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exasperation

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  • Bread mold

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  • You're getting the labels mixed up.

    As a labeling requirement under U.S. law, anything labeled "American Cheese" must be pasteurized process cheese made from some combination of cheddar, colby, washed curd cheese, or granular cheese, which the law also defines pretty strictly. It must be made from these cheeses, heated and emulsified with an emulsifying salt (usually sodium citrate).

    American cheese is allowed to have some optional ingredients and still be labeled American Cheese:

    • Food safe acid (as long as pH stays above 5.3)
    • Cream or milkfat, such that this added fat can account for up to 5% of the weight of the finished product.
    • Water (but the total moisture content of the resulting product must still be within the other limits in the regulation)
    • Salt
    • Artificial coloring
    • Spices or flavoring that do not simulate the flavors of cheeses
    • Mold inhibitors from sorbate up to 0.2%, or from proprionate up to 0.3%
    • Lechitin, if sold in slices

    You can add milk, cream, buttermilk, whey, or certain other dairy products up to 49% of the finished product, but then you'd have to call it "Pasteurized American Process Cheese Food" instead of just American Cheese.

    American cheese is made from almost entirely cheese ingredients. The individual slices being sold at the store, though, vary by brand on whether they're even trying to be American Cheese (or whether they're some kind of lesser "cheese food" or even lesser "cheese spread" or even lesser "cheese product")

    Regular Kraft singles aren't American Cheese. Look at the label. They're "cheese product." Even the Deli Deluxe line has taken a hit in quality in recent years, even if they are labeled Cheese.

    Go with other brands that actually put together a decent tasting American Cheese, and check the label to make sure it's made with 100% cheese instead of 51% cheese (or less).

  • Please let me know

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  • My kids are younger than yours, which has some advantages (no homework, not really any extracurricular activities, longer sleep) and disadvantages (not really able to feed or clothe themselves, need parent help for bathing, still need some assistance on brushing teeth, need to be read to instead of being able to read on their own).

    During busy weeks (like when one of us parents is out of town for work or something) we're quick to switch from home cooked meals to takeout or eating out, may hire cleaners, and push off some of the social interactions, but I also recognize that I'm working with a pretty nice buffer in that I'm already hanging out with friends about 10 hours per week.

  • Please let me know

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  • I found a good friend group of families with similarly aged children within walking distance of my home. We meet up maybe once a week at one of the local restaurants with patio space and let the kids play while we catch up. That space of 2-3 hours does triple duty: catching up with friends, getting the kids out of the house to do high energy activities with friends, and feeding everyone for dinner on a weeknight.

    Having that kind of social group is key. My parents had church, but I'm not religious, so it was important to at least find a way to replicate that social sense of community somehow when I had kids.

  • Please let me know

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  • Yeah.

    There are 168 hours in a week.

    I sleep about 7.5 hours, but am usually in bed for 8 hours. Let's just call that 56 hours.

    I work about 45 hours per week. My commute takes me about 15 minutes each way, so that's a minimum of 2.5 hours per week of biking (this also serves as light cardio). More realistically, I do about half the pickups and dropoffs for my school age kids, so each one of those adds about 45 minutes, so that's another 3.75 hours. That's a total of 50.25 hours on work stuff.

    I sneak in about 3 or 4 workouts per week during my lunch break, adding about an hour to each workday that I do that. On days I don't work out, I might run errands or eat lunch with friends. So let's just call that 5.

    Let's add 7 hours to our morning routines, where I generally have to wake up an hour before actually leaving the home. And another 7 hours for my kids bedtime routines.

    That leaves just under 43 hours per week of everything else. I'm generally able to fit in social activities like meeting up with friends two or three times per week (10 hours), cooking and meal prep (10 hours, may overlap with social activities like when I'm hosting a BBQ), miscellaneous chores (5 hours), a decent chunk of TV, movies, or reading (10-20 hours per week depending on what sports season it is), other kid activities (10-20 hours per week, may overlap with other social activities).

    So the ordinary workweeks are a bit tight but doable. Vacation/holiday weeks tend to give a bit more time, but also tend to add on the parenting responsibilities.

