8 pepper jack / turkey kielbasa brekaritos added to Mrs batch
load / run shwasher
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I should have internalized this lesson long before yesterday: browning and omeletting one burrito's worth of ingredients at a time is by far the most time-consuming way to make batches of brekaritos.
BUT browning and scrambling 8 ritos' ingredients in one go, tends to give inconsistent filling ratios.
The middle way is dice+brown all the meat at once, then weigh and divide into calculated per-'rito portions,
to scramble into individual rito egg/chz batches.
Another possible approach is:
-brown all the meat together, weigh and calc per-portion measure;
- scramble all the eggs, weigh and calc per-portion measure;
- combine with shredded cheese on the tortilla, nuke open-faced to melt/bond, then fold/wrap that up.
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opinion piece perpetrated as 18 pages of images of text
- Stunningly awkward platform for something that should have been a blog post or Medium article.
- The whole piece reads like an intentional parody of a reactionary anti-feminist manifesto.
- Most of the criticisms I could spitball are merely inverse counterarguments to patriarchal apologia.
- Anytime someone decries a human behavior or social norm as "unnatural", I have to roll my eyes.
- "Unnatural" is a veneer of implied rationalism slopped on narratives calculated to devalue / dehumanize.
- Ducks and dolphins tend to male-dominated social structures. No evidence of "unnatural" influence.
- But instead of waffling about extremely not-human spiders, ducks etc., look at our closest hominid cousins:
- Bonobo ape communities are matriarchal, chimps patriarchal. Both are "natural".
- Reducing men's value to their reproductive role is as bigoted as reducing women to childbearing capacity.
- "Agricultural revolution" is anthropology's term for the transition from nomadic hunter/gatherer society, to "civilization". "Civilizing", from Latin civitas, literally "city", populated by "civil-ians", citizens, literally citi/city -dwellers. Civilization is literally, etymologically, settling down in fixed locations to develop civil infrastructure. Archaeology does support the claim that matriarchal gave way to patriarchal social structure alongside agricultural revolutions. Good for "designmom", she did that much homework. But rather than handwave it as "unnatural", we should consider the hypothesis that a shift of decision-making roles from egalitarian to male-dominated heirarchy might be a "natural" tendency of the process of civilization.
- Humans are the PEAK example of the tiny handful of species for which birthing is a potentially life-threatening medical crisis, often requiring assistance for survival of mother and offspring. In "Hamnet", we see Jessie Buckley's character sneak off to her favorite wooded grove to deliver her first child solo. Sure, it's possible, but unnecessarily risky. And while the in-laws' intervention in delivery of her second pregnancy did look a lot like control-freaky bullying, the emergent complications of delivering twins vindicated them.
- Why is the human species' peculiar vulnerability in childbirth pertinent? Because prior to modern medicine, men could continue participating in foraging or city-building throughout the reproductive cycle; whereas women faced reduced mobility in late pregnancy, potential disabling-to-fatal complications during delivery, and a light-duty recovery furlough shading into extended nursing. These realities shaped the kinds of tasks matched to women before and after birthing. Not hard to envision how practical adaptive labor divisions turned into gender-bound traditions over generations of city-dwelling. Women, with their unfortunate tendency to disabling-to-deadly childbirth, became viewed as the interchangable / "disposable" gender. Even investing in education of women came to be seen as a risk of wasted time and effort. All designmom's wordcraft about men being interchangable is just the inverted derivation of that patriarchal trope.
I skipped 10+ pages to the end, where in summary designmom states something to the effect of "men don't even like being rulers". This is perhaps the most telling hint that the whole production is satirical entertainment, not an earnest manifesto.