I’m reading James Michener’Alaska, and it’s a fantastic story. It is a very well crafted character drama and it has excellent pacing.

I just read Cormac McCarthy’The Road and it was also an incredible read, though it kind of crushed me emotionally for a while afterwards!

My man!

It’s crazy, I organically got into the topic of spear throwing after reading Alaska by James Michener, just to learn that it’s a trend online?? We really are in a simulation.

Certainly, but do you not think that adding sugar to the pancakes as well as adding sugary syrup on top to be a little bit too much? I think it tastes best when you have a slightly salty, doughy pancake and then you can add the sugary syrup to that

I will detail my typical pancake process:

1. Add 1.5 C of all purpose flour, 1/2 Tsp salt, 3 Tsp baking powder to large mixing bowl. Whisk together for like 15 seconds.
2. Heat 1/4 C of unsalted butter (half a stick) in microwave. Use spoon to make a small pocket in center of dry mix.
3. Add butter and one whole egg to the pocket, begin to mix with dry mix with spoon, slowly working together starting from the middle. Don’t turn it all at once or it will cake up badly.
4. Once the mixture starts to get a bit dry, start pouring milk in, small amounts as you continue to mix. The mix will expand, get dry, add milk, etc, until the entire mix is wet and combines well. Good pancake batter should pour relatively poorly, as it is just barely too thick to run, but you can add it to a pan with a spoon. If it’s a bit too runny for your liking it’s no big deal, just add a bit of flour.
5. Ideally you have a cast iron pan that has been heating for this time, medium heat. On my coil burner I’m usually set to about 4.5. Too low will take forever, but too hot will cook the bottom way too fast and they burn. It takes experimenting to get your setup perfect. I suggest using a bit of butter before you add the batter: dollop it on, push it around the pan, then wipe dry with a paper towel. You don’t want sitting butter in the pan, as it will make the cakes heavy and weird tasting.
6. Add batter to your liking. Once the batter begins to bubble up on the surface, flip it over. The second side should cook for a bit less time than the first.

My ideal pancake is a nice golden brown on one side and maybe slightly darker on the other, with a very subtly undercooked center. My partner always eats her body weight in cakes when I make them. I hope this works for you! Please tell me if you have other questions.

Pancakes definitely don’t matter

Hard disagree. I don’t want 1/2 C of high fructose corn syrup, emulsifiers and preservatives in my pancakes, thanks!

1.5 C flour, 1/2 Tsp salt, 3 Tsp baking powder, 1 egg, 1/4 C butter, then whole milk until you get the consistency you like. Best pancakes ever. People who need pancakes to basically be a vehicle to pour pure sugar into their mouth haven’t had good 'cakes.

No I do not. I didn’t think to make a bug report only because I have seen multiple threads on here of people demonstrating errors and seemingly not being able to get help with the Dev being absent.

I work at a RV production facility. Our plant produces luxury fifth-wheels, the type of RVs that are towed using a special hitch that goes into the bed of a large pickup truck. My specific job is trim, and I run a miter saw. My day is spent rolling through several schedules of trim that go to various areas around the plant: flat-cut black pieces for trimming out the windows; little wood pieces for the square lights that go in slideouts; and all assortment of different colors of deco, crown, quarter round, door casing, etc for the guys in my own station.

It’s a job that is complicated and simple at the same time. I’ve gotten to be very good at this job and can pretty much cut everything I need to while I’m sleeping, and I don’t typically need to consult measurements in my book for much anymore. At the same time, sometimes you get a weird cabinet with bad proportions and you have to make very special trim pieces to make it look great again. I spend most of my shifts listening to audiobooks and crime documentaries on YouTube.

I typically work from 5 AM — 11:30-12:00, so I seldom work more than 35 hours, and I have a lot of free time in the afternoons. I’m grateful for my job. Depending on the time of year, I spend my days studying botany, browsing Lemmy, doing activities with my kid, working on my car, etc.

I appreciate the word up, I’m on Voyager now and I’m happy with it. I’ve been playing with other clients for other services I’ve been using. Lately I’m getting into Gemblogs and finding nice ways to view and eventually contribute to it myself, so I’ll probably stick to that for my “stripped down text experience”, and keep Lemmy for more visual stuff. Pixelfed has been a great experience to get into, too! The open internet is so much fun to explore. It’s a wonderful time to be a netizen.

Before LJD had Sync moved to Lemmy post-API I was using Jerboa and back then it was super buggy and slow because it was a freshly minted app. It’s nice to see how well the FOSS alternatives have been catching up.

See I’m the opposite. The cabinets are an absolute eyesore, but the floor looks awesome. I would love to have a floor like that

Keep it in your pocket

Yeah but what right do you have to push that onto someone who can’t consent? Sure, let’s let my baby smoke weed and sit on my shoulders while I ride roller coasters, cause if he dies at least he had fun!

Proprietary, as in, branded specifically to the airline itself. Like a Allegiant credit card, for example.

A NEW LEVEL
OF CONFIDENCE
AND POWER!

You’re focused on the second to first word, I’m focused on that second to last one! Fantastic pun.

These Unga bunga bitches always sliding in my DMs trying to get free shit!

I’m reasonably sure he does both. One meme result and one serious one.

“Darwin was way off! Try again!”

I’m honestly bewildered at how wildly obtuse this person is.

To claim that it’s entirely environmental is to flaunt longstanding understanding on how genetics works. Nobody looks at border collies, with their high intelligence, and say “oh it’s just environment”, or chihuahuas being territorial little shits and say “oh it’s just environment”. These dogs were ENGINEERED to be this way, it’s in their bones.

Pitbulls have been specifically bred for their toughness, their aggression, their locking jaw, and because you happened to get a couple good ones doesn’t invalidate the fact that they are statistically one of the most dangerous breeds to own.