JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger. 1 hour ago:
There’s also practical application and real-world effect to consider. Giving kids the vote wouldn’t help the situation, and in fact wouldn’t happen anyway, even if the last remaining legit party was in charge, here.
Now in theory, if you wanted to set up some kind of voting application test to see how well the potential voter was familiar with real facts & reality, allowing them to vote if they passed, then that might indeed be an argument for lowering the voting age. In fact, it almost would have saved democracy in the 2016 election, as I alluded to above.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 19 hours ago:
It works great any time you might think of having rice, either as a side or in a meal.
I would say this, tho– it can get a bit slimy (like oatmeal), so you might want to rinse it after cooking.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 20 hours ago:
Well… once I switched to SCO, I stopped eating rice and never looked back. It’s all-around healthier than any type of rice, last I checked. Plus, I greatly prefer the flavor, no offense intended.
Basmati does have quite a pleasant aroma, in any case!
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 21 hours ago:
Nowhere. It’s always been fairly pricey, at least for me.
So to summarise– that was just me stating my personal pref, not recommending them to anyone as ‘cheap meal food.’ That said, it’s possible that rolled oats are a better, cheap alt to rice. They tend to turn out too mushy for me, but may indeed retain much of their fibre and nutrients…
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 21 hours ago:
Brown rice, barley, or other whole grains have much more protein than white rice
White rice is pretty much pre-diabetic junk food that’s been stripped of its fibre and nutrients. I’d recommend always replacing with something like the above, or my favorite, steel-cut oats.
If you get dried beans, make sure you follow the directions to pre-soak them.
When cooking from dried, some baking soda can greatly speed up the process. The use of a potato masher here and there can also speed up the softening of the beans, and makes it easier to tell how far along they are.
Get some bulk garlic powder, paprika, cumin, crushed red pepper, black pepper, etc. Season and salt the pot to taste.
Don’t forget MSG, which boosts up the savory / umami taste. It’s cheap, you don’t need a lot, and there is no such thing as an MSG allergy. (altho very occasionally people can have sensitivity)
- Comment on We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger. 2 days ago:
We already have an enormous problem of completely unqualified voters being able to vote, so let’s not make it even worse. (in the States, anyway)
- Comment on We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger. 2 days ago:
We never stop being kids.
And we never fully become adults, in a sense. For there’s always room to grow, people & situations to understand, things and perspectives to learn about, and further maturity to be reached.
- Comment on Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life 2 days ago:
The whole process is based on realizing that our past assumptions were wrong.
Well… or simply improving the understanding. AFAIK good science doesn’t actually assert “rightness” or “wrongness;” rather, it proposes ‘this theory seems the best working fit,’ with the understanding and open-endedness that it can always be improved, tweaked, or even completely replaced by a better theory.
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 3 days ago:
Could also very well be a standard case of capitalist-driven enshittification, either in-house or via private equity buyout.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 6 days ago:
…somebody who is quite short and self conscious about it…
Hmm, you’re not mixing up the robotic-looking guy who has a ‘face,’ with the deranged lunatic who made things ‘more efficient,’ are you? First row, second column:
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
Let’s rewind a bit, shall we? I wasn’t expecting any conspiracy theories, but when the commenter above stated:
Also, they want to drown out legitimate sources.
That sounded like an interesting assertion, possibly hinting at a group-level effort, which is why I asked them. Thanks for adding in your opinion, I guess.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
Easy, now. I do think that chatter in this thread has produced some good candidate groups, however.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
Haha, it felt a bit shades of ((((they)))), yes. Anyway, I was just curious if you had any particular group in mind.
It’s not a significant question, so no worries!
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m just curious who you suppose the people in question might be. Just a random distribution, or could there be some type of pattern there?
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
they want to drown out legitimate sources.
Who would “they” be, in these cases?
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 1 week ago:
Salut, les garçons!
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 1 week ago:
My bias for BD is surely showing, but I think I might be able to handle more superhero stuff if it was more interesting in all the awkward little ways it should have been, originally.
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 1 week ago:
I dunno… I kinda like the idea of Parker (via shades of Jeff Goldbloom in “The Fly” maybe) developing an insatiable appetite for insects.
