pigeonburger
1yr ago
It doesn't replace deep frying. I prefer deep fried in cheap fat over air fried in premium fat.
But there's ways of avoiding wasting too much fat deep frying. Pan/pot/wok size and shape is crucial.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
I drink all the broth in ramen and pho. As for hot pot broth, I'd put aside and make soup with. I typically eat all the sides and pickles I'm served.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Its nuclear weapons more than suffice.
That and the Navy as a first line. And the Navy needs highly trained experts to operate its ships, not bodies to throw at a meat grinder. If it came to "The Big One", the US would have much more need of workers to be funneled to industry, armament manufacturers and shipyards than combat service.
Excellent analogy; elite political parties are only interested in driving you around a highly astroturfed overton window, and if you claim to want something else they'll try to gaslight you that you really wanted something they want. "I want to stop mass immigration" "Gotcha, we'll get you some tax cuts!" "No, I want to stop mass immigration" "Ohhh, sorry I misheard you. We'll increase the defense budget, just like you asked, don't worry".
pigeonburger
1yr ago
The only people who might call them on it are other scientists and scientists are a cliquey bunch.
Some professions requires the public trusting that you will prefer defending their interest over defending your in-group. Doing these jobs properly require taking a skeptical, sometimes even adversarial stance towards your colleagues. Cops, judges, journalists, doctors and scientists come to mind; any hint of wagon-circling from these harms society greatly.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Nothing too fancy planned this weekend. We have some frozen fish fillets. Maybe I'll make tonkatsu. My wife has ingredients to make her favorite potato salad.
I like to think I'm a good cook, with or without a recipe. I make a great sucre à la crème. My wife is a good cook too. My brother is a great cook. Most of my friends are at least decent.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Ultimately that's what made meal kits worth it when I was alone: I'm low maintenance and I don't care too much about myself, so if I have a choice between having to shop and then choosing what to eat and finally cooking a good homemade meal and ordering out/eating frozen dishes, I'll go with the easy option. Meal kits are a good halfway option where the agonizing decisions are taken care of, there's no having to manage what to buy, trying to find out what to do with leftovers, etc... Not making your meal kit is a massive waste so you DO make it, and don't order takeout. But now that my wife lives with me we don't use them. The economies of scale are a bit better with "normal groceries" for two than for one. There's some recipes and cooking tricks I learned from meal kits I've integrated in my cooking though.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Turned up this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xk7b/del-complex-ai-training-barge
To find out more about the Del Complex project, Motherboard reached out to Sterling Crispin. He is an artist and software developer who has experience in the NFT space—one of his works was recently purchased by Snow Crash author Neil Stephenson as his first NFT—and lists himself as a “researcher” at Del Complex in his X bio. Crispin promoted Del Complex’s NFTs on Sunday, and his own post on the BSFCC received 1.2 million views on X.
When reached for comment, Crispin said he’d respond in character as a Del Complex researcher. Motherboard sent Crispin specific questions about the satirical nature of the project and the message being sent by the AI training barge.
So it's an art project.
Have you checked the PDF link on the page linked? https://delcomplex.com/vonGoom
This is not real.
An Alternate Reality Corporation accelerating human potential through AI, neural prosthetics, clean energy, fundamental scientific research
https://www.delcomplex.com/blue-sea-frontier
Highlights:
Over 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs per platform providing unparalleled compute and industry leading performance.
Not just a compute cluster, each BSFCC is a sovereign nation state for innovation and acceleration.
Kinetic risk mitigation with dedicated security forces.
I'm leaning towards ARG, but could also just be creative writing experiment or some kid LARPing.
How would you improve the airport experience?
I know how I would improve my experience, I often have to travel to southern europe, where my wife is from, from Canada, and the only decently priced flights usually involve > 8 hours layovers, often overnight, and/or early morning departures that require travelling to the airport the night before. Few airports are equipped to keep you comfortable for such long layovers. Many have benches with armrests that discourage sleeping in the landside area; I understand not wanting to be used as a hotel by people who shouldn't be in the airport (or discouraging people sleeping in the part of the airport where pickpockets have easy access), but sometimes you can't help having to stay overnight there and it just sucks. Thankfully, I've yet to see an airport with an airside area that had only armrest benches. Even if the airport has no flights in the middle of the night and it's not very profitable to run it, there should always be at least one café/restaurant per terminal that stays open; just someplace with human activity to keep you from going insane. The "liminal space" nature of an empty airport at night is unsettling and makes every hour run so much slower. It must be what purgatory feels like. I just want someplace to make me feel human, like being in the airport is fine and normal, like I'm not a nuisance or penny-pincher for not going out, paying a taxi then an additional 200$ for barely a night in a hotel, and then having to go through security again. Oh, and those airport lounges? Why the hell do they close at night? While I wouldn't pay for a hotel, I would absolutely pay 25-50$ per person to have a place I could feel safe sleeping in, refreshing myself, taking out my laptop, etc... I don't need them during the day.
