They’re called taco trucks. Or if you’re really lucky, clearly unregulated pop-up taquerias that operate from like 6-10pm outside hardware stores and cheap grocers. The one near me also has a rotating cart: sometimes a frutera, sometimes tamales, sometimes elotes.

Mostly correct. “Dehydrated” isn’t the goal of par-frying first but some moisture is driven off. By just barely cooking them through at a lowish heat then freezing you can re-fry them at a much higher temperature to get a crisp exterior and hot, fluffy interior. Higher temp means the rate of water boiling out keeps oil from penetrating as quickly, but if you try that with fresh cuts the outside will burn well before the inside is ready.

For the record, the best fries are done with a seasoned batter before the final cook. Really get thay crispy layer and add a load of whatever flavor you like.

You don’t move the Overton from the inside, you pull from the extremes so compromise still lands in your favor.

It’s pretty heavy-handed, but if the last five years have taught me anything it’s that media literacy is so shit in this country that shows like The Boys have to literally tell you that Fascists Are Bad before these dunces start to think they’re being mocked. (And I did enjoy the film, though it wasn’t as good as the first, and I hope they crank out a few more Detective Foghorn Leghorn stories)

Turning your back on a nefarious person is a great way to not see them coming.

They’re a legally mandated, inherited upper class with distinct privileges and guaranteed wealth. Doesn’t matter what else is going on, that’s indefensible in the modern world.

There’s over 400 distinct breweries in Washington State alone, you can’t possibly have enough personal experience to justify sweeping claims of trenda and quality. And we export most of the hops that we grow to countries like Germany, Belgium, and the UK so they’re using the same stuff. I don’t even like beer and it’s obvious you’re talking out of your ass to support preconceived anti-American notions.

Your reluctance to purge monarchy from your ranks made it obvious that the European Way is letting old rich people dictate social norms.

Also doesn’t work when one side is supported by evidence and the others are “opinions” but given equal consideration.

History repeats itself because most people are too nice to take the ruthless steps required to squash corruption before it looks like a problem. Just like we (Americans) were too forgiving of the Confederacy and let those racist traitors live, let alone continue to self-govern and exert power over others.

Nah, the evidence suggests that most children develop empathy before they’re 5 years old. Altruism is an innate trait of many intelligent, social species and we aren’t an exception. The problem is that we live within systems that reward anti-social behavior. The laws are to control the minority. (In theory. They don’t work when the broken people get too much power.)

Which is wild because that’s like the least bad thing the Sodomites were up to (and Lot’s whole family was pretty fucked too). But people will latch onto the flimsiest justification that reinforces their beliefs, in this case “gay dudes are icky.”

That also isn’t the moral of that story, despite what they tell you in Sunday school. Onan was punished because he didn’t want to impregnate his brother’s widow, which would have legally given his late brother an heir rather than Onan inheriting the property. Look up “levirate marriage”.

Many of them could pretty accurately be called Mammonites.

Confirmation Bias is a hell of a drug.

Nintendo still does this. There are pokemon names you can’t use as nicknames because it gets filtered. Most recently: Moltres EX gets caught by the filter on TCG Pocket and you can’t label your deck after it. “Violet” was blocked on an older game because “viol” is French for “rape”. Lazy, overcorrecting filter.

Man, it’s just classic tribalism and confirmation bias. People assume the most obnoxious voices are representative of all Communist spaces and that’s poisoned a lot of perception here. Folks love having a villain to pick on and reddit.world here has decided “tankies are the bad guy”.

They’re just gonna go with the classic slut-shaming “should keep her legs closed”, you know.

Yeah but mostly hard r around my area.

I think you’re underselling the effects of fifty years of deliberate, targeted propaganda a bit. This isn’t the result of measured thought, this is what happens when you allow a right-wing media apparatus to operate unchallenged for generations. (Not alone, other factors like our national narrative of self-reliance and an erosion of resources and respect for public education are significant. As well as racism since we never properly dealt with the losers of the Civil War)