ilinamorato

@ilinamorato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, once again, nature refuses to be easily categorized! Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The culinary classifications have no scientific basis, but they do have an anthropological basis. They’re not completely meaningless.

  Who is “we”?

  I was basing that on a misunderstanding: I thought that the word “vegetation” being an archaic term meant that it was no longer used, but yeah, I was incorrect there. I appreciate the correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually…kind of just like this at parties. So, you be the judge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent to hear. That’s what I was hoping for!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad that this problem isn’t just limited to English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

  A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex… that you could just eat it like an apple.

  I am sad to say that, although I’ve heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.

  Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…

  Corn.

  As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that’s the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that’s another part of this terminology dumpster fire…the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it…doesn’t really.

  So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.

  Great point. “Tomato smoothie” is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn…

  Fruigetable.

  Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dang, I hadn’t even considered that! I wonder if that’s the same across all fruits we tend to eat raw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, thank you for the correction. I appreciate your expert review!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh–and thanks! I think that’s praise, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, it’s all me. I…tend to be a bit verbose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely interesting. I wonder if there might also be a little bit to the fact that botanical fruits are basically just the best way to house seeds so that they’ll have some energy to grow when planted, which means that it’s independently evolved in a lot of different plants; so the culinary diversity of “fruits” is much greater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole fruit/vegetable controversy only comes because we’re trying to use two different domains of terms interchangeably: botanical terms and culinary terms.

  Tomatoes (and squash, and pumpkins (which, side note, are a type of squash), and cucumbers) are botanically fruits, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as vegetables because they tend to be less sweet, particularly when raw. Mushrooms are botanically…well, I guess they’re botanically “n/a”, as they’re not a part of the plantae kingdom, but whatever–they’re typically considered botanical, so they’re “botanically” fungi, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as vegetables (or, interestingly, as meat replacements).

  We get into the same linguistic confusion when we start throwing around “peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes!”–botanically, yes, peanuts are legumes, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as nuts. See also: “green beans” are botanically pods, not beans, but we use them culinarily as vegetables; and many “berries” are botanically something else but we use them culinarily as berries; meaning they’re often left whole, mixed with other berries in the same dish, and go well with cream in cold summer desserts.

  The whole thing is a misguided exercise in pedantry; “technically burritos aren’t sandwiches, they’re meat-sacks!” They’re both, and we instinctively understand that trying to compare the two terms is silly because “sandwich” is a culinary term and “sack” is not.

  Another funny part of this is that pedants are trying to say that tomatoes are (botanically) fruits and not vegetables, but the closest thing to a definition we have for “vegetable” botanically is “literally all plant life and maybe also some fungi,” so tomatoes are clearly both fruit and vegetable botanically. Plus, they’re culinarily used as vegetables, but can also be used as fruits in some cakes, pies, sorbets, and so forth (and isn’t ketchup just a tomato smoothie?), so tomatoes are clearly both fruit and vegetable in culinary terms as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can’t do it, or thought it was fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t, I highly recommend reading “Superman Smashes the Klan.” An all-timer, based on a radio story from 1946, which was honestly its own kind of ballsy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, what do you know, even a racist clock is white twice a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really excited to get a chance to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, interesting. I honestly just glazed over that every time, but you’re right that that’s a step in the right direction. What I’d really like is for the instance to go the next step further and merge the conversations visually.

  So in my mind, at the top of any individual post you’d see the thumbnail and the link title; and then underneath that, as a special-looking top-level comment, it would show the post title and OP text for each incarnation of the post across various instances and communities. The replies to those individual posts are then all rolled up under their top-level comment.

  You could roll Mastodon (and other Fediverse) posts in there, too; they would just appear as their own top-level comment, just like replying to Lemmy posts on Mastodon works currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know. I want to use webapps rather than native apps as much as possible anyway, so this is probably good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On Reddit, I kinda get it. You wouldn’t want to connect the same link across (for instance) /r/antiwork and /r/conservative; the crosstalk there would get horrifyingly bad. But on a federated platform, when you could have multiple /c/antiworks on different instances, it fragments the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently! Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement. Gonna check it out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, fascinating! I’m going to have to take a look. Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I really want out of a federated Reddit-like service is link consolidation. I don’t want to see the same link posted on five different communities; I want those to be consolidated into one topic, with the OP text and comments from each threaded below it. It’d clean up the interface and make it work a lot more usefully.

  In fact, this would make pretty much everything in the Fediverse better. Let me sort my timeline by URL or hashtag, so that I can see what is being said about a certain thing and not make the same observation or joke that a dozen others already have. Put that functionality into an RSS reader, so that I can see the discussion without leaving the article. Or, even better, merge the two into a single feed, tying threads together based on the URL that’s being shared.

  Now that would be an “everything app” worth using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where you get the idea that that’s what I was saying here. I was talking about Trump supporters, and I don’t think many of them are Democrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there are at least two other types:

  • The uninformed. Keep in mind that the vast majority of people in the US are completely uninformed about any of this. I’ll regularly see posts by people who I think of as more or less intelligent and aware of world events who will nonetheless be completely in the dark about what Trump is up to.

  • The propagandized. There are a ton of people for whom the anti-Democrat propaganda has worked, and who will “hold their nose” and vote against the person they’ve been told is a baby-killer or whatever. They don’t support Trump in everything he does, but they’d rather him than someone who wants to put political dissidents in a gulag. They don’t see the irony now, because the propaganda doesn’t tell them about CECOT.

  I also am fully willing to believe that there are others who aren’t against or for him, but they definitely aren’t particularly loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all?

  I have, but it’s not exactly common. And it doesn’t always change their minds entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstand me, as the other comment notes. I’m talking about actual change: “The New Deal,” capitalized: the relief, reform, and recovery of the 1930s, not “the new deal,” lowercase, that they just passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micro-retirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a bizarre phenomenon. Not “micro-retirement,” but business news outlets learning about something that’s incredibly normal but might have a new name or angle, and then writing it up as if it’s this insane and reckless overreach (occasionally throwing the bone of “…though there might also be good reasons for this”).

  How do the writers behind a “micro-retirement” not get halfway through the research for this and then go “oh wait, I guess this is just normal PTO”?

  Same with all of the “millennials are destroying X industry” articles. Literally just “oh, this generation doesn’t like that product.” Or “people are house-hacking” articles (literally just having roommates). Or “Quiet quitting” (literally just doing your job).

  Probably this has a lot to do with people who are old, or who were born rich (or both) not remembering what it’s like to be young and poor, I guess. Or having corporate pressure to write an article lambasting young people for not working hard enough. Or just feeling the pressure to write something every day.

  I can’t believe it’s clickbait. That hasn’t worked in a decade or more, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s either that or American Revolution II: Electric Boogaloo, so I hope so too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This can be good: I don’t go out of my way to recommend mediocre things just because they’re the first good (or even just acceptable) version of a thing that I’ve encountered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s never getting back to port

  In the event of an actual crash, a lot of these “nevers” will get re-evaluated. The New Deal consisted of a lot of “nevers” that all got passed because people didn’t want a repeat of the first Great Depression; I’d expect a similar snap-back after the second Gilded Age finally burns itself out.