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  2. Comment on An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions in ~food

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    Same aspect applies. Tex-Mex isn't "authentic" in any respect, but you will find Mexicans in a good Tex-Mex place and none in a bad one.

    Same aspect applies.
    Tex-Mex isn't "authentic" in any respect, but you will find Mexicans in a good Tex-Mex place and none in a bad one.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions in ~food

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    Because the quality control of an ethnic restaurant is people of that ethnicity eating (or if bad, not eating) there and there simply isn't a sizeable Mexican population in Europe to check these...

    Because the quality control of an ethnic restaurant is people of that ethnicity eating (or if bad, not eating) there and there simply isn't a sizeable Mexican population in Europe to check these places. While a decade old I doubt much has changed from this report by the Mexican government that states that near-as-makes-no-difference 98% of Mexicans living abroad are in the US. 103k Mexicans in all of Europe isn't enough to authenticity check Mexican restaurants there.
    Not to mention that Mexico is a vast country with highly varied cuisine, so "authentic" is going to be highly variable depending on where the chef is from, what the customer expects, and what local tastes will allow.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Over the past month I have watched all three Avatar movies. I watched the first in theaters, in 3D, back when it was released. Had not seen the other two until now, started by re-watching the...

    Over the past month I have watched all three Avatar movies.
    I watched the first in theaters, in 3D, back when it was released.
    Had not seen the other two until now, started by re-watching the first.

    They are the most predictable pieces of drivel I think I have ever seen.
    The visuals were new and interesting when the first came out, but even that got old after half an hour. Everything being bright and blue and pink and green isn't something to carry a franchise or should even be making money at this point.

    James Cameron is a hack.
    He reads TV Tropes like it's a playbook.
    He peaked at Terminator 2 and hasn't done anything worth a damn since.
    He shouldn't be allowed on a movie set again.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Godzilla Minus Zero | Official teaser in ~movies

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    Cannot. Wait. I just finished (probably, maybe, but probably not as thinking of adding more and Godzilla knows my artist wants to add more) my thigh sleeve Godzilla tattoo.

    Cannot. Wait.
    I just finished (probably, maybe, but probably not as thinking of adding more and Godzilla knows my artist wants to add more) my thigh sleeve Godzilla tattoo.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Looking for feedback and just art criticism of my work in ~creative

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    I like Gash, I think it conveys what you're looking to do and works well. I think it would work better with a larger crack in asphalt. I do not like Bound, perhaps it would work better in person,...

    I like Gash, I think it conveys what you're looking to do and works well. I think it would work better with a larger crack in asphalt.

    I do not like Bound, perhaps it would work better in person, but the link doesn't have enough definition in the picture to tell it's thread sewn to an image and just looks like costume store chains laid over limbs. Would possibly be better if it was more like Gash in that the thread is more obvious, isn't just black, and the thread goes to the edge of the image. Would also work better if you had sewn shackles or something along those lines instead of just chain. Asphalt is essentially two dimensional, limbs are three as they have a depth visible in the picture that the asphalt does not, making the thread to bind the limbs more difficult to pull off and so making the thread look merely laid upon them instead of actually binding them.
    So from a practical standpoint, Gash works as I believe it to be a stitched repair of a wound, Bound does not as I do not see the thread binding the limbs.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Gåte – Oskorsreia (2026) in ~music

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    Don't speak Norwegian so don't understand a word they're saying, but music is often enjoying the mouth noises being made, so that's fine. Digging this song for sure and has to be the first time...

    Don't speak Norwegian so don't understand a word they're saying, but music is often enjoying the mouth noises being made, so that's fine. Digging this song for sure and has to be the first time I've seen a Nyckelharpa played in a hard rock/metal song.
    Good find!

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts

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    So either the restorationist, presumably chosen for the confidence in ability to restore a Rothko, did a poor job or the comments about the restoration "not being right/lacking depth/blah blah...

    I find it hard to see this angle. I would argue that a skilled restorationist being unable to recreate the work that is infront of them is akin to a skilled musician being unable to replicate music that they're listening to. Even if it's an iterative/improvisational process (which is to say nothing about the skills that informed the decisions that rothko was making behind closed doors), I would imagine two musicians of similar skill would be able to copy one another.

    So either the restorationist, presumably chosen for the confidence in ability to restore a Rothko, did a poor job or the comments about the restoration "not being right/lacking depth/blah blah blah" are full of it and likely of the sort that would complain no matter what since that it is no longer "original". Since I'm highly doubting the museum would trust a Rothko to any restorationist found on the street, it's likely the latter.
    That said, there's still nothing in your video to defend colour-field painting as not lazy or that creation of a color to take the effort stated.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts

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    Effort involved does not make something "art". Period. Nor does your video justify colour-field painting as not lazy or state that "incredible amounts of effort" were performed to create the...

    You should really watch the video I linked above. I think calling colour-field painting "lazy" is a great example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Many of these painters are putting incredible amounts of effort into getting the particular qualities of their work.

    Effort involved does not make something "art". Period.
    Nor does your video justify colour-field painting as not lazy or state that "incredible amounts of effort" were performed to create the paintings, just that the ingredients included were/are difficult to replicate from a restoration standpoint because there were no notes or records of what was used to make the color. My grandmother didn't write down any of her cooking recipes either, as a result it is difficult to perfectly match the flavors of my youth with her. That doesn't mean that my grandmother's grilled cheese sandwich is art or that there was "incredible amounts of effort" in her family favorite soup either.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    Hey now! That only happens when I, not great at puns, attempt to pun at her, who is great at puns, and it's actually a good pun.

