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Wolf314159

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  • Observed → Tested → Revised

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  • "Current" science is a bit of a stretch, like a couple thousand years of stretching. Eratosthenes showed the earth was round and calculated its circumference to an astonishing precision using research and fairly simple trigonometry. He died 2,219 years ago.

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • It is a basic ingredient in mirepoix, which is used as a base for a variety of sauces, soups, gravies, and stews. It's just one component of what is basically just a fresh vegetable mix. You can always just substitute whatever you have on hand or local that fits, just like you would with a stir-fry or fried rice. It's less about the specific vegetables than it is about the way they are prepared and what they contribute. Onions and carrots add sweetness. Celery balances those with its saltiness. Celery and garlic feel to me like a bridge to the other proper herbs like parsley and thyme that usually go in the mirepoix I combine with a good roux to make gravy.

  • Idk, I just don't see the use case

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  • True. True. True. And yet, that market may exist regardless. We'll see I guess.

  • Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life

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  • Not the ones that use these. Most tools are unpractical when you don't understand how to use them.

  • Where will Europeans flee too?

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  • This account is only 6 days old and already you're starting in with the Xenophobic political rhetoric. That hardly seems like a coincidence. Who are you really and what got your previous account banned?

  • Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life

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  • You're supposed to leave it in the jar when not in use.

  • People Commenting "AI Slop" To Every Notable Post

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  • That's exactly what AI slop would say.

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • Those reduced civil rights related to border patrol extend about 200 miles in from every U.S. border.

  • What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?

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  • This needs to be copypasta'd as a reply to every comment suggesting that opening up jellyfin to the internet is easy and everyone should do it to get away from Plex.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • I have induction; anything magnetic will heat, pans sized to your elements work best. Pans with too much aluminum and not enough iron (or other ferro magnetic material) won't work very well. Getting induction was a great excuse to dump the cheap pans I'd wanted to replace anyway. When shopping the discount racks like Home Goods, Marshalls, etc. I always grabbed some fridge magnets and tried them on the bottom of any prospective purchase; the stronger the pull, the better it will perform with induction. The only item I really missed was my moka pot (stovetop espresso, usually all aluminum casting), but I was able to find one with a stainless steel base that works great. Your pots and pans will also need a flat bottom to react to the induction elements, so woks and such built with a slope or curve to encourage flames to lick up the sides don't work so well compared to gas. Finding a Teflon coated pan that works with induction was difficult (I don't often use it anyway, but SO insisted we have one for their use). I'm looking into replacing the Teflon pans with nitrided carbon steel soon.

    Cast Iron and induction are a match made in heaven though. The cast iron heats fast and evenly and the induction means you can be very precise about how much heat you apply and when. When you turn off the element, the only heat left in the whole system is what you've already put into the pan, which is a big deal in my tiny kitchen when I don't always have room to move a pan off to the side to rest or cool. The cast iron and stainless pans I have heat fast enough that I can basically cook starting from a cold pan for most things. Heating an empty pan takes seconds. I can bring a pot of a water of a couple quarts/liters to a roaring boil in about 4 minutes, then back down to a gentle simmer in seconds.

    If gas is cooking with fire, induction feels like cooking with science. As may be clear from the rant, I love my induction range.

  • What's your plan for not dying?

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  • Help me build a playlist?

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    New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."

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  • Self-hosting is inherently not low effort. This isn't memes or shitposts. This is people helping people that are trying to help themselves, a.k.a. people making an effort. Communities rely on the discretion of mods and rules specific to the community focus. If this community didn't have some kind of bar to meet for low effort posts it would drive away participants and contributors more interested in higher effort and more interesting topics. It gets real old seeing people ask and answer the same basic questions about Plex, Jellyfin, *arrs, and docker all the time. Worrying about if this rule will be abused seems premature. Besides (as others have pointed out) there are other communities with similar interests, if you're that concerned that your spammy no-context YouTube video got deleted, please go try your luck elsewhere.

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • If humanity continuously experiences the rise and fall of capitalism for millions and millions of years what evolved traits do humans develop?

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  • Romp? That's an interesting take. Kind of like whistling past the graveyard because the moral of the story for the motties (the civilization we contact) is basically that unchecked growth creates a cycle of unsustainable growth and apocalyptic collapse, which should be a familiar theme to anyone living through a capitalist dystopia.

    I really like Niven and Pournelle individuallt, but the things they've collaborated on like this are even better.

  • If humanity continuously experiences the rise and fall of capitalism for millions and millions of years what evolved traits do humans develop?

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  • This is basically the plot of "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

  • Just to be safe

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  • Yes, that is the subversion of expectations that makes this a joke.

  • Parking police

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  • New Mad Max movie concept

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  • The Hunger Games owes everything to Stephen King. They basically just took The Long Walk novel and glittered/mashed it up with The Running Man movie. Neither of those took place during or after any apocalypse. They were each just set in either the now, or the very near future, in an America that has gone fully corrupt as a result of being morally, politically, and economically bankrupt. King was (and always has) written very local and topical stories set in what is literally his here and now. When he lived in Maine, he wrote Maine stories. When he moved to Florida, he wrote Duma Key. So, it's no surprise that a YA story as derivative as The Hunger Games would have the same blind spot for Global events as the inspirational works.

    But, also if we were really going to descend into an apocalypse (or a dictatorship), news of the broader globe would be one of the first casualties. People inside most apocalypse (and fascist dystopian) stories don't usually have a lot of knowledge about the "outside" world. If they do, it's usually an unreliable narrative.