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  1. Comment on The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering. in ~life

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    "I told you bitches 3,000 years ago! Moderation is key!" The Buddha

    "I told you bitches 3,000 years ago! Moderation is key!"

    • The Buddha
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  2. Comment on Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower in ~tech

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    A baby who is full term/postnatal, I suppose. As opposed to a fetus or embryo, the usual recipients of a Dewalt Pro-Choice 3000 to the dome.

    A baby who is full term/postnatal, I suppose. As opposed to a fetus or embryo, the usual recipients of a Dewalt Pro-Choice 3000 to the dome.

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  3. Comment on Boy Kills World | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Going by the trailer, it's gonna be the whole movie. Side issue, how does Tildes do spoiler tags? I rewrote this post because >! !< doesn't appear to work here. Do you have to use the details tag?

    Going by the trailer, it's gonna be the whole movie.

    Side issue, how does Tildes do spoiler tags? I rewrote this post because >! !< doesn't appear to work here. Do you have to use the details tag?

    1 vote

  4. Comment on The lost version of Three Amigos in ~movies

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    That seems like a pretty reasonable way to film a comedy, money and time allowing. Get in the writing flow, play around, put down everything that seems good, then see it play out and pare down...

    That seems like a pretty reasonable way to film a comedy, money and time allowing. Get in the writing flow, play around, put down everything that seems good, then see it play out and pare down anything that doesn't work when seen as a whole piece. Just don't let yourself get too attached to a particular joke that isn't actually serving it's purpose and you can be fairly sure you didn't miss an opportunity for something great that you wouldn't have thought of if you tried to restrict yourself too much from the beginning.

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  5. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I'm in the 3rd chapter of Michael Cisco's Animal Money and it's kinda slow going because I keep feeling the need to go back and check previous pages to confirm that the person I think is narrating...

    I'm in the 3rd chapter of Michael Cisco's Animal Money and it's kinda slow going because I keep feeling the need to go back and check previous pages to confirm that the person I think is narrating is actually the current speaker. Each of the 5 main characters is described by other characters so some of the time you can tell when the narration has switched perspectives between one paragraph and the next, but I'm pretty sure I've found at least one spot where a character, identifiable by his speech pattern as described by another character, refers to himself having an injury that was earlier attributed to a different character, so now I don't even know. Maybe I need to make one of those grids like what you use to solve a logic puzzle. Maybe it won't help because the author intentionally described the characters incorrectly in one spot or another. At least one character is knowingly experiencing hallucinations, and others are either knowingly (suspectingly?) or unknowingly, plus something attributed to a hallucination maybe isn't really, so who even knows. It's entertaining, when I can make any progress.

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  6. Comment on Brad Pitt reuniting with Quentin Tarantino in final film ‘The Movie Critic’ in ~movies

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    Maybe it will be a live-action adaptation of The Critic. Pitt will play Jay Sherman, but all of his lines will be dubbed by Jon Lovitz.

    Maybe it will be a live-action adaptation of The Critic. Pitt will play Jay Sherman, but all of his lines will be dubbed by Jon Lovitz.

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  7. Comment on What books would you recommend for me? in ~books

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    Bulgakov's Master and Margarita combines deep philosophical/religious arguments with supernatural horror and slapstick, so maybe that would keep things light enough? Or try Gogol's short stories,...

    Bulgakov's Master and Margarita combines deep philosophical/religious arguments with supernatural horror and slapstick, so maybe that would keep things light enough?

    Or try Gogol's short stories, which frequently use absurdist humor (like a man's nose running away from him and having a better life without him)

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  8. Comment on What books would you recommend for me? in ~books

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    If you're not into scifi but want depressing, you should read Russian Lit! Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Gogol will tell you about the alienation and casual cruelty of Tsarist Russia! Solzhenitsyn and...

