Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Rather I struggle to find sympathy for people who elect not to take the vaccine and end up suffering consequences for it. And you will find me on the side of folks who are willing to say that the voluntarily unvaccinated have caused countless hospitalizations and deaths.

I'm right there with you on that one. I want my niece's friend to be held liable for anything that happens to anyone in my sister's household as a result of her stupid, hateful decision to endanger everyone within breathing distance of her, so I'm definitely not mad about anyone who wants those people to get what they asked for. It's just that the collateral damage has been put into even harsher relief for me than it always was.

@tnp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

But the coronavirus is not going away.

At least the people who refuse to vaccinate will. Eventually.

I get where you're both coming with this, but could we please be more careful with this rhetoric? My family's fully vaccinated, but everyone in my sister's house has COVID right now because my niece was exposed by one of her school friends, and... I dunno, I'm just not finding "ha ha they died of COVID" jokes as funny as I used to.

I miss working in health care except when I think about it.

@arkandel "Mama, I got cold and wet somehow! Please make me be warm and dry again!"

I think I like the Matrix: Resurrections. It feels like an extremely meta movie and I kinda lost the thread of the metaphor in the middle, but if I'm reading it right, it's basically a story about accepting that the struggle never ends and the same fights will always be on loop so the best you can do is fight for what you have to fight for and accept the happiness you can make of it.

@macha said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

I have a strange love for that movie.

I have no idea why I like it as much as I do. One suspects there was no script for anything but the quicksand speech, and the rest of it is all improv that just magically turned out really, really well.

@wildbaboons I believe shakshuka is the first recipe I posted in this thread. I love it, but I need more variety in my attempts to get both protein and vegetables* in my breakfast.

*yes I know it's a fruit, it still counts

Does anyone here ever cook tomatoes along with your breakfast eggs? If so, what do you do? I've thought of grilling them but would like something with a less mushy texture.

@mietze

One-Pan Jambalaya
1 green pepper, diced
1 red onion, diced
3-4 stalks of celery, diced
1 pinch salt
2 tbsp olive oil
3+ cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
1 lb Andouille sausage, sliced into rounds
1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
1 cup white rice
2 cups chicken or vegetable broth
2 tomatoes, diced
1 lb thawed, deveined, shelled shrimp

In a very large frying pan over medium heat, cook the pepper, onion, and celery in the oil with a pinch of salt to help them sweat. You want to have roughly equal amounts of each veg. When they've begun to pick up color from the oil, add the garlic and cook until fragrant. Add the sausage and cook, stirring, until meat and vegetables have begun to brown. Add the Cajun seasoning and stir, cooking a few minutes to toast the spice, before stirring in the rice and letting it toast for a minute or two. Add the broth and tomatoes. Stir, and let the pan come to a quick boil before covering and reducing the heat to low. Allow it to simmer for 15 minutes.

Add the shrimp, stirring, trying to submerge it in the liquid. Cover the pan again and let it cook for five more minutes.

@mietze

Hawaiian Garlic Shrimp
1 head garlic, peeled and crushed
4 tbsp butter, plus more if you make your rice with it
1 lb large, thawed, de-veined shrimp (I take the tails off because my mom told me they're poison, and some things stick with you)
2 tbsp rice flour
1 tbsp paprika
1.5 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tbsp olive oil
2 cups rice
juice of 1 large lime

Make the rice first by the directions on the package. When it's off the heat and cooling, juice a large lime into it and stir it to combine. You want the rice basically done and doing the water absorption thing before you start cooking the shrimp, because it's shockingly fast.

Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until the garlic is golden brown, 2-3 minutes. Transfer the garlic and butter to a bowl.

Make sure the shrimp has no excess moisture from thawing. Mix all the powders together and coat the shrimp in it. Turn the heat up to medium-high and add the oil to the frying pan. Cook the shrimp in a single layer, flipping after 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic butter and cook another 30 seconds per side. Transfer to the rice immediately.

@silverfox I almost wish I would. I have forgotten what it feels like.

I wonder when I stopped hitting what my grandparents call my crazybone; that spot in your elbow that shoots electricity through your arm when you whang it.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

spoilers

I pay extra to ship it express.

@mietze said in Goofy things one does in down time.:

I feel lowbrow because my destress brain candy videos of choice involve videos of ingrown hair or earwax removal.

Those videos are so stressful to me until they finally get the stuff extracted, at which point the relief I feel is worth the entire video and more.

@sunny said in RL Anger:

If one more person tries to blame the recent tragedy in my life on the COVID vaccine I am going to stab somebody in the damn face.

If anyone asks, at the time of the stabbing, you were driving around town with me helping me find a pair of Chaco's ZX2 sandals for my sister for Christmas.

Question for the autistic folks in the thread. How's your self-esteem? I've noticed that if someone disrespects me, then I automatically internalize it as being something I deserve (because if I didn't deserve it, why would they do it, right?), and I'm wondering if that sounds familiar to anyone's experience or if it's just me.

@sunny said in General Video Game Thread:

1- I'm in crisis (and this has long been a way for me to vent some of that pressure, and 2- I have told myself NO (and because it's off limits it becomes much more attractive).

That's Papa John's pizza for me.

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

If you want, I can bring it back.

No thank you.

@ganymede Sorry. I deleted it.

The artist is Jonathon Harris. The title of the piece is "Critical Race Theory."