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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

From memory:

"This... is Head Radio, a Love Media station. Just one of nine hundred radio stations, three hundred TV stations, four networks, three satellites, ten senators (thank you, thankyou, thank-YOOOU)... Head Radio."

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

In the UK our car number plates actually tell you when the car was first registered - the third and fourth digits are either the year or the year +50. Normally I object to this, since it was only introduced as the result of pressure from British Leyland to try and sell more cars, but it serves as a handy way of instantly categorising anyone with a, say, '23 or newer cuntmobile.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dyke Delta

Nice try, but I ain't Googling that.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who oversees a shop like that, I'll just say: if there was an even vaguely competitive option, I'd jump at it.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know what you're referring to, and I thought that too until he said "northern lights". Ya gotta learn to listen.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, me.

Here's the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I'd sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Man, don't you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they're more like people who don't know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as "chef".

And now I'm going to talk about microwave cookery.

I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as 'lesser' are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that's both scalding hot and still frozen.

If you're in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you'll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it's not.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or, at least, that would last a thousand years.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same here. Whether I start the day with a strong mug of coffee, six litres of olive oil, two cartons on concentrated prune juice, or just a simple handful of laxatives pills, the result is always the same.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 214 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (23 children)

It seems crazy that a company that's only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, locomotives, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, hot air balloons, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, submarines, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For giggles, I'd like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Same in the UK. We have an annual MOT tests and even with that some drivers let their cars slide so much.

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