A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism"
I don't know why Americans keep calling social democracy socialism
Under some Americans' use of the term, there is no non-socialist country in the world (since there is always some degree of government intervention)
Zoe Quinn & Anita Sarkeesian, twin queens of Gamergate, turned feminist victimhood into a career, then cheated their followers - "For the best part of a decade two women have parlayed supposed gamer sexism and death threat allegations into wealth, fame, and a reputation at odds with their actions. Will Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn ever be held to account?... she launched a Kickstarter for an erotic full motion video game. It would go on to raise a respectable $85,448... The last official update occurred over 500 days ago on August 30, 2018, when Zoe informed backers that the project had run out of money.Incidentally, at the very same moment she told the people who’d given her 85 grand that she was broke, she was in Japan, traveling in luxury. Perhaps not so surprisingly, the same media entities that were quick to boost her project to the masses have never once reported on the status of the game... One of the biggest media lies about Gamergate is that everybody who is supportive of it is a bigot who hates marginalized people. An ironic tall tale considering evidence shows the people most touting the importance of such folk are the ones most taking advantage of them.Following Gamergate, Zoe Quinn launched the Crash Override Network. It was built as a support group for victims of online harassment, and infused with money from Anita Sarkeesian’s nonprofit, Feminist Frequency, who took on the role of a financial sponsor.The network as a whole would only last roughly two years, and if former staff allegations are to be believed, not everyone got paid, and her trans members feel as if they were especially taken advantage of. Making matters worse is that allegedly, normal everyday people who came to the network seeking help were often denied service if they weren’t famous enough. Accusations range far and wide that Crash Override was just a ruse to help boost Quinn and Sarkeesian’s popularity. Statements which are believable when considering how Sarkeesian lives as opposed to those she is seemingly close with... A big portion of their funds came from corporations, and she was quick to take on an entitled sense of self and call them out on Twitter for not financially supporting her. The loss of Fem Freq funds hasn’t appeared to hit Anita too hard, as outside of her activity with the organization, she tours the world and gives speeches. This coming April she will be embarking on a mini speaking tour in Europe, which is a potential windfall as her average speaking fee is $20,000. Graced with the ability to travel at will, she even takes part in events like JoCo Cruise as a featured guest, and this past December she toured parts of Africa on what appears to be a trip of leisure.Her trans co-host Carolyn Petit is another story, however... A core argument of her content is the dishonest depiction of women, so it says a lot that her channel’s own art thins the hosts and makes them ten times prettier... Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are enabled, emboldened and in essence bankrolled by a mainstream media that refuses to hold them accountable. Years of lies and manipulation have had no negative effects on their standing with the press. On Tuesday, both were featured in a Vox article about Gamergate, another litany of familiar accusations of “spreading hate” and “violence against women”... Most sickening of all is the lack of due diligence by those in the industry still providing them a voice. Whatever they say is taken as fact, a horrid display of unethical journalism as both individuals continue to purposefully cause outrage wherever they go, even at the cost of other people’s lives.There’s Alec Holowka that we know of, but how many people reached out to Crash Override for help, only to be turned away because they weren’t popular enough? And suppose that was their last desperate bid to find comfort, could they too have cut their lives short?"
The tricky economics of all-you-can-eat buffets - "it’s harder to “beat” the buffet than you might think... our analysis yielded an average buffet price of ~$20.Like most restaurants, buffets operate on extremely thin margins: For every $20 in revenue, $19 might go toward overhead, leaving $1 (5%) in net profit... Buffets often break even on food and eke out a profit by minimizing the cost of labor.Self-service allows a buffet to bypass a wait staff, and all-you-can-eat dishes (which are generally less complex and prepped in enormous batches) can be made by a “skeleton crew” of line cooks. “At a typical restaurant, a cook can service 25 customers per hour — and that’s at best,” says Joe Ericsson, a managing partner at the food consultancy Restaurant Owner. “In the same amount of time, a single buffet cook might be able to prep enough food for 200 people.”Because margins are so slim, buffets rely on high foot traffic... It is estimated that between 5% and 25% of any given dish will be wasted, either through the buffet’s miscalculation of demand or the diner’s overzealousness. Waste reduction is a key focus of any successful buffet and a frequent tactic is reusing food... Buffets are also able to save money by utilizing economies of scale and buying food in bulk...
By nature, buffets attract the very customers they wish to avoid: Big eaters with insatiable appetites. Buffets seek to “fill the customer’s belly as cheaply and as quickly as possible.” To do so, they employ a number of research-backed tricks to get people to eat less food:
They put the cheap, filling stuff at the front of the buffet line
They use smaller plates
They use larger than average serving spoons for things like potatoes, and smaller than average tongs for meats.
They frequently refill water and use extra-large glasses.
Even higher-end buffets, like the $98 brunch at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, employ these tactics: “They hide the truffles, the foie gras, and the oysters,” says Britt. “You literally can’t find them.”...
While the buffet might lose money on a small number of meat gluttons, it handily makes it back on those who under-consume or only eat the cheaper foods... The buffet owners we spoke with estimated that over-eaters like Larry only account for 1 in every ~20 diners... Buffets don’t stop there: Many beef up their margins by selling soft drinks separately. At a cost of $0.12 per fill, a $2 soda comes with a 1,500% markup... Over the years, buffets have made headlines for kicking out guests who eat too much... the real enemy of the buffet isn’t the occasional over-eater: It’s the steady march of technological progress, and the changing consumer preferences that have come with it... the number of buffets in America has fallen by 26% since 1998 — even as the total number of all restaurants in America has risen by 22%... By 2030, the National Restaurant Association projects that 80% of all restaurant items will be eaten at home — a trend that buffets can’t effectively capitalize on. Today’s health-conscious consumers have also shifted away from quantity in favor of experience-driven dining options."
I remember someone saying that restaurants will escape the factors killing retail because eating out is an experience
The Economists Who Studied All-You-Can-Eat Buffets - The Atlantic - "Buffets are now big businesses, particularly in Las Vegas. The buffets in Vegas are no longer the dollar bargains they once were in the late 1950s. They're fancy productions with Kobe beef and king crab legs that can cost over $50. New research shows that paying that much for a buffet might actually make the food taste better... at places like AYCE shabu-shabu or Korean barbecue places, businesses save further on cooking costs as customers cook their own food as part of the experience... buffet operations don’t have to deal with finicky guests sending their orders back to the kitchen... “We specifically refer to our ‘all-you-care-to-eat’ items in this way because we do not want to encourage our guests to intentionally overeat,” says Kerry Kramp, chief executive of Sizzler. “Sometimes guests misperceive these types of promotions and they take it as a challenge to potentially overconsume"... It helps that buffets appeal to groups... Ovation Brands collects data weekly on waste in its restaurants. From there, the numbers are plugged into a computer for modeling based on time of year. Projections are made for the number of customers expected, along with what they’ll likely eat.“We know pretty well how much food will be consumed on any particular day,” says Gessner. “We use far more fish products on the weekends, more salads at the beginning of the year. Meatloaf and fried chicken are the most popular items.”"
It’s official: Canadians have abandoned U.S. outlet malls - "You know it’s getting bad when even employee discounts can’t get customers through the door.New numbers published by BMO Capital Markets Friday show just how steeply cross-border shopping has tumbled out of favour with Canadians now that the loonie is nearing peso-like levels.Day trips into the United States this year are down 26 per cent, rivalling some of the sharpest drops on record. The loonie’s historic slide over the past year or so “has completely reversed the tide of cross-border shoppers”... The numbers back up what retail execs have been noticing this year along the U.S.-Canada border, home to scores of outlet malls that Canadians spent freely at just a couple of years ago but have virtually abandoned as the CAD has plunged in value against the U.S. dollar... “Big shifts in cross-border travel tend to occur when the loonie falls below the mid-80 cent US range”"
U.S. premium outlet malls coming to Canada — will it live up to the hype? - "A comparison of income growth also shows why Canadian shoppers may hold more promise than their U.S. cousins. Per capita disposable income has risen 14% in the last 10 years in Canada, adjusted for inflation, while U.S. disposable incomes are up just 9%... Sales at shopping centers in Canada average about US$580 per square foot, compared to US$309 in the United States... Sonshine said there are about 135 premium outlet malls in the United States — with a population of some 311 million — but none in Canada, home to 34 million. Canada also lacks the large luxury malls which are common in the United States and thus seems ripe for expansion... "The average visit to an outlet lasts for three and a half hours by a consumer whereas the average visit to a typical shopping center is less than an hour. So it’s more of an outing"... While Canada has just half as much retail space per person as the United States, he thinks the lesson may be that Canada is not as under-retailed as the U.S. is over-retailed... While he admits the premium discount mall format will likely appeal to the healthy segment of the market that treks south of the border for deals — the destination shoppers — Stephens said consumers have also become more savvy, realizing that the goods sold in outlet malls are not the same as sold in regular stores.“If you’re going to a premium outlet mall really anticipating that you’re going to be able to buy high-end designer fashions that you would normally get in a full-line store and you’re going to be able to get them at 50 to 70% off, then you’re really deceiving yourself.”... “As we see more U.S.-styled factory outlets open on our doorstep, there will be less incentive to make the trip across the border. But it will all come down to the trade-off between convenience and price,” Hernandez said in an email.Retail prices for identical goods are typically 10 to 50% higher in Canada than in the United States, a much-resented differential that experts blame on import duties, transportation costs, government regulations and simple retail mark-ups. If the new outlet malls have the same price differentials, cross-border shopping may still win out. Porter said the success of the venture may ultimately come down to the Canadian dollar and new, more generous limits for what Canadians can bring home duty-free after a U.S. trip.The Canadian government in June doubled duty-free limits for Canadians to C$800 (US$780) for a trip lasting two to seven days. It boosted the limit for some shorter stays to C$200 from C$50."
From 2012
20 Things Canadians Pay Less For - "1. Healthcare
2. Medicine
3. Some new cars
4. Utilities
5. Tertiary education
6. Cappucino
7. Cheese
8. Preschool
9. Mortgages
10. Hotel rooms
11. Tourist attractions
12. Beef
13. Potatoes
14. Bread
15. Apples
16. Oranges
17. Internet
18. Movie tickets
19. Rent
20. Inexpensive restaurant meal"
10 Things That Canadians Pay More For - "1. Cars
Tariffs on imports from non-NAFTA countries run higher than the U.S., but it's our safety regulations that also contribute.
2. Gas
Blame the weak Canadian dollar. Gas prices in Canada are based on global market rates, using American dollars, even when it is produced and refined in Canada
5. Electronics
Most consumer electronics are imported from Asia and subject to tariffs. Once Canadian technical standards are factored in, the price is hiked even further.
6. Books
The low Canadian dollar plays a factor but it's the country's copyright rules, which grant Canadian distributors exclusivity, allowing them to add up to 10 per cent to the price of U.S. books.
7. Appliances
Damn those safety and energy efficiency standards, which cost manufacturers hundreds of thousands of dollars"
L'origine de Bert
Friday, April 24, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Contacting Pannirchelvam s/o Ramachandra
If anyone knows how to contact Mr Pannirchelvam s/o Ramachandra (previously featured), please send a Facebook message to Cecille Rivera
She says she is his wife from the Philippines and she has been unsuccessfully looking for him since she left Singapore in 1999
She needs to contact him to annul their marriage
She says she is his wife from the Philippines and she has been unsuccessfully looking for him since she left Singapore in 1999
She needs to contact him to annul their marriage
Post ID: 2940999208662005999
Monday, April 20, 2020
History According to Bob - Tulipmania
Mehmed The Gardener:
"In 1400 AD Constantinople was a shadow city, its decline reflecting the faded fortune of the final Byzantine rulers. In fact, the city was more than half empty. The seven mile long walls enclosed a city of barely 50,000. But in size and situation and reputation, it was still the greatest city in the world. At least it was true until 1204… bronze cannons made by a Hungarian Christian who had originally offered his tech to Emperor Constantine the 11th, but he didn't have the money to pay for the guns… when we were there for a while, on vacation, they referred to it, a lot of the locals referred to it as Constantinople... When Mehmed discovered one day that one of his prized cucumbers had been stolen, he had the palace gardeners brought before him and disemboweled them one by one, in hopes of ascertaining which one of them had eaten it. Later Ottoman rulers would more than match Mehmed the Conquerer both in cruelty and in their enthusiasm for exquisite palaces and gardens."
Carolus Clusius Part 1:
"Charles de L'Escluse… was surprised to find a package of tulips. Perhaps they’d been intended as a gift. They were stuffed in amongst the fabric, and probably put there by a grateful Ottoman who was making a good profit on this shipment. At any rate, the merchant had not been expecting them and didn't want them. He actually had no idea what they were. He thought they were a strange sort of Turkish onion. Most of the bulbs were roasted, and served for supper. Seasoned with oil and vinegar. The rest he planted in his vegetable patch, next to the cabbages"
Early Dutch Tulip Types:
"Botanical tulips were noted for their robust and simple color schemes. So how did the celebrated cultivars of the Dutch Golden Age become so elaborately colored? The solution to this problem was simple, but disturbing. They were diseased. The great irony of tulip mania is that the most popular varieties, the ones that changed hands, for hundreds and thousands of guilders, were actually infected with a virus, which is unique to tulips. It was this virus that caused both the spectacular intensity and the variations in the colors of their petals and that explained why tulips alone amongst flowers of the garden displayed distinct, intense and brilliant colors that the collectors came to crave"
French Tulipmania 1600:
"Although the French craze was short lived, their enthusiasm for the tulip had important consequences for Parisian society. Even in the 1600s, French court life was renowned and copied throughout Europe for its elegance and style, and fashions of the French court were taken up and followed everywhere. Indeed, they often continue to flourish in the backwaters of Europe long after the French had moved on to something else. And it was not uncommon for visitors to go to West Ireland, or to the forests of Lithuania, and find local noblewomen dressed in Parisian styles that had faded away 10 to 20 years ago. The first people to follow the fashion of the French court were of course the French themselves. Shortly after the tulip became popular in Paris, a mini mania for the tulip hit northern France... If later reports are to be believed, the passion for the tulip at this time was such that in 1608 a miller exchanged his entire mill for a single specimen"
Dutch Style in the Golden Age:
"During the Dutch Golden Age, the once sober, God fearing Dutch, who were so Calvinist that their society frowned upon any kind of ostentation in any form, and the ministers were actually fined for venturing the merest semblance of a joke in church slowly began to acquire a taste for display"
Tulips and the Ottoman Empire 1595:
"The Ottoman Empire had always admired the tulips but starting around 1595 the decline of both the popularity of the tulip and the decline of the Ottoman Empire’s power began. Mehmet III became Sultan in 1595. This womanizer was less interested in tulips and more interested in seducing women.
After Mehmet III you have Mustafa I who ended his reign locked in a dungeon with only two naked female slaves for company. Osman II was killed by having his testicles crushed by his own soldiers. Most of this era’s sultans were either short lived inadequates or butchers. At best they only displayed sporadic interest in the Gardens of the Abode of Bliss which is course the Topkapi palace.
Some degree of stability returned to the Ottoman Empire under sultan Mehmet IV, 1647 to 1687. But his father Ibrahim the Mad, a man who once had all 280 women of his harem drowned just so he could have the pleasure of selecting their replacements, was still not exactly a good father figure for the Sultan. But one thing that Mehmet the, that Ibrahim was noted for, however, was his love of tulips. So there's a little bit of good somewhere in there...
In 1687 Mehmet IV was deposed by his ministers and replaced by a pliant half brother. Now how does this all come about? And there's a good reason for why the Turks through the 17th century or the 1600s were cursed with a long line of mad and bad Sultans who threatened to ruin the empire. Things had changed in Istanbul since the days of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Much of the vigor of the Turkish royal line had dissipated when it proved necessary to abandon the old ways of securing the Imperial succession. Ever since the time of Bayezid, the victor of Kosovo and then following by Bayezid’s bloody example, the new Sultan would inaugurate his reign by having every one of his brothers executed so they couldn't plot to take over from him.
Under Mehmet the Conqueror this lethal tradition had actually been codified as law so that on the ascension of Mehmet III, 1595, no fewer than 19 of the new Sultan’s siblings - some of those still infants breastfeeding - were dragged from the harem and strangled with silk handkerchiefs, having first been circumcised to ensure that they would receive a welcome in paradise.
Brutal as the system was it did produce a series of bold, decisive Sultan's famous for their ruthlessness. In 1607 however, the reigning Sultan Ahmed I could no longer stomach the prospect of one of his beloved children murdering all the others. He arranged for the old policy of legal fratricide to be replaced by one of locking up the unwanted brothers in a small area of the harem known as the kafes or the cage.
The cage was a suite of rooms in the West area of the fourth courtyard of the palace. That offered tantalizing views of fig orchards, the Ottoman paradise gardens and the Bosporus. There with eunuchs for company and sterile concubines for sexual consolation, unwanted princes lived lives that unpleasantly combined the immutable boredom of their daily routine with the nagging terror that execution might after all still be their lot. When one Ottoman ruler died, his eldest son would be taken from the cage where he had spent his entire life and acclaimed as the new Sultan while the other men of the Imperial line would return to the few pursuits they were permitted, embroidery and manufacturing ivory rings among them and their lives of quiet despair."
