Yeah, you’re right. I think I misread your/their comment initially or something. Sorry about that.

And ai is in search engines now too, so even if asking chatfuckinggpt uses more water than google searching something used to, google now has its own additional fresh water resource depletor to insert unwanted ai into whatever you look up.

We’re fucked.

How long will this last before they cut it off again?

Likewise. I dread to think how expensive it’s going to be though.

With home IPL (laser hair removal) being easily accessible now, I’d like to see other useful lasers developed for home use as I have a tattoo I’d like to remove.

I’m not particularly following this technology though, just moderately hopeful, which is as excited as I can get these days, that it’ll come along and be affordable before civilisation collapses.

(It’s not a tat of anything shameful, I just don’t like having to go outside or talk to people if I can possibly avoid it.)

Multiple things can be bad at the same time, they don’t all need to be listed every time any one bad thing is mentioned.

Solitude, sleep and food. Probably the three things I’m best at too, thinking about it.

Fucking hell. For two 85ml bottles? That’s insanity.

This goes for baking too. Baking is no more science than cooking, and cooking is no more an art than baking. People who claim otherwise annoy me.

You need to figure out what ratios of what, do what in your recipes, and then explore how that can change with different brands/varieties of the same ingredients, different ovens, humidities, elevations if you travel, etc. Book learning can only get you so far, you need to put in the kitchen time to really understand.

The art of making good food is in being able to recreate and adapt all the science experiments you did.

Grace Hot Pepper Sauce. It has this tangy, buttery flavour and a nice amount of heat that accentuates food without melting your face.

I think they use a few different peppers in the mash as while it has a little of the apricot fire Scotch Bonnet taste to it, as you’d expect from a Caribbean brand with a bunch of Scotch Bonnets on the label, it’s not the predominant chilli flavour here. I think the mash gets slightly fermented too due to that buttery taste the sauce has.

Before the pandemic it was 50p for an 85ml bottle, I miss that. £1.50 for the same size bottle still feels like a rip off.

Edit: just looked Grace Hot Pepper Sauce up as I’ve been thinking about it all day now since making this comment, and their website says the peppers used are a blend of Habanero and Cayenne in the mash. So my tasting apricot fire is likely a placebo from the image on the label, lmao.

I dread encounters with folk like you when I leave the house.

I get that some humans are naturally more socially inclined, so you require constant affirmations and acknowledgment from everyone around you or you stop feeling good about yourselves and whatever, but this kind of self centred attention seeking that has you going out in public and deciding everyone should want to talk to you if you just go up to them and start talking- is incredibly fucking selfish.

Why do you think you’re so special and important that you get to interrupt people going about their lives and make them listen to you talk? Nobody owes you this. If you want to talk at people start a fucking podcast and let me buy my apples in peace.

How many friends have you made cold approaching people on the street or in shops like that?

Do people often react by treating you with intense suspicion? Ngl, overly chatty/friendly strangers freak me the fuck out.

You are right, your parents are out of touch. Stick to your guns on this.

She-Ra is my main comfort cartoon these days, but previous shows on rotation (that don’t often get mentioned on threads like these) have included:

Axe Cop

Bee And PuppyCat

Dogs In Space

Scavengers Reign

Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts

Major Lazer