The pandemic made me realize I hate cooking, and thats OK

In the Before Times — approximately pre-March 2020 — my dinners were either out with friends or not much of anything at all. I bought frozen dumplings and pasta from Trader Joe's and heated them up, or I fried some eggs. On occasion, I'd even make a dinner my childhood self could only dream of: a bowl of Reese's Puffs or Ben and Jerry's.

I didn't think anything of this routine then. I simply "didn't have time to cook" — or actually, I was much too tired to cook! After a long day of staring at a screen and coming home to stare at a different screen, how could I possibly have the energy to prepare an elaborate meal?

I liked cooking, I told myself. I just didn't have the time.

This is a lie.

The coronavirus pandemic is showing society's ass in many different aspects, like gross inequality(Opens in a new tab), racism(Opens in a new tab), and lack of empathy(Opens in a new tab) for others. But it's also shown our own asses in (hopefully) less harmful ways — how we live and what we care about the most.

And the coronavirus pandemic has taught me that I hate cooking.

Sourdough starters? Pass. Pantry recipes(Opens in a new tab)? Blah. Hell, even mini pancakes that TikTok told everyone was "pancake cereal"(Opens in a new tab)? Looks tasty, but I haven't had the gumption to make it. I did bake banana bread once and it... didn't turn out super well.

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These days — especially because I can't even make it to a Trader Joe's anymore — my meals have consisted mostly of snack food, quick fixes like oatmeal or eggs, and instant ramen.

Lots, and lots of instant ramen.

While this realization seems small, it has shaken part of my self-identity. In the past, I've described myself as a "foodie" before we all agreed on how embarrassing it was(Opens in a new tab). I've had issues with distorted eating in the past and have come out the other side being someone who often speaks about how much I love food and eating, even if it sounds a bit ridiculous to love something that keeps me alive. But I do, and I love the vast majority of foods (scallops are kinda meh).

In addition to actual food, I also love food personalities and cooking shows. I seem to know how to win every episode of Chopped and was riveted by Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child(Opens in a new tab). I feel Claire's frustration during Gourmet Makes(Opens in a new tab) and I binge with Babish(Opens in a new tab).

When the realization hit that I was going to be home for the foreseeable future, I thought it'd be a great opportunity to hone my cooking skills. To prepare delicious stews and casserole bakes and fried rice and maybe even make my own pasta instead of heating up pre-made pasta from Trader Joe's(Opens in a new tab).

I soon realized this was a fantasy. I haven't glanced at online recipes let alone cracked open a glossy cookbook. Now, I couldn't care less about what I eat. I could, and probably will, live out the rest of New York City's quarantine rotating between the same five things I'm preparing for myself.

I never imagined I'd feel this way, but I never imagined the wide array of emotions the neurons in my brain have fired off in the past couple months. Now I'm afraid for the restaurant industry, especially small businesses(Opens in a new tab). I worry about delivery people and other essential workers putting their lives at risk so that people like me can get deliveries and take-out orders. I fear my beloved spots won't come back, and that their employees will have nowhere to go.

But if this experience has taught me anything positive, it's that it's OK to hate cooking. It's OK to rotate between the same five meals. Not only are we living through a global crisis, but we also may have levels of PTSD after this — which is to say, if my coping mechanism is eating instant ramen five nights a week then goddammit, I'm eating instant ramen five nights a week.

By now you've probably read enough about why you don't need to be productive(Opens in a new tab) during the pandemic, but it didn't hit home until I realized I also don't have to bake bread or cook "the stew,"(Opens in a new tab) and I certainly don't have to make it aesthetic for Instagram.

The "joy of cooking" seems like a complete farce to me, but I'm finding joy elsewhere. I'm practicing yoga and writing. I'm watching 90 Day Fiancé and then listening to 90 Day Fiancé podcasts during my morning walks.

And sometimes, my joy comes in having a bowl of Reese's Puffs for dinner.

This web series about a sex worker is the South Asian representation Ive been craving

It's not easy to trust your gut.

I received no less than half a dozen emails about the web series Insomnia(Opens in a new tab) before deciding, on a lark, to attend a press screening in May. I jogged there from a dance class, hiding under scaffolding to avoid rain, and paused at one crosswalk to wonder why on Earth I was putting myself through this.

