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I have a genetic defect that puts me at extremely high risk for developing a fatal neurodegenerative disease in my 50s or 60s. Recent evidence suggests that reducing neuroinflammation might help delay or even prevent onset, and there's also evidence that a diet high in soluble fiber can reduce systemic and neuroinflammation through increasing production of butyrate and reducing production of lipopolysaccharides by gut bacteria.
Which is to say, I've been trying to eat more legumes, but legumes are kind of a pain to cook. I want to live, but I'm also lazy. Purely by chance, a package of ZENB spaghetti, which is made of yellow peas and nothing else, caught my eye at 7-Eleven, and I decided to try it out. With the caveat that I have eaten very little pasta in the past 20 years, and pasta enthusiasts may disagree, it doesn't taste much different from wheat pasta to me. Pasta's mostly just a vehicle for sauce anyway, right?
The more people buy it, the more likely they stay in business, and the less effort it takes for me to do everything I can to keep my brain from eating itself, so I'm pimping it out here. If you like pasta, but wish it had more protein, fiber, and potassium, with fewer empty calories and/or no gluten, try ZENB pasta! Your Italian grandmother will hate it, but you might not!
SerialStateLineXer
9mo ago
I think you're overthinking this. It's just people who know precisely jack-all about optimal tax theory seeing people's net worth increasing in a tax-deferred manner, having their retinas contort themselves into dollar signs, and dreaming of can be, unburdened by even the most rudimentary understanding of economics.
SerialStateLineXer
9mo ago
Japan through behemoths like Nintendo & Sony have dominated gaming since day 1
Well, not day one. The first big hit was Pong, from Atari, which despite its name was an American company.
SerialStateLineXer
10mo ago
Are you familiar with the PoliSci 101 arguments against campaigning on sensible economic policy?
SerialStateLineXer
10mo ago
We're all out of ideas. We've tried restricting supply, we've tried subsidizing demand, and nothing works!
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10mo ago
I met a girl at a party. She laughed at my stupid jokes and said I looked like an actor, and she didn't even qualify "actor" with "character."
So obviously she's ignoring the message I sent her. Why are women like this?
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
Once again, rawdogging the Internet pays off!
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
I think the Giant blurb implies that you should skip it, even if it doesn't explicitly say so. Maybe an accidental omission?
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
No offense taken. I'm assuming that you were just misled by my youthful figure.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
Which is something I get is a technical limitation of the system
I don't think so. The space requirements to add additional burnable bush and bombable wall sprites would have been negligible. But this would have trivialized the game's "puzzles," which consisted entirely of pushing every block, bombing every wall, and burning every bush. If the movable parts are labeled, there's nothing left.
Later games added more elaborate puzzles with multiple moving parts that could be solved without brute force, allowing them to label the moving parts without trivializing the game. I think that this probably could have been done on the NES with a 128 KB ROM, but I'm not sure.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
To be clear, I did play the original Zelda a couple of years after it was released, and I liked it, but I was also eight years old and mildly autistic, so I didn't mind wasting hours systematically trying to burn every bush and bomb every exposed rock surface on the overworld. But in retrospect, that's just really bad design and not much fun compared to games that came out just a few years later.
I think that there was probably intended to be a social aspect to the exploration, where friends would get together, divvy up areas to search, and then share findings with each other. And we did do that a little, but not really systematically. But I lived in a semi-rural area and didn't have many friends who owned the game.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
The original Zelda doesn't really hold up, IMO. There's way too much reliance on brute-force trial-and-error, made even more annoying by the one use per screen limitation of the blue candle and the fact that bombs are consumable.
On the other hand, Zelda II is underrated.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
But they're only higher-paying than average because they have unusually high disutility. So in terms of net utility gain to the model, it shouldn't be any different.
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11mo ago
My two-bedroom apartment, built in 1973, does not have a 和室. It was renovated more recently, though, so maybe it had one before I moved in.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
YouTube Music is better in the very specific way that it allows you to play songs from YouTube videos on your phone in the background, without keeping the video up on your screen, and without having to download the video at all. If there's a lot of music you want to listen to that is on YouTube and is not licensed to any streaming services, it's the obvious choice.