Tulip Kings End:
"His only chance of saving his neck was abdication. A nephew Mahmoud was plucked from the cage and placed on the throne. His ascension turning point for both the Empire and the tulip… he was a keen voyeur who like nothing better than hide behind a grill in the harem and spy on the women of the palace. On one occasion, the Sultan even had the stitches of the flimsy clothes that the ladies wore while bathing secretly removed and the garments reassembled with glue, knowing that it would melt in the heat of the steam room and expose each woman naked to his gaze... Ahmed the Tulip King was returned to his cage to gaze once more over the Ottoman fig groves and to wile away his nights and dreams of dagger petaled flowers, bathing in the full moon’s light and throwing needlepoint and shadows about the secret gardens of the abode of bliss. So that's the end of the second round of tulipmania. And the poor Ottomans lost all of those tulips. It's incredible. Not, none of them survived"
"In 1400 AD Constantinople was a shadow city, its decline reflecting the faded fortune of the final Byzantine rulers. In fact, the city was more than half empty. The seven mile long walls enclosed a city of barely 50,000. But in size and situation and reputation, it was still the greatest city in the world. At least it was true until 1204… bronze cannons made by a Hungarian Christian who had originally offered his tech to Emperor Constantine the 11th, but he didn't have the money to pay for the guns… when we were there for a while, on vacation, they referred to it, a lot of the locals referred to it as Constantinople... When Mehmed discovered one day that one of his prized cucumbers had been stolen, he had the palace gardeners brought before him and disemboweled them one by one, in hopes of ascertaining which one of them had eaten it. Later Ottoman rulers would more than match Mehmed the Conquerer both in cruelty and in their enthusiasm for exquisite palaces and gardens."
Carolus Clusius Part 1:
"Charles de L'Escluse… was surprised to find a package of tulips. Perhaps they’d been intended as a gift. They were stuffed in amongst the fabric, and probably put there by a grateful Ottoman who was making a good profit on this shipment. At any rate, the merchant had not been expecting them and didn't want them. He actually had no idea what they were. He thought they were a strange sort of Turkish onion. Most of the bulbs were roasted, and served for supper. Seasoned with oil and vinegar. The rest he planted in his vegetable patch, next to the cabbages"
Early Dutch Tulip Types:
"Botanical tulips were noted for their robust and simple color schemes. So how did the celebrated cultivars of the Dutch Golden Age become so elaborately colored? The solution to this problem was simple, but disturbing. They were diseased. The great irony of tulip mania is that the most popular varieties, the ones that changed hands, for hundreds and thousands of guilders, were actually infected with a virus, which is unique to tulips. It was this virus that caused both the spectacular intensity and the variations in the colors of their petals and that explained why tulips alone amongst flowers of the garden displayed distinct, intense and brilliant colors that the collectors came to crave"
French Tulipmania 1600:
"Although the French craze was short lived, their enthusiasm for the tulip had important consequences for Parisian society. Even in the 1600s, French court life was renowned and copied throughout Europe for its elegance and style, and fashions of the French court were taken up and followed everywhere. Indeed, they often continue to flourish in the backwaters of Europe long after the French had moved on to something else. And it was not uncommon for visitors to go to West Ireland, or to the forests of Lithuania, and find local noblewomen dressed in Parisian styles that had faded away 10 to 20 years ago. The first people to follow the fashion of the French court were of course the French themselves. Shortly after the tulip became popular in Paris, a mini mania for the tulip hit northern France... If later reports are to be believed, the passion for the tulip at this time was such that in 1608 a miller exchanged his entire mill for a single specimen"
Dutch Style in the Golden Age:
"During the Dutch Golden Age, the once sober, God fearing Dutch, who were so Calvinist that their society frowned upon any kind of ostentation in any form, and the ministers were actually fined for venturing the merest semblance of a joke in church slowly began to acquire a taste for display"
Tulips and the Ottoman Empire 1595:
"The Ottoman Empire had always admired the tulips but starting around 1595 the decline of both the popularity of the tulip and the decline of the Ottoman Empire’s power began. Mehmet III became Sultan in 1595. This womanizer was less interested in tulips and more interested in seducing women.
After Mehmet III you have Mustafa I who ended his reign locked in a dungeon with only two naked female slaves for company. Osman II was killed by having his testicles crushed by his own soldiers. Most of this era’s sultans were either short lived inadequates or butchers. At best they only displayed sporadic interest in the Gardens of the Abode of Bliss which is course the Topkapi palace.
Some degree of stability returned to the Ottoman Empire under sultan Mehmet IV, 1647 to 1687. But his father Ibrahim the Mad, a man who once had all 280 women of his harem drowned just so he could have the pleasure of selecting their replacements, was still not exactly a good father figure for the Sultan. But one thing that Mehmet the, that Ibrahim was noted for, however, was his love of tulips. So there's a little bit of good somewhere in there...
In 1687 Mehmet IV was deposed by his ministers and replaced by a pliant half brother. Now how does this all come about? And there's a good reason for why the Turks through the 17th century or the 1600s were cursed with a long line of mad and bad Sultans who threatened to ruin the empire. Things had changed in Istanbul since the days of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Much of the vigor of the Turkish royal line had dissipated when it proved necessary to abandon the old ways of securing the Imperial succession. Ever since the time of Bayezid, the victor of Kosovo and then following by Bayezid’s bloody example, the new Sultan would inaugurate his reign by having every one of his brothers executed so they couldn't plot to take over from him.
Under Mehmet the Conqueror this lethal tradition had actually been codified as law so that on the ascension of Mehmet III, 1595, no fewer than 19 of the new Sultan’s siblings - some of those still infants breastfeeding - were dragged from the harem and strangled with silk handkerchiefs, having first been circumcised to ensure that they would receive a welcome in paradise.
Brutal as the system was it did produce a series of bold, decisive Sultan's famous for their ruthlessness. In 1607 however, the reigning Sultan Ahmed I could no longer stomach the prospect of one of his beloved children murdering all the others. He arranged for the old policy of legal fratricide to be replaced by one of locking up the unwanted brothers in a small area of the harem known as the kafes or the cage.
The cage was a suite of rooms in the West area of the fourth courtyard of the palace. That offered tantalizing views of fig orchards, the Ottoman paradise gardens and the Bosporus. There with eunuchs for company and sterile concubines for sexual consolation, unwanted princes lived lives that unpleasantly combined the immutable boredom of their daily routine with the nagging terror that execution might after all still be their lot. When one Ottoman ruler died, his eldest son would be taken from the cage where he had spent his entire life and acclaimed as the new Sultan while the other men of the Imperial line would return to the few pursuits they were permitted, embroidery and manufacturing ivory rings among them and their lives of quiet despair."
Tulip Kings End:
"His only chance of saving his neck was abdication. A nephew Mahmoud was plucked from the cage and placed on the throne. His ascension turning point for both the Empire and the tulip… he was a keen voyeur who like nothing better than hide behind a grill in the harem and spy on the women of the palace. On one occasion, the Sultan even had the stitches of the flimsy clothes that the ladies wore while bathing secretly removed and the garments reassembled with glue, knowing that it would melt in the heat of the steam room and expose each woman naked to his gaze... Ahmed the Tulip King was returned to his cage to gaze once more over the Ottoman fig groves and to wile away his nights and dreams of dagger petaled flowers, bathing in the full moon’s light and throwing needlepoint and shadows about the secret gardens of the abode of bliss. So that's the end of the second round of tulipmania. And the poor Ottomans lost all of those tulips. It's incredible. Not, none of them survived"
Post ID: 2955721905810818427
Links - 20th April 2020 (2) (Butter in Canada)
In search of higher-fat butter - "Canada is a butter backwater, with less variety and quality and far higher prices than nearly any other food-loving nation. In Europe and the United States, it's available in myriad permutations, from gently nutty regional butters, to fragrant, seasonal butters made with the summer milk of a single herd, to extra high-fat "dry" compositions used in baking.In Canada, butter is just butter. Give or take a few very minor variations, it's a monopoly-produced dairy commodity, the same from coast to coast.And as Ms. Nouiran and scores of other top pâtissiers have realized, Canadian butter is uniformly made with a government-mandated 80-per-cent fat content, while most butter in Europe – the stuff that makes for great pastries – starts at 82 or 83 per cent. What's worse, Canada's government levies a 289.5-per-cent tariff on all but a tiny quantity of foreign butter... You can't produce a single-herd butter in any large quantity, for instance, because under Canada's supply-managed dairy monopoly system you have to use milk from the provincial pool. You can't do much about packaging (butter must be sold in a printed foil wrapper), or make tangy, naturally cultured butter from raw cream that's been allowed to gently ferment (no raw milk, please, we're Canadian).The law also stipulates that Canadian butter must have a minimum 80-per-cent fat content. As Mr. Nogler noted, however, it does not invoke an upper limit. At the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto about a year ago, Mr. Nogler noticed that a few of the high-end cheese shops were selling 250-gram balls of imported European butter, some of it advertising 84 per cent fat. The stores were selling it for as much as eight times the price of Canadian butter, or the equivalent of $35 a pound.Mr. Nogler asked Chet Blair, Stirling's master butter maker, whether he could make a high-fat butter. As it happened, it isn't any harder. It's just that nobody had bothered to try.Three or 4 extra per cent of fat content may sound like a trifling difference, but it's a massive one in the worlds of baking and chocolate making. Fat content affects butter's flavour (more fat, more flavour), delivers creamier texture, and raises butter's melting point. But most critically, fat content is a zero-sum proposition: The more fat a butter contains, the less room there is for water. Higher fat butter can contain between 10- and 20-per-cent less water than the usual stuff.In chocolate making, that lower water content translates to confections that can stay fresh longer without the use of preservatives. In pastry, water acts like glue between dough layers, sticking them together when, ideally, they should separate (it's the difference between flaky and bready). It's not impossible to make an excellent croissant with Canadian butter – David Wilson, the head baker at Toronto's Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants, uses Lactantia brand butter. But Mr. Wilson is a rarity.Thomas Haas, a master pâtissier based in Vancouver, has found a simple, but not particularly satisfying solution. Like many European-trained bakers here, he uses 84-per-cent butter from New Zealand that manages somehow to squeeze through Canada's butter tariff blockade. "I feel guilty buying butter that's been shipped halfway around the world just because it has more fat," said Mr. Haas, who is considered one of the best pâtissiers on the continent. "But it's important."Jennifer McLagan, a chef and cookbook author (one of her books, called Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, rhapsodizes about the importance of good butter), goes to even greater lengths. She often allows Canadian butter to soften before using it. She then wraps the butter in cheesecloth and squeezes all the water out... Though Canada's butter prices are among the world's highest, that reality affects home cooks far more than professional bakers and food manufacturers. Under the Special Milk Class Permit Program, run by the Canadian Dairy Commission, approved bakers and processors receive hefty rebates on their butter purchases. One baker we spoke with said he gets a rebate of between $60 and $90 for every $200 block of butter he buys.The reason for the program, a Commission spokeswoman said, is that food manufacturers and bakers who export their products are allowed to import foreign butter without tariffs. Without the rebates, Canadian butter couldn't compete with the foreign stuff... Outside of its program for manufacturing exporters, the country allows in just 3,274 metric tonnes of foreign butter annually – less than 4 per cent of Canada's consumption. Anything beyond that is assessed a duty of 289.5 per cent."
From 2012
How the dairy industry complicates the quest for better butter - "Remember those 270 per cent dairy tariffs Donald Trump was complaining about? That's actually a bit low — foreign butter earns a whopping 298 per cent tariff when it enters this country... international trade politics take aim at our protection of dairy — the quotas that require farmers to only produce as much as Canadians will consume and the tariffs that keep foreign dairy, chicken and eggs out of the country... It is mandated to be at least 80 per cent fat, which seems plenty high, but is still two per cent lower than standard European butter. European butter also tends to be cultured, meaning active bacteria is added to it before churning, giving it a tangy taste... "If you're trying to promote the use of butter, why are you allowing us to import, why are you not pushing the industry to make better butter for us, promote your own farmers? I am French, but I am also Canadian, and I want to support what's local. But I want quality."... The conundrum of supply management is that outside the system, it makes no sense. Why should dairy, eggs and poultry enjoy the protection of quotas and tariffs when beef, grain and apples, for example, must survive in the thrust and parry of an open market? Especially when research shows that supply management forces consumers to pay higher prices. Inside the system, though, all this makes perfect sense. It ensures stable, consistent dairy supply that takes the whiplash out of being a primary producer of food, encourages family farming, avoids direct government subsidies and keeps food local. Kootstra thinks that it should be a model for all agriculture... Passionate farmers like Kootstra bring politicians over to the side of the dairy industry, especially since Canadian consumers have yet to rally around the idea of lower prices for dairy (and economists don't hold a big enough voting bloc)."
Chris Selley: Supply management be damned. Is Canada on the brink of a butter revolution? - "Art Hill, a food science professor at the University of Guelph, has some very simple shopping advice: “There’s probably no reason why you shouldn’t just go in and try to find the cheapest brand.” Not only are the products incredibly similar, he says, but many will actually be “coming out of the same churn.” The vast majority of farmers sell their milk into pools, where it’s combined with milk from other farms — and dairies that want to make butter will buy the milk they need from those pools. Unless you like paying for fancy branding, best save your money... our American friends, too, enjoy a more diverse domestic butter market — and vastly superior access to foreign products... Canada has its plucky butter upstarts, though, and Sylvain Charlebois, a business professor at Dalhousie University who studies food production, argues Ontario is leading the pack... Rob Gentile, the mastermind behind the Buca empire, recalls being astonished first and foremost by the bright-yellow colour — a hallmark of grass-fed milk and its byproducts... Gentile raves about what Emerald Grasslands brings to a kitchen, particularly when used to emulsify a pasta sauce... Paula Navarrete, chef at David Chang’s Momofuku Kōjin in Toronto, says it reminds her of the butter she grew up eating in her native Colombia. She serves it much more simply than Gentile: in a big slab on a flatbread with spiced honey, sumac and Maldon sea salt. She says customers come back just asking for bread and butter — “Drew’s butter,” as it’s identified on the menu.“Sometimes you forget that something so simple can be so amazing,” says Navarrete... Imports are still a tiny chunk of the Canadian dairy market, but they have steadily increased with each successive free trade agreement"
Canadian butter “really sucks”, says B.C. researcher - "“Canadian butter had the worst omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, it’s double what you see in French butter,” said Ghosh. “Our butter really sucks. There’s no other way to spin it.”Omega-6 content was highest in commercial butter samples from Canada, the United States and China, while samples from Russia, Belarus, France and Germany contained the least. Butter from grass-fed cows had the most balanced ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.The finding may explain why health research on the benefits and hazards of animal and vegetable fats are so contradictory in different parts of the world and why government advice on what people should eat and avoid have different health outcomes in different countries... Studies on the health impacts of dairy conducted in Europe tend to show positive effects, while similar studies in North America show no effect or a negative effect... “In countries where cattle are fed oil seeds instead of just grass and silage we are seeing differences in the butter,” she said. “In France, even commercially produced butter is very close in composition to grass-fed and that likely has to do with what they are feeding their animals.” Scientists have struggled for decades to explain why people in France, with a diet high in animal fats have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease compared with Britain and the United States.“This result begins to explain the French paradox”"
From 2012
How the dairy industry complicates the quest for better butter - "Remember those 270 per cent dairy tariffs Donald Trump was complaining about? That's actually a bit low — foreign butter earns a whopping 298 per cent tariff when it enters this country... international trade politics take aim at our protection of dairy — the quotas that require farmers to only produce as much as Canadians will consume and the tariffs that keep foreign dairy, chicken and eggs out of the country... It is mandated to be at least 80 per cent fat, which seems plenty high, but is still two per cent lower than standard European butter. European butter also tends to be cultured, meaning active bacteria is added to it before churning, giving it a tangy taste... "If you're trying to promote the use of butter, why are you allowing us to import, why are you not pushing the industry to make better butter for us, promote your own farmers? I am French, but I am also Canadian, and I want to support what's local. But I want quality."... The conundrum of supply management is that outside the system, it makes no sense. Why should dairy, eggs and poultry enjoy the protection of quotas and tariffs when beef, grain and apples, for example, must survive in the thrust and parry of an open market? Especially when research shows that supply management forces consumers to pay higher prices. Inside the system, though, all this makes perfect sense. It ensures stable, consistent dairy supply that takes the whiplash out of being a primary producer of food, encourages family farming, avoids direct government subsidies and keeps food local. Kootstra thinks that it should be a model for all agriculture... Passionate farmers like Kootstra bring politicians over to the side of the dairy industry, especially since Canadian consumers have yet to rally around the idea of lower prices for dairy (and economists don't hold a big enough voting bloc)."