    And if I'm feeling time pressure, there's always places to get a bit more time: outsourcing some of the cooking and cleaning (not necessarily by hiring someone to come to the home but simply by eating out so that someone else cooks and washes dishes).

  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • Malum in se refers to acts that are crimes because they are inherently morally wrong.

    Malum prohibitum refers to acts that are crimes only because they have been forbidden under the law.

    For the malum prohibitum category, you better believe that most of us are avoiding those acts mostly out of a cost benefit analysis of getting punished for it.

    Which acts are truly immoral in themselves, though, depends on context and personal moral system.

  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • His barks are the equivalent of the barks of a actual dog in Cantonese speaking regions.

  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • Xijinping Football League

  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • "Albanian Transporter" would be a pretty sick nickname of an assassin whose movements seem to defy the laws of physics.

  • Good luck, everybody

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  • Chicago even gets excited about their Chicagohenge twice a year.

  • Good luck, everybody

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  • That's why it's really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.

  • confused flatfish noises

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  • Plus evolutionary history shows plenty of examples of animals switching from pure carnivore to pure herbivore to omnivores in between, and back the other direction. All birds are descended from a common carnivorous ancestor, but plenty of birds today subsist mostly on seeds or fruit.

    If there is a lot of available biomass to be eaten, nature will find a way and some animal is going to fill that niche. Many of the folivores (herbivores specializing in digesting leaves) that descended from carnivores have to deal with the low nutrient/calorie density of their foods by just eating a lot of it, and have varying levels of microbial symbiosis for helping with that digestion.

  • Thoughts?

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  • I personally like the theory that the rock trolls are the true villains in Frozen, and manipulated all the key events that actually set the main conflicts on motion (including the earlier things that set up the conflicts in Frozen 2).

  • Stretch marks

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  • Dude knows ball

  • TIL

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  • Lots of things we harvest before they're done developing as they ordinarily would.

    Plenty of herbs and vegetables get fibrous and unpleasant (or even impractical) to eat if we let them grow too long.

    Pea varieties with edible pods (snow peas, snap peas) can continue to grow until their pods are no longer edible, while the internal seed can continue to develop and would need to be separated out like regular peas out of the pod.

    Okra has a finite window where the actual fruit is edible. If you let it grow too long, it becomes hard and dry and gross, and then you'll just have to save the dessicated seeds for planting next season.

    Cucumbers are also harvested early, before they become a yellow fibrous gourd. I've had to look up recipes for what to do with these when my lazy ass actually let this happen in my garden, and went with some kind of Chinese pork and cucumber soup.

    Baby corn is just regular corn harvested really early. It's not actually a different species/cultivar.

    Even sweet corn we harvest early while the kernels are still plump with water. Most other corn varieties we grow to where they get pretty dried out to be processed into cornmeal and other products.

    Agriculture is really interesting. Timing the harvest is an important part of actually optimizing the product for specific purposes.

  • Data Center Watch Worries That Anti-AI Activism Is Working

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  • Yes, the emergency fighting failed too

    This is a good typo.

  • Thoughts?

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  • There's no villain in Frozen (there's a twist where the sister's love interest is revealed to have ulterior motives, but he wasn't actually driving the core conflict at the center of the movie, that Elsa's secrecy around her powers have endangered the whole kingdom and her sister's life). At most, the bad people in the movie are merely taking advantage and scheming through chaos they didn't cause.

    There's no villain in Encanto, either. They suggest it might be Uncle Bruno a few times early on, but his reclusivity and secrecy is driven by the family dynamics, that pushing down/hiding the truth is strongly discouraged in that family so that they don't talk about their problems, until they simmer a bit too long and cause cracks in the family (and literal cracks in their magical house).

    The "villain" in Moana turns out to be more of the natural consequences of past actions, and the way to "defeat" the villain is to apologize, make things right, and return what belongs to her. The antagonists along the way on that hero's journey are what I'd cynically refer to as opportunities to sell branded merchandise.

