Only thing the bible says about trans people is things like:

Love thy neighbor

Unto the least of these (which isn’t the way it looks when using the modern English interpretation of “least”)

Thou shall not bear false witness

Let he without sin…

Jesus ain’t got nothing to say about trans people in specific, but plenty to say about how we’re supposed to treat erybody.

Old Testament? That shit might cast some dubious shade at gay men if you want to stretch things, but it never says anything about trans people, even factoring in they wouldn’t be called that.

Nah, I haven’t been Christian since I was old enough to think for myself, but I read that shit multiple times, and multiple versions. Ain’t nothing in any of it that says it’s okay to be a bigot.

Well, you have a point.

Bagels are a dense dough, we’re talking around the 50% range, depending on who’s making them. Could be closer to 60, but that’s still dense as fuck compared to your basic sandwich bread, that tends to start in the high fifties, or something like brioche that’s gonna sit in the mid sixties (again, depends on the exact recipe, but you don’t see brioche under maybe 58ish on a regular basis). You’d be amazed the figurine difference as little as two to three % can make. (Edit: That’s the percentage of water to flour)

They’re also not made with any fats at all. No milk, no butter, no oil, nada.

So dry is indeed the case. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, they’ll stay edible longer than some of the higher hydration doughs, and respond rather well to toasting for a softer chew. You toast regular bread, you get, well toast; dry and crunchy. You toast bagels, you crisp the exterior and soften the inside.

Even fresh out of the oven, they’re not soft initially. They tend to be softer after a toasting. But they’re softer than when sat around. They’re also more elastic, they pull delightfully the way some pizza crust does, because the gluten tends to be well developed.

When I was still baking, I made sourdough bagels a few times, and even though the density was still there, holy shit was the taste amazing.

I’d honestly say that if you’ve had them fresh from the oven (not just made fresh at the bakery then stored until sale an hour later) and didn’t like them, you never will. Which is perfectly fine. It you haven’t, then I wouldn’t totally dismiss them because when they’re still hot and chewy like that, it isn’t just texture, you get the scents of the boil used, the yeastiness, and that “bread” smell all hitting your sinuses at once along with that stretchy chew for maximum flavor.

But yeah, unless you know a home baker willing to put in the extra effort for good bagels, chances are that they aren’t for you.

They really do, but without being slavish at the same time.

Looks like the one!

Nice find.

Username checks out

A very underappreciated track!

Edit: would alsp recommend Yankee Rose from that album as an example of Dave at his solo best

Isn’t this more of a philosophy or (more specifically) metaphysics thing?

I think the closest you’ll get to a non woowoo answer is that energy is finite, though at a scale of the universe it may not seem it. In any given system within that universe, be it a galaxy, a star system, a planet, a continent, a species, on down to proteins in a primordial soup, the ability to do rather than sit and be acted upon takes energy.

That energy comes from the outside, and is recycled.

Death is the great recycler. Decomposition in once living tissue is the process of returning the resources used back into the system.

It’s pink, nubby, and you finger it. That doesn’t seem like a nipple to me ;)

Hey, I finger the klitoris of my thinkpad all the time

The hero we deserve

I love luna moths

However, as I was scrolling, my brain made me think “why is there a picture of a moth on a word history community?”

Izzat a gerber in the dirt? Looks like either one of their locks, or maybe a boker?

Edit: not complaining, it’s a tool, not jewelry. Just can’t quite match it in my head and I know I’ve seen that model before

You cup your testicles and make an oath upon them. Testify!

Well, tbh, I would still object to a hidden list, no matter the content. But that’s me, I can’t speak for the fediverse as a whole in that regard. I don’t doubt it would make a difference to some segments of the population here. Hell, I know there’s contingents that would be fine with the secrecy side of it in the name of their particular axe to grind.

In his screed about why he made the list, and who/what he put on it/them it’s clear he had a specific axe to grind. I’m actually fine with that part. Don’t agree with his choices, and I don’t think those choices reflect his stated purpose ( come the fuck on, Ada? She’s one of the most steady and consistent admins out there, period. And she’s regularly pursued the least aggressive possible measures to protect her community/instances).

