ProfessorOwl_PhD [any] @ ProfessorOwl_PhD @hexbear.net

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and if everyone does the same, some sort of proper balance will be achieved.

What makes you think that logically follows? Why would it not create competing self-interests that can't coexist?

Even if you broaden it to acting for indirect reciprocal benefit plenty of people act in ways that don't have a reciprocal benefit. Just look at the Madleen flotilla, everyone there is putting themselves at personal risk for no personal tangible benefit - the position of self interest would be to stay safely away from the war at home. Look at all the local charities that help vulnerable members of their communities for no personal benefit. Look at people acting against their self interest just within their own families, like supporting elderly parents despite the costs and even though their death would speed their inheritance. There is a huge range of actions that fall outside of both direct and indirect self interest that people take every day.

What do you think radical means in political contexts?

Also applies to skittermanders

It doesn't particularly sound like it's the alcohol you're craving if you're only buying it on sale, but there's definitely some sort of unhealthy mindset going on there with the compulsive purchasing and consumption. When I was an alcoholic I was drinking 3-4 pints on my nights in because I wouldn't be able to sleep otherwise, not only buying it if it was on sale.
Completely speculating, it sounds like beer on sale became a significant reward mechanism during your homelessness, and you need to find a new reward to shift that focus over to. Some kind of sweet treat, some kind of game or hobby, something you can reach for instead of the sale beer. You need to convince yourself you are worth more than just sale beer, you're worth the nice things you'd like to have in your life.

Run new games at 144fps at maxed settings in native 4k, which as we all know is completely necessary and extremely distinguishable from 60fps at medium settings with upscaling.

You don't really need to remember conversions within units, because it's all in base 10. Apart from that, 1 millilitre is 1cm³ of water, which weighs 1 gram, and requires 1 calorie of heat to increase its temperature by 1°C.

As a Brit: the NHS. I can, and have always been able to, just call an ambulance in response to almost any medical emergency. I can walk into a minor injury unit with any minor injury and get it sorted. I can just call my GP to ask about things and book an appointment to get them seen in person. The only upfront cost I've ever had to worry about was the fixed price of prescriptions, and I only get charged for them if I earn enough. Earning minimum wage, the taxes that pay for it total about £150 a year.

Even with all of the attacks and defunding over the years it's so thoroughly ingrained in the public consciousness that the government can't actually get rid of it.

Got it in one.

"what if I burnt down a tree so I could pretend to have a friend"

I know it feels that way - believe me, I mentioned I'm autistic for a reason, and that reason is I had plenty of meltdowns over the impreciseness of instructions before getting it - but it's not running before you can walk, it's walking before you run. Being precise and scientific about your cooking is the Olympic sprint of cooking, the high level michelin-starred stuff, not worrying about precision is the first teetering steps that lets you start to refine your technique.

There is wiggle room in baking, but it relies on a deeper understanding of the ingredients than cooking. If a recipe wants 250g of flour and you only have 200g, you have to adjust the amounts of sugars and fats as well, and while the flavourings have a lot more wiggle room, some of them still require swapping out base ingredients for them to maintain the correct ratios.
With cooking if a recipe calls for 500g of potatoes and you only have 300g you can just put 300g in and keep cooking. Recipe calls for 300g tomatoes but you don't want to waste the last quarter of your 400g can? We're having an extra tomato-y sauce tonight. You have a lot more room to change ingredients around without it having a significant effect on the rest of the recipe.

Sorry sib, but you gotta buy the spices. They're like salt and oil, or pots and pans - you are almost always going to be using some of them, no matter what you're cooking. It helps a lot to find an Indian supermarket, because you can get big packets of spices for much cheaper than the bottles in regular supermarkets.

Also too many spices has never been an issue I've had with Jamie, if anything I feel he overrelies on access to good quality ingredients. Yotam Ottolenghi is the spice dickhead, most of his recipes require a specific overpriced spice blend only he sells.

Yes, and I'm explaining that a significant part of being an experienced cook is just the understanding that cooking isn't precise. You do not need to work out what sized teaspoons the author was using, just get any of the teaspoons out of your drawer, fill it up, mix it in, and then taste to see if it seems ok. The final result will depend on factors you can't control for - the conditions ingredients were grown in, the age of spices when they were ground, the specific cultivar you're using - and the author doesn't have your personal tastes, so while they can tell you the ingredients to use they can't give you the precise amounts that you'll enjoy. To find that out you need to make the dish repeatedly with small adjustments until you hone in on your tastes.

Probably want to try Cherry MX Greens, Gateron Greens, or Kailh Box Heavys, or go straight to Kailh Box Thick Clicks.

Autist and scientist here: you're thinking of baking. Baking is the science one, cooking is infuriating because all of those really vague and inaccurate instructions are in fact as precise and accurate as they need to be. Seasoning is done with the heart, you do have to stir or knead u ntil it "looks right", "a handful" is the right amount to add. The only way to find the "right" amounts is to cook over and over until you instinctively know what enough looks like.

Anyway the ingredient I really really hate is from Jamie Oliver's "working girl's" pasta, where he lists "2 big handfuls of really ripe tomatoes". I HAVE CANNED TOMATOES YOURE GETTING CANNED TOMATOES JAMIE, I DONT HAVE FUCKING TIME TO GO LOOKONG FOR REALKY RIPE TOMATOES

Also standard teaspoon is 5ml. Just use that and taste to see if it needs more.

I was riding my bike to work along the canal path a couple of weeks ago and came across a dog, that when told to move over to let me pass, looked up at it's owner then turned and came gallumphing towards me to play instead. It was so excited to disobey I nearly fell over my bars laughing.

doggy

Honestly that sounds about right for WFRP. Shouldnt take too many sessions for the dice to do similar to a player instead.

Am I doing it all wrong, should I just hardlink the big files into another folder on the disk and then copy those exe and other small files and double click the exe that is in the new folder ?

Yes.

Donations are the Devs income stream, so they are in fact paying for .ml out of their own pocket. "funding development" doesn't actually mean anything beyond "paying the developer's wages" for Lemmy, so once you've paid them you don't get a choice in how they spend their income.