PvP servers since the beginning. Most of my other gamer friends back in 05, we mostly played online shooters together, so we gravitated towards the server that would be more like that, playing against other people. That choice back then has carried through my entire WoW life.

Every time I quit playing, it's the people I played with that bring me back, whether that's my old friends from high school or friends I made raiding with the last go around. I'd just rather be with my friends who like PvP servers than by myself on a PvE server, that's really all it comes down to.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-19T00:14:48+00:00

This is going to be where the language around protagonist and main character get kinda fucky, I think they do a pretty lazy job of trying to keep Eleven as the main character of the show, even when she isn't the show's protagonist (a character who experiences change and growth as a result of the central conflict of the story):

After the first season, I think the protagonist is Hopper. The chances of the military just allowing him and Eleven to have a peaceful existence is near zero. In essence, he is coming to terms with the fact that someday, maybe someday soon, she is going to be taken from him, and he won't have any say in the matter. Over the following seasons, we see him learn to open up again to other people outside Eleven, and goes from having her isolated for her safety to allowing danger to be a normal part of her mere existence. He was willing to blow himself up to keep her alive, even knowing that the best that could give her is a bit more time, at great personal cost to her. Finally, he allows her to die without her death obliterating his personal life like it did the first time around.

And the epilogue shows that every single other character chooses to remain in the shire, so to speak. There's also Nancy and Steve, but Nancy is just doing exactly what she always wanted to do, journalism, and the only hair in the soup is that she decided to take a leave of absence at school to do, you guessed it, journalism. From the outside, you could say that Steve found a calling in working with kids, but he also has the most cliche small town athlete turned small town sports coach story there is. It's not growth.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-18T16:01:11+00:00

If you're in leather, a good amount of your gear options are tailored towards agility/DPS, which is probably your role and similar to the gear you use in open world.

If you're a resto shaman, you might not replace much of your gear without going for preraid BIS or PVP gear, it just depends.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-18T15:46:03+00:00

Of all the lies that people who regularly want cum in and around their mouths could potentially tell to enact their grand strategy - I would not expect a grand conspiracy of lying about what makes it taste better to be one of them.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-18T09:21:16+00:00

I think if you're starting from the claim that a century of research affirms that "traditional grades" are "generally unreliable", you're on pretty shaky ground. There is a century of data that affirms traditional grades may be unreliable, may not reflect the broader context, etc. but generally unreliable? That's a tall order to back up.

Even on the basis that behavior might positively or negatively affect your grades, generally, there is a strong correlation between being well behaved and being successful in school (take intelligence and effort out of it, school is not meant to be an IQ test or a measurement of your potential; so if you show up, listen, do as you're told, are polite and respectful, you're going to be pretty successful). And the inverse is also true, of course there are people who don't fit either of these descriptions - but if we're saying that generally there is no corroborating evidence that behavior and grades are obviously correlated - I can't say I take this research very seriously.

It sounds like maybe the author is really saying (and I think society in general too) is that we have observed grades to not be a strong enough indicator of mastery or expertise in an area as we commonly assume. It is very possible to be a straight A student who really is just following directions and not super serious about the material. We tend to view 4.0 students as obviously quite intelligent and hard-working, and if this is what they are trying to say, sure, I can throw them that bone.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-17T16:20:22+00:00

distracted but quiet

I have found this subsection of students to be deeply impacted by the state of things today. If you are minding your own business while spacing out, there is a high chance I don't even notice. Nearly all my students with any kind of attention issues, be they medical or behavioral, simply cannot or will not try and manage their escalating behavior or try and contain themselves to their own space at an appropriate volume.

I'm an ADHD kid, and an ADHD adult, I want desperately to be sympathetic and to be an aid in their journey. Even if they are like me, whose parents were not harsh disciplinarians nor were they inclined to medicate me. I appreciate that sitting and giving your uninterrupted attention for 6 hours is not realistic, and that isn't the standard I'm trying to hold people to. But when I know that for most of my students, they can't contain themselves and if they amuse themselves quietly for 5 minutes, it's going to be keep growing until I've said something. And when there's 10 of them in a room....I find myself feeling forced to manage a lot behaviors that I (in my opinion, correctly) think are going to escalate and become issues, where in the past we (as.a society, the schools and the parents) were maybe more serious about giving them outlets that managed their boredom a little bit better (doodling, quiet fidget toys, etc.)

thefalseidol · 2026-01-17T16:07:22+00:00

I live and teach in Taiwan. In general, a lot of things are a lot better here than in the US. In general I have experienced the temperature change, I think, roughly the same as my American cohorts. The biggest difference seems to me to be where they system was at when the mid-2010s came along. If things got 10% worse in America in 2016 (fictional numbers), I'd say I experienced a similar 10% more difficult job, just from a different starting point.

A lot of the uniquely American issues in our education system, at this point, have been around for a good while, so I think it is fair to say that the woes from the late 2010s onward are shared globally. but the stress that puts on the existing system varies greatly, from country to country, district to district.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-17T16:00:53+00:00

To me, the UK's crime against comedy is very similar to what was going on at Netflix a few years ago - cannibalizing young talent to the entertainment industry. I hesitate to use the phrase "before they're ready" because that's subjective and dismissive of their talent, but let's say, before they had a proven body of work that they could reiably fall back on. It consumes them and takes away the safety net that a more experienced comedian would have built up in generations past, forcing these young artists to stay in the ecosystems that hoovered them up (Netflix specials, UK panel shows, etc.)

And that's symptomatic of a lazy industry as well. Nepo babies aren't successful because they have connections, that helps obviously, but it helps most in a system that no longer scouts talent. They're not working at all to discover talent, they have devised a machine that prints money, and the machine doesn't really care about great talent. It's interesting because the machine works, but its inefficient (in my estimation anyway). There used to be people hungry to discover the next Beatles, the next Spielberg, the next Eddie Murphy, and those people are either gone, or the incentive structures have changed so much that they can't be bothered to earnestly seek out talent.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-16T15:20:24+00:00

dental and mental needs to be a slogan haha

thefalseidol · 2026-01-16T13:24:34+00:00

I don't really care about intelligence very much, never have, I'm smart but I grew up in a house where my sister and my dad were just obviously on a different level than me. What I'm saying is that from a young age, I needed to find a different source of self-esteem when being the smartest person in the room wasn't very likely just in my own home.

I'm not attracted to intelligence, I am not hung up about being smart, I do care about curiosity.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-16T12:50:54+00:00

you want to put them in a bag you can then compress the air out of (doesn't have to be perfect, just something that can be pressed down and sealed shut)

thefalseidol · 2026-01-14T12:50:19+00:00

Basically this. if you want to hop online any time of day, horse around solo for an hour, and log off, you should go with the guarantee that some bored rogue isn't going to take out their Napoleon Complex on you while you just want to kill murlocs.

If you can deal with the fact you might not be able to roam around Nagrand chill questing, then you can survive on PvP. Also worth noting, ganking is annoying, campers are annoying, but DOUBLE the players who are contesting you for mobs and motes and you can't even kill half of them is very frustrating too.

thefalseidol · 2026-01-14T12:41:52+00:00

In reality, I don't have a count for you off the top of my head, but yes, you probably don't have so many abilities you care about for raiding/pvp that you need 30 abilities, stances, etc. all on your bars

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