Mine used to be that Bill Hicks faked his death and created Alex Jones in order to sell out. Doesn’t seem very low-stakes any more
Joy murdered Bing Bong in Disney’s Inside Out (2015).
That a lot of non-american food is rebranded to use tacky american names to get people to try it. Too many americans are afraid to try “foreign” food, but will happily try “Cajun Jim’s Cornballs”. A couple I can think of are Aioli to “Garlic Mayo” and Chicken Satay becoming “Peanut Butter Chicken”. Sounds like mm mm good home american cookin’ to me, course I’ll try some.
Out of curiosity, what are Hush Puppies outside of the US? I mean, it’s corn batter deep fried, seems right up our alley.
Would this be the same s ‘corn fritters’ in Canada?
Corn meal, egg, salt+pepper. Add water until self-supporting balls can be formed. Drop 30mm balls into hot grease.
Like that?
1375.99 Pesos
¡¡¡LLAME AHORA!!!
That sounds absolutely vile.
It’s actually really delicious
It’s basically just deep fried corn bread.
I guess so? The ones I’m used to have whole corn kernels too
Dammit I’m hungry now :p
Tooth fish doesn’t sound very appetizing, does it?
Multinational conglomerates regularly rename their products worldwide to try to cater to local tastes
Yeah, I was going to say, we get more localized names here in the non-USA. If it’s USian, it’s usually called Dove, Cheetos, etc., not “Cajun Jim’s Cornballs”. That honestly doesn’t sound like it’d sell at all for local tastes based on the name alone.
Aioli isn’t garlic mayonnaise, it’s minced garlic cloves emulsified into olive oil, sometimes with a bit of lemon juice. The modern sauce usually called Aioli is actually garlic may made to sound more up market and “traditional”. It’s kindof the inverse of your point but perversely done for the same reason, to get Americans to eat it.
“Big Grass” truly runs the beef industry.
If you count corn as grass then yes. I would agree
So few cattle rely on by grass tho
Depends on the country. Where I am it’s virtually 100% grass fed.
If we turned all of global beef demand into grass-fed, we’d literally decimate our output because there’s not enough grazable land.
Even land categorized as agriculturally grazable is often not realistically grazable (think mountains, etc)
We didn’t domesticate corn. Corn domesticated us.
we might even become corn, down to the molecules.
Fun fact: the Native Americans that originally created the various and sundry types of corn that we have called themselves, “Walking Maize People.” We’ve analyzed their bones and found that the specific type of carbon that corn “tags” as its own ion, made up about 30-40% of the carbon in their bones, and presumably their bodies.
Due to the fact that corn is added to almost everything that is in the US food chain, when similar analysis has been done to average US citizens, more like 60-70% of the carbon in our bodies comes from corn. We “paint” fruits and veggies with corn, we add corn as sugar to all soda, we add corn to some breads for no reason. We, the citizens of the US, are walking corn.
i was referring to the rick and morty episode, where they stumbled upon a planet that was made of corn down to molecules.
I grow and sell weed/grass, I don’t think that our industry is profitable enough to influence the beef industry.
The majority of US federal agriculture subsidies go to corn production, the majority of corn production is for live stock feed. Anybody who brings up spending that money on vegetables or basically anything other than corn gets silenced pretty quick
The battery level your phone shows is just made-up bullshit. It’s roughly accurate of course, but they can’t really check how much charge is in the battery with 1:100 accuracy, so it just counts down at a roughly constant rate making adjustments to the rate based on rough measurements of broadly whether the battery is “real full” or “mostly full” or “almost empty” or whatever.
You can get a voltage sensor that is accurate to three decimal points for literal cents, so yes, your phone does know how much energy is left in the battery. It also has current sensors, so knows how much energy is being used.
It does not know the capacity loss of the cell over time. That is why you should let the battery go completely dead and then charge it to max capacity as this will recalibrate the coulomb meter on the battery manager - batman
My understanding is that happens constantly as the battery is charged and discharged.
It tries but the value is floating until it actually has a full charge cycle. There is no way to know what the entire voltage range is. You’re getting into how efficient the chemistry is over time and that is impossible to measure. It can be estimated, but that is all theoretical and not real. When the battery is fully discharged, the time, temperature, and current can be used to determine Coulombs and that is the actual energy capacity.
