I have two conspiracy theories:

1. Either Alice Huang being accused of being spy is a cover up for a normal affair, or

2. There is no affair, she is the middleman for Jensen Huang to do business with China and the 'affair' is a cover up for that

In both instances, Jensen Huang seeking to be let off the hook for one thing or the other.

Freeze the cheese. It defrosts pretty well.

Restrictive Asian diets don't sort neatly into western buckets.

By your definition, most practicing 'vegetarian' Buddhists are omnivores because of oyster sauce, yet they eat far less animal products than the average western vegetarian due to the low prevalence of dairy products.

Jains, for example, can drink milk and eat butter and ghee, but cannot eat root vegetables, fungi, and fermented foods, while the opposite is true for veganism.

So what do you call people who are vegetarian except for 1% of their diet? I would find it disengenuous to equate that to a regular omnivore diet.

Some men just want to Tea watch the world burn?

Ghee was made as a means of preserving dairy fat solids that can persist even in hot and humid regions of India.

It's 100% fat with all milk solids and moisture removed. For something as easily spoiled as a dairy product to be immune to heat and humidity that was developed before refrigeration existed, that's pretty mad science to me.

It's not patronizing, nor is it as simple as making games not sexist. There are games that you mentioned target men and women, and there are games that target men, but few games that target just women and treat them as competent players.

I've had a few thousand hours in games with majority male player bases like R6 siege, League, Tarkov, Battlefield, Tekken, CoD, Wardogs, etc. When I play, it always makes me feel like I'm walking into a men's bathroom, like I shouldn't be there even if other guys are okay with it, and most of these player bases are not. Sometimes, it's the edgy aesthetics, or the fan service, or lack of female character options, or the edgy music and sound effects. The rest of the time, it's one guy being sexist while the others stay silent. A lot of these reasons are why women prefer shooters like Overwatch, Valorant, Fortnite more than the above.

The fact is that girls and boys are socialized at a young age to like different things or stay away from them, and that will always produce a skewed gender player base for any game. In games with few women, we rarely get to speak up for each other when male players are being sexist, and men don't often back us up.

Women didn't have the decades of head start in gaming culture, experience, and exposure to be as competitive as men in most multiplayer games. Hell, I wasn't even allowed to play video games as a kid. There isn't enough momentum yet in the gaming world to fix sexism in video games by just making them not sexist.

The solution right now isn't to eliminate games that target men, it's to introduce high-skill expression games that appeal to women. The dresses on the dressmaker discord are insanely intricate and difficult to make, yet all of us feel like we belong as a gamer.

To fix sexism in gaming, women need to have our own gaming culture that goes beyond what a majority male game development world thinks we want and are capable of. We need to catch up on decades of video games and consoles being primarily marketed to men, and stigmatized for women.

As a woman who sews, it's interesting to me that it was made to appeal to women because it touched my soul in a way that no other game had.

I've played all manners of games with vastly different gender compositions of player bases from Tarkov and Wardogs to Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki. Dressmaker is the first game that I feel is both made with feminine aesthetics and skill expression that isn't gated by preconceptions of what women are capable of. If you go to the dressmaker discord, the dresses there literally have the Mona Lisa painstakingly painted on it using piping.

Most games made primarily with women in mind tend to be simpler because of a circular assumption that women don't play games with high skill expression and so game devs (who are majority male) will make simpler games. Dressmaker proved that skill expression and complexity is possible and desired even for a playerbase that statistically plays more mobile games.

This exists. It's called ghee.

Tell me you don't know how to cook ethnic cuisines without telling me. This is the kind of tech-bro arrogance that presumes everything is easy and therefore replaceable with technology.

Calling it 'playing the victim' is straightup gaslighting and ignorance at its peak. 'For most people' means for people who are either white, don't cook much, or both. It's a time old tale of instituting a policy that in practice primarily affects minorities and women, but then claiming that it's egalitarian because it targets neither on paper.

This is the part where Lemmy's demographics leaves little room for others to speak without accused of an ecological terrorist.

Induction stoves aren't compatible with a lot of ethnic cuisines. Chinese and Mexican food require gas stoves for a lot of applications like woks and charring vegetables. Curved induction stoves are not widely and affordably available in the US, and landlords would never bother installing specialty stoves like this. Having to get a separate gas stove to put on already limited counter space and rendering regular stoves useless is frustrating. The oven broiler is nowhere as ergonomic and effective as a stove top broiler and it's back breaking having to duck and constantly check because you cannot see what you are charring. This is just two of many other ethnic cuisines that are impacted by this.

Please let people, especially female minorities who are disproportionately impacted by this, keep one of our last vestiges of cultural ties. If it comes to ecological impact, there are so many other aspects in life down to the very phone you are using and clothing on your back that can be improved upon.

Lemmy, for better or for worse, is a very tech-bro environment. I know that this makes matters like cooking seemingly trivial and gas stoves to be in excess. But for many of us, the meals we cook are the last things we hold on to after our languages and national identity fade away. Meals made without an open flame are simply not the same because many techniques cannot be done without it.

What do you mean how they work? It's obviously the banners of the duck god and rabbit god.

All hail the mighty duck god! Death to the rabbit god infidels.

If you like yogurt it's not that different. Both are 'off' and it's just the cultural context that you grow up in that teaches which one is acceptable.