Sergio
@Sergio@piefed.social
- Comment on Do Americans expect the NK protest to achieve anything? 14 hours ago:
Politicians keep track of public sentiment, because it affects their jobs.
People generally don’t want to protest, they just want to get on with their lives. If large numbers get up and start protesting, that means there’s a lot of energy there which politicians can use for campaign phonebanking and canvassing and donations.
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's true... 1 week ago:
Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!
- Comment on It's true... 1 week ago:
My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.
So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
Insane Clown Posse - Fuck The World.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
I’m glad to hear that. Otherwise we’d be confronted with the possibility of vast factory farms of mature beavers having their “castor sacs” milked daily.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
Possibly. But there are several different types of vanilla. Also:
An estimated 95% of “vanilla” products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla fruits.
and
However, vanillin is only one of 171 identified aromatic components of real vanilla fruits.
Also you may be amused to know:
In the United States, castoreum, the exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive,[54] often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in the product’s list of ingredients. It is used in both food and beverages,[55] especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring, with a total annual U.S. production of less than 300 pounds.[55][56] It is also used to flavor some cigarettes and in perfume-making, and is used by fur trappers as a scent lure.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
OK, I’ll look at the ingredients.
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GELATIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (WHIPPING AID), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1.
https://www.kraftheinz.com/jetpuffed/products/00600699003285-marshmallows
Looks like there is some kind of “natural and artificial flavor” besides sugar and corn syrup. Wat are those? Dunno. Apparently it’s legal to have secret ingredients that are not disclosed unless a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
There’s a distinct flavor
Yeah, when I was a kid, there were like 2-3 difference places I could get soft-serve ice cream from, and at one of them the vanilla flavor was marshmallow-like and it was my favorite.
I don’t have an answer, tho. For all I know, it was just a distinctive type of vanilla.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly. This is, after all, the MILDLY infuriating community, and it can be a hassle when something stops working for you, even if it’s perfectly reasonable for it to happen.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 2 weeks ago:
No way, that’s the guy who said the industrial revolution and its consequences are a disaster for humans.
source
/s
- Comment on It's true 2 weeks ago:
or the octagon of MMA
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 3 weeks ago:
Have you taken a look at the plato.stanford.edu entry on such, specifically the bibliography?
- Comment on Shakes pear 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 3 weeks ago:
That sounds an awful lot like “don’t do anything that might upset the Christians.”
FWIW I interpreted this as unironically uplifting, along the lines of “Where the Wild Things Are”.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 weeks ago:
This graph will live forever, in intro classes, as an example of how not to do things.
- Comment on DO IT! 3 weeks ago:
“Who will simp the Simpsons?” -Juvenal, probably
- Comment on Well then 3 weeks ago:
See, when I was in grad school I once had to calculate an agreement metric from a bunch of labels on a corpus. No problem I said, the math is easy, I can write a script in an hour or so. Fam that mfing script took me two freaking days bc there were always some little bugs or weird edge cases I hadn’t thought of. So the deal I made with myself was: I would use Matlab or a stats library or something like that, BUT I would make sure that I understood the math beforehand.
But for whatever reason, I never had to calculate a standard deviation. Thinking about it, someone else might have done that for papers I was co-author on, though.
- Comment on Well then 3 weeks ago:
I’ve worked as a scientist for around 10 years (and as a research programmer in various labs for 5-6 years before that) and have never done a standard deviation calculation.
- Comment on Well then 4 weeks ago:
“Do you love being a scientist? Or do you love the IDEA of being a scientist?” - something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently…
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in the world 5 weeks ago:
with a few simple changes, this coulda been Loss.
- Comment on My instance is lagging behind 14 hours of federated content... 5 weeks ago:
see: https://grafana.lem.rocks/goto/gMske4jHR?orgId=1
I don't understand everything on this chart, but it looks like sh.itjust.works lagged a bit over the past 24 hours and is now catching up.
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
cylinder.
- Comment on Gosh darn it 1 month ago:
Nah, when I was a teen I was dealing with childhood trauma but didn't realize it til late 20s early 30s. Luckily I was then dealt a whole new unrelated trauma. So teenagehood was like 2 traumas ago.
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 1 month ago:
When someone asks you questions, it's also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you're heading for an environment you don't wanna be in.
- THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
- YOU: So, obviously my family's important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
- THEM: Well.... (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We're expected to make work a priority...
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 1 month ago:
They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 month ago:
This isn't really my area, but afaik....
- the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn't the only cause of the French Revolution.
- the American and French Revolutions were both products of "the Englightenment" which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were "inspired by" the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
- I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it'd be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were "implanted" by the French Revolution.
I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 month ago:
a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we'd not have a lot of countries.At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we're in the shitposting community
- Comment on música 1 month ago:
!thrashmetal@lemmy.world
- Comment on la cars 2 no es canom. 1 month ago:
I dunno. Better report them to !fuckcars@lemmy.world
