Something that’s not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
The assignment was “not super controversial, but I still really stand by it.”
My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.
“Brutal honesty” motherfuckers just want to be mean. Also they can’t handle honesty from others at all.
Allied with - “I just say it like it is”, nope motherfucker, you say it like you see it, consider you might be wrong.
And the ‘I said what I said’ and ‘Fact!’ dipshits.
“Makes you think!”
Almost nothing worse than a thin skinned bully. If you can’t take it, don’t dish it.
Pizza is one of the best food forms we’ve ever come up with. I don’t even care if you use wildly nontraditional toppings, like a chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza. Just put the shit you wanna eat on a giant dough, cook it, then cut it up and eat it. Genius.
One of my siblings just… doesn’t like pizza. All of the individual components are fine in other dishes, but not together. I don’t understand.
chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza.
Go on, I’m interested…
The fevered dreams of a madman, for now. But if in some sitcom plot, I ever inherit a pizza place form a long-lost uncle, those will be called the Dave Lister and the Blue Hedgehog respectively (I have to assume Sega is more litigious than the BBC).
I once made a seafood and butter sauce pizza for a highschool gf. Hated it myself but she still talked about it years after we spit. Pizza and Sandwiches are the peak of human civilization
It’s no coincidence that most pizza shops also sell sangwiches
I’ve been doing a lot of batch cooking lately, and come to the conclusion that everything is a soup.
Pizza is just soup on top of bread.
Amen
Any home that doesn’t have central air conditioning should at least have a dedicated circuit outlet by each window. It’s like home designers are trying to make people sweat.
I moved out of my last shitty apartment because the entire thing was wired to two 15amp fuses. If the Fridge compressor happened to kick on while I was cooking on the electric stove and had like the microwave also going it would blow a fuse. My new apartment has circuit breakers, but things aren’t much better. The stove and fridge are on their own circuits. However all of the outlets are on a single breaker. If I try to run the AC in the bedroom at the same time as the living room it trips. It’s rage inducing.
Lukewarm water is great for showering
Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
To each their own, I think a good parmesan is my favorite, but blue cheese is pretty up there
Shropshire blue 🩵💛🧀
Humans have intrinsic value and nobody should be treated cruelly without cause. Aside from in relatively marginal places, that worldview has largely won.
I’d extend it to “people are basically the same everywhere”, but there’s actual disagreement about that.
Except for Nazis
That’s with cause.
The Hague has a modern, Western prison, and a relatively comfortable one at that.
Edit: So no, people convicted of heinous things aren’t always made an exception. And, yes, that’s cause.
Back in the day, anyone could become a slave, and depending on setting anything could be done to a slave. That’s because human rights weren’t really a thing.
People have their minds turned from ‘learning mode’ to ‘i am correct’ mode wayy too much
I’m okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like “it’s not stealing it’s just copying,” among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you’re doing. There’s so much free media out there you don’t need to pirate the stuff that isn’t.
Personally I’m okay with being told I’m a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I’m broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I’m a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
btw if you ever have a Christian hounding you about it tell them “Jesus pirated fish and bread, and you support him” and watch them think through how to still disagree with you (they will never change their opinion) but support jesus no matter what
You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
Copium bruh. The creators are making this content with the expectation of being paid for their labour. By pirating you are denying them of this regardless of your reasons for doing so. Saying it’s mostly “corpos who host the content” is the ones you’re scamming is just shifting the blame. If nobody paid for subscriptions etc corporations wouldn’t profit and thus wouldn’t host or fund content and it’s creators. Obviously giving creators a larger slice is better, but denying them of anything because you think that is hypocritical (which I am)
You are assuming the corpos didn’t just buy the rights. Cause if they did, the creators got paid already.
Why did they buy the rights from the creators, tell me. Go on. Think a little.
Kudos to you, I did intentionally ignore that point for brevity. No point in addressing it if noone was going to followup on it. It is going to take a lot more piracy, like 500x to make buying the rights not a lucrative investment. So at present it just reduces their gains. In the long term it actually made it so that they stopped buying rights, then they might go back to royalties or something to reduce thier upfront investment. That would actually be good overall for both us and creators as it would increase the chances of the creator making out big early in thier career when something small takes off. Creators themselves are more likely to invest that early money on higher risk projects which will lead to more variety in the overall offerings and more new creators being able to make a living creating.
From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It’s a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
Studies consistently show that piracy increases sales.
Got any of those?
Yeah seems like there is about a 5% loss in sales for new movies and negligible loss for everything else according to that source. Notably the source does not say that piracy increases sales but of course it didn’t why would someone read a fucking source before citing it. I mean it’s not like the source addresses specifically what questions the source attempts to answer and the results they found in the opening fucking paragraph.
Just call it training the AI in your brain. You couldn’t be expected to be successful if you had to pay for all that training material…
It’s not a misunderstanding. It’s deliberate misinformation.
I like putting black cardamom in my chai
You can’t just make up words like that
Today is your lucky day!
Ingredients:
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5 green cardamom
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1/2 black cardamom (or more but it can be overpowering)
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a bunch of ginger, chopped a lot (idk how to measure ginger)
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5 peppercorns
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2ts indian black tea
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water
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3% milk (enough to equal the amount of water because I love milky chai)
Ingredients but optional:
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1 edge star anise (or fennel or smnk)
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a bitta cinnamon
Directions:
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put spices in mortar
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pulverize with pestle
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but in water with ginger on stove
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simmer 20 minutes
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add tea leaves
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simmer 10 minutes
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add milk
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simmer 10 minutes
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let cool
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strain
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enjoy!
Can be simmered for longer but I don’t have time for that in the morning. Smells great tho
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cardamom is one of the secret ingredients in my chili. I also use cinnamon and whiskey in the recipe.
People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.
Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.
There are notable exceptions, LOTR comes to mind, well executed adaption IMO.
Private soil farming is a great business model. Low cost, high demand. With fewer chemicals and wider practice, the trade will be more sustainable.
More houses will be 3D printed — and smaller — in the future.
The internal combustion engine is the largest technological mis-step in human history.
I think components being 3d printed is more likely. It’s pretty hard to do cookie cutter complex objects like apartment buildings and family homes. Things like bricks, supports, ducts, pipes, insulation are much more adaptable. I think a hot take of mine is that 3d printing isn’t gonna be the next big thing in construction and manufacturing. There’s really sophisticated and efficient methods of doing those things on an industrial scale now that I don’t see 3d printers matching. I do think 3d printers will play a bigger role for personal use. Having a tool that could print out many different household objects just for one person seems useful. Things like toothbrushes, housing components for electronics, ceramics like plates and glasses.
A violent revolution won’t solve anything
That’s warmish on Lemmy, although even here 99% of them are armchair revolutionaries and actually quite comfortable as things are.