I’m not an expert, but I have built many circuits. My main experience here is in reverse engineering some gaming hardware that had an advanced battery management chip from Diode Semiconductors. That had such a Coulomb battery meter. The board was a 3 layer PCB and I took that as a challenge. The batman chip was also a small ball grid array (pins are inaccessible on the back side. I didn’t have xrays when I did the first trace of all pins, so I had to fully understand the chip to trace all connections only using the vias. I think I have a chip or two in parts drawers that do the same thing, but I never built anything with them, or at least haven’t yet.
Preach sibling
Idk how multiple super assertive people all got the idea that “voltage = battery percent” and all wanted to yell it at me the same time lol
I don’t think I am going to take confident proclamations about how it works from someone who thinks “voltage” translates to “how much energy is left in the battery”.
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-903-how-to-measure-state-of-charge
I don’t really know how this stuff works, that’s why it is my conspiracy theory instead of me just giving fun facts. But, I don’t think you know how this stuff works either.
It sounds like coulomb counting (current sensors, as you said) is often the method. Personally, I suspect there’s a decent amount of bullshit inserted into that to make it look “normal” when people are looking at how the number behaves, at the expense of accuracy. You might move your phone from cold to warm for example, and the usable energy in the battery might increase when that happens (or something) but it’s definitely not going to show your battery percent going up, even if it could detect it properly which I don’t think it can. Whether to say that means it’s “bullshit” is I guess a matter of opinion.
Phones don’t use lead acid batteries, genius. I don’t know why you think that study is relevant.
Also, your phone knows what the temperature of the battery is, and almost certainly takes that into account, although this affects the output voltage but not the amount of energy stored.
Li-ion is worse. I looked up a few different articles, I just kind of picked that one at random because I didn’t want to spend more time on it. This one is pretty succinct about it:
“This method is not suitable for some other cell chemistries like lithium-ion, which has a negligible change in its voltage throughout most of its charge/discharge cycle.”
Which is why the phone also monitors charge and discharge, or current through the battery.
My new conspiracy theory is that a gang of people have teamed up to try to wind me up on this particular topic in what was supposed to be a lighthearted nonsense-question to which I gave an appropriate nonsense-answer.
You’re the only one who actually did arrive at something which is pretty much the actual answer (“coulomb counting”), although you keep mucking it up by saying things like you “can get a voltage sensor” to get the energy left in the battery, or “current through the battery” when the battery is the only part current does not flow through during discharge, or by making up wild random guesses that something is “almost certainly” taken into account. Just take all that extra stuff away and stick with “the phone monitors discharge” and you’ll be pretty much right.
Hopefully we can put this whole endeavor behind us now, and go back to talking about Chipotle and chemtrails.
It’s very clear from this exchange that you don’t know dick about electronics.
It’s hard because it’s not a perfect linear relationship between battery voltage and battery percentage. When the battery is 80% full, the voltage hardly changes at all as it drains. But it can change significantly with unrelated factors, like age and temperature. So they have to use the integral of current consumption to calculate the battery level. There are other tricks, too, like using temperature to check battery percentage (when the battery is charging, it heats up if it’s nearly full), and some lithium ion batteries have a third wire for measuring the temperature.
My brother in Christ, may I show you the glory of The Multimeter? You can check voltage of any battery or even individual cells if you can isolate them.
That’s not a conspiracy. That’s literally how it works.
I mean… It’s closer to 100 bins than like 3 bins as described.
The battery has a capacity reading down to the milivolts and the phone knows how much power it is using, which changes dynamically to meet the usage. The remaining battery level is determined by the voltage available at the current consumption. There is some averaging involved based on your usage profile.
So your battery level is accurate at a given time, but changes based on what you are doing and what you have running. So your battery will drain faster if you are playing an intensive game, but will last far longer if you have nothing unessential running and the screen is in sleep mode.
Apps like Facebook, chew through battery in the background because of how often it has to use resources to check for notifications, when when you don’t actually have the app open or in the recent apps list. So your battery will lose charge faster than you would expect when you haven’t been on your phone.
so, naw lil bro.
The remaining battery level is determined by the voltage available at the current consumption
Gets all condescending about how it works
Isn’t aware of the difference between V and mAh or the extremely horizontal (for most of the range) curve defining the relationship between them for Li-ion batteries
I got irritated enough by people spouting off at me to look up how it actually works, it’s not at all how you are describing, although describing it as “bullshit” is probably a stretch
So naw big bro
But Phil, the difference between V and mAh is just current draw
You misspelled “resistance and time,” but close. The “A” part is the current.
the flat voltage curve is only really a problem for LFP which is not really used in smartphones due to low energy density
The battery has a driver, which is written in software that indicates level based on an underlying profile of how the battery drains.
