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kakacik wrote: post #342
aaroninsf wrote: post #338

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This reads like literal propaganda. Every assertion of personal responsibility (sic) in the face of billion to trillion dollar industry spending is bad faith, zero exceptions. British Petroleum invented the concept of personal climate footprint. That was bad faith and to put a point on it, evil. Tech industry claims that engagement farming and addition manufacture should be opposed by "parenting" are even less credib…

Yes and no. Look around you and count how many properly failing parents there are. Parents who literally offload their parenting to a tablet, TV, phone, nanny which is often on phone herself, whatever. Then complain kids are unruly when they don't simply listen to them like soldiers. Parents, who are often as addicted to the screens (and more) as their kids. Recent studies showed above half of toddlers below 2 spend…

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Post by salemh »

skwirl wrote: post #332
sheepscreek wrote: post #258

I love this term - I think it beautifully describes the direction that at least, YouTube is heading towards. Take for example, this racket where a channel copies popular (non-kids) creators’ parody work, splits the screen in half with the content on left, adds a completely random DIY type video on the right half, and lo and behold its content for kids who are too young to know any better[1]. Another one: AI voiceover…

It is crazy to me that any parent of young children would let their kids watch YouTube videos on their own. Maybe this happened gradually enough that some parents didn't notice, but we had our first kid a couple years ago and I nope'd out of YouTube pretty quickly when I saw what was there. Even the channels known for being good - which we occasionally let the kids watch as long as we were present and choosing the vi…

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

As the saying goes, experience keeps an expensive school, but humanity will learn in no other.

The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk.

It is indeed interesting to observe how attitudes in tech seem to be changing, especially with the specter of AI. I think some of it is just the lament of the keypunch operator or some kind of parochial and domestic grumbling concealed behind the appearance of something greater, but some of it does seem like its rooted in at least an intuition about where everything is headed...and has been heading.

What the author is describing is consumerism. Consumerism devours everything and soon enough becomes a way of life. But as a society, we are enslaved to consumerism. We cannot let it go. We don't even know that we should. Status in consumerist societies is tied to consuming power! You don't want to be left behind, do you? So, unfortunately, the only corrective for an obstinate people is reality itself, which will come for its pound of flesh sooner or later. And we're seeing it. The drowning man must let go of his satchel full of fool's gold, but he is unable to and the satchel takes him to the dark depths until perhaps he is can no longer hold his breath. Reality has to pry his fingers from that satchel.

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doubled112 wrote: post #234
numbsafari wrote: post #229

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.. and here I am wanting better minivan options that can pull a travel trailer.

And here I am just wanting station wagons to come back, and be reasonably priced. The towing numbers are always higher in Europe than US too, despite being the same cars (as far as I know).

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Post by tetris11 »

phyzome wrote: post #241
tetris11 wrote: post #200

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the real stuff was arguably improved upon with the thicker replacement. I don't want wet pancakes.

Kind of sounds like you haven't had real maple syrup.

I have canadian cousins and they send me the real stuff every year. It's just what you prefer.

Some people like a Rolex watch they can flash at parties. Others are happy with a cheap imitation with a nice form that they can wear daily

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Post by LearnYouALisp »

corroclaro wrote: post #191
BonerWiener wrote: post #135

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Nothing kills a discussion like when someone just saying "I disagree" with zero explanation. They're not really contributing just cluttering up the comments. At least give a reason why.

For the record: you basically take a stick blender, the container that came with it, crack an egg, pour over some lemon juice, then blend while pouring in hot butter (use the microwave!). Takes ca 2 minutes, including the 1 minute 30s of microwaving the butter. Instant _real_ sauce hollandaise as the stick blender creates a vortex that emulsifies it. No need to hand whisk it over a bain-marie at careful temperatures.

