NateNate60
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- Comment on Go Green 6 days ago:
Pot brownies are popular in the United States, which are baked at 180 degrees Celsius. I think the idea is to protect the components that contain THC, i.e. the crust and sauce.
For that reason, thin-crust pizzas like New York-style pizza are out. They are too thin and would expose the THC to high temperatures. Neapolitan pizza is also out because there is nothing protecting the cannato sauce from the 400-degree wood-fired oven. That leaves thick-crust pan pizzas.
Chicago-style pizza is a possibility despite the fact that the sauce is on top of the cheese, because there is so much of it that it becomes soupy. It might be possible to pour ordinary tomato sauce on top of the cannato sauce to protect it. Conversely, Detroit-style pizza does not have very much sauce at all so it’s out.
I think the best contender is a Pizza Hut-style pan pizza, which has a thick crust and an edge-to-edge layer of cheese on top of it, which I think would do a good job protecting the delicate sauce underneath.
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
THC oil in the dough, cannatoe-based sauce with dried ground weed added as a garnish… might just send you straight to God.
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
I wonder if it is biologically possible to grow a cannabis-tomato hybrid. Like a tomacco, but it’s actually a cannato.
Cannatoes could be used to make pizza into an edible, which might be too much for mere human minds to comprehend.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Food in the kitchen is usually measured in pounds for meat and vegetables (similar to the UK) and grams for most other dry goods. So the recipe would call for 2 pounds of beef but 5 grams of salt. The Costco hit dogs are guaranteed to weigh at least ¼ pound.
The most confusing thing is soda, because it is sold in containers of either 350 mL, 16 oz, or 2 L.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
It tastes similar to Kraft macaroni and cheese (known in Canada as “Kraft Dinner”). So I would guess young, unaged cheddar or Colby cheese. There is also probably a good amount of whey powder, which is a by-product of cheese production.
It’s not fake, just highly processed.
- Comment on Actual footage of real life events 2 weeks ago:
What Dutch, English, or German speakers think about speakers of the other languages
- Comment on Just in time 3 weeks ago:
Remember that one of the biggest contributions to women’s liberation was the invention of the washing machine.
- Comment on Just in time 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations. SpaceX, Inc. is pleased to conditionally extend you an offer of employment (contingent on a successful political background examination, employment eligibility verification and genetic scan) to the position of FACILITIES MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST at ARMSTRONG’S LANDING SPACEX LUNAR BASE. As discussed, your starting daily wage will be 96 DOGE, and working hours will be MONDAY-SATURDAY 05:00-20:00 UTC. Please report to ARMSTRONG’S LANDING SPACEX LUNAR BASE at 04:00 UTC MONDAY 14TH JUL 2093 to begin work.
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- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 4 weeks ago:
Woe will be the day when humans can no longer determine whether a video is AI or not, even after careful analysis. I wouldn’t have caught this one either but if given the fact that it is suspected of AI, it isn’t hard to prove it. The timestamp in the top left corner is off. 22-13-43-21 is a nonsensical date and the time jumps from 23:15:07 to 23:15:98 then 23:15:59 then 23:15:54
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
According to some right-wing spaces (r/conservative on Reddit), there is apparently evidence to suggest that the shooter was an outlier within their otherwise hard-right family.
Is there any evidence to the contrary?
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
Based on the fact that four times as much was spent on R&D, and almost three times as much was spent on sales and marketing, and even administration spent 50% more, I’m pretty confident that most employees are not working on the product itself.
Your bringing up admin salaries is a perfect example of economies of scale. You can easily mind a 1,000,000-user community with ten or twenty moderators. But 10,000 users still need at least two or three people minding them. Anecdotally, smaller online public groups seem to have more troublemakers per capita, to an extent.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
15.3 million is the same order of magnitude as 10^7^. I don’t see what the issue is with saying the cost of hosting is “on the order of 10^7^” here, unless you somehow think they are spending US$5 million a year on salaries of people who are directly involved in the provision of the product to the users? That would be US$60 million a year or enough to pay 600 people a six-figure salary, which I guarantee their employees are not all so well-paid.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
The “cost of revenue” is the figure that I am using. In business, cost of revenue is defined as the costs incurred directly to deliver the product to the customer, which is basically just hosting fees.
Thus I believe 10^7^ USD is correct.
So the difference is about one order of magnitude, which is still not insignificant.
Although, it would not surprise me if Reddit makes up most of that order of magnitude in terms of economy of scale, since at some point you would just rent some warehouses and run your own server farms, or at least negotiate better hosting rates if you’re spending millions on hosting every month.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
That doesn’t seem right. There are some 37,000 active Lemmy accounts within the past month.
