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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Imagine being a kid in a family that stays in this room. Your mom tells you “bedtime” and you go lay in bed as she gets a green book to read before bed. Each page she reads she points to the page and something in the room that matches. As sleep pushes against your eyelids the realization that the book and room are the same. Exactly the same. And you fall asleep in the story. (Or are jolted awake with the realization that reality might be a lie or deliberately decorated, depending on what kind of kid you are).


  • I have 2 veterinarians in the family and both sold their practices to private investors. These private companies are buying up pet services as it’s one of the last places people pay medical bills without insurance. Pet insurance is also skyrocketing in popularity.

    Hedge funds took our pets and created a lucrative industry exploiting our human need to care for others. Monetizing love is the most evil thing I can imagine and it is now a multi-billion dollar market.


  • Bitter sounds like hard water is altering the pH and pulling more tannins. Cleaner water, like RO water, will pull the flavonoids and fewer bitter tannins.

    Second, the water needs to rest for a bit after boiling. 80C/180F is a good temp to pull maximum flavor with minimal tannins. This will again reduce the bitterness of the tea.

    An easy alternative approach to tea making that will remove most bitterness is to cold brew the tea in water overnight, separate leaves and tea, and then slow heat the tea. It will have virtually none of the bitterness while keeping the flavor.

    Pour the nearly boiling tea over sugar and ice cubes - clean water and slow freezing makes clear ice that leaves no flavor or residue in the tea. The sugar will melt but may require some additional stirring until thoroughly melted. Use more sugar than you might think, like 200g for each liter of tea.

    Real sweet tea is a treat, like drinking candied tea.





  • You don’t understand a global resource like information. Why would a market collapse in America cause digital serfdom in Europe? What would compel any other nation to follow in the steps of a collapsing superpower?

    Further, let’s say that you’re right - what steps or actions would follow after the collapse? Who would enforce any of this shit? The billionaires who are the only ones who lost money and power? The politicians who are suddenly not getting paid by those same billionaires?

    Fuck it, let the bubble break. Fuck the shareholders. Let it break down during Trump. Show the MAGA he only brings ruin.






  • What progress? Corporations are more concerned about making money, not moving anything forward. Why do you think it is so hard for businesses to evolve and change with the market? A corporation, by design, is inflexible unless ridiculously small, which prevents shareholder profitability due to retooling and retraining costs.

    There is little difference between a corporation and a parasite that will kill its host.



  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldLadder of Alien
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    3 months ago

    Not much except that it came out after one of the greatest science fiction sequels of all time and couldn’t escape the shadow of its success. Also the lack of weapons for a prison seems like it’s less dungeon and more of an oubliette, which was never stated in the film but would make sense for how the prisoners are left to fend for themselves and have no regulation about mixing populations.

    But I agree with you that the third one isn’t bad.