    Hey now! That only happens when I, not great at puns, attempt to pun at her, who is great at puns, and it's actually a good pun.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    Sure, but it's less specific, doesn't have the away baby that really allows the emphasis to grow as you make the statement. My wife knows and I want to make it clear that I'm staring at her...

    Sure, but it's less specific, doesn't have the away baby that really allows the emphasis to grow as you make the statement. My wife knows and I want to make it clear that I'm staring at her fantastic ass.
    "go" is more subtle, subtlety isn't the point here, the point is that often enough she'll giggle and then back up to put her ass in squeezing range before she then leaves to go do whatever she originally intended to do.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    One frequently used on my wife is when she's walking away, often after I drop a terrible joke: Hate to see you leave, but love to watch you walk away baby! It gets louder and more aggressive as...

    One frequently used on my wife is when she's walking away, often after I drop a terrible joke:

    Hate to see you leave, but love to watch you walk away baby!

    It gets louder and more aggressive as each word of the second half is said aloud.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on Could I travel back in time? How physics tackles the paradoxes – with Jim Al-Khalili in ~science

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    I thought about that as well with another response, but my thought there was if time is a track and you can move along it and moving backwards just puts you on the track earlier where the earth...

    I thought about that as well with another response, but my thought there was if time is a track and you can move along it and moving backwards just puts you on the track earlier where the earth was also at that same place could mean that maybe time travel isn't an individual option?
    My thought there was if time was linear and we're all moving through it that a time machine wouldn't move you back in time, but would move us all back in time.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Could I travel back in time? How physics tackles the paradoxes – with Jim Al-Khalili in ~science

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    Sci-fi need not apply as it's all hand wave-y. The video is about how they're trying to use math to prove that time travel could be possible without paradoxes. I can apply a million different...

    Sci-fi need not apply as it's all hand wave-y. The video is about how they're trying to use math to prove that time travel could be possible without paradoxes. I can apply a million different sci-fi movies to "get rid of my objection" but doesn't make any of them valid.

    Also, the Primer machine is a paradox itself and is mentioned in the video.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Could I travel back in time? How physics tackles the paradoxes – with Jim Al-Khalili in ~science

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    No one is moving FTL and FTL is just fast not instantaneous. Science fiction isn't in the running here as you can hand wave anything away with it. The video is about how they're trying to use math...

    No one is moving FTL and FTL is just fast not instantaneous.

    Science fiction isn't in the running here as you can hand wave anything away with it. The video is about how they're trying to use math to prove that time travel could be possible without paradoxes. Maybe they can do so, but they'd still have to solve for instantaneous teleportation as well.

    Also, the Primer (and other) machine is a paradox itself and is mentioned in the video.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Could I travel back in time? How physics tackles the paradoxes – with Jim Al-Khalili in ~science

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    All this talk of paradoxes always ignores an incredibly simple thing that makes time travel impossible: That you cannot teleport. Let's say you want to go back in time by a mere hour. In that hour...

    All this talk of paradoxes always ignores an incredibly simple thing that makes time travel impossible: That you cannot teleport.

    Let's say you want to go back in time by a mere hour.
    In that hour you would also need to account for the fact that if you're at the equator the earth has rotated 1,674 km.
    Next you have to account for the earth orbiting the sun and the fact that the earth has moved 107,000 km in that same hour.
    Then you need to account for the solar system has traveled 792,000 km in its orbit around the galaxy during that hour.
    Lastly, you also have to deal with the galaxy having moved 2.1million km through the universe in the same time.

    So you need to travel back an hour and account for the earth rotating ~1,600 km, the earth orbiting 107,000 km around the sun, the solar system orbiting the galaxy by 792,000 km, and the galaxy moving 2.1million km. You aren't merely time traveling for an hour, you're also on a spinning orb, orbiting a bigger orb (sun) that is orbiting a bigger orb (galactic center) that is zooming through an ever expanding universe.
    Maybe time travel exists and has been done, but you know what happened? Every single person that did it popped back into existence in the middle of nowhere, in the vast emptiness of space, and *promptly died. *
    That is unless they time traveled for one second instead of one hour, then they popped back into existence in the middle of the planet's core and promptly died.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI - Pre-orders and Edition information in ~games

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    Justify pre-ordering a digital product to me. Anyone. Make it make sense.

    Justify pre-ordering a digital product to me. Anyone. Make it make sense.

    33 votes

  19. Comment on Steam Next Fest June 2026 in ~games

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    Haven't had a moment to try much of anything yet, but did go through and download ten demos. I started to download a couple of others, then saw their size. 50GB for a demo is insane and while I...

    Haven't had a moment to try much of anything yet, but did go through and download ten demos. I started to download a couple of others, then saw their size. 50GB for a demo is insane and while I have the space and I know that some demos on Steam are the full game, but with a 2 hour time limit (not sure if that is the case here), it's still ridiculous. One of the 50GB games was a top down shooter, how/why it of all things needs that much space is utterly lost on me when much high end games are significantly smaller. Sounds unoptimized to the extreme.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Test your medical knowledge with daily clinical scenarios in ~health

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    Why are cookies a requirement to play?

    Why are cookies a requirement to play?

    3 votes