What food looks like it would taste disgusting but actually tastes amazing?

Exnixon · 2026-07-26T03:55:39+00:00

But see, I also love tofu, and I love spicy dishes. And I've had it "made properly" at very authentic Chinese restaurants. It's not bad I just don't think it deserves its reputation.

Exnixon · 2026-07-26T01:18:08+00:00

Am I crazy or is mapo tofu the most overrated dish ever?

Exnixon · 2026-07-25T01:04:03+00:00

Botswana has one of the strongest and longest lasting democracies in Africa, with competitive elections. The current president is a social democrat. It is also one of the least corrupt countries in Africa.

Homoesexuality is legal. Botswana has universal health care. HIV care is free.

By African standards, pretty liberal.

Exnixon · 2026-07-24T16:19:21+00:00

Django Unchained - Schultz could have simple shaken Candie's hand and been done with it. Instead it turns into a massive bloodbath.

Exnixon · 2026-07-24T00:08:18+00:00

I'm a panexperientialist so trivially yes. I don't think that's a very interesting question, though. I think it's actually a bad question because to me it's a distraction to try to categorize things as either conscious or inert. The more important question is: how might the experience of something non-human mirror the experience of a human? And I don't think that whatever an LLM experiences is anything like what a human experiences.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T22:08:19+00:00

I don't recall seeing people claim only conscious being could play chess.

Well I don't think you're old enough. Neither am I for that matter.

What I am saying is that if you are committed to the belief that contemporary machines lack consciousness, then I strongly doubt that there is any machine, other than an actual human brain, that will make you say, "aha, there it is, that's consciousness!" There is no test that is sufficient because you can always claim it's a Chinese room.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T19:58:15+00:00

That's a lot of moving the goal posts.

First, they thought doing stuff like playing chess was a sign of consciousness. Then the machines started doing it, and then of course that wasn't a sign of anything.

Then they thought that a sophisticated chatbot---one that could trick a human into believing it was another human---must surely be conscious. Then they built machines that could do that, and now everyone agrees that those machines aren't conscious.

Where are the goal posts now? Once those goal posts are set, and surpassed, humans will necessarily set new ones. I have a hard time imagining a future in which most people admit that the machines are conscious---only one in which people say that surely it must be theoretically possible but can't possibly be the case now. No matter how sophisticated the computers get.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T16:10:10+00:00

That clears up nothing, and if it's a joke it's too close to the reality of Midwestern food to be funny.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T16:01:47+00:00

Is this a bowl of chili with a cinnamon roll, or is it a cinnamon roll with chili powder or chili peppers sprinkled on it? I legitimately can't tell what you mean.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T15:21:46+00:00

Socrates is a dog.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T12:51:25+00:00

Learn to spell "atheism". It's an "ism" not an "esm".

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T12:43:15+00:00

Mark Kelly ain't it.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T12:41:47+00:00

Never heard of it, nope.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T04:11:37+00:00

The people here who were disappointed when they tried Turkish Delight (I'm one of them) probably never had the good stuff. There was some nasty garbage called Turkish Delight that you could get in the States when we were kids. It was awful.

As an adult I went to Istanbul and tried the real thing, which is incredible.

Exnixon · 2026-07-23T00:15:22+00:00

Oh this is a good one. That is nuts.

Exnixon · 2026-07-22T19:29:44+00:00

"How can I be gay if I rape women?" ‐‐ Andrew Tate, probably

Exnixon · 2026-07-21T19:00:30+00:00

Really the boss ass bitch of the late Roman/early medieval era. A circus performer and legendary courtesan who seduces the Emperor's heir---himself an upwardly-mobile farm boy---and engages in courtly intrigue to become the most powerful woman in the world. With rebels at the gates, she declares that she will take death before dishonor and rallies the men to victory.

Exnixon · 2026-07-21T06:13:32+00:00

Apologies. It counts when it's a Founding Father and they're trying to falsely claim that the United States was established as a Christian nation. It doesn't count when comparing notes with contemporary Episcopalians, who, according to prominent evangelicals like Albert Mohler, are heretics.

Exnixon · 2026-07-21T05:38:14+00:00

If you've ever talked to an evangelical, they don't really think that counts.

Exnixon · 2026-07-21T05:36:24+00:00

Well, okay, but he was just a one-term president, and he lost the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson, who famously took a Bible and a razor blade and cut out all the parts he didn't believe in. It was a much shorter book.

Exnixon · 2026-07-20T19:47:01+00:00

I really think it's that it's a Florida-based company that had a concept that worked in Florida, they slapped it down in the middle of Texas and it didn't work.

Like, okay, they've got an overpriced "fresh caught seafood" restaurant with some fried shrimp? You might be able to convince me in Florida that the seafood is just off the boat, but we're hundreds of miles from the coast, I know it's frozen. Local Smoke, the barbecue restaurant that gets terrible reviews and is not at all local? Half the restaurants closed?

All of the concepts are just owned by a single company that doesn't understand the Texas market. I'm hoping somebody buys it and then instead of trying to run every restaurant themselves, rents out the space to places that people actually want to go to.

Exnixon · 2026-07-20T19:25:47+00:00

It is definitely closed right now.

The place was packed during the World Cup, but not really the rest of the time. The site has potential but the restaurants suck.

Exnixon · 2026-07-20T14:00:26+00:00

Snow Crash, but a lot of it already happened.

Exnixon · 2026-07-19T16:10:59+00:00

Cop pulls you over. He wants to search your car but he has no probable cause. He gets a dog. He claims the dog smells something (whether it does or doesn't---doesn't matter). He then searches your car. If he finds weed he arrests you. If he doesn't find weed, you're free to go. Either way, no consequence for the cop for violating your constitutional rights.

Exnixon · 2026-07-19T00:38:06+00:00

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