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@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@too-old-for-this My usual issue is with the sides. Meat is easy - you buy it from a butcher or in a box and it's just... it. You buy a package containing 552 grams of chicken breast, well, that's what you get.

But I really don't like chopping and mixing veggies. Making sure some of it doesn't go bad before others do. Mixing it up and portioning it out. I'm happy to pay a premium to get a sensible salad out of a bag, I just want to know what the hell is in it.

Frozen veggies, bruh. You just weigh and mix or eyeball and mix or just throw the whole bag in a skillet. Whatev.

@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I need sides that I can fit within the window meat is getting cooked

Chicken breast + bagged stir fry. Cook the chicken just long enough to get a good sear on each side, and then dump in a bag of frozen stir fry mix. That'll take about seven minutes to cook. Add some sauces or whatever in the last minute. I typically use a squeeze bottle with about two thirds hoisin, and then the rest soy sauce with enough room for a couple of tablespoons of sriracha.

Dump into bowl. Eat.

@boneghazi said in RL Sads:

A little obsessed with getting another right now. He ells me he wants a "really expensive bird" one, buuut I'm kinda terrified that's going to be a "really expensive bird funeral".

Is he perhaps equating 'expensive' with 'resilient'? Because that would make sense. Things that cost more don't break as easy and last a lot longer.

@gamerngeek said in Recipes and Shit:

Putting in not a recipe, but a request /for/ them. Looking for some new dish ideas that would work for someone who cannot eat pork, or shellfish. I've got some options, but it would always be nice to add some more options to the repertoire.

DERP'S "FUCK PUTTING ON PANTS TODAY"-LEVELS-LAZY WHITE CHICKEN CHILI

• 2lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into manageable chunks
• 4 cans cannellini beans, undrained
• 1 10oz can diced tomatoes of your choice, drained -- I use Rotel fire roasted with green chilis.
• 2 tablespoons chicken base (or a few bouillon cubes, whatever -- I don't recommend chicken broth / stock or it will come out very water, you want the bean liquid, but to each their own)
• 2-3 tablespoons seasoning mix (see below) --- 2 will be a little mild, 3 will be a little spicy. Consider like -- 2 tablespoons and a teaspoon maybe.

DERP'S LAZY WHITE CHICKEN CHILI SEASONING HE FOUND ON THE INTERNET SOMEWHERE

Just mix all this together in a big batch. It keeps for ages.

1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Tablespoon Onion Powder
2 Tablespoons Garlic Powder
1 Tablespoon Cayenne (optional but -- why wouldn't you?)
2 Tablespoons Cumin
1 Tablespoon Oregano
1 Tablespoon Cilantro (optional, but I have found that dried cilantro does not taste like soap)
1 Tablespoon Corn Starch (doesn't really do anything for the soup but keeps this nice and powdery)

Makes a little under a cup of mix, total.

Throw all of that into a crock pot. Turn it on low. Cook until your house smells delicious, 3-4 hours.

No, you don't have to cook or blanche or whatever the chicken ahead of time. Just dump it in raw. Hell, I used to do this with 4-5 frozen chicken breasts, and then I would just shred them when they got tender enough, but now I half-thaw the chicken and just use my big kitchen knife to cut it into perfect little chunks.

Dump it in, walk away, come back when it smells good. You really can't go wrong.

Alternatively, you can use a chicken chili seasoning packet of your choice but I've always found those things to be pretty freaking boring.

@tnp said in Recipes and Shit:

I Don't Want To Cook For The Rest of the Week

10 chicken thighs
3-4 chicken bouillon cubes
2 cans cream of mushroom soup

• Put in slow cooker on high for 8 hours
• Remove thigh bones and stir vigorously to shred the chicken

Add 1 box (16 oz) of your pasta/noodles of choice

• Cook another 2 hours on high

Pour in 1-2 cans of canned vegetables such as peas and carrots and mix well.

Serves many over multiple days.

Variation: replace soup with your favorite BBQ sauce. Replace veggies with beans.

So it's like -- the inside of a pot pie?

I'm very game for this.

@greenflashlight said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

I suspect the answer is "no ethical consumption" and all that, but I can't shake this sudden fear that representation isn't visibility, but rather commodification.

It's really not either of those things. It isn't really visibility because the types of representation that you see tend to be stereotypical or trope-y. See: Jack a la Will and Grace. You aren't seeing the reality of the thing, just this stereo-archetype of the thing in question.

But neither is it commodification. It does not, in and of itself, have an inherent value. You can't trade it for other things. If it wasn't there, they would slot in something completely different and it would have the exact same effect. Will and Grace could have been substituted with Futurama and you would still get viewership and ad buys and whatnot.