Chris Selley: Supply management be damned. Is Canada on the brink of a butter revolution? - "Art Hill, a food science professor at the University of Guelph, has some very simple shopping advice: “There’s probably no reason why you shouldn’t just go in and try to find the cheapest brand.” Not only are the products incredibly similar, he says, but many will actually be “coming out of the same churn.” The vast majority of farmers sell their milk into pools, where it’s combined with milk from other farms — and dairies that want to make butter will buy the milk they need from those pools. Unless you like paying for fancy branding, best save your money... our American friends, too, enjoy a more diverse domestic butter market — and vastly superior access to foreign products... Canada has its plucky butter upstarts, though, and Sylvain Charlebois, a business professor at Dalhousie University who studies food production, argues Ontario is leading the pack... Rob Gentile, the mastermind behind the Buca empire, recalls being astonished first and foremost by the bright-yellow colour — a hallmark of grass-fed milk and its byproducts... Gentile raves about what Emerald Grasslands brings to a kitchen, particularly when used to emulsify a pasta sauce... Paula Navarrete, chef at David Chang’s Momofuku Kōjin in Toronto, says it reminds her of the butter she grew up eating in her native Colombia. She serves it much more simply than Gentile: in a big slab on a flatbread with spiced honey, sumac and Maldon sea salt. She says customers come back just asking for bread and butter — “Drew’s butter,” as it’s identified on the menu.“Sometimes you forget that something so simple can be so amazing,” says Navarrete... Imports are still a tiny chunk of the Canadian dairy market, but they have steadily increased with each successive free trade agreement"
Canadian butter “really sucks”, says B.C. researcher - "“Canadian butter had the worst omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, it’s double what you see in French butter,” said Ghosh. “Our butter really sucks. There’s no other way to spin it.”Omega-6 content was highest in commercial butter samples from Canada, the United States and China, while samples from Russia, Belarus, France and Germany contained the least. Butter from grass-fed cows had the most balanced ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.The finding may explain why health research on the benefits and hazards of animal and vegetable fats are so contradictory in different parts of the world and why government advice on what people should eat and avoid have different health outcomes in different countries... Studies on the health impacts of dairy conducted in Europe tend to show positive effects, while similar studies in North America show no effect or a negative effect... “In countries where cattle are fed oil seeds instead of just grass and silage we are seeing differences in the butter,” she said. “In France, even commercially produced butter is very close in composition to grass-fed and that likely has to do with what they are feeding their animals.” Scientists have struggled for decades to explain why people in France, with a diet high in animal fats have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease compared with Britain and the United States.“This result begins to explain the French paradox”"
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SAT: Renting to Indians
Given how full of SJWs subtle asian traits (SAT) is, I was surprised to read so many sympathetic comments - even from Indians - about not renting houses to Indians, and relatively few comments condemning the people placing the ad or those sentiments (of course, almost everyone is okay with gender discrimination but that's normal).
OP:
Ad: "- the house occupants are females and they want a single female ONLY, no couples or married.
- a house occupant is allergic to pets, so we can not have any.
- someone who is NOT using curry when cooking is preferred."
"Not sure why someone would hate curry this much :("
Comments:
"Maybe its a small space and the curry smell stains all the furniture and shit lol"
"It’s really difficult to get rid of the curry smell after the tenants leave. Difficult to rent out in the future."
"very strong smell that needs a lot of ventilation"
"yeh it's pretty potent when it stays in your wall hangings and curtains lol"
"You wouldn’t understand until you’ve had to live with it"
"If you're not used to it, it definitely smells unpleasant. My pre-India nose hated it. Now I love it."
"I’d put whatever the hell I want on the ad, especially if I’ve had a bad experience before. So if someone stank my house up with Brussels sprouts and curry, you can be damn sure both are going onto whatever advertising I put out 🙄"
"that cursed 48-hour spice scent from that shop butter chicken"
"I grew up with Pakistani family...I freaking love Indian food. But, quote frankly, white people houses are set up to where your cooking smell goes everywhere. It doesn't bother them because most of the time their food isn't pungent or rich. But I dislike having everything smell like my.onioms and garlic and spices. I wish I had a detached kitchen"
"maybe some of you are too sensitive to understand that curry has a strong and pungent smell? It could even seep into some woods which can damage them"
"1) Curry is fkng Amazing
2) The smell lingers and it spreads throughout the neighbourhood so I understand"
"What kind of curry tho? Japanese curry is not as strong"
"Technically strong spices and oil, typically used in curry and similar Indian ethnic recipes tend to seep into woodworks, resulting in the need to replace fittings (or even flooring/roofing) after the tenancy. So some landlords insist on minimal cooking / limited cooking of heavy scented foods. Sounds racist, but there is some economic sense there. Could have been better phrased though.
Side note: doesn’t say anything about eating curry take out, just no cooking."
"The strong curry smell and spices used in Indian cooking tend to linger long after the tenants are gone. This is the reason why some home owners are hesitant to rent out to Indian tenants"
"Because it stinks up the whole house and it doesn't leave no matter how much Glen 20 ya use 🙄🙄"
"because the smells are strong and get on everything? it's obvious and I wouldn't want it either despite how much I love curry. great taste/flavor comes with a cost 🤷. it was always a huge pain trying not to smell like curry when I lived with my parents since the kitchen was small and didn't have a door and they cooked every day. modern homes with open concepts only make this a lot worse."
"Have you ever cooked a curry before or even used curry powder? I put a couple of small teaspoons of curry powder into minced meat for a sausage roll mix, not even a curry, and it stunk up the entire house for days. The smell lingers for ages... It's the same deal with fish sauce, cooking oil and frying fish.. 🙄🤦🏻♂️"
"Lol people are so sensitive. I'm Vietnamese and I am keenly aware of how bad fish sauce can smell when we cook traditional food that uses it. It also lingers for a while. If you're not used to it, it can be nauseating. It is an objective fact, and I accept that can cause discomfort for others and try and be mindful of it and do not take offence if others make a comment. Same goes for curry 🤷🏻♂️... you have NEVER seen it linger on clothes or room? So everytime Ive been over to some of my mates houses back in highschool days I must have imagined it, have I? One of us is definitely exaggerating, that's for sure 🙂"
"you know the scent of certain spices are so strong that they secrete through your body right? Maybe you're so used to the scent that you don't notice it as much."
"it's like Durian , in Singapore a lot of public places have signs No Durians but it is delicious! sorry OP"
"keep your sophisticated curry smell to yourself. We are allowed to have a preference and curry smells disgusting to me. Hate how it sticks to walls and everything too"
"maybe people can have a dislike for curry 🙄 I’m not gonna drag you if you say you don’t like durians or whalesperm"
"I know a lot of places don’t want you to cook anything with a pungent smell. It’s honestly not just Indian food."
"I live in an apartment and when I moved in it smelled like curry. I get it."
"The problem is not when you eat but when you go to your office and everyone thinks you use Nivea - Chicken Masala to moisturise your suit"
"You gonna attack people for not liking certain foods?"
"Same reasons why some people HATE those who stink of alcohol, dairy , coffee and tobacco. https://www.thedailymeal.com/10-foods-make-you-smell-slideshow/slide-2"
"I can smell it from the neighbours who live downstairs, on another level and it freaking sucks everytime I walk down the hallway. Like, other people live in this apartment complex too."
"Curry ruins your psychological nose. I still like it when it's cooking, but I had a dorm experience when I came home to friends cooking late-night Japanese curry in the rice cooker. The smell went way out into the hallway. Funny at first, but room smelled like curry for days. To this day, I recoil at the people who love to hype Japanese curry lol. I'm meh about it, I cannot eat more than 1 bowl when it's freshly cooked, and I dread leftovers :/"
"As much as i love curry and cooking curry, being a curry, the smell coriander and cumin powder leaves its very potent tbh. Not the smell of the food but the smell we are left with specially in your clothes. I can't stand curry smell in a public transport and I'm a curry myself. Makes sense to me. Not everything is about race ffs."
[On someone bashing Singaporean Chinese] "isnt putting a blanket ban on a whole group of people because of their personal experiences with a few, like, the definition of racist overgeneralization"
"We have separate spice and wok kitchens here for this reason, in the more wealthier/fancier homes but its actually a thing 🤷🏻♀️"
"No offense to curry lovers but Sometimes I cant differentiate the after smell of curry and armpits odor."
"I used to work in an office that forbade anyone from bringing curry, durian and dried fish into the air-conditioned rooms because the smell doesn't go away and it lingers on stuff like curtains and pillows"
"every time I open the sliding door of our balcony to try and get some fresh air and all we can smell is the curry that would make our living room smell and clothes hanging on the balcony too"
"In case you guys don’t get it, there’s a whole airbnb thread about landlords and cooking curry. Some do say they love it, but it’s the residual smell that is near impossible to remove (especially if it’s been cooked on a regular basis) How to get rid of the smell of curry? - Airbnb Community"
"Sorry. No. Curry lingers. My family likes, cooks and the smell lingers longer than it should.
My parents complains about it, that is why we reduce the frequency of cooking it as the cleaning is taxing."
"That's the reason why Indians have separate detached kitchen. Best solution."
"True story, I've heard from real estate agents that cooking curry apparently stains the house walls and causes a lingering smell. They often recommend landlords repaint after the tenants leave to fix it.
I do admit my house had a particular smell to it (I'm Indian) from curry but all houses have a particular smell based on what families eat."
"my neighbour in my small apartment complex cooks it often and you can smell it throughout the whole building. Whether it smells nice or not, it is overpowering, and can come in through the gaps of your doors, or around the corner from your open windows. Sometimes they even cook with the doors open, and even from inside my place the fumes are strong enough to get right up into my nose and throat and make me hack. Also, strong and oily cooking often attracts more insects, like cockroaches.
For owners renting out their places, there is a known issue that the smell gets into the walls and the carpet etc and is ridiculously hard to remove, and makes it harder for them to rent out their property in the future"
"The smell lingers and permeates like durian. It is very nice if you are the one cooking and eating it . But has to be in an open air kitchen which isn’t usually in a cooler country. Malay curries usually don’t smell as strong as we don’t use so much cumin and cardamom and fennel."
"I love sambal and curry but they aren’t the best things to cook indoors, even with an exhaust fan.
When you eat curry, (and sambal too especially for Malaysians) y’all will find it delicious but I swear the process of cooking it is painful. Especially sambal. You sneeze non stop, feel like gagging and throwing up, but damn the end product is good."
"Curry, durian, jengkol, petay, tempoyak their smell can linger longer. And tumeric tend to stain.
And dont forget Balacan."
"Don't you go and make this about race.
I would make no curry cooking a requirement too, the same way I'd make no pets rule if I was allergic. It's just fair.
I had Indian roommates. When they made curry I had to go take refuge in the library or somewhere I could breathe. The smell is that strong and it never went away. For a whole semester I hated my life... You can't talk about the smell curry without mentioning the Indian because theirs smell the strongest. Japanese or Thai curry can't even compare."
"When my parents bought a new house from an East Indian family, they had an outdoor kitchen, along with indoor, but it took almost a year to get the smell of curry out of the house. It was so bad 🙅🏻♀️. I would ban it too if I was renting out a place or looking for roommates."
"let me be honest as a chinese, i friggin hates the curry smells. It lingers too long. I love the taste tho especially thai curry and chinese curry... i cant stand the smell of any curry. Especially japanese curry, does that makes me racist towards japanese too?... i grew up in singapore. I used to lived in HDB and one of my neighbour cooks curry every single day. I smells like fucking curry everyday even after i shower. Does that makes one racist? Does that makes me racist? I simply hates the lingering smells, and it is a strong smell indeed. Just like the banh mi place beside my shop, i love the food they sell but i always complain about how smelly i am if i come in there. Does that makes me racist ?"
"😂 if someone doesn't like the smell of the dish it must be racist to the country of origin"
"If i am a landlady i won't allow durian inside the house now does that make me racist toward everyone who eats durian? My parents love durian man! 🤣🤣🤣"
"I lived in the wider SW London Area before. Due to my ex’s stupidity and lack of proper planing our first place was a room for 900pounds in a house with 3 other rooms and 6 other Indians. It was spicy curry smell EVERY night. So bad that we would cough from the front door till we walked in our room. Did we not appreciate the curry? No. We just wanted the chance to walk-in the house and not cough till we almost puked every other day"
"I would also like to take this moment to call out all those who say "Vegetarians only" or "no cooking meat" when advertising flats.."
"Maybe allergies. My friend is allergic to curry and cant be near it"
"It does stick to everything. Forever."
"From my experience jamaican curry and Japanese curry do not linger. But indian curry does. I wonder why that is.."
"I live in an area that has a large Indian population. They like to cook with their apartment doors open. You would think it smells nice. Nope. Curry, garlic, onions.. It does stink."
"It's also body odor from curry. People who live with it don't smell it due to olfactory saturation."
"Lmao tadka be smelling let’s not lie here"
"The smell of curry can be strong and disruptive to people from other cultures who are not used to it. I think the landlord is just being upfront about what is not wanted from the tenant. I don't think its necessarily racism. If a white tenant cooked curry inside the house, it would most likely still be a problem to the landlord. My mom sometimes cooked spicy Asian dishes in her apartment, and neighbors complained to management because of the pungent smell invading their apts. So she would close the windows whenever she cooked any spicy dishes. Can't really blame the neighbors if the smell is really disturbing their peaceful households."
"My uncle would not allow curry in the house when living with him. My aunt and i would eat in thr backyard patio when we ordered take out. We would lysol the house like mad. He would come out and still smell it! So i guess it really is that strong :/"
"2) Some commenters have never been a landlord/roommate or shopped on the real estate market and it shows. Curry smells LINGER for a long time like cigarette smoke if someone makes aromatic curry frequently. And it MAKES YOUR CLOTHES AND FURNITURE SMELL SPICY. I’m certain if you walked into a property and it smelled like curry, it’s an instant ‘con’ on your list.
3) The ad said it would be ‘preferred’ if someone didn’t cook with curry, it’s not a hard no.
4) Some people are actually very sensitive to curry, like my sister. Her eyes would water and she’d start sneezing when I make strong curry at home."
"Ever try to get indian curry smell out of a rental house/apartment? I have. Replaced carpet, painted the whole house and you can still smell it."
"the smell tends to stick to everything? Where's the lie? It's the same with deep fat fryers but if someone posted an ad saying they don't want a roommate who uses deep fat fryers I wouldn't have a melt down about it"
"When i was pregnant... japanese curry made me run for the hills... so yeah. Also to be specific.. i would just say.. the frying of cumin as a no instead. Its cumin that smells like BO when fried.. not the curry"
"I don't blame him. It's like saying you don't want to live with a smoker. One might make you sick, but the other can also make you sick haha"
"would you want to live with a landlord who would treat you poorly based on your race but allowed you to live there because they can't discriminate? I certainly would rather be told not to live there than be treated poorly."
"Literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. “If you don’t like curry you’re racist”. Are people not allowed to not like certain smells? I like durian but I know my family doesn’t so I would never bring it into the house. You need to chill."
"As someone who lived with Sri Lankans for a while, the scent of curry lingers, and the shared bathroom always has a yellow hue to it since the turmeric seeps through pores... At least I hope that's the reason."
"I own a condo that i rent out. If the last person can’t clean up so that it doesn’t stink then i have an issue renting it out to the next person. Like the time i had an idiot smoke. Do you know how hard it is to get that smell out? I’m not about to smoke to expand my horizons haha"
"As somebody who lived in an Indian household for 3 years (and not Indian), all my belongings continued to smell like Curry for an additional 2 years after I moved out"
"I had a nose bleed from my friends house the moment I walked into his home. His mom was making authentic Indian curry"
"these are definitely racist people."
"crazy how thats the conclusion you came up with, without even meeting these people or knowing what they look like. The word racist has cheapy meaning to it now since everyone is uses for whatever reason"
"you grew up eating curries all the time so the smell doesn’t bother you. Like the smell of shrimp paste doesn’t bother me but I’m pretty sure other people wouldn’t be happy if their clothes will smell like shrimp paste if I cook it everyday."
"you grew up with it. I can't smell durian, fish sauce, or shrimp paste, but I have enough perspective to know that they have smells a hood can't get rid of."
"I bought a sofa from an indian guy and my house smelled like curry for weeks while I scrubbed it everyday."
"I can smell it in the hallway and it stays on my clothes when I hang it on the balcony. Lol and this is a brand new building I’m living in with good ventilation system. If the ventilation system is the problem then why do my neighbours open their sliding doors when they’re cooking?"
"goods in general can linger. Heck I deep fry spring rolls and the house smells oh cooked oil. Even when it’s clean"
"Koreans have potent food as well (Kimchi). As a Korean who grew up with it, I cant smell it but new visitors definitely do. Plus, while I enjoy eating it and smelling it when its there to eat, I still would hate it if the entire place stunk of it. It doesnt make me narrow minded."
"lots of stuff have strong smells, much stronger than curry, but very few get stuck in as stubbornly as curry."
"You don't smell it because you used to it. Just like me and Garlic"
"racist"
"but what about no shoes in the house"
"When I moved into my apartment, the dishwasher was yellow inside and maintenance literally said "it's been curried. It's a thing""
"the people pulling the race card must never had dealt with tenants or tried selling a house, or dealt with renos. Some smells are extremely hard to remove. I like curries, but after cooking it (depending on type) i can smell it in the house for awhile. And yes i have a hood fan and all that. But in an apartment omg thats even worse."
"Similarly I love kbbq and could eat it all day everyday. But I don't want to smell like it"
"Hahaha, the only time indians call themselves asians is when they are not included when "asians" are mentioned. But when you just call them asian they go "no, im indian"."
"Once I rented a lovely AirBnB for a week and my wife's mom made crabs with curry on the first day. I did my due diligence and aired out the house every single day, febreezed everything, and still couldn't get the smell out before we left. Needless to say, I felt bad for the next guest."
"i do not need another white man to tell me what is/isnt discrimination 🙄"
"Argues against racism, uses racism in trying to discredit someone's point. Classic."
OP:
Ad: "- the house occupants are females and they want a single female ONLY, no couples or married.
- a house occupant is allergic to pets, so we can not have any.
- someone who is NOT using curry when cooking is preferred."
"Not sure why someone would hate curry this much :("
Comments:
"Maybe its a small space and the curry smell stains all the furniture and shit lol"
"It’s really difficult to get rid of the curry smell after the tenants leave. Difficult to rent out in the future."
"very strong smell that needs a lot of ventilation"
"yeh it's pretty potent when it stays in your wall hangings and curtains lol"
"You wouldn’t understand until you’ve had to live with it"
"If you're not used to it, it definitely smells unpleasant. My pre-India nose hated it. Now I love it."
