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Cake day: November 18th, 2025

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  • I can and have cooked turkey for myself.

    I have "won" at turkey.

    When I lived on my own and worked in the restaurant industry, I took it as a point of pride to figure out how to do it well.

    I tried brines, but found that simple salting and leaving it on the bottom shelf overnight was easier and just as effective.

    And that cutting it up and cooking each part via sous vide was a more reliable way to cook the meat to an even tenderness.

    And that I could still brown the skin on a cast iron pan on high heat afterwards.

    And then experiment with sauces and dressing and spices because that’s where a lot of the flavor and fun came from (for me).

    And then decided it just wasn’t worth it. Not when I can cook a chicken, a duck, and a Cornish hen for half the effort.

    If you want to go through the effort and expense of doing it because that makes it special to you and you enjoy it, more power to you.

    But Thanksgiving seems more like ritual torture for the vast majority of people who do it because we collectively accepted that it’s “what you’re supposed to do”.








  • The last two paragraphs are tangentially about the fire, and don’t engage with the anger at all - which was the subject of the headline.

    It’s like I was watching a news segment where they stop reporting and cut to a talking head who started analyzing political responses to the fire.

    How much Chinese companies are donating to relief efforts and the political parallels of an election being delayed (covid before, the fire now) are tangentially related, but in my opinion, that’s no longer focused on “Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years”.



  • TL;Dr: They want the Hong Kong leader to focus on the renovation company’s possible corruption, not the bamboo that didn’t burn.

    The Hong Kong leader responded to the fire by promising to replace (traditional Hong Kong) bamboo scaffolding with (mainland China) steel, because they’re claiming it might have been an accelerant.

    Residents argue that this is a distraction (most of the bamboo is still standing) from the real issue: the company doing the renovation/maintenance seems shoddy/corrupt and should be investigated.

    At this point, the article gets unfocused and jumps around a lot.

    By the end, she’s talking about the upcoming elections being compromised by the Chinese government.




  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@sopuli.xyzI've always said this
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    10 days ago

    Even if Selfridge’s entire existence were a collective fever dream*, the “full quote” is the better quote.

    I can’t imagine anyone who has worked in direct sales, at any amount of money, who genuinely believes “the customer is always right” is more correct of a saying without “in matters of taste”.

    *

    If everyone born before 1925 was a fever dream, it changes literally nothing about the state of the world today.


  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldImmich Is Now Stable!
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    10 days ago

    I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)

    If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?

    Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?

    The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.