yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 16 hours ago:
It turns out you can freeze many things
- Comment on Do people eat this? 23 hours ago:
Also extra calories, keeping in mind it’s a struggle meal
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 day ago:
It was invented for a “cheapest meal” competition if I recall. If someone really made this, the inside bread would be drowned in something with several insane flavours. Probably Branston pickle.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
A combination works best to break down those connections tissues and develop meaty complexity, try braising.
- Comment on Anon makes an announcement 4 days ago:
It is a dire amount of ink spilled in service of bullshit and, ultimately, murder. If your time has any value at all to you or your loved ones, I will gently suggest one of the podcasts that go over it. Behind the Bastards did a pretty okay job.
- Comment on Anon makes an announcement 4 days ago:
I can’t make the claim that “the author started a death cult”, but I will say that they and their followers are closely patterned from the self-help grift template of endless seminars, and their ideology centres on moral absolutes and arguments that are intended to be so compelling that they describe some of their ideas as an “infohazard”.
Using only pop culture and fiction as primary sources, the “rationalism” subculture intended to create a system of ideas that was undeniable, according to its own logic - and then they accidentally spawned subcultures due to differences that were irreconcilable because of (I feel) their own absolutism. And if you follow these things, a subculture within a subculture is, 7 or of 10 times, a cult.
- Comment on Anon makes an announcement 4 days ago:
I was shocked too. I was fortunate enough to read it and merely think “Huh… That was amusing. Anyway, back to Doctorow and Stephenson.” Apparently a fair few of EY’s readers were all “this is my life now”
- Comment on Anon makes an announcement 4 days ago:
It’s a fuck off massive rabbit hole, but look up “harry potter and the methods of rationality”, and then read about the zizians
- Comment on Anon makes an announcement 4 days ago:
HP fanfic has no limit. I know of at least one that actually spawned a cult that has killed people.
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-11-12 5 days ago:
Wait, 2011? When did Dresden Codak do this joke?
- Comment on It was a surprise for sure 6 days ago:
They do that, it’s nothing
- Comment on If only 1 week ago:
Come on though, if you had to see people dressed like this every day you might snap too
- Comment on Anon has a tip 1 week ago:
I mostly try to find something on Wikipedia first whenever I can (surprisingly often) and go from there.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 1 week ago:
Goth is when frown
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
I’m sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it’s well within the realm of possibility.
- Comment on More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban 1 week ago:
I like the sound of a form of social media that has no anonymity (but only for those in power such as mods and admins, anonymity being a proven handicap that levels the playing field for younger people) and integrates directly with a real community. No matter what we do, it’s important to remember that we’re tinkering with the actual fabric of society, and the more we try to control and limit people, the weaker that fabric will become. Better moderation and more oversight of people in positions of power is always going to be preferable to limiting expression and demanding more from the most vulnerable people in society.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, I can only think of sad and useless examples like Patty Hearst.
I guess Smedley Butler. Hard to find examples of prominent leaders though. Social dominators really prefer authoritarian followers over us obstreperous thinky-feely types.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
I honestly feel a little privileged to have witnessed it.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
I have an actual degree in psychology that I am currently using exclusively to label Trump as having a personality disorder, thank you very much.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
A narcissist excels at vaguely indicating how great things might be if they got their way.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
It would be the least convincing yet most welcome heel-face turn of the century tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That can’t be my problem, you know? It’s just me and this dirty ass air fryer on a mission.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He thinks we are a problem. We had better prove him right.
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 2 weeks ago:
not to be argumentative
Genuinely makes me happy to see friendly touches like this.
- Comment on NHS ADHD spending over budget by £164m as unregulated clinics boom 2 weeks ago:
People with ADHD are a massively under-reported casualty of the war on drugs. Can’t cope with the demands of modern life? Too bad, the enemy wants your meds!
We had to go with a private diagnosis for my son because the schools won’t play ball. Even now they’re stonewalling the assessor who just needs their input to make the diagnosis official. Our boy has always been at his best in the classroom due to being the biggest extrovert in the family, so he hasn’t struggled with lessons enough yet to warrant any of their vanishingly thin SEND provision.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tried and true method. Mine can’t really listen to anything long winded that isn’t terribly exciting, or somehow related to Minecraft.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any kids’ media literacy edu content you like?
- Comment on Triggers 2 weeks ago:
They’re starting to get it. We’re all about high standards but also lots of support and care.
- Comment on Triggers 2 weeks ago:
Unlike my parents, I make sure they know they’re more important to me than their maths homework. But they do still cry sometimes. Kids be having feelings, yo
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Twins are creepy when when they’re not fucking each other