HatchetHaro
@HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Hello I think you'll love this house. 2 days ago:
mad myhouse.wad vibes
- Comment on Live your best life 2 days ago:
if any ingredient deserves justice, it’s tofu. people keep trying to make it a meat substitute and then complaining it’s not as good as meat.
- Comment on Work from home 2 days ago:
lmao capitalist bootlicker
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 month ago:
im lost as to how you consider it slavery when it’s supposed to be a consensual and mutual legal agreement of partnership. keep in mind that in most cases, either party can exit the legal partnership whenever they want through the process of divorce.
if either side does not want the marriage, then sure. but having a dedication to a loved one hardly constitutes “slavery”.
- Comment on You can drive for 1 minute in Hong Kong and cross a district. Your mind cannot comprehend this. 2 months ago:
bro no joke; i can get to my bf’s place in ap lei chau from shatin in an hour. the mtr is nuts.
- Comment on Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction? 2 months ago:
So you’re saying that addicts fall back into addictions more easily than the general populace does?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I do jot down the volume measurements that I use any time I bake (approximate, never exact, since I adjust little by little based on how sticky my cookie dough or how wet my pizza dough feels), and using that gives me consistent results already.
There’s not enough variation in the ways I scoop my flour or salt or baking powder or sugar that would net me results that are noticeably different to my previous batches.
I just find this method more fun. Perhaps people prefer to skip the step of cooking by feel and adjusting their flour amount based on how wet their dough is, etc., and just prefer to follow exact steps to get to an end result; I myself find the challenge fulfilling.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
You’re just putting words in my mouth at this point. I’m saying that being anal about precisely measuring my food sounds like a miserable time, nothing about scales or justifications for “how I do things” (which is how everybody here, where I am, does things).
And while I applaud you for trying to be health-conscious and count your calories, I simply just do not care about doing so for myself. You do you, but so not preach it to me, for I have no need for it.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I’m gonna be honest, being anal about exactly how much chicken I eat sounds like a miserable time.
Sure, track salt intake and carbs as portions for those are more easily controlled without leaving awkward amounts of food trimmed off, but chicken?
Like you demonstrated, just halve the pieces, in which case weighing the chicken is pointless as it’s already roughly where you want it.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I don’t see the point of consistent results outside of a commercial setting, but that is an entirely subjective view. I personally find more enjoyment in testing and tweaking and changing things up, even in baking.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Entirely agree! I go entirely by feel most of the time and only use cup/spoon measurements as a first step when I’m making batters or cookie or pizza doughs before adjusting based on how the dough is incorporating. At that point it’s less of a measurement tool and more of a scooping tool to me.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Chicken breast is generally measured in “pieces”.
If you’re measuring a whole chicken breast by weight, what are you going to do if a piece exceeds the weight called for in the recipe? Are you just going to cut off the excess bits? And where would those excess bits go? The bin? The freezer, perhaps, but which recipe would call for “just a sliver of chicken”? Would you rather not just keep that excess weight in and have a bit more chicken in your meal just to avoid all the fuss?
I wouldn’t measure chicken at all.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Unless you’re baking cakes from scratch for fun or trying to make aesthetically perfect macarons, I just don’t really see a reason to use a scale.
With cup measurements, it’s scoop, level, dump. I hate having to fuss around with getting perfect measurements of ingredients; it’s the second-most boring part of cooking.
I really subscribe to Adam Ragusea’s methodology of “cooking by feel”, and just so happens it aligns with how my own culture treats cooking as well.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 3 months ago:
I’m part of the 70%.
I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.
- Comment on How do I brew this brick of tea? 4 months ago:
I may be native Chinese, but my tea skills start and end at “put tea leaves in hot water”.
Only thing I can contribute is that the “expiry date” you see on the packaging may just be the date of manufacture. Unless it explicitly says it’s an expiry date, most food products in mainland China have a manufacture date instead.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 4 months ago:
nah, a 12-hour offset is boring and easy to deal with. give them a 6-hour offset.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 4 months ago:
True, but time zones offer a good compromise between solar time and globally-synchronized time.
Having 12pm noon be approximately when the sun is highest in the sky is better than not at all, and still gives some form of regional cohesion in terms of timekeeping.
There are pretty extreme examples, of course; China is one entire UTC+8 time zone, and that means Tibet is still dark when Shanghai is wide awake, which is dumb, and as annoying as the US’s 4 time zones is (not counting Alaska and Hawaii), it still makes regional sense.
Fuck daylight savings time.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 4 months ago:
Then please use that as your answer instead of taking such a needlessly aggressive and rude stance in your comment.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 4 months ago:
It’s a cool idea, but then you lose the local representation of the daylight cycle, which just complicates things again as you try to schedule things with people in other countries without knowing if it’s their bedtime or not.
I play games with international friends and work with international colleagues, so I have my fair share of troubles with time zones. If anything, abolishing daylight savings worldwide would yield much better results.
On a side note, when scheduling events on Discord, I like to add in a unix timestamp that shows everybody their local time. Quite convenient!
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 4 months ago:
My guy, instead of being condescending for no reason, perhaps you should take the time to actually understand OP’s question.
OP is asking about why the world doesn’t unite under one time zone (UTC+0, UTC-5, UTC+8), not time standard (UTC, TAI, GPST). The hypothetical scenario would be that midnight in the UK would be morning in Japan and evening in the US, but still considered “12 AM” by everyone in those countries.
- Comment on Jog either I do not 6 months ago:
Unfortunately (for you), Lemmy’s meme supply is being carried by the nerds on startrek.website. If you wish to see more non-Trekkie stuff, well, be the change you wish to see
- Comment on If you were to turn into food, what food will you turn into? 9 months ago:
Durian.
I love durian.
- Comment on startrek.website 9 months ago:
wait there’s a sto community here?