ColeSloth
@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 day ago:
About 5 million people is good. I was on Digg as it grew and became shit. I was on reddit as it grew and then became shit. Once the active user base goes over ten or fifteen million people, things start going down hill. Advertisers and bots and mods that can’t keep up and too much outside press and governments mentioning the platform with unwanted attention.
Right now things are OK for general news and info, but not big enough for more unique communities. Like I can’t go to a community within lemmy to find another thousand+ people all about yo-yo’s, but reddit has r\throwers with over 40k subscribers so I can go this “stout guy” show me how to do a new trick.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 5 days ago:
Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?
- Comment on **Mission Accomplished.** 5 days ago:
A single gram of plutonium has enough calories to keep a human alive for about 28,000 years. If we could just properly digest it without death.
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 2 weeks ago:
Then why are you losing?
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 2 weeks ago:
Well birds are robots, so prolly a lot.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Not much better than most local folk here in the US Midwest. Enjoy the sauce!
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had mad dog 357, the 357 silver edition, and the 357 gold. Gold is supposed to be hotter than the silver edition, but the bottle I had of gold was a touch less spicy than silver. None of the three actually tasted hotter than the 321k da bomb, but they were sure better tasting.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Lame
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Wow. I’m sorry that happened to you. Hell of a life setback, but congratulations on all the improvements you’ve gotten back so far. Keep that shit going. Id hate not being able to go camping and fishing, so you gotta get that back.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Scoville is measured by blending or breaking down what the capsaicin is in and analyzing what percentage of that is made of capsaicin. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville. Half capsaicin is 8,000,000 scoville, and so on. Since the gum has like 8 ingredients in it and the ingredients are legally required to be listed in order of amount the food contains, and the pepper extract is listed as the 8th ingredient, the absolute highest scoville the gum could have is 2,000,000 and that’s only if all 8 ingredients were in equal amounts, which is pretty much a zero chance. In all likelihood the gum is between 300,000 and 800,000 if I were to make agood guess of it.
They must be kind of inconsistent with the chips and the nitro gummy bear, because when I did the nitro gummy it was a lot less hot than when I did the chip.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Trouble bubble is another one of those BS lies. Pure capsaicin is 16 million scoville. The gum uses a tiny amount of it in the gum. It’s the smallest added ingredient in the gum. Diluted from the gum it’s nowhere near 16 million scoville anymore. They still left it extremely hot, but nowhere near 16 million. I’m surprised it made you vomit since you don’t swallow much of the heat juice. Make your lips hurt though from blowing that bubble.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Oh, the schedule is great. We get beds and sleep when not running calls. Have a kitchen to cook in and a living room type area with recliners. We train and stay busy till 5pm. After that we mainly just chill out and do what we want when we aren’t running a call. Usually get woke up once a night on average. Usually a medical call or a lift assist for an old person who’s fallen and can’t get up at night. But every time I get off work I’m on “a four day weekend”. It’s awesome.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
For sure on Da Bomb. I’m from Kansas City near where it’s made and have been using it since 1999. It tastes bad on its own but works great to make other things hot. I keep it around (ground zero) to ad to other hot sauce and salsa and ketchup bottles and Sriracha and BBQ sauce I buy and to ad to soups and chili to make them spicy. It’s great for adding heat to stuff that tastes good. Dave’s is just tasty and goes right on sandwiches and stuff.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Lol. The brews are a good time. My job hours couldn’t be better. I work 48 hours on and 96 hours off. Gives me a lot of time to play… and work a 2nd job. I think we might be a ways off from each other. U.S in Missouri.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Oh I do indeed. I have to be careful cooking up at the fire station. I made chili once a long time ago that was just a touch spicy to me and a couple of the guys couldn’t eat it :-\
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Lol. No chocolate and just straight puree scorpion pepper.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I do very hot sauces on about everything I eat. Love the stuff and I think I don’t react to capsaicin like most people. I ate that chip on a completely empty stomach in the morning and that’s what caused my stomach to hurt, I think. I just popped it in my mouth expecting it to be not really any hotter than all the other spicy challenge stuff. I was surprised they made a “challenge” chip actually that hot.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Tons of people want to say they like real hot stuff because it sounds cool, so most hot sauces cater to those people, but they don’t actually want those people to only buy it once. They want repeat customers so they make it mild enough for a lot of people to tolerate.
