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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Yes and no… They’re very similar conceptually and ingredients wise, but the experience is very different. Frying the outside really firms it up like a French fry, and you get that flavor and texture all around. They also sometimes will add weird things like olives and raisins to it, which is still good, but I don’t particularly like those to start with so I might be biased

    You’ve got the right idea of what it is, but you really have to experience it for yourself - a lot of South and Central American countries have their own versions that are very similar, so if you go to a Latino restaurant that isn’t Mexican or Peruvian chicken, you’ll probably be able to find it.

    I’ve never tried adding jalapenos to the onion topping though… That sounds delicious. I might have to make that, it is a great topping and adding some heat to it sounds even better


  • Papa reyeñas(sp?). They’re so good, it’s basically mashed potatoes with ground beef mix inside, then fried/seared and baked until it sorta looks like a potato again. Then you take finely sliced red onions and soak them in lime juice for 12 hours so they get less harsh and use it like a topping

    Honestly, I know how to do all off the top of my head except how long to boil the potatoes…I just would never put that much effort into my meals, so I would need a reason to cook it for others. There’s also a lot of cleanup, you need a frying pan you need a frying pan you wash twice, a big bowl, a masher, an oven dish, a lime squeezer, Tupperware (or a ziplock, but I get enough plastic), a knife, a spatula, and whatever serving dishes

    I don’t enjoy cooking, but I’m pretty good at it when I want to be… But I have to want to be


  • Honestly, it’s scale. It dillutes the humanity to nothing, and all that remains is our worst selfish impulses

    Communities become so large that bonds and reputation mean nothing. We create organizations to try to artificially recreate that, and they grow so large their primary purpose is to self purpetuate

    It’s hard to muster up the will to hurt people right in front of you, it’s much easier if you can abstract it all to rules and numbers, and separate the actor from the decision maker

    I think the only way something like communism works is like the fediverse - we need to find a way to weave ourselves into small communities that can act together. You can’t let power sit anywhere for long, or you’ll draw in power hungry sociopaths like flies - but inside a community they have to keep on good terms with others

    We still have to collaborate, but if we shared methods and designs openly we could produce a lot of stuff locally. We don’t have to always be scaling up - if you have a thousand people, you don’t have to produce a 100k phones a year to make a phone. Working at that small scale even let’s you get creative and make better things - there’s all sorts of technologies that we don’t have access to only because they can’t be produced at scale

    Plus it means people would be smarter and more skilled… Capitalism wants people to be interchangeable cogs, and that makes for craftsman that require a whole supply chain to be useful. Giving up scale means you have to make things last and be easily reparable. It means picking and choosing between your priorities







  • When you’re a billionaire. Then it turns out, you’re just giving your heart to the crowd. And then, when you fund and speak at Nazi party rallies overseas, you’re just fighting “woke” or something. And when you agree that “Jews are doing ethnic replacement” on Twitter, you just have to take pictures at a concentration camp and you’re a “friend of Israel”

    But I do enjoy when people get fired because they think they can do it too



  • That’s not true at all, they’re super helpful. I use them almost every day, they save me an insane amount of time and energy

    What I don’t do is rely on it. I’m the developer, I know what’s going on, it has the memory of a goldfish. It also spits out code near instantly… Which I then read through and usually fix

    But it makes less mistakes than I do writing dumb repetitive code. It will, 95% of the time, correctly tell me something in half the time it would take me to look it up, if not less

    It’s nowhere close to a worker replacement, but it’s damn good at empowering people to do what they do


  • A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

    Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

    We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say


  • Security is not obscurity, and while obscurity can slow down a bad actor, it is not security and is not reliable

    Transparency can lead to security through outside audit, the more eyes on it the more will security holes will be noticed

    It’s crazy how this simple thing I was taught on day 1 of my job just can’t be properly understood by people. Not even just non -technical people - across the board we have constant leaks, in part because we don’t collaborate to build together nearly enough


  • theneverfox@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneducks rule
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    12 days ago

    Oh sure… But basically you’re burning the boats. Everyone you know is dead, now you either integrate or die. There’s no going back, only forward

    I’m not saying it would be seamless or wouldn’t cause issues, but humans naturally readjust to the people around them. Assuming they got some support integrating, their values and habits would quickly move towards the average. And the average for us is a huge range depending on culture, subculture, and even online microcultures



  • theneverfox@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneducks rule
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    13 days ago

    On that note, why do we assume the human wouldn’t quickly adjust? My grandma went from horse carriages to getting upset if Netflix isn’t working

    Yeah, they’d be like “holy fuck, what is that shiny rectangle with shifting text???” But if everyone around them was just like “yeah, it’s a phone, they’re pretty great and everyone has them, check out these neat videos of humans doing incredible things” they’d be shocked, maybe afraid, maybe entranced… And 5 years later, they’d have a phone too and probably fit in with an unusual appreciation for random conveniences