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@loopback0 I hope I'm just being overly pessimistic but I have zero hope that it'll be anything other than a garbage zombie version that'll retroactively ruin the entire series
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@hungrier I dunno, the concept of a food thread seems pretty robust.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I blame the recipes from times when water had to be carried from the well or fountain, so they said ‘boil in the water you soaked them’ to mean you can use that water and save a trip for fresh one.
Or maybe just that water in which beans have soaked has some culinary properties (the page makes it sound as if this is a very recent discovery (2014), but the idea has been around roughly forever).
I think that requires boiling the beans, not just soaking.
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I'd bet they claim the water they were soaked in contains most of the minerals and vitamins and if you toss it all you're left with is fattening sugar, fat, and starch.
They like claiming things like that.
I was referring to traditional recipes copied from one cookbook to another back to at least 19th century. Nobody talked about minerals and vitamins back then.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
This is almost exactly how my dad claims! Except for shit like potato skins and fruit peels...
With potato skins I've only seen it in attempts to popularize fries made from unpeeled potatoes. I don't care about health I don't like the taste of fried potato peels.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 I hope I'm just being overly pessimistic but I have zero hope that it'll be anything other than a garbage zombie version that'll retroactively ruin the entire series
At the very least it's not a complete reboot or a live action remake.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I was referring to traditional recipes copied from one cookbook to another back to at least 19th century. Nobody talked about minerals and vitamins back then.
Because they used to keep the grains as grains as long as possible before turning it to flour. Bread and porridge actually had some vitamins left in them by the time they were consumed.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 I hope I'm just being overly pessimistic but I have zero hope that it'll be anything other than a garbage zombie version that'll retroactively ruin the entire series
At the very least it's not a complete reboot or a live action remake.
Brought to you by M. Night Shamalamadingdong, who hasn't read the script or watched a single episode.
Filed under: kill me now
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I was referring to traditional recipes copied from one cookbook to another back to at least 19th century. Nobody talked about minerals and vitamins back then.
The very word "vitamin" did not even exist before 1912.
Because they used to keep the grains as grains as long as possible before turning it to flour. Bread and porridge actually had some vitamins left in them by the time they were consumed.
Interestingly enough, the health properties of corn husks, whole-wheat flour and also non-wheat flour was widely known for a long time - basically ever since the white flour became available on industrial scale.
We have a book from 1870s on the topic of public health (and other political topics) and it recommends the "old-stryle" flour ("as our grandmothers would use") and even specifically seeking out the whole-wheat flour (which apparently used to have a traditional term, something like "from the back"). And meat and beer. And salt, of course, which was apparently quite a problem due to heavy taxes (at the point the book shifts its topic to criticism of k.k. Ministerium).
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Yeltsin Center in Russia
only art by the drunk or for the drunk?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Yeltsin Center in Russia
only art by the drunk or for the drunk?
And guarded by a drunk.
And reported about by a drunk, apparently, because of this paragraph from the article:Police have now opened an investigation for vandalism, with comes with a £395 (74.9 million Russian Rubles) dine and a one-year correctional labour sentence.
I am pretty sure that even in the worst days of Yeltsin era, GBP was not worth 189620 Rubles. Also, £395 sounds like a pretty good dine for a prison grub (but there are more expensive restaurants).
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Yeltsin Center in Russia
only art by the drunk or for the drunk?
Drunkenness is relative, but it could probably be said that it does not contain art for or by the non-drunk.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
complete reboot or a live action remake.
This needs a term:
- Larreboomake?
- Larvebake?
- Corvlamoot.
- Larreeblook?
- Calarplemeb.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
And salt, of course, which was apparently quite a problem due to heavy taxes
Well historically salt was one of the first things that had to be imported (as opposed to being able to produce it locally about everywhere), so when powers-that-be invented taxation on trade, it was naturally one of the first things to be taxed (because it was one of the few things that was traded, even in the most autarkic societies). From then on the ball just rolled, and it kept being taxed...
(olden days societies also needed much more salt than we do now, as it was one of the very few ways to keep stuff for long)
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
complete reboot or a live action remake.
This needs a term:
- Larreboomake?
- Larvebake?
- Corvlamoot.
- Larreeblook?
- Calarplemeb.
Of those options, I'm partial to larvebake, because it's shorter, has fewer syllables, and sounds like a competition for cooking baby insects, which is likely about as
goodbad as the thing to which it would ostensibly refer.
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Reminds me of a future career... as the toothless old whore in the bus station bathroom.
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@djls45 Maybe?
Wiki seems to say that "autarchy" is slightly different from "autarchism" is slightly different from "autarky" but frankly, to get into whatever abstruse philosophical differences there might or might not be (plus, French seems to only have "autarcie" and I have no idea how it maps to any of those).
I'll let someone else that to death.
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@remi, of all people, said:
I'll let someone else that to death.
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Orcas are intelligent beast. Now they've learned to take their meals from commercial fisheries.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
But it is nasty, killing roughly 15 per cent of those who are hospitalised.
Run for your lives...?
Certainly, you would be unlucky to catch the Lassa virus on a bus: unlike Covid, it spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluid of an infected person,
Oh. Like Ebola. Nevermind, then.
or after contact with the urine or faeces of infected rats.
Not so good. New York is going to be very *checks category* ...unlucky. I hear they have a bit of a problem with rats, the last few years.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
bleeding eyes and facial swelling
That's just me browsing the internet on Friday.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Orcas are intelligent beast. Now they've learned to take their meals from commercial fisheries.
So just who's trolling whom now?
