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I wanted to do a praxis and also stuff my face by making non kellogs rice crispy squares, and the most popular recipe calls for "tablespoons" of butter. How the gently caress do you measure butter in a tablespoon???
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OwlFancier posted:I wanted to do a praxis and also stuff my face by making non kellogs rice crispy squares, and the most popular recipe calls for "tablespoons" of butter. This is a safe space, you don't need to pretend you've never shoved a tablesoon into a tub of butter.
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Jan 3, 2022 18:15
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OwlFancier posted:I wanted to do a praxis and also stuff my face by making non kellogs rice crispy squares, and the most popular recipe calls for "tablespoons" of butter. The density of butter is about 0.9g/ml and a tablespoon is 15 ml. 0.9 x 15 = 13.5g
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Jan 3, 2022 18:16
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OwlFancier posted:I wanted to do a praxis and also stuff my face by making non kellogs rice crispy squares, and the most popular recipe calls for "tablespoons" of butter. 14.17g = 1tbsp butter american recipies suck rear end with their dumb measuring systems edit: https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/tablespoon-butter-to-gram-butter/
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Jan 3, 2022 18:18
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Tarnop posted:The density of butter is about 0.9g/ml and a tablespoon is 15 ml. I have resorted to trying to figure this out and this is about the number I got too, I am more just absolutely loving baffled at how you are supposed to actually measure it, because it's a unit of volume for something that doesn't loving fit in a spoon. Yes you can gouge out chunks of it with a spoon but unless you just melt a giant bucket of it and ladle it out you aren't getting level spoonfulls of the stuff.
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Jan 3, 2022 18:19
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OwlFancier posted:I have resorted to trying to figure this out and this is about the number I got too, I am more just absolutely loving baffled at how you are supposed to actually measure it, because it's a unit of volume for something that doesn't loving fit in a spoon. This is just a problem with American recipes in general using volumes where mass is more accurate. Flour is the one that annoys me the most because it compacts into any kind of scoop and accurate quantities matter in a lot of baking. The fact that, as you identified, measuring butter by volume is going to result in waste, is no doubt a feature rather than a bug. There is also a whole industry producing and selling cup-sized scoops and we wouldn't want that to go away would we. e: also from watching some American baking videos on YouTube, as far as I can tell no one uses an actual tablespoon, they're all using 15ml scoops which I guess you could level off with a knife but no one does. Tarnop fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jan 3, 2022 18:23
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Ornedan posted:Cryptocoins seem good to libertarian weirdos who are opposed to ever trusting another human on principle, and hate "fiat" currencies. Bitcoin was meant to be a virtual gold standard where the generation of new coins slows and eventually stops, so that there will only ever be at most a fixed amount of currency in circulation. And there would be no bank whose ledger you'd have to trust, but rather a shared ledger's integrity would be enforced by everyone getting into an arms race for more computational power so they could allocate the dribble of new coins to themselves. Of course that requires a) useful information and b) friends so it was never going to work out for the kinds of misanthropes that just want to be king poo poo of their own poo poo mountain without bringing anything to the table, but it laid the groundwork for everything from free forums software to torrent sites, and the big change that cryptocurrency brought was to introduce the idea of scarcity and property to something that was otherwise ideologically post-scarcity and post-property. So now it was "if you own this digital property no government or warlord or corporation could take it away" and all those types loved it. What all the layers of scams have proved is lol, that's not true at all is it, lmao. Also OwlFancier just stick the spoon in and level it with a knife if you must. It's butter.
