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@abarker it's rich, tasty, got a great texture and most other people don't like it so nobody minds you taking an extra couple of slices. And what's wrong with eating blood? Loads of iron, all natural. Yummy.
@abarker said in In other news today...:
Full English … what?
Breakfast, although there's nothing stopping you from eating it at other times of the day
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
I mean who in their right mind thinks, "Let's mix oats, fat, and blood together," and calls it food?
Yeah, you're right! The proper way to do it is just to use blood and fat, why add oats?
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Grim.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
The kind of infrastructure where the cable company is using the same fragile power grid my house is.
Without any UPS ?
If you don't replace the batteries in them periodically, then they're no good when you need them. Plus a lot of the cheaper kind cause a power interruption when they die, which seems to happen more frequently than actual power outages.
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@lorne-kates said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure there is any official definition of what a chocolate is.
:twitch:
FUCKING YES THERE IS!
There's very precise legal definitions, mostly based on the EU definition:
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/05/chocolate-candy-and-the-law/
TFB says:
In order to be labeled as chocolate, the product must be:
obtained from cocoa products and sugars which, subject to item 3(b), contains not less than 35 per cent total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 18 per cent cocoa butter and not less than 14 per cent of dry non-fat cocoa solids.
White chocolate doesn't count, because it has no cocoa solids.
Begging your pardon, but "white chocolate" is a separate thing. The same source that he cites when he says that "chocolate" has to meet those criteria also has a definition for "white chocolate":
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@anotherusername So to sum up, white chocolate is not chocolate but it is white chocolate, in exactly the same way as milk chocolate is not chocolate but it is milk chocolate.
I feel like this conversation has been very productive.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery Did the broken windows ever actually happen, either to your equipment or to competitors'?
Yes. Pretty frequently. A few times a year Not when we left the doors unlocked, but they would when locked. The only broken window issue we ever had was when a job foreman went against policy and told people to lock the doors. (I just saw this reply. Sorry for taking so long.)
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
I mean who in their right mind thinks, "Let's mix oats, fat, and blood together," and calls it food?
The Scots.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
From the article:
However, the attack would not work on systems that had been trained to respond to only one person's voice, which Google offers on its assistant.
"OK Google, buy me a dollhouse."
"I'm sorry Danielle, I'm afraid I can't do that."
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 is a girl?!?!
You
'reparser may need recalibration:@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Thanks toI learned about Ambush Predator from @loopback0.SheAmbush Predator appears to be...
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@djls45 For some reason, I just decided to make this:
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername So to sum up, white chocolate is not chocolate but it is white chocolate, in exactly the same way as milk chocolate is not chocolate but it is milk chocolate.
I feel like this conversation has been very productive.
Summary:
Product (A) Dry Cocoa Solids (B) Cocoa Butter (C) Dry Non-fat Cocoa Solids (D) Dry Milk Solids (E) Milk Fat (F) Total Fat Chocolate 35%+ 18%+ 14%+ Milk Chocolate 25%+ 2.5%+ 14%+ 3.5%+ 25%+ White Chocolate 20%+ 14%+ 3.5%+ A = B + C + {other stuff}
D = E + {other stuff}
F = B + E + {other stuff}
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@raceprouk In troth, I speak it. This fine, ancient variant of the tongue of our lauded forebears hath become much diminished, wherefore even one such as I may hap to produce a fault in the writing thereof.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@djls45 For some reason, I just decided to make this:
Demotic? Isn't that a script used for Ancient Egyptian religious and literary writings?
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United Airlines, take notes.
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@brisingraerowing if the guy behind the plan was named Noah, then maybe we should start worrying...
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@karla said in In other news today...:
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on conditions of mining natural ones.
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on the fact that I still have some bodies to dig up and loot.
filed under: trans hookers love to overcompensate with bling
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
I mean who in their right mind thinks, "Let's mix oats, fat, and blood together," and calls it food?
The Scots.
The Irish do as well, and bloody nice it is too.
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
United would just chuck everyone's pets into the jet turbine.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
bloody nice it is too.
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@jaloopa how cute, a brit talking down about someone else's food.
I'll bring some Serrano to enjoy the fight
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
I'd like to point out that:
- airplanes don't float or do they?
- airplanes can't take off on water
Post not applicable to hydroplanes
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
blood pudding
Is that what you heathens call black pudding? i.e. the best part of a full English?
