I really liked this one, H/T mindyourbusiness:
Feb 26
“Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish
now is what my nature wills.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.25
It’s easy for me to get righteously angry when I feel I have been wronged. Today, I got cut off by a car in a hurry to get in front of me, so he wouldn’t get stuck behind a big rig. I was a little ticked because I had to slam on my brakes so he wouldn’t rip the front off my car. I could have acted stupidly in return, but I told myself, he must have a good reason to act like that and forgot about him.
Feb 27
“Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.19.12b–13
What is good is within my power to control, if I make proper choices. What is bad is also within my power to control, if I make poor choices. Indifferent doesn’t mean it has no effect on my life, just that I do not control them and should not worry about them. Easier said than done sometimes.
Feb 28
“The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn’t. So, when a person loses their composure it isn’t their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.3.20–22
If I get mad, which sometimes I do, that doesn’t mean I throw up my hands and say “well, this doesn’t work.” I need to be able to recover and use what I have learned, even though I still backslide sometimes.
Mar 01
“An important place to begin in philosophy is this: a clear perception of one’s own ruling principle.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.26.15
If I want to control myself better, I need to start with an understanding of hat I am trying to accomplish and then I know what to work on and what to improve.
Mar 02
“Above all, it is necessary for a person to have a true self-estimate, for we commonly think we can do more than we really can.”
—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 5.2
I need an honest view of my strengths and shortcomings. I am good at ignoring big things I can’t control. I still get flash anger when I am trying to do things and there is something in my way, or I can’t find a tool I need. It is difficult to admit I have shortcomings, because I do have a pretty high opinion of myself.
Mar 03
“These things don’t go together. You must be a unified human being, either good or bad. You must diligently work either on your own reasoning or on things out of your control—take great care
with the inside and not what’s outside, which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13
If I am constantly fighting myself and vacillating between doing right and doing wrong, the stress will tear me apart. I will continue to work on my internal choices and not let things outside of those control me. Anger at things I can’t control is always lurking.
Mar 04
“The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited—whose choices aren’t hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don’t fall into what repels them. Who wishes to live in deception—tripped up, mistaken, undisciplined, complaining, in a rut? No one. These are base people who don’t live as they wish; and so, no base person is free.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.1–3a
By this measure, I am not free. I go to work everyday with people that believe every left wing talking point without question. I do not say anything, because I like my job and the generous paycheck. However, I do not live in deception, if I am asked I give an honest answer, I merely live in silence. Maybe I am thinking too hard on this one. I am definitely not a base person as they are described here, and I do not feel as though I am tripped up, mistaken, undisciplined, complaining, or in a rut.
A little Shooter Jennings for today:
Arrested for marijuana.
Shot some cops.
“ we commonly think we can do more than we really can.”
/looks at long list of undone house projects
/looks at queue of guns needing maintenance.
Yep.
Thanks Ron!
/looks at 1.5″ of sleet on driveway
Sigh.
At least you have a driveway. And that it’s only 1.5 inches of accumulation.
Sleet weighs a ton, and there is ice on top of the sleet if that makes any sense.
Yes, the ice is a pain that complicates removal.
I was fortunate to give my front steps one final glance before driving off. A DVD had been delivered sometime last night between my coming home and the snow starting. If I had waited until I got home tonight, the bump in the snowfall would have been undetectable.
It occurs to me that my only two 4k BluRays are both Denis Villeneuve films.
The snow I had to move to relocate my car was powdery. Not light powder, but not snowball snow. Easier to move than either since it didn’t have too much weight per shovel, and didn’t turn into a flurry every time I picked some up.
Hopefully the snow in your area is similar.
This morning there wasn’t much to clear. I may have broken the pin that holds one of the augers onto the axle. I’ll check it out tomorrow.
I’m only slightly south and east and it’s mostly rain here.
Some ice, but nothing on my asphalt drive.
Quite thankful about that.
I just threw ice melt on it and went back inside to wait for it to warm up a bit.
I think we’re about eight inches of snow here and still falling.
“ we commonly think we can do more than we really can.”
Yeah, Bro commonly thinks he can first.
Other than Lukoil (gasoline stations in 11 eastern states) , are there any other Russian companies operating in the U.S. that the average consumer can boycott until Putin is removed?
Citgo doesn’t need competition for my boycott.
Pornhub.ru? I hear there are alternatives.
Straight up porn. (sfw)
Something looks wrong with that knife.
I’ll be in my bunk.
