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  • Go ahead, enlighten us. What is that magical praxis that will turn the world socialist before the Netherlands sink into the ocean?

    Capitalism sucks, yes, but you can count on the self-interest of capital. Furnish regulation such that the thing we want them to do has the best ROI, they're going to do it. Hard to implement? Well then guess what's even harder to implement.

  • "Instead of trying to solve the problem we currently have, with the systems and tools that are there, how about we forget about the problem and work on something much much harder instead".

    Don't get me wrong you're absolutely free and welcome to advocate for systemic solutions. But don't attack people working on alleviating symptoms in a practical way or I'll call you an accelerationist. "Here's how we implement socialism! Step one: Burn the planet".

  • They definitely don't want to be Danish, as in ethnically, but they want their Scandinavian welfare state and not be worse off independent than as they are as part of the Kingdom. It's doubly complicated as they can't readily join the EU without being part of Denmark, too small population-wise, the Faroese are in pretty much the same situation.

  • So true

  • French fries is the standard German pool food. Like, nowhere else do you see stands selling nothing but fries (with ketchup and/or mayo, of course). And they just don't taste as good anywhere else, I guess it's the chlorine in the air making the salt taste extra special without actually tasting more salty.

  • Denmark has claimed Greenland for longer than the current batch of Inuit live there. Norse settled there some 500 years before Columbus, in completely uninhabited lands. Those settlements failed, current batch of Inuit moved in, history happened. At some point Danes ceased to be assholes thus Denmark fully recognises the Inuit's rights to self-determination, to declare independence if and when they so desire. No "unfortunate necessity" excuse why they can't do it which you seem to believe is justifiable. There's also no deciding for the Inuit "you must become independent, now", like you're doing.

    Go, look in the mirror, have a long, deep, thought about who has a colonial mindset, here, and who doesn't. Who is keen on deciding things for another people, and who isn't.

  • I don't even know whether I understand I just hear MacOS users griping about fullscreen, and a quick google gave quite recent results. Especially with fullscreen being incompatible with other windows on top (each fullscreen window necessary is on its own workspace) which would be highly annoying in Blender. You can configure blender to have file open dialogues, render results etc. in its main window, but certain stuff like preferences always open a second one.

  • That's what happens if you're a) allowed to do it and b) want to erase "time" from the ingredient list. All those dough conditioners are unnecessary even if you don't use sourdough if you only give the dough enough time to autolyse: Actually have the water seep in, not just wet the particles, where enzymes then change the chemical structure, e.g. turning starch into maltose. Those enzymes come with the flour, they're how the seeds themselves turn storage into ready energy.

    German industrial bakeries have long lines of essentially bioreactors taking the dough through various processes over a day or so, which is the same pace that traditional bakeries use, just scaled up and highly controlled. Also for pre sliced bread they're baking like 2m long loaves, in a conveyor oven. That American label is the bread equivalent of a beer brewed in a day, which is about at least four weeks too fast.

  • So... leading German "Toastbrot" brand, Goldentoast, their "American Sandwich":

    Wheat flour, water, wheat sourdough (wheat flour, water), canola oil, sugar, yeast, salt, acidity regular sodium acetates, fava bean flour. May contain traces of soy, milk, mustard and lupins.

    I do wonder why they feel the need to have an acidity regulator, the sourdough those industrial outfits are using is made using pure-bred strains, highly replicable and generally flexible enough to get the exact amount and type of acidity (lactic vs. acetic acid) that you want. Fava bean flour last definitely looks like they did quite some engineering, those are minuscule adjustments to the overall flour mix. Used as a characteristic ingredient you'd use 20% of flourweight of the stuff, thereabouts, and about 5% if you want it for dough properties.

    Is it good bread, no, but nutritionally it doesn't really look worse than any other white bread. Actually American bread would be highly illegal over here.

