Tonight I commit science to see if it is truly possible to put too much garlic into a garlic burger, or if that is malicious information spread by vampires.
4 cloves of garlic per half pound burger = “hunh, that’s definitely some garlic and garlic is delicious.”
In the fridge is more hamburger meat with Even Moar garlic. Nomnoms for tomorrow.
United States Representatives are well-paid—they take in $174,000 a year. But the new class of congress members elected this week won’t get their first government payday until they’re sworn in in January, and until then it would probably raise some eyebrows if they earned money in the private sector. Three months without a salary may not be a problem for most representatives, who have a median net worth of $900,000. But for a young, working-class congressional rookie like New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, getting an apartment in Washington D.C. while technically jobless presents challenges.
She told The New York Times that the period until she’s sworn in will be “very unusual, because I can’t really take a salary.”
“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.” She said she saved money before leaving her job at the restaurant, and planned accordingly with her partner. “We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”
Naturally, the minds at Fox News find the idea of living on a limited income to be hilarious. Correspondent Ed Henry mocked Ocasio-Cortez for wearing “multi-thousand dollar outfits” in photo shoots during the campaign instead of saving for rent money. (Henry appears unfamiliar with the fact that people don’t get to keep the designer clothes they’re loaned for photo shoots.) Panel contributor Judy Miller called Ocasio-Cortez’s account of her financial struggles “a brilliant political” line, while conceding that D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in the nation.
Ocasio-Cortez clapped back on Twitter, noting that the housing crisis is very much real.
Like a pro, she also brought the issue back to her platform. Working-class people are underrepresented in U.S. politics, and while Ocasio-Cortez’s history-making status as the youngest woman ever elected to congress is amazing, her status as the rare working-class legislator is also hugely important.
tbh im kinda glad that a lot of the realistic pokemon in the detective pikachu trailer are high key teetering on the edge of uncanny valley because like.. these are fantasy creatures that sort of talk and shoot fucking electricity and vines and fire and psychic energy out their eyeballs, they SHOULD look weird and alien. psyduck is a pokemon defined by the fact that it is experiencing an unending headache that motherfucker better look like he has seen the rise and fall of civilization itself. mr mime is literally like three brain cells away from being straight up human the sight of one should make me uncomfortable.
basically what im saying is we have been spoon-fed woobified anime pokemon for too long. put the monster back in pocket monsters.
You know what really fucking bothers me about school in general?
It took away my passion.
Before high school I loved to read. I devoured books over and over, stayed up reading with a flashlight when I needed to know what happened next chapter, cherished every book and refused to crack their spines.
Now I can’t remember the last time I read a real book. In English class they would assign us Great Gatsby and Frankenstein and Heart of Darkness and Grapes of Wrath and I couldn’t bring myself to read a single one. Too many things to do, not enough time. Reading became a burden, not an escape.
So I just stopped. I stopped reading every second I had free time. I stopped picking up books in the bookstore. I gave away half my collection. I keep saying “I’ll get back into it soon” but it’s been years.
I stopped reading because I was being forced to read books I wasn’t interested in, and now I’m being forced to read 200 pages a week from textbooks to not fail my classes. I stopped reading because school killed that passion.
This is the exact same experience i had with reading.
I can pinpoint the exact moment this happened to me and it was in 11th grade, when we were forced to read The Scarlet Letter, which is a hellishly bad and boring book, and also when we were given our weekly test on it, we were asked, I shit you not, “what month does The Scarlet Letter take place in”. This was a fact mentioned once, on page 1, and this was enough for our teacher to think it should have been a gimme question. So for that book and every book after through high school and college I read like I was trying to memorize the whole damn thing because as far as I knew I might have to.
I am slowly starting to recover my love of reading but my god it has been a torturous slog and I blame her specifically for that.
Land of Sweetness and Light 
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