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  1. On 1/9/2024 at 8:19 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I probably should've kept them but we moved a number of times and so I ended up keeping the Betty Crocker cookbook that belonged to my spouse's grandmother but let go of some real gems w/respect to wtf recipes. The regional and/or church cookbooks or the ones the natural gas companies used to hand out are rather enlightening when one considers historical events of the time period, food supply chains, locale, social aspirations, food science and nutrition, and so on.

    To continue your theme, here is something BC labels as "Mexican Ambrosia" circa 1956: Heap snowy shredded coconut over slice of fresh or drained canned pineapple on each dessert plate.

    I give the Betty (as we call it) some credit where credit is due, however. For the young person starting out on their own, it was a nice supplement to whatever one picked up at home--techniques and tested recipes that were very basic and easy to read. Not intimidating in the slightest. While THE Julia was an entertaining and educational cook, so too was the BC brand (aligned with the products mainly General Mills) as it morphed from a radio program to a television show and the pamplets and cookbooks. Maybe a little bit of hokey capitalism but for cooks in areas where certain kinds of ingredients were nonexistent or barely heard of, at least one could become a capable enough provider of meals.

    max miller answers the question:

     

  2. in undergrad there was a TA who constantly wrote on my papers that i needed to cite my sources.  i didn't read the book, how was i supposed to cite it?

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  3. On 12/25/2023 at 6:47 PM, Macanudo said:

    Some interesting facts about Derrick:

    Derrick received a Bachelor of Arts from West Liberty University where he earned NCAA First Team All American honors as a captain of the football team

    After four years in the education system, Derrick stepped away from teaching to pursue his passion for real estate investing and property management. 

    Before politics, Derrick was a conservative and pro-life activist whose passion for ending abortion lead to numerous unborn lives being saved.

    Derrick married his college sweetheart Melissa (Pierzchala) who is a first generation American. 

    West Liberty is DII and has an enrollment of a whopping 2500 students.   He's basically a religious zealot who sells real estate and has a foreign wife.   Wow.

    i assume directional liberty is on baylor's schedule

  4. 33 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    Any particular recs? 

    best viewed from 40,000 feet as you're flying somewhere not a total shithole. ridiculously rugged countryside.  pretty in the way that wilderness is.

     

    /was really annoyed that the stew kept telling me to put the window shade down while flying to shanghai in 2019

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  5. On 1/6/2024 at 12:29 PM, Gatorubet said:

    Of course he was.   You never seem to read about religious leaders sexually abusing old people in the nursing home.

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    Authorities have arrested a Catholic priest who served in at least eight San Antonio-area churches on allegations that he sexually abused a woman in her 70s, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a Tuesday briefing.

    https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-area-priest-accused-of-assaulting-elderly-woman-who-worked-for-church-32736427

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  6. 4 hours ago, Captainant said:

    """Financial constraints""" normally means some pissant financial analyst set a sales goal that was not realistic, but the can-do MBA middle manager doesn't know shit about fuck so they run their part of the company as if missing that synthetic target would harm the business - and do massive damage to long term stability in the process. 

    It's how you end up with Boeing selling off and outsourcing their manufacturing and QA and every other meaningful part of their business. They all get framed as cost centers, rather than investments for long term business stability. 

    It all reeks of brainless following of whatever the consultant of the week said last time they stopped by. It's great for meeting next quarters targets, but it'll fall apart after enough time. Just ask Jack Welch how that goes - one of his MBA prodigies is fucking over Boeing as it's CEO right now.

    It's always the same fuckers running the same playbook. And it always fucking end the same way with enshittification 

    it's the same thinking that leads some little consumer geekeroid to change from a 16 oz roll of sausage to a 12 oz roll of sausage.

     

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