exasperation
@exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Never understood the whole bobbing for apples thing 5 hours ago:
Uwe know what he said.
- Comment on Sounds Pretty Cool Honestly 1 day ago:
Promises and rugs
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 6 days ago:
How many kilo grahams is that?
- Comment on Sacre blu 6 days ago:
American white gravy is just bechamel/besciamella with lots of black pepper.
- Comment on Toby dummy thicc 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 3 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! 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes I lightly punch my friends in the balls to thank them for being vulnerable around me.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 4 weeks ago:
For broccoli? No, that’s actually a fairly bioavailable protein source, especially when cooked. Even compared to high protein plant sources like beans or lentils, broccoli’s protein is more bioavailable. It’s just there’s not that much of it, and the “protein per calorie” stat is kinda cherry picked from the fact that broccoli is low carb and low fat, rather than being really high in protein.
Either way, though, the gut microbiomes of herbivores are mainly adapted to draw out more useful carbohydrate, not more useful protein. Cellulose is so plentiful in nature that making use of all those glucose molecules is biologically rewarding.
Plant protein bioavailability is affected by a lot of factors, including whether the food has been chopped up, peeled, cooked, etc. Human chewing and guts (especially in modern humans) are pretty inefficient for extracting nutrients from food in the natural state because we have been cooking and processing food for millions of years.
So yeah. Cows have complicated guts for digesting cellulose and extracting amino acids from chloroplasts, and innate chewing behaviors that mechanically process grass into mush, but we have knives and fire to do more of that stuff outside of our bodies. And cattle pick and choose grasses (including high protein leafy legumes like clover or alfalfa) depending on their own needs, as well.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 4 weeks ago:
Other comments are about how gorillas have guts adapted for digesting lots of vegetation. And that’s true. But at its core, it’s just that gorillas actually do eat a ton of protein.
They eat like 30 kg of food per day for 5000 calories, about 25% of which is from protein. That’s more than 300 grams of protein per day.
Nothing they eat is super calorie dense, but the lack of density also means they need to eat all day. And as it turns out, the leaves they eat tend to be pretty high in protein.
- Comment on Choose a major you love 4 weeks ago:
The overwhelming majority of bachelor degree holders don’t work in a field related to their major. Something like 30% of university graduates are working in a field related to their major.
That’s fine, and it’s always been normal. A university education isn’t purely a vocational school, and generalized education is still very useful for navigating the world, including careers.
Most job fields just don’t have a corresponding major. So much of the economic world is just administrative work, and the skill sets to be able to manage that are both universal across all job fields (using email and calendar software, word processing, the entire spectrum of skillsets for spreadsheets, maybe even basic scripting or programming, generally navigating through UIs of unfamiliar software or websites) or highly specific to one field and not necessarily learned in school (how to use a proprietary software product, or a particular piece of equipment invented long after you graduated from school, etc.).
Most jobs involve the intersection of two or more fields, and very few people will have majored in coursework related to both, and tend to have learned one or more of the intersecting fields well after they graduated, on the job or otherwise. Software sales. Aircraft leasing broker. Solar panel financing. Data journalism. One interesting area is that there are a surprisingly number of people who make the jump from oil and gas distillation/refining to becoming the master distiller for a major spirits producer.
There are really only a few dozen majors, but probably a few thousand career paths from there.
- Comment on Choose a major you love 4 weeks ago:
Realistically, I still mostly love my job, but every job has parts of it that people hate.
Pro athletes usually love their own sport, but have grueling travel schedules and mandatory media appearances they don’t like. Some of them seem to like the sport itself just fine, but hate their colleagues or the organization they work in.
Doctors may love saving lives but hate the recordkeeping piece. Or the hours. Or they might actually hate their own patients as people, from the frustrations of trying to help people who won’t help themselves.
Once we understand that every job has different parts we can love and hate, the key is to find a job where the bad parts are worth putting up with so that the good parts make up for it.
- Comment on business is business 1 month ago:
Wedding images are challenging because venues, decor, wardrobe, etc., are chosen for real-world regular eyeball beauty. In darker settings (many churches, nighttime), or settings lit by bad lights for photography (fluorescent bulbs, LED bulbs without good wide spectrum light, random dance floor stuff), adds a lot of post processing work, and wedding clients tend to be very demanding clients (for good reason). It’s all real work, well beyond what can be seen in the day-of interaction between photographer and client.
- Comment on business is business 1 month ago:
Exactly.
There is real skill involved in photography, and it takes real time even after being skilled. A 1-hour shoot in a new location still requires probably an hour of planning, maybe an hour or two of logistics, and maybe 2-3 hours of work after the fact to get the photos processed and distributed. And it’s basically the opportunity cost that will eat up the entire day, because you can’t double book the same sunset or other lighting conditions or whatever. There’s seasonality, too, if you want specific seasonal conditions in the shot, if you want to book the Saturday that other clients want, etc.
That’s before expenses like insurance, the amortized cost of the software and hardware (including the cameras and lenses and computer), web services for distribution of the files, etc.
It’s fair to charge a full day’s fair pay for a job like that, and that might mean wanting to charge something like $1000 for an experienced photographer, maybe $500 of which actually represents “profit” for the sole proprietor. But that only happens at that price if there are clients willing to pay that price.
For bigger jobs like parties or weddings, it gets a bit more involved, which is why a 2- or 3-shooter wedding job can cost several thousand, or even above $10k.
But for easy jobs like anything in a high volume studio where the lighting is already known, and there aren’t any logistics involved, it should be much cheaper. It just all depends.
- Comment on business is business 1 month ago:
But Doctor! I am Nataliacci!