Has anyone tried ultrasound (either probe or basin) for this mixing? I know it can be done for a finer substance

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Post by gyanchawdhary »

short_sells_poo wrote: post #318
gyanchawdhary wrote: post #283

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You should try Natoora in Notting Hill or Daylesford. I live in Belgravia and am admittedly spoiled for choice .. the Harrods Food Hall has excellent seasonal and harder to find fruits, and Daylesford consistently has some of the best British produce I've come across... the one in Sloane street even has the best organic Alphanso Mangos from India. As for Brexit, I actually think it's been a net positive.

You have to be joking, right? So you are saying that it's all fine, because we can just go to Harrods to get quality food? Nevermind that I hate Harrods and that entire area with a passion. It's a tasteless, glitzy tourist trap. My post was all about the fact that barring a tiny percentile of people who a) live in an affluent area and b) are willing to pay 2-3x the regular supermarket prices, you cannot get good qual…

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Post by picofarad »

lstodd wrote: post #219
bregma wrote: post #171

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It's not at all difficult if you have gained the basic survival skill of cooking. I mean, take a couple egg yolks in a double boiler, add the juice of a lemon, whisk until it's thick then add butter. 10 minutes and you can use a bowl over the pot of boiling water you're poaching your eggs in if you don't have a double boiler for your camp stove in the wilderness. But that's still more of a hassle than putting the car…

I short-circuited my microwave accidentally two years ago (don't power it up and then drop screwdrivers) and that was the best thing to happen to my meals.

Two microwaves tried to burn my house down so I said, fine, universe, I hear you.

I don't even have an oven anymore; three induction hobs, air fryer (instant pot with the fry lid), rice cooker, bread machine.

I have really bad luck with kitchen appliances these last 10 years!

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

ghurtado wrote: post #336
sheepscreek wrote: post #258

I love this term - I think it beautifully describes the direction that at least, YouTube is heading towards. Take for example, this racket where a channel copies popular (non-kids) creators’ parody work, splits the screen in half with the content on left, adds a completely random DIY type video on the right half, and lo and behold its content for kids who are too young to know any better[1]. Another one: AI voiceover…

The problem of 8yr olds watching too much YouTube is definitely not one for YouTube to fix. We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children. And then we complain that our kids are not being raised properly. We don't even know who to blame for this any more.

> We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children.

This is just the logical conclusion of consumerism.

Consumerism produces careerism. Careerism produces the two income household. A two income household cannot devote the needed time to raising children during their early years. Day care and school and after school activities has been used to keep children busy while parents were hunting for that next promotion and the bigger paycheck to get the better car to get the better "status" in the eyes of their neighbors.

The zombie is the perfect symbol for consumerism, because it involves a mindless, indiscriminate, beastly, and insatiable hunger that would sell his own grandmother for that next disposable morsel.

I think we really need to reshape things to conform to biological and human reality instead of working against it. In the case of women, our culture as well as our political and economic structures must support the ability of women to have children earlier and to be able to raise them themselves during their early years. Many women do actually want this, but the culture pressures them to do otherwise or convinces them that the consumerist lifestyle is more attractive, causing them to defer having children (constraining their fertile years) and to pursue careers that increasingly make it difficult to choose to relinquish for at least some time as they raise their children.

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

swed420 wrote: post #291
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #212

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From this (mostly fine) article you linked to: "Marx was a left-Hegelian, which meant he filed the serial numbers off God and called Him “communism”." I mean, no. That's a complete misreading of Marx. (Though perhaps one that was convenient to Stalinists or Maoists to continue to let breathe...). For one, it would only apply to Marx in his 20s. Grown up Marx substantially threw out most of the Hegelian stuff, seeing…

A misreading of Marx (intentional or otherwise) is precisely what I'd expect from Alexander.

Honestly, Marx's work is like "the Bible", nobody is really reading it honestly "from scratch". They are all coming in with an existing identity / framework / world view, and getting it to say what they want it to say.

Something about people pretending it was the official ideology of half the world tends to do that. The old man himself would have thrown up into his soup if he knew.

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