Yeah - they've finished mutilating the
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“He fell over in the middle of the road, but managed to find his feet as he chicken danced his way to the other side.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
I'd like to point out that:
- airplanes don't float or do they?
- airplanes can't take off on water
Well actuall...
Post not applicable to hydroplanes
Oh. Carry on.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
- airplanes don't float or do they?
Well there's the famous crash-landing on the hudson.
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UwU
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Let's drill past the headline and find the meat, shall we?
But the profile also indicated that Chamberlain “tolerates” rape, prompting at least one commenter on the Facebook post to question the lawmaker’s ability to lead.
Oh look, the real reason he's been forced to resign, buried deep in the article.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
But the profile also indicated that Chamberlain “tolerates” rape,
In the context of furry porn. Which is a quite different context than the context of a city council.
Like 25% of furry porn is or implies rape, and nobody cares because, well, it's a fantasy porn universe.
And besides, that's not the reason he resigned.
http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-councilman-resigns-after-furor-over-12181577.php .
But Mayor David Gronbach, saying elected officials should be held to a “higher standard,” called for Chamberlain’s immediate resignation
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“Anyone is free to pursue any hobby of choice,” one commenter wrote, “however that doesn't mean they can represent me as an elected official and endorse the things that are seemingly endorsed on that page.”
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On Thursday night, as town Democrats held a previously scheduled opening ceremony of party headquarters on Bank Street, a small group of protesters gathered outside.
Among them was Rick Agee, the resident who had made the original Facebook post. He carried a sign saying, “No perverts running our town!”
”I have kids and grandkids in this town, and I don’t want him representing us,” Agee said.Fucking hell. People actually protesting outside that some guy drew furry strips in his private life. At first I found it funny, now I'm actually upset. Higher standard my ass, I wish I could see their porn history. What a bunch of backwards morons.
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@anonymous234 Ah, OK, so it's intolerant assholes thinking all furries are perverted rapist paedophiles.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 Ah, OK, so it's intolerant assholes thinking all furries are perverted rapist paedophiles.
America: Land of the Free to be Ostracized.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Post not applicable to hydroplanes
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
hydroplanes
Stupid ESL. I meant the second definition in Merriam-Webster; the first in Dictionary.com.
Apparently "seaplane" is what native anglophones would call what I meant?
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
Please, no. If UA tried this we'd probably be talking about how many of the pets mysteriously died during the flight.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
Please, no. If UA tried this we'd probably be talking about how many of the pets mysteriously
dieddisappeared during the flight."Did you enjoy your meal sir?"
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@djls45 For some reason, I just decided to make this:
Demotic? Isn't that a script used for Ancient Egyptian religious and literary writings?
I think that's what they used before Reformed Egyptian became popular.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
I'd like to point out that:
- airplanes don't float or do they?
- airplanes can't take off on water
Post not applicable to hydroplanes
ITYM seaplanes?
Edit: 'd again!
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
Please, no. If UA tried this we'd probably be talking about how many of the pets mysteriously
dieddisappeared during the flight."Did you enjoy your meal sir?"
So that's what they did with that rabbit.
I'd eat that!
Well, except for the whole "died mysteriously and might've been sick" part. And the "didn't belong to them" part...
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
"died mysteriously and might've been sick"
I thought they determined it was perfectly healthy but they accidentally transported it in a freezer.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
"died mysteriously and might've been sick"
I thought they determined it was perfectly healthy but they accidentally transported it in a freezer.
I thought they determined it had been cremated and they had no way to determine for sure why it died.
IIRC the speculation that I heard was that the cargo bay most likely decompressed and it died from... whatever that might've caused.
(Actually, did UA supposedly perform an autopsy before they cremated it? I don't exactly trust their word on why it died, as they're the ones who killed it in the first place. But the decompression thing seems likely enough to be believable.)
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@zecc said in In other news today...:
@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
I'd like to point out that:
- airplanes don't float or do they?
- airplanes can't take off on water
Post not applicable to hydroplanes
ITYM seaplanes?
Edit: 'd again!
It's ok, even with your high-latency connection to the Hive Mind you can still be useful!
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@lorne-kates said in In other news today...:
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on the fact that I still have some bodies to dig up and loot.
You're supposed to do that before burying them.
E_YOUR_DOING_IT_WRONG
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@lorne-kates said in In other news today...:
@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
United Airlines, take notes.
United would just chuck everyone's pets into the jet turbine.
That would cause catastrophic engine failure. They'd just "forget" to pressurize the hold.
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