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- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 week ago:
Certified gluten free!
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 week ago:
Yeah, there’s no better way than directional freezing. Either you freeze big old slabs in a way that pushes the dissolved gases (and many dissolved solids) away from the crystal structure of slowly freezing ice and then cut it after the fact, or you directionally freeze something that has an outlet to push the gases down so that you pull the frozen ice from the top compartment before the bottom compartment freezes.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 week ago:
I need to get a bunch of “fresh, never frozen” stickers to put on bagged ice.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 week ago:
Believe it or not some of us like pretty things to enjoy for ourselves, not to put on social media.
And big clear ice melts more consistently in a way that better maintains coldness longer while maintaining a slower pace of dilution. It does make a difference to flavor.
- Comment on That's fair 1 week ago:
the usual 8-12 range
Define “usual,” because in most strength programs I see, they rarely call for more than 5 reps in a work set (unless doing AMRAP where you need to do at least 3 or 5).
And I personally do my 1RM testing to competition form, but I get what you’re saying.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
My only hope really is that my apartment building would install some kind of central cooling solution, which is an incredibly expensive endeavour.
This comment got me wondering how apartments can retrofit their central heat into some kind of climate control that goes both ways.
For apartments with ducts and forced air, it seems like the central furnace/boiler can probably be replaced with some kind of heat pump setup for more efficient heating in the winters, and reversed to provide cooling in the summers, through the same air ducts. The total cost/complexity would probably depend heavily on the space for the furnace and its service/maintenance, I imagine.
With steam/hot water radiators, though, I imagine it’s even harder. Can these systems safely be modified to pump cold water?
Or, if they need to add ducts where none currently exist, that seems like it would be unbelievably complex and expensive, if people are going to be living there the whole time. Seems like a real challenge.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
will kick out a fuck tonne more carbon
Not if that installed A/C also functions as a heat pump that reduces gas furnace use in the winter. Especially if decent cooling also incentivizes better insulation (which would further reduce energy use at both extremes).
Carbon emissions from heating account for about 4 times as much as carbon emissions from cooling, worldwide. Replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps will greatly improve overall annual carbon emissions, even if they blast the A/C all summer.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Everyone should be installing heat pumps for winter, too. The ability to cool in the summer is basically a bonus, that they can run the system in reverse.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that it would, but I’d bet it depends on time, place, and other context. The ideal body looks different in different social circles, even among the very fit (swimmer versus powerlifter versus Olympic lifter versus MMA fighter versus crossfitter versus basketball player).
In my circles, the straight women seem to to mostly prefer thin endurance cardio bodies, which, whatever, let people like things. Either way, that’s not always a great body type to show off shirtless.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 2 weeks ago:
Caffeine is very slightly negatively correlated with darkness of the roast. Dark roasts tend to have less caffeine than light roasts.
Also, drip/pourover/percolator/press coffee tends to have more caffeine per serving than espresso-based drinks. The longer steep time extracts more of the caffeine, and serving sizes tend to just be so much larger to overcome the higher caffeine per unit volume of espresso.
So in reality, the lighter pourover coffee where you have the roaster or barista talking about tasting notes tends to be higher caffeine than the dark, densely brewed bitter stuff.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 2 weeks ago:
I like my coffee like I like my women: completely devoid of STDs.
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 2 weeks ago:
When I used dating sites, seeing a guy’s shirtless, muscled profile pic was always a turn off, if not a red flag in itself.
So bizarre that people would do that. When I was single and on social media and on dating websites (before smartphones), I did want to show off a bit that I worked out, but I had the discretion to, like, wear a T-shirt or a polo in the right lighting to show that I had strong looking forearms and a hint that there’s something pretty solid under that shirt. Actually taking my shirt off would have felt way too desperate, and besides, just isn’t something that I’d naturally have a picture of myself in.
Just seems to be a mix of validation-seeking insecurity and confidence in one’s own muscles. Seems like a lot to unpack, and that combination probably doesn’t really send a message that “becoming intimate with me is going to be a rewarding and fulfilling time.”
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
A system of fair rules does not always lead to fair outcomes, if the rules don’t accommodate the asymmetry in capacity, motivation, resources, etc.
- Comment on My favourite moment of the world cup is when there's more rules about advertising than the sport 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Levi’s paid a ton of money to have their name and branding associated with the stadium in Santa Clara, where the 49ers play.
And basically the only tenant in the history of American sporting events to have the power to persuade the stadium owners to cut a deal not to use the official names of the stadiums, which the brand sponsors paid lots of money for, was FIFA making it a condition of hosting the World Cup.
