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pumpinglemma posted:...yep, it's insane. They make orange and chili-flavored chocolate and nobody bats an eye. As soon as one robot says to try banana tomato chocolate, everyone loses their mind.
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tomato was used in chocolate cake during war rationing, so there's historical precedent for the combo
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I'm getting a weird theory that boomer cooking being awful and kids hating it comes from the rise of industrial cigarette manufacture and smoking, and generations of adults as a result having stunted taste buds.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They make orange and chili-flavored chocolate and nobody bats an eye. banana tomato chocolate would be a sweet, bitter, sour combo which would probably work. Chocolate and orange is sweet, sour, and bitter already, and that totally works.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I cannot imagine using a browser that doesn't nuke taboola into oblivion. If a site breaks because I have taboola blocked then that site is dead to me. Is there one you can use on your phone? uBlock origin is great on my pc
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Professor Beetus posted:Is there one you can use on your phone? uBlock origin is great on my pc A bunch of phone browsers on Android (like Kiwi Browser) based on Firefox or Chromium allow adding extensions just like on PC. On iPhones it doesn't look to be possible without rooting the phone though.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm getting a weird theory that boomer cooking being awful and kids hating it comes from the rise of industrial cigarette manufacture and smoking, and generations of adults as a result having stunted taste buds. Cream. Of. Mushroom. Soup. In everything. My understanding is that the wartime advancements in food prep, science, and storage were leveraged for the consumer market as time/cost saving measures, combined with the exponential rise in advertisements and marketing. They left behind the food of their parents/grandparents for novel wizbang inventions.
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Mercury_Storm posted:A bunch of phone browsers on Android (like Kiwi Browser) based on Firefox or Chromium allow adding extensions just like on PC. On iPhones it doesn't look to be possible without rooting the phone though. Iphones have natively supported adblocking for like over 5 years at this point and have supported browser extensions for like 2. 1blocker or adguard works great. Not as good as ublock but still fine. Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm getting a weird theory that boomer cooking being awful and kids hating it comes from the rise of industrial cigarette manufacture and smoking, and generations of adults as a result having stunted taste buds. Also, at least in my country (UK) I would ascribe a good portion of it to the hangover from rationing
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Generic Monk posted:Iphones have natively supported adblocking for like over 5 years at this point and have supported browser extensions for like 2. 1blocker or adguard works great. Not as good as ublock but still fine. Explains the obsession with canned beans and supermarket bread
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I hate a lot about my country but baked beans are good and a lot of the supermarkets have a small bakery inside them, so fresh good bread is easy to get, and atleast for now we don't load it with sugar.Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm getting a weird theory that boomer cooking being awful and kids hating it comes from the rise of industrial cigarette manufacture and smoking, and generations of adults as a result having stunted taste buds. At lot of this was the 70s. Microwaves and new food processing methods exploded on to the market. A lot of people got taken in by this stuff even if they knew it wasn't as good quality wise purely by the novelty of it all. When the bad food thread posts the most awful recipes they are 9/10 out of some 70s cook book. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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Mister Facetious posted:Explains the obsession with canned beans and supermarket bread I;m Thinking About Thos Beans
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Cream of mushroom soup as a recipe ingredient is good though
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I would argue that it was mostly they came from a time of limited (at least less varied) and non-fresh ingredients as well. Just go to the quieter parts of a developing country and try and cook as varied a menu as is possible in Aus/UK/whatever and a willingness to eat at restaurants to eat something completely different outside your skill set. It is easy to cook an absolutely delicious pasta if you have access to fresh herbs and olive oil. Now do it without olive oil, fresh herbs, cheese or tomatoes (none of these are available outside expensive western styled supermarkets here if at all). Or if you do have everything for pasta (because you live in Bologna), try and do a tasty seafood laksa without fresh seafood, lemon grass, etc. I think people under-appreciate just how much more accessible quality food is compared to even the 80's.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-forced-ditch-115k-ford-234104336.html Man forced to ditch $115K Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’ quote:But Bala was quickly hit with the reality of owning and operating an EV soon after the purchase. The vehicle compelled him to install two charges – one at work and one at home – for $10,000. To accommodate the charger, he had to upgrade his home’s electric panel for $6,000.
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Aug 11, 2023 12:53
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I agree that electric luxury trucks are fraudulent
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Modern cars overall keep going that direction both EV and ICE. Just part of the capitalist path of product development.
