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Cornish game hen, mashed potatoes, sauteed veggies, with a beurre blanc
  • I do not understand the popularity of Cornish game hens. Is it actually tasty to some folks or just good looking on a plate? I mean, don't get me wrong, this posted pic looks delicious!

    Every time I've had one, including roasting them myself more than once, they've had a weird texture and tasted very inferior to regular chicken.

    Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure every other bird I've had has been superior in taste and texture to these mini chickens - normal chicken, crazy huge GMO chicken, turkey, duck, goose, quail, pheasant, ostrich, dove - does anyone really like them or is it just the aesthetics or maybe the idea that you're eating a whole chicken?

  • California legislature makes a second attempt to require human drivers in AV trucks
  • Yes it does. I would venture there are alternative solutions but I can't imagine what they are in any detail, just generally:

    Maybe these trucks operate more like trains and have a designated lane where motorists do not have to encounter them?

  • California legislature makes a second attempt to require human drivers in AV trucks
  • I think it's a great idea to require a human attendant for giant autonomous machinery.

    If the company does not provide the attendant, then the public is just going to shoulder that burden.

    I am NOT going to protect or respect unattended property like an autonomous truck if it runs off the road or rams my vehicle or is a risk to my own safety, for example.

    I'm pretty sure I'd be offended just having to ride behind it on the freeway as it drives precisely the speed limit in all traffic conditions - can't say for sure until I've experienced it though.

  • xkcd #2891: Log Cabin
  • This would make a really cool art installation where you start at the top of a multistory building and keep walking through and turning right before going downstairs to the next room where you walk through and turn right before going downstairs to the next room... Etc etc.

    If all the furniture got progressively smaller as the walls and ceilings progressively closed in, it would feel just like this picture.

    Or you could leave everything the same size and it would still make for a surreal experience going down, through, right, down, through, right, etc until popping out into the street - at that last set of stairs you'd be certain the door in front of you would lead straight into the identical living room from every other floor. Seeing the street instead would be a real mindfuck.

  • it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...
  • There are a bunch of online tools that are free and let you upload a PDF to have it go through OCR.

    Just Google "Free PDF OCR" and click through all the ads to upload, then give them a temporary email address to get a download link to the finished product.

    Hot tip: There are free temporary email address sites too, if you need one to avoid getting on their ad lists.

  • The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803
  • I wonder if you could capture a high quality, multitrack recording of this emergence event to get a multidimensional audio sample from unique times/geographies where these groups emerge.

    With an audio sample that could only come from this specific event every 200+ years, you could set up a program that survives your own death and triggers only when it happens again.

    I'm not sure what the utility would be, but I'd watch it on Netflix for sure.

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  • When you have privacy settings, what you really have is a lie.

    It starts out with good intentions, like those in this post, but eventually everyone forgets that the platform still sees your posts and does not give a shit about selling them.

    I would rather acknowledge from the very beginning that this entire system is not private, so there is never such a misunderstanding.

    Everyone should post and comment with caution, just like you use caution with what you say in public places.

  • What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?
  • I've tried it, and I ate the whole plate, but I wouldn't do it again.

    Raw chicken tastes like it smells, and it's just inferior to every other sashimi - not outright repulsive, but just not as good.

    I honestly don't understand how those specialty chicken sashimi places stay in business. I guess there must be an audience for it, but I can't imagine why.

  • A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US
  • You can attack the system and while you do that, there are people under 18 years old who are just trying to provide for themselves or their dependents and need a job now.

    They have adult responsibilities before the age of 18. A lot of the commenters outright refuse to believe that these legal minors could have possibly matured earlier than the law expects, but that really does happen and it really is socially irresponsible to ignore their struggle.

    Most commenters are essentially holding this series of positions based on a photo that is out of context: Why does this kid have a job? The system is bad. Why is the system bad? Some kids have jobs. How can we stop kids from working? We should outlaw jobs for kids.

    But that series of positions critically fails to account for exceptions where kids become competent before the age of 18, need jobs and want to work.

    It ignores that, in reality, many minors have kids of their own or other dependents that they are struggling to support and it does not provide any plan for them, it makes their situation worse while you fight the system.

    That is inhumane public policy. Like many areas of law, this is a complicated issue, and we are going to harm people in our communities if we jump to strict authoritarian control for an answer.

  • A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US
  • 100%

    This comment deserves an award. Mods should pin it to the top of the thread, because the majority of comments are totally divorced from their neighbors' struggle to survive in our imperfect economy.

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