As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than unpleasantly gritty. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.

Wait until you learn about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make cocoa or coffee beans into something palatable, especially compared to hot leaf juice tea.

“Have you ever seen the film ‘The Prestige’?”

(Side note: this is my single favorite comedy sketch of all time.)

As someone who ate a lot of meatloaf with a side of corn as a kid, this actually doesn’t sound completely terrible. The texture is probably awful, but the flavors should work together.

Didn’t he want to eat them or something? That sounds like a one-way ticket to a body horror ending…

Especially since they started with drones unlocked!

It also helps protect against biting insects.

They’re testing the costume for Dogma 2.

I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

there were once Romans there

At least orcas don’t do to whales what they do to sharks - eat their liver and leave them to die in agony.

The main problem with Java (or garbage collected languages in general) as a first language is needing to unlearn the bad habits it ingrains when you move to a systems programming language with manual memory management. Other than that it’s a pretty good first language, though I’d suggest learning a bit of C at the same time just to get a basic grip on things like pointers and stack vs heap.

I’ve seen code with binary data (such as icons) baked into constants. I can’t wait for the three hour narration of base64 encoded pngs.

The best sandwich I ever had was a panini I randomly threw together for a snack at three in the morning. The next day I went to make it again since it was so delicious, but realized I’d forgotten some of the ingredients I used. I was in the middle of a sandwich-making phase at the time so I had like a dozen types of bread, meat, and cheese to pick from.

This was a decade ago and I’ve never been able to recreate that perfect sandwich despite several attempts. It’s my culinary white whale. The only ingredients I am sure of are the spread (light mayo in one side, applewood-smoked bacon mustard on the other) and the meat (honey-smoked turkey), and that it was only a simple meat-and-cheese. The bread and cheese continue to elude me.

I will never not laugh at this. Every moment is so perfectly timed.

One does not simply wok into Mordor.

The power grid does have a major point of failure, in that vital components are on backorder for years out so most places don’t have the spare parts to get back up and running if widespread attacks on the grid occur.

You’re able to run MemTest? That’d suggest it’s not actually fried if it can still run things.

Check your BIOS/UEFI to see if Secure Boot was re-enabled. If your CMOS battery died and you didn’t notice, your machine config could have reset to its default values during the power loss.

With Steam Link you can play on the Deck and have the quality and power of the $2,000 PC. Valve spoils us.

Luckily for them, Franklin is one of the few who would go after the older person in this equation. The man loved his GILFs.