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- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 3 hours ago:
- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 3 hours ago:
Yeah, I bet that the glass works for some folks. My friends and I played with some blind tastes test, and some people couldn’t tell the difference, and other could tell 100% of the time with ease.
My guess is that the taste difference is due to the fact that Mexican Coke has so much glucose that it easily throws a OTC glucose monitor into an overload error state.
- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 3 hours ago:
TLDR; Mexican Coke is sweetened with sugarcane, but the acid in the soda splits sucrose into glucose and fructose. So you basically end up with a drink that has similar chemical sweeteners to high fructose corn syrup.
Also, Mexican coke probably tastes better because it as a shit of glucose and fructose, not because you’re tasting sucrose.
- Submitted 4 hours ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on J IS LORD 16 hours ago:
- Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America 2 days ago:
I guess you could add root beer to fermenting grain, but the end result probably won’t taste like what you expect it too.
- Comment on I don't thing my beef strogonoff updates aren't working. 5 days ago:
I’m still grumpy that everyone decided to start pooping again.
- Comment on Fa la la la la! 6 days ago:
Christmas cards from Lemmy.ml
- Comment on Seems legit. 6 days ago:
On brand for a Ram driver.
- Comment on Those poor kids 1 week ago:
The French smoke more
- Comment on Those poor kids 1 week ago:
Le sigh
- Comment on MKBHD's reviews OpenAI's Sora video model 1 week ago:
I guess people really didn’t like that wallpaper app.
- Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 2 weeks ago:
The limited of out-of-network coverage is kind of the point of Kaiser. There are some times that they’ll do it if they’ve understaffed in a specialist’s area, if it’s emergency / trauma care, etc. But the main point is to try to keep things within the non-profit network, and to limit the cost creep imposed by the for-profit healthcare providers.
As for out-of-pocket, that really depends on the plan you’re buying or your employer is negotiating. When I was picking a Kaiser plan, I was usually choosing between similar PPO offerings with comparable out-of-pocket.
My wife and I, and many of her insurance coworkers, have found that the PPO plans often hide the costs. It looks good on paper at first, but the TOS about what is and isn’t covered can often be much more profit-driven in the PPO space. And you often don’t learn about these details until you need care or a medication.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 2 weeks ago:
My spouse works for PPO insurer and has worked for Aetna, and she always jump on my Kaiser plan if I work for an employer that offers it. Her coworkers often do the same.
All healthcare in the US is embarrassingly bad, but Kaiser often does cover more and charges less than comparable PPO plans. Problem is, navigating it can be tricky if you’re used to PPO life.
We’re with Aetna right now. We fucking hate it. The love to force out of pocket payments for preventative care. Aetna rather you just hury up and die so they don’t have to pay for you.
- Comment on Insurance agent making a last stand in downtown NYC, after being cornered by policyholders (2026) 2 weeks ago:
The shittier version before Michael Mann remade the same exact movie, but with more money.
- Comment on Claim Denied 2 weeks ago:
Most of my knowledge about hitmen comes from watching Bourne movies and playing Hitman Go on the toilet.
I’m going to assume that I probably don’t know what a real professional looks like.
- Comment on to those of you not very talkative / introverted, how do you survive the constant pressure and misunderstandings from coworkers and future employers to open up, talk more? 2 weeks ago:
Have you talked with a therapist about workplace communication strategies and boundary setting?
- Comment on I really want this on my wall. 2 weeks ago:
Home decor from the Lemmy.ml collection
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
Looks like the fence might not be on the property line. On OP’s side there is a smaller fence.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Filing as a B corp wouldn’t be my first choice if I was trying to prioritize getting rich.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
People may disagree with how BlueSky is organized and architected, but I get why they decided to do what they did. User experience.
Their architectural decisions mean that people don’t have to worry about instances confusing people, and the org structure means is easy to staff a proper dedicated experience team that can be working, planning, and testing before big expensive decisions are committed to code.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
The project was started as an architectural thought experiment, not with the goals and limitations of the end user.
- Comment on Horse denier 4 weeks ago:
To party
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.
The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.
It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 5 weeks ago:
Crazy thing is that I can actually by two 16 / 256 Mac Mini’s for the price of one 32 / 512 Mini.
I expect Apple’s upgrade pricing to be stupid and inflated, but this is straight up silly. And a 256 drive is going to be downright problematic for people.
- Comment on Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now? 5 weeks ago:
Ok, but the piece is about plays for people who want to play the retro physical media formats. It isn’t about people asking for new smaller disk or cassette media.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on RIP 5 weeks ago:
It’s Porno Gil.
