I honestly don’t expect them to last more than 3 months.

And when they reach park ripeness, put them in the fridge and they stay good for a few days.

Be careful what you wish for, we might get Caroline or Thierry…

No, because when (not if) Threads goes downhill they will have become the dominant platform with all the users and special communities (just like Reddit was and still is). I want Lemmy to become that platform, not Threads. The whole idea is not to be beholden to yet another corporate techbro overlord.

Basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

First they will add loads of new users and become the dominant instances. Then, they will add their own proprietary features that other instances cannot support. Finally, their extensions become the new de-facto standard, marginalizing the original implementations.

Since Meta has proven itself to be an evil company that does not act in good faith, it is better to not federate with them from the start.

Spaghetti alla Putanesca:

For 4 people:

• 400 grams spaghetti
• Olive oil
• One small onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• Red chili flakes, about 1 tsp or to taste
• White wine, 1 glass
• 1 tin of anchovies
• 1 tablespoon brown olives, coarsely chopped
• 1 tablespoon capers
• 2 400 gram cans of tomatoes (crushed or whole, doesn’t really matter)
• A small bunch of flat parsley, chopped

1. Fry the onions in a large skillet on medium heat in the oil, until translucent.
2. Add the garlic, anchovies, chili flakes and olives and fry for a few minutes (go easy on the chili flakes, it shouldn’t be super spicy and you can always add more at the end).
3. Add the white wine and deglaze the pan, cook for a few minutes until reduced by about half.
4. Add the tomatoes and mix everything, let it simmer for half a hour.
5. After half a hour add the capers and most of the parsley.
6. Cook the spaghetti (should take a minute or 8, depending on the spaghetti)
7. The sauce has probably reduced a bit, so add some starchy pasta water to make it more ‘saucy’.
8. Add the cooked spaghetti to the sauce and mix everything.
9. Plate and top with the rest of the parsley.

If you’re making it for 2 people: after step 5, transfer half of the sauce to a Tupperware container. It keeps in the fridge for a few days or you can freeze it.

These are showing up all over the place in The Netherlands, a country that is not built to accommodate these Emotional Support Trucks. Most are bought by business owners who would be served far better by vans. Even a small van has more usable cargo space than these behemoths, and will actually fit in parking spaces, but for some stupid reason these can be had for cheap by companies because of tax rules (that’s what 20 years of right-wing government does for you). It really is beyond infuriating.

I would like to see those polls.

What if you pay them 20 million dollars? ;-)

I love it! The Lemmy web interface was acting a bit wonky at times, this is a great improvement.