FidelChadstro [he/him]

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Cake day: December 9th, 2022

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  • Spaghetti. Noodles are cheap, canned tomato sauce is cheap, but then season up your sauce to actually have flavor.

    Alternately, Here’s my ratio for perfect Mexican style refried beans:

    1 lb pinto beans (2 cups), well rinsed

    1 tbs salt

    1 serrano or jalapeno pepper, seeds removed

    1 half white onion

    2 smashed garlic cloves

    2 pinches (1 tsp?) oregano or one-each oregano and epazote

    2 tbs oil (I just gloop it in unmeasured)

    After your beans are well rinsed, bring just plain beans to a boil for 5 mins, remove from heat, and let sit for 30 mins. Then dump the water, add fresh cold water to 1-2" above the beans, add all the other ingredients, bring to boil, simmer for at least 1 hour but closer to 2 is better. Once beans have the right texture, blend them into a puree. You now have perfect beans for any Mexican recipe. Can be scaled up, just use the proportions listed above






  • Given that one received the surrender of the other, we have one metric to measure who was the better general.

    With that said, if you swapped their resources and roles (imagine US Grant a confederate general and Lee a union general), Lee would probably be victorious on the union side. Wars are won with logistics, not with daring and clever generals.

    And just cuz I was curious, during their Wilderness Campaign in 1864, when they regularly fought head to head, Grant and Lee attritioned each other’s armies down by about 50% each. Grant reduced the Confederate fighting force from 60k --> 30k whereas Lee reduced the union forces from 105k --> 50k. Lee’s leadership did a better job killing union troops then Grant’s did killing confederate troops. Sure, defender’s advantage etc.

    It’s not entirely dissimilar to the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. The Nazis killed a lot of Soviets with their “skilled generals” but weren’t skilled enough to not lose the war