This guy and his name calling lol. What grade is he in?

“I won the Debate.” - lol, what?? There were no points. No one won. It was merely a chance for each candidate to appeal to the voters.

“Everyone knows this” - No they don’t. If everyone knew that, he wouldn’t be saying it just like he’s not saying that we’re on planet Earth because everyone already knows that.

“KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD.” - She was the Vice President. Her role is basically to break ties in the Senate and go to social gatherings to fill in for the President.

“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” - Cause he saw how much it affected him in the polls. If the debate had helped him, he’d be calling for more debates. It would make no sense to be losing but declining debates because it helped the polls.

He must have seen how stupid he looked up there. She was laughing at him with his stupid pet-eating rant. The dude tanked his chances with that part alone. The “concepts of a plan” was just a bonus.

As I got older, I realised that there were no real winners and there were no real losers…but there were victims and there were students

• Ren Gill

I love the compassionate intervention that allows @Rooki@lemmy.world the opportunity to learn and correct his behaviors and models that level of compassion. Thank you very much! 😊

because you found it funny

my celebrity crush: Zoe Saldana. she kinda looks like an alien, but damn…she is the epitome of beauty, my Aphrodite 😍

That is a fantastic painting! The artist nailed it.

oh no!! losing that backpack must’ve been devastating 😩

i’ve been using the same backpack since 2001. i can’t imagine losing it. it’s part of my identity. if i don’t have it with me, people ask about it.

Every kiss I have had has been on 🌈Autism Peak🌈

Yes, of course! Let’s share to make the world happier 🙂

Ingredients

• 2 cups of basmati rice
• ½ cup dried black beans
• 1 cup dry white cooking wine
• 1.5 garlic heads peeled (I’m a garlic head).
• ½ green bell pepper plus two strips
• ½ Spanish/sweet onion
• 5-10 pitted manzanilla green olive (I use the ones with pimiento in them)
• However much lard you feel comfortable with. I use about two heaping spoons full.
• ½ cup of olive oil
• 1 bay leaf
• oregano to taste
• parsley to taste
• a slight pinch of paprika
• salt and black pepper to taste
• cilantro to taste (if you like cilantro, ofc)

Steps

1. Get half a cup of olive oil, and press half a full garlic into it. Set it aside for later.

2. Soften the beans using your preferred method. I use a pressure cooker. Add the two strips of green bell pepper to this process.

3. Dice the onion and leftover bell pepper. Chop the olives in half.

4. Use a garlic press and sautee a garlic in the lard at a temperature just enough to make it sautee. The lower, the better. This gets the lard tasting like garlic oil. We want to make sure we don’t overcook the garlic and so that it turns brown. I like to do this in a cast iron pot so I can make the rice in it later.

5. Once the lard looks like it tastes like garlic, add the diced onion and rest of bell pepper. This mix is called “sofrito”.

6. Once the onion is translucent, strain half of the beans using a spatula against the pot and sautee them with the sofrito. You can also add half of the rice to this mix. Get the delicious oil into the beans and rice!

7. Once you feel that the beans and rice have enough juice in them (probably around 5-10 mins), we’re going to make the arroz con gris. Place all of the rice, beans, and sofrito in a pot.

8. Add 2 cups of black water leftover from the bean softening process and 1 cup of cooking wine. Sometimes, people will use half a cup of cooking wine and half a cup of vinegar.

9. Add the herbs: oregano, parsley, and an optional small amount of paprika. It’s hard to put too much oregano, but be more careful with the parsley. Don’t put too much paprika it can be overpowering. We want just a slight barely noticeable hint of paprika. Add salt and pepper to taste. If you’re unsure of the amount, use less than you feel comfortable with because you can always add it later when you’re eating it. Also, add bay leaf.

10. Set the stove to high and get the mix to boil, and as soon as it does, lower the temp to a low simmer (like 1-2 on my stove), and close the pot with a lid. Set a timer for 20 mins. Once the timer goes off, check it. If it looks wet, it still needs to cook more. If it looks dry but hard, you might need to add ¼ more black water and this means the temp is too high. If it looks almost done, then turn the stove off. After ~5 mins, take the top off, and mix it with a spatula. It’s almost done! Note: The more often you lift the lid to check the rice, the more you will need to add water because the steam escapes.

11. Once it’s fluffy, it’s time to serve. Yay! Serve the con gris onto plates. Use a spoon to drizzle as much of that garlic/olive oil mix we made at the beginning as you want. I like using a lot because I’m a garlic head. I’ve never said, “This is too much garlic.” Also, raw garlic is good for your heart, medically speaking. You can add cilantro now too, but not earlier because it will get cooked and change the flavor.

