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- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 4 days ago:
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
My parents would say you just haven’t been hungry enough. Their parents lived through the great depression. I wouldn’t know, but I hear people are having to make food/medicine trade offs, which seems more dire that flavor/texture preference tradeoffs.
That said, I don’t know a protein source that’s as available and cheap as beans, but you might try insects if cheap is the priority or poultry if availability is your priority.
You can buy a large bag of frozen vegetable blend and steam it fairly simply. You can either steam single serving and keep the rest frozen OR steam the whole bag in bulk, and refrigerate for up to a week, reheating single servings as you need them.
Best of luck.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Yeah, no. I cooked my own beans from dry and I was still overly gassy for a bit.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Best sloppy joes I ever had were mostly TVP. It is really great at absorbing the lipids from the meat AND spices.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
I have always hated soaking beans, which is why the Instant Pot has been one of the single greatest cooking inventions I have ever used.
Exactly why I bought mine. Any pressure cooker will do. Beans (red, pinto, or black) 1 : 2 with water for 40 minutes, followed by natural release. I use roughly a pint of dried beans (1lb bag, then topped up with out of a mixed-beans bag), to get 9 large servings.
I also do quinoa in the same cooker 1 : 4/3 with water (or sub up to half the water with stock) for 0 minutes (just bring up to high pressure), followed by natural release. I use 3 cups dry to make 9 servings.
Depending on you spice budget, you might feel like you are getting more by applying right before eating. But, if you want the spice flavors to permeate the beans, it’s best to add them to the pot as warm them just a bit with the saute setting before adding the beans (or quinoa/rice/grains) and water.
If you eat meat, miscut ham is also a good addition to the beans before cooking – they will share lipids and flavors.
I use nooch as a topping for mine, to try to keep it vegan, but what I really like is a Mexican shredded cheese blend.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 2 weeks ago:
I do believe she eventually grows to the age of consent, but I could be wrong.
Of course, I was saying “only female” is Sassette erasure. I was not saying “only mating prospect” is Sassette erasure.
I was just remembering her from my childhood. I wasn’t up on my Sassette lore. I found a reference that says she was created the same way Smurfette was, which surprised me.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 2 weeks ago:
This is Sassette erasure and I won’t stand for it! /s
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 2 weeks ago:
Not usually an issue for me. My heartburn trigger used to be acids (e.g. pizza sauce) too close to bed, but after I lost some weight, I basically don’t get heartburn anymore.
That said, I very much avoid anything with much hot spice. Anything that I think might burn on the way out doesn’t make it in.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 2 weeks ago:
I think you are supposed to have a couple of vegetable sides to go with a meat+cheese+pasta lasagna.
(But, sure, lasagna is a pretty flexible term, you could make one where an appropriately sized portion is a complete, balanced meal.)
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a party in my belly, and the whole bag of chips / cheeze puffs is invited!
- Comment on Manic Stew 2 weeks ago:
Oversharing Booger!? /s
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think copyright is currently serving it’s purpose “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. And it should be eliminated anywhere it is not doing that.
Closest to my pocketbook is software (I’m a programmer), and I think we’d almost certainly be better off without copyright of any kind on software. It would mean exercise of some of our freedom around software would have to be implemented via reverse engineering, but it would make that route much more available / less risky for software that is current not Free Software. But, maybe I’m extra jaded because software is almost always done as “work-for-hire” so the author doesn’t actually hold the copyright, the Capitalist employer does.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 3 weeks ago:
I will support the elimination of copyright. But, as long as copyright exists, I will reject and resist AI.
That said, there are a number of other reasons I think AI sucks, it’s not limited to copyright.
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 4 weeks ago:
Time travel is exclusively a cis white guy fantasy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WHAISI02w (Anyone else would be shunned and probably killed as some sort of witch/demon.)