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Jan 3, 2022 18:33
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Crypto-twitter heard me, and have just reminded everyone that today is the 13th anniversary of the Genesis Block, the first Bitcoin block, mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on the 3rd of January, 2009. Everyone book your tickets to Miami for the Bitcoin Conference 2022 in April. goddamnedtwisto posted:Have you done a PCR test? Yep. PCR, LFT (including throat swab) and spit tests have all come back negative. I even took a photo of the LFT and zoomed in to double check there wasn't a faint line that might have been missed. Lady Demelza fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jan 3, 2022 18:36
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Lady Demelza posted:Yep. PCR, LFT (including throat swab) and spit tests have all come back negative. I even took a photo of the LFT and zoomed in to double check there wasn't a faint line that might have been missed. Has SA bred yet another variant? (Seriously though that sucks, and I'd definitely call in sick if at all possible because even if it's "just" a cold it's not like traveling and working is going to speed your recovery, is it?)
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Jan 3, 2022 18:40
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Tarnop posted:This is just a problem with American recipes in general using volumes where mass is more accurate. Flour is the one that annoys me the most because it compacts into any kind of scoop and accurate quantities matter in a lot of baking. I’ve had to look it up enough times by now to know that a tablespoon of butter is in fact 14g
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Jan 3, 2022 18:42
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Barry Foster posted:Speaking of, it's been more or less exactly ten years I've been posting in these threads ''Survive'' is one of the most important words these days.  Those who have passed on are not forgotten. edit: i run two computers at home, partial heating with included entertainment is fine by me. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jan 3, 2022 18:48
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"Forget about all those times I tried to sell you a bridge, NFTs have legitimate applications!"
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Jan 3, 2022 18:58
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Just Another Lurker posted:edit: i run two computers at home, partial heating with included entertainment is fine by me. I actually have wondered about this, if you adjust your heating to compensate is running electronics not just running a space heater that also does other things?
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Jan 3, 2022 19:02
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The Question IRL posted:And that is what Crypto has done and what NFT wants to do. Move the discussion away from "Wait, why do I use this, it's awful?" To "look we almost have the energy problem cracked." Amazing, instead of any semblance of shame the people involved are happy to tout their involvement in it. That's what happens with our cultural values, I suppose (by which I mean, failing upwards).
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Jan 3, 2022 19:03
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Guavanaut posted:It's this, but more propertarian than libertarian. Potayto potahto perhaps, but there was a kind of utopian libertarian movement around cryptography in the 90s, John Perry Barlow, free software, information wants to be free, and the Crypto Wars, where the big underlying philosophy was that if you have some useful information and want to share it with a friend, no government or warlord or corporation could stop you. I think it was Cass Sunstein who, although something of a broken clock, studied how the modern libertarian/propertarian concept of freedom is blind to how heavily it relies on a government to enforce ownership rights. It's amusing to see the crypto bunch building their governmentless utopia and wondering why it's hell. Tarnop posted:The density of butter is about 0.9g/ml and a tablespoon is 15 ml.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:15
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OwlFancier posted:I actually have wondered about this, if you adjust your heating to compensate is running electronics not just running a space heater that also does other things?
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Jan 3, 2022 19:18
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If you get enough concrete in the right shape you can sail it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship There's one sunk off the east cliff at whitby. Sticks out when the tide is low. 