  • A product containing more than five ingredients is likely to be ultra-processed

    Ugh. No. That amounts to saying "anything that contains five spice is ultra-processed". Why do you hate Chinese cuisine.

    The "not used in home cooking" rule of thumb is way better though you can certainly make absolutely filthy dishes at home. Home cooking also uses "chemicals, colouring and sweeteners", and also home cooks care about appearance, taste, and texture.

    What I'd actually be interested in is comparing EU vs. US standards UPC. EU products use colourings such as red beet extract, beta-carotene, stabilisers, gelling agents etc. like guar gum or arrowroot, when they use fully synthetic stuff then it's generally something actually found in nature. Companies add ascorbic acid as antioxidant, grandma added a splash of lemon juice, same difference really.

    A EU strawberry yoghurt which says "natural aroma" is shoddy, yes, you're getting fewer strawberries and more strawberry aroma produced by fungi, but I'm rather sceptical when it comes to claims that it's less healthy.

  • They don't (usually) display the temperature but they definitely sense it, and react to it. When the sensed temperature is at or higher than the set temperature, the valve will be closed, if it's lower it will be opened. Mere valves can't do that.

    That's what a thermostat is: A negative feedback control system regulating sensed temperature towards a setpoint, and keeping it there. They're simple, inexpensive, reliable. Yes having the temperature sensor right next to the radiator isn't ideal but unless the room is quite large that's not an issue. Also with large rooms you probably have more than one heater and thus thermostat. And you could, in principle, put the thermostat far from the heater but I've never seen that done.

  • That's not deciding anything in the information-theoretical sense. We rely a lot on approximations and heuristics when it comes to day to day functioning.

    You can't decide the halting problem by saying "I'll have a glance at it and go with whatever I think after thinking about it for half a second". That's not deciding the problem that's giving up on it and computers are perfectly capable of doing that.

  • But humans can solve undecidables.

    No, we can't. Or, more precisely said: There is no version of your assertion which would be compatible with cause and effect, would be compatible with physics as we understand it.

    Don't blame me I didn't do it. The universe just is that way.

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    Bevy engine 0.16 released

    Chris' release videos are always more of a highlight reel, here's the full release notes.

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    Bevy engine 0.16 released

    Chris' release videos are always more of a highlight reel, here's the full release notes.

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    How We Lost Our Focus (and why it should scare you)

    I know, I know, the duration. Not just pushing the community rules beyond the breaking point, but a 72 minutes video on focus, of all things? Bold move.

    On the flipside, consider: You can already start listening while cooking, also, you should not rush eating. I rest my case.

    Blurb:

    Distraction is one of the hottest button issues today. Everywhere there seems to be assaults on our focus. Recently I came across two wonderful videos by the inimitable Jared Henderson (‪@_jared‬) on our declining focus rates, and it took me on a long research journey into the true terrifying effects of our limited focus.

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    DHV: Cannabisgesetz überlebt CDU-geführte Regierung

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    Albert Camus: how to live in a meaningless world (Absurdism explained)

    Life is meaningless, but how do we cope? That is the question asked by Albert Camus in his landmark text The Myth of Sisyphus. Here I will draw upon this work amongst others Camus penned like The Stranger to give an overview of how Camus thinks we should live in a world where everything seems meaningless, and the universe will not hear our calls for a higher purpose. I will also focus on some of his more radical ideas as they are often glossed over or made more palatable by many popular interpretations of his words. Think of this as a slightly more provocative version of my genuine interpretation of the great thinker's ideas.

