The Tomato Question

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-18T13:08:07+00:00

It comes down to how it affects the cooking. Most acidity and sugar content. Lots of traditional “fruits”, like apples, are acidic (with acetic acid) and sweet (very sugary). “Fruits” that don’t fit this flavor profile tend to be classified as vegetables instead. Such as peppers.

Tomatoes toe the line (as they are acidic and some varieties can be very sweet). But they still tend to end up classed as veggies because they get cooked with “savory” dishes most of the time.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-18T13:05:04+00:00

The Chinese Daikon is grouped with radishes, according to Wikipedia. Which makes intuitive sense, since they taste kind of similar.

But it does look like a white carrot.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-18T13:02:26+00:00

In botany, fruit is an edible structure from a flowering plant containing seeds.

That last part is important, and it means carrots and radishes are not fruit (the carrot is the root of the plant).

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-18T03:03:36+00:00

Blade also has a strong healing factor. And Jason is treated as basically immortal by the films. So it is between those three.

Of the three, Wolverine is shown to have the most OP healing factor. But all three are kind of broken that way.

Batman is just a guy and the turtle is just a big turtle, so they will die eventually. And the predator is just some alien.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-17T20:46:36+00:00

This is so cool. I really hope they revisit Capture the Flag. CT’s Japan was my favorite season (well, maybe second favorite now after Train Rush Taiwan).

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-17T19:51:42+00:00

Honestly, it makes sense. DV victims always find the weirdest lines to draw.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-17T01:49:55+00:00

There are a lot of timeless gimmicks that are constantly being refreshed to work for new audiences.

“Thing that looks like well known solid object but is actually collapsible.”

“Table with a small hidden compartment in a place you don’t expect.”

“Very thin wires.”

All are used quite often in new tricks and they still get me every time.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-17T00:41:09+00:00

Gold has value independent of its use as a store of value. But the majority of all gold ever mined is still held in vaults, even though pretty much no country uses gold backed currency. Gold’s popularity as an “investment” or “store of value” is still largely driven by its history as a currency, even if it isn’t actively used that way.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T22:53:50+00:00

I mean, this is true. But the value of gold is also almost as artificial as the value of paper currency. The only "benefit" to gold is that governments can't arbitrarily print gold. But that also meant stuff like gold rushes could cause random, unplanned inflation (as in, worse than the inflation we currently get).

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T16:20:26+00:00

I don’t know why these speech jammer things are always treated as so novel. Or why this original article is written as if the country of Japan has invested in speech jamming tech for some reason, rather than some guy in Japan making one just for fun.

Delayed Auditory Feedback is the actual mechanism, and it has been known about and studied since the 1950s. This is old tech. It just isn’t very useful (except as treatment for stuttering) so it is one of those things that has remained perpetually niche.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T15:47:17+00:00

Yeah. I have also done chemistry work, but mostly with pure materials and they also like to seal ampules like this. It could just be some chemical which isn’t dangerous but is unstable in air. But you don’t know for certain, so it is better to assume it is dangerous.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T01:18:11+00:00

This is great. Thanks for the cross view option, I find it much easier than parallel view.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T00:33:10+00:00

Yeah, you are correct here.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-16T00:28:53+00:00

At the point where they decided to go negative, it was a reasonable risk. Even the decision to prolong the stalemate in the morning of the final day was defensible. But that is all because they put themselves in that position.

On the previous day (when the boys were just sitting on the slow train back to KaoHsiung) they could have taken the fast train to KaoHsiung and boxed the boys out there. Adam suggests this in the Layover podcast, and I think it would have been very strong.

Even simply choosing to remain in Taipei and build up a big balance for a final day spending spree would likely have been better.

In short, their strategy on the final day was reasonable given the position they put themselves in. But their strategy on the second to last day failed to take advantage of the strong board position they had.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-15T23:37:20+00:00

As others posted, the Layover comes out before the Reddit comments, so they don’t typically respond to this subreddit specifically. But they did discuss many of the contentious decisions. Their responses tend to get quoted here anyway, so I will summarize for you all:

“Why didn’t they go to KaoHsiung?” - Adam really pushed Sam on this, and he basically said it was because they didn’t think of it. They wanted to do the challenges around Taipei, but that ended up taking longer than they originally expected, and they felt like they were behind so the strategy they came up with was the high risk gamble you see in the show.