"I’d put whatever the hell I want on the ad, especially if I’ve had a bad experience before. So if someone stank my house up with Brussels sprouts and curry, you can be damn sure both are going onto whatever advertising I put out 🙄"
"that cursed 48-hour spice scent from that shop butter chicken"
"I grew up with Pakistani family...I freaking love Indian food. But, quote frankly, white people houses are set up to where your cooking smell goes everywhere. It doesn't bother them because most of the time their food isn't pungent or rich. But I dislike having everything smell like my.onioms and garlic and spices. I wish I had a detached kitchen"
"maybe some of you are too sensitive to understand that curry has a strong and pungent smell? It could even seep into some woods which can damage them"
"1) Curry is fkng Amazing
2) The smell lingers and it spreads throughout the neighbourhood so I understand"
"What kind of curry tho? Japanese curry is not as strong"
"Technically strong spices and oil, typically used in curry and similar Indian ethnic recipes tend to seep into woodworks, resulting in the need to replace fittings (or even flooring/roofing) after the tenancy. So some landlords insist on minimal cooking / limited cooking of heavy scented foods. Sounds racist, but there is some economic sense there. Could have been better phrased though.
Side note: doesn’t say anything about eating curry take out, just no cooking."
"The strong curry smell and spices used in Indian cooking tend to linger long after the tenants are gone. This is the reason why some home owners are hesitant to rent out to Indian tenants"
"Because it stinks up the whole house and it doesn't leave no matter how much Glen 20 ya use 🙄🙄"
"because the smells are strong and get on everything? it's obvious and I wouldn't want it either despite how much I love curry. great taste/flavor comes with a cost 🤷. it was always a huge pain trying not to smell like curry when I lived with my parents since the kitchen was small and didn't have a door and they cooked every day. modern homes with open concepts only make this a lot worse."
"Have you ever cooked a curry before or even used curry powder? I put a couple of small teaspoons of curry powder into minced meat for a sausage roll mix, not even a curry, and it stunk up the entire house for days. The smell lingers for ages... It's the same deal with fish sauce, cooking oil and frying fish.. 🙄🤦🏻♂️"
"Lol people are so sensitive. I'm Vietnamese and I am keenly aware of how bad fish sauce can smell when we cook traditional food that uses it. It also lingers for a while. If you're not used to it, it can be nauseating. It is an objective fact, and I accept that can cause discomfort for others and try and be mindful of it and do not take offence if others make a comment. Same goes for curry 🤷🏻♂️... you have NEVER seen it linger on clothes or room? So everytime Ive been over to some of my mates houses back in highschool days I must have imagined it, have I? One of us is definitely exaggerating, that's for sure 🙂"
"you know the scent of certain spices are so strong that they secrete through your body right? Maybe you're so used to the scent that you don't notice it as much."
"it's like Durian , in Singapore a lot of public places have signs No Durians but it is delicious! sorry OP"
"keep your sophisticated curry smell to yourself. We are allowed to have a preference and curry smells disgusting to me. Hate how it sticks to walls and everything too"
"maybe people can have a dislike for curry 🙄 I’m not gonna drag you if you say you don’t like durians or whalesperm"
"I know a lot of places don’t want you to cook anything with a pungent smell. It’s honestly not just Indian food."
"I live in an apartment and when I moved in it smelled like curry. I get it."
"The problem is not when you eat but when you go to your office and everyone thinks you use Nivea - Chicken Masala to moisturise your suit"
"You gonna attack people for not liking certain foods?"
"Same reasons why some people HATE those who stink of alcohol, dairy , coffee and tobacco. https://www.thedailymeal.com/10-foods-make-you-smell-slideshow/slide-2"
"I can smell it from the neighbours who live downstairs, on another level and it freaking sucks everytime I walk down the hallway. Like, other people live in this apartment complex too."
"Curry ruins your psychological nose. I still like it when it's cooking, but I had a dorm experience when I came home to friends cooking late-night Japanese curry in the rice cooker. The smell went way out into the hallway. Funny at first, but room smelled like curry for days. To this day, I recoil at the people who love to hype Japanese curry lol. I'm meh about it, I cannot eat more than 1 bowl when it's freshly cooked, and I dread leftovers :/"
"As much as i love curry and cooking curry, being a curry, the smell coriander and cumin powder leaves its very potent tbh. Not the smell of the food but the smell we are left with specially in your clothes. I can't stand curry smell in a public transport and I'm a curry myself. Makes sense to me. Not everything is about race ffs."
[On someone bashing Singaporean Chinese] "isnt putting a blanket ban on a whole group of people because of their personal experiences with a few, like, the definition of racist overgeneralization"
"We have separate spice and wok kitchens here for this reason, in the more wealthier/fancier homes but its actually a thing 🤷🏻♀️"
"No offense to curry lovers but Sometimes I cant differentiate the after smell of curry and armpits odor."
"I used to work in an office that forbade anyone from bringing curry, durian and dried fish into the air-conditioned rooms because the smell doesn't go away and it lingers on stuff like curtains and pillows"
"every time I open the sliding door of our balcony to try and get some fresh air and all we can smell is the curry that would make our living room smell and clothes hanging on the balcony too"
"In case you guys don’t get it, there’s a whole airbnb thread about landlords and cooking curry. Some do say they love it, but it’s the residual smell that is near impossible to remove (especially if it’s been cooked on a regular basis) How to get rid of the smell of curry? - Airbnb Community"
"Sorry. No. Curry lingers. My family likes, cooks and the smell lingers longer than it should.
My parents complains about it, that is why we reduce the frequency of cooking it as the cleaning is taxing."
"That's the reason why Indians have separate detached kitchen. Best solution."
"True story, I've heard from real estate agents that cooking curry apparently stains the house walls and causes a lingering smell. They often recommend landlords repaint after the tenants leave to fix it.
I do admit my house had a particular smell to it (I'm Indian) from curry but all houses have a particular smell based on what families eat."
"my neighbour in my small apartment complex cooks it often and you can smell it throughout the whole building. Whether it smells nice or not, it is overpowering, and can come in through the gaps of your doors, or around the corner from your open windows. Sometimes they even cook with the doors open, and even from inside my place the fumes are strong enough to get right up into my nose and throat and make me hack. Also, strong and oily cooking often attracts more insects, like cockroaches.
For owners renting out their places, there is a known issue that the smell gets into the walls and the carpet etc and is ridiculously hard to remove, and makes it harder for them to rent out their property in the future"
"The smell lingers and permeates like durian. It is very nice if you are the one cooking and eating it . But has to be in an open air kitchen which isn’t usually in a cooler country. Malay curries usually don’t smell as strong as we don’t use so much cumin and cardamom and fennel."
"I love sambal and curry but they aren’t the best things to cook indoors, even with an exhaust fan.
When you eat curry, (and sambal too especially for Malaysians) y’all will find it delicious but I swear the process of cooking it is painful. Especially sambal. You sneeze non stop, feel like gagging and throwing up, but damn the end product is good."
"Curry, durian, jengkol, petay, tempoyak their smell can linger longer. And tumeric tend to stain.
And dont forget Balacan."
"Don't you go and make this about race.
I would make no curry cooking a requirement too, the same way I'd make no pets rule if I was allergic. It's just fair.
I had Indian roommates. When they made curry I had to go take refuge in the library or somewhere I could breathe. The smell is that strong and it never went away. For a whole semester I hated my life... You can't talk about the smell curry without mentioning the Indian because theirs smell the strongest. Japanese or Thai curry can't even compare."
"When my parents bought a new house from an East Indian family, they had an outdoor kitchen, along with indoor, but it took almost a year to get the smell of curry out of the house. It was so bad 🙅🏻♀️. I would ban it too if I was renting out a place or looking for roommates."
"let me be honest as a chinese, i friggin hates the curry smells. It lingers too long. I love the taste tho especially thai curry and chinese curry... i cant stand the smell of any curry. Especially japanese curry, does that makes me racist towards japanese too?... i grew up in singapore. I used to lived in HDB and one of my neighbour cooks curry every single day. I smells like fucking curry everyday even after i shower. Does that makes one racist? Does that makes me racist? I simply hates the lingering smells, and it is a strong smell indeed. Just like the banh mi place beside my shop, i love the food they sell but i always complain about how smelly i am if i come in there. Does that makes me racist ?"
"😂 if someone doesn't like the smell of the dish it must be racist to the country of origin"
"If i am a landlady i won't allow durian inside the house now does that make me racist toward everyone who eats durian? My parents love durian man! 🤣🤣🤣"
"I lived in the wider SW London Area before. Due to my ex’s stupidity and lack of proper planing our first place was a room for 900pounds in a house with 3 other rooms and 6 other Indians. It was spicy curry smell EVERY night. So bad that we would cough from the front door till we walked in our room. Did we not appreciate the curry? No. We just wanted the chance to walk-in the house and not cough till we almost puked every other day"
"I would also like to take this moment to call out all those who say "Vegetarians only" or "no cooking meat" when advertising flats.."
"Maybe allergies. My friend is allergic to curry and cant be near it"
"It does stick to everything. Forever."
"From my experience jamaican curry and Japanese curry do not linger. But indian curry does. I wonder why that is.."
"I live in an area that has a large Indian population. They like to cook with their apartment doors open. You would think it smells nice. Nope. Curry, garlic, onions.. It does stink."
"It's also body odor from curry. People who live with it don't smell it due to olfactory saturation."
"Lmao tadka be smelling let’s not lie here"
"The smell of curry can be strong and disruptive to people from other cultures who are not used to it. I think the landlord is just being upfront about what is not wanted from the tenant. I don't think its necessarily racism. If a white tenant cooked curry inside the house, it would most likely still be a problem to the landlord. My mom sometimes cooked spicy Asian dishes in her apartment, and neighbors complained to management because of the pungent smell invading their apts. So she would close the windows whenever she cooked any spicy dishes. Can't really blame the neighbors if the smell is really disturbing their peaceful households."
"My uncle would not allow curry in the house when living with him. My aunt and i would eat in thr backyard patio when we ordered take out. We would lysol the house like mad. He would come out and still smell it! So i guess it really is that strong :/"
"2) Some commenters have never been a landlord/roommate or shopped on the real estate market and it shows. Curry smells LINGER for a long time like cigarette smoke if someone makes aromatic curry frequently. And it MAKES YOUR CLOTHES AND FURNITURE SMELL SPICY. I’m certain if you walked into a property and it smelled like curry, it’s an instant ‘con’ on your list.
3) The ad said it would be ‘preferred’ if someone didn’t cook with curry, it’s not a hard no.
4) Some people are actually very sensitive to curry, like my sister. Her eyes would water and she’d start sneezing when I make strong curry at home."
"Ever try to get indian curry smell out of a rental house/apartment? I have. Replaced carpet, painted the whole house and you can still smell it."
"the smell tends to stick to everything? Where's the lie? It's the same with deep fat fryers but if someone posted an ad saying they don't want a roommate who uses deep fat fryers I wouldn't have a melt down about it"
"When i was pregnant... japanese curry made me run for the hills... so yeah. Also to be specific.. i would just say.. the frying of cumin as a no instead. Its cumin that smells like BO when fried.. not the curry"
"I don't blame him. It's like saying you don't want to live with a smoker. One might make you sick, but the other can also make you sick haha"
"would you want to live with a landlord who would treat you poorly based on your race but allowed you to live there because they can't discriminate? I certainly would rather be told not to live there than be treated poorly."
"Literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. “If you don’t like curry you’re racist”. Are people not allowed to not like certain smells? I like durian but I know my family doesn’t so I would never bring it into the house. You need to chill."
"As someone who lived with Sri Lankans for a while, the scent of curry lingers, and the shared bathroom always has a yellow hue to it since the turmeric seeps through pores... At least I hope that's the reason."
"I own a condo that i rent out. If the last person can’t clean up so that it doesn’t stink then i have an issue renting it out to the next person. Like the time i had an idiot smoke. Do you know how hard it is to get that smell out? I’m not about to smoke to expand my horizons haha"
"As somebody who lived in an Indian household for 3 years (and not Indian), all my belongings continued to smell like Curry for an additional 2 years after I moved out"
"I had a nose bleed from my friends house the moment I walked into his home. His mom was making authentic Indian curry"
"these are definitely racist people."
"crazy how thats the conclusion you came up with, without even meeting these people or knowing what they look like. The word racist has cheapy meaning to it now since everyone is uses for whatever reason"
"you grew up eating curries all the time so the smell doesn’t bother you. Like the smell of shrimp paste doesn’t bother me but I’m pretty sure other people wouldn’t be happy if their clothes will smell like shrimp paste if I cook it everyday."
"you grew up with it. I can't smell durian, fish sauce, or shrimp paste, but I have enough perspective to know that they have smells a hood can't get rid of."
"I bought a sofa from an indian guy and my house smelled like curry for weeks while I scrubbed it everyday."
"I can smell it in the hallway and it stays on my clothes when I hang it on the balcony. Lol and this is a brand new building I’m living in with good ventilation system. If the ventilation system is the problem then why do my neighbours open their sliding doors when they’re cooking?"
"goods in general can linger. Heck I deep fry spring rolls and the house smells oh cooked oil. Even when it’s clean"
"Koreans have potent food as well (Kimchi). As a Korean who grew up with it, I cant smell it but new visitors definitely do. Plus, while I enjoy eating it and smelling it when its there to eat, I still would hate it if the entire place stunk of it. It doesnt make me narrow minded."
"lots of stuff have strong smells, much stronger than curry, but very few get stuck in as stubbornly as curry."
"You don't smell it because you used to it. Just like me and Garlic"
"racist"
"but what about no shoes in the house"
"When I moved into my apartment, the dishwasher was yellow inside and maintenance literally said "it's been curried. It's a thing""
"the people pulling the race card must never had dealt with tenants or tried selling a house, or dealt with renos. Some smells are extremely hard to remove. I like curries, but after cooking it (depending on type) i can smell it in the house for awhile. And yes i have a hood fan and all that. But in an apartment omg thats even worse."
"Similarly I love kbbq and could eat it all day everyday. But I don't want to smell like it"
"Hahaha, the only time indians call themselves asians is when they are not included when "asians" are mentioned. But when you just call them asian they go "no, im indian"."
"Once I rented a lovely AirBnB for a week and my wife's mom made crabs with curry on the first day. I did my due diligence and aired out the house every single day, febreezed everything, and still couldn't get the smell out before we left. Needless to say, I felt bad for the next guest."
"i do not need another white man to tell me what is/isnt discrimination 🙄"
"Argues against racism, uses racism in trying to discredit someone's point. Classic."
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Links - 20th April 2020 (1)
Why the Space Force logo looks like Star Trek, and Star Trek looks like NASA - "The Starfleet Command seal was first seen ‘Homefront’ (DS9) and later in ‘In the Flesh’ (VGR), although the agency itself, of course, dates back to the original Star Trek series. The symbol was intended to be somewhat reminiscent of the NASA emblem"
Tiina Wiik 🇫🇮 on Twitter - "Young woman has an arab asylum seeker boyfriend and writes social media posts about how shitty white men are. Any guesses on how this turned out? (Answer in comments)... The girl was murdered by the boyfriend she was trying to leave. Not the first such case in Finland. One Afghan raped and burned his girlfriend, one Iraqi decapitated a middle-age woman who was trying to leave him."
On Sanni Ovaska
Strength Of Grip Declines In Young Adults - "Millennials, the thoroughbreds of texting, may lag behind previous generations when it comes to old-fashioned hand strength.In a study of Americans ages 20-34, occupational therapists found that men younger than 30 have significantly weaker hand grips than their counterparts in 1985 did. The same was true of women ages 20-24"
Given that grip strength is an indicator of health...
Ben Shapiro on Twitter - "*Ilhan Omar and Joe Rogan* Both these people say they'll vote for Bernie. One of them wrote a letter to a judge urging lenience for an ISIS recruit, routinely engages in anti-Semitic outbursts, and blames America for Venezuela's collapse. The Woke Police are angry with Bernie over the other one."
ZeroHavens Deux - Posts - "The Dangerous Rise Of Men Who Won't Date 'Woke' Women"
"If you're a guy, and you're upset women won't date you, you're an incel, and a danger to society. But if you're a woman, who works in media and you're upset men won't date you, then the men who refuse to date you are dangerous.🤡"
Mark Hughes - "The female equivalent of the unsolicited dick pic is the inappropriate long trauma dump text."
Kate Elysia on Twitter - "When I wrote my book on #GroomingGangs this is the email I got back from the Publishers telling me I couldn't use the word #Racism to describe what happened to me."
"A few times *** describes the outlook/actions of her abusers as 'racist'. There's quite a lot of discussion at the moment about whether or not white people can be victims of racism, the argument being that racism is a social issue based on the systemic oppression of a race, tied up in social and economic issues, so facing discrimination for being white isn't the same as facing racism."
I guess Jews can't be victims of racism either
Venezuela's Murderous Regime - "A new United Nations investigation underscores the brutal nature of Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela. As reported in the July 4 edition of the New York Times, UN investigators found that Venezuelan Special Action Forces “have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipulated crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resisting arrest.” In essence, government security units acted as death squads to eliminate regime opponents.The death toll is shockingly large. Security forces “killed 5,287 people in 2018 and another 1,569 by mid‐May of this year, in what are officially termed by the Venezuelan government ‘Operations for the Liberation of the People.’” The campaign of cold‐blooded mass murder is made worse by the government’s cynical, Orwellian euphemism.The UN document concludes that the actual number of killings may be even larger, noting that some independent reports put the total extrajudicial executions for “resistance to authority,” at well over 9,000. That higher number would come as no surprise to opponents of Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez. Critics have alleged for years that forces loyal to Maduro and Chavez have kidnapped, tortured, and murdered political adversaries"
Damn US sanctions, forcing Venezuela to murder their own people!
