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3·11 months agoIs anyone else using invidio.us type Firefox plug-ins to deal with this? I don’t know if it’s better for privacy, but I like the illusion of sticking it to the man. And the lack of ads.
2·1 year agoSorry about that, mine is working fine. Here’s the original.
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php
2·1 year agoIt’s hard to beat Big Black’s version “The Model” in this regard, but award for the most esoteric would have to be Atom and His Package covering The Mountain Goats “Going to Georgia”, both great and totally different songs.
6·1 year agoGreat article, definitely need to be thinking more about how to communicate, rather than just saying what’s happening. Which is not really working.
Someone beat me to Four Winds but …
40’ - Franz Ferdinand
504 - Old 97s
1970 In Aspic - Robyn Hitchcock
2 Time - Architecture in Helsinki
and an old number-based favourite:
88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails
2·1 year agoSo uh, I’m more of a DDG a problem when I got it, then fix it that way kind of expert, so I don’t exactly remember. I looked in the LS rules, looked in my browser history, can’t find it. I remember only being annoyed because it was because I had to switch to safari to buy something, and with no blockers to save me, I kept getting these system-wide notifications. Me being an idiot is one of the reasons I asked the question if people were updating for security reasons.
I’ll probably regret saying, but I’ve been running High Sierra forever, and plan to keep doing so. Every time I’ve upgraded, I’ve run into problems and either lost the software I bought, or upgraded to the new versions which took away features I needed and added ones I didn’t (looking at you, Scrivener).
I run Little Snitch and generally feel pretty secure with that. Caught an annoying notification attack just the other day. Not sure why upgrading to a new system is needed, but happy to have my ignorance un-ignored.
5·1 year agoAs to the first, it’s not the Simpsons, but may be either Alpine for You (Popeye short, 1951) or The Mouse That Roared (1959). If you don’t want to go down a rabbit hole for many hours, do NOT click the following link. This was the result of great obsession, and I’m very impressed. Good luck on your dataset!
13·1 year agoUpvoted for correct use of word ‘grok’, but definitely want to learn more about agent-based modelling. If for no other reason than truth inoculation is one of the more vital battles of our time.
Evidence for: Constantine and JCVD Evidence against: Waterworld.
To be fair, though, the greatness of the Universal logo as a flooded world almost makes up for the whole movie. So yes, thesis proved.
1·1 year agoHaven’t read that, sounds like an interesting take. Thanks for that. I love anything about how ‘order’ was established, since it seems like a given today, but it definitely isn’t.
1·1 year agoGood question, not sure I’ve got an answer. Just a term I’ve heard a lot, always sounded like it was doing something on the molecular level. Which I guess everything is. I think it’s this. When you stretch the milk, you’re trying to (about) double it in volume with tiny bubbles (microfoam). If the bubbles are too big, that’s foaming the milk. I think. Lance will better explain it. But foam like that is the way it’s done in most of Italy (from my limited experience). It’s just a different way of doing it.
I, too, was like you. Until one day, I learned the secret …
No, seriously. Lance Hedrick is great about how to make good foam and all the secrets to pouring.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BqZlXENXW-WG5pS_k-xsFu-xXLy1XVZ
Just looking at it though I must ask, what kind of milk? It does seem a bit foamy, and I get that with certain commercial milks, and less so with raw milk.
Also, it was a huge help (my friend talk me this, not Lance) to bleed the wand before using it, really let a bunch of steam out. There’s a kind of balance when you get it right, that if you texture without bleeding, it’s too foamy, and with too much, you have to add air while you’re stretching the milk.
And that’s exactly how much you can know by looking at a picture. The most important thing I’ve found over the years is milk and coffee taste good.
I wrote a great reply that was brilliant and generous and had all the clever bits, and then Lemmy deleted it.
You’re right, clan-based practices have had and continue to have struggles both with modernisation and basic human rights. They are not idealised Rousseauean societies. But the author is basically saying that this shift in marriage practices is the sole contributor to Western science. It’s a stretch to be sure, and it doesn’t even have the evidence right.
Here’s a critique with quotes from people way smarter than me.
The article talks about how "the men of the family stayed in their places of birth for life, while the women left the family to live with other groups. "
I thought this was interesting because I recently heard a radio 4 broadcast about how the ban on cousin marriage by the Catholic Church led to the Western world of technology, advancement and individualism. It seemed bogus since I knew about some tribes in the Americas that practiced exactly this kind of pairing outside the tribe, and this study confirms that. So it wasn’t just bogus because it mistook correlation for causation, it was bogus on the evidence as well!
Link to podcast of programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sh8z
Wiki on book, The WEIRDest People in the World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World
3·1 year agoI’m sorry to say just a bad photo on my part, I should have lightened it up before I posted it. Very embarrassing. I promise it’s much nicer in real life and taste good too.
Edited photo. Is that cheating?
Great song, thanks for posting this.
Great article, with lots of historical explanations on the theory of how these lenses work, and how optics works in general. Learned a bit today. Thanks!