Lvxferre [he/him]

Done!

twaróg

That’s actually a great idea — gotta try it next time. (I’m almost sure the locally sold keschmier is the same as twaróg, but worst hypothesis homemade requeijão does the trick.)

Ah, I stole the pic from some random site. They do it this way because it’s more presentable. But it’s better to spread the “sauce” across the pasta, mix it a bit, and then add the strawberry pieces. (Or add the strawberry pieces and then mix it, your choice.)

Truskawki z makaronem.

• 150g pasta. Preferably something that sticks to the sauce better, like fusilli or farfalle. Spaghetti is a bad idea.
• 500g strawberries
• 4Tbsp of sugar
• a drop of vanilla extract
• 200g sour cream. Yoghurt if you want something healthier.

1. Boil the pasta as usual, except you’re only adding 1/2 of the salt you’d otherwise use to the water. (You want some salt for the contrast, but not enough to turn this into a savoury dish.)
2. Clean and chop the strawberries into eights. Then reserve, like, 1/3 of them aside. Mash the rest with the sugar and vanilla extract, add the sour cream, mix everything well.
3. Add pasta to plate. Then strawberry mix over pasta. Then the reserved strawberries over everything.
4. [Optional] Chill it before serving.

This should be enough for 2 people. It tastes surprisingly nice.

And upon sharing this recipe, I can hear my ancestors… some rolling in their graves and saying “che schifo”, some giving me a thumbs up, and some asking if I could add yucca meal to the dish (no).

Now picture a gangster rapper dressed as Santa Klaus, with an eyepatch on one eye and a bottle of rum, saying “yo ho ho ho”.

I know some folks down north who eat pan-fried ant butts. The ants in question are typically flying adults of the genus Atta (leafcutters), so specially large.

That hints to me that one of the main reasons people prefer sea bugs over land bugs is size and texture. Like, you can extract the meat from a crab leg just fine, but you can’t do it with most insects, you’ll be biting through the chitin, you know?

The origin of the name is even sillier.

In 1849, a pharmacist called Garot discovered a new sugar, that gives rhubarb stalks that red colour. They proposed the name “erythrose”, because “ἐρῠθραίνω” erythraínō means “to redden” in Greek, and you got to have that -ose for sugars. Fine name, right?

Later on, it was discovered erythrose was two substances: one a mirrored version of the other. So they got named D-erythrose and L-erythrose.

But then half a century later, a chemist called Otto Ruff discovered another compound. Same atoms as both D- and L-erythrose. Same chemical bonds: C goes to O that goes to H etc. But it was neither identical to the erythroses, nor a mirrored version of them.

So Ruff picked the prefix erythr-, clipped the -ry-, and jumbled the leftover letters — because the new compound was like a jumbled erythrose. Then he added the suffix -ose, and you got “threose”. And guess what, later on it was discovered threose was two compounds.

For reference, here’s the chemical structure of all four molecules. The bonds looking like thick triangles have atoms closer to the viewer than the rest of the molecule, and the dashed bonds are for atoms further behind.

Mozilla shoving AI into Firefox.

Bingo. The whole “a=b” is just a distraction to hide it, otherwise as soon as you hit the third step you cancel both out, and end with 0=0.

Birds in the genus Turdus totally deserve the name. They’re like:

• “Look! Cat food! Yummy!”
• “Why are there cats here? FLY AWAY!”
• “Why is the air solid? Perhaps if I hit it over and over I’ll fly past it!”

Every single time this happened I managed to save the turd (they should be glad one of my cats is senile and the other overweight), but then the laundry room is full of turd turds and feathers and my cats spend hours looking for the missing bird.

(inb4 yes, “thrush”. Fuck it, I’m still calling them “turds”. Turdus rufiventris, aka rust-bellied turds.)

I typically aim for 75°C; converted this is around 167F. Really close to what arctanthrope suggests.

More than that and it’ll be as safe as before but dry*, even if cooked in liquid. Specially if you’re serving it as a fillet, like in the OP.

*the exception that proves the rule is if you’re going to shred it; then it’s fine to ramp up the temperature. But do it because you want to speed the cooking up, not because it would be safer.

Everything Japan is better, as proved by katana beating Western words 11 times out of 10, so…

Tori oppai!

I’m more worried about getting chickenella from salmon.

Numbers are all made up stuff, and they’re all the same. Here, lemme prove it; let a=b, and…

a² = ab             // multiplying both sides by "a"
2a² = a²+ab         // adding a² to both sides
2a²-2ab = a²-ab     // subtracting 2ab from both sides
2(a²-ab) = 1(a²-ab) // isolating (a²-ab)
2 = 1               // dividing both sides by (a²-ab)

From there you can prove any number is any number. 36=36 or 36=8 or 36=π.

Guys, please don’t call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.

On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.

a ‘product of its time’.

Something like this, indeed. Or more like a product of the situation, plus a few laws - like network effect (the value a user derives from the OS depends on the number of users using it).

Note that not even the devs are to blame for this; it makes sense someone releasing commercial software would focus on the 70% (Windows), sometimes on the 15% (Mac OS), but almost never on the 4% (Linux).

It does, but this is a vicious cycle: small market share → devs don’t release Linux versions for their software → the software ecosystem is fragile → users who’d rather use Linux still need to use Windows → small market share. Anything countering any of those “links” weakens the vicious cycle, including Microsoft pissing off some Windows users; that’s why the penguin gets smug, because they know “Winrows is now an Agenric OS lol lmao” means slightly higher Linux market share.

It’s like one of my cats. When she’s doing something silly, and I grab the phone to take her pic, all I get is a picture of her butt. Because to observe something you need to interact with it, and when I interact with her she collapses into the “I wants buttslaps!” state.

And before I watch it, she’s in a superposition of states. Much like Schrödinger’s cat. However her states aren’t dead vs. alive; they’re “sleeping”, “licking her own buttocks”, and “ruining my Christmas decoration”.

Your typical Linux user gets really smug when learning about dumb shit Microsoft is doing with Windows. Just like that penguin in the OP. Because that dumb shit is making plenty Windows users consider ditching Windows for Linux.

One of those things is to force-feed AI into the users. Exemplified by Microsoft seeking to transform Windows into an “agentic OS”. People who don’t know how those systems work don’t want it; and people who do, even less.

“Windows is now an agentic OS”.