Meme - "I AM THE VILLAIN AND THIS IS MY TRAGIC BACKSTORY. IM BULLIED AND MISUNDERSTOOD. NO ONE WILL BE FRIENDS WITH ME"
"HA HA!! I NOW HAVE POWERS AND WILL EXACT REVENGE!!"
"NOT SO FAST! WE WILL DEFEAT UPI WITH ΤHE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
WHICH YOU DON'T HAVE!"
"The Initial Problem Which Caused This Issue Is Never Addressed"
Seattle Schools knew these teachers abused kids — and let them keep teaching - "A KUOW investigation found that Seattle Public Schools often allows teachers who harm students to stay in the classroom. Some are allowed to keep teaching even after multiple offenses.The district has also, on at least one occasion, removed evidence of misconduct from a teacher’s personnel file after forcing them out of the district...
1 Districts are reluctant to fire teachers.
2 Teachers get hired despite inadequate reference checks.
3 Settlement agreements can hide abuse allegations."
How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence - "anthropologists have been arguing about what our ancestors ate for decades, but many scientists think that there was a lot of bone-crunching and brain-slurping on the road to evolving these remarkable 1.4kg (3lb) organs. Some have even gone so far as to say that meat made us human.One reason is that intelligence is expensive – the brain devours about 20% of our daily calories, though it accounts for just 2% of our body weight – and what better way to find the enormous array of fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals these fastidious organs require, than by feasting on animals which have already painstakingly collected or made them... recent concern about the nutritional gaps in plant-based diets has led to a number of alarming headlines, including a warning that they can stunt brain development and cause irreversible damage to a person’s nervous system. Back in 2016, the German Society for Nutrition went so far as to categorically state that – for children, pregnant or nursing women, and adolescents – vegan diets are not recommended, which has been backed up by a 2018 review of the research. In Belgium, forcing a vegan diet on your offspring could land you a spell in prison... the children who were given the soup containing meat each day seemed to have a significant edge. By the end of the study, they outperformed all the other children on a test for non-verbal reasoning. Along with the children who received soup with added oil, they also did the best on a test of arithmetic ability... there are several important brain nutrients that simply do not exist in plants or fungi. Creatine, carnosine, taurine, omega-3, haem iron and vitamins B12 and D3 generally only occur naturally in foods derived from animal products, though they can be synthesised in the lab or extracted from non-animal sources such as algae, bacteria or lichen, and added to supplements.Others are found in vegan foods, but only in meagre amounts; to get the minimum amount of vitamin B6 required each day (1.3 mg) from one of the richest plant sources, potatoes, you’d have to eat about five cups’ worth (equivalent to roughly 750g or 1.6lb). Delicious, but not particularly practical... For all of the nutrients listed above, vegetarians and vegans have been shown to have lower quantities in their bodies. In some cases, deficiency isn’t the exception – it’s completely normal... Later in life, the amount of B12 in a person’s blood has been directly correlated with their IQ. In the elderly, one study found that the brains of those with lower B12 were six times more likely to be shrinking.Even so, low B12 is widespread in vegans. One British study found that half of the vegans in their sample were deficient. In some parts of India, the problem is endemic – possibly as a consequence of the popularity of meat-free diets.Another nutrient that’s scarce in the typical vegan diet is iron... the holes in our current understanding of what the brain needs to be healthy could potentially be a major problem for vegans, since it’s hard to artificially add a nutrient to your diet, if scientists haven’t discovered its worth yet... researchers tested how the intelligence of vegetarians and omnivores changed after five days on supplements. “We found that the vegetarians seemed to benefit particularly,” says David Benton from Swansea University, who led the research.In contrast, the omnivores were relatively unaffected. This hints that, unlike the vegetarians, they already had the appropriate amount of creatine in their brains."
FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother: source - "When Omar and Elmi separated in 2011, the congresswoman claimed she couldn’t get in touch with him because he’d moved to the UK and she didn’t know where he was.In divorce papers asking to dissolve their marriage by alternate means in 2017, Omar swore under penalty of perjury that she had no way of contacting Elmi and said his last known location was London in June 2011.But lease and eviction records and traffic violations reviewed by The Post suggest Elmi was in the US the whole time — living just 2.6 miles away from her at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. Omar launched her re-election bid on Thursday after a turbulent term where she was criticized for her anti-Semitic remarks, showed reluctance to sanction Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was slapped with multiple campaign finance complaints after her alleged lover received more than $370,000 from her campaign."
A while ago I commissioned some art from an artist on this sub. Very happy! : lotr - "Gandalf tells the party to run so he can kill the final boss and get all the XP. Then he shows up next session all leveled up and with new robes and a new staff.
Scumbag Gandalf."
Gastronaut: The Jumping Table – Masterchef Sin Leong Cooks - "I met Masterchef Sin Leong. I asked him to cook the ‘classic dishes’ of his kitchen. He gamely obliged and immediately wrote up a menu drawn from his famous repertoire. But I wanted to take it a step further, and asked Sin Leong to cook his master’s recipes instead. The four heavenly kings began their careers at the Cathay Restaurant in the 1950s, studying under the China-born, Hong Kong-trained Grand Masterchef Luo Chen. The Cathay Restaurant, which belonged to Mr. Loke Wan Tho, a HK-based businessman who also owned the Cathay Film Organization, was one of the most popular and prestigious fine dining restaurants of that era. Masterchef Sin Leong, today in his 80s, paused for a moment, pondering my request, then said yes. He told me that he would need to cook the dishes himself, with the help of Masterchef Hooi, as his chefs were not familiar with the recipes...
This dinner was one of the highlights of my eating life, as both Masterchefs Sin Leong and Hooi Kok Wai successfully recreated the outstanding standards of Chinese cooking that I remembered from the golden 60s. I was also touched to see Masterchef Sin Leong filled with such high spirits and enthusiasm. He wore a perpetual child-like grin the entire night, and was clearly thrilled when we all queued up for his autograph! He was wistful when he said that the dishes he cooked for us that night were no longer appreciated by the young, and therefore, he hardly cooks for the public anymore"
Chef Sin Leong (冼良) x The Jumping Tables – urbanarchiver - "Google his restaurant “Red Star (红心酒家), the queues for Dim Sum on the weekends has crazy queues which even his 50 odd tables restaurant cannot fulfill. You have to queue outside the restaurant and even to the next floor below. Yet, you will find many bloggers and customers, especially the young ones complaining about the dim sum he serves. Yeah, Dim Sum is in fashion now, everyone serves Dim Sum with updated recipes or even fusion stuffs, but we have totally forgotten that Sin Leong’s strengths are not his Dim Sum but his amazing repertoire of recipes for a grand 10 course Chinese dinner."
Tiina Wiik 🇫🇮 on Twitter - "Young woman has an arab asylum seeker boyfriend and writes social media posts about how shitty white men are. Any guesses on how this turned out? (Answer in comments)... The girl was murdered by the boyfriend she was trying to leave. Not the first such case in Finland. One Afghan raped and burned his girlfriend, one Iraqi decapitated a middle-age woman who was trying to leave him."
On Sanni Ovaska
Strength Of Grip Declines In Young Adults - "Millennials, the thoroughbreds of texting, may lag behind previous generations when it comes to old-fashioned hand strength.In a study of Americans ages 20-34, occupational therapists found that men younger than 30 have significantly weaker hand grips than their counterparts in 1985 did. The same was true of women ages 20-24"
Given that grip strength is an indicator of health...
Ben Shapiro on Twitter - "*Ilhan Omar and Joe Rogan* Both these people say they'll vote for Bernie. One of them wrote a letter to a judge urging lenience for an ISIS recruit, routinely engages in anti-Semitic outbursts, and blames America for Venezuela's collapse. The Woke Police are angry with Bernie over the other one."
ZeroHavens Deux - Posts - "The Dangerous Rise Of Men Who Won't Date 'Woke' Women"
"If you're a guy, and you're upset women won't date you, you're an incel, and a danger to society. But if you're a woman, who works in media and you're upset men won't date you, then the men who refuse to date you are dangerous.🤡"
Mark Hughes - "The female equivalent of the unsolicited dick pic is the inappropriate long trauma dump text."
Kate Elysia on Twitter - "When I wrote my book on #GroomingGangs this is the email I got back from the Publishers telling me I couldn't use the word #Racism to describe what happened to me."
"A few times *** describes the outlook/actions of her abusers as 'racist'. There's quite a lot of discussion at the moment about whether or not white people can be victims of racism, the argument being that racism is a social issue based on the systemic oppression of a race, tied up in social and economic issues, so facing discrimination for being white isn't the same as facing racism."
I guess Jews can't be victims of racism either
Venezuela's Murderous Regime - "A new United Nations investigation underscores the brutal nature of Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela. As reported in the July 4 edition of the New York Times, UN investigators found that Venezuelan Special Action Forces “have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipulated crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resisting arrest.” In essence, government security units acted as death squads to eliminate regime opponents.The death toll is shockingly large. Security forces “killed 5,287 people in 2018 and another 1,569 by mid‐May of this year, in what are officially termed by the Venezuelan government ‘Operations for the Liberation of the People.’” The campaign of cold‐blooded mass murder is made worse by the government’s cynical, Orwellian euphemism.The UN document concludes that the actual number of killings may be even larger, noting that some independent reports put the total extrajudicial executions for “resistance to authority,” at well over 9,000. That higher number would come as no surprise to opponents of Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez. Critics have alleged for years that forces loyal to Maduro and Chavez have kidnapped, tortured, and murdered political adversaries"
Damn US sanctions, forcing Venezuela to murder their own people!
Meme - "I AM THE VILLAIN AND THIS IS MY TRAGIC BACKSTORY. IM BULLIED AND MISUNDERSTOOD. NO ONE WILL BE FRIENDS WITH ME"
"HA HA!! I NOW HAVE POWERS AND WILL EXACT REVENGE!!"
"NOT SO FAST! WE WILL DEFEAT UPI WITH ΤHE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
WHICH YOU DON'T HAVE!"
"The Initial Problem Which Caused This Issue Is Never Addressed"
Seattle Schools knew these teachers abused kids — and let them keep teaching - "A KUOW investigation found that Seattle Public Schools often allows teachers who harm students to stay in the classroom. Some are allowed to keep teaching even after multiple offenses.The district has also, on at least one occasion, removed evidence of misconduct from a teacher’s personnel file after forcing them out of the district...
1 Districts are reluctant to fire teachers.
2 Teachers get hired despite inadequate reference checks.
3 Settlement agreements can hide abuse allegations."
How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence - "anthropologists have been arguing about what our ancestors ate for decades, but many scientists think that there was a lot of bone-crunching and brain-slurping on the road to evolving these remarkable 1.4kg (3lb) organs. Some have even gone so far as to say that meat made us human.One reason is that intelligence is expensive – the brain devours about 20% of our daily calories, though it accounts for just 2% of our body weight – and what better way to find the enormous array of fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals these fastidious organs require, than by feasting on animals which have already painstakingly collected or made them... recent concern about the nutritional gaps in plant-based diets has led to a number of alarming headlines, including a warning that they can stunt brain development and cause irreversible damage to a person’s nervous system. Back in 2016, the German Society for Nutrition went so far as to categorically state that – for children, pregnant or nursing women, and adolescents – vegan diets are not recommended, which has been backed up by a 2018 review of the research. In Belgium, forcing a vegan diet on your offspring could land you a spell in prison... the children who were given the soup containing meat each day seemed to have a significant edge. By the end of the study, they outperformed all the other children on a test for non-verbal reasoning. Along with the children who received soup with added oil, they also did the best on a test of arithmetic ability... there are several important brain nutrients that simply do not exist in plants or fungi. Creatine, carnosine, taurine, omega-3, haem iron and vitamins B12 and D3 generally only occur naturally in foods derived from animal products, though they can be synthesised in the lab or extracted from non-animal sources such as algae, bacteria or lichen, and added to supplements.Others are found in vegan foods, but only in meagre amounts; to get the minimum amount of vitamin B6 required each day (1.3 mg) from one of the richest plant sources, potatoes, you’d have to eat about five cups’ worth (equivalent to roughly 750g or 1.6lb). Delicious, but not particularly practical... For all of the nutrients listed above, vegetarians and vegans have been shown to have lower quantities in their bodies. In some cases, deficiency isn’t the exception – it’s completely normal... Later in life, the amount of B12 in a person’s blood has been directly correlated with their IQ. In the elderly, one study found that the brains of those with lower B12 were six times more likely to be shrinking.Even so, low B12 is widespread in vegans. One British study found that half of the vegans in their sample were deficient. In some parts of India, the problem is endemic – possibly as a consequence of the popularity of meat-free diets.Another nutrient that’s scarce in the typical vegan diet is iron... the holes in our current understanding of what the brain needs to be healthy could potentially be a major problem for vegans, since it’s hard to artificially add a nutrient to your diet, if scientists haven’t discovered its worth yet... researchers tested how the intelligence of vegetarians and omnivores changed after five days on supplements. “We found that the vegetarians seemed to benefit particularly,” says David Benton from Swansea University, who led the research.In contrast, the omnivores were relatively unaffected. This hints that, unlike the vegetarians, they already had the appropriate amount of creatine in their brains."
FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother: source - "When Omar and Elmi separated in 2011, the congresswoman claimed she couldn’t get in touch with him because he’d moved to the UK and she didn’t know where he was.In divorce papers asking to dissolve their marriage by alternate means in 2017, Omar swore under penalty of perjury that she had no way of contacting Elmi and said his last known location was London in June 2011.But lease and eviction records and traffic violations reviewed by The Post suggest Elmi was in the US the whole time — living just 2.6 miles away from her at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. Omar launched her re-election bid on Thursday after a turbulent term where she was criticized for her anti-Semitic remarks, showed reluctance to sanction Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was slapped with multiple campaign finance complaints after her alleged lover received more than $370,000 from her campaign."
A while ago I commissioned some art from an artist on this sub. Very happy! : lotr - "Gandalf tells the party to run so he can kill the final boss and get all the XP. Then he shows up next session all leveled up and with new robes and a new staff.
Scumbag Gandalf."
Gastronaut: The Jumping Table – Masterchef Sin Leong Cooks - "I met Masterchef Sin Leong. I asked him to cook the ‘classic dishes’ of his kitchen. He gamely obliged and immediately wrote up a menu drawn from his famous repertoire. But I wanted to take it a step further, and asked Sin Leong to cook his master’s recipes instead. The four heavenly kings began their careers at the Cathay Restaurant in the 1950s, studying under the China-born, Hong Kong-trained Grand Masterchef Luo Chen. The Cathay Restaurant, which belonged to Mr. Loke Wan Tho, a HK-based businessman who also owned the Cathay Film Organization, was one of the most popular and prestigious fine dining restaurants of that era. Masterchef Sin Leong, today in his 80s, paused for a moment, pondering my request, then said yes. He told me that he would need to cook the dishes himself, with the help of Masterchef Hooi, as his chefs were not familiar with the recipes...
This dinner was one of the highlights of my eating life, as both Masterchefs Sin Leong and Hooi Kok Wai successfully recreated the outstanding standards of Chinese cooking that I remembered from the golden 60s. I was also touched to see Masterchef Sin Leong filled with such high spirits and enthusiasm. He wore a perpetual child-like grin the entire night, and was clearly thrilled when we all queued up for his autograph! He was wistful when he said that the dishes he cooked for us that night were no longer appreciated by the young, and therefore, he hardly cooks for the public anymore"
Chef Sin Leong (冼良) x The Jumping Tables – urbanarchiver - "Google his restaurant “Red Star (红心酒家), the queues for Dim Sum on the weekends has crazy queues which even his 50 odd tables restaurant cannot fulfill. You have to queue outside the restaurant and even to the next floor below. Yet, you will find many bloggers and customers, especially the young ones complaining about the dim sum he serves. Yeah, Dim Sum is in fashion now, everyone serves Dim Sum with updated recipes or even fusion stuffs, but we have totally forgotten that Sin Leong’s strengths are not his Dim Sum but his amazing repertoire of recipes for a grand 10 course Chinese dinner."
Post ID: 4642679380913981145
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Links - 19th April 2020 (2) (Covington and the Media)
Thread by @jessesingal - "Man I didn't realize the Covington clusterfuck was a year ago. I gotta say that it permanently caused me to revise my trustworthiness-estimate of many media outlets and journalists downward -- sorta a big moment for me in a media-nerdery way.
Covington was also a useful example of how Twitter absolutely radicalizes journalists. Because they are on it, all day every day, watching how their friends respond to every news item in real time -- always emphatically -- that has a profound effect on shaping coverage.
The publication of this, in particular, was a Holy Shit moment. The whole point was to name and shame journos/pundits who acted *correctly* after the long video dropped. (And yes I miss Deadspin dearly and read it daily and want it back -- but still!)"
Comments: "“Binders full of women” was mine, but in a different way. Knowing that our media turned Romney’s deliberate hiring of women for cabinet roles - for which had won awards, outpacing every other gov - was turned into Romney being a sexist was the “media is alternate reality to me.”"
"“Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and Charlottesville are two more good examples."
"Kavanaugh was the turning point for many people and Covington hammered it home."
"The real takeaway from Covington is how little reflection it created among journalists. These are people who constantly use their platform to tell Americans how they need to revise their perspectives on race, sex, America, politics, economics and the world..."
