Random thought of the day
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@accalia That's a fox, not a thought. Easy mistake to make.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia That's a fox, not a thought. Easy mistake to make.
it's also random if you refresh it should change.
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@accalia the weird part is I didn't even notice because I also saw a fox.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
Has anyone ever heard a real cowboy/cowgirl complaining (non-satirically) about appropriation of cowboy culture?
No, but it doesn't matter because privilege.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia the weird part is I didn't even notice because I also saw a fox.
So did I...
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@dcon I think the odds might be a little bit stacked.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@dcon I think the odds might be a little bit stacked.
maybe? (SFW, but buggy as yet. Bug reports to the circular file)
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@accalia said in Random thought of the day:
circular file
Is that what you call your trash bin?
Filed under: GODDAMMIT WHY DOES IT FOLLOW THE LINK WHEN I TRY TO ALT+LEFT-CLICK IT?
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@zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Is that what you call your trash bin?
I prefer to name such things the Write-Only MemoryâŚ
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@zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Is that what you call your trash bin?
no, my trash bin is regrettably rectilinear.
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@accalia I bet it is. I also bet @Perverted_Vixen likes to play in it.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia I bet it is. I also bet @Perverted_Vixen likes to play in it.
hmmm. I spend a lot of time under @accalia's desk it is true, but i don't spend it in the waste bin. there's much more fun to be had under there.
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@perverted_vixen wait... I might have misunderstood something. Is the root word of "rectilinear" not "rectal"?
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@anotherusername i prefer to be cunning personally. ;-)
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
RTOTD: A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
So.... eBay?
Penny-bidding sites! You pay even when you lose! Keep paying and you might just win!
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Today is the day that recycling gets picked up at my house. As on garbage day, we're officially supposed to have stuff out to the curb by 8am. The time at which it is collected varies widely. I've often wondered if they vary their routes on purpose to keep you on your toes about getting stuff out in a timely manner, kind of like blakey's idea that DBs should not return unordered query results in a predictable order.
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@boomzilla And putting the bin out the evening before is a fineable offence? That's how they had it set up at my parents' place. I think there was occasional enforcement too.
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@pleegwat said in Random thought of the day:
And putting the bin out the evening before is a fineable offence?
In theory, it's supposed to go out no earlier than 7pm the night before. I've occasionally put it out a bit earlier and never had a problem. The boy prefers putting it out the morning of, however, so that's how we roll.
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@boomzilla I usually put it out the morning-of, because that's when I'm dressed.
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@anotherusername TIL: you are dressed only in the morning.
FileUnder: I wouldn't want to be one of your co-worker
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@timebandit said in Random thought of the day:
@anotherusername TIL: you are dressed only in the morning.
FileUnder: I wouldn't want to be one of your co-worker
so....... you wouldn't want me as a coworker?
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@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
so....... you wouldn't want me as a coworker?
From the last picture of you that you sent me, OF COURSE I WOULD !!!
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@timebandit said in Random thought of the day:
From the last picture of you that you sent me,
which one was that again? i was pretty drunk last night and i remember playing around with snapchat.......
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@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
i was pretty drunk last night and i remember playing around with snapchat.......
Thank God for screenshots
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@timebandit said in Random thought of the day:
@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
i was pretty drunk last night and i remember playing around with snapchat.......
Thank God for screenshots
I will, but only if you share.
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@timebandit I'm also dressed while I'm at work, but I'm not sure how that helps me to put the trash and recycling outside for collection at my house.
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This one is for you, @Perverted_Vixen:
Imagine if Disneyland adds animatronic versions of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction (assuming that they haven't done so already, I dunno). It kinda puts Dr. Ian Malcolm's quip in a whole new perspective, doesn't it?
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How am I going to catch a mouse that no longer comes out of the walls?
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Does the mechanism by which we forget dreams ever malfunction and cause us to forget real memories?
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
Does the mechanism by which we forget dreams ever malfunction and cause us to forget real memories?
All the goddam time...
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There has recently (as in within the last decade) been a noticeable increase in "delivery" services. From Amazon's increasingly varied services, all the online food ordering sites, platforms that let you hire people to fetch stuff for you in shops, etc.
I always automatically assumed that these were just a luxurious privilege that us rich people had. I mean, paying a guy to drive from McDonalds to your house and bring you a single cheeseburger just so you don't have to leave the couch sounds like a big waste of resources, right?
But I just had an epiphany: if that guy didn't drive from the restaurant to your house, you'd have to drive from your house to the restaurant. So the total work is exactly the same! And when you consider that that guy can deliver stuff to your neighbors in the same trip, it's probably more efficient.
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@anonymous234 You're just rationalizing that you're a couchpotato, aren't you?
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@jbert said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 You're just rationalizing that you're a couchpotato, aren't you?
not just a couch potato. an EFFICIENT couch potato
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@scholrlea said in Random thought of the day:
This one is for you, @Perverted_Vixen:
Imagine if Disneyland adds animatronic versions of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction (assuming that they haven't done so already, I dunno). It kinda puts Dr. Ian Malcolm's quip in a whole new perspective, doesn't it?
"That is one big pile of shit."
???
I don't see the relevance.
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@anonymous234 sure, but if you have two restaurants right next to each other and they both deliver, their delivery persons are both probably going to be going all over the city. Just think how much more efficient it'd be if there was, like, a delivery courier service, which would efficiently plan and schedule trips to pick up food from many different restaurants of origin and deliver it all to its final destinations in some guaranteed average/maximum timeframe!
