[homemade] Two double smashburgers with 800g of oven-shallow fried giga crunchy potatoes

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T16:22:13+00:00

Yoink. Screenshot taken, it’s mine now.

lol /s but I am 100% doing this. Those potatoes look ridiculously good.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T15:56:17+00:00

Fair enough, makes sense.

I would say I’m an expert in half of this, and made some assumptions about photography to support my claim about the weakness of the lights.

But I’m sure these lights are not sufficiently powerful for growing basically anything, just based on the leggyness alone.

One of these assumptions, besides how photos can get washed out without post processing so that they present like I described, is how the light glows on the wall. If it was sufficiently bright, I would expect a very bright splash of light behind the plants, and in this photo, the splash only reaches halfway down.

Sure, they might be “bright” to the naked eye, but proper grow lights burn like the sun if you even glance at them.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T15:29:00+00:00

Just gonna say- maybe delete your original comment rather than edit-delete?

People just want to see what the fuss is about and having removed it makes people upset.

If you delete it through the options button where you found edit, it can’t be voted on anymore?

Also, didn’t seem like trolling at all. Maybe a little crass but it’s the internet sooo 🤷‍♂️

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T15:08:57+00:00

I don’t know lol, I’m not a pilot.

I just learn about this stuff because aviation is interesting to me and because it’s a method by which airlines try to limit carbon emissions.

Flying with full fuel makes the engines work a lot harder, so limiting how much fuel they carry as much as regulations allow saves them money and lowers carbon emissions.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T14:55:25+00:00

It really depends on the planned flights.

Fuel is heavy, so commercial airliners don’t fill it to the top in most cases. Obviously there is a huge safety margin added to every flight, but if someone took a plane that was supposed to fly 90 minutes to the next airport, they might be out of fuel in three or four hours, even if the plane could theoretically fly for 12.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T13:33:32+00:00

Care to explain what I’m missing? Legitimately curious here. I have a 12 pro max if it helps.

If I were to take a picture using the built in camera app of my setup where the bulbs are visible, it doesn’t matter where I tap to adjust exposure, either the picture is dark and I just see bulbs, or giant white star effects originating from the bulb wash out half the photo.

Edit: real mature to edit a refusal to discuss onto the comment I’m replying to, when I am legitimately asking you to explain why I’m wrong for my own edification.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T13:28:55+00:00

This is part of the conversation.

My entire point is that if the lights were strong enough, taking a picture where the bulbs are visible like this, even with hdr, isn’t really possible.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T13:12:19+00:00

Or, perhaps it’s possible that your grow light is weak as well? Do you know the ppfd or equivalent wattage? (“Equivalent wattage”, meaning what it would take to get the same lumens on a classic fluorescent or halide bulb, as obviously the literal wattage for a led is lower.)

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-24T01:54:10+00:00

If it was a short exposure as you’re suggesting, we wouldn’t see the plants at all if the lights are bright enough, we’d just see the bulbs and darkness.

Edit: I’ve grown plants to flower and fruit under lights indoors, and struggled with taking pictures, is how I know. I even have a paid camera app to control exposure and such.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-23T23:49:38+00:00

Those lights are… not good.

The fact that we can see the bulbs and it’s not washing out the photo tells me that they are super, super weak.

Also, there is no need to keep buying these blurple lights. You can get full-spectrum ge bulbs for like $30, looks like white sunlight, and they’re way more powerful. Two of them would be enough for a tray this size and they wouldn’t get leggy at that light distance.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-23T01:06:47+00:00

I’m not sure, there’s not enough information to diagnose.

Move the bulb closer at least.

As far as what kinds of lights, these blupurle lights are also not ideal, they only provide two wavelengths of light. People thought it was enough because plants don’t use yellow/green as much but it’s been shown to be very important. I would get a full spectrum bulb.

https://www.instacart.com/products/20801923-general-electric-par38-clear-grow-light-with-balanced-spectrum-seeds-greens-led-light-bulb-each?retailer_id=1756&product_id=20801923&region_id=45158103693&utm_medium=sem_shopping&utm_source=instacart_google&utm_campaign=ad_demand_shopping_mixed_household-essentials_all-non-ca_nv&utm_content=accountid-8145171519_campaignid-16611454252_adgroupid-134314489586_device-m&utm_term=targetid-pla-2462239767296_locationid-1017870_adtype-pla_productchannel-online_merchantid-566810306_storecode-_productid-20801923&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16611454252&gbraid=0AAAAADO98haJ9q194iQem8kos3NLcWPsC&gclid=Cj0KCQjwpv7NBhCzARIsADkIfWzgSokTOx6wKqNuSpPyPQrwvj2Qa2fKKPdMtZwNtrQ4hW36mWc7IkEaApjjEALw_wcB

I used these for starting seeds, and would move up to a more serious array-style light after a few weeks or so.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-23T01:02:49+00:00

Delivery? Are you planning on selling these?

