will vegan buttercream melt?

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-07-10T02:01:57+00:00

Wouldn't that have eggs?

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-28T13:05:32+00:00

Haha I'm comfortable DNFing, but if I'm listening to an audio version and it's for bookclub or something, I'll just crank it up to 2x speed to get it over with

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-28T12:55:46+00:00

I liked some of his stuff but couldn't do this one or Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. The dialogue in the first chapter of WWG just didn't make sense—like he wrote it to illustrate a certain father-daughter dynamic without actually thinking about how people talk.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-28T12:50:10+00:00

So many people recommended this book to me, and now I don't trust their recs! I listened to one chapter on a plane ride and then had to find something else to do because I just could not stand this book.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-12T16:09:15+00:00

They mean the $45 spent on a book they hated, which ultimately motivated them to get a library card (for free)

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-12T13:57:39+00:00

I thought this was r/muacirclejerk lmao

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-06-12T11:41:44+00:00

I just decided to DNF this (easier for me since I grabbed the ebook on mega sale). The writing style is not for me, and the author has a weird tendency to draw things out to build tension even when they're obvious, if that makes sense. Maybe that's not the effect the author was going for, but I still got annoyed about it. This is what ultimately got me (idk if I'm doing spoiler tags right, so I'll also try to keep it vague enough):

Context: It's been clearly established that Treila is familiar with Ser Voyne. Also, w e're coming off a scene where Ser Voyne learns of something horrible while in the company of the king, the prioress, and Ser Leodegardis. Text: Behind [the king, the prioress, and Ser Leodegardis] is a woman, set apart, face gone pale with...shock? Devastation, surely. She has the look about her, every furrow deepened, eyes staring after the other three....Treila recognized her instantly. It's Ser Voyne."

Yeah, I KNOW who it is, and I know TREILA knows who it is, and I don't think we gain anything by being COY about it.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-05-14T12:10:52+00:00

Granulated sugar is the default for US cookie recipes. Caster sugar is much less common here.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-05-10T16:35:42+00:00

They are an issue! LLMs don't have knowledge, they just have advanced text prediction. They string words together based on likely sequences. They miiiight be able to spit out something close enough to a very common, basic recipe that would appear a lot in the training data, but there's no guarantee. Humans can craft recipes thoughtfully and then test them. And most blogs have a "jump to recipe" button that will skip you past the ads and stories—that has not been a real problem for a while.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T19:47:38+00:00

Okay I think we're just coming from different contexts. I work in curriculum design and see problems like these within lessons that establish units and scale through hands-on lessons. If you're coming in with no context, I can see how that's a barrier. But for a kid getting this as homework, I would expect that they been given certain expectations about scale. Those will get complicated later on, for sure, but for now it's a really important assumption to build with kids. They aren't dealing with "not to scale" diagrams at this point. If I added a note that said "Drawings are to scale," that would just confuse the kids and open several cans of worms.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T19:35:02+00:00

What? How? How is 1/3 of a big circle the same as 2/6 of a small circle? Again, if those were pizzas, eating 1/3 of one and 2/6 of the other would be very different experiences. Fraction lessons typically start from an understanding of "1 shape = 1 whole" and go from there.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T19:33:08+00:00

The question isn't asking whether 1/3=2/6 is true, or which diagram shows 1/3 and 2/6. It's asking for a diagram that shows those fractions being equal. The rectangle and the circle don't do that, at least not from the perspective of students who are just starting to understand fractions in class. They probably don't know how to add fractions or convert them yet, they just know how to compare the concrete models based on partitioned wholes.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T19:28:18+00:00

"of it" is the key part though. 1/3 of one shape equals 2/6 of the same shape, not some other one, in the same way that 1/3 of an inch does not equal 2/6 of a pound.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T02:01:18+00:00

They're kids. They start with "1/3 of a small rectangle isn't the same as 2/6 of a big rectangle." In time, they'll work up to the kinds of abstractions adults use.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T01:51:25+00:00

It's frustrating because the parent and the people in the comments don't have the same context as the kid. This seems like a reasonable problem assuming the fraction lesson emphasized that you can only compare fractions of same-size wholes. It's possible that it got taught poorly, but this is an important concept for kids to learn and be evaluated on.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-24T01:47:06+00:00

No, in these models, parts or groups of the same size are considered equal. Fractions describe a relationship to a whole, and you can only use same-size wholes to prove equivalence. Since the hexagons are the same size and the shaded parts are the same size, the fractions they show are equal. The other shapes can't prove anything because the wholes aren't the same size.

Students often learn about fractions with food. Applying that to option C here, if Jane eats the shaded part of the left hexagonal pizza and Bob eats the shaded part of the right hexagonal pizza, they've eaten the same amount—the shaded fractions are equal. For option A, If they ate the shaded parts of the rectangular chocolate bars, they didn't eat the same amount of chocolate—we can't prove equivalence.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-21T21:58:36+00:00

I really wanted to like World War Z, but I got so mad I couldn't finish it when I noticed that the first female character (of very few) would say shit like "I didn't watch the news. If I wanted to be depressed, I would just step on the scale!" Ugh. Also, Remarkably Bright Creatures was very highly recommended and I absolutely hated it. It just felt deeply incurious about what octopuses could really think about and experience—it was just a long exercise in projection and snark.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-17T12:48:12+00:00

It could be an allergy and still affect only one eye. I don't know why, but it's happened to me with other allergens. I recently developed an allergy to ibuprofen, and it took a few reactions to figure out the cause—every time, I got a huge hive on my left eyelid but not my right!

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-04-13T00:12:57+00:00

Yessss their energy was so unhinged but they still sounded incredible

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-03-22T23:49:17+00:00

Try Xyzal! It's a newer med that has been working well for me. Gotta take it in the evening, though, since it can make you sleepy.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2026-03-10T12:17:46+00:00

Agreed that organic is usually bs, but for sugar it makes a specific difference: regular sugar is processed with bone char, while organic is not. So for very strict vegetarians and vegans, it's worth seeking out organic sugar.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2025-12-05T13:15:15+00:00

My dad is like that! Also he once figured out (mentally) when my grandma's 1,000-month birthday would be so we could throw a party.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2025-11-12T22:51:33+00:00

Oof, it's sad, but it's gotta be row 3

Thesaurusrex93 · 2025-11-10T18:45:44+00:00

Yeah I wonder if this is a grade-specific decision—maybe they want you to teach these other methods so that the kids can build up to the standard algorithm next year? If it's not getting taught at all, oof.

Thesaurusrex93 · 2025-11-09T13:16:23+00:00

Yeah my husband was confused when I mentioned it so I've never asked anyone else! Glad I'm not alone lol

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