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Jimmycrackcrack ,

This has been happening to me recently. It’s like my patience for a piece of music has become wire thin. I’ll flick from song to song rejecting everything before hearing something I think I might like and I do like it, for about 30s then suddenly I start to feel really irritated by it and bored and impatient like I want them to get to the point, but it doesn’t make sense because there’s not really going to be somewhere the music is necessarily arriving at, you’re supposed to be enjoying the whole thing. I don’t know what’s happened to me. Hope it’s temporary.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Nah much more mundane. It seems to have coincided with me taking on a job where I’m dealing with lots of little problems popping up like wildfire that I have to rapidly respond to only for my efforts to be undone by a new disaster.

I’ve actually been doing pretty well at it, but it seems to have put me in a kind of “yeh yeh yeh whatever let’s just hurry up” state of mind that is somehow leaching in to my leisure habits. It’s like I’m trying to wrestle satisfaction out of the things I enjoy rather than just enjoying and appreciating doing the things themselves. Like, “I need to get X amount of pleasure units out of this thing before I have to go back to work and I just want to get it now in case something comes up, so can’t we just skip to the part where I’ve already felt satisfied by hearing the song without having to actually sit around listening to it?”

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Nah man, the Kool aid guys recognised that there was a gaping hole in the market and stretched their resources to fully cover it.

Jimmycrackcrack , (edited )

Oh man, just wait till they pin it on the libtards causing crop failures and storms and flooding all because they didn’t persecute people enough and didn’t hand out enough free money to billionaires.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Shit’s getting really bad. I mean I’m not sure what I think on the judgement, but the fact that there’s people here walking around with Nazi symbols and openly literally becoming members of the National Socialist Network. How has it all gone so wrong and so… Weird.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

It sounds like it’s in the context of sentencing and in the context seemingly of some discussion about their chances at rehabilitation so I imagine it was meant in that sense. “Good luck on your journey towards being not being a piece of shit any more”. Doesn’t sound like that journey is progressing very well though considering they immediately declared their innocence after entering guilty pleas and then spouted anti Semitic and homophobia remarks to the press outside court and walked off.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Are they underrated though. Most people seem to like them

Jimmycrackcrack ,

You know, I couldn’t actually tell by looking that this was AI. I figured it was, from the context of what it was, but nothing about the image seemed to give it away.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

What’s LEV?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

That’s a good idea, but then again, with the effort and labour of making a really good lasagne, you might as well make a big one. For me one of the best things about lasagne is that it keeps on giving. It’s easy to portion, it freezes well, and to a certain extent gets even better with time. Makes a great ready meal once you’ve frozen it too because it microwaves so well whilst maintaining most of what made it great to begin with.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Have any historians written back yet?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Pay could have been better

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Thanks. Deleted

Jimmycrackcrack ,

At least there’d finally be room.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

not real haha. Aside from “luck be in the air tonight” not being a phrase I’ve ever heard anyone say in any context, it doesn’t make sense as the solution because the “i” in “in” and also “tonight” is already revealed yet it isn’t for the word “air” (must admit I didn’t notice this, until I saw it pointed out).

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Oh snap haha. Yeh I’m a dumbass. Nevertheless, it is definitely fake, which is something you can really determine just from context given the relative unlikelyness of this being missed and the fact that, “luck be in the air tonight” is not a phrase, but it’s good to know that this even exists in multiple forms out there meaning it’s definitely been manipulted.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Yeh totally works, I mean, I’m sitting at my desk at work shaking and I can hardly read the screen as random words go variously in and out of focus and despite being hair trigger alert I’m also exhausted and the verge falling face down unconscious on my keyboard and I have to read every email 10 times over before actually understanding it and then somehow still respond in a way that doesn’t quite make total sense. But technically, I’m awake and I’m physically here and nobody can say otherwise.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

"tenant shall not keep dog(s) on premises.

