FauxPseudo

FauxPseudo , 3 hours ago

And time served. Guilty but free.

FauxPseudo , 4 days ago

Swamp creatures lives matter. Make swamp creatures great again.

FauxPseudo , 4 days ago

I was thinking boot from a different media and access the file system. But the moment I saw Steve Gibson had a different way I felt like my option was stupid. That is the power of Steve Gibson.

FauxPseudo , 4 days ago

This was definitely worth the watch. But I feel like the self promotion and app advertisement at the end detracted from the whole thing.

FauxPseudo OP , 5 days ago

The link at the top of the post works. Not sure why this comment one doesn’t.

FauxPseudo , 7 days ago

Handyman: Charisma. Being personable means not going bankrupt by competing on a race to the bottom on price.

FauxPseudo , 9 days ago

I feel seen

FauxPseudo , 9 days ago

Memes belong to the people. They are fungible assets that do not belong to any one person and are not transferable yet are infinitely transferred.

FauxPseudo , 11 days ago

The heat should be no higher than “4”. Put a lid on it to trap heat and melt the cheese before flipping. You won’t need the lid after the flip.

Don’t over stuff them. I know I have a habit of doing that. Yesterday I made some with hash browns diced chicken and cheese. Too big.

FauxPseudo , 13 days ago

Old habits die hard.

FauxPseudo , 18 days ago

New mirror test. Who dis?

FauxPseudo , 18 days ago

How do I feel about Gates? I’m not even sure I know. He increased productivity by leaps and bounds. He donates unfathomable sums of money to good causes. He has a problem in that his wealth grows so fast that it’s almost impossible for him to donate it fast enough to actually end up with less money at the end of a year than he started out with but that’s kinda the problem with having billions of dollars and trying to actually do good instead of paving a road to hell. He engaged in monopoly practices. He likes to eat the same thing over and over and over again. He is buying up farmland at an insane rate with the idea of big things. I got so many mixed feelings that I don’t know how you would know when I don’t know myself.

FauxPseudo , 18 days ago

Have you seen the Venn diagram of pey saying “if we shrink government social spending people and charities will step up to fill the void” and “billionaires are using money to control people”?

FauxPseudo , 17 days ago

What I really don’t get is how people that believed then could say “We have seen naught progress on the last big promise. Let’s go bigger” 6 years later and decided that Brexit was a good idea. “Look at all the money that will be freed up for social programs.” Money created through trade. Trade that stopped. On an effing island completely dependent on trade.

Sure, my country elected a conman, got 1% wiser and fired them 4 years later. And yet here we are again going “you know, things were sure easier when we had a conman in charge. Even though that last year we thought we were going to die or that the conman was in on a conspiracy to make us think we were going to die. We should bring him back.”

FauxPseudo , 25 days ago

So was polio, measles and American citizens supporting Russian politicians. Once you think something is history you are dealing with a whole population that is naive to it and the process starts all over again. The only thing we have successfully consigned to history is small pox.

FauxPseudo , 28 days ago

“Let us honor the memories of those we lost by fostering a spirit of solidarity and kindness.”

They were lost by fostering a spirit of solidarity and kindness? No, they were lost by inaction. They should have run this by an editor because that doesn’t say what they think it says.

FauxPseudo , 29 days ago

I too heard about this from TWiV. I was very grateful to have finished every back episode of Twitter just before pandemic hit. I felt I was actually prepared for things with the most reliable source on virology available.

FauxPseudo , 30 days ago

We watched 1 through 66 recently. We will be going back for more. It’s like watching someone put in their 10,000 hours one episode at a time. The art, story telling, direction, cinematography, sound etc all improve with each episode.

FauxPseudo , 30 days ago

66618055 I never tried to get a better number because 666

FauxPseudo , 30 days ago

My standard reply was “hailing frequencies open.” Needless to say it was the opening line that let multiple women know that I was single. Surprisingly it had a 100% success rate. I was the best nerd.

FauxPseudo , 30 days ago

The data is conflicting. I think they had already made up their mind on that topic before messaging me. My reply just reinforced their decision. It’s hard to separate causation and correlation in that case.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Separate the whites and yolks. Make a sponge cake or something out of the whites.

In a tupperware container, put down a thick layer of salt. Then place the yolks close but not touching on that layer of salt. Cover everything with salt. Leave it out at room temperature covered but with the ability to breathe. The yolks will harden and dehydrate. You can now use them as a Parmesan substitute in salads, pastas and other things.

If you want to step things up a little bit make sense and cray powder or chili powder (American Curry powder) with the salt to impart some flavor to the yolks.

