Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
Microphone is shorted to “mic” not “mike”.
Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up
I now can’t help but completely agree, that would have been so much better
Instagram really should be a weed delivery app.
Whoever invented jetskis
and didn’t call them boatorcyclesseriously fucked upFTFY
That’sa valid concern, we’re here for the inconsequential stuff.
Fully agree though.
So what is the cycling part of it? Just curious 😇
They were originally called Water scooters
Why not wooter scooters?
Splashy vroom vrooms.
Isn’t JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha’s brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced “skiDOO” with a short i and not “SKEE do”
Jet Ski is a registered trademark for Kawasaki.
Why are people who drive motorcycles are called “bikers”? Somebody screwed that up.
Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.
My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.
I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.
same here. I still prefer dark mode, provided it is designed with it in mind from the get go.
Yeah. And it probably depends on how much time you spend outside
As little as possible thank you very much. Outside has people!
shudder
I don’t really care what’s default, but 10 years of prison to anyone who doesn’t offer both! And an easy way to switch between the two that doesn’t require digging through menus.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
I have that in both eyes and I still prefer dark mode.
Same
That’s depends on levels of astigmatism tbf, dark mode is pretty an accessibility issue
. . . Shit. Do I need to change away from dark mode? I highly prefer it but I do have mild astigmatism…
Do what you prefer, my friend. I also am cursed with astigmatism but much prefer dark mode.
Nah not really, it won’t make it wkrse or anything, it’s just that some astigmatic people have more problems with dark mode or it’s straight up unuseable
people with astigmatism
…and no proper glasses?
Astigmatic people can still have some issues with glasses, especially ones with more acute astigmatism
Eg:
It isn’t this strong for everyone, ofc
Night time without corrective lenses is so pretty. Every light is a wide star, cars ahead are two red stars overlapping
Got both eye astigmatism and glasses for 20 years, dark mode forever.
What? I have astigmatism and never ever had this problem.
My lemmy is AMOLED black with blue text, no difficulty at all
Contrast is what matters.
The dark reader Firefox extension is for you. It makes every website darkmode.
Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)
Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.
Plus then my eyes don’t get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn’t have built in dark mode support.
I literally can’t read white on black text.
I don’t know why anyone likes it.
as a dark mode enjoyer, as I grow older I found that I prefer not pure black for the background, and not pure white for the text. sometimes google did well in the case of material UI guideline in the beginning. they set that the background is almost black gray and the text some kind of offwhite IIRC. Back then I disliked it but now I understand the decision.
if a website or app is designed with dark mode in the first place I found that it is a lot more calming to me to look at it a long time. although for eink and similar technology displays, I still prefer traditional black text In white.
I can read black on white text but it hurts my eyes immediately and will sting for maybe a couple minutes afterwards. It doesn’t have to be AMOLED — grey or dark beige or amber or whatever can work — so long as it isn’t really bright.
It didn’t used to bother me on CRTs, but I do not want a flat panel blaring large screens of white at me.
walruses should be called saber-toothed seals
Only if sabre tooth tigers are renamed walrus tigers also.
This sounds reasonable
Advertising destroys everything nice (communities, websites, roads, clothes, architecture, privacy, quality of life, etc.).
Coldest Take ever.
Advertising is literally a major reason our planet and our society is where it’s at as it induces unnecessary consumption and materialism.
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If Thanos snapped his fingers and sent all of the marketing MBAs to “Planet Marketing”…nobody would fucking miss them. Nobody.
The low effort, saturation advertising we get, yes. Advertising can be interesting or inventive, but not the way it’s done now.
I’d quite to see a return how it was 100+ years ago; an image of the product with several paragraphs extolling the virtues. Though perhaps not on billboards by roads.
I generally agree that the world would be a better place without them but there are cases of genius advertisers. The KFC team on Twitter, for example, who followed only 11 other accounts, the 5 spice girls and 6 random dudes named herb.
Interesting and inventive don’t equal beneficial, it’s all cultural cancer imo. Though it’s not the source, it’s a metastasization of capitalism.
Not all advertising is made equal, but I do acknowledge that being in the UK, my relationship to it is probably different to someone in the US.