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
“A methodology and activities associated with running […] an organization” – en.wiktionary.org/wiki/politics
Any organizational decision is politics, including but not limited to a group of people organizing a pizza meal.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Everyone in a group voting what kind of pizza to order isn’t political
Yes, it literally is. That’s what politics is: how we control group behavior.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Many IT people are hardcore libertarians who believe in some warped idea that they are where they are through their intelligence and hardwork while completely ignoring many of them come from backgrounds that afforded them the opportunities they are taking advantage of.
I was this person. It is possible to reform, but it takes genuine curiosity and willingness to be wrong. Neither of those is rewarded by the IT environment of the last 30 years.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
100% agreed. Just accepting business from an “old and proud” fascist, even if the task you were doing for them was community service, could be normalizing their “brand” enough that it’s not worth doing. Selling ad space/time is also very questionable; tho, you might offset that with bumpers that let people know you what you actually think of the persons that bought the ad. Nuance is the rule, and two people that agree on moral principles might still do the moral calculus for any particular trade differently.
But, I don’t think we need to (e.g.) add field of endeavor restrictions to our software licenses just to deny bad actors the same access we give to all other users/distributors universally. I don’t think morally repugnant persons should be left out of food or housing programs or UBI. The fact that morally disagreeable people can buy a Framework is totally immaterial. The fact that among all the (nigh innumerable) software projects that Framework uses, they choose to directly support one (or more) where the people taking control of those resources are morally disagreable is a concern.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t remove anything. I not a mod or admin of anything throughout the Fediverse. I think I can delete my own posts, but that might (and probably should) leave a deletion log similar to the edit log. (Actually the delete log should just be an edit log that ends with “DELETED”.)
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Using your wallet doesn’t have to be political.
Voting is, by definition, political. It is a common part of several different methods of resolving coordination problems (i.e. politics).
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
From that page:
Ask the Community
community.frame.work
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
I’d imagine Dell or Lenovo would ALSO be giving money to people you disagree with, albeit more secretively. Plus, their laptops are less repairable.
There’s no ethical consumption under Capitalism, so you pick the “best” choice,; Framework might still be “best”, they haven’t discarded all their competitive advantage.
I’ll probably do System76 for my next laptop, but I was considering Framework for my next phone. I don’t expect to need to purchase either soon tho, so lots of time for the decision calculus to change.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s a fundamental asymmetry between receiving resources from persons you disagree with and providing resources to persons you disagree with. As long as your tasks aren’t doing fascism, I think it’s fine to get paid by (i.e. take money away from) fascists. But, no matter what you might get from persons with bad politics, if you transfer resource to them, they are going to use those resources to pursue those bad politics.
(BTW, Fox isn’t right-wing enough for the real fascists; too many facts. OAN is what they watch, I think.)
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Voting is wielding political power, whether it is with your wallet or anything else.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Even in what you quoted, Framework has provided no more preferred communication method for this discussion.
No, my name is Stephen.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
I very much care about the view of business owners are; it’s how I decide to where my “vote” goes when I “vote with my wallet” as I’ve frequently told to do my Capitalism supporters.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Palingenetic ultranationalism is a definition of “true fascism” proposed by political theorist Roger Griffin.
So, you are painting with a fairly fine brush there. While “Nazi” is more metaphorical, there are definitely people with authority in the US government that are literally fascists.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
Did the author bother contacting them first before treating them like utter garbage and trying to rile up a public lynch mob?
Yes, the community.frame.work is the preferred method for asking questions to Framework (see: frame.work/support), and the first post makes a few statements about non-Framework persons/projects and Framework has sponsored, and asks one question to Framework.
So, if you’d read the damn post, you’d know this is exactly how Framework asks to be engaged.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 weeks ago:
I thought I wasn’t going to like the combat of XIII, but I ended up really quite enjoying it most of the time. I thought the support roles AI was quite good, and eventually I figured out a rhythm of switching roles that felt really good.
But, I probably should go back and play some of the 7-9, maybe even X again. I picked up 2, 3, and 5 (and the portable Nintendo consoles to play them) and never made the time to play them.
I know some are on Steam, but I’m on Linux and I don’t know how well the Proton/SteamPlay works with them. (Plus, I need to finish up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 before I buy yet another JRPG.)