MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
@MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 1 day ago:
Why not use a picture from a show where the actors are all actually dead?
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 5 days ago:
Celery is used because it’s cheap…and it’s bitter balancing onions and other cheap stock items that tend to be sweet. A stock shouldn’t be sweet or bitter because it’s something you “work up”.
“Everybody” doesn’t use it tho. Some stocks are “garbage can” stocks, using whatever unservable scraps that come from food preparation…others are from ingredients purchased to make the stock like a Mirpoix (the most common stock base that uses celery).
There are lots of people like you that say celery ruins stock…there are many others that say bell peppers ruin stock…but then there are core stocks made from bell peppers.
Just do what tastes good.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 5 days ago:
The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.
- Comment on US offers 'NATO-like' security to Ukraine, expects Russia to accept 5 days ago:
On it’s face it gives Ukraine NATO membership while saving face for Russia because they didn’t officially join…in exchange for legitimizing and getting the land bridge to Crimea…I’d imagine there’s cash in it for Trump somewhere in the fine-print.
Makes you wonder what the point of all of it was. I suppose imperial dick-waving so neither can expand as much as they want to.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
I thought “tech crunch” was something silly that Silicon Valley (the TV show) made up!
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 1 week ago:
Sounds like a job for Gabor Mate…
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
Urm. Not sure what you mean. Isn’t that’s the only thing it should do?
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
It’s really rough when your supposed progressive party just act like 90s conservatives…it’s happening everywhere. All culture war posturing, while we slide into “public private partnership” hell.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
That’s horrible. We have a couple provinces that do that.
The city near where I live was hit bad by outsourcing…it was a manufacturing town back in the 80s. A few years back they brought in a giant Casino with promises of making it a tourist destination. Predictably, nobody wants to come to a town that’s an armpit…so most of the gamblers are locals.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
I’m not even Australian…Canadian. I just like chiming in because somebody down there is at least trying to do things…even if it’s usually shitty things.
Up here in my province in the last decade the flood gates opened on gambling…booze…everything. The government basically says “fuck you if we raise you to be an addict…give us your money until you die so rich people can pay less taxes”.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
You can definitely make an argument that “proactive” protection is a strategy :)
I needed your stuff so I could have more stuff.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
Yeap.
Like…depending on the nature of the collapse you might have a bunch of delusional former MAGA people in a region who all have a bunch of gold so they trade it with each other…but for the most part nobody would want it.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
Now I know!
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
Nods. The ban is only going to protect kids that have parents who want them protected/have the technical expertise to do it.
Meanwhile all the fee range kids out there…which, let’s be honest, is most of them…are just going to find a bunch seedy apps and workarounds…and guess who else is going to be lurking in these spaces.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me that what should actually be done is regulation of the algorithms.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 1 week ago:
Welp…I work with kids and I previously supported the ban….but I’ve done a 180.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
Bullets should be saved for protecting your community…trap and snare your animals :)
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
I assume you’re talking about physical gold.
Yes, it’s generally a scam. Some middle man is going to take a cut of what it’s worth before you enter the market - and they’re almost always going to misrepresent it’s value, especially if it’s not in the form of a stamped bar. Then you basically have to store it and shlep it and secure it and keep it secret, which will further diminish profit. Then you have to sell it, presumably as part of your retirement plan…or leave it to somebody who’s going to lose even more of its value when they want to unload it inefficiently.
If you’re not wealthy in the first place it’s only worth investing in as a hobby…because you have to factor in the value of your time and subtract that from its value, as well.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 1 week ago:
How does incentivizing imports for revenue bring jobs back?
Incoherent. MAGA doesn’t give a shit if he lies, they just care about cruelty and revenge.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
This is key.
If there weren’t bots…Reddit would make its own bots. Reddit dances a fine line of allowing the population to be a certain proportion of bots because they increase real engagement by picking fights with its real users, as well as creating never-ending “content” for people to read and vote on. They only ban bots when real users notice they are bots - which is less and less frequently - even though Reddit has the tools and information to ban them long before that point.
Reddit could easy eliminate almost all of them, but that would be expensive and they’d lose real users as a result.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
We can absolutely blame AI for everything. The reason AI took over Reddit is because Reddit fired their human moderators in favour of AI moderation. It’s basically a vicious circle of bots learning how to avoid being banned, and auto moderation learning how they’re avoiding being banned…repeat.
…the obvious problem being that bots are valuable to Reddit because they increase real engagement…if there weren’t bots, Reddit would make its own bots to do basically the same thing. Reddit only wants to restrict bots to a certain proportion of the population, rather than eliminate them.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be real…Reddit itself is moderated by AI.
People who moderate subs should be called “hall monitors” or something. It’s rare to find moderators who are actually moderating with impartiality, rather that being petty and taking sides. They also have tools to exploit the Reddit auto-mod system.
It was enshitified ages ago.
- Comment on ☪️⛎♑️☦️ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think he really ever had them. He was making what…250 grand a month from the Russians (some ridiculous number)? When he lost that cash he immediately changed his format from Russian propaganda to toxic centrism to try and steal viewers from people like Candace Owens…and it’s didn’t work.
- Comment on ☪️⛎♑️☦️ 2 weeks ago:
Tim Pool is struggling for relevance after he got his spigot of Russian money cut off.
I don’t know if somebody fired a gun or made some sort of noise near his home…but I certainly know that Tim is disingenuous and a liar and I don’t doubt he would sensationalize, exaggerate or completely invent an event to improve his ratings now that he has to rely on listeners to make money.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
Yeah…I don’t really know what I’m talking about…it’s not like I make much of an effort for privacy. I’m guess it’s just my particular ISP. It’s like…the random advertising is in French…but if they know who I am it’s targeted…it’s mixed.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
Interesting…all of it? I’m in Ontario but my hub/ISP is in Quebec so all my random advertising is in French.
Somehow it knows to target advertising to you in English…maybe you need to work on your privacy?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
Heh. I’m in Ontario, but I guess my DNS is outta Quebec…so most of my banner advertising is in French. It’s fucking awesome because I have no idea what they’re saying or advertising to me most of the time. Highly recommend.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 weeks ago:
Welp, now I’m off to XHamster. Thank a ton >B|
- Comment on fawlty towers? 2 weeks ago:
…also acting.
but he likely just took the photo…looks early.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 2 weeks ago:
Where’s Terry Gilliam?