I mean, I’m not inherently against the idea of a company telling people that they offer a product or service. As people who buy things, it’s useful to us to be aware that such things exist, and while that’s the case, I have no issues with companies being inventive.
But what’s shitty is that the biggest, crappiest corporations naturally have the biggest budget to blanket their shitty ads all over the place.
There’s an independent burger joint in my town that’s pretty well regarded by local residents. It’s on the end of a row, and on its side wall is an advertising board over which they have no control. For years, that board was essentially permanently rented to McDonalds, whose nearest ‘restaurant’ to that board was several miles away. That kind of thing can and should fuck off. It’s just nasty bullying.
Advertising can be useful and relatively unobtrusive. I don’t use TikTok because I can’t be trusted with it, but my wife does, and they’ll AirPlay it to our TV to show me ones they’ve favourited. Every now and then I’ll see one that’s pretty much an advert for a product, but presented in a way that it’s actually interesting, useful information about a thing for which I could well be in the market. And to me, that’s fine.
My related hot take: If I’m going to be subjected to Ads, I’d actually prefer to see relevant Ads (generally demographically, geographically, etc. while retaining some anonymity) than ads for products and services I’m never going to care about.
Semi-related, on my language learning journey I’ve discovered that as I watch more things in the language I’m learning via YouTube, Netflix, and other ad supported streaming services I see more and more ads in the language I’m trying to learn. And surprisingly (even to myself) I genuinely enjoy these ads because the language is usually simple and without much idiomatic use, it’s all clearly enunciated, and it’s directly related to the action on screen. Of course, everyone else in my household is now also getting those kinds of ads and I can’t help but be amused.
Ads in real life spaces though? Unless it’s telling me about some specific local thing or place, it is just ugly clutter on the scenery and architecture.
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Oh yeah, gambling ads are the worst. That’s like a whole other can of worms. I feel the same way about them, predatory and exploitative. They shouldn’t really be allowed anywhere. But I feel the same way about ads for casinos, day trading websites, Bitcoin, predictive markets, state lotteries, managed stock market funds, short term loans, multilevel marketing schemes, etc. The all prey on the same ignorance and insecurities.
Look up polish school of movie posters (Polish People Republic era). That’s what you get when advertising is not profit driven.
More games, if not all games, should include cheats or extra sliders for both difficult but also gameplay options.
Let have infinite mana or slow mo or increase my speed or whatever. At the end of the day games are entertainment and you should be able to tweak things to better enjoy it.
(I know mods exist but those are a mixed bag in terms of if they exist and what they support)
I do miss cheat codes.
There’s a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I’d never been so angry at a game.
Watched the ending on YouTube instead.
edit: I just remembered, it was Bramble. Beautiful game, absolutely bitch hard.
I’m looking at you, Black Mesa.
How can that damn alien spider take 8.000 rockets and still kill me?
that was kena bridge of spirits for me. got all the way to the end boss and too hard.
I like the way Pacific Drive did it.
- Here’s the way we intended it.
- Here’s an easier and a harder mode.
- Here’s a bunch of difficulty settings in detail, select what you like.
I understand from a resources perspective why it’s not always done. But from a player’s perspective, I totally get you.
Learning to use cheat engine is a game-changer. It can pretty much automatically single out a memory location for something like mana just by casting a spell a few times.
Moving Out has this. Even though I’ve never used it, I found it to be a wholesome addition to the game.
I love how many difficulty settings Rogue Legacy 2 had. I prefer to game on normal difficulties, but it was good to have options for those who don’t
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
Making your bed every day is useless.
Nobody’s gonna see it and you can’t use it without messing it up.
Prefacing this with saying I’ve previously worked in wildlife conservation for years.
Limited hunting of big game in Africa is perfectly fine. Dipshits willing to pay $100K to shoot something fund entire villages, put kids through school, and define a value of the living animals that make it easier to define how much money anti-poaching efforts need, etc. Even if not well-managed, even with expected corruption, it ends up working out.
