psion1369

joined 2 years ago
[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I tried Magic Spoon based on a YouTube sponsor and I was rather disgusted with the way it tasted and felt.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I can't speak for everything, but I can speak for e-waste. Especially printers. Those things are made cheap as hell, but constructed so you can't just get off the shelf parts. Being able to take the machine apart, find a replacement for whatever party is broken, install, and reassemble, you might have just bought a new printer for the same cost as the part. It's almost the same with laptops, phones/tablets, televisions, etc. Brand doesn't matter, it's all the same. Right to repair doesn't mean shit if you can't even make the repairs.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The delivery services are a boon and a bane for everyone. For the restaurant, you no longer need to pay wages or insurance for dedicated delivery workers, but now have service fees that cut into profits. The customer has to cover many of these costs in all these extras fees and service charges, but get did delivered to them. And the driver has to pay for gas and insurance out of the pitiful payments and tips they get. If you are in a rural area, forget about getting enough local orders to cover anything.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, shit. Time for me to book a trip to Vegas.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Dude, I've been there and it is AWESOME!

 

NSFW answers are allowed, within reason and hidden in a spoiler tag.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If you think what you have to throw out as the consumer is wasteful, take a look in the kitchens of these places and tell me that it's any better. Most foods that have to be prepped in advance must be separated by single-use parchment/wax paper, then wrapped in plastic. When ready to use, use a glove for a few uses to take the prepped food out of the wrap, remove the paper separating it all, and chuck it out. It could have been prepped a week ago, or only two hours ago for fresh use, you still throw out all this paper and plastic wrapping. And then the cleaning, there is an inexcusable amount of paper towel used for various purposes, from drying your hands to wiping a counter/table, etc. And it's all thrown out. Some restaurants will use towels and kitchen rags, but then you have so many to wash and clean, it's usually done by a third-party service that has to drive to pick it all up, drive to a central laundry stop, do the laundry, and then drive it all back to get done again. And if you are in a place that has a washing machine in-house, it's a drop in the bucket in solving real waste issues.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't that what SheRa used? Magic was an energy to be harnessed by the technology.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Word replacement is fine and dandy, just don't have a physical reaction to moist. I have seen people like that and made me lose respect for them.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
  • I haven't been to Taco Bell in a minute.
  • My wife and I stay at Street Rd.

The second one I get the closer I am to inner city areas. The first I have been hearing more in suburban areas and outside of the inner city regions that it originated.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I want disclosure. I want a tag or watermark to let people know that AI was used. I want to see these companies pay dues for the content used in the similar vein that we have to pay for higher learning. And we need to stop calling it AI as well.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The more we get, the better it becomes. Trying to just change the whole system at once is just an excuse for not making the small changes that move the needle.

 

I had the thought that the only way to really fight against large corporations and billionaires is to compete against them. Start your own business. Amazon relies on third-party sellers more than anything in their business. So start a business and sell your items there. Don't have anything to sell? People are a creative bunch, make something. Find a local producer of something and make a partnership to sell on an independent web site.

 

I haven't played since before Wizards started pushing Commander, at that time called EDH. I felt the Standard Format was a perfect setup to keep the game fresh and innovative while still making money, and the Legacy Format was perfect for the people who had cards that are no longer in Standard. I think the Commander Format killed a perfect system, and Wizards/Hasbro are just trying everything to make money and keep the game mostly unplayable with the licensed tie-ins.

 
 

First time making a pot roast, even after the cat knocked over and shattered the wine bottle overnight. Wife reminded me that we had a bottle in the pantry.

 

I have five.

 
 

Mine is that the Disney+ shows should not have any impact on the movies, that they should just be on their own.

 

Mine is that Discovery should have been a series taking place in the Picard era.

 

Mine is they shouldn't have made the sequel series without George as a consultant.

 

I have this argument with my wife often. I like to cook, and for me cooking is more than taking frozen meatballs and dumping them into a pan full of jar pasta sauce. I would rather make the sauce, maybe have some meatballs made in advance. My wife seems to think that pre-made stuff or mixes are the way to go. I would rather just make pancakes scratch, which isn't hard, where she would rather I just open the mix, add water, and make the food. But I do agree that having a frozen lasagna is better than taking the full effort when I just want to get dinner going. So where are your eat the pre-made vs make it from scratch?

 
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