The majority of people actually are imposters, but that's not a reason to stop improving. I'm apalled at the people considered to be professionals in the industries I work in. Reps for billion dollar companies can't tell me what their products actually do, they can only repeat bullshit marketing terms. An IT manager for a very large insurance company told me i needed to call linux to find out why the broken download link they hosted didn't work. A plumbing inspector wouldn't inspect my work because I'm not a licensed plumber, ignoring the fact that everything was to code, he just didn't want to actually inspect when he could sign off without looking if I hired someone. An ophthalmology practice missed retinal cancer on a patient I sent to them because I had found a rapidly growing tumor in their eye. They saw that I had billed an imaging scan, figured they didn't need to run another one, and didn't see anything looking in from the outside. Faxed records are rejected all the time because no one in most offices know how to turn off error correction to allow internet faxes to come through, which I have to use because no offices use hipaa compliant encrypted email servers. A company I hired to lift a massive beam into place for my house measured to the front of the beam on one side, and the back of the beam on the other, so there's a ten inch slant to my entire second floor. The guy working the window at taco bell asked me what fresco style meant. My partner is lactose intolerant, and the vast majority of restaurant workers seem to think mayonnaise is dairy.
I see people talking about imposter syndrome a lot lately, and i don't think half of them are good enough at what they do to be imposters.
Big plateau breaker for me was behind the screams by cky. I'd never actually listened to the band, but an ex girlfriend had begged me to learn it for her, and I thought it was funny to play it after we split. Then it was delerium trigger by coheed, and most recently, sarcophogi by the mars Volta.
English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.
Racism, religion, mistrust in education, and lack of critical thinking skills have led almost the entirety of them to be the most devout conservatives in the country. Many hold almost anarchistic ideals, but are so misled by generations of propaganda they think the fascists are fighting for freedom.
It's very difficult to get through to someone who has been raised to believe everything you say is a lie.
If you live somewhere it's dark in the morning, start school an hour later. Don't demand the entire populace fuck up their sleep schedule. If DST wasn't already implemented, it would sound like an insane overcomplication to solve relatively simple inconveniences in the modern age. No matter what the clock says, you only exist for a certain amount of time every day. If you want to get up earlier or later than usual, do it by yourself and leave me out of it.
While I loath windows, I would still put it above Mac if only for the ability to put windows on whatever you want. Even if Mac is more polished, the fact that it only works reasonably on vastly overpriced, mostly unrepairable hardware kills any appeal it would have. Add in apple's tendency to gimp devices as if a three year old machine is at deaths door, and I'll go to a customized windows os every time.
Also the gaming thing. It's not pinnacle, but it's also not trivial.
An organized protest to demand target make a statement? Is this the new guerilla marketing? It seems like there are a few more important things going on than what target thinks. Brands are the enemy of humanity. They will support corporate fascism over anything else. Best case scenario here is they lie about it.
Etouffee. Best with crawfish and sausage, but chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, whatever proteins you have work.
Mince two onions, put them in a wok or large pan with 1/2 cup of butter or oil, and keep them moving over medium low heat so they don't brown. When they start to lose their structure, add 3 staulks of minced celery and keep going. When those lose structure, add 1 and 1/2 minced bell peppers, green and or red. Cut the other half pepper into strips for later. Keep stirring until you've got a good slurry.
Now add 2 Tbsp of flour or GF flour, and again, keep it moving, until a nice yellow roux forms.
The hard part is over now. Add a cup of broth, (chicken or shellfish, are best, but vegetable works) stir it up and let it simmer. If you're using sausage, add them in whole at this point. If chicken, add in strips or chunks.
Now rinse and clean two cups of rice, and set it aside to soak in 3.5 cups of water, or 2.5 water and 1 broth.
Chop up a bunch of parsley, like a cup or more, and 4 garlic cloves. Use Italian parsley, curley is a garnish and doesn't have enough flavor.
Add half the parsly and garlic and another cup of broth to the pan, and simmer, stirring occasionally. As it reduces, keep adding broth. Your going to end up using about 4 cups total.
Put the rice in a pan and heat until boiling in the water/broth combo. Reduce to the lowest setting and cover.
Take the whole sausages if you added them, and cut them up and put them back in. This is when you would add the shrimp, crawfish, or mushrooms if you use them, as well as the pepper strips from earlier. I like to add some clam juice right here if I didn't use seafood stock earlier.
It should be a yellow/orange gravy at this point. As the rice finishes, stir the remaining garlic and parsley into the gravy. Give it a minute to mellow the garlic, and you're done. Put it on the rice, and add a cayenne based hot sauce to bring the heat up.
Green onions and parsley are a solid garnish.
I will often salt the minced vegetables while they wait to be added.
It's cheap and great, and reheats well.. The trade off for pricing is the 2 hours you spend stirring.
Variations:
-add sliced jalapeños at the simmering point.
-no garlic, but add cayenne pepper
-no peppers, but increase celery.
-peel your own crawfish, then bake the shells for 25 minutes, and simmer them in a big pot for a few hours to make your own swamp broth. It starts out smelling terrible, but that leaves and you get an awesome stock to use as the base.
I have a hypothesis that the chat client hasn't updated, and sending the message forces it to check, and finds out the person disconnected before you sent the message.
Either that or you're whack as fuck and nobody wants to deal with it.
Is there not a wikipedia style site specifically for academics yet? We don't need publishers anymore.
Really I'm amazed there are still record labels and producers as well.
It'd be pretty rad if they cut us off.