"Sarah Jeong was the tipping point for me, when I realized that as a class journalists were not actually noble people, but were perfectly happy to behave like tribal sociopaths who targeted certain Americans it was safe for them to target."
"The coverage of James Damore and his now infamous memo really changed my perceptions, as well as destroying my faith in NPR, and it made me give up posting on Fark for good. The popular coverage was a caricature of the actual story."
Of course, you're not allowed to criticise the media. Unless it is "right wing" media
Andrew Sullivan: The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate - "One of the advantages of taking Saturdays off the web entirely is that I wasn’t aware of L’Affaire Covington until it was almost over. It’s one of those occasions I’m deeply glad I quit blogging 24/7 four years ago and disengaged from Twitter last month... Eligon actually writes: “Whatever tensions are sparked by Hebrew Israelite teaching, some adherents chalk that up to people being unwilling to accept uncomfortable doctrine.” The Washington Post ran a Style section headline about “the calculated art of making people uncomfortable.” In a news story entirely about the Black Israelites, the Washington Post did not quote a single thing they had said on the tape, gave a respectful account of their theology, and only mentioned their status as a “hate group” in the 24th paragraph, and put the term in scare quotes. Vox managed to write an explainer that also did not include a single example of any of the actual insults hurled at the Covington kids. Countless near-treatises were written parsing the layers of bigotry inside a silent schoolboy’s smirk... They were 16-year-olds subjected to verbal racist assault by grown men; and then the kids were accused of being bigots. It just beggars belief that the same liberals who fret about “micro-aggressions” for 20-somethings were able to see 16-year-olds absorbing the worst racist garbage from religious bigots … and then express the desire to punch the kids in the face.How did this grotesque inversion of the truth become the central narrative for what seemed to be the entire class of elite journalists on Twitter? That’s the somewhat terrifying question. Ruth Graham on Slate saw a 16-year-old she’d seen on a tape for a couple of minutes and immediately knew that he was indistinguishable from the “white young men crowding around a single black man at a lunch counter sit-in in Virginia in the 1960s” or other white “high school boys flashing Nazi salutes.” Even after the full context was clear, Graham refused to apologize to the kid, or retract her condemnation: The context didn’t “change the larger story” which, she explained, was bigotry toward Native Americans. She cited Trump’s use of the name “Pocahontas” for Elizabeth Warren as evidence. But using a bullhorn to call Native Americans “savages” and “drunkards at the casino” to their faces a few minutes earlier on the same tape was not worth a mention?... her argument about the fuller context is now the norm in elite media, and it’s the underlying reason for the instant judgment. “Racism” now only means “prejudice plus power,” so what the adult Black Israelites yelled was nowhere near as bad as what a white teenager didn’t say. No empirical evidence could ever deny that underlying truth... There’s a reason why, in the crucial battle for the legitimacy of a free press, Trump is still on the offensive. Our mainstream press has been poisoned by tribalism. My own trust in it is eroding. I’m far from the only one... What was so depressing to me about the Covington incident was how so many liberals felt comfortable taking a random teenager and, purely because of his race and gender, projected onto him all their resentments and hatred of “white men” in general... Liberal democracy is being dismantled before our eyes — by all of us."
Journalism is being eaten alive by opinion - "despite the profound structural emergency engulfing my field, I’d like to victim-blame just a little. My desire to do so stems from the fact that we just passed the first anniversary of the Covington Catholic High School debacle in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It was genuinely one of the worst, most embarrassing recent moments in professional journalism, and there was never any real reckoning among those who screwed it up. Would such a reckoning save the industry? Of course not. But if we don’t grapple with what the Covington debacle revealed about where journalism is right now, we won’t have much worth saving, anyway... While acknowledging that those activists hadn’t been entirely blameless, Phillips presented himself as a de-escalator trying to prevent the white kids from getting out of hand.“They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals,” Phillips said of the teens. “There was that moment when I realised I’ve put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.”This was the narrative that took hold: white predators and black and Native prey. Immediately, online outrage exploded... Phillips doesn’t, as he claimed, place himself between the Covington kids and the Black Hebrew Israelites mid-confrontation — he works his way right to the edge of into the closed Covington circle, until he is noticed on account of his drumming.This is completely incompatible with Phillips’ version of what happened, but to acknowledge this would have toppled a viral narrative that was carried far and wide on the wings of morally satisfying good-guys-versus-bad-guys outrage.So while some conservative and centrist and even liberal journalists did revise their accounts, apologise on Twitter and so on, and while the Kentucky diocese publicly apologised for its initial condemnation, the more common response was to simply either pretend this video didn’t show what it clearly showed, retreat to a different claim — Phillips caused himself to be surrounded by a circle of Covington kids, but was horribly mistreated by them once he was — or both... the single most important article one needs to read to understand the ridiculous, embarrassing extent to which journalists doubled down after the release of that video came a couple days later — written by Laura Wagner, then of Deadspin.“Don’t Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes,” was the headline of her 21 January piece, which racked up more than a million views as my fellow left-of-center journalists eagerly passed it around to prove to one another, and themselves, that they’d done nothing wrong.Posted a day after that video went online, Wagner criticised those who had backtracked from their earlier condemnation of the Covington kids, deriding them for “doing the work of the gibbering masturbators who had risen up in defense of the MAGA teens”. Bizarrely, it continues to take Phillips’ account as accurate, simply ignoring the evidence to the contrary... Once the outrage has set in, there’s very little incentive to let it go, because it feels unsatisfying and ego-threatening to admit such strong, morally charged feelings were unwarranted, that one’s own tribe was in error.More than anything else, it sums up the increasingly potent belief among journalists that we must always be on guard about public instances of wrongspeak, that it’s potentially career suicide to be seen as falling on the wrong side of a given day’s most white-hot controversy (and, of course, every such controversy always has two sides and two sides only: a right one and a wrong one). I call this the difference between rightside norms and accuracy norms. This is an oversimplified model, of course, but within a given community, accuracy norms incentivise people to seek out and state out loud the truth — to be the insufferable nerd who watches the video frame by frame, and who relies on that and only that if that’s what needs to be done — while rightside norms encourage people to loudly broadcast that they are on the right side of the issue, even if that requires twisting the evidence: Video be damned, I am not siding with those MAGA sickos!... As social media has carved out a bigger and bigger part of the daily existence of progressive journalists, and as mainstream outlets have shuttered, shed their older, more traditionally journalistic staffers — with the new blood flowing into the industry being generally younger, more privileged, more partisan, and less interested in or well-trained to do what is seen as “old-school” journalism — rightside norms have begun infecting mainstream journalism and spreading within it like a plague. That’s my diagnosis, at least. But if you disagree, just go on Twitter, which is where just about every left-of-center journalist 40 and under spends a big chunk of each and every working day. Over and over and over, you will see people whose job is to report the truth responding with strong half-baked opinions, or retweeting their friends’ and colleagues’ strong half-baked opinions, in response to breaking-news events about which very little is known so far... if you call yourself a journalist, there needs to be some distance, somewhere, between your tribal allegiances and the way you do your job"
Covington was also a useful example of how Twitter absolutely radicalizes journalists. Because they are on it, all day every day, watching how their friends respond to every news item in real time -- always emphatically -- that has a profound effect on shaping coverage.
The publication of this, in particular, was a Holy Shit moment. The whole point was to name and shame journos/pundits who acted *correctly* after the long video dropped. (And yes I miss Deadspin dearly and read it daily and want it back -- but still!)"
Comments: "“Binders full of women” was mine, but in a different way. Knowing that our media turned Romney’s deliberate hiring of women for cabinet roles - for which had won awards, outpacing every other gov - was turned into Romney being a sexist was the “media is alternate reality to me.”"
"“Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and Charlottesville are two more good examples."
"Kavanaugh was the turning point for many people and Covington hammered it home."
"The real takeaway from Covington is how little reflection it created among journalists. These are people who constantly use their platform to tell Americans how they need to revise their perspectives on race, sex, America, politics, economics and the world..."
"Sarah Jeong was the tipping point for me, when I realized that as a class journalists were not actually noble people, but were perfectly happy to behave like tribal sociopaths who targeted certain Americans it was safe for them to target."
"The coverage of James Damore and his now infamous memo really changed my perceptions, as well as destroying my faith in NPR, and it made me give up posting on Fark for good. The popular coverage was a caricature of the actual story."
Of course, you're not allowed to criticise the media. Unless it is "right wing" media
Andrew Sullivan: The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate - "One of the advantages of taking Saturdays off the web entirely is that I wasn’t aware of L’Affaire Covington until it was almost over. It’s one of those occasions I’m deeply glad I quit blogging 24/7 four years ago and disengaged from Twitter last month... Eligon actually writes: “Whatever tensions are sparked by Hebrew Israelite teaching, some adherents chalk that up to people being unwilling to accept uncomfortable doctrine.” The Washington Post ran a Style section headline about “the calculated art of making people uncomfortable.” In a news story entirely about the Black Israelites, the Washington Post did not quote a single thing they had said on the tape, gave a respectful account of their theology, and only mentioned their status as a “hate group” in the 24th paragraph, and put the term in scare quotes. Vox managed to write an explainer that also did not include a single example of any of the actual insults hurled at the Covington kids. Countless near-treatises were written parsing the layers of bigotry inside a silent schoolboy’s smirk... They were 16-year-olds subjected to verbal racist assault by grown men; and then the kids were accused of being bigots. It just beggars belief that the same liberals who fret about “micro-aggressions” for 20-somethings were able to see 16-year-olds absorbing the worst racist garbage from religious bigots … and then express the desire to punch the kids in the face.How did this grotesque inversion of the truth become the central narrative for what seemed to be the entire class of elite journalists on Twitter? That’s the somewhat terrifying question. Ruth Graham on Slate saw a 16-year-old she’d seen on a tape for a couple of minutes and immediately knew that he was indistinguishable from the “white young men crowding around a single black man at a lunch counter sit-in in Virginia in the 1960s” or other white “high school boys flashing Nazi salutes.” Even after the full context was clear, Graham refused to apologize to the kid, or retract her condemnation: The context didn’t “change the larger story” which, she explained, was bigotry toward Native Americans. She cited Trump’s use of the name “Pocahontas” for Elizabeth Warren as evidence. But using a bullhorn to call Native Americans “savages” and “drunkards at the casino” to their faces a few minutes earlier on the same tape was not worth a mention?... her argument about the fuller context is now the norm in elite media, and it’s the underlying reason for the instant judgment. “Racism” now only means “prejudice plus power,” so what the adult Black Israelites yelled was nowhere near as bad as what a white teenager didn’t say. No empirical evidence could ever deny that underlying truth... There’s a reason why, in the crucial battle for the legitimacy of a free press, Trump is still on the offensive. Our mainstream press has been poisoned by tribalism. My own trust in it is eroding. I’m far from the only one... What was so depressing to me about the Covington incident was how so many liberals felt comfortable taking a random teenager and, purely because of his race and gender, projected onto him all their resentments and hatred of “white men” in general... Liberal democracy is being dismantled before our eyes — by all of us."
Journalism is being eaten alive by opinion - "despite the profound structural emergency engulfing my field, I’d like to victim-blame just a little. My desire to do so stems from the fact that we just passed the first anniversary of the Covington Catholic High School debacle in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It was genuinely one of the worst, most embarrassing recent moments in professional journalism, and there was never any real reckoning among those who screwed it up. Would such a reckoning save the industry? Of course not. But if we don’t grapple with what the Covington debacle revealed about where journalism is right now, we won’t have much worth saving, anyway... While acknowledging that those activists hadn’t been entirely blameless, Phillips presented himself as a de-escalator trying to prevent the white kids from getting out of hand.“They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals,” Phillips said of the teens. “There was that moment when I realised I’ve put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.”This was the narrative that took hold: white predators and black and Native prey. Immediately, online outrage exploded... Phillips doesn’t, as he claimed, place himself between the Covington kids and the Black Hebrew Israelites mid-confrontation — he works his way right to the edge of into the closed Covington circle, until he is noticed on account of his drumming.This is completely incompatible with Phillips’ version of what happened, but to acknowledge this would have toppled a viral narrative that was carried far and wide on the wings of morally satisfying good-guys-versus-bad-guys outrage.So while some conservative and centrist and even liberal journalists did revise their accounts, apologise on Twitter and so on, and while the Kentucky diocese publicly apologised for its initial condemnation, the more common response was to simply either pretend this video didn’t show what it clearly showed, retreat to a different claim — Phillips caused himself to be surrounded by a circle of Covington kids, but was horribly mistreated by them once he was — or both... the single most important article one needs to read to understand the ridiculous, embarrassing extent to which journalists doubled down after the release of that video came a couple days later — written by Laura Wagner, then of Deadspin.“Don’t Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes,” was the headline of her 21 January piece, which racked up more than a million views as my fellow left-of-center journalists eagerly passed it around to prove to one another, and themselves, that they’d done nothing wrong.Posted a day after that video went online, Wagner criticised those who had backtracked from their earlier condemnation of the Covington kids, deriding them for “doing the work of the gibbering masturbators who had risen up in defense of the MAGA teens”. Bizarrely, it continues to take Phillips’ account as accurate, simply ignoring the evidence to the contrary... Once the outrage has set in, there’s very little incentive to let it go, because it feels unsatisfying and ego-threatening to admit such strong, morally charged feelings were unwarranted, that one’s own tribe was in error.More than anything else, it sums up the increasingly potent belief among journalists that we must always be on guard about public instances of wrongspeak, that it’s potentially career suicide to be seen as falling on the wrong side of a given day’s most white-hot controversy (and, of course, every such controversy always has two sides and two sides only: a right one and a wrong one). I call this the difference between rightside norms and accuracy norms. This is an oversimplified model, of course, but within a given community, accuracy norms incentivise people to seek out and state out loud the truth — to be the insufferable nerd who watches the video frame by frame, and who relies on that and only that if that’s what needs to be done — while rightside norms encourage people to loudly broadcast that they are on the right side of the issue, even if that requires twisting the evidence: Video be damned, I am not siding with those MAGA sickos!... As social media has carved out a bigger and bigger part of the daily existence of progressive journalists, and as mainstream outlets have shuttered, shed their older, more traditionally journalistic staffers — with the new blood flowing into the industry being generally younger, more privileged, more partisan, and less interested in or well-trained to do what is seen as “old-school” journalism — rightside norms have begun infecting mainstream journalism and spreading within it like a plague. That’s my diagnosis, at least. But if you disagree, just go on Twitter, which is where just about every left-of-center journalist 40 and under spends a big chunk of each and every working day. Over and over and over, you will see people whose job is to report the truth responding with strong half-baked opinions, or retweeting their friends’ and colleagues’ strong half-baked opinions, in response to breaking-news events about which very little is known so far... if you call yourself a journalist, there needs to be some distance, somewhere, between your tribal allegiances and the way you do your job"
Post ID: 145117881492476250
Ask Culture and Guess Culture
IBBoard — Ask Culture and Guess Culture
mefitours: “One of my wife’s distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again,” writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. “She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the “out of town” excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again… and it’s here. We need a final solution.”
He goes on to list two different possibilities he can think of for getting this woman to stop asking for free room and board. The first is a little white lie, something about their keys being hard to duplicate. The other is to be vague, to say something like “Sorry, that isn’t going to work for us” and hope she doesn’t ask why.
The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it’s her who’s being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it’s “One of those random `Life in NYC things.’”
Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn’t understand how simply asking to stay in someone’s apartment was rude, while another went as far to say that putting someone in the position “having to be rude and say no” was rude in and of itself.
It is into this context that user tangerine contributes this answer:
After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn’t they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.
aeveee: This is fascinating. My mom was, I think, a variety of Guess culture. She disliked telling her kids no to reasonable requests. We learned to make flat/information statements like “I’m going to need a ride after school on Friday,” and if she responded with another flat stament like “I have to work until 5 on Friday,” then we knew we had to problem solve an alternative. My parents divorced when I was 12. One summer spent with my dad when I was 16, he blew up at me. “Why don’t you just ASK for a ride?!” It was only when explaining mom’s preference that I realized I’d been trained not to make my mom say no. So I learned dad’s way too. This is the 1st time I’ve actually had NAMES for this issue.
Thoughts:
-I wonder how many failed relationships and divorces have mixed ask/guess culture as a component?
-I wonder how many other like me there are-trained in both cultures due to a mixed marriage-and what this does to our own relationships.
-why is this not a widely known thing? Good god it seems a HUGE facet of effective communication and I’m only just hearing about it at 51 years old? Is there a book about this somewhere? Dammit…
This is incredible and I can’t believe I’ve never heard it put this way before and I’m 54. My family is definitely of the Guess variety because this really explains the crazy lack of communication. My mother is an extreme Guesser and actually gets angry when you can’t just guess what she wants. She is 84 and I chaulked it up to being raised in the 40’s and 50’s when women didn’t ask for what they wanted. She didn’t do this as much when we were little but as we got into teenage years and she had to deal with us as young adults she apparently didn’t want to ask, but got irritated when we couldn’t guess.
When I was a teenager visiting family, apparently my aunt got tired of having to ask me and my sisters what we wanted all the time and asked us to speak up and said ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get.’ At the time I thought this was partly a lesson in gaining self confidence but at the same time I realized if I just ask and not expect everyone to guess, I can get more of what I need out of life with less stress.
