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christinaengela · 1 year

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A Little More About The Coming New Titles In The Quantum Series

Hello, friends and fans! For the past seven years I’ve been crafting a story arc set within the Quantum Series that – starting with book 5 (“Prodigal Sun“) and spanning books 6, 7, 8 and 9 – takes the quirky characters and residents of the planet Deanna through their darkest, most uncertain times yet. Right now, the first two books in that story arc already available since 2017, and the third (7)…

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theshitpostcalligrapher · 2 months

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i'll be real whenever i gotta cook a steak, whether for myself or for others, that godforsaken letterkenny bit blares in my ears loud as shit

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#hhhhhhhh #it haunts me #food #Youtube #before yall ask i do meat to room temp-montreal steak spice-a little over two minutes on high each side-HP sauce on side #yes five minutes total i like my shit red

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aloekat · 2 months

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cannot believe the ghost steak from season ONE first episode actually had narrative potential.

did we all forget about the ghost steak…

#im aware brennan reminded them in episode three of current season that one teacher was a ghost #but it’s still funny to me #the ghost steak. it couldve been so much more #aloe.txt #dimension 20 #fantasy high #d20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high #100 #200 #300 #400

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skatoonyfan1234 · 2 years

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this fucking shithead chef guy has his fucking head cut off!

serves that fucking shithead right for abusing Tom!

FUCK HIM TO BLOODY FUCKING HELL!!!!

#tom&jerry #high steaks #gene deitch #fucking shithead chef #fuck you

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adaines-furious-feast · 2 months

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Theory: Kipperlilly found the rouge teacher at 8:01 am on the first day of the year by trying to steal ghost steak, and the teacher is much more protective over it now.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #kipperlilly copperkettle #ghost steak

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kunosoura · 3 months

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bro was that cooking animation fmv

#I cooked a beast steak and the cutscene was like nauseatingly high def when I've had to gut the graphics settings for my old pc

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highamfunny · 1 month

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I was explaining the insanity of the plot of this season to someone not watching, and she said:

"wow, that's a lot of stakes"

And I said:

"yeah, ghost steaks"

Obvs she didn't get it, but it made me smile

#fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #d20 #ghost steaks

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ladylingua · 1 year

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I have a very genuine question about the tipping post I promise I didnt read it in bad faith: are people who simply cannot afford to tip not “allowed” to eat out? I’m just thinking about how it works where I am from and while tipping is the norm here if someone doesn’t tip because they can’t afford it it really isn’t a big deal (+tipping norm here us only 10%). so if a poor family goes out to eat to celebrate something and they can barely afford the meal would they still be expected to tip 20% because they shouldn’t eat out if they cant afford it? thank you in advance I’m really curious

If it helps, don’t think of the tip as a separate thing. It is part of the cost of your meal. So if you cannot afford to pay for the cost of the meal including the tip you cannot afford to eat at that restaurant. This is something I myself have to calculate when I’m deciding if I want to eat at a particular restaurant- if I have $15 I can’t go to a restaurant and order a $20 entrée and then refuse to pay the remaining cost, and likewise if I have $15 I can’t order a $15 entrée and expect not to pay the server for their service.

Now that doesn't mean families who can't afford a pricy restaurant can't eat out at all. Since it is a % of your bill you can try to go for a cheaper restaurant (smaller bill = smaller tip), or if you go to a counter service place where you serve yourself you’re not expected to tip 20% (sometimes they have a jar out you could kindly throw a dollar or more in, but there is much less expectation to tip because the workers at a place like that receive a full minimum wage, more on that in a sec). I will also say in my lived experience poor families in America understand and tip well, I’ve almost exclusively been under tipped by wealthy people (which is what kicked off the debate on twitter- if your bill is $700 then you obviously can afford to tip a full 20%, no destitute families are spending $700 on one meal).

Technically speaking you can get away with 18% as a tip, and if you go down to 15% your waiter will think you’re cheap and be annoyed (15% definitely implies you were unhappy with their service) but that is the lowest possible threshold of acceptability. 10% is not an acceptable rate here, and 20% is now the expected norm for good service, and going up from there for great service. And I would never, ever not tip at all. I can only imagine not tipping if like the server had done something deeply offensive or dangerous or something. I've never encountered a situation where I felt the server didn't deserve any tip at all.