But I had a gut feeling. A part of me that I can't even access on command knew that I needed to see this series, which I had previously heard of through word-of-mouth in the South Asian American arts community. I arrived at the event just in time to hear writer/creator Vishaal Reddy talk about how tired he is of current South Asian representation, which often tries to avoid stereotypes by doubling down on whitewashing its characters and their stories.

Trusting my gut truly paid off.

Insomnia is the story of Nikhil (Reddy), an aspiring writer whose stress levels and sleep patterns have him working a second job as an escort. He wants career success, he wants love, he wants acceptance, but why invite those recipes for a total emotional spiral when you can, you know, not? Like the eponymous Fleabag, he breaks the fourth wall to give us occasional background and insight, but it's only a distraction between taking care of an aunt with multiple sclerosis and the lingering trauma of his mother's suicide.

The series has been in the works for years – Reddy staged a pilot reading(Opens in a new tab) with Broadway stars in 2017 – and was kickstarted in 2018 before filming with director Michelle Cutolo. Like so many other films and shows with arduous journeys, Insomnia benefits from the meandering path to fruition; it has a finesse and precision that most web series lack, whether due to funding constraints or inexperience. Reddy's style and sensibility are clear from the first moments of episode 1 (which is decidedly NSFW, but things mellow out) and throughout the six-episode season, a confident voice with a universal message.

Each episode is named after the main character who interacts with Nikhil, whether it's a client, a date, an employer, or a relative. They're all standalone episodes in their own right but still propel Nikhil's narrative forward, bringing us and him closer to the memory of his mother without ever showing her. The most magnetic interactions are Nikhil's date with Kat (Aneesh Sheth, Marvel's Jessica Jones) in episode 3 and his first meeting with Madam Linney (Nikki Renee Daniels, Hamilton) in the upcoming episode 5. They're dialogue-heavy scenes but utterly hypnotic, presenting power dynamics and ideologies that neither Nikhil nor many viewers will have considered.

It's already refreshing and revolutionary that Insomnia quite effortlessly features a bisexual South Asian protagonist, but the best thing Reddy does is to embrace his nuanced identity in a way that previous representations rarely do. Many of today's top actors prefer the overcompensating whitewashing to avoid stereotypes. In 2016, Riz Ahmed wrote(Opens in a new tab) about his desire to play characters whose identities aren't rooted in race. "There, my name might even be Dave," he said.

I think about that sentiment a lot, one we've heard echoed by other South Asian actors, including Priyanka Chopra, who deliberately distanced herself(Opens in a new tab) from explicitly Indian characters in order to make it, so to speak, in the West. It worked, but at what cost? Ahmed's "Dave" fantasy is of playing a character who was otherwise written as white. Why is playing Dave the ultimate mark of success? Why can't we have intricate, interesting characters who do engage with their cultural heritage, whose names are Nikhil and Shalini instead of Molly and Ray(Opens in a new tab)? (If you can pronounce Daenerys Targaryen, you can learn literally any name on Earth.)

That's the sentiment Reddy shared the spring screening, along with the view that hyphenated identity doesn't have an off button. In episode 3, Nikhil sits with two other Indian friends (The Big Sick's Kuhoo Verma and Cheech Manohar from the Mean Girls musical), and they slip in and out of accents and references that belong only to our unique cross-section of identities. Hearing Reddy talk about these points in person, I almost stood up and applauded.

Reddy has big plans for Insomnia, but right now he just wants to send the series out into the world in all its glory and hope that it finds the audience it deserves. And that's not just the audience whose stories it tells – the specificity of Insomnia makes its broader themes, like grief and longing, accessible to anyone.

"I wrote Insomnia for not only the queer and South Asian communities, but for sex workers of color and for people who deal with mental health issues," Reddy told them.(Opens in a new tab) after the series premiere. "I wrote Insomnia for those who feel like outsiders. I wrote Insomnia for those who are messy, funny, awkward, sad… but I most importantly wrote Insomnia for humans who need to feel seen and heard."

Insomnia premiered June 5 for Pride, with new episodes on YouTube every week(Opens in a new tab).

Go ahead, make fun of Mark Zuckerbergs face all you want

The internet took a brief reprieve from commenting on our current apocalypse to dunk on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for going Mrs. Doubtfire(Opens in a new tab) on his face with some sunscreen.

