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I am not sure what to do with non-homogeneous peanut butter. I mean, I assume you mix it up so it is homogeneous, but with something the size of a peanut butter jar that seems difficult to do well.

If, somehow, your peanut butter is homogeneous, then my favorite simple thing to do is take some out of the jar onto a dish, and dip apples or raw carrots in it; the suggestions above also work. On bread, I would consider it a star or costar, not support, because the flavor is too strong; with chocolate it can be the support.

Peanut butter that stays homogeneous does not need to go in the fridge. I donʼt know about the kind that separates. Here, that sort of thing would be on the label, although they err on the side of recommending too much goes in the fridge; my peanut butter does not recommend that, but again it might be different if they donʼt do the magic that keeps it homogeneous.

hello america please explain use of foreign product "peanut butter" to me

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Some form of linguistic backchannel is common in most (all) natural languages but having it be repeating a key concept is interesting.

at this point my emoji reactions are more of a sign of my reading comprehension than anything else.

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Nobody is allowed to leave Earth until you solve these famously difficult physics riddles.

One fun thing about Snyder's run on Batman is that Riddler's characterization as a guy holding the entire city hostage "for their own good" until they present him with someone smart enough to answer his riddle challenge is directly analogized to a teacher Bruce had in high school who held the whole class hostage trying to extract an answer from a student who clearly didn't know it. And this, I think, gestures at a very robust schema for creating compelling supervillains; take some relatable, intimate form of petty interpersonal tyranny and then expand the target scope of that lame, power-tripping pathology to a city or even the whole world.

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That can easily be arranged. Just buy from people who will not apologize for that.

I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years

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Also, this does not make priests like other mandatory reporters. It gives priests extra requirements others don’t have, in a poorly-worded way that also removes eg. lawyer-client privilege if your lawyer is unrelatedly also a priest.

So Trump's DOJ is suing the state of Washington because WA's new mandated reporting law says that clergy (among many other professions) are legally obligated to report ongoing child abuse if they know about it. And the Christofascists in the Trump regime call that "anti-catholic"

And all I can think of is this iconic post

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It’s amazing how fast this can happen, too. The examples in the comic are old, but I’ve heard of people who were surprised when they learned what Superman’s kryptonite is.

Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles’ heel was his heel.

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[Cueball talks to White Hat while reading a book. Both are standing.] Cueball: It's so weird reading these 18th century scholars argue about minor biblical details. It's like they're an online fandom or something - they've developed this whole elaborate canon.

[Caption below] It's fun when a word's usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.

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I find this sort of thing fascinating because when it was first introduced both of the answers above would have been unexpected, and the riddle would serve to highlight social sexism more than it would be, itself, sexist (the “two fathers” answer would be less available then, so it would primarily illustrate sexism, not homophobia or transphobia). Itʼs only with the changing context that the riddle went from illustrating sexism to being sexist.

Similarly in the US military, both the introduction and repeal of “donʼt ask, donʼt tell” were steps forward for gay rights.

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Yeah, “native” in the context of GUI often means “native widgets”, which is the thing I described and got into the long argument about in the other thread; thatʼs what it means here. Unfortunately, more often, you get “native look and feel”, where the framework puts in a lot of effort to try to make the widgets seem like the native ones without actually using the native ones, to mixed success.

Before that reply, I assumed it meant “native” as in “using a separate program not your web browser”. You initially complained about it not meaning “native” as in “native code”. This is beginning to feel like D&D “level” but for digital natives.

a corporate website has found a new way to suck: it scrolls without scrolling, behaving exactly like a scrolled website would (not hijacking your scroll for a horizontal slideshow or anything, just moving the content vertically up and down) but it isn't actually scrolling so you don't get a usable scroll bar

who let the web developers learn eastern philosophy, this isn't how wu wei is supposed to be used

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This isn’t just about animal cruelty; cutting off the last head kills many kinds of hydra. If you don’t know what breed you have, it might be the classic Herculean kind which will grow new heads, or it might be a Parisian or Buchholz hydra where cutting off the last head will outright kill them. Of course, cutting off any head will weaken it and bring it over step closer to that death, even if it often grows bigger and cooler-looking; if you do it enough, they will end up with just one head and then die, no matter how many they had in between.

Many people think that since the hydra can grow bigger and cooler-looking this has to be good for it, but that’s not true. Even for a classical Herculean hydra, this is a trauma response and causes irreversible harm. Plus it’s still just as painful as cutting off a human’s head. More so, in fact, because they can feel the injury for longer. Except in the direst circumstances, it is animal abuse of the worst kind.

well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

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Wait did Debian stop supporting Steam?

