@AFKBRBChocolate - eviltoast

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m a big science fiction reader. Mostly I:

    • Look up lists of winners and nominees for the big awards (Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke)
    • Read reviews for successive books in a series when I liked the earlier ones
    • Find articles on the top SF books of all time or by year, written by respectable sources
    • Get recommendations from friends who also read SF
    • Occasionally post threads in the SF community here on things I’ve read and see what comes up in the comments






  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldeggs in japan
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    9 days ago

    The protective barrier is true, but you’re either making assumptions about the rest or you’ve been misinformed. There really aren’t major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn’t the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it’s much, much worse than in the US - it’s just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.

    Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn’t needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.

    Lots of good info online. Here’s a USDA article on it, and here’s a higher level NPR piece.


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    10 days ago

    It’s just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn’t trivial.











  • I got divorced in my 20s and moved from a house into an apartment. I had this long sofa bed, and my buddies and I tried for like half an hour to get it into the apartment, which was off of a hall and then had a short entry hall itself. The couch was too long to stand up on the without hitting the ceiling.

    Finally decided it just wasn’t going to work. I thought it might be worth trying to disassemble some of the internal structure and cutting some upholstery seems, then reassembling and sewing, so I turned it upside down. Long story shorter, the arms were separate units, not sewn on, just bolted on, and without them it was short enough to go through the door on end. Wish I had realized earlier.


  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.worldJust Kitten
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    21 days ago

    This thread makes me so sad about the future. Here we have a bunch of folks who are absolutely convinced that a real image is AI generated, some even after being shown that it predates AI image generators. But we live in a time when there are a giant number of real images online, the only AI generated images are very recent, and most of those have things like extra fingers. What’s it going to be like in twenty years, when image generators are so much better and there are so many more generated images? Having a photo of something will prove nothing.