It would make for a fun, thorny, recurring issue at meal-time and all that. :D
- Comment on TIL about this Fediverse software database 2 weeks ago:
How did you escape your locker, Davy? (ba-dum-bump)
I don’t know much about the software side, but I’d venture that (as with some instances) not all of them are necessarily trying to put much energy in to growing their userbases. That is, some might be set up to meet the needs of a smallish group, and might not be particularly interested in outsiders joining. That’s just speculation though, purely extrapolated from the fact that some have set up their instances across the “FV” for that kind of purpose.
In other cases, I take it that such services are only federating to a limited portion of the FV, and that may indeed be a problem worth fixing sooner rather than later. For example, the four biggest user-bases by software (M, misskey, nodeBB and sharkey) don’t seem to federate well, or at all, to the ‘Lemmy’ side of the FV. At least IME, and in terms of the network I’m on (PieFed).
- Comment on Political Cartoons 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a good start, altho understand that you personally might need to do the lion’s share of the posting for a good while. Ask me how I know…
- Comment on Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old 3 weeks ago:
Fascinating. Sort of like the many layers of ancient Troy.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 3 weeks ago:
Ahh, good point, yes.
I actually was thinking about those beautiful little deep-sea worlds when I wrote the above, but simply didn’t know enough to assert a dang-ol’ thing at the time. Okay, let’s see:However, although it is often said that these communities exist independently of the sun, some of the organisms are actually dependent upon oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms, while others are anaerobic. –WP
So… looks like we have at least *some* members of these little communities carrying on, past the death of oxygenic photosynthesis, which they evidently don’t need in order to survive. (meanwhile with anoxygenic photosynthesis carrying on for many millions more of years).
But off the top of my empty coconut, it does raise a couple Q’s:
1) Since there are maybe a dozen or less community members who live in these little worlds, closely built in to a commensurate ecosystem, would the death of the ones who rely on traditional photosynthesis bring about a collapse, either partial or total?
2) Would rampant global warming tend to mess with the already super-heated, typically sulfurous nature of these worlds? (me, I would tend to think “nawt,” since they’re already so hot, but then again, I’m just some layperson really curious about all this, hah)
Ah… those beautiful, entrancing little forbidden worlds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECBbAjoEHWI❤️
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 3 weeks ago:
Right??
It’s going to be glorious.
–(sotto voce) - Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 3 weeks ago:
FWIW, the Earth has about 500-600My left before common photosynthesis is no longer possible due to fallout from the sun heating up gradually. My understanding is that unless complex life somehow adapts, then that will be the end of it on Earth, with simpler life presumably surviving for billions more years past that mark.
Point is– if complex life can survive the coming collapse, then it evidently does have a healthy window to work with. I believe that might be helped out by the ‘churning of the continents,’ in which landmass gets regularly cycled back in to the magma layer over the course of millions of years, with new areas appearing on the other edges, so to speak.
- Comment on How Jane Goodall’s Breakthrough Began with a Chimpanzee in Tanzania | The Walrus 3 weeks ago:
Nice, but I thought it was going to get it in to how the talk went that night. Oh well.
I read a couple of Jane’s books some years back, and found them enthralling. The distinct personalities of the various chimps came through very clearly, and I might as well have been reading any gripping drama about significant humans.
- Comment on 8 Bizarre (and Terrifying) Deep-Sea Creatures 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if this has any relation to the downvotes, but there’s a tonne of javascripts running on that page. I pretty much gave up after some fiddling around. Love that lead image, though.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry for giving that impression, mssr.
What I know for sure is that absolutely everyone in life forms a belief system in order to sort out reality.
Me, it’s not so much that I dislike ‘Christians’ in any particular way, as much as the fact that I don’t like seeing others push people around via their ‘wrong’ beliefs, and so forth…
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
At one point Okham’s razor says the most probable thing is that a guy named Y’shua from Galilee did indeed start a religious movement.
Haha, and later on, some group of assholes tried to make hay with the original guy… to the extent that whatever he might have actually said (remember the Gnostics?) to the message of bullshit “Christianity?”
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
Hahaha… now there you go!
Now THAT’S the way we do things, mate! XD
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
Again– a very whitewashed theory.
So what you’re telling me there is that you didn’t actually read it there, Bob?