Congratulations, Debian on becoming Y2K38 compliant! No airplanes will be falling out of the skies in thirteen years.

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Yeah, sometimes negotiation sounds like screaming.

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

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I think that is a mainline recommendation, yeah, and I assume OP just meant itʼs dumb to promote it to adults/older kids without a rare medical condition (Iʼm sure those exist too; they exist for everything). Which does seem fair; for the vast majority of people who know how to brush their teeth and wonʼt deliberately drink a tube of toothpaste, the the fluoride is good.

Someone elsewhere in the notes says that even for little kids it isnʼt much fluoride so isnʼt a big deal if they do swallow it, which is probably true but I havenʼt looked into it.

Look.

This is a super easy litmus test.

If you are ever talking about someone in the context of human health and nutrition and they make a recommendation for fluoride-free toothpaste, you can dismiss their perspective on all other subjects relating to human health and nutrition.

If someone wants to improve human health but they're willing to profit off of fluoride-free toothpaste, they're either totally unaware of what they're talking about and are therefore not worth listening to, or they're a scammer and are therefore not worth listening to.

Lead Safe Mama sells a bunch of bullshit through Amazon affiliate links, but the easiest one to see right away as the sign of someone who cares more about their money than your health is fluoride-free toothpaste.

"Lead Safe Mama Says" is not a good reason to do anything except ignore whatever instructions follow.

There is definitely reason to be concerned about the lead concentrations in cassava flour, there are a few products that, if consumed daily, would put you at risk of having higher lead levels than recommended by the FDA.

But Lead Safe Mama doesn't bother with the FDA, the difference between the presence of lead and exposure risk, or the way that lead is actually tracked by people who are looking to prevent heavy metal poisoning.

Lead Safe Mama says "there is no safe level of lead according to the WHO." What the WHO means when they say that is is that there is no known safe level of lead in your bloodstream. What LFM means when she says that is "all lead is scary and coming to turn your children into autism zombies."

Lead Safe Mama was also the one who raised a huge stink about lead in Stanley cups and other thermoses a couple of years ago. There is lead in some of those products - it's present in the solder used to seal things and isn't bioavailable. Lead Safe Mama was also the one who was scaremongering about vintage plates. She tests for lead in paint using dubious techniques then over-states the risk of exposure and possible outcomes from exposure. There was a whole tumblr shitpost that went viral about it.

So this post (descriptions in alt):

Is entirely based on reporting by a lady who believes that childhood lead exposure is being misdiagnosed as autism, and claims that explains the current high rate of autism diagnosis. A lady WHO RECOMMENDS NATURAL CHELATION for autistic children when they are too frail for CHEMICAL FUCKING CHELATION.

There's a similar post by the same blogger circulating about this Consumer Report's survey of lead in cassava flour that says that Bob's Red Mill is showing lead levels that is 2343% higher than the Consumer Reports recommended .5 micrograms per adult per day (that .5 microgram number is itself modeled on California Prop 65 standards).

So that's got to be a ton, right, like a crazy amount of lead, right?

Nope. It's 11.715 micrograms.

That is below the 12.5 microgram per day reference value set by the FDA for people who are pregnant or could become pregnant, but definitely higher than the 3microgram per day value set for children. Probably your child should not consume a cup of cassava flour from Bob's Red Mill per day.

One point I'm making here is that actually Bob's Red Mill and Pamela's are actually probably fine with their CA65 warning labels - there's not an absurd risk of high blood lead levels from eating their cassava products.

The other point I'm making here is get this fucking autism mom and her bullshit bad science and her child chelation recommendations and her fluoride free toothpaste off my dash.

[daniel-r-h]

I’m having a hard time finding details on the FDA guidance, maybe because I’m on my phone. But it sounds like the worst casava flour brand is still pretty close to the limit for people who may be pregnant, and it seems like a bad idea to be near that like when you could just switch to another brand? You eat more than casava flour in a day and the other food might also have below-the-limit amounts of lead, but even if it’s your only source it seems good to avoid.

Look.

This is a super easy litmus test.

If you are ever talking about someone in the context of human health and nutrition and they make a recommendation for fluoride-free toothpaste, you can dismiss their perspective on all other subjects relating to human health and nutrition.

If someone wants to improve human health but they're willing to profit off of fluoride-free toothpaste, they're either totally unaware of what they're talking about and are therefore not worth listening to, or they're a scammer and are therefore not worth listening to.

