Saladarity

fake solidarity because this doesnt help ukraine, it's just
double-fake solidarity because it only "felt like" an act of solidarity
terminal liberal brainworms, to think your individual boycott matters

This just looks like someone coping with rising energy bills by pretending their financial pain is an act of solidarity.
- Yass solidarity with Nazi imperialists
good meme post, just wanna share a viewpoint tht I think some people may not be aware: As a consequence of the war, oil and gas from Russia stopped, and that accounted for not only a big part of the electricity generation, but especially that part that is used to cover peak electrical consumption, ie mornings and dinnertime. in the EU at least, electricity prices change by the hour. and the grid is interconnected between countries, and many countries have had their own energy-struggles, like in Germany where proponents of nuclear energy had gotten the power to phase it all out, made them reliant on importing power.

so the spikes in energy bills were real tough. Your electricity bill being multiples of 10 more expensive ...makes memes, at least

The traditional Italian method of boiling pasta

making it according to the traditional Italian method in an uncovered pot of vigorously boiling water

What other methods are there? Microwave?

An Italian scientist got a lot of flak back in 2022 for pointing out that you can boil the pasta for 2-3 minutes, turn off the burner, and let the residual heat cook the rest of the pasta and get the same result, saving some (very expensive back then) gas. So apparently that's a more energy-efficient way to cook pasta, if marginally so.

Italians, not liking when their very dear "muh traditions" are exposed to be based on rote repetition of recipes from very different material conditions and marketing from the 1920s, got very mad at him before even trying if the method worked or not.
- Every time I go into the comments of a youtube video about making a traditional Italian dish easier it's full of the most pretentious people in the world talking about how "That's not real Risotto, my Italian mother blah blah blah" like shut the fuck up, your name is Carl and you live in Altoona, Iowa.
- Huh, interesting! They also mention pre-soaking the pasta for two hours to save more energy (since most of the time is really spent rehydrating rather than truly cooking) which can cut the cooking time from ten minutes to one or two minutes. Might have to give it a shot out of curiosity!
- An Italian scientist in a lab coat, wearing a chef hat, with beakers full of sauces, intently studying pasta. When the results stump him, they do the hand gesture.
- As someone who works in an Italian restaurant making food in a stupid way cause trad is most of the cuisine.
- i always put the pasta in first, cover it with as little cold water as possible and then put a lid on it until it boils. its supposed to be faster but i mainly do it because i know it would piss off italians
- Italians are some of the most smug about their cooking "traditions." I really don't get it, why are they such weirdos about it? It's really annoying.
You’ve never had cold brew pasta?
- You don't make your pasta in a Fr*nch press?
I boil my water in a covered pot first,otherwise it takes more time to get to boiling
I like to do the all American method of serving chicken, by cooking it before eating it.
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You've never cooked pasta to Al dente in a bamboo steamer??

Caesars for Azov

With complementary "Roman" salutes
- Romaine Salute
- I thought it was weird when they brought out the breadsticks tied in a bundle around a tiny axe.

Reminds me of the time Germans turned off their lights one evening to show Putin how upset they were.

Performative malarkey.

To be fair, turning off the lights while losing to Russia is a German tradition

Slava lettucia!

Salad Ukraini

If your energy bills are so high that you're looking for more efficient ways to cook food (which in a normal energy market would only save you a few cents per serving), it's time to revolt!

Nah I think I’ll give more money to the military to show the enemy who’s boss

Reducing energy expenditure in order to curb global warming? Naw.

Choosing not to run the stove to boil 2L of water for 10 minutes, in order to weaken Russia? Now we're talking.

It turns out we were wrong all the time we were thinking that there was no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.

kelly

Thank you for your service :usa:

Look blueberries and cheese go hard. Slava

Direct action gets the goods

Does no liberal ever why this conflict is happening in Ukraine and not in Mongolia or some other country that Russia could easily conquer if that were the goal?

Better control and access to the Black Sea, plus better agricultural land and I think oil fields. Plus the whole NATO thing and the proximity to Moscow.