Zuckerberg, the billionaire and enabler of white supremacy(Opens in a new tab), was photographed with his clown-like sunscreen application while surfing in Hawaii(Opens in a new tab), where he owns a $100 million property(Opens in a new tab). Once the photos reached Twitter on Sunday, the memes poured in(Opens in a new tab), poking fun at Zuckerberg's body and heavy-handed sunblock application.

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Along with the memes came defense of his sunscreen use(Opens in a new tab) and also defense of him as a person(Opens in a new tab), down to an editorial from someone wanting to defend him(Opens in a new tab) but deciding he wore "too much sunscreen."

I'm sorry, but what? Defending Mark Zuckerberg?

Here is the thing: There are plenty of reasons not to defend Zuckerberg, and him laying it thick with the sunscreen is the least of them. Making fun of Zuckerberg is the ultimate punch-up — yes, even if it's about "his looks."

Zuckerberg is worth over $80 billion(Opens in a new tab), which depending on your stance is in itself a moral failing. As the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Business Insider, Zuckerberg wields more power than billions of people (certainly more than the vast majority of the U. S. population). He has the power to enact real change during a time of global crisis — but instead decides to surf on his $12,000 Efoil board with zinc plastered on his face.

What's more is Zuckerberg isn't just harming the world at large with his personal inaction; he's also inflicted substantial damage with his inaction as the CEO of Facebook. The ongoing lack of real responses to the scourge of fake news and viral conspiracies that spread in an instant on his website have been detrimental to democracy(Opens in a new tab). At this point he's had years to address it head on, but not much has changed on the platform since the 2016 election.

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In fact, this seems to have gotten worse since then. Facebook gives Trump free passes(Opens in a new tab), despite his posts that encourage violence, all while defending their choice as a matter of "free speech." Not only does this hurt our democratic process, but it hurts marginalized groups. Meanwhile Zuckerberg continues to line his pockets.

Additionally, Zuckerberg may be hurting marginalized groups himself: Native Hawaiians claim that Zuckerberg is suing them for Kauai land, and started a petition called Stop Mark Zuckerberg from Colonizing Kauai(Opens in a new tab) that amassed over 800,000 signatures thus far. Zuckerberg's team told Newsweek that the petitioner's claims were false(Opens in a new tab).

Are all of these issues more important than silly photographs where he looks more like a haunting demon than a human man? Absolutely. But these silly photographs — or any of the previous pictures that make him look like a soulless robot — don't exist in a vacuum.

Zuckerberg hoards his wealth and becomes wealthier by undermining democracy, even if it's in an indirect way. He may give away billions of dollars for social good initiatives(Opens in a new tab) though the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, but the choices he makes(Opens in a new tab) at Facebook eat away at any goodwill he collects from those efforts. His charitable giving is also just a tiny fraction of his nearly $90 billion net worth(Opens in a new tab). And for god's sake, Facebook only exists because Zuckerberg made a hot or not website(Opens in a new tab) to compare women after getting dumped. While I don't, as a rule, think people should be cyberbullied for their looks, in this case I am very willing to make an exception.

This guy sucks, and he always has. Now he's one of the most powerful men in the world, and he doesn't need any of us to defend him. I'd venture to say it's our right — our duty! — to mock him.

UPDATE: July 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m. PDT This story was updated with information about the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.

It's been more than a week since Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, but new areas of concern keep on springing up.

On Tuesday night, for instance, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called attention to the fact that it appears the official White House video(opens in a new tab) of the event omits one key question from Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, to which Putin gave a controversial response.

During the press conference, Mason asked Putin, "Did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?"

And Putin replied: "Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal."

But the first part of Mason's question — the part about wanting Trump to win — is not included in the White House's footage of the event.

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In the White House video, Mason is simply heard asking, "And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that," followed by Putin's response.

The Atlantic reported the significant omission(opens in a new tab) last week, adding that the official White House transcript(opens in a new tab) of the exchange didn't include Mason's full question either.

Though it remains unclear if the omission was done intentionally or was simply an oversight, Maddow thinks the people at the White House know exactly what they've done.

"The U.S. government is essentially following the Kremlin’s playbook and maintaining that something we all saw happen with our own eyes, we all heard happen with our own ears, has nevertheless disappeared ― like old political opponents being airbrushed out of photos," Maddow said. "It’s weird, right? It’s creepy."

And Mason, the reporter who asked the question, also feels the omission could be extremely misleading.