Lead Safe Mama sells a bunch of bullshit through Amazon affiliate links, but the easiest one to see right away as the sign of someone who cares more about their money than your health is fluoride-free toothpaste.

"Lead Safe Mama Says" is not a good reason to do anything except ignore whatever instructions follow.

There is definitely reason to be concerned about the lead concentrations in cassava flour, there are a few products that, if consumed daily, would put you at risk of having higher lead levels than recommended by the FDA.

But Lead Safe Mama doesn't bother with the FDA, the difference between the presence of lead and exposure risk, or the way that lead is actually tracked by people who are looking to prevent heavy metal poisoning.

Lead Safe Mama says "there is no safe level of lead according to the WHO." What the WHO means when they say that is is that there is no known safe level of lead in your bloodstream. What LFM means when she says that is "all lead is scary and coming to turn your children into autism zombies."

Lead Safe Mama was also the one who raised a huge stink about lead in Stanley cups and other thermoses a couple of years ago. There is lead in some of those products - it's present in the solder used to seal things and isn't bioavailable. Lead Safe Mama was also the one who was scaremongering about vintage plates. She tests for lead in paint using dubious techniques then over-states the risk of exposure and possible outcomes from exposure. There was a whole tumblr shitpost that went viral about it.

So this post (descriptions in alt):

Is entirely based on reporting by a lady who believes that childhood lead exposure is being misdiagnosed as autism, and claims that explains the current high rate of autism diagnosis. A lady WHO RECOMMENDS NATURAL CHELATION for autistic children when they are too frail for CHEMICAL FUCKING CHELATION.

There's a similar post by the same blogger circulating about this Consumer Report's survey of lead in cassava flour that says that Bob's Red Mill is showing lead levels that is 2343% higher than the Consumer Reports recommended .5 micrograms per adult per day (that .5 microgram number is itself modeled on California Prop 65 standards).

So that's got to be a ton, right, like a crazy amount of lead, right?

Nope. It's 11.715 micrograms.

That is below the 12.5 microgram per day reference value set by the FDA for people who are pregnant or could become pregnant, but definitely higher than the 3microgram per day value set for children. Probably your child should not consume a cup of cassava flour from Bob's Red Mill per day.

One point I'm making here is that actually Bob's Red Mill and Pamela's are actually probably fine with their CA65 warning labels - there's not an absurd risk of high blood lead levels from eating their cassava products.

The other point I'm making here is get this fucking autism mom and her bullshit bad science and her child chelation recommendations and her fluoride free toothpaste off my dash.

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That breaks the point of the library (because noise) and the acknowledgements (because alarm fatigue).

Joking aside, does anyone actually make a principled defense of land acknowledgements? I’ve never actually seen one; as far as I can tell it was a thing that spread via memetic contagion and not persuasion. But in my discourse spheres, one rare thing various political factions— everyone from leftists to liberals to libertarians to right-wingers, and even Native advocates— are in total agreement on is that land acknowledgements are the worst kind of performative feel-good nonsense. It occurs me I should try to see the steelmanned case for them if that exists.

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I agree with your main point, but I do want to point something out. Two of the examples given involve still-living ancestors, and it probably is not psychologically healthy for most people to entirely cut themselves off from their family if that family is not abusive, so making pasta or sailboats with your grandparents does seem like a good idea actually.

you should not embrace your heritage actually.

see yourself as an individual who is equally part of all of humanity. ignore the accident of who turned out to be your ancestors as an irrelevant footnote in your causal history. interact with others as themselves and not as if you both are a tendril protruding from the inhuman horror that is your notion of 'heritage'.

also stop trying to rehabilitate blatantly reactionary slogans, you're clearly just hitting the reactionary beliefs you already hold but think are fine because they are anti-capitalist.

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I don’t know about most of them. Mine I got after a job interview there which I did not take (and everything since then has made me glad of that) and has the SpaceX logo on the back. I’d even wear it in public instead of just in private if I knew how to get rid of that part.

Actually what is the current meta on novelty decor for nerdy apartment dwellers

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I think this has already happened, in fact. But I canʼt find the source, so I might be getting it confused with a different story where an AI did a tiny amount of work then told the user to solve the rest of the problem, or something.

"AI won't become worse at programming than they currently are" could slightly be false if AI ends up not being that profitable, and thus retraining AI to keep abreast of say changes in python happens less often; and so the AI is more likely to use out of date code than it currently does.

This most likely won't happen though.