If anything, what it does is ultimately beneficial -- it gets you so used to seeing the most grandiose and overblown version of a thing, flattening out this idea in your mind until it is a familiar part of the landscape, that less-extreme (aka 'actually normal') versions of this thing don't even cause a momentary glitch anymore. You just accept that this is a thing, even if that comes at the cost of 'he is not as loud and out there as Jack'.

And I'm sure that some idealists out there are already frothing at the idea of how degrading that is, or whatever. But do you know what's even more degrading? Still being resented. Still being persecuted. Still being marginalized and 'other'-ed.

Whatever it takes to get out from under the weight of that scrutiny and get people to start accepting you. We don't get to fetishize some idealized critical path it has to take. You just have to get there. Somehow.

That's what this kind of thing does. And I, for one, continue to support it.

@faraday said in The Work Thread:

@macha said in The Work Thread:

@faraday I already pointed out to my boss, I have three choices. Let them keep abusing me like this, find a new job, or sue the hell out of them.

I know YOU have, but sometimes it takes hearing it from an external person with more cred. (Not saying that’s right or anything, just how it is.). It can be an intermediate and less costly step than a lawsuit. They also may be able to advise you on how to prepare for a lawsuit should you choose to go that way.

As an alternative: You can hire a firm to send a demand letter. That tends to be both kind of scary and relatively cheap.

@macha said in The Work Thread:

@ganymede No, they took me out of the chat for the work that was causing me anxiety. They took me off that task, and put me back on what I was originally supposed to be doing with the new training.

I went from taking incoming calls with pissed off people back to outreach where I actually get to help people.

This was actually what the accommodation asked for, to put me back on outreach. (Though I know they are hoping I fuck it up so they can write me up for being a PITA)

@greenflashlight said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

I don't think I'm being reflexively negative here. I don't go to movies looking for a bad time. I'm a big fan of the attitude that it's more fun to like movies than to dislike them. I really do think that if this hadn't been a Ghostbusters sequel, if it had been Stranger Things vs. Cthulhu or something, then I'd have been all about it. I just can't get my head around putting that story in this franchise.

I mean, I've been watching this franchise since I was a child and I can say with certainty that I absolutely do not take from it what you apparently take from it. So I can see why you might be having a bad time, if that's the way you really see those movies, but I think that you may be something of an outlier.

I mean, you're not like -- wrong, or anything, but if that's the frame you choose to view the franchise through then -- I mean, I'm not sure how but yeah, I could see why this one wouldn't fit with your view.

@alamias said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

@ganymede ^^^^^^ This.

Yeah, exactly that

The good boy let me get his picture! He would come to about 5 feet away. Cut up some hot dogs and tossed him the pieces. Poor guy is super skittish still.

@snackness said in Critters!:

@derp Awww my heeeeearrrrt

I know right? I just wanna cuddle him.

@kestrel said in RL things I love:

I actually hate the boots but I guess now I have to keep them forever.

You have to put them in a glass case with a placard that marks them as existentially important and necessary for preservation.

Then you can never wear them again.

Double win!

So, Shang-Chi is getting a sequel. Just leaving this here for all ya'll that liked it! (Me included!)

@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Do I have a worst work/life balance sometimes since it sometimes feel I'm never quite off the clock? Yes.

I don't even mind this part. I don't mind never quite feeling off the clock because I also know that, at the end of the day, I'm expected to produce eight hours of work. And if that means that I'm never off the clock, I get to do it at whatever pace I damn well please.

@horrorhound

These are really pretty! Thanks for sharing!

@mietze

Mix it up a little and do a scampi?

@puppybreath

If either you or your partner have any kind of mental health diagnosis, you can try to have him registered as an emotional support animal or psychiatric service dog. One of the criteria for PSDs are usually 'helps me maintain healthy routines' or something similar, and then it doesn't matter whether they normally allow animals or not. You can take him anywhere.

@faraday said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

That is what the vaccines are for--preventing serious outcomes, not for eradicating the disease.

Tell that to smallpox.

Just saying. We absolutely can eliminate viruses. We've done it before.

@solstice said in The Work Thread:

So yeah, no out for them, there. It's entirely motivated by archaic 'You're not productive if you're not in your seat' wisdom.

This is why we're not allowed to do WFH anymore either. Too many conservatives got all mad that the government offices were empty, even though we were already planning on going to remote work for a lot of stuff and downsizing in an effort to be fiscally conservative, which is the freaking mantra.

So we're all back ot working in close quarters as positive tests skyrocket. Because apparently the only way to make sure we're doing stuff is for the overlords to lord over us at all times. Instead of like -- productivity benchmarks. Because it's 2022.