American Pie style?
That’s some juicy meat.
Hnnnnggghhh….
Seems undercooked and where is the ketchup?
/runs out of room
Meh. Gimme a ribeye over a filet any day.
Filets are only good when they’re attached to a New York strip…
Porterhouses are on sale at the Fresh Market this week.
I know. Want to guess how I know?
😉
ISTR gay bars ditching Stolichnaya. I also STR that there was something wrong with that strategy.
Latvians make it, not Russians?
Sounds about right.
Yeah…I need to work on this.
Forced association makes this much more difficult in my experience.
-1 f/ Democracy
Ok – when is this whole drama going to be made into a TV movie on Lifetime?
Ex-Goldman star Tim Leissner ‘faked’ divorce to wed Kimora Lee Simmons
The more stories I’ve read on it the past few weeks the more bizarre it gets.
I have no idea who those people are — and after skimming the article… still don’t really care.
So, I vote “Lifetime movie” so I’ll probably never even come across such a beast… 😉
I see my FB friends are starting to include the Ukrainian flag in their profile pics.
What a useless gesture.
I have trouble remembering which bands of solid color belong to which country. It’s like the most recent updates for the simulation removed a lot of the character from the flags. We need symbols back.
Solidarity, man.
We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!
Change the icons and let slip the hashtags of war.
It wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor and it’s not over now.
“ Change the icons and let slip the hashtags of war.”
LOL
#bringbackourдівчата
Apropos: https://youtu.be/JeXX_zwhmi8
The synthesizer at the end was rad.
And OF COURSE Kizone Kaprow is leaving comments on youtube videos.
DON’T SAY THAT NAME!
…you might summon it.
It pairs well with a FREE TIBET bumper sticker.
While they simultaneously drink all the CCP’s Covid propaganda tea.
We have to do something. This is something.
#BringBackOurGirls!
“Slacktivists”
Apropos
Too late 🙂
See above
Oops
Why haven’t I seen that one before?
Cause you don’t click my links?
*Runs away crying*
It’s true.
Maybe it’s because they seem… lackadaisical?
Ukranian flag masks?
‘Who wishes to live in deception’
Fighting with this one as well. I promised myself I would be more out spoken and tell the truth (as always). My wife had complained that this might have pushed away a pair of potential friends who are on the COVID train. She tried to convince me this morning that it’s not lying to say I was ‘ready for a change’ and that’s why we moved.
I think anyone willing to unfriend you for that reason is crazy and your better off without them.
I think your silence is in effect a deception. You’d say what you think of you were free.
That’s easy to say cause I won’t lose my job over it.
Seeing some interesting videos/clips from Ukraine – not sure if psyop – but somewhat motivating.
stoic: https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1497206967768653829?cxt=HHwWioC50b_zkscpAAAA
https://twitter.com/pythonrocksnake/status/1497214024185909249
https://twitter.com/anccpt/status/1497207638987321349
To all men upon this earth,
Death cometh soon or late;
And how man a man die better,
Than facing fearful odds;
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?
Too close to dulce et decorum est pro patria mori for me.
How apropos! I am the mountain! – https://youtu.be/iW1jxJ6ISks Long but really good.
Festus needs some stoicism just now.
Sorry to read about your news.
I have broad shoulders for a reason. We’ll be fine.
In local news:
There was a limo crash a couple of years back which resulted in Chuckie being flabbergasted that limousines weren’t regulated at the Federal level and went about changing that. in the course of the oddly-long investigation, it turned out that the owner was doing all sorts of hinky things, like faking his inspections and continuing to use the limo that crash it in spite of it being declared unsafe to be used. And he did this with the full knowledge of the local DA. I figured it was just your typical corruption.
Nope. It was the feebs. Lon Horiuchi must be embarrassed that a CI managed to take out 22 people in one shot.
Chuckles was perfectly fine with the feds firebombing innocent women and children in Waco.
Same as it ever was. Howie Carr has it right, abolish the FBI now.
How about we dissolve all of the three letter agencies, and take a close look at offing the USDA too.
Has the Senator from Nevada who stroked out returned to work yet?
“What difference at this point would that make?”
The question is whether Graham, Burr, Inhofe, and Romney returned to work.
Those fuckers skipped the Senate vote on ending the vaccine mandates while the GOP had a majority due to Democratic absences, thus dooming the bill. That was not unintentional.
Let’s hope that fact is remembered.