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There’s nothing wrong with a hard egg sandwich. Little bit of mayo. A little bit of mustard. Maybe a tiny bit of horseradish and some dill. Put that on two slices of bread.

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You can make ice cream. Egg sugar, salt, cream.

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If you don’t anticipate running into another surplus then you can get some food grade lime and waterglass the eggs for long-term storage as long as they are not washed. If you bought them from a store In America then do not do this. Only do this with farm fresh unwashed eggs.

I run a hard surplus on eggs so I do not do this because I know there will always be more so I’m not looking for ways to save them but ways to you use them.

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Never underestimate the tastiness of shakshuka.

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Breakfast burritos.

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Do you have any urine and wood ash? Maybe it’s time to bury some eggs in the backyard.

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FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

Not the first time he’s done this.

thehill.com/…/4673353-trump-suggests-he-could-be-…

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

My mistake. Meant to post this link.

www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/…/index.html

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

Roundup acid? Now there’s a phrase I’ve never heard before. Depending on if it’s buffered or not Roundup can have a pH of 3.5 to 9. But it’s not the pH of glyphosate that makes it an effective herbicide. I’d probably not use that phrase in the future because it’s a distraction that undermines your point.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

You ever see an article about a “this changes everything” study but when you look at the study you start seeing all kinds of problems?

There is an untested assumption here. Just because glyphosate is present doesn’t mean it’s having an effect. That’s like when we found aluminum plaques in Alzheimer’s brains and assumed the aluminum was causing it.

I know that this article mentions new research showing DNA harm. This is counter to all previous studies so it will require a bit of replication to confirm that. The study they are depending on doesn’t do a very good job showing it. The DNA damage they focused on was exclusively oxidative stress [OS] and at least twice that I saw they suggested looking to see if this could be counted with antioxidants. I expected it to be mentioned once because I had the same idea myself by the second time I had to fight the impulse to check and see if this was funded by Big Antioxidant.

Prior studies have shown that if you give super doses of GLY to sperm that it does effect motility for up to an hour, but a) this hasn’t been shown in realistic dosages or in vivo. Just in vitro. b) hasn’t shown to effect DNA. I don’t think this study did a good enough job of countering the prior data. As can be seen in these key graphs below. c) they only tested for GLY. By not testing for anything else they get to attribute all variances to the one thing they tested for when it could have been something else. That alone should disqualify the study from being taken seriously without replication with better controls. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets weeded (no pun intended) out in replication and where Regression Towards the Mean rears its omnipresent head.

Only infertile couples were selected to be in this study. That creates a Texas Sharpshooter problem. There is no control group. Without s control you don’t have a valid study.

The study found that eating an organic diet had no impact on GLY levels. That’s worrying. Either their tests failed to find a difference, the study participants lied about their diet, or GLY is everywhere in the environment (both cities and farms). The study does not tell us how it was determined that the people included that only eat organic are, in fact, organic only eaters. It doesn’t tell us if this was a check box or observation. If it was a checkbox what was the wording? Because self reporting and question design is important. “Do you eat only organic?” “Do you eat only certified organic?” “Have you had an diet that consist of only certified organic foods for at least 6 months?” Those are all going to give very different answers and because they didn’t find any GLY variation between organic and non-organic diets the way they determined who had an organic and non-organic diet really matters.

There is definitely some shadiness going on with GLY. Bayer said that it was going to stop selling GLY to filthy casuals by January 2023. It is still very much for sale and shows no signs of going away.

Two asides.

1. according to this study being a smoker has a much larger impact than GLY. Given that a third of French people (all subjects in the study were French) smoke this seems like a much bigger concern than GLY.
2. The antinatalist in me is kinda fine with the whole situation because if it does actually reduce births then, sarcastically, this is a self limiting problem. Eventually there won’t be enough people to mess things up and this is just a tool to get us there. The unspoken premise behind this study is that not having kids is bad.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

The article doesn’t explicitly state it but it’s obvious from that fence and the nails through the hands that this was a literal crucifixion. Which sounds like something that should be said out loud instead of dodged.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

That was my third thought as well. That’s a lot of people to band together and make Tesla’s number one asset a viable stand alone company. Even if Musk doesn’t want that.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

She was dating my ex girlfriend. When the split my ex suggested that she should go out with me.