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OwlFancier posted:There's one sunk off the east cliff at whitby. Sticks out when the tide is low.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:29
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CGI Stardust posted:not surprised it sank. it's made of concrete! https://londonist.com/london/history/visit-these-concrete-ships-from-wwii 16 ships made of concrete (reinforced with iron) - part of D-day landings preparations) at Rainham marshes.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:35
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NFTs are definitely the tipping point to people realising crypto is dumb Also thanks for reminding me I bought $1000 worth of bitcoin when it was $60 a coin, many years ago (I sold it all off at $200 a coin, I coulda been a millionaire rodney)
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Jan 3, 2022 19:37
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The one at whibty I think was built as a tugboat, and was scuttled on the eastern shelf.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:37
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OwlFancier posted:If you get enough concrete in the right shape you can sail it. Guavanaut posted:In the grim dampness of the not too distant future, there is only war between the luxury apartments and office spaces over 70m up and a handful of clergy who live on top of St Paul's. The old precast concrete towerblocks sailing round on their side harassing the larger buildings.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:38
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OwlFancier posted:I actually have wondered about this, if you adjust your heating to compensate is running electronics not just running a space heater that also does other things? A couple of people have tried this using the waste heat from bitcoin mining. In both examples the bitcoin earnings do offset the higher cost of electric energy vs gas energy, but the cost of the mining rigs themselves is a challenge to the economics of it. A gas combi-boiler puts out about 20kW which is a heck of a lot of graphics cards. https://medium.com/swlh/heating-my-home-with-crypto-mining-137d2a29b62a https://blog.haschek.at/2021/how-i-heat-my-home-by-mining.html With better designed and built houses the peak heating load would be a lot lower. One way to do it would be some kind of modern district heating where a local data-centre sends you its waste heat when you want it and sends it to a greenhouse when you don't.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:43
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I was more thinking just about the notion that the electricity of a computer is just "wasted" when you're presumably not just firing it out of your house, presumably it should be counted for the utility of the task you're doing with it and also for its heating usage. I don't think that really applies to making up useless things to do with your computer as an excuse to run it though, as in crypto.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:45
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Using waste process heat from a datacenter does seem preferable to using waste process heat from a nitric acid works or a medical incinerator or something, because it doesn't require living near anything like that. Probably not crypto though, they have a habit of doing poo poo like running illegal gas turbines.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:55
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Concrete made with fly ash instead of sand and gravel as aggregate (e.g. breeze blocks and non-structural panels) are actually pretty close to water in density terms and so can float on their own - as demonstrated by a kid who jumped off a bridge into the docks around my way, landing on a massive concrete panel (presumably that had fallen/been blown off one of the sheds) floating a foot or so under the water. The sight of someone whose legs weren't leg-shaped any more, screaming as he floated serenely off, is one that did more to prevent kids swimming in those docks than any amount of scary Donald Pleasance-voiced videos. I've always wondered how they got the poor bastard off there without making things much worse, because presumably you couldn't actually get a boat out to him without tipping the block and maybe chucking him into the water to try and swim with legs that had a lot more bends in them than legs normally do (I, of course, just ran like hell when I saw it happen) goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jan 3, 2022 20:05
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OwlFancier posted:I wanted to do a praxis and also stuff my face by making non kellogs rice crispy squares, and the most popular recipe calls for "tablespoons" of butter. American recipe? You buy butter there and it comes in a rectangular cardboard box, and inside are four individually wrapped sticks, and on the stick is marked each tablespoon, 8 to a stick. So you just slice at the appropriate point.
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Jan 3, 2022 20:11
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dyou reckon they call it a knob of butter b/c it is the amount that can comfortably fit under the foreskin 
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Jan 3, 2022 20:14
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crispix posted:dyou reckon they call it a knob of butter b/c it is the amount that can comfortably fit under the foreskin Sounds like a goon project. Post it on GBS.
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Jan 3, 2022 20:16
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OwlFancier posted:I actually have wondered about this, if you adjust your heating to compensate is running electronics not just running a space heater that also does other things? It's not an efficient alternative but it if you have them running anyway you may as well take advantage of it, though if i wanted a heater i would be running cutting edge Intel instead of AMD.  Our current mild weather currently negates this atm. I'm slightly tipsy so these posts may or may not be a coherent.  Currently dreading my next power bill in March/April, i can pay it but i don't want to give companies money unless required.
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Concrete ship or chocolate teapot?
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Just had angry call and text from my landlord demanding to know why the rent for this month isn't in his account yet. I don't think he's realised today was a bank holiday. Also getting stressed out by British Gas who have just told me I owe them 100 quid for November. Meanwhile People's Energy have been taking their £200 direct debit every month without fail including 29th Dec, and I haven't dared to cancel it because all the advice around collapsing energy companies said not to. Tomorrow is going to involve watching my bank account like a hawk around 9am and then a lot of being on hold on the phone, I guess.