Huh, didn’t even think of that, not that it would have passed the house, but it does tell you a lot.
It is Lujan, from New Mexico.
Same difference 😉
Is Lujan back in the office?
No, he’s quite down and out.
Thanks.
Really Down and Out
Down and Out
Nobody knows you when you
When you’re down and out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-OHZI1Q5w
Since my woman left
I’ve been Down and Out
Down at the bar, out of my mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBNJ5JDHro
I am happy to see that all of you did not disappoint with that one hanging out there! Bravo!
Golden Ribbons
The lady has chutzpa
Wait, they can do that? Must’ve learned it from the gypsies.
Yeah, don’t fuck with old Gypsies.
So now we know why Biden was so pissed about the China question in his press conference yesterday: US officials, over the course of three months, talked with Chinese officials, presenting information that Russia was making preparations to invade Ukraine, and the Chinese took the information and handed it to Russia, “rebuffing” the US.
Now, one way to interpret this would be to assume that China showed Russia some information asnd asked “is this true?” But I suspect that is not the case.
Original article is in NYT behind a paywall but a quick ctrl-A ctrl-C gets the text.
Many statecraft. Such respected. Wow.
“The adults are back”
#drownfoggybottom
I’m not sure that it is such a big deal. If they were concerned about disclosing sources and methods, they probably wouldn’t have shared it with China. I’m guessing it was satellite photos, which everyone probably assumes we have anyway.
Biden gives data to China. China gives data to Russia. Biden’s message is delivered “we’re watching you”.
Putin invades Ukraine. Putin’s message is delivered “fuck you that’s why”.
It’s more the naïveté of thinking we might get the Chinese to take our side over Russia’s. They’re like two peas in a pod at this point.
How can you accuse our super-smart govt types of being played for fools?
I mean, other than for all the good and obvious reasons?
“The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn’t. So, when a person loses their composure it isn’t their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things.”
This is gold. My soul could use a little tune up.
Thanks, Ron!
I had heard an oblique reference to alternate theories about the origins of Great Zimbabwe, so I figured a dose of ancient aliens might be amusing. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this passage.
Wouldn’t that mean the towers have almost the same diameter since the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of the Great Tower is going to be the only marginally larger Pi? And why would you pick the diameter of one tower and the circumference of the other for a comparison? That’s not what you are going to see. You’re going to see ratios of the same measurement between two objects or of adjacent, non-dependant measurements on the same object – ie, width and height of the tower, since a nominally circular tower will always have the same ratio of width to circumference.
It says more about the ancient aliens theoriests than about the site.
3.14 is Pi, not Phi. Phi is 1.62.
I’ve forgotten most of the math I once knew. I made the mistake of assuming the article writer fact checked their numbers.
I mean, if you’re going to base your arguments on ratios, shouldn’t you make sure your numbers are right? Forget I asked they probably make shit up to fit their conclusion.
That’s the sad thing, I am now in the position where I can address a lot of people with the line “I’ve forgotten more math than you will ever know.”
I forget where but I swear I once heard the rebuttal of “Yeah, but the problem is, you’ve forgotten it.”
Not to give away any professional secrets, but “astronomical alignments” are pretty easy to fake.
“finesse” is a better word than “fake.”
The magic of three dimensions?
Parallax.
“close enough”
Things happening out of my control. Epictitus save me now!
Jesus take the wheel!
Sorry, You’re both wrong follow the way of Epicurus.
Based.
You might wanna put some shoes on though.
Ewww. Litter box in the living room.
Could be worse. Could be the kitchen.
Been there done that (as a house guest)
Very disconcerting, but then he had about 20 cats. :/
one room flat or close to it.
She’s an MP.
Explains the nice patio.
So two rooms.
Plus bare feet. *Shudders*
Glad I only own one animal and he’s pretty trained.
Potty trained* but he’s pretty well trained too.
Also, trigger discipline has apparently become a meme.
I take back what I said about AK users.
Not AOC, but Tulsi Gabbard wouldn’t seem to be the American equivalent.
Or channel a Liberian warlord.
Become a Cannibal?
Maybe not that part.
I’d follow MP Butt Naked on twitter
I’m torn between:
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
and
… crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Thanks, Ron.
Those are not mutually exclusive, so long as your neighbors are not classed among your enemies.
/tribal interpretation
Thanks again for being a sounding board, you fine folk. Big happenings in the world just now and small ones at Casa Festus but many of you sparked up with words of wisdom and solidarity. This will never be forgotten. I love you people and not in the gay way (Sexy Tonio gets a pass) PSCYCHE!
