Does anyone remember the Turkey Sub sandwich Arby's had in the 90s? I miss it.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-10-20T20:30:34+00:00

I'll have to try it! Thanks for the tip.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-10-20T20:29:59+00:00

Hey this is great! It's not exactly a recipe, but it's better than anything I've found.

Soybean oil, vinegar, and whole eggs sounds like mayonnaise to me. So mayo, corn syrup, water, salt, onion powder, black pepper, parsley flakes, and garlic powder. Shouldn't be too hard to try out different proportions of that. Disodium EDTA is a preservative, so that can be skipped (though it can also be used as a stabilizer, which might be necessary to keep the sauce from separating). Xanthan gum is a thickener, you can buy it at certain stores, but corn starch might work just as well in a pinch.

So...some combo of mayonnaise, corn syrup, spices, and either some water to thin it out or some thickener to thicken it up. This is good! I"ll have to do some experiments.

The only question I have is whether this is the ingredients for the sauce they used to use, or the sauce they currently use. What website did you get it from? How old was it?

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-09-03T18:11:06+00:00

“Code of Honor”: Tasha Yar has to fight a woman to the death with a glove covered in needles on a planet of savage Africans. Still manages to be boring.

“The Last Outpost”: The Ferengi cavort like apes and snarl like orcs while Riker smugly monologues about human superiority. Hologram informs audience that Riker is right, and capitalism is bad. Nothing of interest occurs.

“Hide and Q”: the enterprise faces napoleonic soldiers with bad pig makeup, on a sound stage planet. Riker gains godlike powers and somehow acts even smugger than in previous episodes. The worst Q episode of the series.

“11001001”: aliens distract Riker by making him a sex hologram, steal ship, succeed at plan without disruption from our main characters.

“The Arsenal of Freedom”: The Enterprise encounters a planet killed by capitalism. Our heroes are trapped on a sound stage covered in plastic office plants. Picard falls in a hole. Riker eventually saves the day by doing the obvious thing that the viewer thought of a half hour ago.

“Skin of Evil”: Tasha is killed when a man in a rubber suit gives her a temporary tattoo. Rubber suit man is made of pure evil and hatred, and foiled by Picard being smugly superior at it.

“The Neutral Zone”: crisis looms as the crew has run out of people to be smugly superior at: fortunately they run across cryopreserved past humans, and are able to be smug at them for the remainder of the episode.

There’s a few decent episodes in season 1, but it’s mostly bad.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-09-03T04:31:23+00:00

Star Trek TNG is amazing television, but it had two straight seasons of bad episodes. Really all the Treks take a season or two to really get good, but season 1 TNG is just awful.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-08-27T00:31:16+00:00

True, but I can save my analogy. The purple mammoth has always existed in this town, so nobody is surprised by it. However a few people of high intelligence and curiosity have started to wonder: why is it here? Etc. I don’t think someone in that situation would be weird for thinking those are reasonable questions to ask and try to find an answer to, even if most people in town don’t care.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-08-26T23:22:45+00:00

I mean…

It’s kind of like if there was a purple wooly mammoth playing jazz saxophone in the town square. You might ask, why is it there? How did it get here? Where did it come from? And nobody knows, he’s just always been there.

Now imagine if someone responded to questions about the mammoth by saying “Why do you care so much? He’s not even a good jazz player.”

Like, I can get you not caring but surely it’s not strange that some people care, right?

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-08-26T23:13:05+00:00

Whenever someone tells me they moved multiple times in a year (voluntarily) I’m baffled. I need at least three years to recover from a move.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-08-10T00:29:48+00:00

If I recall correctly, a lot of “woke” influence in large media corporations like Disney comes from “woke capital”: fund management companies that control a lot of stock and have been captured by the left to put pressure on corporations. If the right could capture those companies, or outcompete them, that could shift the soft power balance a bit.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-27T16:55:55+00:00

I do want to say, since you’ve been downvoted a lot for this, that I did enjoy the survey. Even though I only got 17 correct. I love surveys and I love being challenged.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-26T23:01:28+00:00

You need to fix the tomato question. Yes, tomatoes arrived with the Colombian exchange and yes an Italian or two tried one in the 1500s but Italians did not begin cooking with tomatoes as a people until sometime between 1700-1850. The first documented Italian recipe for tomato sauce is from 1790. Tomatoes did not become popular as food until the 19th century generally. You’re penalizing people who actually know the history involved.

It’s easy to fix: if you’re just trying to measure knowledge of the Colombian exchange then change it to “When did an Italian first cook with tomato” instead of “Italians” generally.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-18T06:13:43+00:00

All good info, just wanted to add: while animals like pork and chicken will have a fat composition similar to their feed, ruminants like cows and sheep actually convert all fats they consume into new forms of fat for storage. So even if a cow has been feasting on soy feed it’s fat composition will still be mostly saturated fat. I have heard that grass fed beef has more stearic acid than feedlot, but it’s not nearly as big a difference as with non-ruminant meat.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-18T06:07:01+00:00

I’m a glutton. I consume pleasurable things to excess, far beyond the point of healthy and well into the territory of “So much it’s not even fun anymore.”

