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Broccoli cheddar soup, using the flour to make a roux + a cup of milk mixed with chicken broth. Ideally with some crackers to crumble on top... Probably would take me 20 minutes or so to make. Not sure on cost exactly -- maybe ballpark of $3 or so? I have everything on hand to make that right now, actually, except the crackers. (I suppose I could make crackers with the flour, but that's more trouble than I'd normally want to go to cooking just for myself.)

Fried shiitake mushrooms with garlic, a splash of soy sauce, and lemon juice. I usually use garlic powder for convenience.

If you're ok with lacto-ovo vegetarian dishes, it goes good with a fried egg and rice as a quick and tasty meal. Sometimes I'll have some kimchi with it too if I'm in the mood and have some on hand. (Note: a lot of kimchi is not vegetarian -- it often includes fish/seafood ingredients. The store near me sells both a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian version though and despite not being a vegetarian I prefer the taste of the vegetarian one slightly more, so I usually get that if they have it. Check the ingredients/labels if you're unsure.)

The mushrooms are also a fantastic accompaniment to steak when you're doing non-vegetarian cooking. Fry them in the same pan after making a steak on the stove and you can get something that can, frankly, eclipse the steak...

Another vegetarian dish I make sometimes (particularly in the summer) is basically just a chickpea salad. I usually use canned chickpeas for that with raw sliced vegetables like tomato, cucumber, red bell pepper, etc. I add salt, lemon juice, and olive oil and eat it with some toasted pita bread. Sometimes I will add avocado, chopped shallots, chunks of cheese, and/or a hard boiled egg if I have them handy and am in the mood -- but it's pretty good even without any of those extras. With canned chickpeas, I've found that I don't like the version with firming agents added (usually calcium chloride, IIRC), so I always check the labels at the store and get ones without it.

A third vegetarian dish I like is a variant on spaghetti puttanesca. While I boil pasta, I prepare a sauce in a pan using canned tomatoes, olive oil, capers, kalamata-style black olives, salt, a pinch of msg, and cayenne pepper. Finish the pasta in the sauce. One of the things I really like about this dish is that all the ingredients are shelf-stable so you can keep them on hand and just make it whenever. (My version notably leaves out the anchovies from more common variants of the dish.)

I don't share your confidence in that; we live in the dumbest timeline, after all...

I'd expect almost any computer/gaming monitor on e.g. Amazon around the $100~$150 (US) price range would meet or exceed your needs.

Edit: e.g. here's a glossy 27" for $99 and a matte version from a different brand for $159 (with some cheaper used options). I have an older monitor similar to the latter (from ~10 years ago). Finding ones that explicitly list "pivot" functionality for the stand is the trickier part of searching for these.

what is even the point of it?

No one's been on this spacecraft design while it's in space before, and it's got some kinks that need to be worked out (like the issues with the toilet); it's a shakedown flight to figure out what goes wrong when people are actually on board. That's not really all that sexy compared to a moon landing, but testing your support systems in practice really needs to happen before you do more ambitious things with the craft.

Jailbreak me a piece of that KitKat bar? 🤨️

I got my hands on a physical copy a few months ago and I'm part way through a first watch. From my notes I made it to about an hour and half into the 2nd disc (of a 5 disc release where the last disc was the movie) back in February before putting it down. Haven't gotten back to it yet -- though I will eventually.

I was somewhat familiar with some of the characters from memes already (e.g. Shinji, Rei, Asuka) but the penguin was a surprise.

Looks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there's a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I'm working on better as well.

I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking -- no point hoping they'll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally... Looks like I've archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.

"Getting by" or "carrying on" assuming I don't want to invite deeper discussion of my issues.

Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:

On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. [...] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.

Last time I talked to them, they used Zoom.

My medical provider started doing that when I last had a video conference with them, and I declined to allow the use of AI. They took no issue with that -- didn't even bring it up. It's very unlikely that your provider will care that you declined either. I recommend saving your energy for other problems and dealing with this later in the unlikely event that they do actually make an issue of it.

Ah, the real Bugs Bunny.

Seems to just be a meme like the void cat frenzy a while back -- that is, people posting their pet photos with a title saying it isn't AI -- and more and more people just keep piling on. :p

This post might have started it?

If there's any more to it than that, then I'm out of the loop too.

I basically just deglaze the pan after frying eggs in it. A little water and heat on the stove goes a hell of a long way to getting leftover egg gunk off my pans quickly...

My grandpa used to cook scrambled eggs in the microwave. I don't remember his exact process for it, but it wasn't too complicated. I don't know if the clean up would be easier.

You could also hard boil eggs in advance and just peel them in the morning. They'll keep a few days in the fridge.

Green lemonade: why is it green?

Looking at your pictures first, I thought that was Jello!

Yes. Have done so several times, and have had people come up and talk to me out of the blue as well. Sometimes it has gone well. I've had a few good conversations with random people on long distance transport (planes, trains, and such) when I struck up conversations with whoever ended up in the seat next to me, and a few times (more rarely) in grocery stores when I'm having trouble finding something (or vice versa). e.g. got asked about uses for unusual ingredients I was having trouble finding and traded some recipe tips.

Usually when other people come up to me they just want me to give them money, or join their religion though.

Hmm. I don't think I've seen seeds/nuts used directly in pasta before (other than as an ingredient in pesto). That's an interesting idea. I'll have to experiment with that one.

Huh. I don't think I've ever seen goose eggs for sale. Usually just chicken, plus sometimes duck or quail too.

Do you keep geese or do they sell goose eggs in the stores where you live?

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[QUESTION] What are your favorite vegetarian meals?

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Budget, adjustable monitor for programming?

Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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Have you seen Neon Genesis Evangelion?

How many browser bookmarks do you have? Do you use most of them?

How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?

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Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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What's going on with all the ai pet stuff?

[QUESTION] What is your easiest method to cook eggs?

MRE meatballs and marinara

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Cheesy linguine

Soldiers and soft boiled goose eggs