But if he’d been fully open about it, we could all have made our own choices about using it. Free and open, which is the real essence of the fediverse. That’s why he needed escorted off the premises in a direct but humane manner.

Anonymous is a different thing, both in scale and secrecy. It’s not even a “thing”, per se. It’s collectivist direct action. I’m always torn in that regard, since they’re isn’t really a proper movement, a proper revolutionary goal. The methodology is fine as far as that goes, I just don’t trust “it”. When fighting established paradigms, secrecy is necessary if you’re going to break laws. But it also comes with the price that ideologically aligned people and groups can’t really rely on, or help.

I also tend to think Anonymous is half measures at best tbh. Stunts, not a real and coherent movement. Then again, the whole reality of my personal experiences with the general left in a fascist world has me rather disillusioned. There’s literal concentration camps in my own country, and nobody is stopping it, and I mean in the way that should have happened when the U.S. did it before, and when the nazis did it last century.

But people at large then at least had the excuse of not realizing what was going on, so an actual uprising to free the people in them and destroy the existence of the death camps (and that’s what they are). I couldn’t even manage to get anyone to do anything locally. Nada, zilch, nil, not even organizing protest, much less anything that would save the lives of those prisoners. And I’m too fucking old, too fucking disabled, and too obligated to others to be a one man failure at it. It ain’t a one man job.

Shit, I got started. Sorry, that’s way off from the actual topic. Point was supposed to be that humans have a right to revolution, to pursue self rule. And in pursuit of that right, you use the tools that you have, including violence as needed. But dipshit patrick was one guy, not a structure, and there were better ways to achieve the goal of neutering him than nasty DMs, whingy posts about asking to be put on the list, and threats.

All of those links make this a nightmare wall of text

Eh, insomnia is kicking my ass, no idea how badly phrased it is. Too tired you go back and look, much less edit lol.

My point is that revolution isn’t always peaceful, and it doesn’t have to be the default. And, punching nazis should be the national pastime (of any nation).

But that’s bigger scale, not the scale of some fucknut doing dirty with software. At that scale, you aren’t involved in a revolution when you’re harassing someone, you’re just being a dick, even if the person you’re harassing was a dick first.

Totally tangential

There used to be a game on palm os with star trek ships. You’d run around trying to wipe out other ships. There were Klingon, Federation, Romulan, borg and dominion. Maybe one other, idrr. Each had an ability unique to it, and had various stats for movement, attack, and defense.

I killed many an hour on overnight cases playing that

I mean, c’mon dude, it’s you.

The default assumption for anyone is that if they see your name, trolling will eventually occur. You’re like a fediverse mascot of sorts, one of those users that long terms lemmites tell nooobs “wait until you run into SMCF, just don’t take them serious”

Shit, there’s a handful of users I tell anyone coming to lemmy that I know in meatspace about, and in a good way, as in “here’s something that will at least make things interesting”, and you’re on that list because you’re a reliable troll. I know, you don’t always troll, just like fish don’t always stay in the water. But it’s a safe assumption to make, you dig?

I’m on the fence there.

Trolling can be blatant enough to be objective, and you gotta leash serial trolls or they take over.

The problem is that good trolls, the ones with subtlety and a sense of purpose can be damn hard to weed out. So you get a swathe where you can’t separate trolls from people being genuine, but “distasteful” for that community. It’s a damn thorny problem to navigate.

Even if you are him, there’s a limit to what is and isn’t acceptable. Or, more honestly, if someone is going to go full on war about it, they also merit censure for their choices.

I’m actually all for political violence as a form of change. It isn’t my first choice, and it shouldn’t be anyone’s first choice. But it has its place in the toolbox of revolution. Nazis need punching, and whatnot.

But being an asshole online isn’t that. If some asshat does what patrick did, they absolutely deserve to be run off of the platform, and never allowed back. Once we stoop to shitty harassment and empty threats when there’s a dozen paths to try first, well, we’re asshats too.