I’m looking at the line up of foldables and wondering

1. do I even really need one? I kinda want one, they look cool, but is it really that much better than a normal phone?

2. should I even consider the Galaxy when the Honor V3 looks like it’s comparable specs with better battery and a thousand dollars cheaper?

Tho the latter requires figuring it how to get and use one in the US.

Is this tool called a camera, by chance?

This is a great point. It wasn’t like every home had a thermometer in the oven and therefore they had to use different terminology and identifiers for indicating oven temperature. Similarly, this is why American recipes measure in volume vs weight, most homes didn’t have scales, they had cups and spoons.

These were also “precise enough” for the era. Perhaps these lexical gaps form as more styles of cuisine become more common and other cooking methods are used.

I’ve noticed this with some Indian recipes. The instruction “to grind” specifically refers to using grinders, either mill or wet grinders, that just aren’t common in the US and that can create some ambiguity in how finely to chop or grind something.

A “deep fry” is distinguished by totally submerging the food in oil, as opposed to a shallow fry (less often said, but still used) where something is fried in hot oil, but not enough to totally cover it. I thiiiiink Mandarin makes a similar distinction with the use of “broad oil” versus “bottom oil”, but I don’t speak Mandarin and I’m taking that from the rough translations from Chinese cooking videos I watch.

We have some oddly obtuse language for cooking in English.

We use the same phrase to describe foods that are high in temperature and contain lots of capsaicin (hot). We can use spicy, I suppose, but it gets a little odd describing foods with lots of spices that aren’t chili pepper. I generally say “well-spiced” and that gets the message across. We hardly have a way to distinguish “types of spicy” flavoring, such as that from chili, horseradish or peppercorns. I’ve seen some people start to say mala (loan word, 麻辣) for numbing spice, but that’s uncommon and new.

That’s just a few examples.

Most of our more precise language for cooking comes from other languages, like French. To saute, to braise, bain-marie, julienne, sous vide, etc. I’m not sure why English has so many lexical gaps specifically around cooking.

It’s gotten WAY better. Some recipes from, like, the colonial era, have instructions like “cook well in a cold oven until done”, so progress has been made, it’s still often imprecise and clumsy.

This is a surreal thing to see. I still don’t quite believe it’s real and seeing more evidence it is, makes me question reality.

Playing a druid currently and I couldn’t count the number of vile glares I’ve gotten from the DM as I utter “I cast Dispell Magic”…

There’s an element of this that feels like it’s operating under the assumption that someone will assault a different child if not the adult posing as one that makes me a little uncomfortable. It’s a sort of Kantian outlook, but there’s a part of me that wonders if those predators would find another target if the decoy “child” wasn’t presented to them.

On the other hand, I imagine that the answer to that question is “Yes. This is an abuser actively hunting for a target.” and that assuages some of the concern.

Them doing it for views and content is also upsetting, but that’s the nature of living in a capitalist world. Everything, even justice, can and will be commodified and sold into a perversion of its original intent and goal.

Fireball fireball fireball and oh fireball

You can rarely take the point of any bigot at face value. Words have no value to them. There’s no use in debating them as they are not speaking in good faith. They merely say whatever they feel will help accomplish their goals of oppression and exploitation.

Easily lavenderism.

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Oh hell yes! So looking forward to playing this.

I think the requirements of being a successful professional streamer can be at odds with being an ardent and strict socialist. While I don’t think the platform can truly give a proper socialist education, if it means even a few more people support socialists in meaningful ways, it’s probably useful.

Most of the people I hear who are bothered by Biden’s chances aren’t talking about Trump’s policies, age or lack of cognitive ability not because they support Trump, quite the opposite. They are scared of a second Trump presidency and are scared that the DNC will drop the ball again, fumble the election by sticking with a poorly liked candidate and they’ll have to suffer the consequences of America veering headfirst towards fascism. There’s no point to mentioning Trump’s similar or more dire issues, because he was never an option to them to begin with.

I don’t have faith that the DNC actually cares about the looming threat of fascism, the threat to civil liberties, etc, I think they saw how much in donations they got during the last Trump presidency and the surge in popularity even their most milquetoast center left candidates got and they think they can ride the wave for 4 years.

Bidens admin has done a lot of good and the DNC has been dogshit at demonstrating that with effective messaging. He’s also done a lot of things I find abhorrent and in a just world, neither candidate should be eligible as they’d be locked away in The Hague. But that isn’t the case, this is America, and I think the powers that be are willing to risk the election to save face.

We all got fooled by the dang dog 🤣

…yanno I didn’t read it like that at first, but I get it now.

Well, then, yah sex is fun but I think society overvalues it and one shouldn’t stress themselves out over whether or not they’re having it.

They posted it in another comment.

Whenever I see a new account posting potentially controversial questions, I like to check out what else they’ve said to see if it’s genuine or if they’re trying to be inflammatory.

I get the impression this user is being genuine but it doesn’t really interest me to be talking to a 14 year old about sex.

Edit: hold up, you’re, like, 14.

Don’t worry about these things. Anyone who’s telling you to worry about these things is a moron who’s doing you more harm than good.

Oh my God to be in a situation where a $.70 charge at the hospital feels egregious I fucking wish. I have insurance and I had to pay a doctor hundreds for them to tell me the tendinitis in my wrist was caused by the two cigarettes I smoked at a party a month and a half ago. I hate it here y’all