I miss not knowing who the world's richest person is.

You probably don't. It's very likely King Charles, or somebody in the Saud family. Or one many hereditary banking families that have spanned centuries. Their exemption from public disclosure laws serves many purposes—obfuscating their obscene wealth is one of them.

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She seems very attached to normal human being life.

"Inter-relationship Man of Missing the Point"

Autism Superpower? Isn't that the shitty spy movie with Mike Myers?

I don't know about a worm, but I think we would all be safer if Marx were a bear.

This is something Jordan Peterson would write if he decided to LARP as a leftist instead of a Tradcath.

I can't believe that the people nominated us for the Jacking Off Major Media Publications Award of the Year, and we didn't win. What gives?

Finally, games that look exactly like my memories: a blurry mess of bullshit that may or may not have happened, filled with faces I can't even remember because they died so long ago it may as well be my imagination.

N E WAY DAE I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE?????

Does Erik ever break character as ironic Alex Jones? I'm not watching 20 minutes of that shit.

edit: I skipped ahead a bunch. He does not.

Mr. Truk actually earned that name because of his pivotal role in the auto workers' strike of 1973. Learn your history, liberal.

I am absolutely seething right now because I understand every reference here, and I hate it.

Fuck this guy. Cancel him IMMEDIATELY. There are STARVING electric eels in the ocean, and he's just WASTING their battery food in his stew!

This is bullshit. Fucking eel-starver motherfucker. Fuck.

Oh, um, hello, by the way. I got really caught up yapping about soup downthread that I forgot to actually say hi. Hi!

I also love the hell out of Gravity Falls. It's a beautiful show that had a firmly planned ending from the start, and Hirsch and Co. absolutely stuck the landing. AND I also love that he used his clout with Disney to amplify Dana Terrace's voice to create The Owl House, and then just... took a back seat! He voiced just the one character, and let Dana tell her story that was as cool and queer and quirky as she wanted. And Alex absolutely went to the mat on this show to get a same-sex kiss on-screen—he practically had to fistfight Disney to make it happen.

I will gush about those two series for like 200 hours, please stop me.

brigade threads like with Hexbear

Gondor has called for aid?! Rohan will answer!

As a more serious response: we... don't actually do that. It's not a coordinated thing. There's no Secret Hexbear Discord Cabal where we congregate and conspire to raid an instance and be dickheads. It's organic content from real people.

Very early on (years before federation and the Reddit exodus) we made a decision to remove downvotes from our instance. We were having a serious problem with trans users being anonymously bullied by a small number of bad actors downvoting all their content. So, we purged those assholes' accounts and turned downvotes off. The intent was to encourage a culture of active participation by de-anonymizing disagreement. If you want to disagree with something on Hexbear, you need to say it out loud in public.

Post-federation, other instances interpreted that as "brigading". It isn't. If we see something we think is bad, we tell you, instead of just pressing the "I Disagree" button. I understand that isn't to everybody's taste, and I don't blame anybody for blacklisting our Lemmy instance—we intentionally buck the trend of passive scrolling through social media. If you just want to share some memes and have a lark, Hexbear probably isn't for you. And that's fine! That's what's cool about Lemmy—you can just shut off a community you don't like!

(And, anticipating responses: yes, I am aware that there's a small segment of Hexbears who seem to enjoy inter-instance drama. That's true of all instances, though. We regularly see the same kind of behavior from visitors back home, too. But, we've got a culture of being extremely vocal. So our assholes are loud, too. And if something is organically popular enough to show up cross-instance, they'll dogpile on it. Sorry about that.)

Oh, and you can also make broccoli or cauliflower soup in a similar way. Just roast your trees of choice in the oven with a bit of oil, salt, and pepper first. It makes 'em a little smoky so they don't just taste like boring vegetable. You can cook them all the way at 400°F for a quarter hour or a bit then just blend them in at the end, or flash them under a ripping hot broiler for a minute or so until they char, and then cook them in the soup.

Incidentally, about a quarter cup of those (diced up) also makes for a good single bowl of soup. Quarter soup!

You didn't ask me, but my Grandma taught me a recipe that she called Quarter Potato Soup.

For each serving you want of soup (so if you're making three bowls of soup, triple the recipe, etc.):

• quarter pound of diced potatoes
• quarter cup of diced celery
• quarter cup of diced onion
• season with a quarter teaspoon each of salt and pepper
• boil in a cup of water (a quarter of a quart! haha!) for... more than a quarter of an hour, hehe nothing ever lines up perfectly, sweetie. Just make sure the taters are cooked until you can stick 'em with a fork and it comes out easily

then:

• quarter cup of cheddar cheese
• quarter cup of heavy cream
• pulse with a stick blender until it's the consistency you want. I like mine with a bunch of chunks still in it, but you can blend it smooth, too!
• add more salt and pepper if you want. Or don't, I'm your Grandma, not your mom, have fun!

You can top with bacon, chives, and sour cream, too, if you want that loaded potato experience. But it's great all on its own. It also tastes really good if you use chicken stock instead of water, but it's really not necessary—the cheese and cream really carry it. But if you want to make it vegetarian / vegan, omit the cheese and cream, and cook them taters in veggie stock! Still a good soup!