BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 days ago:
Yeah if any of you guys build a time machine, I know Hitler is a target, but please tell Obama to not goad the Donny.
- Comment on onions 2 days ago:
Try dried fried onions. They always have them at Indian Grocery stores, or dutch shops.
You can skip whole steps in recipes of browning, caramelizing onions for sauces , stews, etc just dump a few tablespoonsfulls in. Also makes excellent brown gravy base with some soysauce and Marmite.
- Comment on onions 2 days ago:
Nsfw
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
Oof that’s rough
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
I live in an area of high Indian immigration. They typically have multi generational homes. They are often larger homes, since everyone can contribute to the mortgage.
But the main thing that stands out is the children always have family around, sometimes cousins live in the same house too. Isolation doesn’t seem to be an issue. There’s always support and task sharing, so parents aren’t burnt out at end of day struggling to parent.
Out of 1000s of homeless people I see in Vancouver, they are mostly white or indigenous, rare to see an Indian homeless person here.
And then there is the huge community they have, besises church/temple meeting, but meeting in parks daily.
I think we lost a lot of community and circles of support when we adopted the isolation type lifestyle of “modern” life.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 days ago:
There was a dollarstore knock off mars bar we bought for a while 50¢ each
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 days ago:
I visited a chocolate confection assembly plant. The only things humans do now is random tasks like flip the random bar that for sone reason fell odd obto conveyor or shift the skewed box on the pallet, or open the door for a shipment.
The rest was automatic, from the pipes running chocolate throughout the plant to the final gluing and boxing.
The costs are materials, and the factory operation cost, labour is almost nothing. So to increase profit they really can only cheapen or lesson the materials
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 days ago:
Yep, one of my favourites before, after they changed they were so bad though; somebody working for them offered a store tray full and we just refused.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 week ago:
My wife has a physical disability, she is an “asker”, as in knows she will need help from others and so will ask random people, and also connects a lot of people together. Maybe not everyone becomes that, but it sort of forces you to.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 1 week ago:
Yep, it is bad naming. I took it in highschool but it didn’t really make sense till I saw how it described electric fields with the wave 90 degrees into the flat page.
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 1 week ago:
Thus the happy faces up front
- Comment on Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini 2 weeks ago:
Alphafold is like the foldit program that used to need a human to supply rotation suggestions on chemical branches of the protien. The goals were to mainly minimize surface area, and set hydrophobic chains in or out. This ideal lowest energy state would be the likeliest natural folding solution.
While folding small wasn’t always the exact solution to a problem, it narrowed the testing down for researchers (so they could work on a subset) and helped solve protein problems.
Alpha fold just uses generative AI to jiggle and wiggle and rotate the chains until they found these state solutions. Its a highly valuable tool for science.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because they may have different anatomy or sensory feedback than yourself. Many women enjoy sex, some scream out of animalistic intensity of the pleasure, especially during an ejaculatory climax
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 2 weeks ago:
Lol yes. Under setting --> accessibility. Simplified.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 2 weeks ago:
Use Firefox browser, it has a reader mode button to the right of the URL which strips out paywall and just gives you the readable article. Or grapheneOS Canadium browser has accessibility view pop up when an article has paywall, and does the same thing.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 3 weeks ago:
The entire bench seat :)
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 3 weeks ago:
I had an old Malibu, and I was backing into an alley and a telephone pole was somehow out of my vision. I hit it full force with the rear bumper. Got out and the chrome was still perfect, and no dent in the bumper…but wow what a jolt.
- Comment on Vroooooom! 4 weeks ago:
So this week I learned about putting a Prius engine in an Echo, and swapping the intake cam…and wow that thing flies.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 4 weeks ago:
Why is there even gendered chess?
- Comment on It's rigged 4 weeks ago:
Ours is a sliding rate based on your income. It is a line item on your tax form for the pension plan. For say 75k earnings you’d pay about $4000 to the CPP, employer contributes an equal amount. If you are self employed you have to contribute both the employee and employer amount so about 8K.
The fund has investment managers growing it. But it is still a pyramid of new workers propping up the fund so retired people can draw from it. As life expectancy increases they will probably move retirement age.
- Comment on It's rigged 4 weeks ago:
I’m not fully versed on the differences, but our Canada Pension plan is invested in various things.
Although, lately has come under fire for investment choices they’ve chosen.
- Comment on Growth and cuck mindset 4 weeks ago:
You probably still pay the service fee even if you only had water to drink and didn’t buy food.
- Comment on She was churning plastic 4 weeks ago:
Nope. If you bought it new off a dealer they would nag you for maintenance. But if you bought private and were oblivious to maintenance needs there would be nobody reminding.
Personally I don’t get it, because I always want to know how stuff works or care info, but she saw it as an appliance. You run it till you call a repair person
- Comment on She was churning plastic 4 weeks ago:
Many people just throw instructions away. Have you seen IKEA returns. Much of that is people not following the pictures
- Comment on She was churning plastic 4 weeks ago:
When I met my wife she complained the car was often smokey and lacked power up hill.
First think I checked was oil level.
It had none.
So I asked when she had the oil changed last, and she replied with something like “Oil change? What’s that?”
That car got donated to the wrecker for tax receipt program.
She’s not good with details, but also never had a dad or car guy influence in her life to explain what maintenance was all about.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
Its the worst one I have encountered. Typically its just a lot of not caring about figuring stuff out and hoping somebody else can do the work for them.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
That’s the worst one I’ve encountered. Usually its just disengagement. Like they ask for help, our techs start showing them the solution steps, and rather than watching the steps as we go, they are on their phone checking Instagram. Like they think help is somebody else doing their job for them.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 5 weeks ago:
They’ve already made it into the job roles.
I was helping somebody (a professional with a degree) on a software and they were, among other things, struggling to manually tally over ten items with the cursor as a pointer. They kept starting back at 1 and recounting. After many attempts they asked me to count the items for them.
So I had to stop helping and explain they needed to speak to their manager about the issues. 🙁
- Comment on Copper 5 weeks ago:
It’s a monsterlabo case. They used to make a few models that were all heatsink so you didn’t need fans. I think they might have gone out of business because their website has no stock left for ordering, etc. Too niche a product to sustain sales probably.
- Comment on Copper 5 weeks ago:
Its a monsterlabo case, they made fanless heatsink systems…I think they may have gone out of business a few years back because a silent case is very niche.
