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In the San Diego area, KPBS (our local NPR station) is on 89.5FM, which is also the frequency a lot of those FM transmitters use. Always an interesting experience to be stuck on the freeway in rush hour traffic and get to tune into various broadcasts! Edit: Lousy snipe.
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PT6A posted:0.5%ABV is the standard for a beer to be sold as non-alcoholic. Also, where is “here?” The US and Canada both use 12oz. at 5% as far as I know. Ahh I didn't get the point of it was about 'non-alcoholic beers'. Here is Australia. We have a 'standard drink' which is 375ml @ 3.5%. Theres a sort of rule of thumb/guideline that the average adult male can have 2 standards in the first hour then 1 every hour after that. (meanwhile an average aussie male adult has had two beers in the time it took to read this post). I personally know I am going to be under the limit to drive home if I have two beers after work with my co-workers and if pulled over I won't 'blow over' which is 0.05% Blood Alcohol Concentration.
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May 7, 2023 05:44
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Humphreys posted:What the hell is 0.5% beer? One standard drink here is 3.5% Standard beers here (Finland) are 4.5% and they made it legal to sell the 5.5% ones too outside of Alko (state monopoly store), which sucks because I drink neither, I prefer the light beers around 2.8 - 3.5% but it seems their share of the floor space kept getting eaten by the non-alcoholic beers from one end and the new strong beers from the other end. So now I can basically never find my favorite types of beer anymore. The completely non alcoholic just don't taste right and I don't want the buzz or calories from the stronger beers either. I've basically stopped buying beer.
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May 7, 2023 07:41
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've basically stopped buying beer. Well thats good for your health at least!
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May 7, 2023 10:23
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I do wonder whats worse for your health, a light beer or a soda?
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May 7, 2023 11:12
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If it's a full sugar soda the soda definitely. If you pounded sodas like people do beers you'd end up with diabetes.
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May 7, 2023 13:39
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PT6A posted:0.5%ABV is the standard for a beer to be sold as non-alcoholic. Also, where is “here?” The US and Canada both use 12oz. at 5% as far as I know. Alcohol free Heineken tastes better than it has any right to.
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May 7, 2023 16:47
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XkyRauh posted:In the San Diego area, KPBS (our local NPR station) is on 89.5FM, which is also the frequency a lot of those FM transmitters use. Always an interesting experience to be stuck on the freeway in rush hour traffic and get to tune into various broadcasts! always christian rock
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May 7, 2023 17:24
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Mister Facetious posted:Alcohol free Heineken tastes better than it has any right to. I have tried a few brands and been very surprised. Everybody's game went up at some point when I wasn't paying attention. The 0.5% thing is pretty funny though because it still means I get carded if I buy one.
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May 7, 2023 18:00
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:The 0.5% thing is pretty funny though because it still means I get carded if I buy one. That's funny because in Finland the May Day is a big thing and you eat donuts and drink mead. You can make the mead at home using a ready ingredient kit or buy ready mead. The bottled mead has in the case of the bottle that I have in fridge alcohol content of 0.8% and kids drink that. Finnish alcohol law defines an alcoholic drink as something that has over 1.2% ethanol. 
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May 7, 2023 18:55
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You could buy a case each of the high abv stuff and the na stuff and blend to taste.
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May 7, 2023 19:15
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withak posted:You could buy a case each of the high abv stuff and the na stuff and blend to taste. Beating the system by buying a Bud Ice and watering it down until it's Bud Lite.
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May 7, 2023 19:17
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Steve French posted:Maybe at some point in the future it won't really matter, but I think it's fairly relevant at the moment. Like, a relevant caveat with ChatGPT is that it doesn't really "understand" math: Oh, absolutely, I just think the Chinese Room is a bad argument. It's like saying software doesn't exist, it's just ones and zeroes.
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May 7, 2023 19:31
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That looks like fundamentally missing the point of the thought exercise. Do you think it's impossible to imagine a system that reproduces human-like speech without accidentally creating sapience as a side-effect?
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May 7, 2023 23:22
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Irony.or.Death posted:That looks like fundamentally missing the point of the thought exercise. Do you think it's impossible to imagine a system that reproduces human-like speech without accidentally creating sapience as a side-effect? With the Chinese room, I think it was a decent thought experiment but fundamentally it is mostly the same thing as just a regular machine intelligence. The whole Chinese room system would be sentient in its whole, but separate from the specific sentience of the guy in the room.
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May 7, 2023 23:43
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Nenonen posted:That's funny because in Finland the May Day is a big thing and you eat donuts and drink mead. You can make the mead at home using a ready ingredient kit or buy ready mead. The bottled mead has in the case of the bottle that I have in fridge alcohol content of 0.8% and kids drink that. Finnish alcohol law defines an alcoholic drink as something that has over 1.2% ethanol. Mead here is like 12% that's some light stuff
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May 8, 2023 00:19
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Mister Facetious posted:Alcohol free Heineken tastes better than it has any right to. Yeah, it's my go-to if I want a beer but have a reason not to drink a real beer. It should also be noted that Heineken is 0.0, so it's actually alcohol free, not merely "legally non-alcoholic" which is a slight issue with some non-alcoholic beers in certain circumstances. I've also heard Guinness 0.0 is pretty good, but I haven't seen that in Canada yet/ever.
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May 8, 2023 03:07
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:Mead here is like 12% that's some light stuff It is because it's for kids and everyone. It has roots in the sobriety movement that was tightly connected with labour movement in the 19th century. We drink other stuff to get intoxicated, or make own and let it ferment longer.
