pishadoot
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- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 4 days ago:
Yeah I’d assume that getting milk straight from the cow doesn’t measure up
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Poker is what I was referring to as requiring thought, yes. But more complicated games like craps can also be too much if you’re hammered, especially at a busy table.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Blackjack is pretty formulaic about the best move to make depending on what cards you get and what the dealer’s up card is. You can look it up, it’s a chart. Memorize it, walk in, and you’re in business. A lot of casinos will even give you a card to have at the table with all the moves on it if you ask. The only real variance is that casinos use multiple decks so it messes with the probabilities, so you’re always at a very slight disadvantage even if you play “perfectly.” Counting cards can swing that last couple% points of probability in your favor.
So there’s no thought or strategy to it. If X, do Y. It’s pretty easy to learn, so it’s very beginner friendly. Also great for when I’m hammered and can’t play anything that I need to have mental skills for.
Craps is gambling. There’s infinite numbers of “strategies” but they’re all just different ways to bet, just more complicated versions of “put 100 on black” at a roulette table, and none of them will beat the house over time.
Poker requires tons of thought to play well, and there’s no skill ceiling. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a strategy game but there are strategies. It’s an adversarial puzzle game of broken information, it’s not gambling.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Was it mostly for laughs and pennies or did you lose £20 in a single hand like your OP said
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
No judgement, I can see how it came off that way though.
I like crazy 8s and rummy and stuff like that, but they’re in a different category of fun.
Poker is a game of broken information, where you try to decode your opponent’s hand based off of their actions in relation to the board state and future possibilities, and what you know of their own personal style.
Wild cards introduce RNG that throws the entire core game loop of poker out the window. People are free to enjoy it but it’s extremely rare for people who play the game regularly to want wild cards in their games. I can’t think of anyone in all my years of playing to be honest but I’m sure they exist. I would never play a game with cash with wild cards, what’s the point? And I can’t imagine wanting to play a free game with wild cards with anyone but kids.
Wild cards+cash, I might as well play craps or any other gambling game in the casino, and then at least I get the fun of watching crazy superstitious people. Poker is NOT gambling, but there is an element of chance of course.
Hope that helps clear it up.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
It’s dumb af if you like playing poker. If you like playing card games with a 52 card deck like crazy 8s or whatever, it can be fun.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Hey if it works for you, go for it. Blackjack used to be my fallback game in a casino when I was too drunk to think straight enough for real strategy.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Not all, no. DNS level blocking gets a lot, but not all. I use a pi hole at home and it didn’t manage to get a lot of in-app ads, but once I rooted then things got a lot better.
Could possibly be block lists, but I’m not sure.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Correct, blackjack is pretty much the only way you can make money reliably at casinos, if you study and learn how to do it, which takes a lot of time and practice, and being in the right parts of the country.
But it’s so BORING. I don’t understand who can just grind grind grind blackjack for a living.
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
What kind of nonsense poker has that many wild cards
- Comment on Miss me 5 days ago:
Rooting your phone is generally the only way to get rid of those types of ads.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 weeks ago:
Tracking calories accurately is a balance between good data and time investment.
I didn’t usually count oils and fats when I made food because I use so little. But I also wouldn’t worry much about very low calorie vegetables either.
To be fair though my goal was to gain weight and meet macros, not to lose weight.
But either way at the end of the day even with really good apps making counting calories way easier than it used to be, there’s still a line that needs to be drawn somewhere as to what your time is worth. If you’re in the ballpark you’re good unless you have very explicit needs to get more detailed data.
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 5 weeks ago:
Hey fuck you buddy
- Comment on big facts 1 month ago:
Honestly? Without evidence, they’re both equally probable. And believing, or refusing to believe in a god or something, are both faith of equal measure.
It’s just whether someone thinks their version is faith is more realistic than the opposite.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 1 month ago:
Beans, mf
Fucking BEANS is the answer
And onion, garlic, tomato, Bell pepper
But LOTS OF BEANS is the most correct answer
- Comment on What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet? 2 months ago:
I thought your post was asking what to carry in your fish wallet
- Comment on Where do I find cool stickers? 2 months ago:
Hey guys anyone know where I can buy some cool stuff? Nah I’m not interested in defining the word cool and what it means to me, you figure it out
- Comment on Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo? 2 months ago:
I have an affection for Bollywood movies and I’m really happy to learn this, thanks!
- Comment on Absolute unit 2 months ago:
HOTCH HOTCH HAAWWWTCH
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 3 months ago:
Who cares
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 months ago:
There’s plenty if you want to go get it from the sun
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 months ago:
Bruh you’re in mildly infuriating, you lost?
