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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Msg is so good. Try it in your stock. Its like different salt. So good.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

MSG also forms when glutamic acid meets tablesalt. That's why tomatoes or beef with a tiny bit of salt are so damned tasty, they're full of glutamic acid. Same with cheese (which is usually pre-salted for that lovely MSG-flavour).

Tomatoes and beef already contain MSG naturally, but adding a few grains of salt produces far more.

Edit: This is why walnut oil is amaaaaazing for savory flavours. It's full of glutamate. Just like grape juice, or shi-take. Even potatoes to a lesser extend. And this is why we love combing all those foods for "winter foods" with game and in stews.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's why tomatoes or beef with a tiny bit of salt are so damned tasty, they're full of glutamic acid.

Woaaah, I didn't know that! New info, thanks stranger 😁

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

If you like parmesan cheese, you like msg

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Magic yummy powder.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

It's also already in like everything we eat.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 182 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I live in the Netherlands, where we don't have water fluoridation because of legal principles. Our laws don't allow medication without knowledge and consent, and fluoride is considered part of that. So if one person disagrees, you can't do it, so we don't do it.

As a result, we have markedly worse dental quality than in places that have naturally high fluoride content

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Indeed, same with salt or any other spice!

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.

Big ass bottle of MSG in the drawer with the rest of the bulk spices. It is mandatory that my food is properly seasoned.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I'll say this for GIMP: it is a well-named piece of software. I do appreciate honesty. And I hate GIMP.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People who believe MSG is any more terrible for you than table salt understand jack shit about health lol

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well eating a shit load of fried "Chinese food" that happens to have msg makes me feel ill, so what else could it be?

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This whole thing is cancer... What's wrong with fluoride?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Nor is there anything wrong with MSG or prozac

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, I definitely don't consider prozac part of a meal.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 76 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Where can I find open source friends? I'd like to compile them myself

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You can fork them too 😏

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

And pull them too.

[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Calm down Dr. Frankenstein

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

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

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's wrong with metal sear golid?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You must mean magic se gathering

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[–] starman2112@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Me keeping a W11 laptop around exclusively for Fusion360

[–] Artaca 8 points 3 days ago

Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Bluebeam, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Virtual machines are, unfortunately, not ideal professionally. Other solutions like Crossfire and Winboat are hit or miss, but mostly miss. My biggest hope for SteamOS isn't that games continue to improve, but that other large corpos will start to take Linux that much more seriously soon.

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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Watch out for those chemtrails!

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