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May 8, 2023 03:33
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It's not really mead either, it's based on lemons and brown sugar. We always brew our own and just polished off the last bottle. The store bought stuff just isn't any good IMO.
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May 8, 2023 04:44
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PT6A posted:Yeah, it's my go-to if I want a beer but have a reason not to drink a real beer. It should also be noted that Heineken is 0.0, so it's actually alcohol free, not merely "legally non-alcoholic" which is a slight issue with some non-alcoholic beers in certain circumstances. I've also heard Guinness 0.0 is pretty good, but I haven't seen that in Canada yet/ever. I quit drinking months back and even my small bar can get Heineken, Stella, guiness, and occasionally the lagunitas ipna. They're all way loving better than I imagined/remember an NA beer being but 1 or 2 is all it takes to feel full I also never liked busch light but busch NA is pretty loving good as an ice-cold drink with a burger and fries and they're way cheaper/less filling bawk fucked around with this message at 06:31 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 06:29
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May 8, 2023 06:31
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Mister Facetious posted:Alcohol free Heineken tastes better than it has any right to. Athletic Brewing Company's IPA (65 calories, under 0.5% alcohol) is really decent. The winner of the "how did they do this" beer taste thing is Hop Tea Black Tea. It tastes like an IPA, consists of hops, tea, water, and citric acid, and has 0 calories and 0 alcohol.
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May 9, 2023 01:48
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VideoGameVet posted:It tastes like an IPA, consists of hops, tea, water, and citric acid, and has 0 calories and 0 alcohol. It's actually pretty easy to emulate the taste of an IPA with zero calories. You just have to take a dish rag that still has some soap on it and squeeze it into a cup of piss, any random piss will do.
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May 9, 2023 01:59
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The Dave posted:It's actually pretty easy to emulate the taste of an IPA with zero calories. You just have to take a dish rag that still has some soap on it and squeeze it into a cup of piss, any random piss will do. That would be Rolling Rock beer.
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May 9, 2023 04:18
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It should come as little surprise that pretty much every non-sweet, non-alcoholic beverage category has seen growth and development. People are increasingly trying to avoid or reduce alcohol, and -- I'm sorry -- drinking a Coke with a nice meal is not pleasant, it's like drinking candy and the flavours don't go well with a lot of food.
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May 9, 2023 14:26
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PT6A posted:drinking a Coke with a nice meal is not pleasant, it's like drinking candy and the flavours don't go well with a lot of food. Have you tried smoking for decades? I’m told it helps.
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May 9, 2023 14:40
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PT6A posted:It should come as little surprise that pretty much every non-sweet, non-alcoholic beverage category has seen growth and development. People are increasingly trying to avoid or reduce alcohol, and -- I'm sorry -- drinking a Coke with a nice meal is not pleasant, it's like drinking candy and the flavours don't go well with a lot of food. 7-Up and Sprite are better than darker pop like Coke and Dr. Pepper and goes with more food, but that's a low bar to clear.
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May 9, 2023 16:10
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Brain Curry posted:Have you tried smoking for decades? I’m told it helps. Yes. Smoking while drinking pop is vile, nothing goes with tobacco as well as beer or wine or coffee.
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May 9, 2023 16:15
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The Dave posted:It's actually pretty easy to emulate the taste of an IPA with zero calories. You just have to take a dish rag that still has some soap on it and squeeze it into a cup of piss, any random piss will do. VideoGameVet posted:That would be Rolling Rock beer. Please don't insult piss or Rolling Rock by putting them in the same category as IPAs.
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May 9, 2023 16:43
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May 9, 2023 16:52
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I love how the rules of the modern age dictate that every time tobacco is mentioned in any way, it's compulsory to make it clear how awful it is and how much you hate it.
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May 9, 2023 17:21
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PT6A posted:I love how the rules of the modern age dictate that every time tobacco is mentioned in any way, it's compulsory to make it clear how awful it is and how much you hate it. I found out the other day that it’s not an uncommon thing for MLB players using chewing tobacco during a game to just throw up on the field in the middle of play and then they just go “okay I’m all good now” and keep playing.
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May 9, 2023 17:24
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IPAs are fine you big goon babies.
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May 9, 2023 17:31
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:IPAs are fine you big goon babies. I read an article that said nicotine and alcohol are actually both poisons and bad for you.
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May 9, 2023 18:15
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everything's a poison in the right dosage
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May 9, 2023 18:27
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:IPAs are fine you big goon babies. I love the taste of OE800 mixed with fire extinguisher foam.
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May 9, 2023 18:44
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:IPAs are fine you big goon babies. No, but that's because they are beers, not because they have alcohol. Cider is the obviously superior fermented low-abv beverage.
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May 9, 2023 19:07
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:IPAs are fine you big goon babies. This. And a fundamental aspect of (most) IPAs is that they're bitter.
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May 9, 2023 19:22
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Arivia posted:I found out the other day that it’s not an uncommon thing for MLB players using chewing tobacco during a game to just throw up on the field in the middle of play and then they just go “okay I’m all good now” and keep playing. Is chaw still a thing in MLB? From my casual watching of giants games my impression is that everyone is packing in sunflower seeds and spraying the husks everywhere.
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Zachack posted:Is chaw still a thing in MLB? From my casual watching of giants games my impression is that everyone is packing in sunflower seeds and spraying the husks everywhere. ah, i might be incorrect and it's sunflower seeds going down the wrong hole not chaw. still gross as gently caress
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