Hence why Pixel4a users were suddenly shocked by an upgrade that halved their battery life because Google made a whoopsie on the battery profile.
We are saying the same thing, I was oversimplifying though.
The profile is based on the voltage of the battery, the capacity, and the permissible amp draw. The actual voltage reading informs the device of the real remaining capacity because the device can’t read capacity and can only infer it based on historic data compared against the profile. Battery temperature is also a throttling factor, but we don’t need to get that far into the battery management weeds.
Lithium ion battery chemistry is actually incredibly well understood and easily calculated as a point value and also extrapolated into capacity values using data on how you use your phone.
That there are ICE raids frequently carried out at Home Depots because the Trump-loving CEO invites them to the stores. Wouldn’t be all that surprising or change much even if it were true.
Edit: apparently i was thinking of the former CEO/founder. The current one seems to be against facism
This is pretty high stakes
I’m surprised as fuck those guys are standing out there again. I didn’t see them in Denver much for like 10 years but now they are back. Brave young men or men who are very confident in their running speed.
More power to them, I asked a group how much they usually got and they said $25/hr but I think they were padding it in case I was actually going to hire them so I’d figure the going rate is probably $20.
People are only against facism when it isn’t their preferred form of facism.
The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who aren’t being anti-fascist enough, or weren’t in the past, or whatever.
Not true. I’m against both. You have a right to be a citizen in a democracy. Citizens and democracy only exist when citizens have a right to all information, the right to skepticism, and the right to be wrong. No one truly thinks for themselves without these as a foundation.
Which kind is your favorite?
The one where the government is less relevant to me living my life unless my actions infringe upon the natural rights of others and more relevant the bigger a company or organization gets.
That Pac Man isn’t eating pellets, he’s eating burritos, but because if you look at a burrito face on, it kinda looks round, and the graphics at the time were so limited… Pac Man is secretly shilling Mucho Burrito (or whatever your local Mexican fast food joint of choice is.)
But that means Pac-Man is eating the burritos edge-on which is clearly insane, since he eata them in one chomp… You might be onto something, but i don’t think burrito is the answer.
We’ve never seen pacman facing straight. What if its head is as wide as a burrito is long?
The sanitation issues that happened at Chipotle in such quick succession a few years ago were corporate sabotage. At the time, Chipotle was the fastest growing chain in the U.S.
We need the guy who posted on Reddit that he thinks all of Chipotle contains a money laundering front based on big phone orders that would sometimes come in that would wind up not getting either made or picked up, just a fake order that went into the list alongside all the real ones but got paid for over the phone. He said this happened at multiple Chipotles he knew and he couldn’t think of anything at all it could be other than money laundering.
Drug dealing operation. Like those pizza places where you order an unusual topping combination (e.g. anchovies and chocolate sauce) and the pizza box comes with a kilo of cocaine.
Imo they were sabotaging themselves with their lack of queso and still are with the poor distribution of ingredients in the burrito. I get my mexican food from real mexican restaurants, but even Moe’s is better than Chipotle and they should be ashamed of that.
If you think Moe’s holds a candle to Chipotle, you should have your voter registration revoked.
Oh fuck yes. Qdoba undercover agents getting jobs at Chipotle for the express purpose of not washing their hands. I love it.
Taylor Swift is actually a very evil person. Based purely on the fact I haven’t heard any bad things about her. 🧐
Oh, you’re on the list now buddy
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Ellen DeGeneres v2?
I saw Ellen DeGeneres on TV long before the scandal and could immediately tell she was awful.
Just watch her interactions, from any time period. She clearly is just brimming with hate under the tense, smiling face and the manic presentation. I was sort of surprised that other people couldn’t see it.
Honestly I barely saw anything of her, I just knew she existed. Now she’s notorious for that 180 in the public’s perception of her, which is why she came to mind.
She’s far from the first, though. Very different circumstances, but Bill Cosby also springs to mind.
As for Taylor Swift, I know about as much about her as I did about Ellen, which is very little. I never got any icky vibes from her though, besides the inevitably hypocrisy that comes with being filthy rich and mega famous (private jet + preaching about the environment). Not enough to make her out as the bad guy.