Absolutist conservation stances never take into account how ridiculously manipulated these ranges are already. There’s not much still natural about an ecosystem in a reserve. Predator/prey relationships are weird, tourism focuses only on charismatic megafauna, and tourist sites bring staff and place humans close to wildlife anyway. Absolutist stances end up being horrible for animals long term because the ecosystems are so messed up, so populations boom, then crash. Why would anyone want to watch hundreds of animals starve to death as a way to “manage” a population when someone is willing to pay to do the same thing in a specifically managed situation?
In most species, the most useless thing there is, is an older male. Humans let them run their counties, which is stupid. Elephants, rhinos, lions and hippos run them off because they get violent and kill their own kind. Humans haven’t recognized that’s what ours do, too. But when a rich dipshit wants to pay $100K to be brought 30 meters from an old lion and shoot it before it kills 3 cubs from a rival… I’m very OK with that.
Poaching is the real threat, and most people are too ignorant of stupid to know the difference because of an abstract fear of firearms, rather than logically looking at the whole problem.
I guess this hot take depends on the audience… But if you don’t have bay leaves on hand for a recipe, your family and friends aren’t going to notice the difference. When push comes to shove, it’s probably the least important part of any recipe. If you’re making soup or a stock, it’s gonna be fine without it.
Bay leaves are kind of like bass in music. It adds an earthy undertone to everything. Whatever you’re making won’t necessarily be bad without it, but it’ll be thin and less impactful.
Nah. A lot of music sounds much worse without bass, you’re just missing an entire frequency spectrum.
I agree. They’re obviously not mandatory but I really like them being there
Bay leaves are so stupid
Yeah, it’s not as important as professionals make it out to be. Like, if you under-salt a dish, people will notice that the meal doesn’t taste as good as the last time you made it, even if they can’t identify why. But the “depth” that bay leaves are supposed to add to a dish, probably won’t even register for most people. I don’t think bay leaves are entirely useless, but I do think it’s safe for home cooks to consider it an optional ingredient. If you have them, use them. If you don’t this time? Don’t worry about it.
I was about to go off about who didn’t have bay, laurel (and rosemary and the third thing I forgot what is called. It’s yellow.) grow like weeds up here.
What do you mean y’all don’t live where I live
Turmeric, cumin, mustard?
i don’t put turmeric in my mustard but that one batch with cumin was good
You can notice the difference, its just that you probably won’t know what is missing.
I’m partial to kombu over bay leaves, though it’s hard to source where I am. It is at least edible after you cook it to death, and it has some additional merit as a folk cure for flatulence.
If anybody flips my table because I forgot to add bay leaves, they’re not getting invited back. Nevertheless I do keep them on hand because they’re not nothing.
The real thing the US fast food market is missing is Indian food and it could be a serious game changer in terms of providing healthier / vegetarian options.
healthier
Fast food and mall food court Indian restaurants are common in Berlin, and I wouldn’t call any of them healthy. Every single one leans heavily on deep-fried everything, covered in flavoured oil disguised as a sauce.
The “fast” in fast food often works against the carefully prepared, fresh ingredients required for a truly healthy and tasty meal.
In lots of ways, it’s the same dichotomy as Italian cuisine, where you can get amazing Mediterranean food at a sit-down restaurant, but the fast food variety is usually just greasy pizza or oil with a side of pasta.
We have three Indian restaurants in the neighbourhood - tiny provincial town in Markgräflerland - and they’re surprisingly good. But I did notice when I lived in Brandenburg that they have the Scottish attitude towards food. Deep fry everything. Including sushi.
Upvoted, but I only partly agree. The way things are now you can order takeout from local small businesses, and there won’t be consistent quality or speed or prices, but they’re not a huge corporate machine. (At least at the endpoints). A big conglomerate moving into the space may put most of the local ones under.
There’s an indian place by my work that has a tikka masala wrap, thought it was genius as a takeaway item. Super delicious, but an extreme mess… the idea that it would be portable was a big miss.
Now, a biryani wrap could be a goer. Though you would be wrapping starch in starch. But man, it’d be good.
Something like the 3 Cheese Flatbread Melt from Taco Bell, but with tikka masala filling. Could be paneer instead of chicken for a veg option. Small and cheap should be possible here
I want a fast soup restaurant. Very healthy vegan soup, which may take a while to make, but it’s already made in the morning so it’s fast.
