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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the recipe! those waffles look quite similar to how I make them, but with buttermilk instead of normal milk.

    The chicken looks basically the same, I always do a buttermilk marinade. Obviously, friend chicken shouldn’t be dry it should be juicy and moist on the inside, and crispy on the outside. But the outer crispness is going to be a bit on the dry side, fatty and rich, but crunchy. The fact that people often have fried chicken with sauce or dip suggests it’s partially on the ‘dry’ end of spectrum.





  • That’s the thing, they don’t seem opposite enough to me. Iove salty sweet: salty caramel, bacon and cheddar on pancakes, I even dip chocolat chip cookies in hummus if I’m in the mood.

    The texture of the waffles (crisp on the outside, fluffy in the middle) seems not that far away from the chicken (crispy / crunchy on the outside, juicy in the middle). Both are fatty, but also dryish - obviously still moist, but dry in a crispy way. I could imagine having chicken curry on waffles, the saucy texture would be a nice contrast, but fried chicken…

    I guess I’ll just have to try it!











  • I don’t think immigration borders would be the main issue. It’s pretty easy to get into most countries for the price of a return plane ticket, and then you just don’t leave. Unless teleportation was much cheaper and more convenient it wouldn’t change much. I think it would have an impact on customs and smuggling. Pretty easy to bring anything to anywhere without ant chance of interception.

    But the biggest shift would be security. Presuming anyone could just make anything appear anywhere, I think the rich and powerful would be very afraid. If teleporting a homemade bomb into someone’s palatial mcmansion was as easy as 3d printing a gun then people wouldn’t have to even go full Luigi to terrorise those people. Remember the anthrax scare? Posting poison is one thing, but just making clouds of it appear in bedrooms or offices with destinctive oval-shapes, would be quite a different level.


  • I just looked at the top 10 posts for the last month, and 10 newest posts, and they’re really not that negative. I’d say it’s a third quite positive, a third fediverse / tech, and a third quite negative.

    But humans perceive negative information much more strongly (at least according to some studies) so even though they’re evenly split, the negative ones might stand out and be more salient. This month’s top ten included “Why does it feel like evil is winning in the world?” (negative) versus "what’s your favourite local dish from your part of the world? (positive). The positive one could feel small and trivial while the negative one feels big, serious and apocalyptic - so of course it stands out more.

    As well as salience, people are more likely to post about a problem than a solution (it is asklemmy after all), so it’s really going to be problems, big and small, or fun / silly questions like the local food one. Even more neutral questions about advice are often revolving around a negative problem. I’ve just posted asking about good alternatives to discord (fairly neutral I think?) and I’m hoping for positive “this other thing is great!” responses, but I’m kinda asking because I’m sick of enshitification (which is negative).

    The other possibility is that the new and top rankings are not representative. Perhaps posts are mostly mixed but the ones that get popular are more negative, but the occasional popular poistive one is such a pleasant surprise that it ends up making it to the top ten.





  • Defintely. But it’s not so much I feel morally bad, I just hate reddit so I don’t enjoy using it. I guess I was hidden from the worst of it by using boost, but now when I want to use reddit briefly (to ask some niche question that I won’t get a lot of responses on lemmy) I use the website and the experience is so unpleasant. There’s now all these awful gamification popups, “Keep your 1/300 streak going!” bullshit.