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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The collision that created the moon might have been with an ice planetoid that also left a lot of the water we have here.

    And on the topic, I just watched an episode of The Universe, which was just added to netflix but was from 2011. Big thing I noticed was the CG in the show was pretty shitty. But they also made no mention about the moon creating collision despite that episode being the top 10 catastrophies in the solar system (which was also kinda a lame topic for a series about “the universe”, it would be like a series about cool things in the solar system that just focused on cool things on earth). So don’t even have to go back to the 70s for the moon creating collision to not be on the public’s radar at least.



  • Only reason I didn’t start boycotting Heinz ketchup was because I already was after they closed that Canadian plant some years ago. And you’re right, French’s isn’t even a step down and I’m disappointed at businesses/events that have Heinz condiments.

    Hell, I’ve been getting a budget brand ketchup since I can’t find French’s with the older style nozzle (and hate the newer ones that need enough force that it’s too easy to squirt way too much) and even that isn’t bad.

    And I think that’s going to be a huge lasting impact. All the marketing time and dollars spent building underserved reputations for mediocre brands is going down the drain as Canadians realize they lose nothing by ignoring US brands. And sometimes the lesser known ones are better because the big brands were enshitified and bet it all on name recognition.


  • Out of curiosity, are you in a region that requires age verification for porn/social media? No need to be specific about which one, I’m just curious if they are limiting these checks to where it’s required by law or if they are pushing it out more broadly. This “requirement” from social media sites is one that the data mining ones are all too happy to have forced down on them.






  • Remember that the big bubbles that popped in the last quarter century or so were based on the internet and housing, both very real and useful things that became a bubble because investors bet way too much speculating on them, including leveraging the rest of the economy for those bets.

    Edit: Forgot my point, but even if AI is valuable for the future (which I’d agree with for AI in general but I’m still skeptical about LLMs getting there), it doesn’t mean it can’t currently be in a bubble.

    Also, the dotcom bubble took out companies that were making real money doing real things right then because they started accepting IOUs instead of money, and did their own leveraging to the point where they couldn’t afford to not get their IOUs paid back, which they weren’t when the companies they got the IOUs from went under.

    Nvidia seems to have about 50 billion in debt and 10 billion in cash. I didn’t look at the breakdowns of when that debt is due, but it’s possible the AI bubble might put them into bankruptcy, especially if their credit rating goes down and they have trouble refinancing.



  • That quick temperature change sounds like a double edged sword to me, as a thicker base means it can hold its temperature as you add cold/wet food, which might result in steaming food instead of frying/sautéing.

    On that note, temperature control also helps making cleaning easier. If your oil is heated before you add the food, the food will tend to not stick as much (though there’s a bunch of other factors at play, so I still get use out of my scouring pad).






  • I gotta say that this collection of stories plus all the others is starting to feel less like power mods with vendettas and more like a large scale astroturfing campaign intended to weed out people capable of using logic and/or bridging the gap in the various manufactured (or falsely amplified) conflicts dividing people for no good reason.

    It’s especially weird how many feature “argued about it for 3 messages then admin banned for harassment”, especially since reddit’s mod problem isn’t exactly a secret and they’d be even more aware of it with the full visibility they have and you’d figure they’d want to address it if they were operating on good faith.





  • Looks up Here in the map index… D3 sees this side of the map starts at 13, flips map over, finds D and 3, looks up and slams on brakes before rear ending an even more lost pedestrian.

    “You should watch where you’re driving,” my passenger says before their eyes return to their phone.

    Honks horn, pedestrian is startled out of examining their map, gives a sheepish wave of apology and speeds off. Return to map, notice there’s a big traffic jam on the intended route, turn down a side street instead, thanking map for helping.