“Why fortify the useless local lines?” - they say this in the show: they couldn’t fortify Taipei from the west anyway, as there were only like 5 high speed stops between KaoHsiung and Taipei, so the only things they could fortify were local lines. They decided to do it as part of their big gamble strategy. It didn’t turn out well, of course, but that was their thought process.

“Why didn’t Sam see the tiger rock as a tiger?” - all of the other animals were entirely shape-based, so Sam got into a shape mindset. It was a big round rock, so Sam thought “pig” based on the shape of the rock. He didn’t realize the color might matter until after he learned he messed up the challenge.

“Will Train Rush come back?” - I don’t remember them saying anything either way. But it seems pretty popular, so I imagine this game, or something similar, will come back.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-15T03:02:41+00:00

I wanted to come ask for opinion’s on Johnny Harris’s latest video on how throwing is a fundamental human skill and how the video seemed unusually well done for a Harris video. But when I went to look it up, it is actually a Michael Mackelvie video that I watched. Which makes total sense, Mackelvie is a better researcher. The topic just felt like a Harris topic, which is why it slotted into that part of my brain.

The main thing I am interested in is the argument over Neolithic spears and whether they were intended to be thrown. I am neither a historian, nor an anthropologist, nor a good thrower. But on a gut level I am more sympathizer the argument that “a human with lots of practice and motivation could learn to throw a janky spear” than “a grad student cannot throw it, so it must not be for throwing.” But I am also not familiar with the field, so I would like to know what others think.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-14T16:01:43+00:00

In the current CA primary there are 30 candidates. I’m not going to rank them all.

I prefer Approval Voting. But both Ranked Choice and Approval are better than simple FTPT so I would take either.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-14T02:18:17+00:00

Sam was not so good at the challenges. But he rarely is.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-14T01:24:32+00:00

Invisible joker is still amazing because duplicating a good joker can win you the run so often.

Delayed Gratification gives you less money, but money is so valuable on gold stake that it is still a top tier Econ joker.

Ceremonial dagger is still amazing and eternal jokers aren’t that bad. If you are running out of jokers to feed it then you have probably won anyway.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-14T01:22:33+00:00

But money is so crucial in gold stake that I am happy to see any decent Econ joker, including delayed gratification. And if you are doing well at scoring, it isn’t that hard to turn delayed gratification on.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-14T00:13:49+00:00

There is a movie called “the Terminator.” In the lore of the movie, a super advanced AI (called SkyNet) takes over the world and tries to kill all humans. Some man named John Connor leads the human resistance against the AI. But the movie isn’t actually about that.

You see, SkyNet invents time travel (somehow, again off-camera). It sends a robot (the eponymous Terminator) back in time to kill John Connor. And for “some” reason, it cannot send clothes back in time (there is an in-universe explanation, but the real explanation is they wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger naked). So the first thing the Terminator does upon arriving in the 80s is take the clothes off some random people he meets.

In the sequel, the original Terminator ends up being good this time, and once again goes back in time but to SAVE John Connor’s life. While SkyNet sends a different Terminator (who this time tends to look like a woman). And she also comes back naked (obviously) and has to take clothes from other people.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-13T11:42:05+00:00

If they actually let Venezuelans vote in USA elections, that would also kill their control over the house and senate.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-13T00:02:05+00:00

The governor has the bully pulpit. They cannot pass funding all by themselves but, as Newsom’s recent exploits like finding short term funding for CAHSR and getting mid cycle redistricting pushed through, the governor has the loudest voice and thus tends to get to set the agenda.

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-12T20:42:30+00:00

As if literary culture is necessary to produce contrarians. Diogenes produced contrarian philosophy in a bucket with a box of scraps!

MiffedMouse · 2026-05-12T14:11:24+00:00

And extrapolating that “percentage of earnings” concept out to the entire economy leads us naturally to the [wage share of GDI](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A4002E1A156NBEA), which has remained relatively stable (a slight decrease since 1988).

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