JayleneSlide @ JayleneSlide @lemmy.world

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That is quite the well-assembled list. All of the context is helpful for everyone to make suggestions. Also, your comment about Greg Egan is pure awesome.

Gareth L. Powell's "Embers of War" series was excellent. Scalzi's "Starter Villain" had me laughing painfully hard at points.

Whole, modern, domesticated fruits do contain quite a bit of sugar, but that sugar is locked up in fiber. There are lots of anti-sugar crusaders that consider whole fruit to be a "gimme." Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories) and Robert Lustig (Sugar: the Bitter Truth) are two that leap to mind.

We never got rid of slavery in the US. We merely shifted cost of ownership. Quite successfully. The laws have been advanced and tweaked to make everyone a potential criminal, especially if a minority. Prison labor is absolutely legal. The prison system is mostly privatized and for-profit. Healthcare is tied to employment, with dental care (a foundational element of good health) often being an add-on to employer-provided health insurance.

Stop the country, I want to get off.

Refs:

• Hacking of the American Mind by Robert Lustig
• New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen

Children are allowed in Omega Mart and Area 15. Regardless, serious upvote for Omega Mart!

That's a new depth to "Don't yuck someone else's yum."

Except the results from DDG are also a dumpster fire of affiliate spam "listicles," Pinterest garbage, and unrelated SEO BS. Oh, and Reddit sure has risen in all the results since the APIpocalypse. Almost like big business is all starving each other's backs.

Can confirm: $1000USD is an ISO standard boat unit. "How much will that cost?" "Only about 20 boat units."

Source: own and live on a sailboat.

I fully agree he's a ghoul. It is important however to be intellectually honest and morally consistent, lest we sink to the level of people like Fucker Carlson and Shill O'Reilly. Okay, maybe I'll sink a little sometimes...

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

My goto for all things savory is Serious Eats, and specifically J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's work on the topic: https://www.seriouseats.com/search?q=sous+vide

Freezer burn is a function of air reaching the food while frozen. Use a chamber vacuum sealer that can pull vacuum into single-digits mmHg. We live on a sailboat, and our freezer is set at 22F/-5.5C for energy conservation. Never had freezer burn.

Here's some more info on food safety with sous vide cooking: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/articles/1131-is-sous-vide-safe

Well, goddammit, I just had a huge reply typed out, and the website deleted it when the text window lost focus. Okay, super short version: /u/akrot raises a good point, and we would all do well to apply harm reduction and awareness of EDCs in our lives. They are ubiquitous and insidious. In my case, sous vide cooking is one of the very few explicit uses I concede to single-use plastic in my life. It is also one of the few points in my kitchen that food touches plastics.

We must all pick our own battles, and everyday EDCs demand some awareness-raising.

Sous vide cooking. It's easy to buy a bulk quantity of food, vac-pack and cook it, then freeze it. This saves time and money both on purchase, initial prep, and mealtime prep.

For example, we buy a whole, locally-grown, grass-fed chuck flap. We trim, bag, and cook the entire flap in one day. This provides my partner and me about six weeks of meals with high quality protein. Added bonus: the juice and gelatin in the bag after cooking makes excellent soup stock or cooking liquid for beans. Double added bonus: a sous vide chuck steak is just as good as the best ribeye fillet.

Also learn to use an entire chicken. For example, spatchcock and roast the chicken for dinner. Break down the carcass to get every scrap of meat. Make chicken salad the next day. Roast the bones, make a mirepoix, and make chicken stock. Use that to make chicken and dumplings or chicken soup. The two of us eat for a week from one chicken.

Learn about food preservation and safety: reusable containers, dangerous food conditions, fermentation, canning, making stocks... A huge part of saving money on food is not wasting any of it. Being able to buy in-season food when it's cheaper and more nutritive is a big deal.

And on that note: avoid cheap, low-nutrition food. Sure, that industrial, NPK produce and ultra-processed box meal might be "affordable." But those tend to be empty calories; you have to eat more of it to feel sated and get the nutrition you need. Locally grown, in-season foods tend to be better food values since you need to eat less of them to get the same micronutrients. See: "The Doritos Effect," by Mark Schatzker.

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." - Jonathon Swift

So now you're investing time and effort to publicize why this bill was broken. Your political opposition successfully got you on the defensive. These strategies play a part of why fascism and authoritarianism are succeeding in the USA.

In my case, Inventor and AutoCAD. I hate AutoDesk with the fury of a thousand suns, but FreeCAD just isn't stable enough.

Oh, and currently needing .NET automatic source generation (long story), which is very difficult to develop on anything other than Windows.

Holy hell, they said "older," not "antediluvian." 😆

I call it "Not Enough Tigers." We humans have a dynamic response range of "sitting around the campfire with friends and eating great food" to "OMFG! TIGERS!" Unfortunately, most of our daily lives have compressed the dynamic range of experience into a gamut of watching Netflix to "someone said something I don't like."

Most people lack true existential threats in their day-to-day lives, and we humans come unglued without a proper dynamic range of experiences. I think this is why people who do dangerous things, such as urban bicyclists, rock climbers, SAR, and open ocean sailors, tend to be so laid back.

It also doesn't help that those with power have had millennia to dial in propaganda to keep the hoi polloi divided against each other.

So many tears shed in Final Fantasy X. Hell, the emotion in the cutscene of Yuna's sending at the village hit by Sin...

That's also what I thought before reading about Texas' wild pig problem. There are plenty of motivated firearm users in Texas. Yet Texas has problematic numbers of wild pigs (https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-feral-hog-problem-swine-country/), and the pigs have spread to 35 of the States.

I can't find the numbers now, but one report I read stated that 70% of the wild pigs need to be culled per year in order to keep their numbers under control year over year. But even if we only had to kill 20% of the wild pigs, and only in Texas(https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/), that would still be 520,000 rounds as long as everyone were one-shot -one-kill.

This right here. Life is way too short to have a partner with whom one must conceal themselves. That's such a waste of energy and life capacity.

And if you're interested in developing deeper, more fulfilling intimate relationships, John Gottman's (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman) research and publications are an excellent resource on honing your relationship skills.