Thanks for the recipe! those waffles look quite similar to how I make them, but with buttermilk instead of normal milk.

The chicken looks basically the same, I always do a buttermilk marinade. Obviously, friend chicken shouldn’t be dry it should be juicy and moist on the inside, and crispy on the outside. But the outer crispness is going to be a bit on the dry side, fatty and rich, but crunchy. The fact that people often have fried chicken with sauce or dip suggests it’s partially on the ‘dry’ end of spectrum.

That’s an intresting take! Maybe the contrasting flavor is more noticeable when the textures are kinda similar? Thanks!

If anyone has any good recommendation for soul food places in celtic France, let me know!!

Do you mean the waffles are spiced too? That’s interesting!

Is that dark gravy in the meat juice + stock + flour sense or that crazy white paste from “biscuits” & “gravy”? Some sort of sauce makes sense, because I’m concerned it’s all a bit dry…

That’s the thing, they don’t seem opposite enough to me. Iove salty sweet: salty caramel, bacon and cheddar on pancakes, I even dip chocolat chip cookies in hummus if I’m in the mood.

The texture of the waffles (crisp on the outside, fluffy in the middle) seems not that far away from the chicken (crispy / crunchy on the outside, juicy in the middle). Both are fatty, but also dryish - obviously still moist, but dry in a crispy way. I could imagine having chicken curry on waffles, the saucy texture would be a nice contrast, but fried chicken…

I guess I’ll just have to try it!

Yeah, that’s why I’m trying to learn what the appeal is. If it’s good, I want to try making it, but I can make decent chicken and good waffles, and I really can’t imagine eating the together. So maybe the waffles need to be a bit different? Or something?

Intriguing… Can you expand on what was good? Or how it was different from what you expected?

I assume it works, otherwise it wouldn’t be a thing! Just trying to understand how… Are the waffles the same texture as Belgian style waffles? Or more like a potato waffle? Were they sweet? Did it have a sauce?

If I can figure out what’s meant to be good about it, I can try making my own!

What’s good about zulip? It’s not one I’m familiar with.

We are considering a seperate play by post game using some of the forums and sites set up for that. But having a voice and video chat with friends, with easy options for adding dice and game management bots is appealing.

For sure. But most people aren’t well known enough to have strangers murder them. If someone wanted to put a bomb in my house they could, I don’t have any security or cameras, I don’t even lock the door that often. But why would they care?

But yeah, it’s wouldn’t just be the rich, anyone famous enough to be known and awful (or just unlucky) enough to make someone genuinely wish them dead would be at risk. ‘ordinary’ people rarely have the power or influence to piss someone off enough to murder them. Although I’m sure the number of mysterious deaths of neighbours and exlovers etc would go up.

I bought foundry but never had time to get the hang of it, and in the end we preferred minimal vtt, just chat and a dice / auto bot. But maybe some day I’ll get into it! Defintely vastly better than roll20

Hah, that’s fine, because it would be for our group activity they’d be fine with making accounts. I never used discord to chat with people outside my small group of irl friends.

I don’t think immigration borders would be the main issue. It’s pretty easy to get into most countries for the price of a return plane ticket, and then you just don’t leave. Unless teleportation was much cheaper and more convenient it wouldn’t change much. I think it would have an impact on customs and smuggling. Pretty easy to bring anything to anywhere without ant chance of interception.

But the biggest shift would be security. Presuming anyone could just make anything appear anywhere, I think the rich and powerful would be very afraid. If teleporting a homemade bomb into someone’s palatial mcmansion was as easy as 3d printing a gun then people wouldn’t have to even go full Luigi to terrorise those people. Remember the anthrax scare? Posting poison is one thing, but just making clouds of it appear in bedrooms or offices with destinctive oval-shapes, would be quite a different level.

I just looked at the top 10 posts for the last month, and 10 newest posts, and they’re really not that negative. I’d say it’s a third quite positive, a third fediverse / tech, and a third quite negative.

But humans perceive negative information much more strongly (at least according to some studies) so even though they’re evenly split, the negative ones might stand out and be more salient. This month’s top ten included “Why does it feel like evil is winning in the world?” (negative) versus "what’s your favourite local dish from your part of the world? (positive). The positive one could feel small and trivial while the negative one feels big, serious and apocalyptic - so of course it stands out more.

As well as salience, people are more likely to post about a problem than a solution (it is asklemmy after all), so it’s really going to be problems, big and small, or fun / silly questions like the local food one. Even more neutral questions about advice are often revolving around a negative problem. I’ve just posted asking about good alternatives to discord (fairly neutral I think?) and I’m hoping for positive “this other thing is great!” responses, but I’m kinda asking because I’m sick of enshitification (which is negative).

The other possibility is that the new and top rankings are not representative. Perhaps posts are mostly mixed but the ones that get popular are more negative, but the occasional popular poistive one is such a pleasant surprise that it ends up making it to the top ten.

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Yeah, seen something like this in the UK. You take a scanner and scan everything as you shop, then just lay the bill as you exit. To begin with they even offered a discount I think. But they didn’t have a weigh option, just that they’d check some carts ‘at random’. My understanding was, like self checkouts, even if there’s a little more theft it’s more than made up for by less workers.

Defintely. But it’s not so much I feel morally bad, I just hate reddit so I don’t enjoy using it. I guess I was hidden from the worst of it by using boost, but now when I want to use reddit briefly (to ask some niche question that I won’t get a lot of responses on lemmy) I use the website and the experience is so unpleasant. There’s now all these awful gamification popups, “Keep your 1/300 streak going!” bullshit.

Okay, that makes sense. I took OP’s question to be about what notifications you use/want and which you turn off. They describe allowing only calls and messages, and were asking what else people permitted. E.g. I don’t allow my lemmy app to notify me about replies, but I’m sure some people do.

Defintely hook up.