classic sawmill gravy was based off béchamel but using cheap items with food shortages after the Revolutionary War – I think it should be relatively straight forward to adapt …

• start with a roux from flour and oil (coconut oil, light olive oil, avocado oil)
• thicken with plant milk (almond milk, oat milk)
• flavor with black pepper (maybe a hint of liquid smoke)
• season to taste with salt (or mushroom seasoning (Asian grocery, Trader Joe’s) or Vegemite)

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the products and services sponsoring today’s show? they definitely won’t sell your kidneys, you have our word on that!

Deja Vu (but Worse)

forget Martha Stewart – but Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson as heads of the DEA and FDA

“… because this cannot be real life! It just can’t!”

Robert Evans – writer, comedian, conflict journalist, podcaster – Cracked, Bellingcat, Behind the Bastards, did a podcast from Rojava, and reported live from Portland’s George Floyd protests

nAtUrAl ImMuNiTy!

arrowroot – “arrowroot thickens at a lower temperature than flour or cornstarch”

when the anti-climate garbage is freely available and shouted everywhere and the pro-climate information is buried by corporate media or hidden behind a paywall …

“We don’t appreciate you stealing our stolen data!”

this is referring to canned coffee drinks, not ground coffee sold in coffee cans …

have they tried not starting wildfires?

(also keep an eye out for where you’re stepping)

no love for RISC-V?

BP: keep offshore oil spilling

• handwriting is pretty much pure muscle memory – regardless of which direction you head, it’s going to require practice to learn a new style and practice to break old habits
• cursive was based off of drawings (copperplate etchings), not writing, which is why it comes across as hard to read and feels artificial
• italic is an older style out of the Renaissance that has the advantages of being based off of writing, is far more legible, looks just as elegant, and (with practice) can be faster than both print and cursive
  • Rosemary Sassoon and G SE Briem, Teach Yourself Better Handwriting
  • Gunnlaugur SE Briem Handwriting
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the more subsidies, the more transparent EVERYTHING about their operation has to be

• “younger residents having smaller families and moving elsewhere for jobs”
• “many residents in this deeply Republican town”

gee, I can’t imagine why young people would want to leave such a stagnant regressive environment …