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- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 day ago:
It’s like EVs. A great paradigm shift in the underlying base technology, accompanied by puzzling interface and control designs that really detract from the enjoyability of the transition.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 2 days ago:
I’ve lived in enough places, with enough different kitchens and stoves, that it really depends on the layout. Some stoves have bigger burners on the right or the left (whether electric or gas). Some have the stove too close on one side to an inconvenient wall or the outlet you have a countertop appliance plugged into, and that determines preference.
I prefer the center, on my current setup. It’s tied for the biggest burner with front right, but the center gets the best ventilation, I like for the handles not to hang over the edge, and I use either hand to hold the handle (flip with my right, or stir with my right while holding with my left). Two handled pots benefit from the symmetry, too.
But that’s my current setup. I’ve had preferences for different sides with different stoves.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Those are Canadian dollars, too!
- Comment on Pfft 6 days ago:
If you were to take the list of all professional basketball players, and sort them by the number of free throws missed per game, you’d see the top of the list is dominated by Hall of famers.
That’s not because missing free throws makes for a good basketball player. Or even that it isn’t important in basketball to be able to make free throws. It still remains important at every level of the game! But some of the people who miss a lot of free throws were just so utterly dominant at other parts of the game that they had long successful basketball careers despite being bad at an important skill for basketball players.
Cormac McCarthy and James Joyce have a signature style, yes, but I’d argue that they’re successful despite that, rather than because of that.
- Comment on Female approached by man 1 week ago:
I learned in my 20’s that when I strike up conversations with strangers, it’s a lot better to ensure everyone (including yourself) has an easy physical exit. People are more responsive to someone else making a comment as they’re passing by, rather than cornering them in a confined space, or requiring someone to physically change their direction of movement or step aside to let the other leave. It should feel graceful, where someone who doesn’t want to talk can exit the conversation at very little perceived cost to anyone. It doesn’t have to feel like rejection, and that often starts with the physical arrangement of the people involved, in the setting where it happens.
I’ve been with my wife for over 10 years, so it’s been a while since I’ve approached a woman with the specific intention of seeing if there was potential for a romantic/sexual connection, but I still talk to strangers and build new friendships. Not everyone is open to talking to strangers, but plenty of people enjoy a little bit of low cost social connection, even if it’s intended to be ephemeral. Or if you really hit it off and become friends. But every approach should be assumed to be a fleeting moment, rather than a “I’m going to talk to this person until they tell me to stop” kind of commitment.
- Comment on Female approached by man 1 week ago:
If someone I don’t know rings my doorbell trying to make a sale on something, I assume it’s a scam. It’s not because everyone who rings a doorbell is a scammer, but because there are enough of them that I’d rather shut off that entire avenue of approach.
That doesn’t mean I don’t buy anything. I just don’t buy things in that way.
It also doesn’t mean that I don’t open the door for strangers. Plenty of people are delivering packages or things someone in my house has specifically ordered. Or people need to do work on or around my property (utility pole, buried lines/pipes, neighbors’ trees/fences, etc.).
Understanding the generational shifts in social expectations is important. Bemoaning the loss of a particular type of interaction just because it’s the type you happened to experience before doesn’t actually say anything about the state of society.
Cold approaches by men to women sitting by themselves have basically gone away. There are a lot of reasons for this, including that we as a society have stopped being bored, to where the prospect of small talk with a stranger has changed from “better than nothing” to “worse than nothing” in just 20 years. But it has happened, and people need to adjust.
- Comment on Anon hates new slang 1 week ago:
It’s all related, though. Liver disease often causes cardiovascular issues, or vice versa. It’s most pronounced in skinny people with fatty liver disease, who have a significantly elevated risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Either way, the liver is immensely important for a whole bunch of metabolic functions, and cardiovascular health depends on all those metabolic functions working properly.
- Comment on Never understood the whole bobbing for apples thing 2 weeks ago:
Uwe know what he said.
- Comment on Sounds Pretty Cool Honestly 3 weeks ago:
Promises and rugs
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
it’s an up-charged box of ingredients that you can buy separately in probably that same aisle for much cheaper.
Yeah, this product is an awful choice for the budget conscious.