Because you’ve asked in genuine good faith I’m going to provide some more context to help you understand a bit more why this is the way it is-

Waitstaff in america are wildly underpaid. Our federal government assumes the tips are part of their expected income, and so a) they are taxed on assumed tips and b) it is legal to pay them less than standard minimum wage. Currently the tipped federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Now, states set their own individual rates so some states do better, but $2.13/hr is the lowest they can all legally go. And you’ll notice in that link it mentions the assumed tips and taxing them. I said on my original post, when I worked as a tipped waitress I made $2.68/hr and sometimes my biweekly paycheck was like $60 total. Imagine trying to survive on $120 a month, you absolutely cannot. Tips made up my actual wage, and were the paycheck I depended on to pay for my basic needs. I relied directly on customers to choose to do the social convention of tipping for survival, and when someone would choose to do otherwise it was utterly devastating.

Another thing customers sometimes don’t realize is your waiter may not be allowed to keep all of the tip themselves. It’s a common practice to pool tips amongst all the waitstaff and then divide them equally, and many places require that you tip out other employees there. So if you give me $10 as a tip I might be actually giving a large chunk of that to bussers, bartenders, etc. Or maybe we pool tips and someone else stiffed my colleague so now all of us are sharing your $10 tip. So also keep in mind that the money you leave as a tip very often does not go entirely to the actual waiter, so a big tip can actually become pretty small much faster than you would think.

(and that's just legal practices, wage theft and illegal practices run rampant in the restaurant industry, just fyi)

If you are wondering why tipping culture here is so grim, it is because of slavery. Tipping got big here as a way to keep forcing Black Americans into working for free, now with a small tip but still no actual wage. It was designed for oppression. Waitstaff are overwhelmingly not wealthy people. It is very common for them to be on food stamps, require housing assistance, or to otherwise be living under the poverty line. If you are eating out and not tipping because you yourself are poor, you are taking money out of someone else’s poverty wages to do so. When we debate minimum wage here in america, conservatives are really good at painting a picture of waitstaff being perky middle class college kids making an extra buck, or teens from wealthy homes wanting some spending money. There is an implication that they don't really need the money that badly. That is not the reality of who makes up most serving jobs in america. Minimum wage workers are likely to be in poverty, they’re likely to be women and specifically they’re likely to be women of color. Americans of color are significantly more likely to be working at minimum wage than white americans. There is a pretty sizeable number of minimum wage workers who are over 50, and a not insignificant amount of them who are mothers who support their families. There are also those teens who just want extra cash, and they deserve good compensation for their hard work too, don’t get me wrong, but they are only a portion of who makes up the minimum wage workforce.

If you’re like “But that’s such a shitty system, you’re saying it’s pitting poor people against each other for basic human comforts!” yup. I 100% agree. I am a vocal proponent of raising the minimum wage for that reason. I also advocate for a Universal Basic Income, because I understand that when it comes to small mom & pop restaurants the owners aren’t always making a ton of money either and it seems like truly no one is winning in this system. It is set up to oppress and to demean and to grind us all down. There are lots of orgs in America that are fighting to improve the system, or to radically change the system. There are also restaurants that have tried to do things differently- there’s a wine bar in my city that says specifically on their menu that their wine is more expensive because they pay their workers a true livable wage so there is no tipping there. Instead as a customer I pay a higher upfront cost that covers the true expense of running the bar- including server wages. I love that, I wish more places would do things like that. In the meantime, when I’m choosing where to eat I factor in a tip of 20% when calculating my estimated bill, because paying for service is part of the cost.

Refusing to tip fully in america is not doing anything to change the system. It does not make restaurant owners rethink their pay structure, it does not put pressure on our government to fix minimum wage, it does not make a political statement. It just means your server is going home wondering if they can afford their own meal that night.

Thank you for asking for clarity, I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask more if you have any remaining confusion or are curious about other aspects of american culture. If I can answer and the questions are respectful, I am happy to reply!

