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  • Oh my god Chinese bitter melon. During lockdown, I wanted to try cooking something new every week and ended up with a Chinese bitter melon dish and, not only did the shallow fried Thai chilis in the recipe make the air unbreathable, but the entire dish was probably the most bitter thing I’ve ever tasted. Though I still get the feeling like it might be better in a different dish cooked by someone who is familiar with it and likes it. I don’t like disliking foods. Finally starting to be okay with olives now.



  • Jentu@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksI get it
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    11 days ago

    Some say that vfx editors and post houses within a 5 mile radius have a fire-department-esque alarm whenever it is muttered 3 times. They’ll show up to grab dailies, curse you for not figuring out a solution in pre-production, then begrudgingly fix the issues.







  • Jentu@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzLatitudes
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    I don’t think it’s implying the boundaries are singular climates. I think it’s more like “the variance of climates in this area are similar to the variance of climates in this other country”. It’s a bit hard to see, but there are names of cities labeled on the map as well. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but I’m inferring that Shanghai and Tokyo have similar climates to each other because they’re very close on the map in NC.

    Edit: They seem fairly similar?



  • Jentu@lemmy.mltoAntiwork@lemmy.mlFood is literally free
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    19 days ago

    I’d extend the thought a bit farther. Poorly designed roadways create bad drivers. Growing up in a household with violence increases the likelihood of that child perpetuating violence when they get older. Selectively bred animals aren’t the way they are because of their ideas or some innate feature, they’re the way they are because the system in which they exist creates them that way. The environment or system (large or small) has a major impact on the path individuals take.

    If concentrated power and corruption is rarely punished and always rewarded, it is a symptom of the system at-large.

    If creating cheap products which pollutes the environment makes a company 2 Billion, gets that company fined only 250 Million, essentially it makes it such that continuing polluting is just the cost of doing business. The system is creating the pollution. This specific system also has the side effect of limiting the competitiveness since a small business owner won’t initially make 2 Billion and cannot eat the cost of a 250 Million fine. All it does is consolidate power and control towards massive corporations that are supported by the government (since the government removes competition through fines, tariffs, or violence).




  • I don’t think the center line and top bar are the same thing. It’s probably just referring to the center of the front. Hypercardioid mics don’t perform well off-axis. The line after the quoted one is talking about plosives and how you can rotate the mic if they become an issue, assuming the diaphragm is pointing at your mouth.


  • The Whig party died because it failed to address the whig voters’ concerns over slave states. The Whigs in charge were too busy trying to find a moderate choice between traditional whig and democratic policies since the Whigs consisted of both northern and southern slave states and were too spineless to pick a side. Zachary Taylor (W), who had never voted or voiced his political opinion prior to running, won the nomination because whig voters in the convention thought being a middle ground candidate was enough to win. And he did win, but…

    After Zachary Taylor was president, Winfield Scott (W), who was running a diet-democratic campaign seeing how it worked with Taylor, was running against Franklin Pierce (D), a dark horse candidate who wasn’t even in the running until the 35th ballot at a stalled democratic convention. Scott, having lost the anti-slavery voters of the northern states, had an enthusiasm issue so big that people of the time regard this is one of the least exciting campaigns in presidential history. After Pierce won the election 254 electoral votes to 42, Free Soil and ex-Whig voters coalesced into the republican party. The whig party had been killed.

    If your party isn’t giving what people are pleading for or isn’t a real opposition party, it’s easier killing the party and starting fresh with something better than trying to lure the lost party back to your own values. And if we’re already putting forth all that effort to build up a new party when one dies, why not be cool and make a revolutionary vanguard party instead of filling the vacuum in bourgeois elections?