I powdered my balls! For the glory of the Empire!

We’re working on it.

I just hope to hell that if the worst needs to happen, whatever government comes next isn’t fucked over on the world stage

LTOL for life, yo!

Dunno why hes surprised; zelensky has a habit of standing up against wannabe dictators

No worries :)

Yup, lemmy is great about that

Baked didn’t work?

We do that as the default, and the smell is never there.

Here’s our process.

First, defrost if frozen. Otherwise you’re essentially steaming it as it thaws in the oven, which means that instead of browning up and getting sweeter, you end up with the sulfur compounds forming before that can happen.

If not frozen, you should be fine to start.

If you’re working from whole heads of broccoli, break it down into roughly even sized florettes, with the stems being cut down to maybe a half inch or so.

Make sure it’s well oiled. It helps the heat transfer, which reduces the end smell. A big bowl helps get it evenk drizzling really isn’t great for roast veggies imo.

Season after oiling; the salt, pepper and optionals will stick better and not burn. Now, here’s an optional, but it really is highly recommended. Acid. Lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, white wine or champagne vinegar, even balsamic. It helps break up the chemicals as they form and get released. Sliced lemons work too, though definitely keep the juices and add them too.

Preheat to 400 or 425. No lower, you want the heat to be high enough that it cooks fast, fifteen to twenty minutes, checking at 15 and staying close after. If you have a convection oven, go with 400 for sure, and check at about 12 minutes and keep a close eye on it.

You want the broccoli browned, and fork tender. Once it hits that, pull it.

Over cooking is where the smell comes from. So if you get the first hint of that sulfur smell, pull it immediately, even if it isn’t done, since you don’t want the smell. Carry over cooking can finish the job, it just won’t be as yummy without that deep browning.

Roasting is the least “smelly” option.

Steaming, the window is short between perfectly cooked and smelly. Maybe as little as a minute. Lots of lemon slices over the top helps though.

Boiling, you gotta parboil, blanche, then repeat. It keeps the sulfur compounds from taking over before it’s cooked through.

Deep fried works, but it really seems like a bad idea to me. Why eat something as healthy as broccoli and dump it into hot oil? It adds unnecessary calories even if you drain it well, and breaded broccoli ia similar, plus you don’t taste the broccoli as much.

Man, you miss the entire history of it, the history and tropes of spy fiction, all of it and Moore.

You’d scraping the surface of Bond and wondering why you can’t see bone.

Bond goes back to the post ww2 era, and the cold war. Without an understanding of that era, it won’t make any sense except maybe the Craig era Bond.

Gentlemen spies, using their wits as much as their guns to keep their country safe. It’s action and intrigue mixed with stunts and (eventually) sci-fi level gadgets. It’s escapism as much as Conan the Barbarian is. As much as d&d is.

Tbh, go back and read the first two or three books. Then rewatch the first few movies. It’ll hit totally different.

Late Connery era and the Moore era got a little cartoony for sure, and that diverged from book Bond a lot. But those early films were much more about the kind of spies that started in the OSS and SOE during ww2.

It evolved from there, but without understanding the origins of Bond, the Ian Flemming Bond, it’s hard to see how even the silliest movies were a reaction to changing times, and still rooted in the idea of gentlemen serving their country by doing the dirty, ugly jobs that no one else could.

The women and cars and guns were window trappings, not the meat. They came about as a generation that had largely left the cold war behind as a fear saw the action as fun escapism. Bond was the first action hero franchise.

Is there some of the misogyny of that era still in there? Absolutely, and it makes some scenes hard to watch now. But the rest of it is standard action movie in any given era. It’s not meant to be realistic any more than a Michael Bay Transformers movie is. Or something like the A-Team, or True Lies.

Bond was not only a heavily influential action franchise, he was an example of the competent hero that fell out of popularity. Flawed heroes barely surviving is just as valid, but a competent hero surviving with grace is more fun, it changes the stakes a little.

That’s what you’re missing, that there was an evolution to it all, and it seems weird if you didn’t have a shared cultural background to view it with. Us old fucks that grew up watching Connery and then Moore, we had grandparents that survived the era that led to Bond existing in the first place.

Which is fine! It isn’t for everyone. You aren’t obligated to enjoy it just because others do. But that’s what most of us enjoy: the escapism and flash of it. Very, very few people think of Bond as a role model, or want to be him.

Yeah, this is way too complex for social media. You need an estate lawyer, yesterday.

Just beware of one thing. Depending on where you live, you aren’t responsible for your parents’ debts. So don’t make promises to anyone to pay them, don’t sign anything, don’t verbally agree to anything, period.

If you plan on trying to help manage the household, you taking on the debt is going to make it a shit ton harder. You already have little or no credit at your age, your siblings probably don’t either. Having massive debt, and the eventual credit ruination added into that, you’re fucked. Your mom declaring bankruptcy isn’t a pleasant thing, but as long as the rest of you aren’t on the hook for it, that’s the end of it. You and/or your siblings will be able to handle getting utilities, housing, etc in your names if/when you have to move. If y’all have that debt moved onto you, that may not be possible.

So agree to nothing. Don’t agree to pay medical bills, don’t agree to pay anything. I’m not saying you can’t pay them, you can. But don’t enter into any agreement with anyone to do so. Either just pay it, or give your mom the funds and let her.

It doesn’t matter who calls you, what they say, most places in the world, they can’t force a child to pay a parent’s debts. You would have to agree to it. Let them go after the estate, period.

Also, let’s be real for a second. You aren’t solely responsible here. Your mom is an adult, and as your siblings ages shift to where they can help (if they aren’t already adults), it isn’t all on your shoulders. Women are perfectly capable of contributing to their own household financially and practically. Not sure where you are, there may be cultural or legal reasons that change exactly how much and what type of help they can be, but it’s never zero.

