Schmoo
@Schmoo@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Cheese is available 3 days ago:
It’s not illegal to call it cheese because it has an emulsifier in it, it’s illegal to call it cheese because it’s mostly water. That’s what the emulsifier is for; it allows the cheese to mix smoothly with the water. They would rather call it “American cheese product” than “mostly water with <50% cheddar” because no one would buy that when the 100% cheddar is sitting right next to it.
- Comment on Cheese is available 3 days ago:
It’s an emulsification of water and a mix of cheddar cheeses with preservatives, stabilizers, and an emulsifier (obviously) added. It has some culinary applications but the real reason it’s made that way is it lets Kraft get away with selling less cheese overall for the same price as a block of 100% cheddar of the same volume by marketing it as a different type of cheese (American) rather than what it actually is (watered down cheddar).
- Comment on Pink Ranger 4 days ago:
So they’re trying to stop him from calling a vote on a bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for foreign workers. It’s xenophobes resorting to force because they’re afraid they can’t win democratically. Makes sense given how conservative Japan is and how low voter turnout is among the youth.
- Comment on WOMEN. 5 days ago:
Toxic masculinity teaches men that emotions are feminine, so to preserve our identity as men we are conditioned to suppress, hide, or find ways to describe our emotions as something other than what they are. That’s why men like Zerush think women are more emotional when the reality is that there is a difference in how men and women describe, express, and act on their emotions due to cultural conditioning. Hormones determine when and to what degree certain emotions are felt, but not what kind of emotions are felt or how they are expressed. That is determined by cultural conditioning and individual personality.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 1 week ago:
Moralizing to drug addicts helps no one. All it does is make you feel better about yourself for a bit and make someone else feel worse when they’re already down and using to cope. Your attitude actually contributes to a culture that promotes unhealthy relationships with substances.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When I come across someone IRL who loves AI I avoid the topic around them. My opinions on the topic are likely to offend them, so to avoid hurting their feelings or causing conflict I won’t mention them. Now, if it’s someone I care about I’ll find a way to gently broach the topic because I know that heavy AI use is causing them harm and I don’t want my family and friends to lose their grip on reality.
- Comment on The Matrix 2 weeks ago:
*W. Sisters now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
British food isn’t real, British food can’t hurt you.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 weeks ago:
They’re talking about the Global Sumud Flotilla, a group that regularly attempts to break Israel’s blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and is intercepted by Israel every time. Israel tortures and humiliates the humanitarian aid workers before sending most of them back to their respective home countries. The most recent one had the sister of Ireland’s president on it and the Israeli terrorist Itamar Ben-Gvir recorded the abuse of the aid workers and posted the video on social media celebrating it and european countries still haven’t done anything about it.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 4 weeks ago:
My only gripe with this is that the state in its current form cannot be trusted to be an impartial judge of what constitutes hate speech. We see today that many states around the world are using anti hate speech laws to suppress criticism of the state of Israel. Giving the state broad powers to crack down on speech that it deems hateful will inevitably result in the state deciding that all criticism of its actions or the actions of its allies constitutes hate speech.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 1 month ago:
It’s what the kids these days are calling “friend-slop,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that most of the value comes from creating zany situations for your coop pals to get into and let hilarity ensue. It’s a bit like a lot of card games in that way, it’s simple because it mostly just has to get out of the players’ way and allow social interaction to happen.
- Comment on Crowd goes wild 2 months ago:
They’re making an effort to make them illegal too.
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
The IWW offers resources for people interested in forming their own independent union.
- Comment on ‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement 2 months ago:
That’s because the labor movement in the US has been systematically suppressed for decades. Most surviving unions are what could be called “business unions” or class-collaborationist unions. They are corrupt and have leadership that cut deals with the employers, and union elections are intentionally manipulated to depress turnout, usually by keeping the rank and file in the dark about the schedule.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 2 months ago:
If you want to explore classical Marxist ideas in an entertaining way, check out Michael Burns on YouTube. He used to run the channel Wisecrack and makes videos about philosophy, and he is a classical Marxist who talks a lot about Marx and Engels. That being said, these days you’re not going to find much discussion of Marx that doesn’t cover Marxism-Leninism in some way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not weird at all, they’re eating like many hunter-gatherer societies used to. It was very common to season meat with fruits and honey.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 2 months ago:
I used to think this way when I was miserable and disillusioned with society in general. When you approach life with the assumption that people are evil by default you tend to only notice things which affirm that belief. I’ve since made a lot of changes in my life and gained a new perspective, and I’ve found that I more frequently notice people doing small acts of kindness when they think no one’s looking. Most people want to do good, it’s just that they don’t often succeed.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 2 months ago:
Most people are good, it’s a wealthy few who exploit the planet and people for profit who are destroying the planet. The “humans are inherently selfish/evil” line only serves to protect those responsible from accountability by distributing the blame.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 months ago:
They’re not - or at least no one can reasonably claim ignorance now - and they have already voted for anti-genocide representatives in special elections and primaries thus far. It won’t be a wipeout across the board, but AIPAC will lose their stranglehold on US politics this primary season and they know it. They’ve been doing damage control rather than trying to get pro-Israel candidates elected recently.
- Comment on Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” like Hideo Kojima and Suda51 - AUTOMATON WEST 2 months ago:
Surely there’s an indie scene in Japan, no?
- Comment on po-tay-toes 2 months ago:
Does this mean we could genetically engineer them to produce enough for an adult dose?
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 months ago:
When most of the AIPAC candidates were elected the electorate was largely ignorant of Israel-Palestine.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 months ago:
I guess it depends on whether they’re referring to elected officials or the electorate, because support for the genocide is only mainstream among elected officials and not the electorate.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 months ago:
Which views would those be?
- Comment on Have a good day <3 2 months ago:
When I was in Hawaii I went to a “barbecue” place that served general tso’s chicken with a side of green beans, mac & cheese, and mashed potatoes. There was no pork or barbecue sauce.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 2 months ago:
I’ve been oversensitive to AI gen images recently and it’s worse with low-rez. This image just tripped a false positive for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s often said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but it seems vastly more difficult for people to imagine the end of the state, so much so that it’s equated to the end of the world.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 3 months ago:
It’s hard to tell with the low resolution, but this looks like AI to me. The guy on the left’s feet look weird, and also the bricks don’t appear to have a consistent pattern. The layout of the house with the two garages separated by what I guess is a hallway also doesn’t make sense to me.
- Comment on Rude 3 months ago:
Yeah but they get badass hydraulic locomotion that way. Imagine you had no muscles and you lifted your arms by manipulating your blood pressure.