"You could interpret that to mean he’s answering ‘yes’ to both," Mason told The Atlantic, but "looking at it critically, he spent a good chunk of that press conference, just like President Trump did, denying any collusion. So I think it’s likely that when he said ‘Yes, I did,’ that he was just responding to the first part of my question and perhaps didn’t hear the second part."

If that's the case, it's easy to assume the White House omitted the first part of the question so as not to make it seem like Putin wanted Trump to win, which would be further motive for election interference.

And in case things weren't confusing enough, the transcript on the Russian president's website omitted the exchange(opens in a new tab) in question in its entirely.

The Washington Post, however, notes that even its own transcript of the event(opens in a new tab) omits part of the question, so the act might not have been intentional.

"Ours came from Bloomberg Government and ours, too, excludes the first part of the reporters question in which he begins, 'President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election,'" The Washington Post's Philip Bump writes.

The publication also reviewed video feeds from the conference and noticed a clear switch between the audio feed from reporters to translators.

A White House official also told CNN’s Abby Phillip that its transcript "did not have Mason's audio turned up in time," which explains the mishap.

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Despite Maddow's impassioned argument, it sounds like technical difficulties might be to blame for this unfortunate omission.

Marco Rubios John Lewis tribute gaffe is appropriately, savagely mocked

On Saturday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) inserted both of his feet into his mouth with a poorly executed tribute to late civil rights legend, John Lewis (D-GA).

In a since-deleted tweet, Rubio shared a photo of himself and Elijah Cummings (D-MD), another late, highly celebrated Black lawmaker, captioning the image: "It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with JohnLewis [sic] a genuine & historic American hero. May the Lord grant him eternal peace."

Within moments, comments arrived informing Rubio of the mix-up, many of them pointing out its racist undertones and abundant hypocrisy. Some light internet sleuthing(Opens in a new tab) indicates the confusion may have stemmed from the incorrect captioning of the image by its photographer Lauren Schneiderman, who has since removed(Opens in a new tab) the picture from her website and has not responded to Mashable's request for comment.

(H/t Mashable tech reporter Matt Binder for sussing out that Lewis wasn't even present at the event Schneiderman photographed, thanks to public record(Opens in a new tab).)

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After leaving the photo of himself and Cummings up as his Twitter profile picture for about a half hour, Rubio issued a correction, hilariously featuring a screenshot from a YouTube video(Opens in a new tab) in which Lewis and Rubio are seen posing for a photo. (Where that photo is from, Mashable couldn't assess.)

"Earlier today I tweeted an incorrect photo," Rubio said. "John Lewis was a genuine American hero I was honored to appear together in Miami 3 years ago at an event captured in video below My God grant him eternal rest"

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Of course, a gaffe as gloriously atrocious as this one couldn't go unrecognized. Images of Rubio next to "John Lewis" (AKA any and all Black public figures) cropped up alongside those honoring "Marco Rubio" himself (AKA nondescript white politicians, a corgi's butt, and a wet sock??) swiftly and spectacularly.

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Mapping state-by-state tech trends: Most popular dating apps

We like maps here at PCMag. We recently surveyed 2,033 US consumers across the country on a variety of tech topics, and we gathered additional demographic data, including the respondents' home states. First we told you which states prefer Android or iOS(Opens in a new tab), then we mapped preferred gaming platforms.(Opens in a new tab) This week, we're looking at the most popular dating apps in each state.

The dating-app landscape(Opens in a new tab) is crowded with options: Tinder, Bumble, OKCupid, Match, Plenty of Fish, and Zoosk, as well as other lesser-known services, such as Coffee Meets Bagel and Hinge. Tinder(Opens in a new tab) was the top dating app in the US, at 17 percent. It was followed by Match, at 15 percent. Bumble and Plenty of Fish each garnered 8 percent, and OKCupid and Zoosk earned 5 percent apiece. Eight percent chose "Other." And 34 percent of respondents said they don't use dating apps.

On a state-by-state basis, Tinder won in 27 states, followed by Match(Opens in a new tab) with 17 states. Bumble won two states, Missouri and Oregon; and Plenty of Fish won Maine and Utah. The two remaining apps won one state each: OKCupid in West Virginia and Zoosk(Opens in a new tab) in New Mexico.

