megopie @ megopie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Translation for cowardese “It would be really hard for me to stand up for you and it would be much easier for me if you just let them have this so I didn’t have to talk about it.”

Modern commercial tomatoes suck and your pickiness is entirely justified and reasonable. There is no point to putting a shitty tomato on a burger if the texture is off putting to you.

Most tomatoes at restaurants are legitimately awful, like watery and tasteless. Same for most at grocery stores. They’re not worth putting on, especially if someone dislikes the texture.

Modern commercial varieties have largely been selected for durability, shelf life, and appealing looks, at the expense of flavor and texture. The focus has been on maximizing how well they work in a modern supply chain, not how good they are for the end consumer. Some work has been done to develop varieties that work in a supply chain while also still tasting good, but these are heavily patented and controlled, generally sold as a premium product and not something that most restaurants will spend the extra money on.

A good verity can only do so much though, as although tomatoes are notionally Climacteric (Continue to ripen after being removed from the plant), ripening them off of the plant will create a different result. The sugar content will increase and the color will change to red, but, tartness and more complex compounds that contribute to flavor will not. This is largely due to these compounds not being the result of the ripening process but rather the result of the plant’s immune responses. The tomato will not get these if it is removed from the plant for ripening.

Even if ripened on the plant, the tomato will still be lacking if the plant is being grown in a heavily controlled and sterile environment, such as in a industrial hydroponic greenhouse or in an industrial farm field. Much of the flavor of the tomato is a result of the plant responding to stresses from being attacked by pests and diseases. What we perceive as “yummy tomato flavor” in a home grown heirloom tomato is actually defensive compounds produced by the plant.

This could be addressed by intentionally introducing some stresses as part of the growing process, but no major company is currently doing this. Many are still ripening them off the vine or using bad varieties.

TLDR: commercial tomatoes suck because of how they are produced and you should grow some in a garden or buy some from a local farmer if you want them to be worth your time.

Probably shouldn’t be bringing a phone at all.

BUT if you are, best to keep it powered off and in something that thoroughly blocks RF, like a purpose built bag or wrapped completely in aluminum foil. Also, turn off finger print and face scan unlocking, you can be directed by law enforcement to preform physical actions such as looking at the screen or putting your finger on the reader, but they can not legally demand you to put in a passcode. Memorize any numbers you need to know before hand, if you get detained and need to make a call, they will not let you use your phone for it, they may allow you to get numbers out of it, but only by giving them the passcode and them retrieving the information from the phone for you, meaning that they now have full access to the contents of the device. Most importantly though SHUT THE FUCK UP

Even better, bring a prepaid phone, ideally one purchased with cash that you haven’t been using anywhere you normally spend time.

Much of this is overkill and yet also only will do so much, but it is fairly easy small steps to take that can save you and people around you a lot of heartache.

It’s so transparent

Like, it’s just a catch all dodge to avoid addressing the root causes of problems. Oh, traffics bad? No, don’t question suburban development patterns, don’t question planing policy, don’t question whether it’s realistic or practical for everyone to own and operate personal cars. That could undermine the profitability of various special interests. Instead, blame it on these vulnerable populations who we can visibly brutalize for you.

Edit: to be clear, this is just one facet of the scape goating of immigrants and other vulnerable groups to avoid having to have difficult fights with powerful special interests.

It’s one of those things where republicans run attack ads and viciously criticize him, but, for none of the reasons he’s not a great governor.

Much like Gavin Newsome or Kathy Hochul.

Yah but they’re only under the army when called up federally, which they are in LA right now, but still, it’s weird.

Kind of, sort of, it’s complicated.

They’re independent organizations under their given state, they’re coordinated with the army and air force through the national guard bureau.

They sort of become part of the army and Air Force when called up federally.

So technically they’re part of the army right now in LA as they were called up federally.

All that’s not strictly accurate but, like, roughly that’s how it works.

It’s how it’s currently being done. Like sure they could use solar, but they’re not going to, because it’s faster and cheaper up front to power them with methane.

Like solar would be cheaper in the long run, but since when have these companies ever thought about the long term consequences of their actions.

They’ve made a lot of hay about starting up old nuclear plants or the like, but, in terms of numbers, it’s nearly all powered by methane turbines.

Such is the way of the management good idea fairy.

Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.

Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.

I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.

Yah, installing a fixed on-sight back up should be permitted and regulated. And I think they are in the jurisdiction of the facility, hence why they’re using mobile generators, the kinds of things normally used on construction sights.

I was referring more to like emission regulations on them. Dumping a bunch of particulates and exhaust products in to a local population’s air is really bad, but it’s not a huge issue if it’s temporary, like say on a construction sight or to deal with an occasional power outage. It’s another thing entirely when it’s the primary power source, or the power grid is failing so frequently that they’re being run all the time.

That situation in Texas sounds very much like them trying to do something to address public concerns about the grid failing by making it easier for people to “take personal responsibility” by installing backup generators. Clearly they do not want to annoy the private companies running the grid by forcing them to spend money on repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Like, they’re unwilling to address the core issue, but public outcry means they have to do something, so instead they create a new safety issue that they can deny responsibility for.

From what I’ve heard about the power situation, they’ve been using mobile generators that they occasionally move around, since those are not regulated. It makes sense to not regulate emergency back up generators since the point of them is that they’re supposed to be temporary and not run for very long, but these aren’t emergency backups, these are the main power source.

Now they’re pushing for permits for permanent generators, probably because the mobile generators are inefficient and expensive.

Honestly the whole situation stinks of incompetence, like they built the facility in a rush without checking if they could get the power they would need, and then tried to build their own power, but saw how hard permitting would be, so they went with the loophole mobile generators because it was expedient, now they want to build proper generators because the mobile generators are too expensive, but are running in to having to face public scrutiny now.

Starting to seem like this whole concern about trans women in sports is just a Trojan horse for eugenics…

I think there is a general loneliness epidemic, but it’s particularly acute with men who were never pressured or given the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to build and maintain a community around them.

Like the systems and environments that used to facilitate this no longer exist, and it is left to individuals to do it them selves, something impossible without those skills. Those institutions and systems that used to facilitate community building have been pivoted to profit or dismantled if they couldn’t generate profit or if they were actively undermining the profitability of something else.

Ahhh, I remember this game. I had a lot of fun with it, but I don’t think I ever got the “true ending.”

I think it’s more a correlation than a causation. It is not that LGBTQ are better at running companies, but that a company that never promotes or advances them is almost certainly not promoting based on capability and appropriateness for a position.

More likely it’s promoting based on personal relationships and connections, an old boys network. Which leads to people who are less qualified, but better connected, ending up up running things.

Counter to what the anti-DEI people will claim, diversity in a company is the result of hiring the best qualified people, a company that lacks diversity is a sign of poor hiring practices.

Oh FFS.

WHY?!

Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?

If he does, what is post Post Malone? Meta Malone? Neo Malone? Trans Malone?

9mm? Clearly you mean .35 or .38 .