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    How to Make a Ceramic Ink Dip Pen on the Potter's Wheel

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    Assent and Suspension of Assent to Kataleptic Impressions

    Long story short, found a paper. Abstract:

    It is often thought that, for the Stoics, assent and the suspension of assent to kataleptic impressions is voluntary in the sense that one can deliberate about assenting or suspending assent. Against this view, I examine the relevant sources closely and argue that they point in a different direction: assent and suspension of assent to kataleptic impressions is not a matter of deliberation. Instead, kataleptic impressions force our assent in the absence of obstacles that make it difficult to discern kataleptic from non-kataleptic impressions. Surprisingly, neither is the act of withholding assent to kataleptic impressions a matter of deliberation; instead, the presence of obstacles that make it difficult to discern kataleptic from non-kataleptic impressions triggers the activation of a disposition to withhold assent. However, we can acquire this disposition through training in dialectic. This means that deliberation can be involved in the ac

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    Dieter Nuhr über Wokeness, Debattenkultur und den Erfolg der AfD | maischberger

    Der halbe Roman der bei der ARD als Zusammenfassung durchgeht:

    Nuhr sieht eine fast chronische Krisenwahrnehmung in Deutschland, die sich seit Jahrzehnten kaum verändert habe: „Seit ich denken kann, geht die Welt unter.“ Bereits als Kind sei er mit "Waldsterben, Ozonloch, Tschernobyl“ konfrontiert gewesen – heute sehe er viele Dinge optimistischer: „Inzwischen habe ich gelernt, darüber ernsthaft zu lachen.“

    Das laut „Glücksreport“ vergleichsweise geringe Glücksniveau und die Unzufriedenheit in Deutschland führt der Kabarettist auf ein kulturelles Erbe zurück: „In Deutschland ist, glaube ich schon, auch einer der großen Gründe für unseren Erfolg gewesen, dass wir eigentlich nie zufrieden waren.“ Bei seinen Reisen, etwa nach Indien, Nepal oder Saudi-Arabien, habe er erlebt, dass Glück offenbar weniger von äußeren Umständen als von inneren Haltungen bestimmt sei: „Trotzdem trifft man auf eine ungeheure Gelassenheit“, insbesondere in buddhistisch und hinduistisch geprägten Kulturen

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    Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) – A Marxist Analysis

    (Took the patreon read off the runtime)

    Oh and in case the young'uns are lost here's the song with lyrics. Way before the toilet.

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    Why YouTubers (and AI) get these English features wrong

    What do YouTubers, AI speech and non-native/L2 speakers of English have in common? In this video I explore two expressive features of English that are now widely discarded...

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    How The USA Collapsed In The Cyberpunk Universe

    The characters and events depicted in this documentation are entirely fictitious, any similarity to names or incidents is entirely attributable to Mike Pondsmith's psychic foresight.

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    Second-Hand Wind Turbines

    Wind turbines play an important role in Europe’s green transition. But as technology becomes bigger, better, and more efficient, older installations are being replaced and a second-hand market in wind power is emerging. Turbines are taken apart and reconstructed often thousands of miles away to begin a second life of producing renewable energy.

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    Iraq's $17BN Plan to Become a Trade Superpower

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    What Was Tolkien Like As A Professor?

    In this video we explore the details of Tolkien's lengthy career as a professor, while examining the first hand accounts of his students!

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    Why the Chips Get Hot

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    The Failure of Ostpolitik

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    Polish Realism vs Ostpolitik | The Origins of Ostpolitik

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    The Goonification of Culture

    Not in itself NSFW but you might not want to have grandma around. What can I say it takes an artist to make a ranty video essay about rapid-fire slop and squeeze it into goon-compliant 10 minutes.

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Crisps.

    So instead of my usual tube of store-brand I grabbed a tube of Pringles because they had fancy limited edition flavours.

    They put the flavour on the wrong side of the crisps. If you put them, as is proper, into your mouth so that they actually fit, right-out embracing your tongue, the spice is on the top side. I don't have taste buds in the roof of my mouth. How can this kind of blatant incompetence exist in the world?

    Also I would have expected more heat from something called "Thai Green Curry" but that's a whole another topic.

    My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

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    The Triumph of German Bureaucracy

    Not sure whether we want this here but Kraut makes great videos and they're illustrated with polandball so I guess it's worth a try.