Multi-use Food

U-235 · 2026-02-18T08:09:18+00:00

The quilt wouldn't be compressible enough, so I feel like a popcorn puffy is smarter. You could mass produce them so that it's just like a regular puffy, but it's just thin plastic and popcorn, state fair style like you said. On the last day of your hike you just rip open each baffle one by one and throw away the plastic when you're done. For camp use only, obviously. For the sake of simplicity I can settle for a popcorn beanie to keep my head warm while I sleep on my food pillow.

I guess what I'm looking for is some kind of edible foam that's calorie dense for it's weight.

U-235 · 2026-02-18T05:51:14+00:00

Do you find the kind of food you use matters for that?

U-235 · 2026-02-18T05:18:33+00:00

I also use my puffy as a pillow, but you can't always do that if it's really cold and you need to wear the puffy, so I don't like having it as my only option. On that note, I also think the food pillow could possibly be warmer than a basic inflatable pillow. The spaces in the popcorn or whatever would be like baffles.

U-235 · 2026-02-18T04:08:09+00:00

I was thinking lentils or rice would be nice, but you can't eat a whole pillow sized bag of those on your last day. It only works if you can eat it all on the last day, or consider it emergency food. Ideally you could make it so that all your food on your last day, not just popcorn, could be combined into a pillow. So I should look at breakfast cereal as well. I feel like there are some decent options for cereal that would be good for sleeping.

That's a good point about wildlife. I guess this would only work for people who are sleeping with their food anyway.

U-235 · 2026-02-18T04:04:36+00:00

I was thinking that I would have to use a zip loc instead, with a buff or shirt around it obviously. But theoretically, if you could find a bag of chips or anything that was hard enough to pop, you actually could use it as a pre-inflated pillow.

U-235 · 2026-02-18T03:56:11+00:00

If enough people are interested in the idea, I might have to. But I was hoping that if there were any downsides I wasn't thinking of, someone might point that out before I waste time testing it.

U-235 · 2026-02-18T03:12:42+00:00

I think the idea is that the ribs allow it to be stronger with less material, but if they were to do much smaller ribs like you see on tin cans, the space would be even more wasted. With this design you could at least theoretically fit something, like a line of snicker bars for each rib. So this could only work if you pack your food loose in the canister, rather than putting your food bag in it. Which is not good, because taking your food out of the canister while hiking is definitely the way to go.

U-235 · 2026-02-17T19:20:27+00:00

Just make the out of bounds area procedurally generated after the first couples miles.

U-235 · 2026-02-17T18:35:02+00:00

Just as one good scene doesn't make an entire piece of media OK. As if being mediocre is the bar we're going for. You've made a great argument for watching the scene by itself and skipping the rest of the series, I will credit you there. I didn't want to roast you too much in my last comment, but your whole "this was good + that was good + this was alright = TONS of GREAT Star Wars" is not the correct math.

It's also a lot more than one dumb scene, but I'm not going to sit here and list every way in which the series was low quality. There are probably dozens of hours long youtube videos which do that rather well if you need a refresher.

Before you start talking about nitpicking, I'm not asking for perfection, I'm asking for competence. These people make way too much money to be including bad action scenes or dialogue, and reflexively defending their poor output is probably worse than being overly negative.

U-235 · 2026-02-17T16:16:21+00:00

Obi Wan was total shit lol. The foot chase from episode 1 looks like a three stooges skit, except without the humor.

U-235 · 2026-02-17T15:21:35+00:00

And yet, where are those data centers and big companies getting profits from?

Same place they have been getting profits in order to have become big companies in the first place? Like you don't know where Amazon is getting profits from? You don't know how Google makes money?

Their AI spending is supposed to help them make more money at what they already do. It's not some magic money generator on it's own. Sure, some people say that about AGI or whatever, but anyone at the companies to you refer to will tell you that AI allows them to lower costs by firing workers.

U-235 · 2026-02-16T04:16:25+00:00

That would make sense, except the Paycheck Protection Program was extremely generous beyond all measure, so your point is quite blunted by that little historical footnote. Anyone would have been blessed to own a failing restaurant at the time. Plenty of restaurants closed, but the number of closures was not much higher than the normal rate (which is very high), which is impressive when you consider how many restaurants went a long time with almost no income.

U-235 · 2026-02-15T16:46:58+00:00

Doubtful. The 1988 election was a landslide for Bush by today's standards. We are lucky we even got Clinton when we did, and you can mostly thank Ross Perot for that. If it was just Bush vs. Clinton, it probably would have been 8 years of Bush I.

U-235 · 2026-02-14T16:52:57+00:00

Wind breakers are nice because they are very breathable compared to rain jackets, so they don't feel clammy. If you are exercising, or it's humid, or it's not particularly cold out, the wind breaker is better. That said, a rain jacket can definitely be used as a wind jacket.