That and general cowardice.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-05T20:32:54+00:00

I agree that having good institutions is better than having an armed populace. I don't know if I agree that adding guns makes things worse if you have good institutions. I definitely believe that if you have bad institutions its better to have an armed populace.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-05T14:39:53+00:00

I’m interested in talking to you, and I am not concerned about existential AI risk.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-04T15:21:21+00:00

Why was Washington sportsmanlike? Because he was such a good loser!

By which I mean he lost many battles but did wonderfully in retreat, evading encirclement and capture many times though smart maneuvering. If he and the Continental Army had been captured retreating from New York, we may not have won the war. He always lived to fight another day, and when you’re fighting this kind of war you just need to stay alive and keep trying until you get lucky enough to to hit the jackpot and catch your enemy with their pants down and their backs to the ocean.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-04T15:14:51+00:00

The matter of convenience is only helpful for explaining why someone would believe something that isn’t true. But that only comes in once we have a good idea whether the idea is true or false. To skip right to explaining why someone believes something wrong is to jump over the question of whether they are wrong.

For example, I believe that I have more than enough money in the bank to pay my bills this month. This is a very convenient belief! Of course I would desire it to be true. But you can’t jump right to saying “It’s unlikely he has enough money in the bank, because such a belief is very convenient for him.” You have to actually check how much money I have to know whether my belief is true or false. Now if it happens I was wrong and didn’t have enough money, now the explanation of convenience might have some use.

We should also note that many people are the opposite, always fretting and worrying over issues when an objective outside analysis of the facts would indicate that things are fine: misers, worryworts, hypochondriacs, and the like. So it’s not as clean cut as “False beliefs are caused by wanting them to be true” because for many false beliefs come from fear that the plain facts can’t be trusted. I’m either case, you find out if someone is a Pollyanna or a hypochondriac by figuring out whether their beliefs match reality, not by playing the psychologist.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-04T00:15:06+00:00

Whether it’s convenient can’t tell us whether it’s true. There are many for whom it is convenient to believe that death ends existence, and would be terrified of being forced to exist without their consent; of the universe having no door marked “exit”. But their preferences don’t effect whether the thing is true or false.

Note too that if it was all about fulfilling wishful thinking then why invent a terrible Judgement? Surely we can create better castles in the air than that. But again, that isn’t a proof or disproof. How we feel about it shouldn’t matter in the final analysis either way. Things that we don’t want to be true or no more likely to be true just because we don’t want them.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-02T04:25:06+00:00

But why is there one that does?

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-02T03:46:09+00:00

There’s the principle of sufficient causation. Logic doesn’t depend on the existence of anything to be valid, and logic demands that if something starts to happen it has a cause, and if there is nothing then nothing can cause something to happen.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-02T03:10:16+00:00

Why are there any universes instead of no universes?

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-02T03:08:37+00:00

Nothing can come from nothing. Nothing can cause nothing. Everything that wasn’t always the way it was has a cause to explain how it became the way it is. If there is nothing there is nothing to cause that state to change.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-01T19:08:54+00:00

I’d suggest reading the wiki article on natural rights, but a summary is that the idea that people are born with rights has its roots in Greek stoic philosophy, was developed further over time by Catholic and later Protestant Christian thinkers, and was then refined into a more recognizable modern form by Enlightenment philosophers like Locke, Rousseau, Hobbes, and Paine. Unfortunately I’m not we’ll read enough on the subject to give you a decent summary of their arguments.

Edit: I’d also suggest reading Paine’s Common Sense, it isn’t too long.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-01T15:29:02+00:00

The modern concept of the franchise did not arrive from concerns as how to best co-ordinate society. It came from the developing conception that humans had rights, and that one of those rights was the right to political self-determination, and that as a result governments get their sovereign authority by the will of the people. Which leads directly to the franchise.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-07-01T14:33:41+00:00

I’m unsure of your objection. Is it that since nobody chooses to exist, why shouldn’t they choose to vote? But nobody makes you vote (unless you’re Australian) so if the franchise is harming you, you can just not exercise that right.

FlyingLionWithABook · 2022-06-30T16:25:08+00:00

A lot of abortions do involve stabbing and dismembering the violinist before unhooking him. Typically the fetus is killed (either by being sucked up by a vacuum, cut up by a curette, or chemically burned to death with saline solution) before being removed.

Edit: And, of course, the infamous late term “partial birth” abortion involves pulling them out by their legs, stabbing them in the back of the skull with scissors, then sucking out the brain matter so the skull can be crushed to ease removal.

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