If you really like hot sauce (like in the top 5% of people), “Dave’s Insanity Sauce” is a great tasting and affordable sauce I like to splash and put on all sorts of stuff from eggs to sandwiches to pizza. I’ve even found it at a couple grocery stores. Like $7 a bottle.
If you want truly hot. The kind of stuff that draws out intense pain from most that try it, Da Bomb hot sauces have been made by a company out of Kansas City Kansas called Spicin Foods. You may have heard of Da Bomb beyond insanity from the show Hot Ones. It’s actually the hottest sauce they have on that show (and the guests usually show it) even though it’s not the last one in the lineup. Spicin Foods is one of the few companies that I actually believe to have accurate scoville ratings. The hot ones Da Bomb beyond insanity is one of the da bomb’s least hot sauces at 136,000 scoville, and like I said, it’s actually the hottest sauce on that show.
There’s another Da Bomb called Ground Zero that’s around 325,000 scoville. That’s to the point where I don’t want to use much at all and it’s quite hot to me. Many other sauces I’ve tried over the decades have claimed to be much higher scoville and they usually aren’t as hot as Ground Zero.
And then they have “da bomb The Final Answer” 1,500,000 scoville. Fuck this shit. This can leave a chemical burn on your skin. I have never in my life met anyone in person who does spicy like I do and a large drop of this stuff made me hallucinate colors and sweat outside in freezing weather. By the time my head quit burning my stomach hurt so bad it made me vomit. Which made my mouth start burning again. It’s the shit I’ll only put like a drop of in a bowl of chili.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
I’m the “spicy guy” of my circle of people I know, so I always get brought in the challenge things and hottest x to try. Had the gummies and jerky, and beer, and all sorts of things. The chip has been the only one that I’d actually say was hot. Mouth was fine, but it made my stomach hurt for like 10 minutes.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
No one does. It isn’t a 2.2 million shu chocolate bar. It just has a very small amount of Carolina reaper pepper as an ingredient in the bar. Most of those hot sauces with goofy names are the same way. “Satan’s lBunghole made with 6,000,000 pepper extract” Yeah. Made with like a drop of extract so the sauce is more like 200,000 scoville.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
It’s advertising bs. The chocolate isn’t that hot. It isn’t 2.2 million scoville. It had a tiny amount of 2.2 million scoville pepper mixed into the chocolate. That pepper is dead last on the ingredients list. You’d have a harder time eating half a habanero.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Those bars are fine to eat, though. Spicy chocolate tastes good and the 2.2 million advertising is BS. They contain a tiny amount of pepper from 2 million+ scoville Carolina reaper peppers. Diluted down as the last ingredient in the chocolate bar makes it way, way, lower.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
Lost a plant with peppers on it? I wonder what OG was eating that.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
My mouth is broken and I love really spicy stuff. Like, still haven’t met someone in person who likes things as spicy as I like them.
FYI to the Flaming Anus chocolate bar: it’s advertising hype BS. Like most hot sauces yelling out some high scoville number. All that big “2.2 million scoville” on the packaging here is actually just referencing that it has Carolina reaper pepper in the chocolate, and that those peppers can be up to 2.2 million scoville.
But the peppers are dead last on the ingredient list. Each bar has very little in it. If I ate a Carolina reaper pepper rated over 2 million even I would hate it and it would burn and I’d feel like my insides wanted to die. But the chocolate bar here is just a spicy little snack.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 3 weeks ago:
According to many suspicions and now also reported from an NSA agent that was involved in the investigations, Harris beat trump by a wide margin. The voting machines had been tampered with in order to fix the election, and that the machines used have more or less been vulnerable to this happening and likely has been happening for the last 15+ years, allegedly.
So we may not have voted for this. Not to mention the hard gerrymandering that has been happening for the past 20 years. (There’s pretty much always been gerrymandering, though).
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 3 weeks ago:
Yep. I remember it being in the mall for Coleman’s book signing. I also remember that they actually got Gary Coleman as the voice actor.
- Comment on A boating ticket from the 1950’s. “No lights on boat. No beer on boat. Only one blonde.” 3 weeks ago:
Blonds. James Blonds.
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- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 3 weeks ago:
No thanks. Ryobi one blade.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 3 weeks ago:
I can’t remember if it was p1 or p2, but I remember having to fight Gary Coleman. Lol
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 3 weeks ago:
Those poor cats.