2 years ago I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondilitis, a rheumatologic autoimmune disease that slowly fuses my vertebrae in my lower back together, affecting my mobility. It was detected through referal to an ophtalmologist and then rheumatologist from an optometrist who found it weird that I would have an uveitis (intra occular inflamation) out of the blue at my age (mid 30s) for no discernable reason and asked a few question about back pain (most important factor in this was that the back pain would increase at rest and decrease in movement).
Have you been tested for the gene HLA-B27? Assuming that comes back positive, with the mildly positive ANA and the inflammation symptoms, the conclusion is pretty clear.
If you are diagnosed for an rheumatologic autoimmune disease, I'd say expect to have a lot of little issues that will make more sense. From what I understand if you are diagnosed with one of the autoimmune diseases correlated with the HLA-B27 gene, you probably have symptoms from many of them, although sometimes at below diagnostic levels. I've struggled with frequent heartburn that I could not explain as reflux, makes a lot more sense if my esophagous is just prone to inflammation. Do you have random bouts of diarrhea? IBD is in that category, maybe you don't quite reach the criteria for diagnostic, but don't be too surprised. It can help guide doctors too in the future when you have issues; doctors tend to see inflammation as a symptom of another issue and will expect that if they find and treat that other issue the inflammation will go away, and that would be correct for most of the population, but with an autoimmune disease the inflammation could very well have happened for no reason than you body hating you that day, and should be treated directly (usually with cortisone). Skin inflammation (psoriasis or dermatitis) that doctors failed to treat when they assumed it was bacterial or fungal in origin? Makes a lot more sense when you know your body is prone to autoimmune inflammation for no underlying reason.
As I'm sure you're aware, these conditions are not considered curable right now, but on the upside, NSAIDs have been working very well for me, both ibuprofen and slow-release prescription diclofenac. If I feel I'm in an inflammatory period, one ibuprofen before bed is enough to avoid waking up in the middle of the night with pain and a stiff back. You mention dry eyes: watch out for uveitis as that is the symptom with the biggest impact on my life and it can cause long term damage to your vision. I'm currently in the middle of a long course of corticosteroid drops after an acute uveitis (the kind that had the optometrist and ophtalmologist talk in a very serious and worried tone) and I'm worried I could come out on the other side of it with significant vision loss in the affected eye. If you have eye irritation that seems to come from inside the eye that lubricating drops (get good ones, they can help a lot with the dryness) are not controlling, quickly go see an ophtalmologist, or if you can't see one like that directly, an optometrist for an "ocular emergency" (many optometrists offer emergency consultations). Skip the generalist. The generalist I initially saw for my first uveitis was clueless, he diagnosed me with a bacterial conjunctivitis and prescribed me antibiotic drops which made my issue worse. They simply are not equipped (in both knowledge and actual medical equipment) to diagnose eye issues.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
We know a lot of people are not confused about this because "help your own, avoid freeloaders or impersonal systems that can create or incentivize freeloaders" is basic conservative ideology in America. Let's not even speak globally.
Jonathan Haidt identified the group who bucks this trend as WEIRD (Western Educated Industrial Rich and Democratic). It can feel like these people's values are dominant in the population if you live in a WEIRD enclave but as you mention, globally and even just in more conservative areas they really aren't, even if they are still able to hold an outsized amount of influence due to the concentration of mediatic, economic and political power in WEIRD enclaves. Haidt identified that WEIRD people tended to compress all moral judgement to the harm/care and cheating/fairness moral dimentions, wheras conservatives (and non WEIRDs) had a more multi-dimensional moral judgement.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
However, the suggestion that we can confidently assert that no such intervention will ever be necessary is preposterous. I don’t think we have any good reason to believe that the medical bodies governing medical transition for minors are invulnerable to the kinds of social dynamics and institutional failures that have afflicted every other kind of medical body,4 and doctors as a profession (as the examples above illustrate) are notorious for closing ranks and circling the wagons at the first whiff of a potential scandal. To simply declare by fiat “the medical bodies governing transition for minors will always be able to self-regulate and course-correct, governmental oversight or intervention is not necessary and never will be” is shockingly naïve.
I think this point bears highlighting. A lot of the "believe the science" message seems to hinge on the belief that scientists, doctors and other highly credentialed professionals are, within their sphere of expertise, able to ignore misaligned incentives and politics that history and experience has shown time and time and time and time again are universal. The original scientific method created an adversarial system to counteract these human failings, to align the incentives with bold truth finding. But nowadays coordination at the size of our current scientific institutions has misaligned the incentives again, to put them in line with affirming the consensus and the political class.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Basically, it looks like they don't care about anti-semitism, and only care about plagiarism when it's put under an intense spotlight.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
They'll Let the CBC and every Canadian broadcaster die, such that it will just be Rebel News and American Media.
This is not going to happen. Guaranteed.