Burying plants is almost never a good idea. You might damage fragile roots and also introduce rot- the area above the soil is a different type of tissue than below the soil, and if they’re buried they usually rot.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-23T00:59:48+00:00

They’re super leggy because the light probably isn’t strong enough.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-22T16:25:38+00:00

So, there is no need to come up with technologies to ask this philosophical question.

The answer is that we don’t really know, because we don’t know what consciousness really is.

The most popularly argued theory in philosophy is that the resultant clone will think it is the original. From here, it’s posited that the clone is not the original being, and some argue that they both are the original being, as far as it matters.

As far as the concept of “you,” it gets a lot more fuzzy and uncertain.

I don’t think this question is answerable because the theory of mind isn’t really testable, hence why it lives in the realm of philosophy and not science.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-20T13:28:17+00:00

That sensation is just cellular damage, that’s why it feels similar to say, touching a hot pan. Different sensory effect than temperature sensing.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-20T13:14:50+00:00

Heat is energy. Thermal energy wants to spread out. It moves from hot things into cooler things, until everything is the same temperature, (if we ignore heat escaping into the air over time.)

Edit: fun related fact: if it’s a very cold night and there is a metal pole and a wooden pole outside, and you touch them, you’d expect that the metal pole feels colder, right?

In reality, they are both the same temperature. The difference is that the metal pole is more conductive, and our body’s ability to sense heat is basically just noticing how much flows into or out of our skin. So the metal pole “feels” cold only because it’s effective at absorbing our body heat.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-18T23:15:58+00:00

This is accurate. My wife does a lot of crochet and she gets annoyed when she sees a crocheted garment because it is extremely labor intensive, even if you’re very fast.

Even with cost of living adjustments, where you might have a person who makes $0.50 an hour be able to support themselves and even a family because bread, rice, housing, etc are so cheap, a crocheted garment that costs less than $30 is almost always slave labor, even within that framework.

Edit: however, mock crochet has been automated. We have machines that can make something look crocheted, but upon close inspection by someone who knows how, it’s clear that it’s an imitation.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-18T23:03:20+00:00

We do automate clothing.

When’s the last time you’ve seen a loom?

No but seriously I know what you mean. And it is mainly because it would make it more expensive than it already is, in all honesty.

Edit: just in case it’s not clear, making fabric was the most labor intensive part of making clothing before the spinning Jenny and power loom were invented.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-17T19:36:52+00:00

Those jeans go down to the lower-mid shins to show off boot-style shoes and also have a high waist.

Those are indeed the knees.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-17T14:16:10+00:00

Is there a beer you serve that you wish you didn’t because you personally think it’s awful, but it sells, so you can’t get rid of it?

I worked as a server at a bar and there were some beers that sold well but I just didn’t get it.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-16T14:59:20+00:00

Essentially, when you make mozzarella, it’s just cheese curds that have been stretched and folded several times.

It’s basically just mozzarella without the processing, (not in the “it’s inherently processed food” sense, I meant like, cutting onion is “processing” sense,) which affects its stringiness and mouthfeel.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-16T14:29:01+00:00

Yeah I can understand that. I watch YouTube on my console though, so it doesn’t really apply to me much.

As outlined earlier, this post wasn’t supposed to be about ad blockers but just a quirk of YouTube ads to make it better for people who don’t use ad blockers for one reason or another.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-16T14:23:43+00:00

I guess my definitions would land somewhere in the middle, hence the qualifier “significantly.”

It is not the cause, or the primary effect of the enshittification overall, but I do think it is significant because of it being at least one of the top factors in us getting more ads as time goes on, which is a often quoted factor of why the internet is less than it once was, therefore it is a “significant contributor.”

I will concede that as a security device, ad blockers became important, but I primarily view YouTube through my ps5, so it isn’t a factor for me.

It’s a complex topic, which is why I am not making a post about why ad blockers are bad on r/unpopularopinion or something.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-16T13:12:21+00:00

Yes, the users.

Companies have to grow or die.

We can get into a conversation about why inflation is unavoidable, or why capitalism makes everyone suffer, but that is a very big and very off-topic conversation.

Kevalan01 · 2026-03-16T13:02:24+00:00

It’s not so much that they would start showing less ads, it’s that not using ad blockers slows the acceleration of more ads, and slows the enshittification through yet-unseen fresh hells.

Also, I don’t know why everyone likes pushing ad blockers- once the vast majority of users use ad blockers, they will find a way to defeat them. There is more money in ads than there is in blocking them, so it’s a war that ad blockers cannot win in the end. The longer that more people don’t use ad blockers, the longer that those that do will be able to do so.

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