Msg is so good. Try it in your stock. Its like different salt. So good.
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Msg is naturally occurs in most protein rich foods. While extremely important for our bodies, our tongues actually don't detect protein directly, but the msg that occurs with it. That's why your brain goes "ooooo yummy!" but in a different way from salt.
Steps down from soap box
Anywho.
If you like parmesan cheese, you like msg
It's also already in like everything we eat.
Magic yummy powder.
This whole thing is cancer... What's wrong with fluoride?
He said fluoridation was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, fluoridation is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.
Yeah, I think that one's just FUD, because fluoride is added to the water by the US government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_the_United_States
Fluoride in the water to dumb the masses is part of their conspiracy theory. They call it the fluoride stare and think you shouldn't drink tap water.
I just can't imagine being so simple minded that I would ignore actual science, and instead equate ingesting fluoride with a way they've seen people stare? It's just so insanely stupid, all of it.
Its not hard for people to believe, the lead stare exists. Scientists have lied on behalf of tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. Its got all the soil for a believable conspiracy theory to grow.
People who believe MSG is any more terrible for you than table salt understand jack shit about health lol
Well eating a shit load of fried "Chinese food" that happens to have msg makes me feel ill, so what else could it be?
Your pancreas probably rejected the grease of the fried food perhaps? If you look at your stool and see liquid parts that float above water, that means you might have EPI, a condition that may become life-threatening if left untreated. Always look at your stool before flushing when your gut hurts, your future GI doctor will likely thank you for your insight on steatorrhea. Hope you're doing alright there now, stay safe!
I believe their comment is missing a /s
Nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the building block of the savory taste the same way sodium chloride is the building block of the salty taste.
The whole thing about MSG sensitivity and it being bad for you was largely xenophobic in origin, and a fascinating example of the nocebo effect.
In college I remember hearing about a study where they gave people who claimed to have MSG sensitivity a Chinese meal and an Italian meal. They claimed to have symptoms after the Chinese meal. But that particular Chinese meal had no MSG in it. Meanwhile, people didn’t report symptoms from the Italian meal, which was chock-full of MSG.
Do yourself a favor: get a shaker of MSG from your local grocery store and put that shit on eggs (along with salt). It’s amazing what a pinch of “the flavor enhancer” does.
Edit: also nothing wrong with fluoride in the water at the doses we get it. It’s good for developing stronger teeth.
The issue I have with MSG is that if you put it in everything, it becomes your new norm. I would ideally like to minimize how much MSG I eat, and keep it feeling special.
Replace the word MSG with salt and see how dumb that sounds. Adding MSG isn't a flavor, it just brings out the flavor in the foods it's a part of. It's not actually "special", it is perfectly normal and just makes all your food taste better in general.
Indeed, same with salt or any other spice!
Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.
I make a "savory salt" that I just use in place of salt. It's not a miracle or anything, but it's definitely good.
By weight:
90% salt
7.5% MSG
2.5% I + G https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-350-gram/dp/B07ZQS2DL2
The msg "scare" was such bullshit. MSG is the fuckin bomb for making those quick meals taste great when you're in a rush. And good meals even better when you got time.
Yeah i sprinkle they shit in everything i cook
Big ass bottle of MSG in the drawer with the rest of the bulk spices. It is mandatory that my food is properly seasoned.
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Where can I find open source friends? I'd like to compile them myself
You can fork them too 😏
I've forked a person. The fork is certainly much more agreeable than the original that I've since abandoned completely, but being a solo maintainer on this project is pretty rough.
And pull them too.
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In all fairness...GIMP cannot do that.
Of all the FOSS software I've used, GIMP is by far the furthest behind the commercial competitor. Adobe sucks ass in a lot of ways, but Photoshop and Lightroom are amazing products.
I do prefer Inkscape to Illustrator in a lot of cases. Especially with SVG support. Illustrator actually kinda sucks at importing SVG files.
Perhaps I'm pedestrian when it comes to image editing, but idk what it is that Gimp can't do that's regularly needed. Aside, of course, from AI features that draw for you.
Krita.