12. Eat it! If there are leftovers, place them in containers and freeze it in case you’re hungry in 6-12 months 😜

13. Tell me how it came out.

• Let me know if you have any questions! If you’re cooking and have questions in the moment, hit me up on Matrix. I love this stuff and would be excited to guide you through the process. @backonmybs:matrix.org

ITT: people who have severely underestimated Mozart’s musical capacities and contributions.

Mozart is a musician that is studied by nearly any professional musician. There are historians, musical scholars, and museums dedicated to him. He’s a household name across the world. He established a period of music. As a teenager, he deciphered a 12 min choral piece with multiple groups and solos after hearing it once and by memory wrote it down later that night (he heard it a 2nd time a few days later for minor corrections). When he presented the score to the clergy, they said he got one note wrong. After investigation, Mozart heard it right. The musician’s score was off by a note. Could any popular musician mentioned here decipher just a 6 min song of 4 instrument band after hearing it once with pen and paper ready? Imagine telling any music legend now, “Hey, you’re off by a half a step on the 3rd note of bar 28 of your own song.”

Comparing an awesome popular singer, guitarist, or band to him is like comparing your friend that got a job at NASA to Einstein. There is no modern Mozart. There have been greats since Mozart, but there haven’t been any Mozarts since Mozart. I say this as a Beethoven fan. Mozart was the only Mozart. He was so good, that his name became a title for great musician: Mozart. No one listed in this thread is anywhere near being a Mozart.

Somos Abnormales by Residente (Spanish song by Puerto Rican artist)

• Video (VERY NSFW!!)
• Song with lyrics (safe for work)

Lyrics in Spanish:

Lyrics translate to English:

I share this songs for several reasons:

One, the artist is openly autistic, saying in one of his songs that he was diagnosed as a kid. To me, it seems like he also takes special effort to be authentic and engage in his uniqueness without any shame.

Two, the song is called “We’re Abnormals”. My Hispanophone family nicknamed me Arnold Mal, which was pretty clever on multiple levels. I was the first American-born and native Anglophone in the family, so the name Arnold was fitting in that they saw it as an English name. Also, when read in Spanish, “Arnold Mal” sounds like they are calling me abnormal. That was fitting because I was definitely the weirdo of the family. Before diagnosis, it made sense since I grew up with my father’s side of the family, yet stuck out as being oddly different from them. They often told me that I reminded them of my mother my entire life. I had embraced it because I was proud to not take after a lot of their traits, which I found did not match well with my ethical standards. After diagnosis, it makes even much more sense since I’m autistic and they aren’t (bonus: my mother was very likely autistic). I stuck out for being odd in my manner of doing things, preferring order, limited socialization compared to them, interacting softly, and having a strong moral code. Related to the strong moral code, the artist has a history of composing songs that stand up for underdogs and disadvantaged people, which I can relate to my whole life.

Three, because of my experiences and projecting that onto the artist, I see it as him having similar experiences, probably being labelled as abnormal since childhood. By the way, abnormal is a common term for those that aren’t neurotypical in Latin America. He taking on the identity as if saying, “If I’m abnormal, then I’m going to be proud of being abnormal with all my other abnormals,” then, celebrating being abnormal and its benefits. Basically, the song is about being prideful of being different, and I love that. Ultimately, the song is about being proud of being you, especially if you’re abnormal 🥹

Four, the song also has lyrics that relate to common autistic traits.

• “We resist using uniforms,” which is common among autistics to resist conformity.

• “Because we look curious.” Special interests! But also confused in social situations and I know I have a staring problem when I try to figure people out.

• “What I like about you is that you are abnormal.” Yep! I naturally gravitate to autistics, even before knowing I was autistic. But also, there’s research to support that with the concept of the double-empathy theory that argues that autistic people aren’t lacking empathy, they’re just better at empathizing with other autistics. The same goes for neurotypical people in that they also empathize better with other allistics.

• “Our sexuality awakens, the DNA with spread legs.” I’ve read that autistic people tend to have atypical sexual preferences, from asexuality to uncommon kinks.

• “Our genetics, a labyrinth.” This reminds me of the autism evaluation process when the evaluator tried to figure out who else in my family was autistic.

• “We are equally different”. Yeah, we’re just different. No worse, no better.

• “What gets mixed up is more interesting…What I like about you is that you are abnormal.” To me, autistic people tend to be much more interesting. They have their uniqueness and special interests.

• “I’m abnormal.” I’m Arnold Mal, and I’m abnormal.