Be a mutual support network. Don’t take it all on your shoulders, spread the weight around so that nobody breaks under it.

But first and foremost, talk to an estate specialist.

I like the honesty of that: billionaire resistant.

About fucking time.

See, a true slut isn’t limited to one partner at a time though, assuming a conventional functional set of anus, vagina, and mouth. If you also allow hands to count for slutification, then you could have as many as five at once.

So, you could triple your numbers and get there in a reasonable period of time

I’ve seen someone with the beard done irl.

Now, the reason he did it more than makes up for how stupid it looks in his case, but it does look just as stupid as this.

Dude had chemo, and lost pretty much every hair on him, including the beard he had never been without since he was a teenager.

His reasoning was that yeah, it looks stupid without context, but he doesn’t actually care what others think, and it was one thing he could claw back from everything he lost. Since as soon as he could, he regrew the beard, it isn’t visible unless you get really close.

Now, why the guy in this picture went with clown eyebrows, I have no clue, because damn.

Hey, I don’t kink shame.

Damn, dude is so fake and gay that he’s hallucinating sex

!morbidquestions@sh.itjust.works

Be aware that there has been little or no activity, so the user base is essentially dead unless people run across it via the all feed.

That means not all responses will respect the need for morbid questions being answered honestly and with an actual answer rather than a “wtf” type of response.

Functionally, if you used r/morbidquestions, or the discord server related to it, you already know the rules. I can’t recall if I got them set up in the about section/sidebar, but in general, asking for advice on how to commit a crime is going to get removed, as will requests about how to commit suicide.

Some subjects get extra scrutiny, and may be removed with no notice. The most common example of that is questions about pedophilia or rape. It was always a problem on reddit, so expect any questions or comments about those matters in specific to be eyeballed heavily, and removed if there’s a hint of a problem.

A minimum degree of civility is necessary.

A minimum standard of usefulness is also necessary. Comments that don’t answer a question, or relate to the question are most likely getting removed. Random comments attacking a poster will be removed and the account making them banned permanently.

I can’t promise anyone will ever answer. I won’t promise I’ll give an answer to everything, but if I can, and have time, I’ll try to give honest, accurate answers. I won’t bullshit a genuine question, even if I find it distasteful personally. I’d just not answer at all. I encourage anyone using the community to hold to that standard as well.

Wellll, new smells are hard.

Since I stopped smoking, I’ve remembered one of the reasons I smoked, that being an annoyingly sensitive sniffer. Not professional grade like the noses at perfume companies, but enough to detect a cigarette being smoked outside on the other side of the house.

I find the best way to describe unusual things to my family is to break it down first.

Most smells are built up of multiple chemicals, like tobacco smoke having tar, nicotine, formaldehyde, etc. When you pick the smell apart in your head, you can usually identity and exclude those that you already know, leaving the rest as something you can analyze. For example, the benzene, toluene, and cresol contribute to the woody scent underneath the bigger smells like formaldehyde. Which, formaldehyde is the one that damps the sense of smell most, but it has its own distinct smell.

So, when you sniff your new place, you can, as you did here, exclude some things, like mold because you’d recognize that itchy, wet, almost earthy/petrichor blend.

Remodels of old buildings run high to solvents and adhesives. So does printing, though printing is even more wide open. I think you’d recognize the common offgassing stuff like formaldehyde (it really creeps into a lot of things), or polyurethane glues.

So, the first thing I’d sniff for is a hint of acrid, almost burny layer. If that’s there, then you’re likely running into something like an acid that was used in printing, and can ventilate accordingly while seeing if there’s anything else you need to do.

If there’s something fruity to it, or something like nail polish remover, you’re probably dealing with ketones, which is a class of chemicals used in printing and can be found in some construction materials.

If it’s similarly “itchy” the way acidic residue can be, and it comes with a bit of ammonia underneath or alongside, you’d be looking at lye, or a similar substance. That’s not unusual in bathrooms in general, so you may have smelled it before and not know what it was. When lye reacts with the usual clogging offenders you get that acrid bit. If you run into it with an ammonia note, then you’re likely dealing with something where it was reacting with chemicals outside of a regular toilet situation, which would point back to something industrial.

Inks, or at least the ones I’ve smelled, tend to have a metallic tang to them, usually combined with a solvent of some kind or another.

Wallpaper, at least the kinds you find in apartments here in the US, tend to have a plasticky smell, even when there’s not much plastic involved because of how it’s made and the adhesive. So that’s a possibility.

All of which is just the stuff that’s similar enough to remind me of cigarette smoke as opposed to cigar or pipe tobacco. A lot of the time, when our brain pulls up a comparison like that, where it’s like smokers’ breath but not, that’s because there’s a chemical in common, often multiple. It just won’t be the exact ratios, or all of the component chemicals.

If I had to guess, I’d point to cleaning or construction chemicals mixing before you moved in, maybe weeks before, and having had time to interact. Bleach can do that, btw. End up smelling like old cigarettes when it gets diluted and soaks into something. Any new chemical is going to react a little, and instead of that dirty foot in pool water thing that is starts with, you can run into those musty compounds instead. I’m not saying it is bleach, just that it’s likely to be something akin to that, where a solvent or other chemical is blending with other stuff and throwing it off.

Maybe an enzymatic cleaner? The stuff I use on our chicken gear gets that funky breath smell when it sits. Saliva enzymes and proteins + smoke is what generates that actual stale breath, so a similar mix could be involved.

Dammit.

Wait! Is rainbow bright an acceptable compromise?

Okay, got the beard and pony tail, so if I don’t want to be itchy, it’s thigh highs.

Question: are my little pony stockings acceptable, or do they have to be hello kitty themed?

Dammit, do I have to buy a fur suit now?