So… wait… who are you gay for?
Poll question:
Holden or Amos?
Amos
Amos, obvious… I mean, what?! I’m not gay, dude!
Amos. Is there even a debate on this?
I don’t have to be gay for Amos.
He’s gay for Loveconstitution1789?
/ducking
Everybody. Except Tonio?
I don’t get it, are we helping or not?
Gaaah!
ERT is still requiring masking, regardless of the governess.
Welp, it’s a shame my radio is having battery problems.
🙁
Got some true believers on the team.
Uhhh… What did the Stoics say about irony and the inability to detect it?
The Saddam “Oh no you didn’t!” in the replies is great.
Didn’t Aurelius say “He that pretendeth not to smellt it hast most assuredly dealt it” or something to that effect? Or maybe that was Socrates, my classical philosophy is a bit rusty.
“The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited—whose choices aren’t hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don’t fall into what repels them. Who wishes to live in deception—tripped up, mistaken, undisciplined, complaining, in a rut? No one. These are base people who don’t live as they wish; and so, no base person is free.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.1–3a
Easy to say when you are not bombed by Putin
That’s just your body. If Putin bombs it, what does it matter? Your body isn’t yours.
Also i arrived in Madrid today. I hate this place every fucking restaurant is closed from 2 pm to 8 pm.
Also i still dont like sherry
How’s the ham?
Garnacha’s good though! How’s the weather there this time of year?
ribera del duero
Well now we’re just getting fancy. Spanish wines are my go-to cheap wines. And of those, I prefer the oldest vintage on the bottom shelf and ideally garnacha.
I like garnacha.
I prefer tempranillo.
Tempranillo with meat. Garnacha on its own.
half and half with coca cola, right?
more like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsMXgw9YP4I
Now it is the threat of rain but no rain yet. There are puddles so there was sone. Rigjt now 10 civilized degrees
So no rain on the plain, mainly in Spain?
8pm? When do the they eat dinner? That’s cutting off several hours of the dinner rush here.
LOL. Sometime around midnight.
It’s different.
Yeah in my experience not before 10PM
Noon. It’s why they have to sleep; afternoon food coma. Dinner is akin to afternoon tea.
Nonexistant?
Wake up groggy. Drink. Eat a large lunch. Sleep. Drink. Snack. Bed. Repeat… Occasionally fight a bovine beast. Hemingway probably put it more eloquently.
It’s not easy work.
I gave up on the Witcher TV series by episode 2. Whatever that is is making me question my decision.
That’s the Bovine Defense Force from The video games. It appears if you
try to cheese thekill too many cows in the starting area of 3 for easy gold.Well, ping me if that animal shows up in the series. I’ve no time (I do but I’ll say I don’t) to play video games.
I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dezExwB8GCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKURHd17Gac
https://www.travelandleisure.com/food-drink/why-spanish-eat-late
I’d have thunk that such a schedule would suit you, given your aversion to sunlight. I like Madrid more than Barcelona, because there aren’t so many tourists. I liked Toledo the most though.
Did you catch a Mudhens game when you were there?
Even fewer tourists there.
Or grab some Tony Packo’s
(WAY over-rated)
I spent a bunch of time in Tarragona (south of Barcelona).
Wonderful city, not too touristy, and the little fishing villages nearby are delightful. There are also plenty of resort towns if you want tourists.
lulz
Enjoy your vacation.
Also obligatory Fuck Real Madrid
I too prefer the Madrid that’s been pulled over our eyes to shield us from the truth. Ignorance is bliss.
You should be very welcome around the Wanda Metropolitano.
If any of you wanted to get a real bad opinion of certain romanians of an ethnicity i will not name you should have been ony flight. I had an isle seat and the next two were occupied by two spanish chicks and while they did not stop talking it was a better alternative. Also fuck ryanair. I did not want to go low cost airline but they had the hours that best suited me
I am vaguely drunk typing on my phone so i dont give a shit for typos fyi
Drink more.
It will be entertaining to us.
Entertain us!
Wait, are you not entertained?
I’m vexed.
I’m already entertained by what must be the least stoic reaction to a vacation on a thread about stoicism.
Literally lol.
Hah, great catch.
Pie, the anti-Stoic.
Here we are now.
Your drunk phone english is still better than mine.