Fast forward to now. My mother is still an extreme Guesser and three of my sister’s are Guesser’s and just make up reasons in their head instead of asking what’s going on. My other sister and I have learned to ask so they think we are rude for asking and we think they are rude for making shit up instead of asking. Wow. I can’t believe there’s a term for this. If this was taught as basic communication skills I think a lot more people would be able to get along. I definitely have to look into this more.
I read a fascinating essay written by a Guess woman married to an Ask man and how that affected their sex life, and how they compromised.
ford-ye-fiji: My mother is an asker and my dad is a guesser and sometimes I have to butt in and translate what each other is trying to say XD I didn’t even know there was a word for it!!
tellmevarric: I learned to give people permission to say no to me. A lot of people, more than I ever expected, have trouble saying no, especially when, like in the original post, it’s because they just don’t want to, not because they have a reason. (As if not wanting to isn’t a valid reason… but I digress.) So, I tend to ask for things, particularly big or onerous things, like this:
“Okay, I need to ask you something but, first of all, please feel free to say no. You don’t need to give me a reason and I won’t be angry or upset.”
Then I ask for what I want.
And if they say no, I don’t ask why, I don’t get passive aggressive and I don’t get angry or upset. I don’t dwell on it. They’ve said no and that’s final. I thank them, then I move the conversation on.
Two of the most valuable things you can learn is how to say no and how to accept no.
This is also like high context and low context cultures - e.g. Western and Asian societies
Strangely, I couldn't find a tumblr which formatted this properly in the individual post - only on the main page. Then I realised adding "/amp" to the end of the URL formatted the post properly.
Related:
Extraordinary Passion: Escaping a Dead Bedroom
"The questioner asked about HL/LL (high libido/low libido) couples who had managed to survive new couple burnout and have a successful sex life. I’m the lower libido partner (LL) in a successful long-term relationship that almost went the “dead bedroom” route after two years together. It was hard, but we figured out answers that worked for us. Twenty years later, we probably have more and better sex than 95% of the couples our age...
Z and I met and became a couple in 1992. Sex had started out being spectacularly good, but in retrospect, that was mostly the raw rush of intense emotion. We were head over heels in love, a first for both of us at 28, though neither of us were virgins...
[There was] a tremendous amount of stress for both of us, and our sex life fell off a cliff. I not only had no interest in having sex, I felt numb when we did have sex. I started saying no, I’m not in the mood, and after a while Z almost stopped asking. We had sex less and less often and each time was unsatisfactory. This scared the hell out of both of us.
What saved us was our nerdiness. With my background in neuroscience and his in the social sciences and psychology, we turned ourselves into sex nerds, learning everything we could about sex, desire, arousal, marital happiness, and so on, to try to understand what was happening to us and how to fix it...
I’m an Asker and Z is a Guesser...
(This is also the sort of culture where you’re considered rude if you take the last cookie when someone offers it to you. You are not supposed to accept it until the other person has offered three times and you've said no twice. It’s a culture that involves a lot of indirection and subtlety and potential for misunderstanding, so it can also cause a lot of conflict between Askers and their Guesser in-laws!)
Guess culture rules seem clumsy and inefficient to me, but it's a system that works quite well as long as everyone was raised knowing the rules...
This can get pretty pathological where sex is concerned. If the HL partner is a Guesser, initiating sex is risky and being told no is perceived as a serious emotional rejection. And the LL/Asker partner generally has no understanding of how deeply wounding that rejection is. So after a string of "no" answers the HL/Guesser stops asking, frequency of sex goes to zero, and the LL partner is mystified and feels unjustly accused of being responsible. Even when I was uninterested in sex, I didn’t understand why Z stopped asking, so I assumed he wasn’t interested either.
In the reverse case, you get a "chasing" dynamic, where the HL/Asker keeps asking and the LL/Guesser feels harassed, coerced, and abused and deeply resents it. So even though the LL/G often "gives in," it tends to be the worst kind of duty sex with no emotional connection for either person.
It's important to understand how this works, because the solutions to a “dead bedroom” problem are completely different for Guess/Ask couples, for Ask/Guess couples, and for Guess/Guess couples. (Ask/Ask couples don't have trouble with this part of the HL/LL problem.)
Responsive Desire: In established relationships about 10% of men and 50% of women never or rarely experience spontaneous desire for sex. Sex researchers call this pattern “responsive desire.” RDs (people who fit that pattern) aren't necessarily people with low libido, but we don't get horny unless we're in a specifically sexual situation, which means we depend on something or someone else to get us started.
When two RDs or two Guessers pair off, they need to do things like scheduling sex or it just dies out completely. It can be just as bad when an HL/Guesser like Z gets paired with an LL/RD like me, because Guessers hate asking and RDs seldom even think of asking unless it’s on their calendar.
The deeper problem with responsive desire isn’t really about libido. It’s that the partner with spontaneous desire (SD) doesn’t understand how a person can be in love and attracted to someone if they never initiate sex. The SD partner wants to be lusted after and feels unloved, unattractive, and undesirable if the RD never seems to WANT the SD partner. So it can really undermine the SD partner’s ego and self-image if their partner never initiates sex, even if the RD partner seems to enjoy sex and is usually happy to accept an invitation."
Of course, this goes against the feminist fantasy of affirmative consent/enthusiastic consent and how if you have sex when both parties aren't actively 100% into it from the start, it's rape
mefitours: “One of my wife’s distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again,” writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. “She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the “out of town” excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again… and it’s here. We need a final solution.”
He goes on to list two different possibilities he can think of for getting this woman to stop asking for free room and board. The first is a little white lie, something about their keys being hard to duplicate. The other is to be vague, to say something like “Sorry, that isn’t going to work for us” and hope she doesn’t ask why.
The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it’s her who’s being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it’s “One of those random `Life in NYC things.’”
Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn’t understand how simply asking to stay in someone’s apartment was rude, while another went as far to say that putting someone in the position “having to be rude and say no” was rude in and of itself.
It is into this context that user tangerine contributes this answer:
This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture.
In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it’s OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.
In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you’re pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won’t even have to make the request directly; you’ll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept.
All kinds of problems spring up around the edges. If you’re a Guess Culture person — and you obviously are — then unwelcome requests from Ask Culture people seem presumptuous and out of line, and you’re likely to feel angry, uncomfortable, and manipulated.
If you’re an Ask Culture person, Guess Culture behavior can seem incomprehensible, inconsistent, and rife with passive aggression.
Obviously she’s an Ask and you’re a Guess. (I’m a Guess too. Let me tell you, it’s great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.)
Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people — ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you’ll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you’ll spend your life in a cloud of mild outrage at (pace Moomin fans) the Cluelessness of Everyone.
As you read through the responses to this question, you can easily see who the Guess and the Ask commenters are. It’s an interesting exercise. (#)
After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn’t they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.
aeveee: This is fascinating. My mom was, I think, a variety of Guess culture. She disliked telling her kids no to reasonable requests. We learned to make flat/information statements like “I’m going to need a ride after school on Friday,” and if she responded with another flat stament like “I have to work until 5 on Friday,” then we knew we had to problem solve an alternative. My parents divorced when I was 12. One summer spent with my dad when I was 16, he blew up at me. “Why don’t you just ASK for a ride?!” It was only when explaining mom’s preference that I realized I’d been trained not to make my mom say no. So I learned dad’s way too. This is the 1st time I’ve actually had NAMES for this issue.
Thoughts:
-I wonder how many failed relationships and divorces have mixed ask/guess culture as a component?
-I wonder how many other like me there are-trained in both cultures due to a mixed marriage-and what this does to our own relationships.
-why is this not a widely known thing? Good god it seems a HUGE facet of effective communication and I’m only just hearing about it at 51 years old? Is there a book about this somewhere? Dammit…
This is incredible and I can’t believe I’ve never heard it put this way before and I’m 54. My family is definitely of the Guess variety because this really explains the crazy lack of communication. My mother is an extreme Guesser and actually gets angry when you can’t just guess what she wants. She is 84 and I chaulked it up to being raised in the 40’s and 50’s when women didn’t ask for what they wanted. She didn’t do this as much when we were little but as we got into teenage years and she had to deal with us as young adults she apparently didn’t want to ask, but got irritated when we couldn’t guess.
When I was a teenager visiting family, apparently my aunt got tired of having to ask me and my sisters what we wanted all the time and asked us to speak up and said ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get.’ At the time I thought this was partly a lesson in gaining self confidence but at the same time I realized if I just ask and not expect everyone to guess, I can get more of what I need out of life with less stress.
Fast forward to now. My mother is still an extreme Guesser and three of my sister’s are Guesser’s and just make up reasons in their head instead of asking what’s going on. My other sister and I have learned to ask so they think we are rude for asking and we think they are rude for making shit up instead of asking. Wow. I can’t believe there’s a term for this. If this was taught as basic communication skills I think a lot more people would be able to get along. I definitely have to look into this more.
I read a fascinating essay written by a Guess woman married to an Ask man and how that affected their sex life, and how they compromised.
ford-ye-fiji: My mother is an asker and my dad is a guesser and sometimes I have to butt in and translate what each other is trying to say XD I didn’t even know there was a word for it!!
tellmevarric: I learned to give people permission to say no to me. A lot of people, more than I ever expected, have trouble saying no, especially when, like in the original post, it’s because they just don’t want to, not because they have a reason. (As if not wanting to isn’t a valid reason… but I digress.) So, I tend to ask for things, particularly big or onerous things, like this:
“Okay, I need to ask you something but, first of all, please feel free to say no. You don’t need to give me a reason and I won’t be angry or upset.”
Then I ask for what I want.
And if they say no, I don’t ask why, I don’t get passive aggressive and I don’t get angry or upset. I don’t dwell on it. They’ve said no and that’s final. I thank them, then I move the conversation on.
Two of the most valuable things you can learn is how to say no and how to accept no.
This is also like high context and low context cultures - e.g. Western and Asian societies
Strangely, I couldn't find a tumblr which formatted this properly in the individual post - only on the main page. Then I realised adding "/amp" to the end of the URL formatted the post properly.
Related:
Extraordinary Passion: Escaping a Dead Bedroom
"The questioner asked about HL/LL (high libido/low libido) couples who had managed to survive new couple burnout and have a successful sex life. I’m the lower libido partner (LL) in a successful long-term relationship that almost went the “dead bedroom” route after two years together. It was hard, but we figured out answers that worked for us. Twenty years later, we probably have more and better sex than 95% of the couples our age...
Z and I met and became a couple in 1992. Sex had started out being spectacularly good, but in retrospect, that was mostly the raw rush of intense emotion. We were head over heels in love, a first for both of us at 28, though neither of us were virgins...
[There was] a tremendous amount of stress for both of us, and our sex life fell off a cliff. I not only had no interest in having sex, I felt numb when we did have sex. I started saying no, I’m not in the mood, and after a while Z almost stopped asking. We had sex less and less often and each time was unsatisfactory. This scared the hell out of both of us.
What saved us was our nerdiness. With my background in neuroscience and his in the social sciences and psychology, we turned ourselves into sex nerds, learning everything we could about sex, desire, arousal, marital happiness, and so on, to try to understand what was happening to us and how to fix it...
I’m an Asker and Z is a Guesser...
(This is also the sort of culture where you’re considered rude if you take the last cookie when someone offers it to you. You are not supposed to accept it until the other person has offered three times and you've said no twice. It’s a culture that involves a lot of indirection and subtlety and potential for misunderstanding, so it can also cause a lot of conflict between Askers and their Guesser in-laws!)
Guess culture rules seem clumsy and inefficient to me, but it's a system that works quite well as long as everyone was raised knowing the rules...
This can get pretty pathological where sex is concerned. If the HL partner is a Guesser, initiating sex is risky and being told no is perceived as a serious emotional rejection. And the LL/Asker partner generally has no understanding of how deeply wounding that rejection is. So after a string of "no" answers the HL/Guesser stops asking, frequency of sex goes to zero, and the LL partner is mystified and feels unjustly accused of being responsible. Even when I was uninterested in sex, I didn’t understand why Z stopped asking, so I assumed he wasn’t interested either.
In the reverse case, you get a "chasing" dynamic, where the HL/Asker keeps asking and the LL/Guesser feels harassed, coerced, and abused and deeply resents it. So even though the LL/G often "gives in," it tends to be the worst kind of duty sex with no emotional connection for either person.
It's important to understand how this works, because the solutions to a “dead bedroom” problem are completely different for Guess/Ask couples, for Ask/Guess couples, and for Guess/Guess couples. (Ask/Ask couples don't have trouble with this part of the HL/LL problem.)
Responsive Desire: In established relationships about 10% of men and 50% of women never or rarely experience spontaneous desire for sex. Sex researchers call this pattern “responsive desire.” RDs (people who fit that pattern) aren't necessarily people with low libido, but we don't get horny unless we're in a specifically sexual situation, which means we depend on something or someone else to get us started.
When two RDs or two Guessers pair off, they need to do things like scheduling sex or it just dies out completely. It can be just as bad when an HL/Guesser like Z gets paired with an LL/RD like me, because Guessers hate asking and RDs seldom even think of asking unless it’s on their calendar.
The deeper problem with responsive desire isn’t really about libido. It’s that the partner with spontaneous desire (SD) doesn’t understand how a person can be in love and attracted to someone if they never initiate sex. The SD partner wants to be lusted after and feels unloved, unattractive, and undesirable if the RD never seems to WANT the SD partner. So it can really undermine the SD partner’s ego and self-image if their partner never initiates sex, even if the RD partner seems to enjoy sex and is usually happy to accept an invitation."
Of course, this goes against the feminist fantasy of affirmative consent/enthusiastic consent and how if you have sex when both parties aren't actively 100% into it from the start, it's rape
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Links - 19th April 2020 (1)
UK army recruitment ads target 'snowflake' millennials - "The British army is calling on “snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies, and me, me, millennials” to join its ranks in a recruitment drive targeting young people... The recruitment campaign comes as the army failed to meet recruitment targets as it “underestimated the complexity of what it was trying to achieve” when it embarked on a project with outsourcing giant Capita, according to a National Audit Office report in December.Capita was awarded the £495m contract for army recruitment in 2012 but the army has not recruited the number of soldiers it requires in any year since the contract began.The Commons defence committee was told in October that the army had 77,000 fully trained troops compared with a target of 82,500.Forty-seven per cent of applicants dropped out of the process voluntarily in 2017-18, and both the army and Capita believe the length of the process is a significant factor in this, according to the report."
Army accused of political correctness in recruitment campaign - "The British army has been accused of bowing to political correctness after launching a campaign to recruit more people from a diversity of genders, sexualities, ethnicities and faiths.It has also been criticised for appearing to mislead recruits by suggesting the army offers help for those with mental health problems. In a series of animations released on social media, the campaign positively answers questions such as “Can I be gay in the army?” and “What if I get emotional in the army?”.Other videos in the £1.6m campaign ask: “Can I practise my faith in the army?”, “Will I be listened to in the army?”, and “Do I have to be a superhero to join the army?”... retired colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British operations in Afghanistan, said the campaign would not solve the army’s recruitment problem.“The army, like the rest of government, is being forced down a route of political correctness,” he told BBC Breakfast. “What is most important is that the army is full of soldiers. It is of secondary importance that they reflect the composition of society.”He claimed that what attracted recruits was images of fighting. “The main group of people who are interested in joining aren’t worried so much about whether they are going to be listened to … they are going to be attracted by images of combat.”... “We must ensure that everybody knows that they have an opportunity of joining the British armed forces, and joining the army in particular, but we are not going to be soft and we are not going to be nice to people.”"
Army could phase out fossil fuels to attract ecofriendly recruits, senior general says - "Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith said today’s military equipment would probably be the last to be “dependent on fossil fuel engines”, and that a move toward clean energy would be beneficial logistically and put the military “on the right side of the environmental argument”."
Losing a war because your batteries ran out is alright, since you save the environment
Delingpole: British Army to Phase out Fossil Fuels to Attract Eco-Recruits - "bunny-hugging eco-loons are the very last people ever to want to join the Army. The only thing that might change their dope-addled minds is if it redesignated itself the Peace Corps and renounced its combat role altogether. But that might leave an awkward gap in Britain’s defence capabilities.Then again, what kind of loon would even want to join a military so careless of its proper purpose that it apparently puts more value on green virtue-signalling than it does on operational effectiveness?... Once you start prioritising other goals — appeasing Mother Gaia; trying to get friendly write-ups from the Guardian and the BBC; trying to persuade recruits that war has more to do with saving polar bears than killing the enemy — then you send a very clear message to the taxpayers who fund you: we incapable of defending you properly. And an even clearer message to the enemy: we are not serious so please, walk all over us."
It's Grandads' Army! Desperate defence chiefs are urging ex-soldiers as old as 57 to re-enlist - "As part of a New Year recruitment drive, service personnel are being urged to seek out veterans as old as 57, including ex-soldiers who retired on medical grounds or who left the Forces for disciplinary reasons... The campaign was ordered to tackle a manpower crisis in frontline units, some of which are 40 per cent short... In 2014 the ceiling was raised from 43 to 52. Now it is 57, the highest ever, even for infantry units in which troops are expected to march and run long distances while carrying heavy packs.It comes after the Army launched its latest campaign to attract teenage recruits by persuading them that a military career gives them more confidence than social media ‘likes’."