Which is to say, its killer feature is facilitating light piracy. In other respects it leaves much to be desired, but being a fan of Showa-era Japanese pop music, for me they're the only game in town.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
This strikes me as kinda sanewashing or bad-faith
I don't claim or believe that what I'm describing is any more or less sane than what the OP is describing. It's just different, and I believe a more accurate characterization.
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11mo ago
seen as less offensive to call a woman a chestfeeder than to remind a man that he doesn't have breasts, and cannot breastfeed.
No, that's not why. "Chestfeeding" was coined for the benefit of trans men and enbies who don't want the word "breasts" being used to describe their breasts because they associate it with femininity.
TWs will talk all day long about how they can (sometimes, kind of, with pharmaceutical assistance) breastfeed. They love having breasts, and they love calling them breasts.
I'm not speaking as an apologist here. I'm just saying that the idea that they want to abolish words like "mother" and "woman" is not based on an accurate understanding of gender ideology. They want to redefine these words.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
listening to the facilitator explain to my genuinely confused Indian coworker why this description was problematic
I witnessed a similar exchange with another Indian guy at a presentation on pronouns. God bless the unassimilated and keep them safe from cancellation.
Wasn't it only a few months ago we were told this was an insane conspiracy theory and only a few weirdos would ever try to abolish "mother"?
To be clear, nobody actually wants to abolish the words "mother" or "woman." They want to use them in what they assert is "correct" manner, i.e. to refer to parents or people who personally identify as women, irrespective of sex. Conversely, terms like "birthing parent" and "people with uteruses" are used specifically because they include trans men, and are intended to be used only in contexts in which those characteristics are relevant.
For example, "Birthing Parent's Day" is mostly a GC meme. Trans activists are, to the best of my knowledge, not particularly interested in renaming Mother's and Father's day, because they still see "Mother" and "Father" as totally valid terms as long as they're used in a manner consistent with self-ID and not with biological sex. Trans men who have given birth would, for the most part, rather be honored on Father's Day than on a renamed Mother's Day, and vice-versa for trans women.
If you ignore the ideological aspect and the silliness of the phrasing, there's a certain set-theoretic elegance to it.
A Democratic nominee who pulls off an upset and wins this year is going to be campaigning on 12 years of blue government in 2028, a proposal that hasn’t won in 70 years.
That's not as meaningful as it sounds. We only have presidential elections every four years, so 70 years is 17.5 election cycles. And during that time Democrats have only lost the Presidency four times. This is a pattern based on four data points.
Hypothetically, if every election were a 50/50 chance, you would only expect Democrats to extend their hold on the White House to three terms one in four times, so they haven't done significantly worse than chance in that respect.
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
Twitter in retrospect was clearly the cancellation platform par excellence, it doesn’t seem like TikTok or Instagram hold the same “weight” as image and video platforms.
It probably helps that tweets take a few seconds to read. You can scan through several hundred tweets in an hour and pick out some things to retweet or subtweet, while watching a video or reading a long blog post to decide whether to praise or shame takes much longer.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Various state-based nullification theory application (such as 'inter-state commerce doesn't apply to FDA if I already have the goods in-state')
It won't happen, but I would love to see Democrats take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and then have the Supreme Court accept this argument and roll back 90 years of commerce clause abuse.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Why do we keep on writing bloated shit?
Because hardware is good enough that we can get away with it, kind of.
I work at a large company with a couple thousand software engineers and fairly selective interviews, and it's unbelievable how much waste there is in terms of easy optimizations left undone. There are $10,000 bills just lying around all over the place, and people often drag their feet on fixing them even when I point it out and spell out the solution.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Jews will not infect us
The Statista graph you linked doesn't show positive selection on educational attainment. The fact that the small minority of women with graduate degrees have slightly higher TFR than women with associate's or bachelor's degrees does not make up for the fact that they have lower fertility than the majority of women who have no college degree. It's still clearly the case that the majority of children are being born to women with below-average educational attainment.
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