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That is literally a tech nightmare.
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Why my current car has an actual physical distributor and the ECU software fits on 128k.
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I like how the article just states that he was compelled to install a charger at his work at his own expense. If he spent $114K on the truck, he got one of the deluxe models with the extended range. That has an advertised range of 320 miles. Let's halve that for shits and giggles, and he needs to commute 80 miles each way to run out of juice before he gets home, necessitating a charger at work. That is more than four times the average American commute distance. I also enjoyed the implication that the truck being in the shop for six months after a fender bender was somehow caused by the truck being an EV rather than it being a lovely, lazy shop. And lol at one of the comments: quote:We purchased one of the trucks, and when towing we got less than 25% of the quoted mileage.
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quote:"I cannot take it for off-grid camping. I cannot take for even a road trip," Bala wrote. "I can only drive in city – biggest scam of modern times." Wow I’m shocked that you can’t take an electric car that you need to plug into the grid to charge “off the grid” or to remote places. Wow who could have known.
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I'm curious what's going to happen with all the "no new ICE vehicles by X" pledges, when the infrastructure is clearly not ready for primetime and the manufacturing logistics is still pretty hosed up. Seven years is a decent amount of time to work some/most of the problems out, I think (with regards to the Canadian 2030 goal), but only if everyone involved works on it pretty hard. And "oh wow, no poo poo you can't go on long road-trips in an electric vehicle" is a hollow answer, because again the goal is that you won't be able to buy any other sort of vehicle very soon. Beyond that, even if everything works perfectly, the promise of the electric car is flawed at best because it was designed to be a solution to oil usage that didn't involve re-imagining our infrastructure and lifestyle entirely. You're still pouring a ton of money into infrastructure, you're still using a lot of energy and resources to build the vehicles, electric cars do nothing to address the safety problems associated with driving, etc.
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PT6A posted:I'm curious what's going to happen with all the "no new ICE vehicles by X" pledges, when the infrastructure is clearly not ready for primetime and the manufacturing logistics is still pretty hosed up. Seven years is a decent amount of time to work some/most of the problems out, I think (with regards to the Canadian 2030 goal), but only if everyone involved works on it pretty hard. And "oh wow, no poo poo you can't go on long road-trips in an electric vehicle" is a hollow answer, because again the goal is that you won't be able to buy any other sort of vehicle very soon. This is kind of where I'm coming from with it. Kind of curious how infrastructure evolved with the advent of the internal combustion engine and can only assume it was kind of a gradual, build as you go sort of thing where gas stations just kept increasingly popping up as cars became more commonplace. I know the highway system was a planned and heavily invested initiative but I'd have to imagine that most streets were the result of "we should probably put a road here. And, oh yeah, maybe a filling station." ANyone with better knowledge of it feel free to chime in.
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PT6A posted:I'm curious what's going to happen with all the "no new ICE vehicles by X" pledges, when the infrastructure is clearly not ready for primetime and the manufacturing logistics is still pretty hosed up Maybe it will prompt governments to replace cars with an integrated public transport system 
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If infrastructure for EVs is that bad even in the USA, imagine in the global south EVs arent a solution anyway
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EV infrastructure sucks but there are “biggest scam” articles and videos all over the internet about EVs so I’d take that with a grain of salt. I had a charger installed at home and it was a grand total of 2k for parts and labor.
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Mister Facetious posted:Reminder that Americans eating Tide pods "because someone on tik tok did it" or industrial cleaners due to being unable to afford their predatory for-profit healthcare system isa thing Reminder that that was largely moral panic bullshit and the vast, overwhelming majority of Tide Pod consumption is either young children without experience or knowledge of what a "Tide Pod" or "Detergent" are, or cased of diminished capacity such dementia or mental handicap.
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None of it is shocking if you do any research into range, range when towing, localish charging availability — that being said to be the standard it needs to work for the idiots too. If you don’t have a Tesla and are doing a longer range road trip it can be pretty shocking when your only charging option is some random hotel parking lot and then you get there and it is either dead or had an unreasonably slow charge speed.