I’ve been having frozen samosas for lunch lately and you aren’t wrong
I generally agree, especially if you could get like naan burritos. Something quick and easy to make
Similarly in ohio and a few other places there’s a place called piada which basically is Chipotle but Italian food and I miss it so much. It’s such good fast casual
“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.
We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.
Lawns are stupid and I think they look boring
Also pigeons are underappreciated and we are gonna go to pigeon hell for how dirty we did them
Bio 20-30 should be mandatory
I got so many hot shit takes somebody stop me
Regarding lawns, I think it’s the feeling of accomplishment when you’ve mowed them that’s the kicker. A wild garden can look better, but there’s something about the smugness of having a freshly cut lawn that gives you a slightly virtuous buzz.
You wouldn’t happen to be german, would you?
No but I do really fux with their compound language
Are these common German beliefs, am I in the wrong country?
In germany gardens are quite boring. Short cut grass to 6mm, hedges, front garden is stones. Barely and flowers. That is it. Not as brutalistic as american “gardens” because german gardens atleast the oder once have at least a BIT of british garden style.
I am german and this is the reason i dont want a garden. Because the image of owning a garden for it just to be boring has been ruined for me. Now classical english gardens. Oooh they are true beauty!!! If i would get a house and garden, then that would be the garden i’d get. But im pretty sure for all that i would have to go threw lots of governmental institutions…also these flowers sadly arent very well suited for the climat change heat from what i know. The other type of garden i’d love is a bog garden.
Buuut i dont know how faar i’d be allowed to get it to act like a natural bog. Mind this area used to be a bog until it got drained in the 50s-60s and its peat got harvested away :(
My neighbour just mowed the lawn (we take turns). Was the grass long? No. It’s dead. We’re in our 5th heatwave this year.
She only mowed the clover (which is (was) doing well) and the wild flowers that the other neighbour mowed around. What was (dead) grass is now dirt.
What is wrong with you, Germany.
I WISH I KNEWWW!!! THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP!!
Canadian gardens are generally boring also, though there will always be that one down the street where they go all out. But I have come to realize these are, in fact, necessary. You need to feel humiliated and apologetic about the state of your own yard. It builds national character.
You’re right about England though! Wow, even the rolling countryside looks so carefully manicured. Really drives home to any Canadian our colonial peasantry roots. Highly recommend the visit. 10/10!
Idk i just have a german friend that would 500% agree with you
I like the cut of his jib
“Eight! I mean nine!!”
They’re iridescent doves, love em
Hershey is giving other candy/food manufacturers below-market deals on chocolate or above-market licensing deals to produce their chocolate candies in the USA so Americans don’t discover how much better chocolate tastes without butyric acid. Inexpensive foreign chocolate could destroy The Hershey Company and there are big companies like Nestlé or Mondelēz that could do it relatively easily but instead let Hershey’s produce their brands under license with butyric acid added.
As a Brit, Hershey chocolate is an abomination. I’m a fat fuck who looooooves chocolate, but even I couldn’t stomach a bag of Kisses that someone once brought back for me. Awful shit.
And now you fuckers have bought Cadbury, even that chocolate has become dog shit. Not as disgusting, but nowhere near as good as it was.
Can Americans please stop making food. Let the world bring it to you.
I’ve always liked KitKat. It’s a good candy bar. But when I learned that Nestlé makes KitKat in the rest of the world, and Hershey makes it in the US, I knew I needed to try some of the forbidden Nestlé KitKat. (Forbidden both because we don’t have it in the US, and also because fuck Nestlé).
Now any time I travel outside the US, I come home with a bag of Nestlé KitKats. They’re so much better than the Hershey version, which is already good!
I used to like kitkat but I don’t get them anymore because fuck nestle.
Just steal a couple
My Swiss friend got me converted to Kaegie chocolates, same concept as KitKat but so much more decadent!
Better than Kit Kat and no Nestlé? Color me intrigued!
I have a good source of Japanese kit kat. They are so much better
Here I am living in Ecuador the land of caco literally drive anywhere here and it’s on the streets for miles yet we go to the store and all you can buy is sabor de chocolate (chocolate flavored)… Shits nasty… I want my butyric acid over this crap
Yeah you guys need Wedel in your lives.
