In taiwan they bake them, mash them, sculpt the mash into a potato shape, bread that, fry it, cut that open, then serve it with some combo of broccoli, corn, pineapple, shrimp, oyster mushroom and always swimming in an inch of nacho cheese.

Good vodka is just vodka that tastes less like vodka.

That’s almost identical to how my family makes latkes, just we add a little grated onion as well. Going back we’re from nearby poland/lithuana so not that surprising i suppose.

We’ve found the secret is to hand-squeeze the moisture out of the gratings before adding the flour and egg, it just tastes way better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DodByZ-qgXs

This video from Ancient Americas on the history of the potato might be in my top 10 youtube videos.

Isn’t rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer cheaper though?

Either you’ve never tasted vodka or you’ve never tasted anything else made from potatoes.

Hired goons?

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by the Pogues. Seemless blending of punk and traditional irish music that’s still as raw and refined today as ever.

Pretty much anything by the Velvet Underground. They’re the quintessential “barely anyone came to their shows but everyone who did started a band” band.

Early Pixies - Surfer Rosa or Come on Pilgrim. Basically no grunge otherwise.

Probably everything by Sun Ra, but his earliest wrangling of electronic keys into jazz in like the 40s or whatever seems pretty consequential. Plus probably no P-funk as we know it without Sun Ra, which has heaps of knock on effects.

But I don’t do anything unless prompted by a human.

Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.

That’s why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it’s basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.

Cannabis use was more common among: … Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

However we still don’t have definitive evidence of causation:

Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions

This might be the single least shit shitpost i’ve ever seen.

That clock rules. What a thing of beauty.

I don’t think any hominin of floresiensis-like size emerged from Africa. Just floresiensis on Flores and luzonensis on nearish Luzon. They’re probably descended from erectus that shrank “on site” so to speak.

They are some aboriginal australian stories about two other kinds of people - tall thin good ones and short stocky bad ones. I’ve wondered if that’s describing neanderthal, denisovan or some other close but extinct branches of homo.

Underrail is so good.

Gaudi architecture is legit amazing and worth the wait and crowds. Didn’t even have time to see the sagrada familia, just the hotel and the park. Then we had the worst meal of my life in a tourist trap resteraunt on las ramblas. Even including that, so worth it.

Jiufen, taiwan - the village that people falsely claim inspired miyazaki’s spirited away - is also just incredible. The views, the winding lantern-bedecked staircase, the teahouses. It’s crowded and full of touristy knick knacks but i still took everyone who visited.

Once i had to make a sign on a whiteboard for a deaf patient that said: Remember No Meth for 1 Week!

Unsurprisingly, the sign was less powerful a motivator then methamphetamine.

You need to pay attention to their body language.

Exactly!

Once the face-biting starts, that body language indicates you may want to stop squeezing him and rubbing his soft pink belly.

There’s some evidence that mitchondria might be the reason life needs sleep. They can kill their cell and communicate with other mitochondria.

ATP production is super important, but they do a lot more than just creating that usable ‘currency’ of energy that inspired the ‘powerhouse’ idea.