Or worse: it’s in telephone mode now, so obviously you only want the sound from the “call” because there’s no other reasons the microphone could be on.

A solid chunk of Philip K Dick’s output worked better as movies/TV than as books.

There’s definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren’t popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would’ve given him more time and resources to revise future works.

A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.

It’s still not loading for me unless I open it externally

It really depends what sort of recipes you’re making, but for cooking very loose approximations are often fine.

I often have to convert to weight/mass in order to find out how much of an ingredient to buy. I have no idea how many cups an eggplant is. But once I get it home the recipe might as well say “however much eggplant you have.”

If I’m truly off, I will typically scale up the recipe adjusting for the extra meat or vegetable content. I’ll more or less assume that 1lb of meat is interchangeable with 1lb of veggies. That’s not quite true, in particular with salt.

Your mileage may vary though. Some recipes and ingredients are much more sensitive to deviations.

There may be an earlier version, but I know this as an old Emo Phillips joke

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum were both great. If you’ve read more of his work and have a recommendation for where to go next I’d love to hear it.

On the topic of Italian authors, I loved Italo Calvino’s “If on a winter’s night a traveler” as well. I didn’t really expect it to pay off as a cohesive work. I was mostly along for the ride and was pleasantly surprised.

Cheerios and Bugles (each separately). Nothing in either item should make them smell like death. But every flavor of either I’ve encountered always has. They’re not even the same kind of grain.

I’ll eat most ingredients in a wide variety of contexts. It’s pretty rare that I’ll find something that I don’t like, and can’t eventually find a way to like.

I’m not expecting them to be amazing, but them being substantially worse than bland and boring is still a surprise.

That does sound great! Ham isn’t necessarily a bad ingredient, it’s just unusually difficult to tell if it’ll be good or it’ll suit your tastes, especially with more inexpensive kinds.

It’s hard to see where I’d choose it over another topping, but I imagine with most pizzas I don’t really care about ham’s failings.

Pineapple and anchovies might be the two stanard toppings that are really build-arounds. Most other standard pizza toppings seem closer to “do whatever, it’ll be fine”

The ham used on pizzas around here (northeast US), usually isn’t salty enough to work on a Hawaiian pizza. It’s often deli ham, which runs the risk of being sweet, but otherwise flavorless.

Bacon or pepperoni work better. Jalapeno also helps.

Slightly hotter, but still quite tame take:

Ham is the problem with Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is innocent.

I’m not sure I’d say it’s exact, but some of the political norms you’re describing appear to have been extremely short-lived. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to get them back or rue their loss.

Machine politics with power structures like in Tammany hall seem to have been popular for quite a while.

I had read (in a comment here, so take with a grain of salt) that some had started doing Proof of Work.

I.E. they ask the visiting computer to do some math. This is potentially less annoying to people than clicking on traffic lights or typing unreadable text, but could get costly if you’re using bots.

It’s a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I’ll find it more distracting than useful, so I’ll turn it off.

Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

New features often aren’t helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I’m perfectly happy to see them.

I didn’t see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:

• Wild Seed- Octavia E Butler
• The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K LeGuin
• Dhalgren- Samuel Delaney
• Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe
• A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick
• Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:

• The Terror- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, seems to be free of his politics
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union- Michael Chabon
• Gravity’s Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
• Fictions- Jorge Luis Borges
• Machine of Death- collection of short stories from various authors
• Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace

I’m not sure why you mention government cheese here. Government cheese was cheddar, and not made from waste products/offcuts. It’s entirely unrelated, but fascinating story.

Microwaves still cook from the outside in, but yes, mostly only excite water.

I believe this came up in another ATK thing, but can’t track it down at the moment.

I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I’m not sure if they work terribly well

Maybe English (Malta) if that’s an option

Has-text is case sensitive. Adding / before the keyword and /i after will set it to case insensitive.

Example:

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You can also use | to add multiple keywords to the filter.

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lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(/Blockchain|ChatGPT/i)