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Jan 3, 2022 20:35
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Jippa posted:Concrete ship or chocolate teapot? Both actually work fine (although only for a little while in the latter case), people just don't believe it because physics is hard.
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On the subject of cereal: seriously, where do I get Ricicles or their closest knock-off? I haven't been able to find them in years, because everyone decided to stop making them simultaneously. I am getting unreasonably angry at the complete and total lack of sugar-coated rice crispies in this country, every time I remember that we were robbed of them I get really pissed off then have to feel stupid for being mad about cereal. Can I just sprinkle icing sugar on rice crispies and be done with it?
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Jan 3, 2022 20:56
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Maugrim posted:Just had angry call and text from my landlord demanding to know why the rent for this month isn't in his account yet. I don't think he's realised today was a bank holiday. Doh, of course it is - I was sort-of stressing because I had a notification from Amex saying "Thanks for the payment" but my bank account hadn't actually seen it go out - obviously part of me was excited thinking I'd just got away with a free Christmas but the other 99% of me was thinking "Oh poo poo something's hosed and I'm going to spend hours on the phone and bailiffs are going to turn up and Priti Patel will have let them carry guns" and all the other stuff that runs through my head every time there's the slightest discrepancy in my finances (if anything it's worse when it seems like I've come out ahead, because I know there's no way the universe wouldn't let that happen). Still intrigued by that notification - I assume that because it's a direct debit the bank accepted the request from them on the 1st and went "Yeah, the money's there" to Amex but it doesn't officially get deducted from my account until tomorrow, but that seems a bit dangerous to me because *right now* it looks like I've got quite a bit more money than I thought I had and I can see that tricking people into silly decisions. Of course if I was a bank I could just show a screenshot of the empty Amex account and full current account and use that to get a loan for ten times the value of both, then get the government to pay it off for me.
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Lady Demelza posted:I'm beyond two weeks of a cold that I can't shake. Every Covid test I've done is negative. There's so much congestion in my chest and nose that I have to rest after climbing the stairs and time eating/drinking with the need to breathe through my mouth. The only thing that can rouse me from the 10 hours sleep I need each night is periodically waking up boiling hot and sweating buckets. Sounds like you have pneumonia, my dude. If so, y'want to get that poo poo looked at pretty quick, and an ER visit is not out of the question usually at this stage of advancement. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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smellmycheese posted:The name of that anonymous person? Albert Bullshit These nerds aren't washing their cloth masks, are they? And they're reusing the disposable ones over and over, because words don't mean anything.
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There was [is?] a concrete ship at the Waterways Museum in Gloucester. For years, the accumulated puddles, litter and occasional dead seagull fooled me into thinking it was just dumped there, but apparently it was [is?] an exhibit.
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making kids breathe in the germs and bacteria they already have = abuse letting them breathe their germs and bacteria all over each other = just common sense innit
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OwlFancier posted:I was more thinking just about the notion that the electricity of a computer is just "wasted" when you're presumably not just firing it out of your house, presumably it should be counted for the utility of the task you're doing with it and also for its heating usage. Yeah it's not wasted in the sense that the energy never disappears but the quantity is negligible if you only use computation for your own enjoyment. You'd get as much of a gain by swapping back to incandescent bulbs when it's cold. If you're on a thermostat you don't need to make any adjustments to realise the gains either. Your heating only switches on until the temperature reaches your chosen level. If you've been playing COD at max settings or cooking christmas dinner then the background temperature will be slightly higher and the boiler will run for slightly less long or not at all. goddamnedtwisto posted:Concrete made with fly ash instead of sand and gravel as aggregate (e.g. breeze blocks and non-structural panels) are actually pretty close to water in density terms and so can float on their own - as demonstrated by a kid who jumped off a bridge into the docks around my way, landing on a massive concrete panel (presumably that had fallen/been blown off one of the sheds) floating a foot or so under the water.
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