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Cake day: 2025年10月3日

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  • Four French cooking terms that upped my game was…

    1. Mise en place. Everything in its place and prepped before cooking.

    2. Mirepoix. 2part onion to 1part celery and 1part carrot and a little salt to draw out moisture.

    3. Fond. the baked on bits bits of food that you deglaze using a liquid like stock to make…

    4. Sauces mères or Mother sauce. 5 famous French sauces.

    Demi-glas gets an honorable mention and is one of the simplest things you can do to make a dish seem fancy as fuck. Great for date night beef short ribs.














  • After 17 years of contributing to Reddit, I got perma-banned after a few warnings about some mild stuff. All of these infractions were immediately after the IPO.

    1. Showing my No Kings med bag including personal self defense in a concealed carry, no CCW state. Gotta be careful out there.

    2. Suggesting a good “Christian nation”would break the Gaza aid blockade for the children.

    3. Suggesting a large limo company in Texas was being ghetto as fuck by strapping on window AirCon units to the sunroofs and calling themselves “luxury”.

    The final blow…

    1. Describing what 4chan (with an emphasis on /b/) was like in the early 00’s. I’m a little trigger shy so let’s do this… everyone who joined /b/ was a (homosexual f word), if you had been around a few years you were an Old (homosexual f word), if you were new you were a New (homosexual f word) and EVERYONE knew, New (homosexual f word’s) couldn’t triforce.

    That last one contained explicit language but the poster wanted to know what 4chan was like. I tried my best to answer and that was just a time capsule too far.


  • We have something similar in the southwest called Earth Ships. These homes are made of soil compacted used tires and a stone/mortar mix or sometimes aluminum cans and mortar. In the summer a large south facing angled window runs the length of the house doesn’t see the sun all summer and in the winter, the sun’s angle changes to allow all the light/heat in. We got way more than an 8° difference, 100% passive, at 130F° outside… and if you know anything about the Sonoran Desert, you know the nights can be deadly cold. You can actually go hyperthermic when the temps drop to 100F° immediately as the sun sets. Earth Ships stay stable all year long.