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 months ago:
The expensive part is the outrageous costs of R+D that goes into drug discovery and trials, with the majority ending in failure. Not excusing the awful profiteering that goes into pharmaceuticals also, but the end product being cheap to produce isn’t the only cost that companies incur.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 months ago:
I’ve watched let’s plays of strategy games that I want to be better at, in order to see people who don’t fucking suck like I do. But after I get a better idea on how to suck less, I stop.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 3 months ago:
Minced always means very very finely chopped. That’s a mince; it’s a preparation technique, not necessarily just for garlic.
Crushing, at least in the context of garlic, generally means using a garlic press (most common in western cooking) or using a mortar and pestle. You can also crush with the side of a knife, bottom of a glass, etc but that’s a pretty rare method because you’ll usually end up with large globs or chunks and it’s very likely that people will get big ass mouthfuls of garlic, which most people don’t like (I do like, but most don’t)
I can’t think of a time when I’ve seen a serious recipe call for crushing garlic in an uncontrolled manner like with the side of a knife. If you find a recipe that does so, just assume they mean to squeeze it in a press, unless in your judgement the recipe benefits from big clumps of garlic (mashed potatoes is a good example imo).
But yeah, it’s either mince or press, if the recipe is unclear. I usually just press no matter what because I love garlic flavor and it’s easier than a mince - not because the cutting is hard necessarily, but because it’s extra cleaning of the knife, your hands, and cutting board takes more time. Easier to just rinse the press and toss it in the dishwasher.
Slicing is different, as is roasting the cloves.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 3 months ago:
Ok, so you’d argue incorrectly?
Using a garlic press or a mortar+pestle by FAR exposes more surface area and expresses more oil and aromatics.
Not sure how you can think that flat, cut surfaces on the exterior of undisturbed interior areas can somehow have less surface area than an amorphous blob of crushed matter.
How in the world is this upvoted
- Comment on Construction magic 4 months ago:
Big, efficient companies work 24 hour jobs by having 3-4 overlapping shifts with usually at least two general foremen, often more, and a team of PMs. Skilled planners and foremen can manage the jobs, and overlapping shifts helps with continuity instead of a whistle blowing and everyone on site tags out like a wrestling match.
These are the companies that get the biggest and most expensive contracts. They have all the equipment, they can hire the number of people they need, and they have the experience. They do massive jobs that destabilize entire areas while the work is being done and the customer/city/municipality/government is willing to pay to get it done ASAP because letting the disruption last 2-3x longer is worse than the price tag.
Some places with harsh winters and short construction seasons also habitually work 24 hours.
It really depends on what you’re doing and where you are. In general, small to medium sized GCs and companies for single builds will not work 24 hours. Once you start getting to big projects within an urban area or major road construction, that kind of thing, it can change.
I will say that it’s MUCH better to do construction in natural daylight, full stop. No amount of flood lighting gives you the amount of visual acuity as the sun does for something like construction. We generally always planned to leave easier work for night shifts, not because they sucked, but because it’s just harder in most ways. More dangerous, colder, your best paid people don’t generally want to work those shifts, businesses are closed so you’ve got to deal with on call POCs which slows stuff down if there’s problems… Yeah.
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 5 months ago:
First of all, get a sleep study done. Sleep paralysis can be a sign of underlying sleeping disorders such as apnea, which is incredibly unhealthy if untreated.
If you study checks out clean and you’re still looking for a way to manipulate something with your fingers then the only thing I can think of that you’d be able to DIY is some kind of Arduino-type button thingamajig that you could strap to a finger that sends a wireless signal to some kind of alarm in the room.
A D1 mini is small, cheap, and easy to configure. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you’ll need to do some homework and learn some stuff, but as far as projects go it’s pretty simple to set up. Hardest part would likely be rigging something that you could use that doesn’t get triggered inadvertently. Cockpit style toggle switch with a cover, maybe? Lol.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Butt stallion says hello
- Comment on Nintendo wins $2 Million settlement against Switch modchip seller who previously denied wrongdoing 7 months ago:
I also do not buy Nintendo products for the same reason, but I think you overestimate the general public’s knowledge of their crazy litigant aggressiveness.
Ask any 12 year old what they want for Xmas and it’s a Switch 2, which means that parents are going to keep buying them for their kids, and it’s a massive pain to tell your kid that you’re not going to buy them their desired toy because the company that makes it is a scourge of hostile control freaks.
Most people just don’t care. So, keep up the fight because it matters but Nintendo’s brand image is mostly family safe game consoles, Mario, etc. despite what the very small subset of the world that is on Lemmy thinks.