The only branding that survived is on Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta, because the logo on the roof is, like, load bearing or something and can’t safely be covered without damaging the stadium.
- Comment on sorry, I have to see for myself😩 3 weeks ago:
These two actors played the main on and off again couple at the center of the television show Sex and the City. The relationship was toxic, all the in-universe characters knew it, but the couple kept getting back together, and that provided a lot of drama for the television show.
- Comment on My favourite moment of the world cup is when there's more rules about advertising than the sport 3 weeks ago:
The actual brand owners are not providing the stadium. Some stadium operator who accepted the brand money for the normal use of that stadium is providing the stadium, and FIFA said they’d require that any branded stadiums remove their corporate sponsorships in order to be considered as a site.
- Comment on Just wash your hands or something after, Junior. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, every time this (frequent) repost comes up there’s always this exchange, between people who see chores as a way to offload a parent’s household work and those who see chores as a way to teach children how to build their own life skills as future adults.
- Comment on Goddammit 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a written representation of a verbal phrase. I would’ve written gon’ with an apostrophe for marking that it’s a shortened version of the word “gonna” but it’s like spelling out the more phonetically accurate form of an abbreviated or contracted word, like “fridge” instead of “frig” or “Mike”/“Tom”/“Joe” as shortened versions of “Michael”/“Thomas”/“Joseph.”
- Comment on Wut 5 weeks ago:
I saw a pretty fun series of videos explaining why this is.
Viewing Fibonacci spiral structures in plants shows that as the structure grows from the meristem of the plant, each new growth is offset by the golden angle from the previous growth, rotating in a manner that many revolutions will show spiral formations in Fibonacci numbers.
French physicists Douady and Couder performed some experiments by periodically dropping magnetic fluid onto some oil and observing how they moved from that center point. Drop them slowly enough and they’d alternate sides, by repelling each other. But drop them close enough to where the repulsion happened against multiple droplets and they’d tend to stabilize at rotating around, with the golden angle.
So the simple algorithm of growing away from the previous growth is easy to encode genetically, and creates spiral structures with minimal overlap with prior growths. So Fibonacci spirals arise with the simplest of growth instructions coded into the genetics.
- Comment on The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ? 5 weeks ago:
Funny how you completely left out (sweet)potatoes, paprika, carrots and other vegetables with as low as 2g of protein per 100kcal
Other than potatoes, those are all low calorie foods that are easy to just ignore when meal planning. You can eat a 2 kg (4.4 lb) bag of bell peppers/paprika, roughly 15-20 peppers, and it’s only 600 calories.
Wheat products being pretty close to begin with sounds nice but it still means they are too low on protein and those definitely make up a large portion of most peoples calorie intake.
They are definitely more than enough for most people. The example I used, of 5g protein per 100 calories, is a fairly tight example of a bodybuilder on a calorie restricted cut, and probably twice that of a person with more typical needs.
For someone who is physically active and has a higher caloric requirement, like a typical 180 lb (82 kg) athletic man, their maintenance calories are 2800 and their protein needs are around 100g (with health issues possibly showing up below 70g). If they’re actively bodybuilding they might need 150g of protein, but they’re also going to be physically active enough to have a higher calorie budget. And for most people, there’s no muscle building/retention benefit of getting more than 0.8g per pound (or 1.8g per kg) of body weight. Basically, the 5g per 100 calorie budget applies to a pretty narrow category of people who are trying to optimize for something specific rather than just people who want to live their lives.
And even for those vegan bodybuilders, it’s not that hard to just supplement with pea protein, eat some processed proteins (like tofu), not that different from omnivore bodybuilders who use lots of whey/casein protein isolated from dairy products. Or they can go get those protein supplemented pastas and breads and just eat normally.
For a normal 200 lb (91 kg) man who isn’t trying to be a competitive athlete, 80g of protein on 3000 calories is enough to stay healthy. So when budgeting 2.6g of protein per 100 calories, at that point things like potatoes and carrots and bell peppers are already staying ahead of the curve.
Obviously less choice makes things harder. But for people who are actively trying to optimize their diets for body composition, the supplements are useful regardless of whether you eat meat or not.
- Comment on Comic sans gang 5 weeks ago:
Stars are colorful but the rods in the human eye that help process very low light intensities aren’t color sensitive. The colors of the stars, though, are real, in that if you had enough brightness you’d see the colors with the cones in your eye.
If you put a very colorful picture on the ground but illuminated it with only faint moonlight, your eyes would struggle to see the colors on the picture, despite the fact that the colors on the picture are objectively real, with real pigments that actually represent colors that would be seen you had more light.
So merely pointing out the deficiencies in the human eye don’t actually prove that the colors aren’t real.