  • A (1) sheep is permitted"
Jimmycrackcrack ,

I love how the dumb one’s looks like she’s an upside down balloon that’s been sealed closed with a knot rather than having hair.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

it’s still in transit

Jimmycrackcrack ,

It still says its in transit so I guess it’ll bob back up again any day now.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Well shouldn’t rental be much less than the price of buying and much less than the price of cinema tickets? That’s how it used to work.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

The reduced wait time I think is the only real leg to stand on. It arguably doesn’t make sense to undermine theatre ticket sales by making it cheaper at home, although I’d argue that it should be that the theatre option is the premium option that should cost more while home streaming is the cheap option if you don’t want or need the theatre experience which should make it a complimentary income source to ticket sales not a threat to it but I guess they reckon they’ll make them both cost the same until the cinema run is over so they never make less than a full theatre ticket price until then.

I hate how things being convenient means they have to cost more. “Convenience fees” are such a crock. If it cost them more to offer the convenience over their usual service, but they don’t run video stores any more and this has arguably less overhead than the renting physical media business did so it should be cheaper for everyone and yet instead they contrive additional expense on top because they made it convenient.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Great Mitch Hedberg vibes to this.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Is that a thing or are you doing a bit?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I’m going to need even more help because in every orientation all I see is like a horrifically disfigured dog face.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Can you post another picture of the dog in a normal position for reference?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I think I need someone to literally draw on top of this for me to see it how it’s supposed to be seen

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Oh my god yes it does! Thanks so much. You have no idea how much this was bothering me

Are attention spans actually shortening?

So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...

Jimmycrackcrack ,

TL;DR

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Aww

Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria?

On the Food network they boil potatoes, but they poach carrots. They poach turkey, but they boil eggs. They sauté’ onions, but they fry eggs in the same pan. Likewise, they fry hash browns, but they sauté’ onions in the same pan before adding the potatoes....

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I noticed that too, but I think they meant, “in the situation where you want the potatoes to come out a particular way”.

Their wording was “You’d use delicate foods like shell-less eggs or fish or potatoes you don’t want to overcook or break.” Which could be a list of things that you don’t boil including potatoes or a list of things that you don’t boil and also potatoes in the special circumstance where you don’t want those potatoes breaking.

Honestly though I can’t think of any circumstance where I’ve heard of potato being cooked by immersion in water where that water wasn’t set to boil, they just take a long time to cook and need pretty heavy heat to soften so even when trying to be careful I’d find it strange not to boil them at all even if for just a shorter time frame.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

The thing I’ve always found confusing is how American terminology as far as I can make out seems to almost always say “fry” to mean what I would always specify as “deep frying” and “sauteing” where I would usually say “fry”. I think this is a Commonwealth countries thing and not just me. “Saute”, to me had always seemed a kind of unusually fancy affectation for people working in restaurants with the average person eschewing it for the term “fry” until I started using YouTube and Google for recipes and got exposed to so much American material that I discovered they make these distinctions. I guess there’s technical distinctions in how much oil you use in the pan (until the point of immersion where it’s deep frying) but that seems much of a muchness.

Confusingly though I notice Americans seem to also sometimes use “fry” the way I would, but just sometimes. Eggs for example are “fried” but this is usually not meaning dropped in to a deep fryer. And then there’s the confusion over the meaning of “grilling” vs “broiling” because as far as I can tell the term “broil” isn’t used where I’m from and the the device Americans call a “broiler” is what we’d call a “grill” and things cooked under it are “grilled”. I believe the American use of “grill” is referring to a shape of ridged cooking surface but then you get “grilled cheese” which I’d called “cheese on toast” or a “cheese toastie” which involves putting the sandwich in to a flat frying pan and which involves neither a broiler nor a ridged cooking surface and isn’t referred to as sauteing nor frying. Then there’s “griddled” which I think again is referring to a particular shape of cooking surface but given “grill” I just don’t know.