Pasta is like $1.20/lb. There are many different ways to dress up pasta with other ingredients, whether saucy or cheesy or creamy or oily or even relatively dry seasoning. You can add a cheap protein source. You can add vegetables. In many forms, pasta is still a one-pan dish that can be made in about 20 minutes, where you prep ingredients as the water boils. Or you can put in a lot of effort (all-day sauces, hand-pounded pesto, etc.).
My favorite low effort, cheap and nutritionally complete meal is boiling a package of pasta, dumping in a can of beans, dumping in a can of premade chili, and shredding a bunch of cheddar over it. The macros are good, even for athletes, it’s cheap, and it’s easy.
As you mention, rice is between $1 to $2 per pound, based on quantity and type. There are a ton of options around that, too.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
Oil plus alkali = soap.
The oil/lipid that is included in the soap itself is a fatty acid. But the actual cleaning action comes from the alkaline reaction with oils (including the oils you’re trying to clean off).
All of this is also separate from the general point that dishwashing detergents tend not to be soaps at all.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
I find that it’s more effective to put detergent on the dish, scrub with wet sponge, rinse. That keeps the detergent at high concentration at the surface, where the action happens. Detergent on the sponge, on the other hand, tends to migrate away towards the center of the sponge.
I switched from soaping the sponge to soaping the dish like 10 years ago and never looked back.
- Comment on Sacre blu 3 weeks ago:
How many kilo grahams is that?
- Comment on Sacre blu 3 weeks ago:
American white gravy is just bechamel/besciamella with lots of black pepper.
- Comment on Toby dummy thicc 5 weeks ago:
Goblin Deez Nuts
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 5 weeks ago:
1100 --> 11 cancer grants.
Where are you seeing this?
This tracker shows that funding is down very slightly this year
Spending looks the same, but it’s being stolen.
As the article you’ve linked explains, Trump keeps trying to reduce NIH spending, and failing, because even a Republican-controlled Congress won’t go along. This new agreement to shift funds from NIH to the military next year is probably going to fail, too, and now that it’s on the radar I would press Congress to prohibit that when they pass a budget or continuing resolution to fund NIH next year.
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 5 weeks ago:
Lots and lots of NIH grants were terminated, some of them abruptly, and a lot were steered into other more questionable avenues, but the overall spending by the NIH, including in new grants, is only down a bit.
There is at least some work being done that is still federally funded, specifically in this space of cartilage regeneration. The ARPA-H “NITRO” project is one I’ve been watching, and has been continuing even though it predates the second Trump term.
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 5 weeks ago:
There are a few research projects looking to improve treatments.
Knee replacement: Pretty standard at this point, where a surgeon surgically removes the knee joint and replaces it with a mechanical joint made from metal and plastic.
Membrane-induced Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (MACI): Harvest cartilage-producing cells and let them multiply in a lab, then surgically implant them at high concentrations in joints where there is a need.
Osteochondral Grafting: graft some bone and cartilage from another part of the body, or from a donor.
Osteoarticular Transfer System (OATS) Procedure: Move non-load-bearing cartilage to load-bearing parts of the same joint. Only works with smaller injured sites.
Platelet Rich Plasma/Stem Cell treatments: plasma and other blood products are extracted from blood, with high concentrations of platelets and growth factors, sometimes adult stem cells that can still differentiate into bone or cartilage, and then inserted into areas that can use regeneration. They can use physical scaffolds to help the cells attach to the right places, and the stuff in the plasma ends up helping it regenerate cartilage in the right places. This remains an area of very active research.
There are also some more exotic avenues of active research. One I read about recently was a Columbia University project, funded by ARPA-H, in creating knee replacements made from a patient’s own biological tissue, grown into a load bearing knee joint, to be inserted surgically the same way an artificial knee would be, only made out of cells grown from the patient themself.
It’s an active area of development, and I’m pretty excited about what they might be able to accomplish in our lifetimes.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
Michael Scott: We’ll get someone to clean that up.
Darryl: We’re the ones that gotta clean that up!
- Comment on Not like this 1 month ago:
The most important movie for comparison is Austin Powers, because that’s a movie where a 30-year time shift is relevant to the plot. Going from 1997 to 1967 should be as much of a culture shock as going from 1997 to 2027.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 month ago:
Sometimes I lightly punch my friends in the balls to thank them for being vulnerable around me.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 month ago:
No, it’s causal.
We know the mechanisms by which alcohol causes negative health effects, to basically all the systems in the body.