- Comment on The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ? 5 weeks ago:
They need to eat regular foods that have a regular amount of protein.
Someone trying to eat 2000 calories per day and hit 100 grams of protein (a pretty high target) only needs 5g of protein per 100 calories. That includes things like lentils and beans, sure but it also includes things like peanut butter or broccoli (6g per 100 calories). Things like bread or pasta or most other wheat products (3.5g per 100 calories) are pretty close to begin with.
A peanut butter sandwich has about 8g of protein from the bread and 7g from the peanut butter. That’s 15g of protein for 340 calories.
A slice of cheese pizza has 21g protein for 430 calories.
A can of beans has 25g protein for 420 calories.
A package of firm tofu has 32g protein for 280 calories.
Compare that to things like hot dogs (10g protein per 300 calorie hot dog), 80/20 hamburger (20g protein per 300 calorie serving), or breakfast sausage (11g protein per 270 calories), or bacon (10g protein per 170 calories), and it becomes obvious that trying to get 5g of protein per 100 calories isn’t that much easier with meat compared with dedicated processed high protein foods (whether meat based, dairy based, egg based, or other plant based) of supplements.
For most people, just eating normal is fine. For those of us who lift weights and might want to maintain lower body fat, it takes more work, but even omnivores will tend towards isolated dairy protein rather than eating meat willy nilly.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 5 weeks ago:
I will absolutely argue that TV was better between 2006-2016 than 2016-2026. I think the detailed ratings (especially on streaming) ended up feeding studio decisionmaking into shallower works that their algorithms suggested audiences would like, and that we lost something in the process. The collapse of mid budget basic cable original programming also has hurt the genre as a whole.
Also, there’s nothing quite like a high budget but mediocre show, that looks visually stunning but just doesn’t resonate with you.
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 5 weeks ago:
If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 5 weeks ago:
It’s the overly perfect chalkboard style lettering. It’s like it’s rounded sans serif but hand written in a way that’s too even.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 month ago:
TVs were always cheap compared to cost to make the things - it’s not just the “oh, they have advertising now” thing.
Yes, and the cost of making them keeps dropping. When you were selling TVs in 1991, a 30 inch TV cost about $500 in 1991 dollars. The technology back then just basically made it complex and labor intensive to manufacture, and they were so heavy that it actually took significant number of human labor hours just to get it from factory to store to the specific store’s display. Merely putting a 30 inch TV in the window of a store was probably a 2-man lift.
Whereas today it’s a bunch of robots in cleanrooms automating production of high volumes of solid state LCD components to where full color displays can be put in cheap appliances, and finished 30 inch TVs being thin and light enough to be moved with one hand while sipping a coffee with the other.
I’m not surprised it’s much cheaper today, even a tiny fraction of the time period you’re talking about, even when back then they were selling at a loss.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 month ago:
TVs are made from components that are made through almost entirely automated processes at such large scales that the underlying raw material and cost of shipping become the main driver of cost. Paradoxically, that means that TVs that have gotten thinner and lighter use less material and therefore have a lower floor of how little it can cost.
Once a production line is set up to make the components, each additional one produced costs very little, so making high volume runs is the key: lots of shared parts between brands and models, very long production runs to minimize the cost of redesign or retooling or downtime.
- Comment on Fuq 1 month ago:
“Giving straight teeth” = letting her teeth scrape up against dick during a blowjob
“Pull a girl” = go home with a woman who wants to have sex with you
“Bad” = Sexy, hot
“Lock In” = concentrate and perform at a high level
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 month ago:
There was a Planet Money episode that broke down where the $4/gallon went in 2022:
$2.40 for the price of crude oil when priced at $100/barrel.
$0.65 to the refiner that turns crude oil into gasoline (this was the prevailing spread in 2022, maybe different now).
$0.184 in federal taxes
$0.30 in state taxes
$0.20 to $0.50 for transportation from the refiner to the actual retail station.
Remainder is for the retailer (usually about $0.30 but fluctuates wildly).
That’s how it is in the U.S. In other countries, it might be higher taxes, higher cost of refining, higher costs of transportation from the refiner, and higher margins for the retailer.
- Comment on Fuq 1 month ago:
It’s fucked up, but there’s a reason why I had the best time with women who were insecure in their formative years. Even if they later realized they were beautiful they had a sense of needing to work to be desired.
And I could be all sorts of different reasons: used to be fat, grew tall way earlier than everyone else, was the only person of their ethnic group in their school, has a prominent scar or birthmark. But their adolescent experiences helped drive their attitudes towards others, and I found it most fun to date or even befriend people who had once had something to prove.