No Italian ricotta cheesecake? For shame!

I kid, but I seriously recommend people try it. Crust optional, filling is a combo of ricotta and marscapone cheese with butter and sour cream. Wonderful as-is, but even better with strawberry or raspberry sauce.

Copying a comment I left on a post about a woman from Edmonton dealing with a similar fight with Equifax and their ilk:

I am in the US, but I had to fight them over the course of several years after a rental agency sold an old debt to a collection agency right after the COVID shutdown happened. The rental company claimed I owed several thousand in damages to my old apartment, my roommates and I had taken them to court and won, meaning the debt was dismissed legally. If they wanted to try to collect it, they would have needed to sue me to reverse this decision.

I sent both credit agencies all of the proof, including the legal paperwork for the judge’s dismissal of the debt. They refused to accept it and remove the debt because “the collection agency confirmed they had the right info”. The collection agency refused to stop reporting the debt, even when I provided them the same proof. I had to scrape up another few thousand over the next five years to pay a lawyer to threaten to sue the lot of them in federal court before they removed it. And in the meantime, my credit score tanked, and I was repeatedly denied housing, needed credit like car financing, and even was denied opening a bank account.

Both of these companies are operating with flagrant disregard of the law, besides the fact that they shouldn’t exist in the first place. The problem is in the fact that we woukd need a massive class action to do anything, and no one is willing to do that. So they keep getting away with bringing people’s lives to a halt. I was lucky enough to have a partner to help me through it, but I know so many others who weren’t so lucky.

While Covid certainly doesn’t help, the trend started well before then, and none of the research points to this being a factor at all. Unless there is a atudy linking the two, or some other evidence, just blaming Covid for every new health phenomenon is misinformation at best and dangerous at worst, as it implies that the factors listed should be disregarded.

Cis and transgender people, as well as intersex and other gender nonconforming people, not just women.

Trans men are being denied hormones and used as a template to remove access to reproductive healthcare for people who need it. Intersex people are being denied bodily autonomy and used to make official policies that determine people’s gender for them. Gender non conforming people who may not ID as trans are being punished for appearing outside the norm and used to fearmonger about social contagion.

I am not trying to say trans women don’t need support, they absolutely do. But this also impacts more than just them, and focusing on only women when many other people who are often erased are also affected adds to that erasure. If something affects more than just trans women, then the other people suffering should be included in statements made about it.

I am in the US, but I had to fight them over the course of several years after a rental agency sold an old debt to a collection agency right after the COVID shutdown happened. The rental company claimed I owed several thousand in damages to my old apartment, my roommates and I had taken them to court and won, meaning the debt was dismissed legally. If they wanted to try to collect it, they would have needed to sue me to reverse this decision.

I sent both credit agencies all of the proof, including the legal paperwork for the judge’s dismissal of the debt. They refused to accept it and remove the debt because “the collection agency confirmed they had the right info”. The collection agency refused to stop reporting the debt, even when I provided them the same proof. I had to scrape up another few thousand over the next five years to pay a lawyer to threaten to sue the lot of them in federal court before they removed it. And in the meantime, my credit score tanked, and I was repeatedly denied housing, needed credit like car financing, and even was denied opening a bank account.

Both of these companies are operating with flagrant disregard of the law, besides the fact that they shouldn’t exist in the first place. The problem is in the fact that we woukd need a massive class action to do anything, and no one is willing to do that. So they keep getting away with bringing people’s lives to a halt. I was lucky enough to have a partner to help me through it, but I know so many others who weren’t so lucky.

Actually for something similar. Yeast extract, or Vegemite/marmite as some know it, is a byproduct of brewing, and many vegan recipes use these products for a meat-y flavor.

I personally find meaning in doing what I can to make the world in general better. I view being a “steward of the earth”, as it were, as being enough of a meaning to my life. Not for religious reasons, but because any bit of help I can do makes a difference to people and causes I care about.

In the era we are in now, with me being in the US, I am describing this feeling as being like a nurse in hospice. Several of my family have been either hospice nurses or patients, and it informs a lot of my view. Even if the little things I do don’t “cure” or “fix” anything, it makes life more comfortable for someone who needs it. I do more when I can, but this helps me not feel useless during times I can’t do more.

Roasting them in a non-cast iron pan is the way to lose the least amount of vitamin C out of all available cooking methods. And to someone who won’t eat radishes if they aren’t cooked, they get more vitamin C eating them cooked than not eating them at all.

If anyone here dislikes the peppery taste of raw radishes, I recommend cutting them into chunks, tossing with some olive oil, salt, and other seasoning and roast them until they are tender. This gets rid of the peppery taste and makes them taste more like potatoes or turnips.

This also needs to apply for intersex infants. It is currently standard practice to try to surgically “correct” any infants that display intersex traits at birth, regardless if there is an actual medical necessity.

Of course, this would also require adding a third option to standard birth certificates, or removing assigned sex from the certificates, which reactionary chuds would throw a fit over.

Most Famous: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

Least Famous: The Gates by DaVinci’s Notebook

I know of more famous and less famous songs, but I went with ones that are personal favorites.

He doesn’t have the power to do that, but he did lift the ban on protesting outside those syangogues and churches, and he removed the use of the IDF definition of ‘antisemitism’ by the city.

Follow Your Heart, which is one of the biggest (and best IMO) for vegan cheese, isn’t owned by another company. Violife is owned by Unilever, but Miyokos was only just bought by Melt Organics. And the only other brands I have seen are all very small brands that are local. So I am not sure why you claim they are owned by “the same Big Food Conglomerates” when Violife is the only one that is true for.

Yeah, the FBI started showing up at my work during the last Trump presidency due to me going to peaceful protests. And I’m a white dude, though I am trans. Taking part in peaceful protests and community activism should be treated as putting your name on their list, regardless of the actual actions, reasons, or demographics.

This is correct, and it isn’t just associated with acids. It’s because of an effect called ‘freezing point depression’, which is the same reason salt lowers the freezing point of water while raising its boiling point.

There are a few explanations as to why this happens, with the easiest being this: if you add something that can’t freeze to something that can, then the whole thing will need to lose more energy to allow the whole mass to solidify because the un-freezing stuff physically interferes with the attempts of the freezing stuff to bind together.

However, there is also the additional aspect of vapor pressure, which comes into play when adding things that can freeze to another thing that also freezes, but at a different temperature. I don’t really understand that at all, so I will pull from the Wikipedia article on it:

The freezing point is the temperature at which the liquid solvent and solid solvent are at equilibrium, so that their vapor pressures are equal. When a non-volatile solute is added to a volatile liquid solvent, the solution vapour pressure will be lower than that of the pure solvent. As a result, the solid will reach equilibrium with the solution at a lower temperature than with the pure solvent. This explanation in terms of vapor pressure is equivalent to the argument based on chemical potential, since the chemical potential of a vapor is logarithmically related to pressure. All of the colligative properties result from a lowering of the chemical potential of the solvent in the presence of a solute. This lowering is an entropy effect. The greater randomness of the solution (as compared to the pure solvent) acts in opposition to freezing, so that a lower temperature must be reached, over a broader range, before equilibrium between the liquid solution and solid solution phases is achieved. Melting point determinations are commonly exploited in organic chemistry to aid in identifying substances and to ascertain their purity.

So, TL;DR is that chemistry is weird, things react weird at the molecular level because of energy states, and that is what allows us to make ice cream!