The media, even when entirely ideologically captured, has enough of a self-preservation instinct to half-heartedly lick the boot after a regime change. And any Conservatives, even and especially those who aren't knowingly playing the role of controlled opposition, are so starved for flattering media coverage that they'll let them flatter them and will forget any plan or promise to deal with the media, until it's too late, it's election season and the knife is buried so far in their back they can't pull it out anymore.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
This is an ordinary, and probably unavoidable, epistemic failure mode.
I'm not sure what's so difficult about saying "It sounds bad if it's true, but I'll reserve judgement until I hear the other side's case." I say it all the time, to the endless frustration of friends and family, but still. I'd expect rationalists to get that one right.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
I don't know, maybe (definitely) I hang out with mostly nerds, but from where I'm looking men seem less ashamed/self-conscious than ever to flaunt their geeky hobbies. Retro gaming setups, arcade machines, gaming computers and consoles, VR setups, etc... are proudly displayed in living rooms in a way that they wouldn't have been before, when you would only see a Super Nintendo or Playstation plugged in to the secondary basement TV only the kids use.
I grew up with videogames being a thing for boys and teenager boys that we were supposed to grow out of, and it seems men of my generation while growing up put their foot down and decided that no, videogames are not inherently more childish than watching TV shows and we have no reason to be ashamed of them.
And its not just gaming; I look at the younger generations, young men in their early 20s, and I don't think for instance being into anime is the 'red flag' for women that it was for my generation.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
around having a personal relationship with Santa Claus, like we need Santa to redeem our fallen souls
You've never written a letter to Santa, or been told to be good or else you'll be on the naughty list?
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Ok, let's isolate some variables here then, to remove the "incest" aspect. Imagine you are a father (sorry if you are, what follows might be upsetting to imagine), and your daughter just started a prostitution business; one day one of your coworkers says something like "whew, I've been horny these days, I wish I could get a little action tonight", do you enthusiastically direct him to your daughter, the same way you would if he said he was hungry and she was selling cupcakes?
pigeonburger
1yr ago
Normally I see those as a solution to specific ergonomic problem, is there a reason you're thinking of getting one?
Personally, my strategy to avoid RSI is to use a trackball when working at home, mouse at the office.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
They are willing to criticize other adults, including teachers or even their child’s other parent, directly to their kids or in their hearing. It’s an important part of growing up to understand that authority figures are flawed and human, but perhaps it’s a little scary and destabilizing to believe that, at 12, you know better than the people with power over your life.
Honestly, that's an important thing that I hadn't considered and I'm really glad you mentioned it.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
It is useful to have a term to describe this phenomenon everyone who's paying attention sees, but escapes having simple way to name or describe it. You can't just say it's one party, because it's clearly in control of multiple parties, sometimes all the major ones, in multiple countries. It's not just one single ideology because it will adopt incoherent positions to further itself. It's not a conspiracy because it's participants are for the most part unaware they're in it, and its direction is the emergent result of the process that build it rather than human will. I would call it a manifestation of the centralizing forces that build up in complex human organisations, but that's just how I explain it.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
It really is not that hard to make babies. Why would artificial wombs be needed?
Women see pregnancy as hitting pause (and in some high-powered careers, halt or rewind) on their carreer progression for a couple of years. Unless they are in a very secure position with their mate, it is a scary prospect. An artificial womb would shorten that pause to the time spent taking care of the newborn before it can be sent to daycare, time which could be more equitably split with the father than the time being pregnant could.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
there's some thumb(s) on the scale in a more direct way, even if it is behind the scenes
ESG investing is that thumb. Trillions of dollars in funds are earmarked for ESG (environmental, social and governance), the better a company's score on ESG metrics, the more investment they get from these funds. These metrics mostly measure how much a company aligns with the mainstream green, globalist, liberal thought-complex (to avoid mentioning The Cathedral). The thought-complex wants to see less white men in ads, so companies will obey, to the extent they can avoid damaging their sales too much, to qualify for this investment money.
This is it, yes.
If there was a widespread invasion of privacy by our governments in the physical realm, as in once every year when you're out of the home a team of detectives (or to make the analogy more 1:1, a sophisticated automated drone) breaks in and inspect your home for evidence of crimes without warrants, we would very likely have at least some evidence that they did. If they did it in the digital realm, we would have... Exactly the evidence we have right now: no clear admission that it is so but also courts allowing "de-anonymising" of people of interest, implying they actually do intercept data without any kind of warrants, whistleblowers like Snowden, etc...
OP can dismiss it as "QAnon" stuff if he wants, but there's a hightened general distrust of our governments nowadays from both the left and the right. The red tribe today has reason to believe that the legal system, including police and the judiciary are weaponized against them, there's a discussion about such here today. You can disagree, but even if you do I think it's unfair to call it unreasonable to believe. And the blue tribe loudly frets about scenarios where if the red tribe gains power again they will weaponize government against them. So concerns about surveillance being in the interest of legitimate police interventions are convincing no one.
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