The pandering, the condescension, the look of disgust when things don’t go right. I saw it too, br0ther.
There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. She may be among the least malignant of that group, but they’re all cancer.
I don’t think she’s evil. But I’m pretty convinced she’s into girls or at least bi-sexual for some reason.
YES her super close friendship and subsequent dramatic friend breakup with Karlie Kloss is exactly the kind of shit I did when I was closeted.
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Holy shit.
Okay this is my favorite
woah, and they both use the same hand to grasp at straws, that’s insane!
The famous person wears the same size water skis as me
She’s got three cars as many years I’ve lived in this city
Her hair is blonde and mine is brown; they both start with a “b”Woah a TMBG song that I’ve never heard of – thanks for this!
Touch screens in cars are evidence that the auto industry is actively trying to increase auto accidents.
Nah, that’s purely a cost saving measure. Shitty touch screens are cheaper than buttons.
Is that true? I’m too scared to look up prices. Electronically, touchscreens are infinitely more complex, but I can believe economies of scale brought it down lower than buttons… I just don’t want to believe that.
Routing wires for buttons is an absolute clusterfuck as well.
Pretty much no button these days directly controls something, it’s routed through the BMS. Headlights may be one of the few that are switched without some type of computer in between, possibly power windows too?
And they’re all on a PCB.
Even so, each individual button needs to be connected to that PCB separately, and will only have the function of what it says on the button, or possibly a couple hidden functions through programming.
Touch screens are essentially one connection for infinite buttons with different screens and menus.
Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. They’re always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components together… just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.
Yup, that about matches my thought process when I made that comment. Economies of scale make the complexity irrelevant.
I’ve seen comments from auto manufacturers outright stating this. I think they also overestimated how much consumers care about touchscreens.
Industrial grade switches (i.e.: buttons) are expensive because of very high quality control requirements, and add a lot more parts that can fail to a car. It is the same thing that happened with mobile phones. Going with touchscreen reduce a lot the number of parts to check and parts that can fail, even if usability is very bad for the end-user.
I think the US government actively encouraged the UFO craze, because it drew attention away from the experimental aircraft they were testing, like the SR-71 blackbird.
That honestly wouldn’t surprise me tbh. And area 51 being great conditions for testing aircraft: empty space, clear skies, easier to recover parts and people from than the ocean, very little human habitation.
Oh, area 51 being used for testing classified aircraft isn’t really a secret.
Area 51 wasn’t where the really good stuff happened anyway, and none of it was aliens
This isn’t a conspiracy, it is a proven, multiply established fact
They’ve admitted that.
Someone at Pentagon was recently investigating UFO conspiracies and found that several kept looping back to them. And they realized that at least one was directly planted by themselves during the cold war to confuse the USSR about what weapons were real or not.
I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.
“Chemtrails,” for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If there’s a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.
But planes instead of rockets. People who think chemtrail believers are too retarded to tell the difference between chemtrails and contrails are the bottom of the barrel.
You probably won’t see trails in the air. Doesn’t mean shit getting sprayed in the air to learn from/control the weather is OK.
Sure, that’s documented in projects like COINTELPRO. I agree the US govt does it and by extension, all other govt’s do it too because they saw how daddy USA did it.
Did COINTELPRO include planting fake conspiracy theories? I missed that part of it if so, maybe just because there was so much else in it that was so much worse
I think so, against the Black Panthers. It’s late and I have to go to bed now but now I’m only 90% certain they did that shit against the OG Panthers.
the 2000’s facebook chemtrail uptick was defs a 3 letter agency operation
Every year the government takes 1 hour away from every American with the implementation of Daylight savings time. They return the hours to each American in the fall. However, in between March (when the hours are taken) and November (when the hours are returned) over 2 million Americans die, and don’t get their hours returned to them, or their estates. This happens every. single. year.
What is the government doing with all of these stockpiled hours of dead Americans?
Those two million all happened to be born after daylight savings time but before the hours are returned. So they get to live with an extra hour.
When they die it cancels out thus the Big Time Bowl doesn’t overflow or run dry.
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Wait… when is this happening?
They use them to farm the adrenechrome babies
Your spring forward closer to paying taxes, once paid, they give your time back
Obviously those hours are taken back by the babies with the balls to be born after the redistribution.
Big Time conspiracy. I love it.
All brains should aspire to work like your brain.
Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.
When we started quantifying time, it didn’t take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the “hour”, and no longer by what they got in return.
Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as “theirs”, demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.
/Rant
I love when I see stuff like this online. As if farming is some luxurious fun time denied us by corporations.
I lived in a subsistence farming community in West Africa for a couple years. Farming isn’t easy or fun.
People woke up before the sun every.single.day to go tend to the fields. They stopped working when they were exhausted from being out in the sun all day, or when they were finished with the field. The crops and the weeds grow when they want, not when you want.
If it didn’t rain enough, they might starve, or their children might starve. Maybe both. The backbreaking farm labor was literally a gamble with their lives. Occasionally someone would get whacked by a tool and have to ask friends and relatives to farm their crops for them, often at a cost of some of that grain later. If that injury got infected, there’s extra days or weeks you’re asking someone else to do extra work to cover for you, and you owe them for this.
Everyone harvested crops at about the same time, flooding the market. But people also didn’t just want to eat millet alone and wanted things like cooking oil or salt they had to buy. So being strapped for cash, they were forced to sell a lot of harvest up front because they simply couldn’t afford to wait any longer for basic needs.
I can go on and on, but if you think being a farmer is so wonderful and amazing, I would encourage you to go do some WWOOFing and spend a few months on a farm and actually doing a real farmer’s schedule and not some up at 9, done at 2:30 schedule.
I don’t think they said farming was fun, and I’m also not sure that you lived on a farm “before people started measuring time” 🤷🏾♂️
Farming? I was talking about data engineering.
A fellow historia civilis subscriber I see
There are dozens of us.
Arcade rhythm games (DDR, Pump It Up, maimai, etc) are subsidized by the Japanese government to get Otakus/NEETs to go out, touch grass, and exercise
Have you ever wondered why you can have 10-15 minutes of game time for the same amount of money as one (sometimes half) a pull on a claw machine?? /puts on tinfoil hat
That wouldn’t generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.
I’m pretty sure they actually did get a government subsidy which is unusual
I know a good number of Japanese cultural stuff (including video game companies) do! Not sure specifically in cases like “hey let’s give SEGA money so they can make the funny laundromat game more popular” though. Hence why it is my low-stakes conspiracy… Would be pretty cool if things like DDR really gets a subsidy though, it is genuinely a good means of cardio
Honestly that’s a good enough idea that I don’t think it even needs to be a conspiracy, they could openly advertise it.
Toothpaste tubes and similar containers are intentionally designed to be inconvenient to get the full contents out of.
But the toothpaste tube is literally the most efficient method to get all that paste in a hygenic manner. Toothpaste used to be Toothpowder. You’d dip your nasty fucking brush into the powder and scrub away. That’s pretty gross even if every individual has their own little can of tooth powder. Now imagine sharing that shit with your nasty fucking siblings.
I mean, maybe you can buy a liter bucket of toothpaste. You would be able to get every last scrap but it might have mold on it after a year or so.
The newer cosmetic (especially makeup) containers definitely hold back product. I’ve helped cut into many cosmetic containers as an emergency measure to use the last bit until a shopping trip can be accomplished and yeah, some of them hold a surprising amount of the product.
Not the humble toothpaste tube though.
… you didn’t ‘dip your brush’ into tooth powder, you dusted it onto the bristles…
According to the instructions on the tin of the only tooth powder I’ve seen in real life, you dipped your toothbrush into the tin. It was round and shaped like a coffee can. The lid didn’t have holes in it that would be needed to sprinkle the stuff out. Also that powder wouldn’t sprinkle at all, it had hardened into a rock of the stuff. You would have needed a chisel, and mortar and pestle to use it by the time I found it
I’ve never heard of toothpowder. What prevents people from scooping out a little bit and scrubbing their brush into that?
Nothing, but the house I grew up in during the '80s and '90s was built in 1844, and had all sorts of things that had just been there for ages. One of these things was an ancient tin of tooth powder, next to the washbasin by the back door of the kitchen. This house gets its water from a cistern out the back door. I don’t know what the powder was supposed to be like when it was made, back in the '30s according to the tin, but by the time I saw the stuff, it had hardened into a rock. Like you’d need a chisel and mortar and pestle to actually use the stuff again. I suspect that happened due to years of sitting around.
Drag them across the corner of the counter, pulling down as you do. Works great.
90s Mentadent got you, bro.
what a fucking ridiculous amount of plastic waste for such a pitifully bad display
Hated when it got lopsided.
