naevaTheRat

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[–] naevaTheRat 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haven't characterised it but since it's agar that's making the basic gel it seems to still have that hysteresis. I just blasted some in the microwave till it felt hot (est 60 degrees?) and it stayed solid.

If you tried injecting a fluid into the middle it would probably tear, but if you set it around a form you could fill it. You might have problems getting a cap to stick to the hole opening though.

[–] naevaTheRat 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Honestly Mr Trichs that probably depends on how blazed you wanna get. The coconut cream is quite fatty and does not disrupt the gel. As long as it's largely water by mass and well emulsified before setting should be fine.

Note this is like very soft, um here we would call it jelly. I think in the usa it's maybe Jello? A dilute gelatine and sugar preparation. If you wanted to be able to pick it up/be more rough you may want to raise agar to ~0.5%?

It isn't chewy like a gelatine gummy.

[–] naevaTheRat 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's necessary

[–] naevaTheRat 7 points 2 months ago

Nah this is coconut and peach. I'm gonna be playing with citrus though, since agar can hack the low pH.

Lemon lime and bitters is probably coming up, really though I'm stoaked to have a 5 minute dessert.

[–] naevaTheRat 1 points 2 months ago

That sucks. Anywhere where potatoes feature would probably have them on hand and be happy to just roast some if you could had the language to ask? Might be a generalised approach from hot chips as the backup in olive oil Europe anyway. Butter Europe would not necessarily be vegan.

When I have travelled I've usually been in sea and because of Buddhism it's been easier, although sometimes there's confusion about prawns.

[–] naevaTheRat 2 points 2 months ago

My wife followed it closely and is a bit of a lawy person from a family of lawyers.

From what she relayed it seems difficult to explain why she took all the actions she did, except if she did a murder, but given that murder has the bar of intent as well I'm not really sure the prosecution established that she did murder.

But like she obviously collected, preserved, and then fed people poisonous mushrooms just like did she intend to kill people beyond reasonable doubt? Idk

[–] naevaTheRat 1 points 2 months ago

After studying court verdicts a bunch by attitude has always been that if I ever end up in irons try my hardest to get a bench trial with sentencing after lunch.

[–] naevaTheRat 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't do much travel but I'm not above existing on cold canned beans for a few days /shrug. Have always been able to find that

[–] naevaTheRat 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I find that the historical precedent of commons and allotments has many appealing safeguards built into it. And end to corporate buy ups and land speculation for instance. In leftist economic theory a distinction is usually made between personal property (stuff you use, your toothbrush etc) and private property (the means of production, agricultural land, factories etc held by individuals or companies for the purpose of exploitation).

It might serve a farmer to say over-exploit land and wear it out but a community that lives there, presumably having young people and children, are unlikely to feel that way. Similarly is a community unlikely to leave a field fallow because holding land that is not in use to later sell is very profitable. People invested in their personal property and local community, the business of living somewhere and presumably some of them farming the commons; they are still invested in paying attention to the environment and quality of the land.

You have probably heard of the tragedy of the commons but this was based off highly unusual transient conditions (sort of like the alpha wolf study) and historical evidence points to many enduring and stable arrangements. https://ian.umces.edu/blog/the-triumph-of-the-commons-no-actually-it-can-happen/ is a good primer and Ostrum, E's work for further study if curious.

I am defs also keen on citizen's assemblies, more democracy is awesome and evidence shows that true democracy (i.e. broad opinions and randomly drafted shmucks) consistently returns good results.

[–] naevaTheRat 3 points 2 months ago

It would be cool if we could actually like try the UDHR, just once, as a treat.

[–] naevaTheRat 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Surprisingly good post by a vaguely pornographic drawing of a Japanese mascot for selling gambling to children :p

The lack of caring about what people are doing is what makes me feeling like I'm taking crazy pills. I learn how things work because I care, I make bad macramé pot hangers because I enjoy the process, I talk to humans because I want to know what you think and feel, I follow style guides when I program and post it online because the idea that one day it might help someone delights me.

Why would I want to just emit, well, whatever as this article puts it. If I wanted to simply spend life in mindless hedonic indulgence heroin is just right there. Why would I bother pretending to be a writer or a coder and purchase boring pedestrian pleasures. A life of careless, inattentive, mediocrity is so unappealing.

[–] naevaTheRat 2 points 2 months ago

It looks like some sort of autocomplete in the UI mangled what I wrote. Ah automation, unless it's perfect it's entirely useless (yes I'm mad about my car automatically disengaging blinkers, which has caused infinity more blinker errors than on my motorcycle where it is manual).

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