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  • The soil is rich in carbon, but poor in nitrogen. The air is rich in nitrogen, but poor in carbon. PLANTS: we'll absorb nitrogen from the soil and carbon from the air!

    Intelligent design indeed.

  • Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed
  • Preservation is an invasive and destructive process. Recreating the experience of watching 'The Daily Show' in the 90s or early '00s is already impossible. Language and culture mildew and rot just like leather and wood.

    EDIT: People don't seem to understand what I'm talking about. Even the people who are responding in good faith seem confused. That's on me. So I thought I'd try to clarify with an example.

    Take the Mona Lisa. Perhaps one of the most preserved objects in history. It's so well preserved that it's impossible to see. Sure, you can look at it, but you won't see it. Taking a picture of the painting is encouraged, but you can't get a look at it in your camera roll either.

    If you saw the actual painting hanging on a friend's wall, your first thought would probably not be "what a masterpiece", but "why didn't they remove the default print that came with the frame"? If you go to Paris, you can wait in line to have the "Mona Lisa experience" but the painting you saw wasn't hanging on the wall, what you'll see is the Mona Lisa you brought with you.

    (yes, I stole this example from 'were in hell' youtube channel)

  • [QUESTION] What are you favorite preps/hacks/tricks/recipes involving a freezer?
  • Cooks know thyself! If you're not the kind of cook who makes stock, having a bunch of chicken wing tips in the freezer will not make you the kind of cook who makes stock. It'll just make you into the kind of cook who stores your leftovers before you toss them.

  • Trump ‘To Appoint Musk’ To Gov’t Efficiency Role If Elected
  • I'm getting really sick of the "conventional wisdom" that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.

    Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.

  • The real story on the Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman crossover with Star Wars that DC and Lucasfilm were cooking up (and why it didn't happen)
  • I'm forever amused by people opposed to silly comic book nonsense like this because it's unrealistic or breaks in-universe logic.

    People who can be credulous about laser swords but get upset when someone uses a hyperdrive as a torpedo are like religious people who ignore 3/4 of the stuff from their faith but get real militant about the three rules they care about.

  • Am I Legally Allowed to Get Married in Israel?
  • Israel is an apartheid pseudo-democracy who resembles her neighbors Syria and Jordan in governance more than the US and Europe.

    I was going to make a point about how this persisted into peace-time and we shouldn't forget when the fighting stops, but there has been no peace since 1947 because colonization is violence.

  • Judge weighs whether to dismiss movie armorer’s conviction in fatal set shooting by Alec Baldwin
  • I think this should be the standard for all gun usage. You must have a licensed armorer present before anyone can handle a firearm.

    Think it's funny? The entire American Film industry has only lost three people to firearms accidents. Anybody using firearms in law enforcement, military, or even just privately should be embarrassed by their pitiful attempts at safety culture.

  • Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies are a reminder of how easily your devices can be hacked – here’s how to make sure they are safe.
  • The individual explosives were probably 15 or 20 grams of material that could be disguised as part of the case, components, or battery. Plastic explosives can be molded, painted, and wired to resemble almost anything.

    IDK for sure, it could be as you describe, but I doubt it because the pagers were in place for months and many of them were likely disassembled/repaired in that time.

  • It's because they read it.
  • Just a tiny push-back here: The political philosophy of the founding of America did depend on the 18th Enlightenment, but it also has roots in the 17th century Protestantism of the English Civil War.

    Specifically ideals like "Equality before the State", separation of Church and State, and universal (male) suffrage, have a direct through-line to anti-monarchist, anti-Catholic, radical Puritanism.

    I'm no David Barton, but America didn't fall out of a coconut tree.

  • How do pagers work?

    In recent events, I learned that some pagers only have receivers. How are discrete messages sent to these devices? How is it authenticated? How do they know the device got the message?

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    Autolyse and stand mixers.

    I have a recipe that calls for a dough to be autolysed (long bulk ferment while stretching and folding the dough). I'm fortunate to have access to a stand mixer. Is their any advantage to doing the autolyse? Should I just kneed it in the mixer to save time?

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    Is Trump eligible to vote in November?

    When Florida changed it's law to allow ex-felons to vote, I remember reading that the legislature put as many roadblocks as they could. Felons must complete all sentences, fines, and restitution before they can vote.

    So any sentence or sanction that can't be fulfilled by November should exclude him from Florida's rolls, right?

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    Which is it, Mr. Trump?
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    The incompetent leading the corrupt
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    No rest for the wicked
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    The stages of understanding evolution

    Yes, I think a creationist is closer to the truth than the social Darwinist. We can at least agree that the former does far less harm to society.

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    Locker Room Talk
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    How many have found practical uses for large language text models in your real life?

    My calendar application changed the method to add events and broke my workflow.

    My workaround: I typed basic schedule info into Perplexity and have it convert the data to a CSV file and import it.

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    I finally did it: ruined a dish with too much garlic

    So I put 4 cloves in a small batch of salsa. I did roast them with a butane torch and thought that would make the flavor a little milder, nope.

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    Useful idiot

    Conservatives joke that progressives just blow with the wind from one controversy to the next. But I can't help but notice the anti-Biden "left" shifted hard from Genocide Joe to Bad debate Performance without skipping a beat or looking back.

    Almost like the people stoking these fires don't really care about left issues at all.

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    I don't read my replies

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