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Reason #17 - Nutella in Vending Machines
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Rockwell Retro Encabulator
The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.
Indian-style breakfast tostadas
The tricky part here is the chapatis, you can make 'em (hah. good luck!), or buy 'em frozen from your n eighborhood Indian grocery store. Once you get those, the rest is - effectively - assembly. The flavors and textures here work really well together - you can ( and should! ) try swapping the ingredients out for others. Prepare four scrambled eggs, as described here. While the eggs are scrambling, dice 1 medium tomato. Get yourself 1 can of black beans , and rinse the heck out of the beans to get rid of the "canned" taste. Place the beans in a bowl, and set aside. In a small sauce-pan (or ladle, or some such), add 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tbsp olive oil and heat on high till the seeds just start crackling. Then, add 1/4 tsp turmeric 1/2 tsp red-chilli powder (or 1 sliced thai green chilli), and stir for a few seconds. (Yeah, this is kinda like what we call "voggarne" in south india) . Add this to the beans, along with salt to taste...
Respect - I do not think it means what you think it means
/via Pale Green Things Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay. Its a wonderful rhetorical trick - switch up the meaning of the words mid-stream, and all of a sudden that which was unreasonable is now rational and coherent. " If you won't respect me I won't respect you " - think of this in the context of police-interactions (in particular, if you are non-white), and the casual-ness with which these get justified in our society. Restating this as " If you won't be courteous with me, I won't be courteous with you " really gets to the heart of the matter - this ...
