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Tudsamfa

@ Tudsamfa @lemmy.world

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Gamer™

I have commited the Num-Code for ™ to muscle memory.

Other interests include bicycles, bread making and DIY. I do own a 3D-printer and adore the Nintendo 3ds.

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  • "Vegetable" is a culinary term. It does not mean "plant", it is not the opposite of the botanical "fruit". It means "We use this in culinary traditions similarly to other vegetables".

    Pumpkin, Squash and Mushrooms all fit into soup and not into fruit salads, so they're all vegetables. Cucumbers are veggies for fitting into actual salads, though they're only like a few good decades of selective breeding away from being full culinary fruits. These are not exact definitions, but, like most things in life, messy definitions are often the more useful ones.

    Since "vegetable" only has a definition as a culinary term, I really don't get why people get so hung up on it. It's not like "nut" or "berry", whose culinary a botanical definitions couldn't be in more of a disagreement.

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  • Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.

    Vegetable only has a culinary definition.

    Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It's like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.

    But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.

  • In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?

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  • Keys somewhere right, phone in the pocket inside my jacket, rest wherever.

  • The Walker

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  • Even shitposts are too much effort to make by oneself nowadays, huh?

    Need AI to do even that.

  • Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?

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  • I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.

    I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.

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    Magnitude 0.1 earthquake in Cornwall

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  • A magnitude 1 quake releases the same force as dropping a partially loaded cement truck from 10 meters onto the street in front of your house. A magnitude 0 earthquake is equivalent to the entire Dallas Cowboys American football team running at full tilt into the side of your neighbours garage.

    Given those upper and lower bounds, considering that the scale is logarithmic with 2 points being x1000 difference, then keeping in mind I can never do math properly: roughly 1 and a half American football teams ran full tilt into the house next to the seismometer.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • Ah, you know, can't complain.

    Maybe I'll take a vacation to the US someday and see what kind of bicycle infrastructure the worlds greatest economy can build.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • For being mandatory where I live, it sure is odd literally no one decided to draw some reflectors on the spokes.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • Hypothetically, if governments wordwide just suddenly became authoritarian and deleted all records of history, how much history can you recall from memory to re-teach to the next generation?

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  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • I can't even make the most explicit Gacha hating post without you guys saying how yours is the one, the special one that's good.

    I hate the concept. They are designed to obfuscate how much money and time you spend on them with different currencies that don't feel like real money. They are dark pattern after dark pattern, trying to get you to look at the shop every time you boot up, and entice you with limited offers every chance they get. And this all is then defended by well meaning people like you and me with "Well, you can play for free if you grind hard".

    And when I look up if the different in-game currency thing applies to this game, I find out I have heard of Limbus company as the Korean one that got a "radical feminist" artist fired because a swimsuit didn't reveal enough skin for the fanbase's liking.

    You misunderstood my comment. Fuck off with your recommendation.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • Gacha.

    For most anything else, I can simply chalk it up as a difference in tastes when I don't like the gameplay, or art style, or whatever. Even those shitty horror games for babies I despise are perhaps fun if you dive into the lore at the right age, who knows. I certainly have obsessed for less than mediocre games.

    But no one likes gacha, or at least should like it. It's gambling marketed to kids, preying on the people without impulse control. No "you can spend 2 hours of your life every day on this and save up 2$ in currency" is changing that, in fact that is even worse.

    And yet they give hoyoverse a pass for their series, because everything around it is so high quality. Open your fucking eyes! Games are not supposed to punish you for not playing!

    But of course, no accusation without confession, I am quite fond of the yugioh simulator, and used to defend it the same way. I try to resolve this double standard by doing what I feel they should do: Never gush about it, only mention it in shame, and always warn people to not pick it up.

  • What are the most useful things you've printed?

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  • A AAA-battery to AA-adapter. I randomly had 50 of the smaller ones lying around, so it really came in handy.

    Can't share a link, but there should be dozens of this kind of model on any site. "Can't", because the model I grabbed was definitely among the worse ones.

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • That is literally what I am talking about, though. "you doing more, the store doing less, prices increase anyway" is exactly the same thing as happened 100 years ago.

    Stores where customers didn't have access to the back also don't need security cameras, so even that point is 1:1 the same (although that's way later than 1925 then).

    We have lost most of the stores where a clerk will collect your items for you, they once were the only option. At this rate, we will lose most of the stores where a clerk will scan the items for you as well. Simply because 1 clerk and 20 cameras is cheaper than 15 clerks.

    I'm not saying that you have to like or hate both developments equally, I just wanted to point out that we have had and lost this exact battle before.

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  • "Don't you hate it when you walk into a grocer and they expect you to pick out the items yourself? I don't work here, I just want to say "1 pound of ham and 2 loafs of bread" at the clerk, pay and pick them up. I've been to this new Piggley Wiggly, can't find anything, spent like an hour to find beans. Imagine if I was paid for that time, I would have made 15¢!"

    OP in 1925, probably.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • Well, same back to you. I never doubted you having that experience, but I asked if it's normal.

    Your own source says it's only 12.8% of the US living in such areas. So it's safe to assume that OP would also be interested in the cheaper recipes that involve mostly produce. Your life experience isn't universal either.

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  • Every supermarket I ever went to had a vegetable aisle and potato sacks for a few €. Variety in produce may be low, but that's what a Turkish supermarket is for.

    Granted, I never lived in an American BestBuy town, so this might be a cultural thing. But produce being unavailable or even just being out of one's way seems insane to me. You sure that normal where you live?

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • I agree that how healthy something is should be put on the back burner (hah!), true, but when cost is the most important factor, produce is unbeatable. While not created equal, the means to prepare for most are 1 pot, 1 board and 1 knife, and there sure are recipes that don't take up too much time.

    Someone asking for recipes can be expected to have some time to cook them, while working 2 jobs is way too common nowadays, there are still more people struggling for money with some time on their hands. If you have no money, no time and no energy for cooking, you're beyond asking for advice and should instead be asking for help.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • My ultimate struggle meal:

    In 1 pot:

    • Rice (the good one from a sack, forget about minute rice)
    • Carrots, sliced
    • Whatever is cheapest between Sweet potato, Pumpkin or Eggplant at the time, cut into cubes.
    • Thai Curry paste & Soy sauce
    • Salt
    • Cook 15 minutes
    • Put into a tortilla with mayonnaise

    Fast, really cheap, and has the important bonus that the only dish to clean is the 1 pot. When struggling, I also don't feel like doing a lot of housework.

    Sadly, I can never remember the best ratios, so the mayonnaise is rather mandatory as it can save a rather bland filling. Sometimes, I splurge and use guacamole instead, sometimes I also put in mini-spring rolls from the same shop I buy the rice and curry.

    With my "recipe" out of the way, the important thing is to find some ingredients that have a low price for lot's of weight, and then choose a recipe that's like 90% cheap ingredients by weight. (Remember that some ingredients take on a lot of water, rice taking on twice it's volume for example, so they're cheaper than the price tag implies). I personally look for food that's under 3€/kg. The other 10% of the meal can be way more expensive (curry paste in my recipe), but, because you only use so little of it, as a whole it's still cheap.

    Probably the absolute cheapest meal are homemade hash browns, potatoes are ridiculously cheap, with apples being the cheapest fruit where I live. Next cheapest vegetable around here are carrots.