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=6
It’s well-known that lemmy.world is the biggest instance (or close to it). In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of Mastodon users, of which at least a good few per cent are mastodon.world users.
This would give the Fedihosting Foundation a user count on the order of 10^5 users. And since their hosting cards are on the order of 10^4 EUR, this would mean each user costs on the order of 10^-1^ EUR.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
Oh, fantastic. I’ll double my monthly donation. Thanks!
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
It’s not being “split”, they give a flat 50 € regardless of whether you donate 0 € to them or 1 million €. In fact if more people donate to .world this will, infact, water down the percentage.
If the organisation had a monthly revenue of 1 000 000 € and gave 50 € to them, this would be such a vanishingly small percentage (0.005%) that it could well be argued to be negligible
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
Question about BUNQ: There’s this string that looks like an IBAN (
NL78 BUNQ 2108 3219 85). If I send money using a recurring bank transfer to that, will it work? Will substantial fees be incurred as a result? - Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 2 months ago:
r = 50 m by court order, but m~2~ is also now 135 kg.
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 2 months ago:
How do you get LaTeX in the comment?
- Comment on He took it literally 2 months ago:
Your lawyer would be more than happy to learn that they tried.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
Words become more acceptable over time. In centuries past calling someone a devil or saying that they should go to hell would have been deeply offensive. Today these insults are so mild that even schoolchildren say them to each other. Even twenty years ago the word “fuck” was viewed with nearly as much taboo as racial slurs. Now, it’s a very common word that people will throw around in a casual context.
At the same time, new words emerge and get labelled profane. For example, the word t****y (slur that means “transgender person”) would not have meant anything twenty years ago, and now it’s one of the most offensive words in the English dictionary. Similar story with the word f****t (derogatory term for a homosexual person).
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 2 months ago:
While it does sound unfair, eBay policy requires you to upload a tracking number by policy. If there is no tracking number eBay will treat it as having never been shipped. This is laid out in their policy pages. You can only satisfy the shipping requirement by using a tracked service and the one indicated by the buyer.
It’s a strict logical operation. eBay sides with the buyer unless all of the following are satisfied:
- A tracking number is uploaded within the specified turnaround time on your listing (I believe it defaults to 2 or 3 working days)
- The tracking number corresponds with the buyer’s indicated shipping service (ex. using USPS Ground Advantage when the buyer indicated Priority Mail will fail this requirement)
- The package was shipped to the exact address given to you by eBay
- The tracking status indicates “delivered” or "available for pickup"
- If the order total exceeds $750, you required a signature for the package
If you fail any of the requirements, you are at the buyer’s mercy. It’s harsh but it’s fair.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 2 months ago:
Shipping without tracking is pretty dumb though. I can’t speak for Canada Post but in your neighbour to the south, USPS in my experience has lost about 3% of letters with handwritten addresses and about 1% of those with a computer-printed address.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 2 months ago:
The Sovereign Grant was some £86 million, which certainly sounds like a lot, but the reality is that heads of state are actually just really expensive no matter whether you have a republic or a monarchy. Maybe you could argue that a president could just quietly exist in the background while people expect a monarchy to be lavish and fancy, at least to a degree. There’s a lot of pomp and ceremony associated with the head of state, because they not only represent the government of a country but also serve as a cultural symbol for the nation as a whole.
For comparison, in the US, excluding the policy departments within the Executive Office, the White House Office and Executive Residence and presidential salary budget lines totalled almost $94 million in FY 2025. This does not include the cost of Secret Service protection (paid by the Department for Homeland Security) nor does it include the cost of Air Force One trips (paid by the Department of Defence). And while Brits complain about their monarch not having to pay tax, I think the fact that the American president, or at least the current one, cheats on his taxes is also a somewhat open secret.
I’m American and technically also British despite never having been there (I hold a type of second class citizenship through Hong Kong), and I honestly think £86 million is a bargain for the UK monarchy considering their cultural draw and the fact that they’re not just the head of state of the UK but a dozen other countries as well.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 2 months ago:
Did they (the gangs who asked for protection money) actually ever catch the people responsible or blamed to be responsible?
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 months ago:
Rowling was always known to be slightly racist but people mostly dismissed it as a sort of fantastically stupid racism. As in, the “ha ha this racist stereotype is so dumb, see how ridiculous it looks when I put it in my wizard book” sort.
I don’t think it was until she started going full TERF that people began to realise that she’s not making fun of the stereotypes; she actually thinks casual racism is a funny and cute thing to do.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
Most of the large ones only take bank transfers and cryptocurrency now.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
How’s this confusing? They’re a Puritanical group. They do Puritanical things. Literally nothing deep about it.