The sherry place is full and refusing customers but because i am the only one here by myself, they had a small stool at the end of the bar for me. I suspect it is the lonely drunk stool which fits
I thought all the bars had tapas, too. Just fill up on those.
I’ve had a couple of sherrys / sherry drinks I’ve liked quite a bit.
They gave me olives and almonds with my sherry
I have had worse meals than olives, almonds and fortified wine.
“olives, almonds and fortified wine”
Sounds like a Spanish MRE.
I fucking hate tapas.
That makes no sense.
That’s like saying “I hate appetizers”. It’s a format, not a particular food.
But they keep giving such small plates of food, and it gets expensive.
I hate appetizers masquerading as a meal. Thus, I hate tapas. Makes perfect sense to me. But, then again, I’m a blithering idiot.
True, there is that.
Wait, the tapas or the lack of cognitive competency? A tentative and unfeeling fuck you.
¿Por qué no los dos?
(you serve up a hanging curve like that, I’m going to take it deep – we kid because we care. Sort of.)
Wait, are you a new Tulpa? I haven’t been around. Did you get your “fuck offs”?
Tapas.
Ahhh yes yes. My time here is sporadic. But I did receive my obligatory sodomy invitations some time ago.
@Mojeaux, No better evidence for the reasonability of my take on tapas.
Not quite sure how my fawning ode to tapas reinforced a wronger-than-wrong opinion about it, but you do you, man.
“Except … I don’t like food.”
You prove my point.
That was a very sweet story, Mojeaux.
But, as someone who became a mechanical engineer because of roller coasters, we can at least agree to that.
Spaniards have different attitudes than ‘muricans WRT flight etiquette.
The romanians of certain ethnicity were loudly singing manele on the flight. Also the passed the 200 euro limit on drinks on the flight. The limit is per person but they were all paying woth one card
Wallachians?
Naggers.
Sky Roma or Flying Magyars?
I dont get this place. The restautants are closed but at 8:05 i walked by this club/bar looking thing which had a line at the entrance. Strangely half thr line was youn women and i thought those get priority. There was this huge black bouncer at the door not leting anyone in. In most of the world clubs are empty before 11 pm
Only if there’s a last call. Having grown up in New York with a 4 AM last call, it was an adjustment moving to Boston, with a 2 AM (or 1 AM in Cambridge) last call.
We wouldn’t even go out until 10 or 11 in NY.
(Now that I’m
oldmature, even 1 AM sounds too late to me)If you don’t write a gigantic article about this vacation will be disappointed.
/author of gigantic article about recent vacation
You have black people in Romania?
Wait…didnt Wesley Snipes play a vampire?
I just read up and realized you’re on vacay.
Try the Grappa.
Grandpa not’s into that sort of thing.
Grappa is Italian.
Looks like Orujo is the Spanish equivalent.
Either way, good for gettin’ drunk and/or stripping paint off of your car.
My Shooter Jennings fave/a>
Good to see that Defiant L’s is back.
https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1497216168137936896
Anybody else having difficulties with protonmail?
Can you be more specific? Right now I’m not, but depending on the difficulty, I may simply not be seeing it.
Can’t connect at all
Do you mean the actual mail, or the VPN?
Just connected to mail.protonmail.com no problem
I sent myself a test email and it arrived. I am using thunderbird and the protonmail bridge.
And fired up the VPN on my phone – seems to be OK.
Trying to connect to the VPN from my desktop just hangs.
Looks like their security provider (neustar) is having regional problems.
A trace route never gets past their server.
Yes. Intermittent connectivity. Won’t download a 64k pic.
64k? Not much for a dick pic…
*runs from room*
Security cam snapshot.
Even so, it’s not the pixels, it’s the…
compression artifacts?
Cheers, UCS, I’ll drink to that.
thermostat ?
I got a few requests this past week about secure email, VPN, and message options from…friends…and recommended them so maybe there’s more usage than normal? I don’t know how this stuff works.
Either an uptick in usage by people recently rendered concerned about people snooping, or the snooping people trying to disrupt the service, or basic technical issues that any complicated system has every so often.
The Russians openly stated they were going to launch cyberattacks. Maybe ProtonMail is one of their targets.
If you have ever had laparoscopic surgery at all, then you should know what I mean: My left shoulder hurts like hell. If you do not know what that means, consider yourself lucky.
I had laproscopic surgery, I don’t know why the shoulder hurts afterwards. Do you know the why on that one?
Yes. It’s the CO2 they plump your abdomen up with so they can see what they’re doing. It irritates the phrenic nerve.
