korazail

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[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 days ago

Another thing you can do is to separate the grease from any residual solids.

If you have a jar of bacon grease with brown bits floating around in it, you can put it in a pot with a similar amount of water and bring it all up to a boil or just near it for just a moment. The grease will sit on top of the hot water, but anything else will fall down. Then let the pot cool and put it in the fridge to solidify the grease. You can then scoop the now-solid grease in big chunks and put it back in the jar and discard any bits in the water.

I learned this from people who do at-home soap-making from their rendered fats. They would repeat it a few times before adding lye, as it will leach impurities such as salt, aromatic and favor compounds from the fat, but I find doing it once or twice leaves me with a nice cooking fat that still has bacon-y aroma.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 days ago

I really hate statements like this. Not because you are right or wrong, but because your word choices obscure your true meaning when used this briefly.

In the context of this thread, which is clearly US politics, "liberal" has a somewhat different meaning to the majority of the audience than I think you are using. I almost think you are just making rage-bait, but I've seen it so many times that I have to respond to someone.

We have a clear dichotomy of our political parties, since we effectively only have two... some words I might use are 'republican', 'conservative', 'democrat(ic)', 'liberal', 'progressive', 'socialist', 'fascist', 'leftist', 'right-wing'

Because of human language, these may signify different things based on context.

I identify as a "liberal" in my country. I am also a "democrat", as well as a "socialist" and a "leftist". I am anti-trump. I would vote for Mamdani, but I'm not in the area.

When you make absolute statements like "liberals will ALWAYS support the fascists," you ignore the context. Perhaps in the dictionary sense of the words, a liberal will prefer a fascist government where wealth makes power and they get all the benefit of their work over a socialist one where their input helps everyone. That describes a giant swath of business owners for sure, as well as the 'taxes are theft' people. In the US, though, a liberal could mean a person more focused on bodily autonomy, social equality, social safety nets and other more 'socialist' concepts.

Another way to put this is that the political words are a 3D venn diagram. When you put your line of liberal = capitalist against someone who is thinking liberal = democrat, you are going to have friction because, based on context, that word lands in different places. I'm going to ignore any 'all democrats are capitalists' arguments, or complexities around our election systems. See my post history if you want my opinions there.

If anything, I'd recommend that people clearly define their words, such as a liberal vs a liberal. And even then, you can see that both are capitalist by those definitions even though, colloquially, a person may identify as liberal while preferring socialist ideals.

Basically, any absolutes, especially in the realm of political ideology, makes you a Sith (probably). Also basically, anyone firing off a one-liner in a conversation this fraught is a troll (probably).

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago

Hey... They have a public contact page that looks like it would be taken somewhat seriously, as it feels legal in nature. I'll be letting them know that their leadership is engaging in unfair deals shortly. Anyone want to join in?

Speakup@krafton.com Via https://krafton.com/en/speakup

Worst case, we get ignored. Best is that they take notice that the audience they bought isn't theirs blindly.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Same. Fuck greedy publishers/IP holders. I want to see more Subnautica, but also want to ignore anything krafton touches.

Apropos the setting, I think the high seas is the way to accomplish both, but i fear that will just result in the studio going dark altogether.

Unknown Worlds has done good work, but will probably be yet another casualty of greedy leadership.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get the thrust of the song, but I have a question for you and/or anyone else who has insight:

I make small aggressions, like OP, where I assume I'm costing a corpo and giving to an artist through it, even if minuscule.

Examples:

Similar to OP, I have a streaming service 'downloaded' playlist of songs I like. I tend to leave my PC playing them in shuffle/repeat during my workday. I might have my volume on or off depending on my level of focus, but I can't see how that "engagement" doesn't benefit the artist without costing me anything -- maybe a smidge more electricity.

Since I saw The Spiffing Brit's runtime video, I no longer close a youtube tab if I decide I want something else. I mute the tab, set the speed to .25 and ignore it for a while. Costs me electricity, not that much bandwidth, and presumably pays the channel more than usual. Maybe fucks with analytics per-video, but probably not enough to bother the creator, and if it fucks with 'the algorithm' and pushes people to channels I already like, then that's a google problem.

