On today’s episode of “All My Trivial Enjoyments Are Killing Me”

I’m really dubious on the vinegar thing. Your stomach is naturally way more acidic than vinegar, so I don’t see how vinegar can cause harm. And it’s not like Japanese food involves taking shots of the stuff before each meal. If you’re referring to vinegar in rice, it is a very small amount all things considered.

Homophobia is not allowed, in jest or otherwise.

See: the covid-19 food market crash where farmers poured bleach on meat and vegetables, burned grains, and poured milk into sewers because they didn’t want to sell at a low price, and hoped that by artificially limiting supply, the price will go back up.

This is the same strategy that DeBeers diamonds or oil cartels use. But because food is perishable and can’t be hoarded like oil and diamonds, they “had” to destroy it.

Iron man

Ah yes. The halting problem of English.

Actually, are languages Turing complete? I feel like they’re complex and interactive enough to be. Searching it up only gave results about programming languages, not human languages.

Just make it open source and self-hostable. Then you don’t have to waste server time for people requesting sus pictures of amogus!

Russia didn’t pass a law saying than anyone could kill Ukrainians with hunting rifles.

Russia didn’t pass a law preventing their own citizens from receiving humanitarian aid from Ukraine.

Russia didn’t pass a law saying that any surrender to Ukraine is punishable by death.

I wonder who did.

Debated more NATO shills on Lemmy

Which is ironic because I remember one major thing back in 2012 was that while the LEDs were more expensive, they pay for themselves first because you spend less on electricity and also air conditioning due to less waste heat, but also because you’d go through more incandescent and CFLs before you have to replace an LED bulb.

Also, the corset in the community pic. Dead giveaway. No one who respects women and want to engage in informative discussions with them is using that as the icon, as their first choice, for their community.

Lemmy.ml is not the main instance. There is no main instance. That’s the point of the fediverse.

Related: In the West, body modifications like tattoos and piercings make you less likely to get through job interviews and are generally seen as very unprofessional. This is because they are associated with, one, indigenous people and people of colour, and two, poor people.

In contrast, other body modifications like nose jobs, facelifts, fillers, botox, etc are done mostly by rich white people, so they are seen favourably.

If there’s no way to prevent a horrible side effect, then it’s just as bad as if that effect was intentional.

the cause of poverty is not this, but the so-called neoliberalism that completely distorted this original idea due to the corruption, greed and selfishness of an elite, which enriches itself by cost and the work of the population. It is the continuation of feudalism.

That’s… the result of capitalism.

I love to use the methanol example to illustrate this: Methanol by itself isn’t that toxic, no more toxic than regular ethanol. But once metabolized in your body, it becomes formaldehyde and formic acid, and about 5-10 ml of pure methanol can turn into enough of those to kill you. So the methanol molecule itself is fairly benign, but you still shouldn’t drink it.

Bees: everything in the center but also honey.

New tech or not, I’ll believe it when I see it in widespread use. 101 times bitten by battery grifts, 102nd time shy.

As with any new battery tech, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Meat industry that wants flesh produced as efficiently as possible. It’s the same reason we’re so good at mass semen extraction and artificial insemination of animals. That’s not a joke, the tech for that is way more advanced than it deserves to be.

“Stolen our designs”

That you don’t even have lol. You even admitted that the Western competitors are still scrambling to bring products to market.