What else is she gonna say? What else is she allowed to say?
I was mostly kidding, but the world is a very scary place. My concern is, how do I know you'll send me to a place with airport security guards, clerks, marshals, etc? I personally do a ton of research into airlines, hotels, car rentals, etc wherever I travel, even domestically. I've booked places (especially pre internet) that turned out to be total shitholes, and I have traveled to places where security is lax, human rights aren't a guarantee, and officials expect bribes.
I love the concept of a mystery vacation, but I would need to trust the booking agent completely because I'm literally putting my safety (and the safety of my family) in their hands.
Making it a lottery does not foster trust.
Sounds like I'm going to get human trafficked.
I've been self-hosting my own storage backup with Immich, and it's been a game changer for me. It's been an improvement over swapping out microsd cards and keeping track of what is stored where.
Elections are always a binary choice. If you want to send a message, the time to do it is during primaries or any day other than election day. On that day, you can choose to support the lesser evil, or you can support the greater evil. It's up to you to decide which is which, but that's always the choice. Staying home, voting for a third party, or writing in some name that will never win, those all support the greater evil.
They supposedly have been learning that lesson since the Carter administration.
Came here to mention this. The whole video is worth watching, but the short version is that some machines have a sensor that detects when steam releases from the bag and automatically stops then.
The problem is that there might be a difference of a few seconds depending on which way the popcorn bag is facing when it pops open. So you should still listen for when the popping slows down.
Idle hands are the devil's plaything. It's an old phrase that means "get the fuck back to work."
It's never the wrong time to do the right thing. Fighting a "losing issue" is exactly how you persuade people you're right about the issue. That's called "leadership".
I mean, can you separate those things? Like I'm not saying all Christians are KKK or anything of the sort, but there seems to be a common thread among religious extremism, and that's faith in the divine authority to justify any act of violence or malice.
Are you in the United States or somewhere else in the world? It's the difference between chocolate and choc.
I always thought that "simulated intelligence" seemed more accurate, because it's not actual intelligence. LLMs rely on pattern recognition to simulate AI, but there's no actual reasoning or awareness, just a facade that looks like it.
Yes, I know, Roku sucks for a variety of reasons, and we can just add this to the pile.
Roku launched a new feature, Backdrops, which is just a screensaver that they foist upon you. But they must have gotten complaints about screen burn in, because months after the lauch, they pushed an update that adds this notification pop-up.
A few things that should have been obvious:
- A television with the screensaver on is probably unattended.
- The point of a rotating screensaver is to avoid static images that cause screen burn
- The pop-up never goes away and covers the bottom of the screen across all images, with the QR code in stark black on white, which is most likely to create screen burn.
The thing is, this is such a small issue, but it belies a foundational disrespect for users. The carelessness and incompetence could be ignored, but the obligatory nature of pushing this out without consent or care is why it fits squarely in asshole territory.
[Question] Can I use Whole Grain bread for Bread Pudding? How should I tweak the recipe?
(lemmy.world)
I have received these two loaves of delicious whole grain bread. Problem is, I doubt we will eat it all before it goes stale. I could do croutons, bread crumbs, or even a breakfast casserole, but I was thinking about bread pudding.
Has anyone done this? Do I need to tweak the recipe, like add more milk or some other flavor to balance the nutty seed and grain flavor? Maybe add some apples for textural balance?
I don't want to waste them, so if this is a fools errand, I can do bread bowl dips or something for the playoff games tomorrow. But I am committed to not letting this bounty go to waste.
There's a post I saw on reddit that points to the dimple on the side of a milk jug, and makes fun of all the people who don't know what that's for. In the comments are thousands of people giving dozens of different explanations, and all of them are wrong.
It is not there to indicate that the milk has spoiled by popping out due to gasses produced by spoiled milk. If there was enough gas to pop out the dimple, the whole jug would look like a balloon.
It is not there to provide structural integrity, like lateral support to prevent the bottles from crushing. The contents are under pressure, so if there was enough force on the jug from any direction, then the cap would pop off regardless of the shape in the sidewall.
The actual answer is that the dimple is added to ensure that all of the jugs contain the same volume of milk. Plastic jugs are blown into molds, and minor manufacturing variations over time would create jugs that hold different amounts of milk. Larger jugs would hold more than a gallon. They could just fill by volume, but consumers are wary of purchasing a bottle if it appears to be less full than the others. So they add the dimple to make it so that the level of milk is all the way at the top with minimal air between the milk and the cap.
You can verify this yourself by finding different jugs from the same supplier with dimples of different depths, or even no dimple at all. None of those other explanations would explain dimples of different sizes or jugs without dimples.
TLDR everybody is wrong. The milk jug dimples are added to ensure the jug contains the correct volume of milk.
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