It went fine, thanks. but I do feel like I got run over by a truck, and I still have drains.
I must attend a viewing tonight and a funeral tomorrow (friend with COVID who had totransition to a trach). I am dreading these activities.
I’m sorry about the passing of your friend, but I’m glad you at least have the option to go to the service. ::very, very gentle hug::
Sorry
I am sorry as well, i remember all the things you did for your friend and the emotions involved.
Also, how did it go?
I gobbled down a big bowl of raisin bran, and now I have a tummy ache.
Live and learn, I guess.
Just blame the dog.
I feel like I know way too much about you now.
Don’t worry – this too shall pass…
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/russia-warns-serious-repercussions-if-sweden-finland-join-nato-details-846080
Guess Russia is now the Ruler of Europe – we will tell you what you can and cannot do!
What would Finland ever have to fear from Russia?
Russians learning to raise the dead?
Well, they might have gotten the necromancers after the last world war.
Energy imports?
In for a penny
OT and apropos of nothing, I’m looking for a reasonably low-carb alternative to frozen Atkins meals for my workday lunches because the selection at the grocery has sucked lately. I love chicken salad, so I might be able to motivate myself to make it from scratch. Anyone here have a favorite chicken salad recipe? (The easier the better, but ideally with enough stuff to be interesting.)
My chicken salad recipe was canned chicken (drained) and mayo.
It was not that great, needed seasonings
Curry powder and cayenne, a little diced red onion.
Thank me later.
I’ve not been happy with the flavor of curry powder.
I think if I were changing it up I’d add salt, pepper, paprika, mustard, and diced hard boiled egg, to make a chicken and deviled egg salad mix.
Curry powder. Your jib has a cut that I admire.
Essentially mine too. A splash of mustard. Some seasonings and if Im not lazy so diced, boiled, AIGS
Shredded chicken + butter lettuce + a little balsamic vinaigrette.
*cheese eating grin*
Take a chicken thighs, breast, or hell the whole roaster and slowly simmer it in a pot full either stock or water with peppercorns, salt. chilies / chilli powder, garlic, cummin, and or related south western spices. cook till it will shred with a fork.
Shred the meat after it cools to room.
Add brown or Dijon mustard and mayo, freshly julienned cilantro or parsley, paprika, diced briny vegetable like cornichons or pickles, possibly capers or olives. mix and enjoy with bib lettuce cups.
Soapweed?!
I simply adore you. Cilantro’s only place is on the kitchen sink.
Parsley or soapweed, freedom of choice!
Better.
Top with salsa or pico.
I like mine fruity.
Chicken, grapes cut in half, sliced celery, nuts (pecans, walnuts, or cashews), diced apple, mayonnaise.
Wrap in Mission low carb tortilla.
Sometimes I add in a little shredded carrot & cabbage mix if it’s on hand. Though I prefer carrot and broccoli matchsticks.
Oh, yeah! My grocery’s deli makes that style, and I love it! I could skip the wrap, but then I’m the type who’ll skip the bread with the peanut butter.
Chicken salad with grapes, cashew halves, and curry is a summer staple of mine.
I dont usually stick my hand into the sewer of twatter, but occasionally you pull out a semi-polished turd.
At least the US can get our guys to and from the ISS using SpaceX now. Before we had to hitch rides with Russia or China.
That was embarrassing a few years ago, and now it would have been downright awkward.
“Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish
now is what my nature wills.”
That’s the Caesar/general/warrior Marcus Aurelius, right? I have a hard time seeing him as a “turn the other cheek, no matter what” kind of guy.
Yeah, he seems more of the Bhagavad Gita, “Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom,” kinda guy. But I like his book and the BG about equally.
“Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.19.12b–13
Is it good, bad, or indifferent to let my testicles breathe a bit when I pee? I contend it’s good and, indeed, virtuous, regardless of environment.
Pie has gone quiet. Should we be worried?
Maybe he’s getting some action. A mysterious stranger, drinking sherry by himself at the end of the bar.
“Hey baby, want to live forever?”
“you’re HIV -, right?”
No, I think the sun is down in Madrid.
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Always with the carve outs.
And the default of the LEO will always be “I loudly, clearly, and articulately, announced my presence”. Specially when badgered by his boss with “ya know, the city really doesn’t want to write this check…”
Body cameras that can’t be turned off by the officer are a must. With a presumption that an officer with a ‘broken’ camera is lying.