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I don’t believe in any afterlife.

An American, but it never was a democracy. It’s always been a republic with a few democratic mechanisms.

Which is good, IMO, or we would’ve gotten here much sooner. Populism is where democracies go to die, and the mechanisms of a representative republic help keep your average idiots from collectively voting us there.

Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick

29, and I’m… uh… I stopped counting at forty.

At 29 I was done growing, used to my adult body, hadn’t yet developed some of my current bad habits, and still had a youthful metabolism.

fucking cake days

It’s valid for beer, too.

I don’t want to say you’re wrong about your own tastes, but, uh… You should definitely be eating some of the things salad is made out of.

Have you seriously never consumed hotsauce? Salad dressing? Mustard? Pickles?

It works best with a savory batter in a Belgian-style deep waffle iron. You need both real maple syrup and a vinegary hotsauce. Bone-in fried chicken is best, especially thigh. Put the hotsauce on the chicken and the syrup on the waffle, cut a bit of each and eat all four components together in one bite… it’s transcendent.

I didn’t get it either until I tried it. It’s a combination of sweet and fat and heat and salt and acid but also fluffy-crispy waffle texture and crunchy-silky fried chicken texture. It’s almost everything good about eating in a single bite.

Heating water in the mike is fine. Heating already-made tea in the mike is fine. Heating water with a teabag in it in the microwave is the vilest act.