Guess the campaigns aren't working
Cambridge students say they could be ‘triggered’ by soldiers - "Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) has said that the presence of soldiers at its annual freshers’ fair could ‘trigger’ students. A motion to ban armed-forces personnel from carrying weapons at the freshers’ fair passed this week by 55 per cent. Stella Swain, the CUSU welfare officer who proposed the motion, said that the presence of soldiers could damage students’ mental health... CUSU’s move was part of a broader campaign to ‘demilitarise’ the university.What is most striking here is not these students’ opposition to the military per se (Britain has certainly embroiled itself in numerous bloody conflicts), but the way in which their opposition to the military takes the form of complaints about their hurty feelings. It is extraordinary that ‘the potential to detrimentally affect’ the ‘mental welfare’ of Cambridge students, as one SU officer put it, can even come up in discussions of British militarism"
Dad sets up Dudes & Dogs walking group to get men talking about their feelings - ""The aim of the group is to create an environment where people can relax and drop their barriers "It [walking a dog] is a good way to do so because you do not have to look at each other in the eye and are in an open space. "It is at their pace and there is no expectation for them to have to talk - it could be that they just listen the first few times." He realised that saying "let's go for a walk" was a much easier way of saying 'let's have a chat', which some people can find difficult to say.The dog owner said that people were also able to get moments of relief and joy through interacting with his dog."
What is the tradwife trend sweping households - "Amid the Me Too movement and radical feminism, a new opposing trend has emerged across Britain - the 'tradwife' trend.Harking back to 1950s Britain, and already established in the US, the trend sees women reverting to the traditional roles of housewives, practiced in the fifties and sixties. The belief behind the movement is that wives should not work, and rather spend their days cooking, cleaning, wearing modest and feminine dress, and practice traditional etiquette, being submissive to their husbands and 'always put them first'... Among the women is British housewife Alena Kate Pettit, who has started up a 'femininity finishing school' vlog called 'The Darling Academy', and who admits that growing up in the Spice Girls 'girl power' era made her feel uncomfortable... Alena says she was a 'career girl' in her twenties and followed messages from hit show Sex and The City, which she interpreted as telling women working was 'liberating and they should follow their sexual desires'. Not identifying with this persona, she then turned to shows like the Real Housewives, but found the wives were 'too rich to do their own cleaning and everyone was cheating on each other'.She then went online and discovered an underground movement of other women who felt the same, explaining they craved the sense of 'belonging, home quaintness and tradition'. Alena, who strongly believes your husband should 'always come first and should know this', says some feminists believe her movement is throwing their work for equality back in their faces.Revealing her take on feminism, she explained: 'My view on feminism is that it's about choices. To say you can go into the working world and compete with men and you're not allowed to stay at home -to me is taking a choice away'... The movement is controversial among many feminists, as it claims women should 'submit' to their husbands... One of the movement's pin-up girls is Helen Andelin, the American author of the 1963 'Fascinating Womanhood' book, which teaches women that subordination is the 'key to a happy marriage' and has regained popularity... 'The movement's rising because women have had enough of feminism in the UK and elsewhere. 'We say to feminists: thanks for the trousers, but we see life a different way'."
Too bad she missed the memos from feminists that feminism is not about choice
El Paso Zoo allows you to name a cockroach after your ex then feed it to a meerkat on Valentine's Day - "You can message the zoo on Facebook with your ex's name, then wait patiently for February 14 to watch the roach get devoured during the "Quit Bugging Me" meerkat event, which will live-stream on Facebook and the zoo's website. The names of those exes will also be displayed around the meerkat exhibit and on social media starting February 11. The zoo calls it "the perfect Valentine's Day gift.""This is a fun way to get the community involved in our daily enrichment activities"... The El Paso Zoo isn't the only zoo offering a non-traditional Valentine's Day promotion. The Hemsley Conservation Center in Kent, England, will name a cockroach after your ex in exchange for a donation. You can also name a roach at the Bronx Zoo, which calls them "eternal" and "timeless" gifts."
Man opens Singh’sbury Local - and says resemblance to supermarket is coincidence - "Mandeep Singh Chatha’s off-licence has become a tourist attraction in Wolverhampton after he erected the sign in orange lettering.Customers have been lining up to take selfies outside his Singh’sbury Local that – some say – looks like a Sainsbury’s.But former sandwich delivery driver Mandeep, 34, insists there is an innocent explanation, saying: “I decided on the name. My name is Singh and it’s on Bushbury Road.""
Wechat Stock Scam - not sure what it's called but it's a type of pump and dump. "Tickets" for group stock market movers. : Scams - "I was friends with someone in HK for awhile on wechat. A supposed day trader. Their stock tips (on the HK exchange) seemed ok (before I got involved). The very first tip that I used of (and they wanted to see proof I had bought/sold) they gave the incorrect advice (I should have shorted but they said to buy) and of course I was upside down. They claimed it was a translation error. The next tip (which apparently they buy as a ticket from a group of stock market movers) I decided to defraud them back and I didn't invest real money but quickly mocked up fake screen shots. Sure enough it was a bad tip (inverted advice). I obviously now just ignore them and am only down $4,000 on the bad trade but it left a bad taste in my mouth from my own greed and their arseholethisness. They use people like me to drive the market the way the insiders want I assume and the people on the outside take hit with the market going the wrong way."
Spider bites Australian man on penis again - "A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time.The man was using a portable toilet on a Sydney building site on Tuesday, when he suffered a repeat of the incident five months ago.Jordan, who preferred not to reveal his surname, said he was bitten on "pretty much the same spot" by the spider."I'm the most unlucky guy in the country at the moment," he told the BBC."I was sitting on the toilet doing my business and just felt the sting that I felt the first time."I was like 'I can't believe it's happened again.' I looked down and I've seen a few little legs come from around the rim." He said that being bitten the first time had made him wary of using portable toilets."
Northern Rail to be renationalised this week after rail chaos for millions - "After years of poor performance millions of customers faced a 2.7 per cent increase in fares this month as the firm’s lines plunged into chaos and cancellations. The formal renationalisation will be ordered by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who descibed the private ownership’s delivery as “completely unacceptable”. It will become the second of the national networks 16 rail passenger franchises to be nationalised under the Government-owned “operator of last resort” which is owned outright by the taxpayer."
How can libertarians blame government regulation for this?
Steve Mnuchin Just Adult-splained Economics to Greta Thunberg - VICE
Liberals only value expertise when they agree with it
Arizona man dresses up skeleton to drive in HOV lane - "A driver in the US has been caught trying to disguise a fake skeleton as a passenger so he could use a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane.The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the 62-year-old was pulled over when an official noticed the skeleton, which was wearing a hat and tied to the passenger seat with yellow rope... "Think you can use the HOV lane with Skeletor riding shotgun? You're dead wrong!" it wrote, referring to the fictional nemesis of He-Man in the Masters of the Universe series. It ended the post with the hashtags "#NiceTry" and "#YoureNotHeMan"... a man was caught driving in an HOV lane with a mannequin wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses"
Video claims that if you can read a certain font, you are probably not Japanese - "English language proficiency is a tricky subject with Japanese people. There’s always an excuse about why they can’t understand it, from, “I’ll never use English,” and “It’s not interesting,” to the catch-all, “It’s too hard.” Well, it’s a good thing the Ministry of Education isn’t looking to adopt any new fonts for their textbooks as a little-known computer font developed back in 1998 is gaining some notoriety for being absolutely impossible to read by native Japanese. You might be able to read it, but can your Japanese friends?... this font resembles the written characters of the Japanese katakana syllabary so much that he can’t get his brain to focus on the fact that the font’s text is supposed to be English letters."
Army accused of political correctness in recruitment campaign - "The British army has been accused of bowing to political correctness after launching a campaign to recruit more people from a diversity of genders, sexualities, ethnicities and faiths.It has also been criticised for appearing to mislead recruits by suggesting the army offers help for those with mental health problems. In a series of animations released on social media, the campaign positively answers questions such as “Can I be gay in the army?” and “What if I get emotional in the army?”.Other videos in the £1.6m campaign ask: “Can I practise my faith in the army?”, “Will I be listened to in the army?”, and “Do I have to be a superhero to join the army?”... retired colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British operations in Afghanistan, said the campaign would not solve the army’s recruitment problem.“The army, like the rest of government, is being forced down a route of political correctness,” he told BBC Breakfast. “What is most important is that the army is full of soldiers. It is of secondary importance that they reflect the composition of society.”He claimed that what attracted recruits was images of fighting. “The main group of people who are interested in joining aren’t worried so much about whether they are going to be listened to … they are going to be attracted by images of combat.”... “We must ensure that everybody knows that they have an opportunity of joining the British armed forces, and joining the army in particular, but we are not going to be soft and we are not going to be nice to people.”"
Army could phase out fossil fuels to attract ecofriendly recruits, senior general says - "Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith said today’s military equipment would probably be the last to be “dependent on fossil fuel engines”, and that a move toward clean energy would be beneficial logistically and put the military “on the right side of the environmental argument”."
Losing a war because your batteries ran out is alright, since you save the environment
Delingpole: British Army to Phase out Fossil Fuels to Attract Eco-Recruits - "bunny-hugging eco-loons are the very last people ever to want to join the Army. The only thing that might change their dope-addled minds is if it redesignated itself the Peace Corps and renounced its combat role altogether. But that might leave an awkward gap in Britain’s defence capabilities.Then again, what kind of loon would even want to join a military so careless of its proper purpose that it apparently puts more value on green virtue-signalling than it does on operational effectiveness?... Once you start prioritising other goals — appeasing Mother Gaia; trying to get friendly write-ups from the Guardian and the BBC; trying to persuade recruits that war has more to do with saving polar bears than killing the enemy — then you send a very clear message to the taxpayers who fund you: we incapable of defending you properly. And an even clearer message to the enemy: we are not serious so please, walk all over us."
It's Grandads' Army! Desperate defence chiefs are urging ex-soldiers as old as 57 to re-enlist - "As part of a New Year recruitment drive, service personnel are being urged to seek out veterans as old as 57, including ex-soldiers who retired on medical grounds or who left the Forces for disciplinary reasons... The campaign was ordered to tackle a manpower crisis in frontline units, some of which are 40 per cent short... In 2014 the ceiling was raised from 43 to 52. Now it is 57, the highest ever, even for infantry units in which troops are expected to march and run long distances while carrying heavy packs.It comes after the Army launched its latest campaign to attract teenage recruits by persuading them that a military career gives them more confidence than social media ‘likes’."
Guess the campaigns aren't working
Cambridge students say they could be ‘triggered’ by soldiers - "Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) has said that the presence of soldiers at its annual freshers’ fair could ‘trigger’ students. A motion to ban armed-forces personnel from carrying weapons at the freshers’ fair passed this week by 55 per cent. Stella Swain, the CUSU welfare officer who proposed the motion, said that the presence of soldiers could damage students’ mental health... CUSU’s move was part of a broader campaign to ‘demilitarise’ the university.What is most striking here is not these students’ opposition to the military per se (Britain has certainly embroiled itself in numerous bloody conflicts), but the way in which their opposition to the military takes the form of complaints about their hurty feelings. It is extraordinary that ‘the potential to detrimentally affect’ the ‘mental welfare’ of Cambridge students, as one SU officer put it, can even come up in discussions of British militarism"
Dad sets up Dudes & Dogs walking group to get men talking about their feelings - ""The aim of the group is to create an environment where people can relax and drop their barriers "It [walking a dog] is a good way to do so because you do not have to look at each other in the eye and are in an open space. "It is at their pace and there is no expectation for them to have to talk - it could be that they just listen the first few times." He realised that saying "let's go for a walk" was a much easier way of saying 'let's have a chat', which some people can find difficult to say.The dog owner said that people were also able to get moments of relief and joy through interacting with his dog."
What is the tradwife trend sweping households - "Amid the Me Too movement and radical feminism, a new opposing trend has emerged across Britain - the 'tradwife' trend.Harking back to 1950s Britain, and already established in the US, the trend sees women reverting to the traditional roles of housewives, practiced in the fifties and sixties. The belief behind the movement is that wives should not work, and rather spend their days cooking, cleaning, wearing modest and feminine dress, and practice traditional etiquette, being submissive to their husbands and 'always put them first'... Among the women is British housewife Alena Kate Pettit, who has started up a 'femininity finishing school' vlog called 'The Darling Academy', and who admits that growing up in the Spice Girls 'girl power' era made her feel uncomfortable... Alena says she was a 'career girl' in her twenties and followed messages from hit show Sex and The City, which she interpreted as telling women working was 'liberating and they should follow their sexual desires'. Not identifying with this persona, she then turned to shows like the Real Housewives, but found the wives were 'too rich to do their own cleaning and everyone was cheating on each other'.She then went online and discovered an underground movement of other women who felt the same, explaining they craved the sense of 'belonging, home quaintness and tradition'. Alena, who strongly believes your husband should 'always come first and should know this', says some feminists believe her movement is throwing their work for equality back in their faces.Revealing her take on feminism, she explained: 'My view on feminism is that it's about choices. To say you can go into the working world and compete with men and you're not allowed to stay at home -to me is taking a choice away'... The movement is controversial among many feminists, as it claims women should 'submit' to their husbands... One of the movement's pin-up girls is Helen Andelin, the American author of the 1963 'Fascinating Womanhood' book, which teaches women that subordination is the 'key to a happy marriage' and has regained popularity... 'The movement's rising because women have had enough of feminism in the UK and elsewhere. 'We say to feminists: thanks for the trousers, but we see life a different way'."
Too bad she missed the memos from feminists that feminism is not about choice
El Paso Zoo allows you to name a cockroach after your ex then feed it to a meerkat on Valentine's Day - "You can message the zoo on Facebook with your ex's name, then wait patiently for February 14 to watch the roach get devoured during the "Quit Bugging Me" meerkat event, which will live-stream on Facebook and the zoo's website. The names of those exes will also be displayed around the meerkat exhibit and on social media starting February 11. The zoo calls it "the perfect Valentine's Day gift.""This is a fun way to get the community involved in our daily enrichment activities"... The El Paso Zoo isn't the only zoo offering a non-traditional Valentine's Day promotion. The Hemsley Conservation Center in Kent, England, will name a cockroach after your ex in exchange for a donation. You can also name a roach at the Bronx Zoo, which calls them "eternal" and "timeless" gifts."
Man opens Singh’sbury Local - and says resemblance to supermarket is coincidence - "Mandeep Singh Chatha’s off-licence has become a tourist attraction in Wolverhampton after he erected the sign in orange lettering.Customers have been lining up to take selfies outside his Singh’sbury Local that – some say – looks like a Sainsbury’s.But former sandwich delivery driver Mandeep, 34, insists there is an innocent explanation, saying: “I decided on the name. My name is Singh and it’s on Bushbury Road.""
Wechat Stock Scam - not sure what it's called but it's a type of pump and dump. "Tickets" for group stock market movers. : Scams - "I was friends with someone in HK for awhile on wechat. A supposed day trader. Their stock tips (on the HK exchange) seemed ok (before I got involved). The very first tip that I used of (and they wanted to see proof I had bought/sold) they gave the incorrect advice (I should have shorted but they said to buy) and of course I was upside down. They claimed it was a translation error. The next tip (which apparently they buy as a ticket from a group of stock market movers) I decided to defraud them back and I didn't invest real money but quickly mocked up fake screen shots. Sure enough it was a bad tip (inverted advice). I obviously now just ignore them and am only down $4,000 on the bad trade but it left a bad taste in my mouth from my own greed and their arseholethisness. They use people like me to drive the market the way the insiders want I assume and the people on the outside take hit with the market going the wrong way."
Spider bites Australian man on penis again - "A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time.The man was using a portable toilet on a Sydney building site on Tuesday, when he suffered a repeat of the incident five months ago.Jordan, who preferred not to reveal his surname, said he was bitten on "pretty much the same spot" by the spider."I'm the most unlucky guy in the country at the moment," he told the BBC."I was sitting on the toilet doing my business and just felt the sting that I felt the first time."I was like 'I can't believe it's happened again.' I looked down and I've seen a few little legs come from around the rim." He said that being bitten the first time had made him wary of using portable toilets."
Northern Rail to be renationalised this week after rail chaos for millions - "After years of poor performance millions of customers faced a 2.7 per cent increase in fares this month as the firm’s lines plunged into chaos and cancellations. The formal renationalisation will be ordered by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who descibed the private ownership’s delivery as “completely unacceptable”. It will become the second of the national networks 16 rail passenger franchises to be nationalised under the Government-owned “operator of last resort” which is owned outright by the taxpayer."
How can libertarians blame government regulation for this?
Steve Mnuchin Just Adult-splained Economics to Greta Thunberg - VICE
Liberals only value expertise when they agree with it
Arizona man dresses up skeleton to drive in HOV lane - "A driver in the US has been caught trying to disguise a fake skeleton as a passenger so he could use a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane.The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the 62-year-old was pulled over when an official noticed the skeleton, which was wearing a hat and tied to the passenger seat with yellow rope... "Think you can use the HOV lane with Skeletor riding shotgun? You're dead wrong!" it wrote, referring to the fictional nemesis of He-Man in the Masters of the Universe series. It ended the post with the hashtags "#NiceTry" and "#YoureNotHeMan"... a man was caught driving in an HOV lane with a mannequin wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses"
Video claims that if you can read a certain font, you are probably not Japanese - "English language proficiency is a tricky subject with Japanese people. There’s always an excuse about why they can’t understand it, from, “I’ll never use English,” and “It’s not interesting,” to the catch-all, “It’s too hard.” Well, it’s a good thing the Ministry of Education isn’t looking to adopt any new fonts for their textbooks as a little-known computer font developed back in 1998 is gaining some notoriety for being absolutely impossible to read by native Japanese. You might be able to read it, but can your Japanese friends?... this font resembles the written characters of the Japanese katakana syllabary so much that he can’t get his brain to focus on the fact that the font’s text is supposed to be English letters."
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