“Their turd sandwich has vegetables in it” doesn’t excuse the fact that they took the ham sandwich off the menu entirely.

Yeah, I don’t know what the US malfunction with KFC is. Obviously capitalism, but beyond that.

City, but a small one. And yeah, food was good, but the floor and average were both lower there.

I moved to New Zealand six months ago, and I have had exactly one truly bad meal since I’ve been here. I haven’t eaten any Maori food, so I guess all the food I’ve eaten has been from another country.

The one that surprised me the most was KFC. We moved from one state away from Kentucky, and we had to come here to have truly good KFC.

I was expecting the Chinese food to be good here, but it’s really good. So is the Korean, Indian, and Malaysian food. The fish and chips are good. The burgers are great, even from McDonald’s. The absolute best was Filipino food from a tiny little restaurant in a random strip mall near Sylvia Park. That food changed my life.

In fairness, I have had a couple of “fine” meals—as in, “well, nothing special, but it was fine.”

The one bad meal was Pad Thai made by Thai people at a Thai restaurant down by the beach. It was just way too sweet, which makes me wonder if they saw me and made it “for a white guy” or something.

I feel like if you’re writing the sentence “an optional, paid version of our browser that offers Brave […] without its extra features,” you need to sit back and take a long, hard look at yourself.

Ruby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.

That’s the fact that blows me away about segregation.

“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”

Animators also tend to take a lot of shortcuts, though; especially when it comes to backgrounds in shots. I could definitely believe that some animator was like, “ok, we need a science-y looking decoration back here” and so they went on a royalty-free stock 3D asset website and downloaded this one based only on what it looked like.

I feel like this comment is written for a different post…?

A large number of culinary fruits aren’t even botanical fruits, yes. Most of them are botanical berries (and some things that aren’t botanical berries are still culinary berries). Conflating the two linguistic domains causes lots of problems!

They probably don’t even produce the bottles. They probably just put the water in the bottles.

Tomatoes are both a fruit (botanically) and a vegetable (culinarily). “Vegetable” doesn’t have a botanical definition, so the old aphorism about tomatoes “not being a vegetable” is trying to conflate terms from two different domains and hoping you don’t notice.

Nah, RUDs happen, and everyone knows it. It even happens to NASA—in fact, if I recall correctly, the only major spaceflight operator it hasn’t happened to is ULA. SpaceX even publicly released a video supercut of all their explosions on some anniversary or another. The risk of this is built in to the entire industry; this won’t change anything, and probably shouldn’t.

Billionaire vanity spaceflight shouldn’t be a thing, but this isn’t what should change that.

iirc, paintball marker is slightly translucent, right? So maybe like…a sticker?

I know the answer is because the stock market is based entirely on feelings and doesn’t have any basis in reality.

I mean, that’s phrased really about as well as anyone could phrase it. You could also say that there are two Americas: the 1% and everyone else. The stock market is a measure of how the 1% are doing. When Bondi said “the Dow is over 50000!” in that senate hearing, she was basically just saying, “the rich people think this administration is great, so you should too.”

I don’t think it’s an inherently gendered thing, as others have said; though I do think that western society definitely “allows” men to turn their brains off more than it allows women to.

For instance, I like to just turn my brain off while I’m on a walk; but women can’t really do that as they have to be doing constant threat assessment on every man who comes into their field of vision. Over time that sort of thing compounds and trains men that it’s ok to just not think while they’re out and about, while it trains women that they have to have constant awareness.

Another thing is that a women who doesn’t appear to be preoccupied or busy is usually branded as an “airhead” in popular culture, while a man who seems similarly relaxed is called a “thinker.” Another thing that compounds and trains men that we’re allowed to think, but women have to worry.

Also worth noting, women are typically put in the position of caring for others; meaning that their mental consideration (and thus their anxiety) has to grow to encompass those under their care as well. Men, on the other hand, are often relegated to “breadwinner,” which means that they don’t have to think as much about children, aging relatives, etc. (think about the “fun dad/mean mom” archetype you see in commercials, sitcoms, and so forth). This is presented as the default for adult women in western society, which teaches young women from a young age that that’s how they have to act.

All of these combine and reinforce one another, and I think probably result in the gender disparity you’re talking about.

Could be where your VPN is hosted. If your traffic appears to be coming from (for instance) an AWS data center, it might appear to be coming from a known spam source (since there are some spammers which have used AWS). The instance you’re on might just be using an overzealous spam block IP list.

So you’re saying that despite them excluding them now, they’ll include them later, but it doesn’t matter because it’s open source…?

I mean, I don’t disagree that it doesn’t matter, but why would they go to all the effort of excluding them now just to include them later?

Sure, but the more you pack into a small probe that’s explicitly supposed to get wet and hot, the more likely something inside is going to dramatically fail and leach some sort of terrible something into your food and cost you hundreds of dollars to replace every time it died. A bimetallic strip wrapped in teflon, completing a simple circuit, and plugged in by a heat-resistant cable to your range/hob/cooktop would be easier, cheaper, and less likely to kill you.

Rice cookers do this, in a very simple way! They operate under four basic facts:

1. Assuming you’ve added the correct amount of water, rice is cooked when all the water has boiled away.

2. Water’s temperature can’t go over 100°C. After that, any additional energy goes toward boiling it away.

3. The temperature of cooked rice and air, without water, can go over 100°C.

4. Metals of different elements expand at different rates under different temperature conditions.

So the water gets up to temperature and begins to boil. As it boils away, it cooks the rice. Once it’s all gone, the temperature of the cooked rice (and thus the cooker) begins to rise above 100°; when it does, one half of a strip of two metals touching the cooker expands further than the other, bending the strip, breaking a contact, and opening the switch, which turns off the heating element.

Expanding beyond this very simple mechanism is absolutely possible! But the more configurable you want the temperature to be, the more expensive it gets. I bet the simplest way to do this would be to have a few different little probes you can clip to the inside of the pan, one for each temperature you might want to keep a pan at. Inside each would be a bimetallic strip calibrated to that temperature.

Honestly I wonder if this is why the amendment is being suggested. AI products in particular are likely to be interacting with a lot of websites that will be required to verify ages, and I’m sure California in particular is loath to make waves that might throw that revenue stream into doubt.