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1 cup sweet rice (also known as glutinous rice; it doesn't have gluten in it, it's just starchy - you can substitute sushi rice or basmati rice, but the texture will be somewhat incorrect).

1.5 cups water, divided

1 can coconut milk

.25 tsp salt

~3-5 tbsp sugar (you can use brown sugar, white sugar, coconut sugar, whatever - I wouldn't recommend something with a strong, distinct flavor like maple syrup)

1 unreasonably large mango, or 2 normal ones.

Put the rice in a medium pot and soak in one cup of water for 30 minutes, add another half cup of water, the salt, 1tbsp sugar, and half the can of coconut milk to the pan and bring it to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer with the lid slightly open to let steam out. Let simmer until liquid is absorbed, stir, and let sit covered for 5-10 minutes to cool and 'set.' None of the recipes I found said 'set' but basically you're letting shit congeal into its final form so it's setting.

In a small saucepan combine sugar to taste and the rest of the coconut milk. Heat slowly while stirring occasionally, and let simmer until the mixture slightly thickens.

Dice up your mango.

Serve warm - it's a scoop of rice with mango on top and you drizzle it with as much of the coconut sugar sauce as you want. It's surprisingly rich, so I'd say this is about 6 servings?

get yourself a USB stick from any dollar store, install ubuntu with persistent storage on it. There is literally no reason not to, and it means that you now have a little computer of your very own that no one except those who physically get their hands on your USB stick can use (and you can password lock the OS) and that you can run from literally almost any PC with USB ports. Including public machines in libraries and, probably, school laptops.

none of us will be able to go to Techno's funeral, and that's a good thing - hell, no cementary would fit over 10 milion people - but it's okay if you need a ritual of your own to honor him, to help yourself, to help each other through this.

in few days, if you need to spend a day watching his videos, or talking to a friend about Techno, laugh, cry, reminiscence, build a shrine on your minecraft world - that's okay. that's not parasocial, that's human. you are allowed to grieve even if you've never met a person - he changed the lives of so many people for the better, we didn't know him but we did know the part of him that he wanted to share. we were allowed to love him.

and at the end of the day he loved us enough to not let us mourn him without knowing his name.

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And yeah as several people pointed out it isn’t even explicitly in the bible, but something some radicals pieced together in maybe only the last century. My uncles all believe it to the letter and they all believe it’s what the Bible is “supposed” to be communicating.

A lot of people are also confused as to why they would believe the peace and unity are villainous things and what the difference even is then between the “antichrist” and actual Jesus, which brings me to another thing I realize some folks CRITICALLY overlook about American Christianity, which is that they do not believe in good or bad deeds. They believe the same deed can be right or wrong strictly according to whether or not it’s performed by a believer with God’s stamp of approval. Like, they KNOW the Satanic Church and Witch Covens do community service or donate to cancer research and they are not confused, surprised, bitter or embarrassed by that at all. It’s exactly what they’re taught to expect. They believe the forces of Satan do primarily “good” things so people will think he’s just as good or better than God. So if a pastor heals a sick child with a prayer then that’s good, but if a “witch” heals the same sick child with “magic” (not something I believe exists, but they do) then that’s a false miracle from the devil and the child was better off dying because now everyone involved is a sinner who deserves hell. They’re taught to view you as a ridiculous fool if you don’t grasp this difference, and every single argument you might make is a part of the satanic trickery.

….And something I’ve heard before but still neglected to mention:

…..so that’s all pretty nightmarish confirmation of how pervasive this mindset is around here, but you know, if the majority of reactions to this information have been either “what the fuck are you talking about?” or “yeah I WAS taught this and I’m better now,” maybe that’s a sign that it’s slowly but consistently fading with every generation?