Sergio
@Sergio@piefed.social
- Comment on Do Americans expect the NK protest to achieve anything? 11 hours ago:
Politicians keep track of public sentiment, because it affects their jobs.
People generally don’t want to protest, they just want to get on with their lives. If large numbers get up and start protesting, that means there’s a lot of energy there which politicians can use for campaign phonebanking and canvassing and donations.
- Comment on We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable 6 days ago:
someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back
Yep, it’s happening on !vampires@lemmy.zip, click this link to see: Dracula Readthrough
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's true... 1 week ago:
Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!
- Comment on It's true... 1 week ago:
My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.
So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
Insane Clown Posse - Fuck The World.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We can’t just create more 18 year olds on demand,
Well, there’s an easy way to get a lot of 18 year olds, but ICE is making sure that won’t happen.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
I’m glad to hear that. Otherwise we’d be confronted with the possibility of vast factory farms of mature beavers having their “castor sacs” milked daily.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
Possibly. But there are several different types of vanilla. Also:
An estimated 95% of “vanilla” products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla fruits.
and
However, vanillin is only one of 171 identified aromatic components of real vanilla fruits.
Also you may be amused to know:
In the United States, castoreum, the exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive,[54] often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in the product’s list of ingredients. It is used in both food and beverages,[55] especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring, with a total annual U.S. production of less than 300 pounds.[55][56] It is also used to flavor some cigarettes and in perfume-making, and is used by fur trappers as a scent lure.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
OK, I’ll look at the ingredients.
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GELATIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (WHIPPING AID), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1.
https://www.kraftheinz.com/jetpuffed/products/00600699003285-marshmallows
Looks like there is some kind of “natural and artificial flavor” besides sugar and corn syrup. Wat are those? Dunno. Apparently it’s legal to have secret ingredients that are not disclosed unless a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
There’s a distinct flavor
Yeah, when I was a kid, there were like 2-3 difference places I could get soft-serve ice cream from, and at one of them the vanilla flavor was marshmallow-like and it was my favorite.
I don’t have an answer, tho. For all I know, it was just a distinctive type of vanilla.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 2 weeks ago:
No way, that’s the guy who said the industrial revolution and its consequences are a disaster for humans.
source
/s
- Comment on James should have used his money 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t they put Wobbuffet in the mix? I bet he’s pretty soft.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 3 weeks ago:
Have you taken a look at the plato.stanford.edu entry on such, specifically the bibliography?
- Comment on Shakes pear 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 weeks ago:
Dude on a skateboard,
Congrats to me my aim scored
Make sure that fool ain’t late
For his date with The Lord
EMT’s on the way
But I reverse the journey
He showed up in the driver’s seat
But left on the gurney - Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 weeks ago:
fuck yeah. what’s your favorite track? post a link to it on !juggalos.lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nOz6LAQIcQC4RfeMpOcQ_OPFzmfGqljz4
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 weeks ago:
you should post that pic and clip to !juggalos@lemmy.world !
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 weeks ago:
this is awesome fam, you should post it to !juggalos@lemmy.world !
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 weeks ago:
There’s only one way to be sure. You and your Bible study group must listen to their every single album.
- COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!!media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 3 weeks ago:
That sounds an awful lot like “don’t do anything that might upset the Christians.”
FWIW I interpreted this as unironically uplifting, along the lines of “Where the Wild Things Are”.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 weeks ago:
This graph will live forever, in intro classes, as an example of how not to do things.
- Comment on DO IT! 3 weeks ago:
“Who will simp the Simpsons?” -Juvenal, probably
- Comment on Well then 3 weeks ago:
See, when I was in grad school I once had to calculate an agreement metric from a bunch of labels on a corpus. No problem I said, the math is easy, I can write a script in an hour or so. Fam that mfing script took me two freaking days bc there were always some little bugs or weird edge cases I hadn’t thought of. So the deal I made with myself was: I would use Matlab or a stats library or something like that, BUT I would make sure that I understood the math beforehand.
But for whatever reason, I never had to calculate a standard deviation. Thinking about it, someone else might have done that for papers I was co-author on, though.
- Comment on Well then 3 weeks ago:
I’ve worked as a scientist for around 10 years (and as a research programmer in various labs for 5-6 years before that) and have never done a standard deviation calculation.
- Comment on Well then 4 weeks ago:
“Do you love being a scientist? Or do you love the IDEA of being a scientist?” - something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently…
- Comment on Horst Wessel 5 weeks ago:
In 1936, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) commissioned a three-masted training ship and named it the Horst Wessel.[92] The ship was taken as a war prize by the United States after World War II.[92] After repairs and modifications, it was commissioned on 15 May 1946 into the United States Coast Guard as the USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) and remains in service to this day.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 5 weeks ago:
Distance education.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 5 weeks ago:
dunno I don't use mobile clients for piefed... I think there's one but don't know much about it.
