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I'm a vegan so experienced bean eater. There are a couple things I found that help, but they do come at a cost of flavor or texture: Soak and rinse, but the soak water should be bo…

It seems like if the content is this hollow and useless, it shouldn't matter if it was a human or spambot posting it.

A lot of these problems are already managed by nurses or clinic assistants. It's pretty rare to get a lot of face to face time with an actual M.D. Certainly this is true the more y…

Resources on wild pig management usually recommend trapping or baiting rather than trying to shoot them. Shooting at them with a semi-auto while they are fleeing is a particularly …

There's clearly a sweet spot in the amount of entropy/unpredictability that is "interesting". Otherwise observing white noise would be the most interesting thing imaginable. I don'…

Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion. If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building. Type A personalities that demand social …

It's worth considering how old the US version of democracy is, and how many systems came after. Americans have a deep reverence for their personal brand, but it's worth considering…

Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat-like. Given fungus …

Anyone visiting wine country north of SF can visit a vineyard and tasting room that is/was tied to their family. It is almost a little museum with various artifacts from the family…

I don't really understand why iron is being considered over aluminum. Is aluminum production from ore too complex compared to iron? I would have to imagine burning metallic aluminu…

> I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too. Plenty of people will have plenty of issues with a major corporation. But it's worth pointing out that McDon…

It's very hard to take this essay seriously. Mostly because it so completely dances around the obvious purpose of a "superstore" that it is hard to connect this described experienc…

It's popular to connect The Plague to mid 20th century fascism. The message is actually much deeper and more broad than that specific point in time of Western history.

> Maybe really low/no interest loans for first time home buyers so they can at least get into the market. One big reason homes are priced so high in places like the USA is because …

> LLMs is the confident hallucination of incorrect facts This is a very common feature of delirium in people. Chatting with an LLM seems a lot like what it would be to talk to a cl…

> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. I had a fr…

The US government accepts these for debts and issues debts denominated in these.

There are a lot of problems that arise from lack of domain expertise, but they can be overcome with a multidisciplinary team. The biggest defeating problem for pure AI teams is tha…

Nuclear should be heavily subsidized regardless. Whenever they aren't needed for immediate demand, these power plants can be put to use for so many other tasks: desalination of wat…

> We need more gas and oil fast. We need more reliable and consistent base energy in overabundance fast. Nuclear can do this without creating a climate catastrophe. Even if you nee…

That this comment is in every discussion of TV tropes is a weird trope in and of itself.

In theory it could empower amateur storytellers to punch above their weight by creating semi-professional animated films. Though to be fair, there was a similar realization when it…

Even if TWTR paid TSLA, this is still an obvious conflict of interest.

For medium and somewhat hot peppers, the rule is pretty simple. Don't eat more than you are willing to chew. Mostly this is a problem of eating whole seeds or big chunks of pepper …

> The conscious mind is along for the ride, not in charge. If you look at extremely simple choices, you may be able to say this. But these generally aren't the sorts of decisions w…