Everyone screams at me when I say this, " Krita is for tablet artistry REEE!!! ", but Krita is basically PhotoShop from before Adobe went hardcore into 'everything is a subscription', roughly 10-15 years ago.
grumbles about macromedia suite and newgrounds and homestar runner and xiaoxiao stick fighter and fucking kids these days
Krita is weak with vectors, text (not for much longer!) and things such as transform filters which are a little buggy and poorly performing. But painting? filters? ergonomy? it's the king
I mean, I'm no tablet artist, but for me... Krita works great when I'm touching up unwrapped UV/texture maps, importing and reformatting fucking gigantic heightmaps straight from scientific research paper datasets, into usable heightmaps, running various blur filters/brushes or w/e...
... and at the moment, I'm literally doing this game dev type shit... on a Steam Deck.
Like, yeah, it takes a couple seconds to run a complex blur filter on a ~700 mb tif that's 13,334x13,334.
But... that's fine? It does the thing I want, pretty quickly, for free.
Now that I think of it... well a Deck has a touch screen, it is a kind of tablet.
So I guess I could just get a stylus and draw directly on it.
lol
Oh, the deck is touchable ??
- the biggest file I worked on took up 30gigs of ram, it was 14k*7k pixels but it was always smooth. Except for these damn transform filters. Can't eyedrop from them either... I mean you can, but the eyedropper only sees the untransformed layer
Yes.
I literally didn't even realize that when I bought one a few years back.
I was fucking about with uh, 3DS emulators, got frustrated with trying to figure out how to make things like menus in the OoT remaster work via the dpad.
I sighed, and internal monologued 'man fuck this, I wish I could just poke the screen gently like-'
And then I did that.
And it worked.
Yeah. It... literally just worked, and then I realized oh yeah, the Deck does still have parts of Steam, like in depth menu navigation, that aren't fully supported by the controller, and it'll just say 'touch to navigate!'.
So yeah, Steam Deck, Bazzite, Flatpaks, Krita, accidental touch screen?
I also have a kind of kickstand thing that is also a snap on, sort of mini dock for it.
So, you could, theoretically, make a bit more of your own kind of easel for it, and then set that up at the appropriate arm level, and paint on it sorta like a painting?
A tiny painting?
Yeah, I could see it. But does having a touchscreen means it also works with a pen? I seriously contemplated getting a Deck at some point, I love the fact that it's very open. But ultimately my priorities lie elsewhere.
I have no idea.
Presumably, its an electroconductive sensitive screen the way phones are?
So... just use a stylus made of sufficiently conductive material, that it can complete a circuit from screen -> stylus -> hand?
Yeah I dunno, like I said, I am not a tablet artist, lol.
I can't actually find any touchscreen specific specs or description, but... mine is an OLED, and apparently the touchscreen is better, more sensitive than the original LCD variant.
Also I just now saw your biggest image note.
30 gigs of RAM?
To open an image?
... What?!
Sorry, right, I'm more like a game dev person, having a texture file that large/computstionally expensive... it is literally incomprehensible to me, what the fuck.
Not even like ai autoupscaling your 4k textures to 8k textures, for some fucking reason, is gonna be that big.
We... kind of tend to want to optimize memory usage... in... video games... use high performance compression... I... what? How?
My head hurts now.
No it's a .kra file, this one contained hundreds of layers, some rather high def on their own, to create a big illustration for print https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YK45JK It's a working file, from which I export TIFFs or PDFs for the printer. Those end up weighing a few hundred megabytes tops
I suppose the 13k*13k you mentioned must have been heavy to handle as well
Ok, that makes a lot for sense, I'd never even heard of a .kra file... hundreds of layers, ok, that makes sense.
Wait. It that the file extension for krita projects?
... yeah so i mostly do coding, lol, art is uh... not my forte, hahah!
Anyway, damn good drawing! Painting? Artwork? Sorry, I don't know the right word.
But uh my file was only a single layer, granted, I made a working krita project out of maybe 10 ish layers of the same dimensions, all from the same dataset... it was only really bad to initially load them in... but... yeah if you try to like, complex filter lend whole other layers by other layers, sequentially... yeah, that'll chug, Deck fan kicks over to max...
But so far its never fully maxxed out memory and actually crashed.
Yes I suspect filters are not cached or something... it looks like they constantly reprocess when you navigate around the composition. Painting itself is smooth but selection/layer transformation and (sometimes) navigation have some room for optimisation I guess
Thank you for the kind feedback
Yes .kra is the regular Krita extension it's the equivalent of .psd for photoshop
What I guess the deck could be ideal as is a little sketch pad... for that purpose maybe I'd try MyPaint, it has a simplicity that I think would mesh well with the small format
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Watch out for those chemtrails!
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