Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money

  • Rose56@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Techno killing all the other music genres + its not underground anymore! It’s not combining techno with house or trance, but making techno tracks with some house/trance elements in it. Not to mention that since it was played in big festivals, it lost its label underground.

  • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Fahrenheit is a perfectly cromulent unit of measure when the use case is for referencing human comfort.

    The rage it incites in others on the internet is just a side benefit. It’s hilariously awe-inspiring just how wound up some people get over a personal preference for a unit of measure. Mr. Fahrenheit should be proud of what he accomplished.

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      You feel like Fahrenheit is good enough because it’s what your used to. Just say that and it’s all good.

      I use Celsius for weather because a) I’m used to it and b) where I live, knowing the temperature relevant to the freezing point of water is extremely relevant when considering the weather. You use Fahrenheit for the weather only because you’re used to it. There’s no benefit other than that.

      I do use Fahrenheit for cooking, but not because it’s better in any way, but simply because I’m used to it. I know the effect setting the oven to 400, 350, 300, etc, will have. It’s not a better unit of measure, I’m just used to it, and in the context of using my oven, it’s not worthwhile to me to learn the equivalents in Celsius.

      It’s ok to say you prefer something simply because that’s what you’re used to using. But Celsius is a better unit of measure, just you’re not used to it. You know what 70F, 80F, 90F, 100F feels like from experience, ie. you’re used to using that scale. It’s fine… just weird to say something is better simply because it’s what you’re accustomed to.

      • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I never said Fahrenheit was better, just that it was perfectly acceptable for use as a measure of human comfort.

        I’m not going to get into what I usually go into because I only commented to answer OPs question, not start a(nother) internet flame war. A lot of people who use Celsius go absolutely NUTS when someone so much as hints that Fahrenheit has some usefulness.

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          It’s a deprecated unit of measure. In a lot of forums like this one, there’s a lot of people that work in the technology field and we’re always annoyed by people that insist on sticking with something that’s deprecated because people invent rationalizations for why the thing they’re used to is better. I use Fahrenheit for cooking but I’m not telling people I do that because it’s better in some why, I know I’m using a deprecated unit of measure solely because I’m used to it.

      • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The problem with Celsius and it’s relation to the freezing and boiling point of water is that water is a rare chemical that is less dense as a solid so it will freeze AND boil at different temperatures depending on pressure.

        Freezing temperature isn’t 0 at 1500 meters and it doesn’t boil at 100 either.

        Edit to add examples:

        On Mount Everest water boils at 72 degrees

        In Denver, Colorado water boils at 94 degrees

          • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Nobody ever said you did, but billions of people don’t live at sea level and because of that water doesn’t boil or freeze at 0 and 100 for them.

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              Do you think water boils at 212F at high altitudes? No matter which temperature scale is used, the “billions of people” living at high altitudes need to understand how pressure affects the boiling point of water.

              I think the billions of people you imagine living on top of Mount Everest understand they may need to make adjustments to cooking instructions regardless of what temperature scale they’re using. If they don’t, using Fahrenheit won’t solve their problems.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The issue is not in the accuracy, ease, and convenience of describing and being compatible with the human experience. It has never been that.

      The issue is Fahrenheit’s/imperial units’ compatibility and division factor of 10’s compatibility with other units, and all of those scales and units being consistent and predictable.

      It’s literally just two philosophies of going about seeing the world.

      To disclose my bias, I was brought up with imperial units. The problem in most discussions of these two ideas facing off is that nobody discusses the real topic: The pros and cons of unification vs. the rote arbitrariness of the human existence and whether or not we want to stand behind yet again another self-centered description of the universe.

      Measuring horses with hands is fucking weird, but because we experience horses from our own perspective, which is limited to our physical body, measuring in hands is a really easy way to understand that unit of measurement, as opposed to decimals of meters.

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        I was watching a video just before where an american measured two impact craters on a piece of steel, read off some gibberish fractional inches for each one then commented “my math isnt great, but i think that one is about double”. My dude, your calipers read off approximately 5mm and 10mm, your life would be so much easier if you toggled it to metric units.

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        However, I must point out, Celsius is not metric. It’s been adopted as the step-child of SI, but it’s not metric. You can’t meaningfully multiply and divide degrees Celsius; 100°C is not ten times hotter than 10°C Celsius. Sure. you can use the metric prefixes, just like i could measure things in kiloinches, that doesn’t make it metric. It’s just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit, and people have to make arguments regarding water and life to try to pretend otherwise. True, it’s officially defined in terms of Kelvin, but then, so is Fahrenheit.