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This is a second initiative, aimed at
LibreOffice - the free and powerful office suite.
Mastodon - a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones.
Odoo - an ERP business management solution with a eCommerce and CRM system built in.
Cryptpad - a secure and encrypted open-source collaboration platform that allows people to work together online on documents, spreadsheets, and other types of documents.
LEOS - software tool helping those involved in drafting legislation, which is usually a complex process requiring efficient online collaboration.
By the way, I don't remember a report about how well were the first initiative results.
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@Boner but what if the massive load on the grid is other people charging their cars
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@DogsB all right, finally a haemorrhagic is getting legs. Not my first choice but my first choices kill too fast (see, them being my first choice)
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
years
Pluto years?
Pluto doesn't have years any more. It has dwarf years.
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@da-Doctah well, they may be long, but they're not particularly tall, fair enough.
One year for Uranus being equivalent to 84 years seems also to be a matter of width, or perhaps girth.
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@Boner but what if the massive load on the grid is other people charging their cars
Infinite power! Problem, physicists?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@Boner but what if the massive load on the grid is other people charging their cars
Infinite power! Problem, physicists?
how infinite. Is it countable? I don't muck about with countables.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The story was told and retold about 3 times in that one article, with different sets of quotes and details each time. Does no one know how to condense information? Is this some misguided effort to extend their time-spent-on-a-page metric?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
some misguided effort to
extend their time-spent-on-a-pageincrease their payment-by-the-word metric
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@djls45 you appear to be expecting journalism from the Daily Mail, a known hate-monger rag of a paper that, for example, doesn’t appear to see the hypocrisy of laying into people who prey on teenagers, whilst actively encouraging that line of thought with pictures of scantily clad famous teenagers and comments like “look at them all grown up” (I.e. just about legal)
Maybe don’t exoticise and fetishise the things you later condemn, eh?
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Somebody call Samuel L. fucking Jackson:
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@Arantor I quite like the daily mail. I can't put my finger on it but there's something very entertaining about the rag. Maybe it's the consistency of the narrative they spin. They've basically beat the same drum in the same way for the decade I've glanced at them. The rest are slowly moving in the same direction. They'll all probably be independent clones in a decade or so and go the exact same way.
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
I don't remember a report about how well were the first initiative results.
There will be such a report (for sure; the EU loves getting reports) and it will be the most riveting work of fiction ever written. Or not. It's main practical uses are probably somewhere between swatting flies and holding doors open, with a sideline in raising monitors to a more comfortable angle for working.
Yes, I've written contributions to a few such reports over the years. You don't want to read those either.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They've basically beat the same drum in the same way for the decade I've glanced at them.
They've not changed at all for a lot longer than that.
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So a lady was getting some appliances delivered and Lowes gave her a window of 8-5 and showed up at 7:45. She was rightfully mad because I guess she had the plumber coming over at 8 to get the pipes ready and these guys showed up early. She asked him to wait until the plumber showed up and he said he has to go and started recording her claiming she kidnapped him.
Honestly I see both points - Lowes shouldn't have come before the window they gave and she should've had the plumber come earlier. They've got deliveries to make, but she took a day off and planned to get everything done the same day, except Lowes screwed her by showing up early.
He posted the video to tictoc which included her face and address info on the packing slip and got fired when he refused to take it down.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
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Every VPN service that I've ever seen charges a monthly fee paid with a credit card. How many underage users have a credit card
Given that you can get one for about $3 in fees or less at the store, I would say all of them. That's assuming the parents didn't provide the credit card or VPN.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They've basically beat the same drum in the same way for the decade I've glanced at them.
Which is basically whatever they think will OUTRAGE Middle England. It’s all about stirring OUTRAGE. It’s very cynical, and sadly very effective.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cabrito said in In other news today...:
I don't remember a report about how well were the first initiative results.
There will be such a report (for sure; the EU loves getting reports) and it will be the most riveting work of fiction ever written. Or not. It's main practical uses are probably somewhere between swatting flies and holding doors open, with a sideline in raising monitors to a more comfortable angle for working.
Yes, I've written contributions to a few such reports over the years. You don't want to read those either.
Sad to hear that. Resourves spent manufacturing useless piles of paper, and flying blind.
Guess that tamming the bureaucracy is an unsolved problem.
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
manufacturing useless piles of paper
The true and everlasting purpose of bureaucracy.
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
Resourves spent manufacturing useless piles of paper, and flying blind.
The alternative seems to be no reporting at all, which is a recipe for people taking the money and delivering absolutely nothing. Producing a report that is filed away and never looked at again after being reviewed (with money being dependent on a successful review) is definitely better, even if not great.
Stuff for being told to people outside the project is typically one of the things that the project's supposed to produce, and which is of highly variable quality. Part of the problem is that it is hard to say what has been achieved until after the fact (when the funding for telling people about it goes away) and nobody really wants to hear about what people are going to try to do before they achieve it (because there's lots of chancers willing to tell you that and it's nothing more than vapourware). Getting the word out requires really sustained funding models that are structured a bit differently; I've never heard of anyone getting funded anywhere with a project plan like that.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Finally some good news.
Look how long it took them to build ONE electric Batmobile. And they want to put everyone in electric cars by 2030.
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@Gąska well look at it, it's also a stealth batmobile.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Finally some good news.
Look how long it took them to build ONE electric Batmobile. And they want to put everyone in electric cars by 2030.
Putting everyone in electric Batmobiles seems like a worthy goal.
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@Gribnit Meh, I'm partial to the '60s Batmobile.