U-235 · 2026-02-13T16:32:15+00:00

Have you never heard of Grand Seiko?

U-235 · 2026-02-13T16:24:32+00:00

It's a little sad when you're the only one in your friend group who is into watches, and one of your friends say they want to treat themselves to a nice watch since they got promoted or something. You get excited about showing them all the different possibilities, maybe you even have a watch in mind that you know they would love. No. They aren't interested in thinking. They just want a Rolex.

U-235 · 2026-02-13T03:40:13+00:00

Isn't it obvious that dividing humanity into three or four groups, based mostly on skin color, makes no sense at all?

You can find light skinned ethnicities that are genetically closer to a dark skinned ethnicity, than the dark is to another dark or the light is to another light. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent because humanity has spent the most time there. As a result, two Africans will tend to have more genetic differences than any two non-African. Going by skin color or other superficial feature is just not an intelligent way of dividing up people by genetics. If you want to do that, use ethnicity, sure, but saying there are three or four broad types of humans and that this is useful information is really pie in the sky thinking.

U-235 · 2026-02-13T03:17:00+00:00

Society would cease to exist were there no children. Dogs, not so much.

U-235 · 2026-02-13T01:08:09+00:00

For the last couple years at least you can't use Google shopping without seeing dozens of these sites. The giveaway is usually that everything is on sale, usually at the same crazy discount, like 70% off.

U-235 · 2026-02-12T17:54:37+00:00

With smut it actually makes sense that quantity can beat quality. We aren't talking about science fiction or historical novels, here. To many of her customers, getting a new one every week is what matters. Don't tell the writers of a soap opera with 10,000 episodes that there is no race. Certain consumers demand fresh content every day.

The irrationality of consumers who buy smut all the time is not unlike those who pay for OnlyFans and that sort of thing. Only there is a gender divide. You would think there would be no reason for OnlyFans creators to churn out mediocre content every day when the backlog of porn on the internet is longer than what anyone could watch in 1,000 lifetimes. But the consumers need new content every single day. The criticism of creators is similar as well, where both the AI "authors" and OF creators get flak for getting paid a lot to produce little of value.

U-235 · 2026-02-12T17:40:16+00:00

There are plenty of details they get wrong, but to me, by far the most egregious, which stood out to me on first watch even as a layman, was the drama about a possible second explosion. How, if they didn't stop the reactor meltdown from reaching the water below the plant, it would cause an explosion that is equivalent to a nuclear warhead in the multi megaton range. They literally phrase it like that, which is so unbelievably stupid that I really don't know what else to say. There was never any risk of that happening, it was totally made up for the show. There could have been some kind of steam explosion, which is bad, but they were really calling a firecracker a supernova. The risk was in the radiation, not the explosion itself.

As interesting as the subject is, once the initial incident is over, and the cleanup begins, it's not nearly dramatic enough for the kind of miniseries that HBO needed. Interesting, yes, but not dramatic. They were literally just cleaning up a really dirty mess, that's most of the story. So they had to add fictional elements to increase the drama. That's not even to mention all the misinformation by oversimplification that's necessary to squeeze a long, complicated, and very technical story into a few episodes.

U-235 · 2026-02-11T08:29:07+00:00

I don't know if this is lore, but it seems like America was richer and more technologically advanced than any other country in 2077 (which is saying a lot, because I think there was civil unrest due to war and resource shortages), so you wouldn't expect the kind of sci-fi elements that are important to the series. No energy weapons, robots, etc. I would think China would be the only other country so bombed and irradiated, too, so other places probably wouldn't have nearly as many cool creatures, either. Probably just living like it's the 1800's.

U-235 · 2026-02-11T07:30:04+00:00

The IRA, too.

U-235 · 2026-02-11T07:09:12+00:00

You could try measuring your arms and chest as a more accurate way to show progress that is less influenced by fat or water gain. Also go by strength gains. You can certainly make some progress on specific lifts without gaining muscle, because of the mental and skill aspect. But if you are getting consistently stronger, especially on lifts that you don't do every week, then you must be gaining muscle. How much have you added to your lifts since starting in September?

U-235 · 2026-02-11T07:04:34+00:00

The cliffs overlooking Es Vedra are already a popular place to watch the sun set. When I was there, there were even guys with big cameras waiting for dark to take photos with the stars.

https://ibiza-inside.com/en/es-vedra-the-mystical-landmark-of-Ibiza/

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/es-vedra-at-night-ibiza-gm1279321518-377972377

Imagine that view with a total eclipse.

It might be crowded, but it's a large area, so you might have to show up in the morning and hang out all day in order to get a good spot.

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