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    Calling Buddhism or Confucianism not a religion is a political claim which the speakers usually have zero knowledge of and I’m sick of it. The history of what is religion in China from the republic onwards with the very Protestant understanding of what is a world religion is very important to understand this question. But most people either claim this for their hippy means or to be derogatory

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      I mean, it really comes down to how you define religion. A lot of people’s conception of religion is grounded in the Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and other traditions don’t fit neatly into that framework. It’s useful to identify the Christian/Abrahamic lens through which various traditions have been historically seen and to reexamine whether the actual reality is in line with the picture we have of them. Whether such traditions are ultimately classified as religions or not is semantic, but it’s worthwhile to examine them as they are and to question assumptions about them.

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        You’re 100% right. Religious studies went through exactly what you described. Thinking of religion as Abrahamic, opening up to world religions through the former lens, opening up to more that would have been considered cults or bad, then now I think quite open to most religions. Defining religion is a boring but important part of the field that many monographs feel it’s their duty to do.

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    That exclusive content in physical games is a cruel disservice to late discoverers. “Exclusive” content should just be delayed public release content instead - something for the early adopters, but not unavailable to people years later.

    Even just the normal game, if they’re discontinuing production, should be made available as a digital purchase (including STL and print-ready files) for people coming along years later. We have the technology to not screw over potential future fans, and it’s not that expensive to keep a small website running - especially if they’re still going as a company. Looking at you, CMON Games.

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    The “phones are bad and suck your life away” crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it’s easy to waste time on them, but that’s just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You’re a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It’s actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don’t need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.

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    The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.

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    People will all change. In the past, I strongly opposed my wife’s purchase of luxury goods, such as LV handbags. And we even quarreled because of such matters. Looking back now, it really wasn’t necessary at all. So, people’s concepts will indeed change.

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      LV handbags (or anything they make) are so gaudy and broadcast a certain airheadedness that I’d also struggle to see my spouse buy those. But you’re right, it doesn’t make any difference in the bigger scale of things.

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    Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and tacky and will never be as good as previous gen flip phones. Just won’t. Sorry not sorry.

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    Blessing someone for a sneeze is the most useless human interaction I know of and we should do away with it.

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    We should be using soap and water after popping, toilet paper alone is barbaric

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        Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.

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          Ikr, bidet yes, I don’t have one but I have used one and its better. Soap though sounds like a way to have a really dry butt.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          If you ever make your own bathroom or get your choice in the matter, go full french: get the separate porcelain fixture that has separate hot and cold valves, with the soap and towel.

          I have a Toto seat and, while it’s nice, the stream is small, leaking potential poo water down your legs onto the inner edges of the seat is… (It doesn’t seem to happen, but still), and the internal warm water tank is small.

          I used my ex’s much cheaper one a bunch when we were dating, and his was cold only but like a garden hose flow rate. It was so fucking fast and felt so much nicer. But didn’t oscillate, have aim, pressure, heated seat, dryer, or any of that stuff…

          Plus, without the soap, I don’t really want to use a towel to dry my bits off.

          So ideally, it would be temperature adjustable, PORCELAIN AND NOT PLASTIC, high flow/adjustable, be an actual bidet where you can fit your hands down there to wash yourself with soap and water, and then have a designated towel so that you eliminate more if not all tp usage.

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          They’re are cheap bidets out there, and the are premium ones. The premium ones (like toto) are worth it, but I’d start with an inexpensive one to see if you enjoy it first.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
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          It’s exactly what it sounds like in this context. Think of a garden hose attachment with a trigger. You point it at the right spot, pull the trigger, and wash your bum clean.

          • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            My mental image is in the shower… Yeah, actually, why not just use the shower with a cooter cleaner instead of a bum gun? Or… Are we talking about the same thing?

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              Well a bum gun is specifically designed for the job, but yeah it’s probably the same idea as what you’re thinking of.

              You could use the shower but the shower heads are not typically installed next to the toilet.

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        You just gave me a really good idea for a portable bidet actually. I normally use a little squeeze lotion bottle but it doesn’t have the required water power… Now I gotta find some of those tiny water guns we used to have as kids.

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      I sort of agree, but I also poop 5times a day. That would take up a lot of my time.

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            Some people can’t see well from birth… doesn’t mean you can’t get glasses, or in your case go see a doctor (and get a poop infusion to fix your gut flora XD ).

            But seriously, it could be worth checking out. Maybe you have a tumor or cancer or one of those beowold smeagals or whatever

            Edit: bezoar. Seriously it could be curable and you could poop once a day. Think of the free time for activities!

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              I also poop several times a day. Went and saw a doctor and he said “yup, totally common, and nothing to worry about.” Normal humans poop between 1-6x a day. Pretty crazy that there can be such a variance.

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      No idea if it’s barbaric but it certainly is not as clean as it should be. At least, I think so.

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    1 year ago

    Hard agree, fancy cakes are all looks, taste is secondary.

    Give me an ugly tasty cake every damn time!