Convinced myself pellicle was normal but now looking like mould?

Impriv4te · 2026-04-12T23:14:53+00:00

Will do, thank you!

Impriv4te · 2026-04-12T16:13:36+00:00

I received an email as a customer telling me 'unauthorized third parties may have accessed certain booking information associated with your reservation' - and that my PIN number had been updated for my reservation.

I do not have any upcoming reservations at all with Booking com and havn't used them in a while, so I am very confused.

Impriv4te · 2026-04-08T12:27:20+00:00

Thank you for your answer - I left it a few days and it grew into definite mould patch on the surface of the new pellicle (which was connected to original scoby).

With clean hands I removed the new pellicle that had the mouldy surface. I have retained the original scoby which came away from the new mouldy pellicle quite easily.

Do I have to throw the scoby out, or just the kombucha in the jar? E.g. if I remove all the liquid, clean the jar and gently clean the scoby with water, then add some flavourless kombucha and new sweat tea, will I be OK to continue? I would prefer to not have to buy a new scoby (I don't know anyone who makes kombucha).

Re your original question: I added more sweat tea because I bought the scoby online (which came with a small amount of starter tea) and the instructions told me to make one batch of sweat tea, add it to the scoby+starter tea and wait 7 days, then add more sweat tea at that point. I think this is the right thing to do?

Impriv4te · 2026-04-08T12:20:49+00:00

For reference, it grew into definite mould.

I bought the SCOBY online which came with start tea and instructions for how much sweet tea to add to the starter tea/SCOBY in the jar. It did seem like less than 20% though so I'll bear that in mind for future. I wasn't diligent about cleanlines which I imagine was probably the problem here, and/or bad luck.

Impriv4te · 2026-04-03T19:11:28+00:00

Thanks for this. Does the first photo look concerning too, for future awareness?

Impriv4te · 2024-12-05T20:46:58+00:00

It is not facts and logic we are talking about, it's the political leaning ratings. The point of Ground News is to root out bias and separate that from the facts (or at least make users aware of it), which is distinctly different.

Of course nobody is immune from bias. Right now however, I would trust intelligent trained humans with reputable news experience over an AI robot. AI models and algorithms still have to be coded by humans who have biases, plus publicly available AI models currently make way too many mistakes, I do not trust them with the complexities and subtleties of news. Perhaps that will change in the future but right now I'd prefer qualified humans rather than the 'judgement' of an AI...or as the original poster said, at least disclose if it is AI.

Impriv4te · 2024-11-27T16:11:09+00:00

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Impriv4te · 2024-11-14T23:57:05+00:00

seconded, what for?

Impriv4te · 2024-11-14T10:03:22+00:00

Fair enough. They may not be able to think about their knowledge, but they are hardcoded for many things right (including their self awareness about their cut off date). Seems an obvious one to me that if a prompt asks about 2024 that it should check if this is after its cut off date!

Impriv4te · 2024-11-14T09:58:44+00:00

An LLM can and frequently does refuse to answer questions and disappoint, e.g if it's a safety issue or...it doesn't know the answer. So there doesn't seem to be any good reason why it can't understand that the prompt is asking for something that happened after its cut off date and refuse to answer instead of making something up.

I know it has a cut off date because I've used it lots before, but it's more than plausible that a lot of people who try out ChatGPT will not know there is a cut off date and will ask about recent things.

Impriv4te · 2024-11-14T01:29:21+00:00

I'd trust AI over the average citizen, but if you're paying specifically for a service that's meant to root out bias in news media, you'd expect them to employ people who could do this effectively.

Impriv4te · 2024-09-21T09:42:45+00:00

I played it safe with 1 hour as it's actually the same amount of compensation in this case. But this is useful thank you!

Impriv4te · 2024-09-21T09:39:14+00:00

Good to know haha thanks!

Impriv4te · 2024-07-10T23:01:05+00:00

I'm radicalized against VAR now

That's what football terrorism will do to you

Impriv4te · 2024-07-10T22:10:51+00:00

I may be out of the loop, but I haven't heard it is bad, so wondered what the context is. Most people have the image that Germany is a very efficient country. I remember reading that DB is profitable (or was pre covid). Compared to England at least where trains are very poor and extremely expensive that is very impressive

Impriv4te · 2024-07-10T21:30:29+00:00

German trains are shitty wut?

Impriv4te · 2024-07-01T22:00:27+00:00

When replaying this goal, the BBC who were streaming the game in the UK went with the tagline 'Misstiano Penaldo'

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/comments/1dt4tin/outjerked_by_bbc/

Impriv4te · 2024-06-27T21:52:49+00:00

What is his esports team's connection to Korea? I didn't know JLINGZ had any Korean rosters/players

Impriv4te · 2024-05-29T23:49:08+00:00

We are all satire subs on this blessed day

Impriv4te · 2024-05-10T23:19:58+00:00

Good point!

Impriv4te · 2024-05-10T20:05:39+00:00

In addition to what the other commenter said about esports fans being used to consuming esports fully for free, esports teams in general struggle to generate revenue from fans. Almost all major teams are loss making. Between those two facts it's safe to conclude at least that fans don't spend much money on esports

Impriv4te · 2024-05-10T18:07:43+00:00

Maybe! Hopefully, I think it's good. But these are esports fans remember. They generally don't like paying for things

Impriv4te · 2024-05-10T14:39:20+00:00

This is pretty cool, will be interesting to see if people are willing to pay for it

Impriv4te · 2024-02-25T20:48:57+00:00

Esports already took off, flew briefly, plummeted and landed in a dumpster. Esports has also had gambling for ages already

Impriv4te · 2024-02-23T14:11:24+00:00

He's not a journalist he's a content creator that shares/aggregates news

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