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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yes and no… They’re very similar conceptually and ingredients wise, but the experience is very different. Frying the outside really firms it up like a French fry, and you get that flavor and texture all around. They also sometimes will add weird things like olives and raisins to it, which is still good, but I don’t particularly like those to start with so I might be biased

    You’ve got the right idea of what it is, but you really have to experience it for yourself - a lot of South and Central American countries have their own versions that are very similar, so if you go to a Latino restaurant that isn’t Mexican or Peruvian chicken, you’ll probably be able to find it.

    I’ve never tried adding jalapenos to the onion topping though… That sounds delicious. I might have to make that, it is a great topping and adding some heat to it sounds even better


  • Papa reyeñas(sp?). They’re so good, it’s basically mashed potatoes with ground beef mix inside, then fried/seared and baked until it sorta looks like a potato again. Then you take finely sliced red onions and soak them in lime juice for 12 hours so they get less harsh and use it like a topping

    Honestly, I know how to do all off the top of my head except how long to boil the potatoes…I just would never put that much effort into my meals, so I would need a reason to cook it for others. There’s also a lot of cleanup, you need a frying pan you need a frying pan you wash twice, a big bowl, a masher, an oven dish, a lime squeezer, Tupperware (or a ziplock, but I get enough plastic), a knife, a spatula, and whatever serving dishes

    I don’t enjoy cooking, but I’m pretty good at it when I want to be… But I have to want to be




  • When you’re a billionaire. Then it turns out, you’re just giving your heart to the crowd. And then, when you fund and speak at Nazi party rallies overseas, you’re just fighting “woke” or something. And when you agree that “Jews are doing ethnic replacement” on Twitter, you just have to take pictures at a concentration camp and you’re a “friend of Israel”

    But I do enjoy when people get fired because they think they can do it too




  • That’s not true at all, they’re super helpful. I use them almost every day, they save me an insane amount of time and energy

    What I don’t do is rely on it. I’m the developer, I know what’s going on, it has the memory of a goldfish. It also spits out code near instantly… Which I then read through and usually fix

    But it makes less mistakes than I do writing dumb repetitive code. It will, 95% of the time, correctly tell me something in half the time it would take me to look it up, if not less

    It’s nowhere close to a worker replacement, but it’s damn good at empowering people to do what they do


  • A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

    Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

    We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say


  • Yep… My first “career” job was for a mid sized company. In my onboarding they gave me my employee number but said “you’ll never need this, here you’re a name, not a number”. One time I emailed security saying I forgot my badge because it was with my lunch, and one of the founders called me up and gave me his prepackaged lunch because he said he usually doesn’t get through them all. When we closed a big deal, they called us all upstairs to have champagne during the workday. Our mission was unambiguously to help people

    Then we got acquired… They gave me my new employee ID and told me I’d be using it for everything. They just milked our contracts and refused wages until we all left

    And unfortunately, mid sized companies can give an equally good experience with much better pay and job security… But they’re being bought out to secure contracts and gutted at an insane rate.

    It’s late stage capitalism… If you want to keep growing but you’ve already destroyed your ability to complete, buy them out to take over their contracts



  • IDK if this would be viable with an H1 visa and I’ve seen many other options I’ll be looking into, but here’s what I normally tell people in this position: small businesses are built different

    They’re harder to find, they usually don’t pay amazingly, but they’re way more human. It’s not all run through spread sheets, you work for humans who get to know you and (can sometimes) actually be like a family…(If they say that phrase it’s a red flag though)

    It’s hit or miss, you likely would be working on legacy stuff or have to wear many hats… But it’s work where you know what you’re doing and who you’re doing it for





  • It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t

    And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie

    It makes me want to pull out my hair