sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea,

Nah, it’s getting better every year. Adding crappy games doesn’t change the huge backlog of great games I have.

My response to the points:

  1. Don’t buy games until reviews are good - don’t buy on release day, and certainly don’t preorder
  2. See 1
  3. See 1, but replace “games” with "PC hardware"
  4. We probably need a law here, but until then, see 1
  5. This is stupid. Buy indies, they don’t pull this crap.
sugar_in_your_tea,

IDK, I just buy the soundtrack or whatever if I really want to support it. But the game needs to be good enough to justify the price before buying.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Nah, I don’t care too much about their reputation, I care about reviews. If it’s good, someone will have reviewed it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

And sand/dirt after a windstorm, at least in my area. They’re really quite useful.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Not gonna 3d print a rake.

sugar_in_your_tea,

And these days it’s young-ish people selling flowers, at least in my area.

sugar_in_your_tea,

IDK, coming from NYC to TX is probably a net upgrade in a lot of ways, especially if you’re a small business owner or work for one. The laws in NYC are just so bonkers.

Then again, I’m uninterested in moving to TX either. I’m pretty happy here in Utah, and I may move back home to Seattle, WA at some point, or maybe we’ll move to NC. But I’m not moving anywhere further south than NC.

sugar_in_your_tea,

That’s really dumb. Here in Utah, you sign up online, and you can get a mail ballot online too. I have never actually voted in person, I just fill out my ballot and drop it in one of the collection bins a few days before the election. We can even track our ballot to ensure it gets processed.

Why overcomplicate it? I don’t need to take time off to vote, and I can take my time researching the candidates. Voting should be easy.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Hey, don’t spoil the plot!

sugar_in_your_tea,

Instead of a movie, can we just get another game or two?

sugar_in_your_tea,

Nah, you really don’t need peppers for it to be a taco. All you need is:

  • wrap - usually corn, but flour works
  • seasoned protein
  • toppings - lettuce, tomatoes, etc
  • optional sauce

Layer it up, fold, then eat. There are a ton of options, and many of the protein options have no peppers, spicy or otherwise. It’s a completely irrelevant part of the dish, like which protein you use.

I’m not European, and I work with a Mexican who corrected me on a lot of my assumptions about Mexican food.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I certainly care. My area has a lot of foreign food, but almost everything has been adjusted for local tastes, to the point where everything kinda tastes the same. The local Thai, Indian, Chinese, and Vietnamese/Pho restaurants all seem to tone down the seasonings and add salt and sugar, to the point where I honestly can’t taste much of a difference between their menu items.

So we have a curated list of places we like. When I go to get Thai, it’s pretty spicy, and the various curries have a very different flavor profile. Same thing at the local Indian places. At Chinese places, I get really richly flavored dumplings, soups, and noodles (and no orange chicken). At Vietnamese/pho places, the pho broth stands on its own instead of needing to be drowned in sriracha and hoisin sauce, and their sides are actually worth ordering.

But these are relatively “hole in the wall” places, but when we take friends, they really enjoy it and wonder why it’s so much better than anything else in the area. And when one goes out of business or sells out, I need to go search for a replacement, which can take many attempts (took years to find a decent Thai place…).

So I think a lot of people appreciate authentic foods, it’s just that the quiet majority don’t want to venture too far outside their comfort zone, so we get crap like everyone ordering “orange chicken” at Chinese places, “masaman curry” at Thai places, and “lassi + vindaloo” at Indian places, with everything toned way down and sugared up. Those dishes are fine once in a while, but those aren’t anywhere near my favorite dishes at those respective places.

I’m not from California and I honestly hate visiting there, but I do like to venture outside my comfort zone and try very different foods. I just wish more people shared my interest so I would have better options.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Ikr? Where I grew up (near Seattle), there were tons of great Thai places, and it really didn’t matter which one I went to, it would be pretty good.

Where I’m at now (near SLC, Utah), it’s all sweetened, bland crap. It’s decently good, but it’s nothing like what I grew up with. The most popular places here are essentially franchised, and they all taste bland and sweet instead of properly spiced.

The good places are the small restaurants closer to downtown. The interior decoration is less fancy, but the food is way better.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Everyone, this poster is legit. I got a bridge from them last year and I’m up 800%! Way better than OP who had to go outside and walk in a park to only get 700%.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ll respond to the last question: yes. I might lie, but I’ll answer.

In fact, I was at Ikea the other day and a rando asked where I worked, so I told them about the business, but my the name of the company. It turns out they studied something relevant, so we had an interesting conversation.

The company I work for is big enough they wouldn’t be able to dox me or anything, but it is something I’m willing to discuss.

As to the first, I also saw it as 100% a joke, just like the OP. It’s just a funny thought, that’s all.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’m pretty healthy, and I do basically the same. Get super into some hobby, and stick to a strict limit on when I can eat. No eating after 8 pm or before 6 am. I can prepare food at night, just not eat it, and I make it as point to prepare healthy food for the next day.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Having healthy snacks within easy reach is the key imo. Get rid of the junk, and prepare protein balls and whatnot so you can handle the munchies.

sugar_in_your_tea,

That, and fats are more filling than carbs, so if you up the fats and cut the carbs, you’re more likely to stick with the diet since you feel more satisfied. The same is true for fiber vs regular carbs.

So if you want a simple weight loss strategy, increase the fat and fiber you eat, and cut out the junk food. Don’t count carbs or anything, just try to increase the healthy fats and fiber you consume, that’ll naturally help you feel better and make it easier to cut calories.

I do think counting calories is helpful though, but i prefer to do it after the fact instead of limiting myself. If I can see I’m regularly over the target, I’ll make a conscious effort to adjust my expectations (usually snacking), but starving yourself for the rest of the day sucks and makes it more likely you’ll abandon it entirely.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yeah, with 3D printing, I can mostly download a 3D printer. If that tech gets good enough, I could conceivably download everything except the battery (FPGA for control logic).

I would totally love to download a car.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup. I’m looking into buying an EV, which naturally leads me to looking into disabling all the smart crap.

I just need it to go from A to B, and play audio from my phone on the way. That’s it. I don’t need weather reports, cameras, auto pilot, etc, I just need a pedal and an aux jack or something to connect to speakers. Oh, and the speakers are optional, I can bring my own.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Huh, TIL. It looks like they basically put Radeon cores into it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yes, it’s certainly more complicated than that, but the lithography is a huge part since they can cram more transistors into a smaller area, which is critical for power savings.

I highly doubt instruction decoding is a significant factor, but I’d love to be proven wrong. If you know of a good writeup about it, I’d love to read it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Exactly. Mass transit responds to what people say they want (wider roads), whereas hospitals and large companies respond to costs (i.e. cost of more parking vs a shuttle). I’m not saying transit should be privatized, I’m saying private transit filling in the gaps of mass transit is generally a good thing.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I don’t know, I guess we’ll need to see how the lawsuit turns out. I’m sure RFK Jr. will bring some evidence that’ll help us understand what Meta may or may not have done.

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