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[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If the instance allows it, then the instance is doing it.

[–] stray@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pawb was very explicit about needing manual review and approval though. I was never confused during the process.

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

There isn't one for most people. You just have to go to work or be homeless. Maybe go to school so work is slightly less ass, but even that's a luxury many can't afford.

[–] stray@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But Hercules is a Disney classic!

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They aren't though. They're rectangular at the top and then have cylinders coming out the bottom. I think the heels of his shoes might be square on the bottom.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Making me realize Spongebob isn't even square.

[–] stray@pawb.social 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think y'all who are upset over the use of "freeware" are out of touch with how language is used in non-expert settings. Like, I'm definitely more tech-savvy than most people and I still didn't know about "FOSS" as a term until seeing it on Lemmy and looking it up. This just means "free software" to me and doesn't imply anything negative.

It even says, "the premier free and open source image editing software for multiple platforms" right in the first paragraph, so what's the issue? Do you think the headline will mislead someone into thinking that GIMP is proprietary?

[–] stray@pawb.social 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people.

“The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition.

“The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager.

“If I’d found community and sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.”

“As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens.

“Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.”

https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/06/10/jk-rowling-trans-terf-essay-transphobia-gender-identity-dysphoria-mental-health-harry-potter/

It would be in very poor taste for me to voice any speculation on another person's gender identity.

It's also worth pointing out that traditional femininity is treated with disrespect throughout the Harry Potter series. All the "good" female characters subvert it in some way, by being smart or ugly, because Joanne doesn't seem to have matured past 90's-era film tropes.

Why is her main character a boy in a genre already saturated with boys and begging for female leads? Why did she deliberately obscure the fact that she's a woman by abbreviating her name? Why does she write under a male pseudonym? It all sounds so feminist and progressive, doesn't it?

Le Guin had the grace to be embarrassed that she hadn't even considered a female wizard, and she went on to write fantastic novels about that exact topic. Writing that also made me realize that girls literally cannot be wizards in Harry Potter canon, lol. It's like she read Equal Rites but only paid attention to the problematic parts.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Can you please censor ess*y in the future so that it'll be more difficult for me to filter automatically and actually make me way more likely to get triggered? Thanks.

[–] stray@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While some recipes suggest DIY methods to “heat-treat” flour at home, such as baking it in the oven or microwaving it, these methods are inconsistent and may not effectively eliminate all pathogens, including Salmonella, which is particularly heat-resistant in low-moisture foods like flour.

https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-labs/uploads/sites/1254/2024/01/FSM-Developing-Thermal-Control-of-Salmonella-in-Low-Moisture-Foods-Using-Predictive-Models-Clean-PDF-Version.pdf

To pasteurize wheat flour (e.g., in 5-lb bags) with different moisture contents (e.g., 11.6 percent and 14.5 percent) using an RF heating process (volumetric heating), the holding time required at a specific target temperature can be predicted by measuring or calculating the high-temperature water activities of the flour samples, and then determining their corresponding D-values for Salmonella. In this case, calculations indicate that the water activities at room temperature for the two batches of flour are 0.43 and 0.64, which would increase to 0.69 and 0.82, respectively, at 80°C. According to the equation shown in Figure 4, the D80 values of Salmonella at these water activity levels are 3.2 and 1.2 minutes, respectively. To achieve a 5-log reduction, the two flour batches must be held at 80 °C for 16 and 6 minutes, respectively.

I think the issue here is not that you can't pasteurize flour yourself, but that many DIY tutorials are dangerous and they should be regulated.

Also it takes a very long time to heat raw flour and it hardly seems worth the effort. Just make oat flour from rolled oats. You're eating the dough raw, so what do you need egg or gluten for in the first place?

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

I like to think that that's actually her, trying to scam us out of money, and I feel a kind of vicarious pride for her as a woman who doesn't even have to touch a real dick to get paid, while the rest of us chumps are over here with our shitty jobs. Obviously the reality of the situation isn't great, but in my head she's a Robin Hood kind of folk hero.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

Because in the original comic the woman in the middle explains to the girl that this is simply an ugly man and not a beloved cartoon character. The text has been altered.

 

This is going to contain spoilers through season 1 episode 10.

My tastes in media have become somewhat more demanding as I've gotten older. I used to enjoy pretty much anything with a fun adventure, but now I need my entertainment to also be educational or growth-provoking in some way.

I mostly enjoyed episodes 1-7 because even though it was a cute slice of life, it was coming at it from a more unique angle of how we form and value relationships and I felt that it was emotionally meaningful.

But then by episodes 9 and 10 suddenly all these villains have really specific quirks, and the combat is drawn-out as characters over-exposit every detail of what's going on. They even tell you what's going to happen with the fight well before it ever occurs, and then they still drag out the result for some reason. It was very disappointing and I'm concerned this is just going to be the state of things from now on.

I got kind of excited about the way Frieren was talking about demons because her beef with them sounds a lot like what a pig or chicken would think of humans, and I got almost a racist vibe, but my partner's reaction made it seem like we're not going to get introspective about our biases and hipocrisy, and he suggested we move on to something else. (He's read the comic and wanted to watch the show together.)

Thoughts? I'd like to think the story is going somewhere, but it won't be good for our relationship if it just ends up with me complaining the whole time.

 

One time on IRC the topic of what Boxing Day even is came up, and this guy said in seriousness that it's to memorialize the Boxer Rebellion, and we had a big fight about it. He backed up his claim by pointing out that the horse from Animal Farm was an allegory for said uprising, so he wasn't just making things up.

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