    If you're not into scifi but want depressing, you should read Russian Lit! Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Gogol will tell you about the alienation and casual cruelty of Tsarist Russia! Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov will tell you about the alienation and casual cruelty of Communist Russia (Solzhenitsyn also wrote nonfiction, if you want some real life horror)! Nabakov will take you inside the head of just flat out deranged weirdos!

    If you want some dark humor with your overwhelming despair, go for Bulgakov, Gogol, and Nabokov (although Dostyevsky and Solzhenitsyn have humorous bits too, probably also Tolstoy but I haven't read as much of his and it's been a long time).

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  9. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I'm about halfway through Jeff Vandermeer's Shriek: An Afterword, having just finished City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris. I'll read Finch next. I originally got the omnibus but had...

    I'm about halfway through Jeff Vandermeer's Shriek: An Afterword, having just finished City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris. I'll read Finch next. I originally got the omnibus but had to go find a separate copy of CoSaM when someone online pointed out the omnibus version is missing several stories (why?!). I feel like CoSaM was mostly just (mildly goofy) worldbuilding for what I hope is some actual information about the situation in Ambergris in Shriek/Finch. Just before this I read the Southern Reach Trilogy so I know it's unlikely I'll get all the answers.

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  11. Comment on A secret tunnel in a NYC synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers in ~humanities

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    Yeah my 23 yr old coworker, who from the questions he asks on a daily basis I can only assume has led a very sheltered life, came up to me yesterday to ask me if I'd heard about the Jewish human...

    Yeah my 23 yr old coworker, who from the questions he asks on a daily basis I can only assume has led a very sheltered life, came up to me yesterday to ask me if I'd heard about the Jewish human trafficking tunnels riddling New York City. I was in the middle of handling several time-sensitive issues so I just gave him a bland "wow that's crazy" but I guess we're gonna have to have the whole check-your-sources talk. The other day he was going on about aliens at a mall in Miami so he obviously lacks the ability to smell test things he sees on social media.

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  12. Comment on A secret tunnel in a NYC synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers in ~humanities

  13. Comment on Brain tissue on a chip achieves voice recognition in ~tech

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    Great, now it knows the voice of its oppressors

    Great, now it knows the voice of its oppressors

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Does anyone here have experience/opinions on induction hotplates? in ~food

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    I found one tri-ply griddle (with ceramic coating, which, eh) on Amazon. It would fit almost exactly over both burners with nothing outside the elements except the space between them. Which would...

    I found one tri-ply griddle (with ceramic coating, which, eh) on Amazon. It would fit almost exactly over both burners with nothing outside the elements except the space between them. Which would certainly help keep things even, at the expense of maybe not being able to fit quite as much food on it as I'd like. I'm more concerned about their "convenient" offset handles; I don't see how that wouldn't cause balance issues but I also don't plan on carrying it loaded with food. There are also some complaints in the reviews about the griddle not being completely flat which is a pretty big issue for induction (and for cooking pancakes), and at $250 it would need to be functionally perfect for me to justify the cost.

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  15. Comment on Does anyone here have experience/opinions on induction hotplates? in ~food

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    I saw that in my own searches and it looks like a nice unit, unfortunately, I really need two burners and it looks like all their other options are multiple-burner units in the $1000+ range, which...

    I saw that in my own searches and it looks like a nice unit, unfortunately, I really need two burners and it looks like all their other options are multiple-burner units in the $1000+ range, which I have neither space nor $ for. I'm not sure cramming 2 of them on top of a toaster oven would be a good idea, I can just see a stray jostle knocking a pot of boiling water to the floor.

  16. Comment on Does anyone here have experience/opinions on induction hotplates? in ~food

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    I was looking at the Duxtop 2-hob models, but I wasn't sure about their temp settings (They don't say the actual temps. You say 20 degree difference, which is less fine than what I'd like but...

    I was looking at the Duxtop 2-hob models, but I wasn't sure about their temp settings (They don't say the actual temps. You say 20 degree difference, which is less fine than what I'd like but better than my current cooker's 40-60 degree jumps) and I'm worried that the right hob being capped at 1000w is going to cramp my style since I sear a lot and prefer to use the right side because it's closer to what little counter space I have.