I also have an Epic Games account, where I "buy" every single free game. I assume these have either already paid the developer a fixed fee for supporting development, or are paying based on sales volume. Either way, they presumably paid money to be able to offer these as a loss-leader. Most are games I would not have bought anyway, so I'm not costing the developer a potential sale and I will never buy anything through Epic games, so it should be just a loss. I actually want insight on this one, in case there are devs/publishers here. If this costs you when I buy your free game, there might be others like me who just need to know we're not helping.

Aside from the fact that my engagement with these platforms could be used as leverage (' we have X million active users...'), I can't see any negative to my attacks on them. It's possible the artists can't perceive it, but if the corpos love it, they wouldn't make me pass a CAPTCHA to buy a game.

The question, then, is: Am I hurting the artists, or helping them?

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 week ago

This. We've seen what republicans want to do. We need to stop them and vote 'not-republican' when we can before the ability to do so is gone. The problem is we cannot stop there and only vote every 2-4 years for the least-bad option, we need to make better options. "Both sides" is reductive and hides the problem.

Get involved: find and support people who have your views for all offices: city, county, state, federal, maybe even HOA. Most of these are important. If the incumbent is not working for us, we need to fight them and suggest someone better. If the incumbent is unchallenged, then that's a travesty and they need a primary, if the same party, or an opponent.

For the a while now we've seen the 'left' chase the 'center' and people like OP are mad at this. The solution is not 'vote blue no matter who', but that is a bandage to slow the bleeding and will resonate with the less-involved allies we have. The solution is to prove that we are the majority and push our own into leadership roles where they can make things better.

If you're angry right now, run for office or canvas for someone who is. Being mad, depressed or just bitching online isn't fixing anything. You can make things better, and it starts with finding a 'blue' worth voting for.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That looks great!

Growing up, I despised eggs except the ones that were thoroughly disguised(as in leavening)... I had a bad egg-salad experience as a kid and it stuck with me. In the last few years, though, I've come around and can enjoy them.

I'll have to give them a shot as a pizza topping. I imagine they vaguely fit the same texture/umami role that a slice of mozzarella does for a margherita pizza.

Thanks for the suggestion and enjoy yours tomorrow!

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Everything except the eggs sounds great -- and I'm not judging the egg, just curious:

I don't think of egg as a topping that would survive being baked. Does that go on before or after cooking? sliced or diced?

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just tried to open a soda can with my somewhat modern can opener (try them, btw, no sharp can edges) but it doesn't fit the lid of my can. My day is ruined.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like many things, a tool is only as smart as the wielder. There's still a ton of critical thinking that needs to happen as you do something as simple as bake bread. Using an AI tool to suggest ingredients can be useful from a creative perspective, but should not be assumed accurate at face value. Raisins and Dill? maybe ¯\(ツ)/¯, haven't tried that one myself.

I like AI, for being able to add detail to things or act as a muse, but it cannot be trusted for anything important. This is why I'm 'anti-AI'. Too many people (especially in leadership roles) see this tool as a solution for replacing expensive humans with something that 'does the thinking'; but as we've seen elsewhere in this thread, AI CANT THINK. It only suggests items that are statistically likely to be next/near based on its input.

In the Security Operations space, we have a phrase "trust but verify". For anything AI, I would use 'doubt, then verify" instead. That all said. AI might very well give you a pointer to the place to ask how much motrin an infant should get. Hopefully, that's your local pediatrician.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Brother is the other secret, though it seem like maybe even they have turned... the problem with making a solid piece of equipment that will last for a decade is you consume your customer base and can't show 'growth' constantly.

My Brother color laser (model 3170, bought in 2016) doesn't print the perfect photos, but that's not what I use it for. I print coloring sheets and camp forms for my kiddos and random forms for adult life. It ran on the original toner carts for around 5 years, with black being replaced first on its own. There's no inkjet in the world that will have 5 year-old carts work, but laser toner doesn't dry out.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Real talk. Ubisoft in general have made some great games. Their current business model is to pump out repeats of things that worked, and so earn our scorn for them 'as of right now'.

Who played AC 1 and didn't want more. That we're now up to AC 76 doesn't diminish that they made something fun before they beat it to death.

Even their primary accomplishment of making every open-world game follow their formula of '1000 sidequests, item hunts and mini-puzzles' doesn't detract from the fact that those were really fun the first few times.

I wish the best to all the ex-Ubisoft developers. Go make cool shit without the $business oversight$. In an ideal world, the publisher should be there to cover the gaps when a new concept falls flat, not to force developers to keep doing the same profitable thing and otherwise stifle innovation.

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