FauxPseudo , 1 month ago

It’s really a lot more boring than it sounds. Or maybe it’s just something that has happened too often to me for me to think it’s not a regular thing.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

Ladybugs supporting Praying Mantises in massive predatory expansion Aphids say.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

I’m having flashbacks from living in California and I know that Australian readers will also recognize that this is not the first time this has happened

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

Does anyone have an alternative title for this that doesn’t sound clickbaity as f***? I’m kind of afraid to feed whatever media organization came up with that headline.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

It will be discovered that he planned it with the help of the feds who encouraged this and promised support.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

This is a tough one. When I find out someone has a 13 year old cat or dog I gently tell them that they need a second pet and they need it now. Because statistically in one to 6 years they will come home to an empty house and their soul is going to break when their buddy of more than a decade isn’t there.

You have a cat in declining health. It isn’t 100% possible to tell if their new issues are because of the kitten or if these were things that were going to happen anyway and the kitten’s arrival is just coincidence.

All joining of a new cat to an established cat house is going to be rocky for a bit. I foster ferals for the local county shelter and SPCA and tame them up so they can be adopted. I have mean nasty cats show up and piss off the locals every month. But after a few days everything settles out and they all get used to each other because there is plenty of food they don’t need to fight over and another room they can go to.

Except Junko. She is our 8 year old and still wants to be angry around cats that have been here one year less than her. Because she is mean. If I had the money I’d get her Prozac to see if it helps.

And that’s where your next step is. Your senior cat needs a vet visit. Let’s check their weight and everything else to see if they are getting enough nutrition. Is some medication to chill them out an option for them?

Do they have a spot in the house that is just theirs? Is the kitten making an effort to stay way or are they up in their face trying to make friends?

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’d avoid coddling too much. One tool I found that helps cats get along is the laser pointer. They both get so focused on that that they kind of forget that they’re in each other’s space trying to get it at the same time. Once they realize that they can be in the same space at the same time, without that hostility they tend to get along a lot better.†

It may not work in this situation because of the older cats health issues. But generally the closer you can keep them without any risk of attack, the faster they adopt each other or at least tolerate each other.

† sometimes I wonder if cats are soothed by hunting and exude some kind of smell that disarms other cats.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

When offering up advice in public places I sometimes include options that won’t work in a specific situation but might apply to the few dozen or thousand that might read it. That’s why I specifically mentioned that that probably won’t work in this case. And I stress “probably” because I had a “blind” cat that could see a laser. The first time I lured her into the bedroom with a laser my then girlfriend, now wife, started crying because this cat had previously only detected sun vs shadow and she wasn’t even entirely sure that was not at sensing heat thing.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f55af721-9186-4f45-847c-9af7f6eb9899.jpeg

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

By the way. That’s Harper. She moved in a year before my girlfriend. I made sure to ask “if I have to do I have medical permission to have that eye removed.” We eventually did remove that eye. It almost killed her. But when she did finally recover she was a 14 year old kitten with lots of bounce because that cranial pressure was no longer there. The other eye was mostly bad too. Never saw anything other than a laser pointer. She was this way from birth.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f403a75a-affe-4575-ac7b-77503f5e23bc.jpeg

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

This doesn’t tell you if it’s good or bad. Just tells you if it’s new or old. Older eggs have more air in them.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The difference between sinks and floats is a pretty small amount of air. Now if the egg truly does go sideways then there is probably an issue because the air sack has broken. But floating itself doesn’t say anything about the safety of the egg.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

Have you ever cracked open a floater and found a perfectly fine egg? You are counting the ones that confirm your bias but don’t have a large enough sample size to work from. I have 21 chickens. 5 ducks and an unknown number of geese that lay eggs. I’ve seen fresh hour old eggs that are bad and sink. I’ve seen 6 week old eggs stored at room temperature that sink. I’ve had day one eggs that float and are still fine. Eggs are a natural product with high amounts of variation. We can’t even reliably tell if a fertilized egg is male or female using the best science available and people expect a float test to determine if it’s infected with bacteria? Not happening. The float test tells you how much air is in it. That’s all. And that isn’t even a guaranteed way to determine age.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

An adult having sex with a minor is rape.

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

If they were sharing pictures wouldn’t that maker her eligible for CSAM resulting in further charges?

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

This entire summary is about the US but the headline is about China

FauxPseudo , 2 months ago

Also they are counting the hits and ignoring the misses. They are forgetting that sneaking a backdoor into an open source project is extremely difficult because people are reviewing the code and such a thing will be recognized. So people don’t typically try to sneak back doors in. Also, backdoors have been discovered in an amazing amount of closed source projects where no one was even able to review the code.

FauxPseudo OP , 2 months ago

We don’t talk about the Enterprise J or Rhode Island.

FauxPseudo OP , 2 months ago

It’s ~2.15 times longer than the container ship. Not sure about the height but his proportional to the length