Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 days ago:
Black tea refers to the degree of oxidation of the tea leaves - yellow, white and green teas all do the same thing. Similarly, white grapes are called that because they produce white (clear) liquid (though it’s clearly yellowish so who knows).
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 5 days ago:
I’ve found Rhodia is very inconsistent with their production quality (and I don’t love waxed papers), but for flip notebooks they can’t be beat.
For calligraphy, Tomoe River is a classic (even after the whole sanzen drama its still great paper), but I also really love Iroful, Canson Imagine 200gsm, and any of the Strathmore Mixed Media papers. It depends on the ink I’m using and the effect I’m going for, really, but if I had to pick one Iroful is probably the best all-round calligraphy paper (better shading than TR but with less impressive sheening)
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 5 days ago:
I’ve been into calligraphy for years now - it’s a wonderful hobby with anywhere between absolutely none (pseudocalligraphy with a pencil/bic) and a very low cost to entry (blackletter with a parallel pen) that I seriously encourage anyone to try out! Just be warned that it’s a gateway drug to the fountain pen hobby, which uh.
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quickly becomes a not-cheap hobby. Good god. - Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 1 week ago:
Missed opportunity to claim you wrre doing some naked woodworking
- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 1 week ago:
I’m just guessing, but I’m betting they were either trying to make a custom-fit buttplug or really liked the fantasy of being sealed up and figured it’d work loose like superglue does.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 week ago:
Sir this is a Wendy’s.
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And that was really cool so your meal is free, please go on this sounds like a super fun campaign. - Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 week ago:
I found this, which sheds a little more light on the topic?
- Comment on The Warbussy 1 week ago:
Killdeer are called that because they’re are shouting about it all the time.
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Racist little fuckers. - Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
I just wasn’t sure if it would fit the bill of being linux
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 2 weeks ago:
lemmynsfw fits the bill pretty well, idk.
- Comment on corn 2 weeks ago:
Porn on the cob
- Comment on How do I boot into the Corn Kernel? 2 weeks ago:
I use Maize btw
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 weeks ago:
It does now, yes. Early days of yeet did not have a definition - “that’s one Yeety Boi” as an example - it was just a word you’d substitute in place of any other word for meme reasons.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 weeks ago:
It’s a meaningless meme - if you remember the early days of “yeet” it’s lot like that. People started sticking the number around as an in-joke, but it’s gone super mainstream and now it’s just a goofy thing to do.
- Comment on Still out there 2 weeks ago:
How many distinct genomes are there?
- Comment on Still out there 2 weeks ago:
We’re not to the point that that’s possible.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks ago:
Its not in a body tho
- Comment on French Anatomy 2 weeks ago:
This time, we fill the man with horses?
- Comment on Still out there 2 weeks ago:
Yea they’re either a bot or an alien. Their comments never contribute anything to the posts, either. Very weird.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks ago:
That is either a fucking cold or a fucking hot room, wtf?
- Comment on Still out there 2 weeks ago:
… Thanks, I guess?
- Comment on French Anatomy 2 weeks ago:
Measuring horse height in hands is oldschool, we measure it in Mr. hands now.
- Comment on Still out there 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s not that simple, wikipedia has a good summary:
Advocates of final destruction maintain that there is no longer any valid rationale for retaining the samples, which pose the hazard of escaping the laboratories, while opponents of destruction maintain that the samples may still be of value to scientific research, especially since variants of the smallpox virus may still exist in the natural world and thus present the possibility of the disease re-emerging in the future or being used as a bio-weapon.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 2 weeks ago:
Most BNPL services don’t make classically hard inquiries, though - as I understand it that’s actually a big part of the problem, because they are able to skirt a great deal of the credit regulations put in place to prevent predatory lending by not engaging directly with the credit agencies, instead relying on 3rd party consumer information data brokers of dubious reliability.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 weeks ago:
Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 weeks ago:
How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this?
Food labeling in the US uses chemical names for… actually I’m not sure why we do that, I’m guessing it was some well-meaning but misguided regulatory guidelines. Anyways it makes our food labels sound absurd when they’re, as with this example, pretty straightforwardly just food.
The two big questionable things are the margarine and the TVP - both (imho) pretty gross for textural reasons, but both also staples of vegan diets and have been around for 50+ years. I’m gonna gloss over those because there’s tons of documentation on what goes into them online (and it would take ages to break everything down, and I’m lazy). Beyond that:
- Modified Corn Starch: This is a fancy name for anything from malted or low-boiled (boiled in a mild acid) starch. Humans have been doing this for millennia (fuck it took me forever to spell that), there are a million variations based on the malting process or type of acid or etc.
- Corn Syrup Solid: dehydrated glucose (ground sugar, but derived from starch instead of things like sugar cane/beets)
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor: Also called “liquid smoke”, it’s shockingly close to literally being smoke in liquid form. It’s the condensed vapors you get from heating wood, concentrated by freezing.
- Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate - Baking powder.
- Mono-And Diglycerides: Naturally occurring, found in food oils.
- BHT: this one is really contentious. It’s a naturally occurring antioxident found in a ton of fruits and nuts in low concentrations, but it’s been recently (2022) banned in the EU, though it’s still present in plenty of foods at low concentrations. There’s been pressure to get it banned in the US too, so hopefully that happens soon
- Sodium Bisulfite: salt
- Monosodium Glutamate: MSG, the flavor enhancer
- Xanthan gum: a complex extra-sticky sugar.
- Guar gum: Guar-bean juice. As with Xanthan gum it’s just a complex extra sticky sugar, but this one has been used for centuries to thicken foods.
- Soy Protein Concentrate: Cooked, mashed soybeans
- Dextrose: sugar (chemically identical to glucose, again not sure why we feel the need to obfuscate this one)
- Sodium Phosphate: salt
- Mechanically Separated Chicken: Ground chicken
I’ll freely admit it’s not good food (I mean who adds sugar to corn) but it’s all just food. Just food with dumb names.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 weeks ago:
jjgodis the only one I remember,jjcoinandjjflymight have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid… - Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Given that the radiation of nuclear waste has frequency way higher than UV, why can’t it be used to feed a photoelectric generator?
You’re probably using one of these right now (albeit indirectly)! They’re called Photovoltaic nuclear batteries and they’re critical to modern encryption. They ensure that encryption keys, which are stored in highly volatile memory where if power is ever lost the keys are immediately erased, never lose power unless the memory modules are physically disconnected.
The reason they’re not used more extensively is that they just don’t produce very much power - the high-energy electromagnetic radiations are very difficult to harness constructively (things like gamma and X-rays) and as a result we have to do some weird physics stuff to convert them. PVN batteries convert particle radiation, beta radiation from tritium decay specifically, into usable photons via a thin coating of phosphorus on the glass, instead of them being captured directly.
(this is a wild oversimplification just to be clear)
- Comment on Potentially life-changing if you're eligible 3 weeks ago:
“IVE GOUT IT” also fits
