lol take that fucking boot out of your mouth.

Good and Cheap is a free cookbook with a broad collection of recipes that can be made from stuff that’s available when you have a grocery store or something around. It has a bunch of useful tools like an overview of what kitchen equipment to buy, a growing season chart for cheap veggies and a breakdown of cost for each recipe.

The whole thing was written to fit the us food stamp budget and if you get tired of the pdf and want physical copy, the publisher will donate one to a family on food stamps when you buy one for yourself.

The recipes are all pretty generalized and can be applied to lots of different ingredients.

What is a priv? You’ve called me one about a half dozen times and I don’t know what it means.

First things first: I will never vote for joe Biden for any office. Never have and never will. You’re not gonna convince me to.

With that out of the way, you can use the fact that a party which doesn’t line up perfectly with your values needs your support to get them to take action that you want. It’s not cruel or a betrayal. If you think there’s something the democrats can be doing better, now’s the time to get it because they need you.

There’s not a single reason to just vote blue no matter who to use a turn of phrase from years past. If you think Biden and the democrats are doing a good job then push them to go even farther. If you think they’re doing a bad job but better than a different party, push them to do a better job.

What’s great about using elections as a time to try to get concessions is it gives people who feel left out by parties a chance to be brought in. If the party makes good on their promises then they can get voters for life!

Doesn’t a better democrat party with new support sound better than slogging out to the polls to vote against someone?

Shoo, they’re breaking out the pablum early this time.

Rather than doing your duty to the democrats, why not recognize the weakness their propaganda indicates and use it to force them to take policy positions you want to get your support?

I’m not fighting you. My post expands on yours by saying that not only could they put app dev resources toward a better solution, it’s already out there and universal in a particular door market.

Idk the name of the mechanism. I’ve always known them as rising butt hinges. The company assa abloy makes them I think.

Commercial fridges already have this. They have a wedge under the hinge with a little shallow notch at the end. The weight of the door pushes the hinge on the wedge and it slowly closes the door when you’re not actively holding it open. The notch is so that it will hold open and is paired with a kick plate so you can give a little boot as you’re walking away to get it back on its closing game.

Look at public restroom stall doors for an example of what I’m talking about.

i guess what i was trying to avoid saying right out is that it’s an indictment of the seriousness of electoralism when the supporters have to roll out quotes about bodily struggling to create a livable home after twenty years of fascist military dictatorship so they can support it.

surely there’s people who wrote stuff about voting that can be used to make the case for voting.

mobilizing words written to encourage peoples involvement in worker struggles as a call to vote doesn’t do any favors for liberal democracy.

this was published during the lost decade’s tumultuous end before brazil even had an election.

a few years after the ops quote was written inflation hit 84%, people were literally fighting in the streets.

it’s more than a little out of context to say that the quote applies to voting.

There’s no provenance for this actually being from Brecht, but it was originally published in Terra Nossa, a leftist periodical used to communicate Brazilian socialist ideas to English speaking Americans.

So weather or not Brecht, a Marxist, said those words or not: they’re not about voting!

Pynchon wrote it better.