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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • barsoap@lemm.eeOPtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldCrisps.
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    2 months ago

    I will not be taking lexicographical flak from the colony of our colony appropriating the name “Saxon” for itself. You can have “Anglo”, the Angles left wholesale.

    Also I’m not sure what you’re doing in your free time but usually I don’t open my mouth wide enough to shove in a Pringle at awkward angles.


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    Chipsfrish Peperoni definitely have more heat, they’re saying they’re using 10000 Scoville powder (though not how much of it). Generally speaking if you order something hot in Germany you’re getting Turkish hot, which is about “able to eat pure Sriracha without breathing fire” kind of tolerance level.

    But, granted, Pringles is American, I should have guessed.


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    If I read this article right, and I think their picture shows their Pringles stacked same-side up as mine, mine have the flavouring on the other side.

    Which side is up in the can was never a question for me, they simply fit my mouth, and presumably mouths in general, better if the long concave side cups the tongue. It could be that they’re simply seasoned on the wrong side over here it’s not like they import them from the US, they’re produced in Poland.

    In any case the store brand has seasoning placement down, but as this is Germany you’re limited to paprika and sour cream and onion. Which I will be sticking with in the future.






  • The press is to blame, yes, but the issue is not fact checking but not ever explaining why those numbers generally don’t match up. Could be as simple as “Police report 160k simultaneous protesters, organisers 250k total”. Make it clear, with two simple words, that the method of counting is different and thus both numbers can be true at the same time. Because otherwise the reader is going to think “one of them is lying” while the numbers, at least in Germany, tend to be pretty spot-on.




  • Water is a human right. Quoth Article 11, (1) ICESCR:

    The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.

    “food” here can be safely assumed to include “water”. “Everyone” means “also people who can’t afford shoelaces”. There’s exactly one country in the world which didn’t ratify the ICESCR and it’s the US.


    Regarding “uniquely evil”: Yeah I’m definitely boycotting Chiquita (United Fruit) and Bacardi harder, both are still, effectively, whining about having their slave plantations expropriated. Both aren’t exactly hard to do their bananas are more expensive than no-brand organic ones over here, and Bacardi, well there’s plenty of good rum, Bacardi ain’t one of them. If you ever make a Cuba Libre with Bacardi I shall explode into tirades.


  • Plenty actually, like former slaves from plantations which sold products to Nestle.

    …it’s part of the reason why Nestle is currently lobbying the EU to not dilute the supply chain act, those kinds of cases are a PITA for them, and the documentation they need to do for the supply chain act is exactly what they need to nib cases in the bud, “Here’s the inspections we did, here are transcripts of anonymous interviews with random workers at the plantation”, “If something slipped between the cracks we deeply regret that but we did do our due diligence, plaintiff’s beef is with their ex boss, not with us”.

    It is absolutely more expensive to pay an army of lawyers to defend yourself than it is to pay workers proper local wages and document that. Not to mention that people who run slave plantations don’t share their extra profit with Nestle.

    The other reason is that they don’t want smaller companies to have a competitive advantage: Smaller companies are not subject to those kinds of lawsuits, and also the ones complaining about the supply chain act. Nestle is also not at all keen on a consumer boycott from Africa.


  • a best guess as to what the next instruction or data it needs will be

    More precisely it’s speculating on the results of a yet to be executed (but already known) instruction, e.g. whether a branch will be taken or not, and begins to execute instructions in that branch before the final verdict of whether it will be taken is done. If it guessed right, it can just continue, if it guessed wrong, it has to cover its tracks, making sure that what it did is in no way observable. It’s the latter part, “in no way observable”, that all these security failures are about: If you can somehow observe that stuff, you might be able to observe stuff you’re not supposed to see because the branch speculatively taken was “nope, you’re not allowed to do this”.

    All that might be hard to grasp without an understanding how modern CPUs execute instructions, which very much is not “an instruction at a time”, Computerphile has excellent videos about pipelining and branch prediction.




  • I think people downvote quite more readily to show disagreement here, not in the least because downvoted comments don’t get buried.

    And, like, seriously. If you can’t even muster thoughts and prayers, if you can’t even muster being indifferent, can’t muster simply not leaving a comment at all, but have to shout your disapproval of Ukraine existing as a sovereign state from the rooftops, you’re an asshole. Unambiguously.

    In this case, probably an attention troll.


  • When you’re baking bread you want 1% of flour weight salt, plus minus a bit. For a quite standard bread made with 500g flour that’s 5g, being off by “a couple of grams” ranges from none at all to twice as much. With a cheap kitchen scale there’s no issue landing at 4.5-5.5g which is adequate. It’s the rest of the ingredients you can and should adjust as needed but I’m still going to measure out 300g of water because that’s the low end of what I want to put in.

    But that’s not actually the main issue, the issue is convenience up to plain possibility: The thing I actually weigh the most often is tagliatelle, 166g, a third of a pack, doesn’t need to be gram-accurate just ballpark. Try measuring differently-sized nests of tagliatelle by volume, I dare you. Spaghetti you can eyeball, but not that stuff.