The results are also interesting when broken down across demographic lines: 32 percent of Tinder users were ages 18 to 24, and 38 percent of that age group prefers Tinder above the rest. This is the only age group where the percentage of respondents preferring any one dating app eclipses those who answered "none." Although dating apps have become part of our culture, plenty of people are already in relationships, and others simply prefer dating the old-fashioned way.

Plenty of Fish(Opens in a new tab) skewed a bit older, with 32 percent of users who prefer POF between the ages of 25 and 34. Looking at wider age ranges, respondents ages 18 to 44 generally prefer Tinder, and those ages 45 to 65-plus are more apt to look for love on Match.

Bumble(Opens in a new tab) is only app of the bunch that requires women to send the first message after a match. For whatever reason, 58 percent of respondents who preferred Bumble are men. Conversely, 58 percent of those who prefer the more data-driven and compatibility-focused OKCupid(Opens in a new tab) are women.

This meme is here to tell you what you can say during sex that may not be just about sex

Name something you can say during sex and also while _______.

Spending the days thinking about things we could say during sex that fit with other activities isn't the newest form of entertainment, but it's having a moment on Twitter, and some of the replies are too good to pass up.

From Chuck E. Cheese to *checks notes* the 2019 Toyotathon year-end event, these are the things that can** be said both during sex and while doing other various things.

**Shouldn't

At Disney World

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It's Cali versus the world.

At Starbucks

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"Not a big fan of the music choice": You mean you can actually resist the supercharged sexual energy of Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet"? @thejonbutter, made of stone.

At a baseball game

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It's crucial that you beat the traffic.

At Chuck E. Cheese

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STOP IT.

At the Toyotathon 2019 year-end event

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"Coroll(ov)a"

As a wickie or aspiring wickie in The Lighthouse

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Might have to watch the whole movie again but in this context.

And then there's this

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All in the spirit of getting to know somebody, of course.

Protestors project message for Trump at college football championship

UPDATE: Jan. 10, 2018, 1:28 p.m. EST This article originally stated, based on a report from Newsweek, that a group named ResistNow was responsible for the projections. The protest was actually made by(opens in a new tab) the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

While much of the conversation on Monday night was about the overtime thriller that saw Alabama claim yet another national college football title (ugh), there were still murmurs of protests directed at Donald Trump.

While tens of thousands of fans filed into Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the title game, several groups of protesters, including a local chapter of the NAACP, gathered to protest Trump's drop-by(opens in a new tab) .

One particular group -- Newsweek reported(opens in a new tab) it was "ResistNow" based off tweets from a user of the same name -- let their feelings be known by the hottest protest method around: giant projections on the side of a building. [Update: the group that projected the messages(opens in a new tab) was actually the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.]

This time, the projections from some of the protesters included "No one is illegal" and the concise "Fuck Trump."

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It was part of a weird night for Trump, which got off to a rocky start when fans outside the stadium were left wet and perturbed(opens in a new tab), stuck in the rain while security measures for the president's visit kept them from being allowed inside the stadium.

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Once past the wet fans and angry protesters, Trump made an appearance on the field for pregame ceremonies, including the national anthem, welcomed by loud cheers underscored with some lustful booing(opens in a new tab).

While some of the booing was surely related to politics and the long wait fans endured outside, it's worth noting that many Atlanta residents haven't forgotten(opens in a new tab) the disparaging words Trump lobbed at the city from behind his Twitter account just a year ago as part of his spat with Rep. John Lewis, whose district includes a large chunk of Atlanta.

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When Trump seemed to mumble his way through part of the song, Twitter exploded with speculation over whether or not he knew the words. Without audio, though, it's hard to tell if there's any truth to the conspiracy or if the president just put forth a half-hearted effort.

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It wasn't just fans, though. At least one of the players involved in the game made a pretty vocal proclamation against Trump. As the Alabama team got ready to take the field, star running back Bo Scarbrough was caught yelling "Fuck Trump!" loudly.

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In the end, Trump left at halftime(opens in a new tab) of the game, which is a shame.

After a slow, offense-light first half which saw Georgia take a 13-0 lead, Alabama staged an impressive comeback, pushing the game into overtime where they clinched the title on an exciting 41-yard touchdown pass from a freshman quarterback who was only brought in during the second half.

And Trump missed all the excitement (he does have a schedule to keep(opens in a new tab), after all).

Sad!