    The Zootopia villain is revealed at the very end, as well. But the "antagonists" along the way are social, cultural, and political forces that make it hard to solve the mystery and pinpoint the problem.

    Wreck It Ralph reveals a villain at the end, as well, but the problems they're trying to overcome are a combination of social expectations (Ralph is sick of being seen as a villain, Vanelope just wants to be accepted) and kinda the Eldritch horror of being trapped in a simplified world controlled by the higher world's much more complex rules where nobody will think twice about simply pulling the plug (both literally and figuratively) on societies full of sentient beings after their whole universes no longer serve the trivial purposes for which they were created.

    Strange Planet I only saw once, but I don't remember a villain at all. Just that the planet was dying and it turned out to be because of big oil or whatever industry was a stand in for big oil.

    Raya and the Last Dragon? As I remember, the main antagonist was shadowy forces threatening everything, and the human antagonists with actual agency mainly were motivated out of selfishness when teamwork/cooperation could've saved them all.

    These are clearly different styles and plot devices than what was a traditional Disney villain (wicked witches and stepmothers, the gay-coded 90's villains like Ursula, Jafar, Scar) who were introduced early as bad people doing the bad things that caused the central conflict in the story.

  • Thoughts?

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  • Frozen (2013) doesn't have a traditional villain. The main barriers to the main character's happiness is a lifetime of being told to keep her superpower secret and the wedge it forms between her and her sister (whose stunted emotional development causes her to jump in the arms of the first man who pays attention to her).

    Big Hero 6 (2014) does have a villain, but his motivations are complicated, and the main character's journey is as much about overcoming the trauma of losing his brother as it is defeating the villain's plans.

    Zootopia (2016) reveals the villain at the very end, and most of the plot is driven by the characters grappling with societal injustice and prejudice.

    Moana (2016) is a hero's journey but the big bad villain is revealed at the end to be, like, environmental destruction personified, and the way to defeat the villain is to apologize and make things right.

    Frozen 2 (2019) similarly has a plot where it's revealed that all the problems are caused by the characters' grandfather's sins, and the way to fix it is to undo the betrayal and land theft of the indigenous people (which their entire kingdom is basically built on).

    Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) is one I've only seen once but I remember it being about climate change and generational trauma.

    Encanto (2021) is for sure about generational trauma. The antagonists are mostly conceptual: crushing expectations/responsibilities that come with great power, the imbalance and negative family dynamics that come from parents or grandparents showing favoritism, insecurity that comes from going from poor to rich but believing that it can all fall apart in an instant, the toxic effects of keeping secrets. Oh and it all stems from the grandma seeing her husband murdered by soldiers in front of their baby triplets.

    Strange World (2022) is about climate change caused by overexploitation of natural resources.

  • Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?

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  • Does that actually add up, though?

    Google released stats recently that the median Gemini prompt consumes about 0.24 watt hours of electricity.

    For humans performing knowledge based labor, how many prompts is that worth per hour? Let's say that the average knowledge worker is about as productive as one good prompt every 5 minutes, so 12 per hour or 96 per 8-hour workday.

    Let's also generously assume that about 25% of the prompts' output are actually useful, and that the median is actually close to the mean (in real life, I would expect both to be significantly worse for the LLM, but let's go with those assumptions for now).

    So on the one hand, we have a machine doing 384 prompts (75% of which are discarded), for 92 watt hours of energy, which works out to be 80 kilocalories.

    On the other hand, we have a human doing 8 hours of knowledge work, probably burning about 500 calories worth of energy during that sedentary shift.

    You can probably see that the specific tasks can be worked through so that some classes of workers might be worth many, many LLM prompts, and some people might be worth more or less energy.

    But if averages are within an order of magnitude, we should see that plenty of people are still more energy efficient than the computers. And plenty aren't.

  • Sensory issues

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  • This is a joke about Tylenol during pregnancy causing autism, a ridiculous claim made by Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services.

  • Sensory issues

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  • I wouldn't say it's all that "nonstandard." The word "loud" is often used to mean distracting or attention-grabbing in a visual context, so extending it to other senses doesn't seem like that far of a leap.