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@jbert Well... maybe (why is : blush: so smiley? I want a serious blush).
It's true, opportunity cost doesn't really work like that in humans, because humans don't work at a constant rate 24 hours a day. We need to paradoxically do things like have a lazy afternoon watching a movie or having a walk outside in order to remain efficient. So in that case the trip outside would be considered enjoyment instead of work for you.
In other works: the argument may or may not be true depending on what you do the rest of the day.
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@anotherusername True. Which is why I'd expect restaurants to switch to third party delivery companies (as many already have) rather than having their own delivery people, and then I'd expect the smaller delivery companies to slowly be absorbed by the bigger ones until we only have like 2 or 3 left. Like it has happened with many other industries.
In general, economies are more efficient when each job are handled by dedicated companies, and much more efficient when those aren't tied together so competition can happen on each sector individually.
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@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
i prefer to be cunning personally.
All foxes are cunning. You are also a linguist.
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@anotherusername
Are you reinventing deliveroo?
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How do restaurants serve "home-cooked" meals? Do they have some sort of residence inside the industrial kitchen?
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
i prefer to be cunning personally.
All foxes are cunning. You are also a linguist.
Very much so!
I'm glad you noticed!
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
How do restaurants serve "home-cooked" meals? Do they have some sort of residence inside the industrial kitchen?
There are specific definitions for things like home cooked, handmade etc. that aren't what you'd expect.
- Home-cooked
The word home cooked calls to mind family cooking, but according to the show's Associate Professor of Law Richard Hyde, itâs not so simple. The so-called "home-cooked" tortilla chips the team examine from a Latin American restaurant chain may not be cooked anywhere near a home, but in a restaurant kitchen using deep frying techniques.
Surprisingly, this is completely acceptable according to the Food Standards Agency. According to Hyde, provided you cook something in a way that you could do in your own home, you can call it home-cooked.
- Handmade
This seems self-explanatory - but not when it comes to Pret a Mangerâs "handmade" soup, which the show reveals is in fact made in a centralised factory.
âHandmade claims donât actually refer to things necessarily being made by hand,â explains Hyde. You can use a blender or a chopping machine, provided itâs the sort that could be used on a domestic scale. âThe line is not between use of hands and use of machines - itâs between industrial scale and not industrial scale,â he says.
According to Pret, the soup is indeed made in a factory. The wording was based on an old production process, and has now been updated.
- Fresh
We all want our food to be as fresh as possible - but as the show reveals, the seemingly simple word "fresh" is often open to interpretation. Le Pain Quotidien claims to make âfreshâ orange juice each morning, but although not concentrated, it is squeezed off the premises, and arrives already bottled. Fresh, Hyde says, has a âwide meaning.â
It doesnât mean freshly squeezed - all it means is ânot preserved in any unnatural way.â The real shocker? Their organic scrambled egg is in fact made of pasteurised liquid egg that has been made off site. Legally, thatâs ok - when a menu says fresh, all it really means is that it's not preserved or frozen.
CafĂŠ Rouge also uses âfreshâ ingredients - even though their boeuf de bourguignon arrives boiled in a bag. Meanwhile, Pizza Express describe their dishes as fresh to order - but the dough is ready made, and the spinach is cooked from frozen. Provided that something is made "in response to an order", you can call something freshly prepared.
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@jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
There are specific definitions for things like home cooked, handmade etc. that aren't what you'd expect.
I read recently about a similar thing in France: some products are "traditionnel" ("traditional [recipe]") and some are "Ă l'ancienne" (literally "ancient [recipe]", not sure what the correct vernacular English would be... I'd say "traditional" as well, but the point is that it's not exactly the same word!).
They basically mean the same thing to everyone. Except one of those is precisely defined and cannot be used freely while the other can. I read about that last week and I already forgot which one.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
some products are "traditionnel" ("traditional [recipe]") and some are "Ă l'ancienne" (literally "ancient [recipe]", not sure what the correct vernacular English would be... I'd say "traditional" as well, but the point is that it's not exactly the same word!).
Is one meant to be like an unchanged, original recipe? If so, I'd think the closest analogue would be authentic
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News folks should say 'failed to secure' instead of 'got hacked'. Before:
Foo.com has announced that it was hacked early in 2016, leading to the disclosure of over 20 million email addresses and related account information.
After:
Foo.com has announced that it failed to secure over 20 million email addresses and related account information, leading to their disclosure in early 2016.
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@bb36e but that would open them to defamation lawsu... oh wait, they're media.
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@jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
some products are "traditionnel" ("traditional [recipe]") and some are "Ă l'ancienne" (literally "ancient [recipe]", not sure what the correct vernacular English would be... I'd say "traditional" as well, but the point is that it's not exactly the same word!).
Is one meant to be like an unchanged, original recipe? If so, I'd think the closest analogue would be authentic
Mmmm... Probably, yes. Thank you! Although to be fair, I'm not sure which one would be "authentic" and which one would be "traditional". Well, "traditionnel" is obviously translated as "traditional", but in common use, I am not sure which one would be used in which case. Which actually only shows how much the two are synonymous and how stupid it is to have one of them regulated and not the other!
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@gÄ ska said in Random thought of the day:
@bb36e but that would open them to defamation lawsu... oh wait, they're media.
It's not defamation if it's the truth (and it's not malicious).
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@jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
Surprisingly, this is completely acceptable according to the Food Standards Agency. According to Hyde, provided you cook something in a way that you could do in your own home, you can call it home-cooked.
I think in Canadia the rule about this is stricter, which is why the Tim Hortons biscuits are called "home-style"