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  17. Comment on Does anyone here have experience/opinions on induction hotplates? in ~food

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    Yes, I want something I can place across both burners that will get as hot in the space between the burners as over them. I have a friend who visits on the weekends and he eats like he's about to...

    Yes, I want something I can place across both burners that will get as hot in the space between the burners as over them. I have a friend who visits on the weekends and he eats like he's about to go into hibernation and I'm tired of having to cook things like pork chops or pancakes in shifts in a skillet (to be fair, I also usually cook an extra piece or 2 for myself to eat later in the week to cut down on washing). But I have joint issues that make controlling heavy objects with just wrist/arm strength a literal pain so I'm trying to avoid getting a griddle that will be overly difficult to hand wash. Plus I don't have an oven big enough to season a griddle or even full size skillet. I suppose I could oil it and then leave it on the stove for a while but idk if that's going to get the oil baked in properly.

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  18. Does anyone here have experience/opinions on induction hotplates?

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    I live in what is basically a studio apartment in someone's basement with a little cobbled-together kitchen in a small room attached to my bed/sitting area. My cooking is done in a largish Cosori...

    I live in what is basically a studio apartment in someone's basement with a little cobbled-together kitchen in a small room attached to my bed/sitting area. My cooking is done in a largish Cosori convection toaster oven (mine) with a double-hob induction hotplate (kindly provided by landlord) sat on top. The hotplate is from Nutrisystem (not sure of model exactly) and it's definitely a step up from the electric one I brought from my old place (My kitchen was the laundry room there!), but over the last few years there's been a few things about it I don't like so I'm considering buying a new one.

    The main problem I have with it is the lack of specificity in the temperature settings: it goes 140°, 210°, 260°, 300°, 350°, 400°, and above that I never really use, but I often have trouble with something cooking too fast at, say, 300° but too slow at 260°. I'd like a device that lets me make smaller, (like maybe 5-10 degree) adjustments at the very least. Also there is the issue that if you go above a certain temp on one hob, it will dial down the other automatically to keep from going over max watts, but it also means I can't boil water on one while searing a steak on the other. Not sure if there's a way around that what with the limitations of current portable cooktop technology and American house wiring codes. As you may have gathered from my living arrangements, I need to keep the cost down to a reasonable <$300, preferably <$200.

    Because it needs to sit on top of my toaster oven, I need a side-by-side arrangement. I was gifted Amazon cards for Xmas so I'm hoping to find something on there to defray the cost, but if anyone can point me to the perfect solution somewhere else, I'm interested. Everything I've looked at there so far has preset temp settings and I can't tell if they are fine enough to be any improvement.

    Bonus points if anyone knows of an induction-compatible stovetop griddle that heats evenly and isn't heavy-ass cast iron.

    Thanks in advance for any advice!

    24 votes

  19. Comment on What was your first computer game? (Soundcheck question 2023) in ~games

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    Think Quick! You had to solve puzzles to get through a castle without getting eaten by weirdly smiling giant caterpillars called Slime Worms and being forced to dodge intestinal bacteria to climb...

    Think Quick!

    You had to solve puzzles to get through a castle without getting eaten by weirdly smiling giant caterpillars called Slime Worms and being forced to dodge intestinal bacteria to climb back out. You gathered magical items to create a Knight Golem you then use to defeat a terrible dragon by, like, kicking him in the side a couple times till he flies away. The End.

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  20. Comment on Why a 100-year supply? How Arizona got its famous, yet arbitrarily numbered groundwater rule. in ~enviro

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    Right, like this article clearly wants us to think the 100 yr rule is totally wacky, but I'm not sure it is. Do they not realize houses may be passed down through multiple generations?

    Right, like this article clearly wants us to think the 100 yr rule is totally wacky, but I'm not sure it is. Do they not realize houses may be passed down through multiple generations?

    7 votes