she/they; im aroace and i watch anime a lot like fma, bnha, haikyuu, jojos bizarre adventure, saiki kusuo, idolish7, and the royal tutor.. currently playing splatoon 3 salmon run
once again saying. stop using spotify. the 1-2 punch of bandcamp and piracy is cool and good. renting access to your music library is bad and spotify is at the point where it needs to actually become profitable or its going to collapse. and its not going to become profitable. its going to get worse and more expensive and then collapse taking your entire library with it. get ahead of it start building an offline music library before your current rented library gets ethered
get a list of everything in your library so you can find the music again elsewhere. i dont have spotify so i cant test it but something like this
There’s a phase that small kids go through, when they’ve just learned how to talk enough to have something sembling an intelligent, intellectual argument. They like to practice this by wanting to disagree about anything - mainly general statements that were not 100% perfectly waterproof. If you tell a 4-year-old that bananas are green when they’re raw, and they turn yellow when they’re ripe, there’s a good chance that they’ll give you that “well that can’t be right” frown, and start to argue. Surely not all bananas that are yellow are always ripe.
Unfortunately humouring them about these arguments is very important for their development and a great opportunity to teach them more about how the world works, so you’ll sometimes end up arguing about things like these, and every single time when you explain that’s not how something works, they’ll come up with another argument starting with “but what if-”, until you are forced to admit that yes, if someone did for some reason take one single green banana, spray-paint it yellow and then expertly textured it to look just like a ripe banana, and then break into a grocery store in the middle of the night to slip that one painted banana into the display of ripe, edible bananas, then that one specific yellow banana would not be ripe and ready to eat.
As far as the child is concerned, this means that your entire initial statement was false, and you were wrong and they were right. Their need to be correct about something has been satisfied. Fortunately, most children grow out of this phase eventually.
The ones that manage to survive into adulthood without growing out of it end up on Twitter.
I had to scroll back up to make sure this wasn’t a Jeff joke
NASA putting mice in zero-g environments is one of the funniest fucking tests anyone has ever done and I hate having to hand that to them. Put those beasts in a situation.
Here’s the necessary clarification for non-USAmericans who are confused by how confidently USAmericans are claiming these are not the same thing: American biscuits are almost identical to British scones. But not American scones. Behold the continuum:
American biscuits:
These are layered quick breads. They are almost always baked in a round shape, and when they’re not, they’re baked square; you will pretty much never see a triangular American biscuit. They’re usually made with buttermilk, which gives them a nice slightly tangy flavor. They’re not at all sweet on their own, but they’re also not particularly savory, and as a result, they’re a bit of a blank slate: they pair well with butter and jam, but alternatively, they pair equally well with a savory sausage gravy. There are recipes that are firmly on the savory side by virtue of adding cheddar cheese to the dough, but in those cases, people will usually specify “cheese biscuits” or “cheddar biscuits”. American biscuits can be a breakfast food, or a lunch food, or a dinner food, all about equally.
British scones:
These are very similar to American biscuits, but a little bit lighter, and noticeably sweeter. You can have these with butter and jam (or, more likely, clotted cream and jam), but unlike American biscuits, I’d never dream of serving them with anything savory like a sausage gravy. You will sometimes see bits of dried fruit, like currants or dried blueberries, baked into them, but this isn’t all that common, and it’s basically the extent of weird baked-in flavorings. You will sometimes see these baked into a triangle shape, but more commonly, they are round. They’re great as a breakfast food, but they’re better with an afternoon tea; you’d probably never see them as the accompaniment to a hearty, savory dinner.
American scones:
American scones are denser, sweeter, and significantly more buttery than British scones, without the more clearly defined layers that British scones have. They are almost always baked in a triangle shape, and only very rarely baked round. American scones come in a variety of flavorings – it’s not uncommon to find pumpkin spice scones, double chocolate scones, lemon strawberry scones, blueberry scones with fresh blueberries baked right in, etc. It’s also not uncommon to find them glazed, like a doughnut (but usually slightly less so). You do not typically top these with butter or jam, or indeed, with anything – they are eaten as-is, as an accompaniment to coffee or tea. They are mostly a breakfast food, though they may occasional feature at an afternoon tea, if someone even has one of those, which in the States, people mostly don’t.
American cookies:
American cookies are exclusively a sweet dessert. They are often baked soft, and best eaten warm, although they’re perfectly fine to eat cooled, and you can certainly find shelf-stable cookies in stores (which are usually hard, rather than soft, see eg. Chips Ahoy). Oatmeal raisin cookies come the closest to the place that American scones leave off, and it isn’t very close. All sorts of flavorings and mixed in bits are common, although chocolate and nuts are more popular mix-in additions than dried fruit. Glazes are fairly uncommon, but not unheard of. The archetypal accompaniment for American cookies is a glass of milk, although they’re perfectly nice to enjoy with tea or coffee. They are not, however, a breakfast food. Americans do consider shortbread and gingerbread to both be types of cookies, but if you refer to “cookies” in the abstract, those aren’t what people typically think of.
British biscuits:
British biscuits are like American cookies, but pretty much always hard and served at room temperature. I’ve even heard the opinion that a British biscuit should always be “crisp”, with softness as a sign that a biscuit isn’t fresh. Americans are familiar with this style of treat, and generally think of British biscuits as “the type of cookies that you get in a tin” – they’re very much a thing in America, but they’re considered a smaller and much less popular subset of the broader “cookie” category. Like American cookies, these are often eaten as a dessert, but they are much more commonly seen as an accompaniment to tea than the American cookie is.
Tl;dr: This is like an even more complicated version of the crisps/chips/fries thing, I’m afraid. We’re simply talking about different things.
Explaining American biscuits was one of my more difficult linguistic challenges in China.
People complaining that the checks ruining the formatting of the website have forgotten their roots! This is the shitty formatting website and always has been
In retrospect this is almost definitely the reason why putting your response in the tags is so common and popular
remember when the new reply format was released and about 90% of people’s dashboards was hysteria about how having the replies one after the other with the name attached was actually harder to read than the spaghetti abomination above and people were threatening to leave and boycott and writing essays about how Tumblr clearly knew nothing about ui design or they’d get rid of linear replies with attached names and nest them again beside cryptic grey lines if they knew what was good for them
Because I remember people genuinely getting mad at me for pointing out that that was nonsense and I’m never letting those fucks forget now that mainstream opinion has become rational
