World collapses and all maps of New Zealand are destroyed.
That made perfect sense to me for a moment because I’ve read several times now that NZ seems to be the preferred location for global billionaires to build their ultimate survival bunkers when collapse happens.
Plus, I imagine they’d want people topside to hang on there reasonably well for several reasons, such as a labor pool, genetics pool, testing pool, and possibly to grow some food on the surface.
What would be some commonly unused features?
I agree it’s irrelevant in terms of living our lives, altho perhaps greatly relevant for those in relevant sciences.
I think there’s also a good argument that we already know we’re in a simulation. That is-- if we already know a lot about the tiny building blocks of the universe, how they interact, and what forces govern them across various levels, then we can conceive of framing the whole of observable reality in to a massive, but known & quantifiable set of calculations… or a simulation.
I hear ya, altho at the same time your DD as is doesn’t sound that bad to me.
Of course, I’d want to drain the hell out of that ground beef and cook it with some chili mix, too. Without some simple steps like that I could indeed see how it might taste more like oily Gerbers.
Doesn’t sound that far from Shepard’s Pie though, a tasty dish beloved by zillions.
Oh, and fruity beers suck: not just “notes of blahblahblah in my hipster IPA” which can be good, but “we literally put fruit juice in this stuff” which… can’t. I like beer, I like fruit. They do not, however, need to mix on my account.
There’s a fruit beer sold around here that’s actually quite good, and with a better alcohol kick than most beers. Unlike the ones you mention, it doesn’t use barley at all, and tastes kind of like some lambics I’ve had.
My lease renewal typically gets tendered in mid-March, but ~5pm Friday I noticed that I still hadn’t gotten anything yet. Unfortunately, the office was closed for the next 2.5days while I nervously paced and fretted, wondering what had gone wrong, and whether I’d need to move soon (having a disability makes it a major ordeal).
Come Monday I met with my property manager, and she told me that the new mgmt company sends out renewals later than usual, and that I should be perfectly fine. Still, the new company doesn’t have a great reputation, and I have no idea how much they’re going to boost my rent. Sounds like a lot of people are getting gouged upon that these days, so fingers still crossed.
Yeah, I get the Gaza angle, but let’s not get it twisted and assume that this is all Biden’s doing. The fact is, pretty much every US regime going back many decades has been supportive of Israel, and likely would have operated about the same in this case. And let’s not overlook that Biden has also been pushing for reconciliation and peaceful solutions, too. He definitely hasn’t been unilaterally pro-Israel’s actions, far as I can tell.
Also, if “Gaza” is really the hill some people are wiling to die on, overlooking all of Biden’s overall good work, then they may find next year that they’re no longer living in the democracy they used to.
Meanwhile you have Trump and the right-wingers in office gleefully chomping at the bit to sabotage Biden’s efforts to turn around the Ukrainian war, which does also include genocide.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) has to get an honorable mention, in which Alec Guinness plays eight significant characters.
Why do so many non-right wingers demonize Biden so casually?
He was just ranked 15th-best president by a large body of presidential scholars, and his record has been impressive despite the chronic automatic blocking by Groupies Of Putin. Details here: r/WhatBidenHasDone; I just wish there was a FV counterpart.
Bonus pts for wetting the tortilla first, depending on ingredients. That can help bring out its flavors and give it more complexity in terms of the cooking.
Another one is adding a few drops of ghost pepper chipotle sauce, grated parm/cheddar, and garlic powder to the ingredients. Tajin can be nice, too.
SongFacts.com is great. It’s got wiki-like entries on bands and songs, then users add their comments and interpretations below.
Still very active, it seems to me.
I use glycerin myself, but I’ll have to try vegetable oil next time.
The other thing that greatly helps speed things along is letting the oil / glycerin sit for 5-10min, then following up with an ear syringe full of warm water. Instead of spraying directly ahead, they’re designed to safely spray to the sides, and the agitating motion of the water works well to clear the clog very quickly.
Thanks for sharing that, and to add on, so far I’ve found:
Both of which specialise in members sharing their own work.
I’m a huge iced tea drinker, and recently tried Earl Grey out of little more than pure boredom. It’s good! Whereas hot, the flavor is a little too much for me, when iced and diluted further, it has a really enjoyable floral bouquet, not unlike Constant Comment.
Cannot join lemmy.world.
consider yourself lucky
I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities…
Hmm, I don’t really get that. Most of the time “trending communities” seem to be newly-created communities with little if any content. Considering how common it is for people to grab a community name and sit on it indefinitely, I feel like the ‘trending detection’ formula could be tweaked to display newer communities with solid growth, instead.
…or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.
I salute the spirit of that, but the number of healthy communities across the FV seems pretty limited so far. Sure, it’s not that hard to find ghost communities with search tools (I tend to use this one), but that’s kind of a bittersweet feeling.
In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.
Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.
My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.
Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.
My doctorate is in cognitive psychology, not nutrition science :)
Oh, hey! Is that still a thing? I.e. the ‘Penn School approach?’ Bahh… I have my local pride, after all, yet still… Cheesesteaks! :D
I… am both dumbfounded and grateful that you appreciate our community, Rolando. <3