ranzispa
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- Comment on The shrinkflation 3 days ago:
Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.
Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.
If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.
I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.
I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 3 days ago:
I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.
This past year I’ve been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
- Comment on Chocolite 1 week ago:
British food Is not a race, just terrible food nobody should have ever come up with.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 1 week ago:
What do you mean? The 2 weeks surrounding Christmas are just cooking and eating. Meeting people to cook together, meeting people to eat together. Visiting distant parts of the family you only see once a year and eating together. Visiting friends you only see once a year and eating together. I mean, chocolate is good; but there’s way too many dishes you want to eat that you likely don’t have enough vacation days to prepare them all. Then it becomes a point of optimization and huge discussions regarding what to prepare for lunch and dinner, attempting to make it so that none of the 15 people at dinner had already had that dish in those days or were planning to have it on another day. This is clearly impossible and that is where the real importance and respect of a person amongst the group of people he’s meeting becomes evident as he will muster support towards the dishes he was proposing by parts of the other people.
Well, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a few people; respect is very high: in fact yesterday I just said I’d cook something and nobody actually asked what I’d cook. I don’t know yet what to cook. A couple days ago with one of the people in there I made risotto, I’d rather not repeat. I guess we could go for a pasta to keep it moderately simple as they work tomorrow morning and we don’t have much time, but I’ll accept suggestions.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 2 weeks ago:
This is all good, but give us the insult now: I just got a Jewish Asiatic mexican lesbian with African origins to deal with right now.
- Comment on Fantastic 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that onion did not cook 5 hours. Just cook it 5 hours and the plastic will go away.
- Comment on Platypuss 2 weeks ago:
Great depiction of peptide based protein inhibition.
- Comment on lets fucking go 2 weeks ago:
Is tobacco advertising allowed in the USA?
- Comment on Why are dogs? 2 weeks ago:
Even in the most basic research having an hypothesis is important, even just to say “I was completely wrong, but in the end extremely lucky and found something I didn’t expect nobody cares about”.
Hypothesis Aerodynamics experimentation does not damage internal organs of dogs.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that wind tunnels are not dangerous to the well being of dogs. Such findings open new research opportunities in the field of dog aerodynamics.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 3 weeks ago:
Might be worth making a list on wikidata.
- Comment on Authentism 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure there was a good reason to make this. I just can not imagine what that reason would be.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 1 month ago:
Don’t know about the small window thing. We had turkeys for a while, but to be fair it was more about domestic animals than food source. Those things would get huge. I remember once some friends were coming to visit at night and seeing them on the roof got scared and ran off.
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 month ago:
TIL animals may be allowed in chemistry labs. But then again, still remember my professor’s being very clear that mouth pipetting is bad idea, to then show us how to do it just in case.
- Comment on We've got it all worked out 1 month ago:
Recognizing our knowledge is limited does not mean we believe the earth is flat or that we have no reason not to believe it is not. Attempting to say that everything is pretty much explained just increases the confidence of someone believing in the flat earth, as that is very clearly false. There’s a bunch of things we can not explain and there’s a bunch of things that in theory we can explain and forecast, but in practice we can not. Go ahead and do some quantum mechanical calculations to describe a system with more than 3 electrons with the nuclei of the atoms moving…
- Comment on We've got it all worked out 1 month ago:
Recognizing our knowledge is limited does not mean we believe the earth is flat or that we have no reason not to believe it is not. Attempting to say that everything is pretty much explained just increases the confidence of someone believing in the flat earth, as that is very clearly false. There’s a bunch of things we can not explain and there’s a bunch of things that in theory we can explain and forecast, but in practice we can not. Go ahead and do some quantum mechanical calculations to describe a system with more than 3 electrons with the nuclei of the atoms moving…
- Comment on "Wierdyellowmushroomycin: Towards Good, Natural Drugs Instead of Bad, Synthetic Drugs Full of Chemicals" 1 month ago:
I am a chemist specialized in drug design. This article opened my eyes. I’m up to a great scientific discovery. Way too many people have been avoiding amanitas due to disillusions and ingesting large quantities of organic chemicals. Tomorrow I’ll start my new sampling of mushroom properties using myself as evaluator, see you all at the Nobel candidature.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 1 month ago:
I may be very stupid about it and not know the normative, but what is the safest option for me is the following. No informed consent -> no research on any samples from the patient.
Does not matter how important your research is. I myself would like to be informed about that stuff. I may decide to donate my organs to research after I’m dead, but I have decided that.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 1 month ago:
PIs often have no idea what people in their group are actually working on. They may at times just give a general direction of what research should be about. It is common for people doing research for a company to list the CTO or whatever relevant figure as author. The fact that you do not do it reveals nothing regarding the fact that this is quite common practice.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 1 month ago:
He paid for the research. While I do agree, this is very common in academia. The PI will most often be last author even if he didn’t read the paper.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 1 month ago:
Why would that be? He’s probably just the last author of a bunch of valid articles published by his employees. He probably did not take part in the ideation or writing of those articles, but that is quite common in academia as well.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.
If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.
- Comment on ----E 2 months ago:
I am convinced editors got the joke and now shuffle reviewers around just so that the worst one is reviewer 2.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 months ago:
Anything that involves statistical mechanics is just black magic. There should be a Nobel prize just for people who are able to wrap their mind around it.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 2 months ago:
Me: oh it’s a reaction scheme, so they start with this and end up with this. I’ll assume everything in the middle is correct and they get what I asked them.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.
This is a problem that has been known for a while.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 months ago:
Fair enough, prioritise people who actually work and do things. They deserve housing before anyone else.
Then also people who do not work and make money off of others people’s work may have a house.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 months ago:
Rented a flat from a family for 3 years. The flat had not been renewed in over 60 years, but I was alright with that. The flat had several problems, they never wanted to fix.
One day the electrical system starts going out over and over again, fuses would burn every few days. I had to tell them that in case of fire they’d be responsible for everything I had in the house before they agreed they should fix the electric system.
Since they were going to fix the electric system, they decided to do a bit more work and change the floor and a few things more. They wanted to increase the rent 50% to account for these improvements; even though that is illegal I accepted, since they were in fact improving the flat.
I had to move out for two months while the works were going on. One week before the end of the works, the flat was really not done yet. I asked several times whether it would be ready, because I’d need to find and accomodation in the meanwhile. I asked for a discount of half a month so that I could cover expenses and because nobody knew when they would actually complete the works.
The day before I was supposed to get back into the flat, they decided that I was posing way too many conditions and kicked me out. They decided to keep the safety deposit because a plastic floor old over 60 years had started cracking. 8 months later, they still have some boxes of stuff which is mine but never have time to meet me to give it back to me.
Time has passed and I still have to go to a lawyer, because I the meanwhile I had a bunch of trouble to solve. I’m sure I can win a trial against them, but even if I do win the trial I’ll have gone through a bunch of trouble just to get my safety deposit back. I’ll be doing it just because they need to fuck off, but still…
Now, most people renting places were I live are exactly like this. It is not big corporations, it people who got one or maybe a few flats on rent.
- Comment on Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES 2 months ago:
Te technology Is not really designed to prevent that, it is designed to be decentralised. Now, email is decentralised but everyone uses Gmail.
Imagine Reddit closes and everyone from there flocks into lemmy. Will small instances stand the influx? Will single maintainers with a small server allow 10 million new users in their instance? Most likely not, either they will limit subscriptions or they’ll close down.
As such the most likely thing to happen is that someone with money opens a big instance which can host all those people. And there, you got Reddit exactly as it was.