Definitely some interesting variations within mostly shared vocabulary.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Yeh a broiler here (Australia) is just as you describe and while I hadn’t given it much thought is too used in the mode you describe as well, it’s just that it’s called a “grill” and the act of using it is to “grill” which is an amusing point of confusion since it seems to have very different connotations in the states. I was aware that “Grilling” over there also connotated using the outdoor grated cooking surface that I’d call a “barbecue” but I guess where I was confused is that I thought the term also covered those otherwise flat surfaces that have the ridges like those George Foreman “grill” things but apparently that’s actually what a “griddle” is so that clears things up a bit. In either case I still can’t understand why a toasted cheese sandwich cooked in a frying pan gets called “grilled” and funnily enough it’s common to make a variation of that here that’s not quite as good but much easier and lazier to make where you put a single slice of bread covered with cheese (though not the American kind as that probably wouldn’t work very well with this method) under what I believe you’d call the “broiler”. This local method of melting cheese on bread really added to the confusion before I became aware that “Grilling” meant something different over there because I figured this must have been what was meant by “grilled cheese” before I figured that out lol.

I think this system of classifying sauteing vs frying, is quite useful, a bit more precise than what I’m used to, just doesn’t seem to get much use amongst my circles here. Still the lack of distinction necessarily made between degrees of “fried” is interesting since “fried” chicken seems to quite specifically mean deep fried even if for many dishes a person might well intend to use a lot of oil to cook some chicken but not necessarily plan to deep fry it.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

(slight nod of head in your general direction)

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I feel like I shouldn’t like them. By description alone it sounds awful but for some reason, soggy carrots in a stew are fantastic and I prefer them to the more carefully cooked carrots you might get from a more upmarket version of the same dish. Somehow the now more mild sweetness with the strong kick if what they were cooked in a small and yielding bite is pleasant to me. I’m definitely in the minority though.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Imagine Nieman’s surprise once he discovered you were only supposed to put it on your ankle

Jimmycrackcrack ,

This is definitely the most interesting one here both for unusualness and the switched perspective. Sounds like your cat did well at least.

Jimmycrackcrack , (edited )

If the simulation is actually perfect, then it isn’t a simulation anymore and whatever would have been unethical in a non-simulated context would still be unethical.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

What’s this from?

Jimmycrackcrack ,

I guess if you were fixing this situation as OP wanted and made an additional “pipe” you’d inevitably just have to add an additional opening somewhere. Maybe we could have blowholes.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Feel like mlemtember fits better

Jimmycrackcrack ,

It’s a nice picture and all but I definitely upvoted for the sentence “congratulations to ClopClopMcFuckwad for their pic of the week”.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Really missed the pièce de résistance by not putting a few little spurt lines out the top.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

It’s not really a conscious decision. This doesn’t explain the compulsion but in case you thought we were doing it for a specific explainable reason, we’re not.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Well it’s not wrong.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

A lot of the time when this type of thing comes from on high it really is actually a good move for the C suite and for shareholders in the short term. I’m saying this as if I know anything about the topic, I don’t, but I have read about this.

CEOs that flight from company to company, brought in to be the saviour and increase profits a bajillion percent just like they promised, often have a bag of tricks of classic moves that aren’t actually all that genius or clever but will, initially at least, appear to improve the bottom line. They may have obvious consequences which is why such an obvious move wasn’t made before, but if they can ride the crest of the wave of initially positive results they can exit just in time to leave the place seemingly better off than before they arrived knowing full well it’s all about to implode.

Does it matter if I skip sponsored ad segments in YouTube videos? (kbin.social)

As in, would the channel be losing out on money? Because I don't want to take away from small creators if there is a retention rate for viewership of that exact segment, but I would prefer to skip any of the "but first check out this shitty mobile game".

Jimmycrackcrack ,

At this point I’m wondering if any one has ever actually played this game or if it even really exists. Everyone hates that shit and it’s so over the top. They don’t let the people they sponsor put any kind of a spin on it either it’s just this completely alien and obnoxiously long diatribe where you can just about see the creator blinking in Morse code.

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