Uh, pro tip for the budget constrained:

Buy some packs of instant ramen.

Get a rice cooker.

Get a rotisierre whole chicken.

Get some mixed leafy greens, or bean sprouts.

(Optional) Get some kind of ramen seasoning.

(Optional) Get some kind of seasoned oil meant for noodles.

Water into pot.

Carve off or even just tear off some of the chicken, put in pot.

(Optional) Add seasoning / seasoned oil.

Turn pot on, bring to full boil.

At full boil, add in instant ramen for about 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, turn pot off, stir a bit, add in veggies, stir some more, re-cover pot for another 5 minutes.

You now have hot pot.

…

Oh, this was supposed to be hot ‘takes’ not hot pot.

Oh well, you have hot pot.

The New Testament literally makes no sense without the Old Testament.

It directly cites and makes allusions to the Old Testament all the time… and a fair number of times it actually cites or references a mistranslation of the Old Testament.

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew 5%3A18

Jesus himself says:

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished!

Where ‘the Law’ is ‘the Torah’, ie, the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.

Jesus does not at any point distinctly state that only the Ten Commandments are valid, the rest are to be disregardrd… that just doesn’t exist in the Gospels.

Also, Jesus got killed because he essentially started a riot in the outer area of the Temple, flipping over tables of money changers, fashioning a whip and attacking them.

Today we’d call that ‘terroristic threats’ or something like that.

So any time a church outright asks you for money, within its grounds, remember that the answer to WWJD? is to physically assault and mock such people for defiling the sanctity of an ostensibly holy place.

Yep, yep yep yep, fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.

Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…

Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…

We all need to shift toward that.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.

We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.

… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.

I like it better than the original, unironically.

Replace the other one too!

I am beyond sick to death of ‘everything is either landlord white, or stainless steel and black’.