AmericaDelendaEst

My chef friend is arguing with me and IMO she is just straight up fucking wrong. Cooking tomatoes to death during the canning process isn't going to do any favors for the texture or flavor. Every canned diced tomato i've had has been gross (and the dice is always too big and ugly)

I think she's 100% confusing a comparison between QUALITY canned tomatoes i.e. real san marzano tomatoes versus shitty greenhouse grown tomatoes but she's insisting that no actually canned tomatoes are just better

I just want to get a consensus but i'm going to continue to disagree with anyone else who is wrong about this

if only he were present for the last 4 years, idk

just sayin' dawg

why aren't you doing your part?

hey, do we have any Foundation guys here, dudes or non dude guys who know stuff about foundations? like how bad does this look

There wasn't any noticeable shifting on the floors inside. The realtor used a phone app as a level but I'm pretty sure that's real iffy as an accurate measuring device.

the big crack on the corner by the exposed cables is on a side of the house near a large tree on the neighboring property

the realtor thought the shifting in the foundation was caused by the drain (covered by leaves in one of the pics) dumping water straight down, but when I looked at it again I noticed concrete that was poured under the gutter, probably intended to slant away and divert it into a little ditch leading to the street

so I'm thinking the shifting in the foundation predates the drainage issue and was maybe caused by the tree? I didn't see any big roots TOO close but, idk

this house is kind of small (smaller than our apartment) but it's in a bourgie cracker restaurant neighborhood, or close enough to walk to it, so I imagine the ol' housing-as-commodities we got going on means it will constantly increase in value as long

but idk if something like this means it's like totally fucked because we can't really afford to buy this place AND put tens of thousands of dollars into some foundation repair bullshit

p.s. side note it has a really nice neighborhood, neighbor across the street has a FREE SEED LIBRARY! and a COMMUNITY PLANT EXCHANGE! that's amazing, the neighbor on the side grows peppers and idk what else in above ground containers, looks like spicy shit too. The other neighbor is a soccer fan but nothing can be perfect right?

p.p.s. the realtor kept speaking of insane plans to expand the bathroom but it also has a very large attic that like imo if finished could add like A Bunch of Value to the house? so, idk, it might be a good idea???

it's so hard to decide because it's so much money and contracts and like what if the foundation is totally fucked??? I guess the owner was a contractor and he checked it out when he bought it, but it's been a rental property since 2007. The HVAC also looks old.

but if we take too long to decide, someone might just buy it up because like why not it's in this great location! who cares if the foundations is fucked if you have a million dollars to spend fixing it!

Like what the fuck IS this? In order to know anything meaningful about a house, I need it inspected, but to get it inspected I need to fucking put money down AND PAY FOR THE FUCKING INSPECTION and if it's fucked and I don't want to buy it then woops I lose all this fucking money? Jesus fucking christ it's a turbo charged version of the apartment application fee scam. Fucking christ. Who decided on all this bullshit? Infinite guillotines for all of them

This is one of those things that just really go to show the fucked up extremism of the bourgeoisie, like, you could have capitalist hell and still have like mandatory state run inspections, the details of which are public, for every property being sold. But woops, nope, fuck you peasant

You'd think with how this country jerks itself raw over home owners it wouldn't be this way, but WOOPS

This post brought to you by my gf and I being incredibly anxious over maybe buying a house that seems okay but has a slab foundation so like i don't fucking know what condition the plumbing is in

it's like a more earthy/fruity cayenne pepper, like why don't people use more of it? there's so many jalapeños so it's not like it wouldn't be cheap to make

just a shout out to ground jalapeño, you're a real spice king

I am teetering on the knife's edge in this playthrough but it's 1843 and I don't remember how (this is an old save lol) but I have Persia, Dai Nam, and Burma as protectorates, soo close to having a negative liberty desire increase (just need my infamy to drop), just got Benin as well, so while maybe I'm doing some horrible colonialism, the good news is I've prevented the Anglos and the Fr*nch from their usual easy avenues of expansion.

I just need to yknow, not fuck up (i have literally no idea where to go from here lol)

Like god damn it was a good show. About literal lovecraftian eldritch horrors, but the main horror presented was white supremacy

I want more but at the same time I'm not sure how it could top its season 1 finale where all white people are stripped of magic

I'm 5 episodes in but basically the premise is it's OP'S favorite brand of slop, an isekai, where a woman works herself to death and gets reincarnated as the daughter of a magical artificer. She ends up learning artificery from him and invents things like a hair dryer and waterproof fabric (i.e. 'plastic' but from slimes). She ends up engaged to her fellow apprentice, who immediately turns into a total tool, telling her she's "too tall" with heels on, criticizing her hair, her glasses, etc. Fuck this guy, what a nerd. Then he has the audacity to have an affair and leave her- but that's okay, he sucked anyway and she's got a sick ass artificer's tower to live in. He had to pay her reparations, lol get fucked loser!

Also she meets a cute knight guy who actually doesn't suck, except he's all "😌 i could just be her friend for eternity 😌" so you know it's going to be a long and arduous journey until they fuckin kiss already (unless they don't and i've just been trolling myself)

Im giving it 4 out of 5 slop stars so far

It's slop, but it's good slop, IMO. Basically the premise of the show is one of your lightly-DnD based fantasy worlds where there's Skills and dungeons and such. The protagonist, Noor, wants to be an adventurer more than anything, so that he can travel and experience life and be useful to people. But after going through the implied-to-be-rigorous three month courses for every possible skill (which seems to be paid for by the state, btw! just sayin', big ups) he never manages to acquire a skill other than the most basic possible for every branch. To be licensed as an adventurer, you need "at least two useful skills." So he's denied, travels back home, and does the anime thing of training each and every one of those skills intensely for the next fifteen years.

So, although he can't use an attack skill, he ends up able to parry over ten thousand swords simultaneously with a single breath. His "tiny flame," a magic barely even useful to conjure a candlelight, can summon a basketball sized orb of fire.

Despite his prodigious ability with these skills, he ends up registered as a mere F rank adventurer, as a symbol of charity, basically. Calling him an adventurer while he's mostly a shit-shoveler (the subs call it mud, but, I mean...)

Even after the Plot Happens, it turns out our MC is a 100% himbo that is entirely locked into his mentality of not being worthy. He defeats a minotaur, in this world a demon from the Abyss, but thinks it was "just a cow." He fights a Goblin Emperor, implied to be a magical bioweapon that could destroy a nation, thinking it's just your basic goblin. "A single goblin causes me this much trouble, I'm really not ready" he thinks. Numerous members of the royal family are in awe of his abilities, but he basically seems to not know what "royal family" means, lol.

His opinion of his abilities are so low that when offered basically any reward he can think of, he says he's good, he doesn't need anything because he didn't really do much, making the king basically think he's a selfless saint

Anyway, I have a low bar for entertainment, it really is some slop, but it's been real fun.

Also although I'm only 5 episodes in if you're worried about it being grossly oversexualized or whatever it's got none of that nonsense, just a man learning to parry harder than anyone's ever parried before