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exasperation

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  • Critical Thinking...

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  • True bliss is being able to live the serenity prayer (at least stripped of the religious aspects): the courage to change the things you can, the serenity to accept the things you can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

    People who feel burdened by knowledge tend to be bad at separating the concept of things that are bad and things that you should actually worry about.

    Ignorance of danger might be good for happiness if you're powerless to stop it. But it might be bad for happiness if you suffer harm that you didn't have to, just because of your own ignorance. People who live like that sometimes feel like they're just tossed around by the world, powerless against the forces that affect their lives.

  • Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

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  • Do you apply a similar rule to California Rolls, Texas Toast, Key Lime Pie, New York Cheesecake, or Philly Cheesesteaks?

  • Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

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  • All I know is that my genitals say "maybe"

  • OKBuddyGalaxyBrain

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  • Well then you are lost.

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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  • You're right, but I am curious whether they'll be able to pursue this chemically through non-biological feedstocks. Most existing use of Fischer-Tropsch turns fossil fuels (coal, natural gas) into other types of hydrocarbons.

    And they're specifically targeting output of fatty acids, using fractional distillation to separate each fatty acid, and then forming triglycerides according to the characteristics they're looking for.

    It all sounds very energy intensive and inefficient, so I'm not sure how they expect to make money doing this, but if they can dial in which fatty acids to assemble into triglycerides I can see this being a good substitute for palm oil and coconut oil, and maybe other vegan substitutes for animal fats like tallow and lard.

  • Broccoli Blooms

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  • It tastes like broccoli stems. Some are more tender than others (just like with broccoli stems).

    I usually slice into little julienned pieces and marinate it in salt and acid for it to wilt into some kind of modified cole slaw.

  • He thirsted for her

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  • I would argue that the citric acid is as important of a flavor component.

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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  • Hydrogenated vegetable oils still start with vegetable oil, which have to be extracted from farmed crops (mostly soybeans).

    This is a process that skips living feedstock from biological organisms and assembled the fatty acids directly from methane, water, and carbon dioxide. No photosynthesis, no cellular metabolism, nothing like that.

  • anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism?

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  • I once took a tour of an Alaskan oil field operation solely for the ability to gain access to the Arctic ocean, and jump in. They talked a lot about the oil stuff but I didn't pay that much attention. I was there just for the ability to say I've been in the Arctic Ocean.

  • Modern cars have too many gadgets

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  • In the U.S., ODB-I was mandated beginning in model year 1988, and ODB-II was mandated for all cars beginning in model year 1996. Technically, California mandated it, but the manufacturers all made their entire U.S. models comply with California rules for easier logistics.

    ODB-I had terrible standardization and requires a bunch of model/make specific stuff to properly interface with, but in theory the 35-year old cars do have some kind of data port available.

  • is this what it sounds like!?

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  • You can't get away with less because a mirror can't appear brighter than what it's reflecting; this is a fundamental property of optical systems.

    I can understand that a single flat mirror cannot ever appear brighter than whatever is being reflected. But why can't multiple mirrors pointed at one spot have a total intensity greater than that of any one of the mirrors (or a curved dish that focuses the light)?

  • Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

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  • Sci-Fi Author George Orwell: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus telescreen as a cautionary tale

    Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus telescreen from classic sci-fi dystopian novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop?

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  • Exactly. I'd much, much rather watch a dinosaur video from someone who really really wants to talk about dinosaurs, and found video as a medium to talk about it, rather than someone who wants to do video and is trying to come up with a topic for the videos he already wants to make.

    Same with cooking, comedy, tech, business, current events, politics, etc. I'd rather watch/listen to someone who cares about those things specifically than someone who wants to "create content."

  • 22 September, 2020 - "Trump Exhibit"

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  • Work hard

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  • Barrels, with fatter centers, are easier to steer when rolling. Best transport shape for human pushing.

  • [OC] Personal opinion on Jackson Pollock's drip art

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  • Some people at this time said the "process" was art not the painting hanging in the museum

    To expand a bit on the idea that the process itself is as important, or more important, than the resulting work standing in isolation, there are a bunch of examples of people really enjoying the "behind the scenes" or "how it's made" aspects of art.

    I happen to love OK Go's single-take music videos in large part because they are absurdly complex projects requiring precise planning and tight execution. And you can see that the resulting work (a music video) is aesthetically pleasing, and can simultaneously be impressed at the methods used in actually filming that one take, from their early low budget stuff like Here We Go Again, or stuff like the zero gravity Upside Down and Inside Out, or even this year's releases with technological assistance from programmed phone screens or robot arms holding mirrors.

    Another example I like is James Cook making paintings out of typed pages in a typewriter.

    There's a lot of stuff with sculpture and painting that have these aspects where the methods used to make it are inherently interesting, and explain some of the features in the art itself.

  • He's not even a regular man

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  • His most acclaimed role was Captain Hammer (the hammer is his penis).

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

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  • I imagine the right answer differs from country to country, as prices can be pretty different from place to place.

    But in the U.S., when I was poor I'd often use regular boxes of dried pasta and add canned chili to them, and maybe shred a little bit of cheddar on top, add hot sauce to taste.

    0.5 lb (230g) of pasta: 800 calories, 28g protein. Approximately $0.50 ($1/box).

    15 oz (425g) of canned chili with beans: 460 calories, 29g protein. Approximately $3.

    4 oz (113g) block of cheddar cheese: 440 calories, 24g protein. Approximately $1.50 ($3 per 8 oz pack).

    That's a 1700 calorie meal with 81g of protein, for about $5, that takes about 12-15 minutes. It requires only a single pot and a cheese shredder if you prefer shredding it yourself (you can also buy pre shredded for maximum ease/convenience).

    Obviously you can portion down in size, or keep some leftovers, if you're not the type of person to need a 1700 calorie meal in a single sitting.

  • Good Rhino

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  • which is near impossible to get solely from unprocessed plant based foods.

    You're remembering wrong. Your body needs the essential amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine), and most plants don't have all of them, but pretty much any combination of a grain (wheat, rice, oats, corn/maize) and a legume (beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, green beans, peanuts) will have all of them.

    So yeah, you won't get all of them from bread, and you won't get all of them from peanut butter, but you will get all of them from a peanut butter sandwich. Or a bean burrito. Or rice and beans. Or rice and peas.