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Those who know me IRL, y'all should let me cook for you sometime.

People often post and say they make shameless plugs.

But no one ever talks about the shameful ones:

I think any post tagged #sponsored is a shameful plug. Or #Ad. Or any youtube video tagged that way. Or any video with "Includes paid promotion" and it's an infomercial or entirely sponsored.

I won't give away the results but DAMN I didn't know Fedi hated plain boiled meat that much (to be fair... eugh).

What is more slop

They had permission???

People laugh at me because "lol you cook with a timer but season on vibes" but that's more "I cook with a timer to check on it, not to determine doneness." Using a timer to determine when it's done is a sin. It should be used to determine when you should stir it, more or less, and to determine when to check on it to see if it's done yet or how much more time it needs.

I tossed in a can of black beans (because what else will I do with black beans) to the bean soup. Added thyme to the rice because honestly it feels like it belongs there rather than with the soup.

Honestly this is looking good. And the broth tastes divine, too.

Honestly the biggest impediment was I didn't have access to the big industrial grade sewing machines which would have allowed me to make reinforced seams. Denim is HARD to sew through. Not as hard as leather, but ohhh it is difficult.

I also had no way to rivet seams too (the secret to jeans that last a long-ass time is the riveting).

Weird Elly fact: I can sew. I'm not like, super amazing at it. But I can in fact do it. I can even use a sewing machine. I even made my own pair of jeans once. They weren't GOOD jeans. But they were wearable!

@oblomov Fun fact! This makes the ball wildly inconsistent and variable, so it varies:

* from seamster/seamstress to eamster/seamstress
* batch to batch
* even the needles can subtly affect things
* it can even be spotted statistically ("juiced balls" were a thing a few years ago, people started hitting a ton of homers, and MLB was forced to admit something was fucky with the ball although they swore they "didn't change anything.")

This is because the seam changes the way the ball flies, DRASTICALLY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

Automating this would be a big win for the sport.

@oblomov No one has found a good way to do it yet, no. So they are hand-sewn.

Makin some bean soup based on vibes.

Hey foghorns!!!

Had a dream they used ML and a robot to replace humans in stitching baseballs.

Honestly… as fucked as this will sound, as someone who’s done sewing like that before (sewing thick leather):

I feel bad for the workers tbh, that shit wrecks your hands, it wrecks your shoulders, and doing it 8 hours a day for peanuts… sure you could pay them better but you can’t stop the damage because it requires awkward positioning and dexterity. If it’s your hobby, you stop when your hands hurt. If it’s your job, you keep going and live with tendonitis.

I’d be fine with automating this task.

Bahasa Indonesia is cool as Hell from a consistency standpoint. I don’t know why it doesn’t get pointed to as a language that’s easy for people to learn.

It’s very logically consistent. It’s like Toki Pona but with a real vocabulary.

No grammatical gender. Nouns are nouns.

No case system. Prepositions and word order do the job and it works the same way *every time.*

No verb conjugation by person or number. “I eat” / “you eat” / “they eat” = “makan.” Same verb. You just use context or a pronoun (most of the time you don’t even need it). Oh, and the pronouns are always the same. Saya makan = I eat. Saya minum = I drink. Kamu makan = you eat. kami = exclusive we (us but not you), kita = inclusive we (us and you).

Instead of using “you”, it will use titles or even your name. It is totally normal to say “Elly mau kopi?” to mean “do you (Elly) want coffee?” Yes even to friends.

If tense matters? You add a marker. sedang = right now (saya sedang makan = I’m eating right now), sudah = have done so (saya sudah makan = I have eaten, etc.) and it is always the same. Always.

There are affixes before words (me-, di-, ber-, ter-)… but they are consistent, the same always, and carry meaning. For example, me- marks a specific actor. “Saya memakan nasi” = “I eat rice.” It shows intentional action. It does assimilate into words a bit (minor sound mutation) but that’s more preventing your mouth from making awkward noises than complication and it’s easy to figure out and you get used to it fast.

I don’t know why this language isn’t taught more. It should be.

I like that I have a small but loyal cult following.

I've been accused of being a cult leader before... it was by a literal sociopath with more issues than National Geographic, but still, the accusation is hilarious, but part of me wants to lean into it. (Don't worry, I won't :P)

Weird quirk of English:

You use the singular form of something when there's exactly one of something, like "one chair. Plural for "two chairs", "three chairs", etc.

Simple. Logically consistent.

... yet we use the plural form for quantities less than one sometimes... yet singular other times...

Consider: "half a chair." But then "0.37 chairs."

wtf TIL a lightning strike only transfers about 15-350 Coulombs of charge.

An AA battery passes like 3 kC of charge in its entire life.

Granted... lightning transfers that in like 0.5 seconds in multiple bursts lasting literal microseconds. An AA battery transfers that charge... over days/weeks.

Actually I think trams usually are mid at best and are a poor man's metro at worst. They are okay if you have dedicated ROW for them. Otherwise they're just an expensive bus.

Trams rights