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cerement, 4 days ago

accountants and actuaries get to generalize

cerement, 4 days ago

started as sovcit and rapidly veered into pentecostalism …

cerement, 4 days ago

bUt WoRdS mEaN tHiNgS!!1!

cerement, 4 days ago

when the person behind the counter has absolutely no say in whatever policies they’re being required to enforce, the manager is just using them as a scapegoat

cerement, 4 days ago

• Deuteronomy 23:19-20 – “^19^ You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest. ^20^ You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.”
• Exodus 22:25 – “^25^ If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.”
• Deuteronomy 15:1-3 – “^1^ At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. ^2^ And this is the regulation for the release of debts: every creditor is to forgive what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not require it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed. ^3^ From a foreigner you may require it, but your hand shall forgive whatever of yours is with your brother.”

cerement, 4 days ago

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” – sounds familiar 🤔

cerement, 5 days ago

closest we’re getting for now is Fairphone

cerement, 5 days ago

they should’ve just left it at: “Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand” ?

cerement, 5 days ago

(needs a better acronym – “setting up angel dust metrics”)

cerement, 6 days ago

bighead carp – “head of the bighead carp is particularly prized in Singapore”, “bighead carp is enjoyed in many parts of the world”, “flesh of the bighead carp is white and firm, and not similar to that of the common carp”

cerement, 5 days ago

common carp doesn’t taste great – in this case, it was bighead carp which is considered quite nice – the main family of invasives in the US is Asian carp (includes bighead carp) which is also considered fairly tasty

cerement, 5 days ago

California wild boar prosciutto is fantastic – they live off acorns very similarly to Spain’s black boars raised for jamón ibérico de bellota

cerement, 5 days ago

»perceived« as not good eating for humans – Asian carp was brought in as a food source but Americans assume it tastes the same as common carp – all parts of kudzu are not only edible, but tasty and nutritious as well, but it’s looked down on as a weed that only poor people would touch – snails in California are descendants of gourmet European snails but we’re scared of anything that doesn’t come out of a fast food bag

invasivores have been rediscovering old recipes and creating new recipes for a lot of invasive species – their biggest battle is perception, not taste

cerement, 5 days ago

US has gotten really bad on what we perceive as edible – European cuisine still has a LOT of dishes based on organ meats that we’ve almost completely lost (liver paté, steak and kidney pie, blood sausage, tripe, lengua, guanciale, oxtail, pickled trotters) – everything’s been reduced down to what’s available in the supermarket, shrink-wrapped into a styrofoam tray – we can handle portioned steaks but not a butcher taking a bandsaw to a carcass, we can handle chicken breasts but not a whole chicken – things like “thigh”, “leg”, “rib” refer to the shape, not to the location on the animal it came from

EDIT: for the curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Beast by Fergus Henderson

cerement, 5 days ago

California has completely dry ditches they call rivers

cerement, 6 days ago

just remembered where you left the remote

cerement, 6 days ago

Sweden: Flying Jacob

cerement, 6 days ago

Appalachia

cerement, 6 days ago

you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000

cerement, 7 days ago

Betteridge’s law of headlines – “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

cerement, 7 days ago

abuse@website-im-visiting.com probably wouldn’t work as well …

cerement, 7 days ago

“some” …

EDIT: and yet another article that ignores the generation between millenials and boomers …

cerement, 7 days ago

“Socialist papers have often a tendency to become mere annals of complaints about existing conditions. The oppression of the laborers in the mine, the factory, and the field is related; the misery and sufferings of the workers during strikes are told in vivid pictures; their helplessness in the struggle against employers is insisted upon: and this succession of hopeless efforts, related in the paper, exercises a most depressing influence upon the reader. To counterbalance that effect, the editor has to rely chiefly upon burning words by means of which he tries to inspire his readers with energy and faith. I thought, on the contrary, that a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which everywhere announce the coming of a new era, the germination of new forms of social life, the growing revolt against antiquated institutions. These symptoms should be watched, brought together in their intimate connection, and so grouped as to show to the hesitating minds of the greater number the invisible and often unconscious support which advanced ideas find everywhere, when a revival of thought takes place in society. To make one feel sympathy with the throbbing of the human heart all over the world, with its revolt against age-long injustice, with its attempts at working out new forms of life,—this should be the chief duty of a revolutionary paper. It is hope, not despair, which makes successful revolutions.” [emphasis added]

—Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

cerement, 7 days ago

not so much as Mint being the “best way”, but Mint being a safe, friendly starting point – once you get your feet wet, you can start looking around at the other options (which can be pretty overwhelming initially) – and just as a lot of people use Mint as a jumping off point, a lot of people also stay with Mint

and yes, despite distro-hopping being a running joke, it exists because Linux distros make it relatively easy to do

the biggest change to keep an eye on is the development of atomic (“immutable”) distros – anything that makes it harder to bork your system and easier to recover afterwards (including recovering all of your configurations and customizations) is getting a lot of attention

cerement, 7 days ago

• phone cameras generally default to auto white balance which is good for snapshots, not so good for color accuracy
• trying to get raw files out of phone cameras is not completely impossible, but the images are almost always processed into JPEGs
  • the main camera is going to boost saturation and contrast (make your image “pop”)
  • selfie camera is going to focus on “flesh tones”, so less saturation boost (or you look sunburnt) and less contrast boost (smooth out wrinkles and acne)
• if you really want to focus on color accuracy over perceptual color, get hold of a gray card or color checker and plan on doing post-processing in something like Lightroom, Darktable, digiKam, RawTherapee or the like