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Generic Monk posted:Iphones have natively supported adblocking for like over 5 years at this point and have supported browser extensions for like 2. 1blocker or adguard works great. Not as good as ublock but still fine. The U.K. has culinary Stockholm syndrome where rationing lead to people growing up eating bland food with no seasoning and the offal of animals nobody wanted, so they have to convince themselves and everyone around them that jellied eel, blood pudding, cold beans on bread, and boiled meat are actually really good. It's why they made their national dish Chicken Tikka Masala, because as soon as some Indian guy invented a flavorful dish in the U.K, they knew they had to claim it.
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BiggerBoat posted:This is kind of where I'm coming from with it. Total Energies is expecting to convert most of their petrol stations to EV in the next few years in Europe but expects to double the number of petrol stations in its African market over the same timeframe as manufacturing capacity and resources will be priortised toward the green credentials of Western nations. Also remember that (slow) charging at home with an optional extra will reduce the amount of people visiting servos as well. I don't think it is so much an issue for EV light vehicles as it is for truck fleets that will need multi megawatt servos to keep up with truck traffic. A lot of the earliest road networks were laid out for horse and buggy and even if most people walk, a similar network needs to be in place for logistics reasons anyway (in Singapore, Tokyo, etc, a LOT of road traffic is public busses, delivery trucks/vans and taxis).
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nachos posted:EV infrastructure sucks but there are “biggest scam” articles and videos all over the internet about EVs so I’d take that with a grain of salt. I had a charger installed at home and it was a grand total of 2k for parts and labor. I've thought about getting an ev. But my driveway is about 100 meters from my house, so I'd need to run a line out to it. Probably dig a trench. It'd be a lot more than 2000 dollars. I don't think ev is gonna work for me.
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Jen heir rick posted:I've thought about getting an ev. But my driveway is about 100 meters from my house, so I'd need to run a line out to it. Probably dig a trench. It'd be a lot more than 2000 dollars. I don't think ev is gonna work for me. What kind of wild architectural design do you have where you have a driveway, but your driveway is roughly 1,000 feet from your house?
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Inferior Third Season posted:I like how the article just states that he was compelled to install a charger at his work at his own expense. If he spent $114K on the truck, he got one of the deluxe models with the extended range. That has an advertised range of 320 miles. Let's halve that for shits and giggles, and he needs to commute 80 miles each way to run out of juice before he gets home, necessitating a charger at work. That is more than four times the average American commute distance. He lives in Canada, and not in the heavily-urbanized eastern parts either. Another article says his daily commute is 100 kilometers (60 miles round trip). But neither article mentions him having trouble using it to commute to work. The problem is that he drives long distances for recreational purposes. He ran into issues when he tried to take his electric pickup truck on a 1400-mile road trip from Winnipeg to Chicago, expecting to stop off in random Minnesota suburbs (like Albertsville, population 7896) on the way to charge up. Aside from that, he likes to drive out to his lake cottage in the next province over (200km or 120 miles away, with no charger there), and apparently makes all sorts of other long-distance excursions into the wilderness for outdoor recreational purposes. It kinda seems like he just doesn't think things through very well. But that's just one dude who had a bad experience. The real question is why reporters care about some random-rear end forum post.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What kind of wild architectural design do you have where you have a driveway, but your driveway is roughly 1,000 feet from your house? I mispoke. I meant feet. I'm not good with distances
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What kind of wild architectural design do you have where you have a driveway, but your driveway is roughly 1,000 feet from your house? in what world is a meter almost ten feet?
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evilweasel posted:in what world is a meter almost ten feet? I misread it as 300, but he also meant to say feet instead of meter. Which makes a lot more sense.
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measuring in feet never makes sense my friend.
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Digging a trench in soft ground for an electrical conduit shouldn't be 2 grand, you can probably hire a small ditch witch thing and do it in an hour (once you've had someone locate the utilities).
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There's people who always complain about being scammed because they don't do basic due diligence. He didn't look into whether an electric vehicle made sense for his lifestyle, which was an extreme of long distance travel in minimal infrastructure, he obviously didn't do proper diligence on the contractor he hired to install a charger, and he definitely didn't spend any time actually planning out this road trip. Once a sucker, always a sucker.
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Thanks Ants posted:Digging a trench in soft ground for an electrical conduit shouldn't be 2 grand, you can probably hire a small ditch witch thing and do it in an hour (once you've had someone locate the utilities). there are, uh, problems in not doing proper trenches for wires https://www.nashvillescene.com/news...0in%20Kentucky. its one thing to gently caress around with an internet cable, it's another to gently caress around with an electrical cable
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