It’s not a particularly strong effect for the occasional drinker, but the degree of confidence we have in the correlation is very strong, and we have an underlying model of the biological mechanisms that cause poor health outcomes.
- Comment on I'm not doing this right 1 month ago:
After a revival of bean related shitposts, someone suggested Dean related shitposts, which caused people to post a lot of pictures and gifs of the Dean Pelton character from the television show Community.
In season 3 of that show, there’s a whole plot where one of the characters tries to secretly replace the Dean with a lookalike (in the show they alternate between calling it a doppledeaner or deanelganger), who is found through a celebrity impersonator service, as a Moby impersonator. A picture of the fake Dean has been posted here.
So this picture of actual Moby is a continuation of that line, that evolution of these shitposts.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
Perhaps not, but you indicated that the “emotionless language of finance and economics” constitues “conceding ground”.
If you’re not making an emotional argument, then why would emotionless language be a problem?
I think it is reductive to ignore/deemphasize the factors that cannot easily be quantified, in favor of only talking about the quantifiable factors. The subjective feeling of the people involved is backed by real factors, albeit factors that are difficult to quantify.
So shifting the discussion towards that rigid quantitative numbers is shifting away from where the conversation should be. That’s been my point this whole thread.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
Your mileage may vary, but I do not consider this a concession. Anyone can make an emotional argument.
No, I’m not making an emotional argument. I’m arguing that the subjective feeling of financial security specifically traces to certain hard-to-measure factors that aren’t easily reduced to quantitative metrics.
That’s why many people will look at the argument and say “oh I’m actually not that close to homelessness” or even “I’m basically a millionaire but I don’t feel like one.”
By highlighting the easy-to-measure metrics (net worth of a million dollars, not having a legal right to occupy a residence), it steers the discussion into the quantitatively easy metrics rather than the lived reality of people in the economy, which depends on other less quantitative factors. And then we’re talking about “winning” an argument that no longer cleanly maps onto what actually matters.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
Depends on what the purpose is. In this thread we have people who very legitimately feel that despite literally being closer to millionaires than homeless on this “three months” test, they don’t feel financially secure. That feeling matters, and we shouldn’t ignore it.
And my point is that implicitly conceding ground by framing things in the language of emotionless finance and economics may actually be fighting things on less friendly territory to begin with.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
I don’t love how we as a capitalist society have financialized everything into economic terms.
I’m rich now, but I grew up lower middle class (had food security and shelter security, but many aspects of middle class lifestyle were out of my family’s reach, like being able to dine at restaurants or go out of town for vacation or afford most of the things or experiences advertised on tv). I was also fairly financially insecure in college and the few years after (playing games with back dated checks to make rent or pay bills, lots of late fees and overdraft fees).
Even in those relatively insecure times, though, I was never anywhere close to 3 (or 6 or 12) months away from homelessness. I had a strong network of friends, family, neighbors, etc., who could keep me on my feet. Some of it was money (where people could chip in to help with an uninsured medical expense or loss to a car or a house), but a lot of it was social, like being able to get a ride from a friend when your car is in the shop, a meal train while someone is sick/hospitalized or bereaving the loss of a family member, etc.
By steering the discussion into purely what can be bought and sold with money in an economy between strangers, I feel like this misses out on what actually makes us secure, and what keeps us from homelessness and food insecurity. Those parts of society should also be protected and bolstered, even if they don’t fit cleanly into financial, economic, political, or policy categories.
It also misses who among us are actually the most vulnerable or the most secure. There may be people who have solid net worths on paper but aren’t actually resilient against bad months, and other people who might not look like they have much property/wealth/income but actually can manage a crisis just fine.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
Hobosexual, when you partner up for the housing situation rather than for romance/love.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 1 month ago:
Broccoli stands out a bit. Cabbage and cauliflower and kohlrabi and bok choy don’t have the same protein ratio, because other brassicas are generally higher in carbs, so that their protein per calorie is lower (with more calories from carbs rather than protein).
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 1 month ago:
Even though your broader point is correct that our ancestral lines and closest relatives (chimps, gorillas, other great apes) primarily eat plants, I think broccoli is a bad example of what our ancestors are. Broccoli is the result of specialized human-driven artificial breeding after the rise of human agriculture, and has a higher protein ratio than even other brassicas, like the cabbage breeds that broccoli descends from.