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If it was me, I would just throw it in the fridge and find something else, and eat it tomorrow. If you have a meat thermometer you can try to make it work with low heat, or there are other ways to cook it that work fine (maybe thaw in cold water and then cut it to strips and sort of stir-fry it for example), but I think the 1-2 times I tried something like this I was not happy with the result.

Absolutely don’t bake frozen chicken

You can defrost it in the microwave, they usually have a “defrost” setting with some different options which may take 5-10 minutes. It’s a little less optimal than waiting, but it’s fine. Definitely don’t bake it frozen.

Yeah, probably so. I am 100% serious when I say that I think 4chan getting behind Trump early on and making him the meme candidate had a huge amount to do with his eventual success.

I’m not an analyst, but they’re badly short of people in Ukraine, and a pretty big chunk of their economy is already focused on the war at this point. Why would any of this be other than just trying to secure what they need for fighting in Ukraine? Why would it mean a new war?

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Yeah, could be. The girl in the back’s smile looks a little fake-y, too. Look at the eyes.

To solve Trump, you just decide what would be the worst possible course of action in any given situation, and then add an extra little twist to that that makes it, maybe a little worse than that or maybe not, but just a little more bizarre and Trumpy.

In this case: The worst possible course of action is to keep all our nuclear weapons, but stop maintaining them properly. Obviously. And then, the use of the funds to fix up a plane which apparently belongs to him personally which we never needed to have in the first place, that will cost more to “fix” than it would have to just build a new one, is the Trumpy little twist on it.

Yeah. Even the smell would start to unnerve you, just a strong smell of death in the air way before you got close enough to see or hear it. I agree, I think if they’re smiling like that they’re pretty far back from the front.

I’ve literally never in my life heard of “this person was doing (whatever), but they were behind a VPN, so we had to do (whatever elaborate sting operation) instead of compromising the VPN.” I’ve heard that many times about Tor.

It’s possible that no one’s ever done something significant enough to make the feds interested from behind a VPN, just always used Tor, but I feel like it is unlikely. I feel like it’s more likely that they either have the ability to force the VPN companies to comply with some legal structures that give them the info they need, or else just wiretap the pipes going in and out of the VPN servers and can sort things out pretty straightforwardly if they really start to care about it.

VPNs are certainly useful; they make it a lot more difficult for non-law-enforcement people to know what you’re up to, which is a significant gain, and they are faster and generally more convenient than using Tor. But if you’re actually concerned about the government, I would use Tor 100% of the time over a VPN.

Yeah. As far as I know, there are some theoretical state-actor attacks, but nothing that anyone’s ever been able to make work in practice. Compromising something else is just always easier.

It was literally designed by professional spies to be resistant against state intelligence agencies. It was originally made by US intelligence for secret communication with their assets, and only released to the public when they realized they needed a bunch of additional traffic on the network that the US intelligence traffic can blend in with. At least as of the Snowden leaks (which showed NSA compromise of huge amounts of the internet including most HTTPS traffic), they hadn’t figured out a way to undo it for their own spying purposes, either.

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* In a couple months, contingent on some weird conditions

IDK, man, it’s a fucking emergency. To me, what would make more sense is “Israel will start to allow food trucks into Gaza without restriction by the end of the week, or else we’ll be recognizing Palestine as a state and submitting to the ICC for an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.” Even that would be pretty weak compared to what they should be doing. I mean what they did is a start, it’s good I guess, but it’s still playing into letting Netanyahu run out the clock on the Gazans staying alive.

I also like how they demand of the Palestinians the end of Hamas leadership in Gaza, as if that hasn’t been an Israeli project this entire time which a decent number of Palestinians are miserable about for semi-obvious reasons.

Everyone knows throwing a fit when people ask the wrong questions and storming off the stage is a demonstration of unassailable right-being 🙂

Yeah. And the guy does say that he’s clearly the best of the bunch. I don’t actually feel like we need to seize on anything that looks vaguely like misogyny and use it as a reason to beat someone over the head with until their opinions are Fully Correct, but the criticism of his history is 100% on point and pretty damning TBH.

Were you under the impression I thought I was the first person to come up with these ideas or questions? In history? No, the point is that you don’t want to answer them, not that they were somehow untouched by scholarship.

I’m happy to make the same offer for you, you can try to expose the flaws in my thinking by trying to ask questions I really don’t want to admit the answers to or am just unaware of.

But like I say, it’s clear that you prefer soapboxing to that sort of interactive discussion (even the Playskool version of it with one word answers). I wonder why…

It’s okay if you don’t know! I think you do, though, at least most of these answers you are probably aware of. I’ll make them simpler so there’s no time needed to put together a little essay or anything (which is probably better anyway, since it’ll be less subjective). One or two word answers.

• What did Stalin have done to most of the KPD members who fled Hitler to the Soviet Union?
• Which country currently embodies what you’d like to see, as the successful Communist model to emulate?
• Which direction did people generally flee across the Berlin wall?
• How would you characterize China’s modern government, in one or two words?

I know, I know, you don’t want to participate. It’s easier just to talk down to me and soapbox, and from that format you can really easily refuse to analyze things that you don’t want to analyze that undo your mental models if you do analyze them. But there’s no reason you would be unwilling just to admit the answers, since your model is super-correct and I’m the wrong one.

Up to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KD3Xv7D1c&t=1349s

It was way up outside of the thread, easy to miss.

I’m not a debate pervert.

I mean it definitely sounds like you are lol

The fact that you use Trump and Stalin in the same sentence shows profound ignorance on your part.

They both aspire to throw their domestic enemies into a network of shadowy prison camps or kill them outright, they both claim the establishment opposition needs to be disposed of, they both claim that censorship is necessary because some ideas are wrong and the leader needs to be in control so he can keep the wrong ideas away. There are some important differences, too, but certainly they belong in the same sentence. Trump’s just a lot less effective, is actually the main difference I see.

There is no point attempting to have a discussion with people who have strong opinions on subjects they have no understanding of.

Sounds good! Let me check your qualifications, that’s a really good point, I did have a sense that there was no point to having this conversation with you, and this sort of gets to the heart of why lol.

• What did Stalin have done to most of the KPD members who fled Hitler to the Soviet Union?
• Why did the USSR ultimately collapse? What should be done differently to raise up the next massive wonderful communist state? Or nothing, they did everything fine?
• Which direction did people generally flee across the Berlin wall? Why?
• How would you characterize China’s modern government, in one or two words? Marxist, communist, gangster-capitalist, what?

Okay, this is clearly going to be a waste of time. Tell you what: You’re clearly never going to admit that you’re wrong about this, and obviously I can’t force you. It seems like you’re actually sort of enjoying how easy it is just to keep typing “freedom is an illusion anyway and that’s why I had all the opposition shot and that makes perfect sense” and similar things and no one can stop you.

Let’s do this: Tell me a format within which we can have this conversation, and get some kind of feedback or judgement about who it is that’s able to prove their case. If you want to propose a framing of some sort, and go within that, I’m happy to talk about it with you. If not, I think it’s just going to be you insisting that Stalin-style/Trump-style governance is justified until I get bored or frustrated and abandon the conversation.