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  1. Comment on Surviving vegetarianism as a non-vegetarian chef in ~food

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    If you’re looking for food projects to design & perfect & fuss over, how about sauces? Great sauces bring great flavor to my plant based meals. Mexican sauces (mole, salsas, ranchero sauce, etc...

    If you’re looking for food projects to design & perfect & fuss over, how about sauces? Great sauces bring great flavor to my plant based meals. Mexican sauces (mole, salsas, ranchero sauce, etc etc) can be simple or complex. Pestos, aiolis, peanut sauce, Indian chutneys, etc etc.

    Working with chile peppers could be satisfying too. Start with poblanos and then there’s a world of chiles with flavors and textures to obsess over. So much delicious and complicated Mexican food out there doesn’t need meat!

    And there is a whole world of vegetarian Indian food to learn (worlds actually, with the different regions). There are lots of new techniques and spices to master & then you can riff on them. Some dishes require ‘active’ cooking (like a wok), some can take all day tending (like a brisket).

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  2. Comment on Posting links to articles without contributing to a conversation about it? in ~tildes

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    To be honest, this is my biggest complaint about Tildes. Isn’t the point of Tildes to have high quality discussions? I’d love to weed out these link-only posts from my feed. At least tell me why...

    To be honest, this is my biggest complaint about Tildes. Isn’t the point of Tildes to have high quality discussions? I’d love to weed out these link-only posts from my feed. At least tell me why you cared to share the link! Otherwise it feels like any generic, automated aggregator site.

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  3. Comment on How to deal with a deep-rooted feeling of apathy? in ~health.mental

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    On a very practical level, I suggest getting a pet from the spca. Kittens or a puppy just fill you with delight. They will get you to play, snuggle, care for them. You’ll feel their love and love...

    On a very practical level, I suggest getting a pet from the spca. Kittens or a puppy just fill you with delight. They will get you to play, snuggle, care for them. You’ll feel their love and love them back. (Dogs are also great because you’ll get out every day to walk them, and meet your neighbors on the block and the dog park.) It’s one of those things that’s bigger of a positive life change than I can explain in words.

    Another thing that has an immediate impact - get out in nature. Just sit in a park, stroll on the beach, take a little walk in the winds, and then take longer hikes. The trees, the water, the wind, the birds - they will all get your mind to a better place.

    Aside from that, I would try to change your mindset that pre-40 is the “golden years.” One of my idols is Georgia O’Keefe. She produced art until her 90s, and every decade she gained more control over her art and personal life. Her most golden, happy, and artistically satisfying years were her final years. So, when my life feels ‘over’, I remind myself to be patient, and to be open to the new and different options around me. Draw, read, listen to ska, take up Zumba, take a risk to try something new.

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  4. Comment on What are the best cover songs that reinterpret the original into a different genre, style, or mood? in ~music

  5. Comment on What are the best cover songs that reinterpret the original into a different genre, style, or mood? in ~music

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    Thank you for this!! William Shatner punk! So crazy and so good

    Thank you for this!! William Shatner punk! So crazy and so good

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  6. Comment on What are the best cover songs that reinterpret the original into a different genre, style, or mood? in ~music

  7. Comment on What are some of your favorite cheap, easy and healthy recipes? in ~food

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    I make this and always add a can or two of garbanzo beans! Perfect addition for protein, texture, and convenience.

    I make this and always add a can or two of garbanzo beans! Perfect addition for protein, texture, and convenience.

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  8. Comment on Affirmative action and its role in your life in ~life

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    I am a Poc, a woman, and grew up in the US in the 70s and 80s. I was negatively affected by racism throughout my childhood (eg social exclusion, name calling). As one example, I knew that I’d...
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    I am a Poc, a woman, and grew up in the US in the 70s and 80s. I was negatively affected by racism throughout my childhood (eg social exclusion, name calling). As one example, I knew that I’d never be selected for student council, cheerleading, the dance team, or the cast of the school play (anything that gave girls social currency) because I wasn’t white. But academically I was a stand-out student. I was accepted to an elite college and earned several scholarships. Did my race or gender help get me into college? I will never know. But it felt good that for the very first time, not being white was an asset. And I do know that my college was very very white, and it was and still is in the school’s best interest to keep increasing its ethnic diversity. I was also a stem student, and female stem majors were even more rare then than now. It was important then, as it is now, to decrease discriminatory practices and therefore allow women equal opportunity to study and work in stem fields.

    For colleges and the workforce, AA is really important IMO to overcome unconscious prejudices that application readers have and to make sure the best applicants are admitted. (In contrast to my childhood without AA where a poc was inherently assumed to be less worthy). Even though there is less acceptance of overt racism now than when I was young, there is still a natural tendency to choose someone “like you” when hiring — this means that female and poc job applicants are more likely to be turned down or not promoted as “not a fit for our staff culture” — which continues the predominance of white men in good jobs.

    Here’s an example of AA really working: right now half of med school students are women. That was not the case just two generations ago. It was thought that women just weren’t capable or interested in being doctors. Nope, turns out it was discriminatory practices in education that weeded out qualified women. With those practices actively changed, women are half of all new doctors.

    Still, medicine is also an example of AA’s work not yet being done: Women doctors are more likely to become general practitioners, pediatricians, and family doctors —- men still predominate in surgery and several other specialities that are definitely more financially lucrative than family practice. It’s not because of women’s preferences, but because the culture and employment practices in those specialties actively discourage women. So, AA would be a help to get more qualified women into those fields & change their culture from within (which has already happened in the other specialties).

    You just have to look at the US congress to see that racism is not yet over — it is nowhere near representative of the US ethnic diversity and women.

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