WizardOfFrobozz

Japan’s most popular fairly-priced national sushi chain is doing things much more wild than ranch on a rotating monthly basis. Every time I’m in Japan for work I stop in to Sushiro just to see what they’re doing this month that would make American weebs angry.

Previous owner just laid down hundreds of square meters of weed barrier fabric and then dumped gravel on it. We’re currently trying to re-shape the situation into a US southwestern-style dry garden.

Specifically, I’m in the middle of moving a good deal of the existing gravel, removing the turf grass, and replacing it with a free-draining landscape built around gravel mulch and natural stone. Planting areas are shaped to create an open, desert-inspired feel, with plants grouped in drifts and clusters rather than traditional flower beds. Gonna focus on species that can handle cold winters, hot summers, drought, and wind while still capturing the character of those landscapes.

Rather than recreating Arizona, adapting the look of the American Southwest to the Canadian prairie climate and growing conditions. Small palette of hardy plants like yuccas, prickly pears, ornamental grasses, sages, blanket flowers, and coneflowers.

Goal is an open, sculptural, low-maintenance landscape inspired by northern New Mexico- adapted to the Canadian Prairies. Fire pit and seating area in the middle, so far, so good.

Without fail.

If you ever put those videos in an album somewhere, let me know. Doing similar projects on my property, always good to get inspiration

Professor of applied linguistics here, can confirm, language is fluid, don’t be a goober

If you’re documenting this anywhere, I’d love to see the work in progress.

It’s a “shitty people” problem.

“Antisocial” doesn’t mean “introverted”

People forget that glass bottles and gasoline are (relatively) inexpensive

And millions of supposedly more intelligent people in “the resistance” who somehow can’t figure out how to outmaneuver them.

I never want to hear another word about how “stupid” the US right wing is again.

Attention span. Get one.

I didn’t say you can’t, I said it’s a bit mid. Most traditional Mediterranean cooks keep two kinds of olive oil- cheap, refined olive oil for everyday frying and roasting, and more flavorful extra-virgin olive oil for salads and drizzling over finished dishes. Regular olive oil is milder and better suited to higher heat, so you’re not burning off expensive aromas. extra-virgin is basically olive “juice” with all the peppery, fruity notes you actually want to taste, so it is best used raw or at low heat. Outside that region, though, most people (at least here in Canada and I would guess the US as well) just have one bottle of extra-virgin and use it for pan frying too, which works okay but is a bit of a waste of its flavor and price.

You’re still going to get off flavors and waste money in the process.

Should be clarified butter or a a more neutral oil.

Using olive oil for sauteeing isnt the worst but it’s kind of mid. Heat will bring out bitterness and the smoke point is low. Save your olive oil for finishing dishes or using in cool/cooled preparations, where its aroma and fruitiness can actually shine instead of getting dulled by heat.

My first thought was “I haven’t experienced this since Final Fantasy XII,” but you’re right.

Edit: wait, it says “story is great,” disregard my FFXII comment 😆

See also: white liberals in the US

and they still cheer their asses off at hockey games when they unironically put their hands on their hearts and sing it full-throated like absolute clowns

Everyone who ever did anything of note had plenty to lose.

Americans think their historical heroes were Disney characters without families, jobs, or hopes- just the “good guys” whose victory was guaranteed.

You could just say “pants-pissing fear of possible discomfort to the point that they’ll tolerate outright abuse.”

That’s servile, cowardly bullshit. Those who are overworked and underpaid have greater incentive than anyone to take action.

Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.