#also fwiw #you know those big american chain restaurants people like to make fun of?#like olive garden or red lobster or applebees or whatever?#a lot of the appeal of those types of restaurants is they make a big production over you as a customer like you're at a high end restaurant #but the prices are much lower than an actual nice restaurant #so that is why so many americans view going to outback steakhouse as a big treat #it's not that we don't know what a good steakhouse is #it's that those places give you that service but your steak is $20.99 #and if you are like 'ha! my family wishes they could afford chilis"#no yeah those places are not cheap i feel you #but that's exactly the appeal of those big chains #a real nyc steakhouse starts at like $40 for steaks #and goes up from there #now look at outback's menu #now you get it?#so yeah if you're not a wealthy family and you have a celebration coming up you look for a restaurant in that vein

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natjennie · 4 months

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honestly ragh was so real for saying "I have been waiting for an owlbears mvp threeway makeout sesh for longer than I can imagine"

#I started watched fhsy again :)#RAGH MY BESTIE!!!!!!#'I eat 10 steaks every hour on the hour'#fabian has a crush on ragh canon I know it #honestly though the jocks polycule is so real #d20 #fantasy high #d20 fhsy

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chronicowboy · 1 year

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gay as fuck to get your poker winnings in steaks, like what do you want another man's meat for?

#sami rambles #you could say in the end it was a 😏 high steaks game 🤭#911 spoilers #911 show #911 fox #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #buck x eddie

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foodshowxyz · 2 months

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Garlic Beefsteak with Mushrooms and Béchamel Sauce

Ingredients:

Steak:

2 beef steaks (such as ribeye or sirloin), about 1-inch thick

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Fresh rosemary sprigs (for garnish)

Mushrooms:

1 cup mushrooms, sliced (such as cremini or button)

1 tablespoon butter

1 clove garlic, minced

Salt to taste

Béchamel Sauce:

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups milk

Salt and white pepper to taste

A pinch of nutmeg (optional)

Instructions:

Prepare the Steak:

Season the steaks generously with salt and black pepper.

In a skillet over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil and add the minced garlic. Sauté for about 1 minute until fragrant.

Add the steaks to the skillet and cook to your desired doneness, about 3-4 minutes per side for medium-rare, depending on thickness.

Remove steaks from the skillet and let them rest.

Cook the Mushrooms:

In the same skillet, melt butter over medium heat.

Add the sliced mushrooms and the second clove of minced garlic, sautéing until the mushrooms are golden and tender.

Season with salt to taste. Remove from heat and set aside.

Make the Béchamel Sauce:

In a saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat.

Whisk in the flour and cook for about 2 minutes without letting it brown.

Gradually add the milk, whisking constantly to prevent any lumps from forming.

Continue to cook and stir until the sauce thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon.

Season with salt, white pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg if desired. Remove from heat.

Assemble the Dish:

Place the rested steaks on a warm plate.

Top the steaks with the sautéed mushrooms.

Pour the warm béchamel sauce over the steaks and mushrooms.

Garnish with fresh rosemary sprigs.

#Garlic Beefsteak with Mushrooms and Béchamel Sauce #Ingredients:#Steak:#2 beef steaks (such as ribeye or sirloin)#about 1-inch thick #2 tablespoons olive oil #2 cloves garlic #minced #Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste #Fresh rosemary sprigs (for garnish)#Mushrooms:#1 cup mushrooms #sliced (such as cremini or button)#1 tablespoon butter #1 clove garlic #Salt to taste #Béchamel Sauce:#2 tablespoons unsalted butter #2 tablespoons all-purpose flour #1 1/2 cups milk #Salt and white pepper to taste #A pinch of nutmeg (optional)#Instructions:#Prepare the Steak:#Season the steaks generously with salt and black pepper.#In a skillet over medium-high heat #warm the olive oil and add the minced garlic. Sauté for about 1 minute until fragrant.#Add the steaks to the skillet and cook to your desired doneness #about 3-4 minutes per side for medium-rare #depending on thickness.

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christinaengela · 1 year

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The Quantum Series: Coming Soon!

Hello friends and fans! As you’re probably aware, since 2016 I’ve been working on a span of interconnected stories in the Quantum Series! While the first two in the current story-arc have already been available for a few years, I’ve kept you all informed about my progress in writing the books that follow in the same story-arc �� and doing so more or less simultaneously – give or take a couple of…