Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

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If you don't like the texture, you can let it sit in the liquid for a bit to soften.

Thicker liquids like (like Turkish or Greek style) yoghurt will take longer, for me about 5 minutes, but I'm guessing you like it mushier. Some have suggested overnight (an unforgivable sin IMHO), but you can easily try it at different intervals to see when is right for you.

With milk it soaks faster, might be enough for you with 10 minutes.

The flavors and textures do come from the grains and fruits being only lightly processed though, it might be that you need to transition yourself to it. Feel free to add stuff to get the right texture and flavors, and maybe work backwards from there?

Perhaps, but what is ownership without a state to enforce it? Companies/landlords would need to occupy and defend it themselves.

After the climate mass deaths, migrations and/or wars, there should be plenty of land.

Although it might not be habitable.

Haha, good things are better shared, I'm happy you gave it another go!

Yeah it's turning on 30 years old soon, you have to watch it soon before it gets unbearably bad

Season 1 is hammy stereotypical action sci-fi like most other contemporary shows, but with quite important world building that is used for all plot points in the rest of the seasons.

So much questionable acting, awkwardly cheap shots, laughable cgi (even with the remaster), and distinctly 90s costume. No two ways around it, you have to accept those parts as a product of it's time. The writing is good from the start, and the acting gets better, as you get hooked on the characters everything takes off.

It fundamentally is a political soap opera with make up, but in a more fantastical way than Suits or House of cards, it's kind of a different thing when the political scheming gets derailed by a planet turning out to be a forgotten superweapon or that the current powers-that-be turn out to be ousted by unknown space magic. It's also a lot more dramatic seeing civilisation crumbling after a series of particularly poor developments.

What I love about Bab5 is that there's always at least three plot arcs, you have the Problem-of-the-day that requires running around and punching someone, you have the factional current issue where someone is building up forces in a way that's noticed in the day, and you have the overarching galactic issue brewing slowly, where planets or governments disappear and unknowable things move in the corner of your eye.

Also, superb story hooking, where a couple of planted background happenings are the pivotal main arc a few seasons later.

It's why I rewatch all episodes every couple of years, so much great weaving, world building, character, faction and universe development that you just don't get to see the first or even fifth time.

Also, Andreas Katsulas turns out to be marvellous actor and his character one of the most interesting in almost any epic story I've seen, heard or read since.

I'm starting to think that the correct way to address these types of things is with a simple, possibly even loving, "that's the dumbest thing I've heard".

A lot of poorly reasoned opinions and ideas come from socially validated sources, they parrot the opinions of people they identify with. Showing that you won't agree to get along, might work as a counter both to their spewing the shit as well as maybe letting them question why they hold that belief.

Might also make them stop coming to you with these types of opinions, which may or may not be what you want.

This sounds an awful lot like confirmation bias to me, so I went to Google Scholar for about 15 minutes.

A quick scan of meta-studies seem to indicate that teenagers watching pornography mostly leads to them having slightly more sex, which is well known to be healthy.

For certain vulnerable groups of individuals (poor social integration, weak familial bonds, high risk seeking, and high aggression) porn seems to exacerbate their traits a bit.

There's also very tenuous results pointing to porn in pre-teens, as well as teens with low self esteem and poor social collection getting a skewed perception of sexuality. These are the only groups who have ever been shown to be affected negatively, and only in a single study each, without reproduction. And for the teens it reversed when they gained self esteem.

Seems we should actually have better sex education for teens so they have the support to talk and explore sexuality in a healthy manner with their peers.

It depends on what the scale describes.

Just as @WoahWoah mentioned, it might fit between 9 and 10 on this scale. It's a threat to more than simply all intelligent life, but not quite to all energy.

I'm missing the von Neumann swarm in the list.

Self replicating machines that seek resources to continue self replication, growing exponentially and swallowing not only biological life, but everything within their reach.

Also, if you haven't encountered it before, it's a lovely inspiration for a lot of sci-fi dangers, can highly recommend

I use it as my hardened Firefox doesn't play well with some government and bank sites

As are collections of opinions

I checked, and it's both, although the high pressure ones have led to higher temperatures. Exciting stuff!

You're right! I'll edit.

A superconductor is a special type of material that conducts electricity without losses, that means we can transfer electricity any distance we want without losing any of it to heat. That means we can make super efficient machines and even do things regular materials can't, like create super strong magnetic fields which we then can use to make MRI scans of humans.

More excitingly, superconductors do fucky things with magnetism, where you can get a magnet to lock in height and angle, essentially hovering, but still be able to follow a track, meaning levitating trains could become cheap and easy.

Traditionally superconductors have only worked in super cold and/or low pressure environments, like 1-2 millidegrees above absolute zero, but some advances have made them work at higher temperatures like at about 20 degrees above absolute zero but under crushing pressures, which means it's quite difficult and expensive to keep them superconductors, and they have to keep small so we can keep all of it cool.

As we find ways to make superconductors for warmer temperatures, it's easier to cool them and thus use them at scale and for everyday use. Suddenly you don't need a train cart for cooling to keep hovering, and you could maybe even get a personal hover board or hover wheelys to zip around on.

Superconductors also have other weird and cool properties that could let us do even more cool things as we find out more and can make bigger things with them.

The difference is that we recognise humans and their history, imperfections and many many influences to be part of what makes both the human and expression unique.

A lot of the discussion doesn't grant the machine learning models the same inherent worth as humans get, and thus is viewed as a tool trained to replicate others' work (rather than a creative agent).

This means that where a student painter is expected to have a desire to express something, and are putting in hard work in practice and paying tutors. Replacing them with a machine without desires or stories to express, by stealing artwork without neither credit or compensation, to then replace the same people who've been exploited in creating the tool, seems unfair.