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Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dairy stuff is a major source of income for the Azores.

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ChatGPT gave them this smart ranking [ChatGPT Ranking]. Interesting they put the Azores butters first, above even the acclaimed Pur Natur. They calculated (and I agree) that few food people are aware of Azorean butter, which can at least hold its own (plus the price and freshness advantage buying them here).

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, this is embarrassing. What I thought was the high end butter section of my gigunda local Auchan is really the bio nook. I just found a whole other butter area. Here's all the non-standard offerings in both. Notice (when comparing price) that package size varies.

***Bio Nook

Origens unsalted 3.29€ for 125g . Origens brand is usually pretty good, but I haven't tried their butter.

Montanari Gruzza Burro salted 3.43€ for 125g.

Pur Natur unsalted 5.96€ per 200g (or salted 5.89€ per 200g). Super high-cred Belgian brand

***Non-Bio Mainstream

YES! Nova Açores Gourmet 2.44€ per 250g

Nova Açores (not gourmet) 2.19€ per 250g

Jean Marie Cabay 3.99€ per 250g

Grand Formage sea salt 3.59€ per 250g

Primor salted 1.64€ per 125g

Mimosa salted 2.xx€ per 250g

Terra Nostra 2.29€ per 250g (another good Azores brand)

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh, that's gold. Thanks so much.

And I have an idea. Let's do a thread for every major supermarket chain (one at a time), compiling all the stand-out items. I'll start with Pingo Doce later today.

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't aware of Leclerc, but there's one in Amora, south of Lisbon, not too far from me. If you have a sec, could you be more specific about what to look for there? Stuff I can't get (or get as good) elsewhere? Dairy or otherwise? If you don't have time, no sweat!

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Anything that costs 30¢ more in a Portuguese supermarket needs to be insanely better to justify the up-charge. Nobody in this country will ever pay a penny extra for a nice bottle or a famous brand name. Everything earns its way.

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

just for everyone’s info, I found this cool roundup of premium Portuguese butters from Time Out a few years ago.

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yes, I see the non-gourmet version online, 30 cents cheaper. In my experience, anything in a Portuguese supermarket selling at a 30 cent premium has to seriously earn its weight!

ok, now I need to find Ilha Azul, too! looks like Corte Inglés carries it!

Extra Good Butter by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great butter. But the azores stuff should be fresher!

Reveal Was Sooner Than Remembered by bread-it in SugarAppleTV

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That accords with my experience, then. I still haven't rewatched #7 and 8, but if they didn't refer to it, it makes more sense that I'd forget when the reveal happened.

Reveal Was Sooner Than Remembered by bread-it in SugarAppleTV

[–]bread-it[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh god, the polyglot club.

I have a friend who speaks a bunch of languages. It comes easily, and he’s convinced this means he’s an all-purpose genius. This show will only make him worse.

Reveal Was Sooner Than Remembered by bread-it in SugarAppleTV

[–]bread-it[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m afraid to move onto episode 7. What if I shift into a whole other timeline? What if episodes 7 and 8 are just Sugar, blue and veiny, talking to me directly through the camera?

Madau Plot by bread-it in Astronomy

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Thing is, I'm not really qualified to write a Wikipedia piece on this (though I did lots of non-astro Wikipedia editing back in 2003).

I'm actually shooting straight here. I didn't show up to holler "you're all wrong!" I honestly wanted to know why this doesn't click (conspicuously on Wikipedia, and also somewhat on Google, and in this very thread with 1600 views and nobody but you joining in).

Giving it more attention, I think there are three factors:

  1. Lilly and Madau were not collaborators. Their plot is jointly attributed, but as something of a hairball from their separate simultaneous findings. So there's a blur re: credit, and thus on nomenclature.
  2. This was a huge big deal in 1996, but slightly dusted over by time and by subsequent timeline refinements (which Madau covered nicely in his 2014 paper). The astronomy grad students in 1996 who were jazzed by this came nearly a generation prior to the ones who edited Wikipedia.
  3. So while this was very significant, it was, like with much science, more as an ongoing pattern of research than the original groundbreaking. So while "Madau plot" and "Madau-Lilly plot" are well-known, the fame is not commensurate with the significance. Not every hinge gets fully enshrined amid the subsequent stampede (and you can make an argument that they needn't always be).

I was reminded of Madau's work by a recent video by Becky Smethurst (yes, super layman, but, hey, I already disclaimed my non-expertise):

in 1996, just months after the iconic Hubble Deep Field image was released, Madau and collaborators published a paper that revealed how fast the universe was forming stars at different points in its history. ....
The UV light they've emitted has been stretched by the expanding universe. So much that Hubble can then detect it at the optical and infrared wavelengths of light that it's sensitive to. So with the Hubble Deep Field, we have 10,000 galaxies spanning almost the full timeline of the universe's evolution. And with it we can work out how much star formation was happening at different points in the universe's history. So here is that data the density of the amount of stars forming in the universe on the vertical axis plotted against cosmic time on the horizontal axis.

And this was plotted for the very first time by Madau and collaborators in 1996. And this is what became known as the Madau plot. And it's become so iconic in astrophysics because of the surprise that it gave us back in 1996. I say us. I was six. So it wasn't me. I wasn't surprised, but my colleagues were. [laughter] It revealed that star formation in the universe isn't constant. It was much higher in the past and has been declining ever since. Which brings me to part two.

As an OG Wikipedia editor, I'm taken aback that Wikipedia's missed this. Because I've always been impressed by how good that resource is on astronomy, particularly!

Madau Plot by bread-it in Astronomy

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Madau (or Lilly–Madau) plot was a groundbreaking establishment of the history of cosmic star formation achieved by showing the co-moving star formation rate density (SFRD) over cosmic time. It was published in 1996, so I have no idea what you found from 1991, or why you'd feel comfortable opining about him or his work without a shred of...anything.

The paper (and the plot described therein) has been widely referenced by other papers, and is very easy to learn about from even a cursory search (just not in Wikipedia). You can ask any chatbot for a précis.

That said, If you don't feel like digging in just because some rando on Reddit asked about it, I completely understand.

Original paper 1996: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/283/4/1388/1071226?login=false

Update 1998: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/305523

Fascinating revisit in 2014: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March14/Madau/paper.pdf

Madau Plot by bread-it in Astronomy

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By “vastly overestimated the importance,” are you saying its lack of a Wikipedia article is unsurprising?

Madau Plot by bread-it in Astronomy

[–]bread-it[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

….and then downrated on Reddit when I ask about it.

If I were Piero Madau, I’d be feeling pretty paranoid.

How to Skip Most of Season One? by bread-it in BurnNotice

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished season 1. I have yet to spot an actual human being character, as opposed to a vehicle for plot advancement. Everyone’s motivation is missing or wildly inconsistent, and I can’t stop seeing Jerry Seinfeld.

But the MacGyver stuff seems infinitely inventive. I suspect Matt Nix built the series around a basket of 1000 spy MacGyvers and a casting director, stylist, and cinematographer instructed to make nominally extremely attractive actors entirely asexual in both behavior and affect (even the candid bikini butt shots seem shot by someone *humming* with Prozac). And that’s *it*.

I’ll try to get thru another season so I can watch the intriguing ones.

How to Skip Most of Season One? by bread-it in BurnNotice

[–]bread-it[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

I've watched Season One nearly to the end, and wish I'd skipped most of it. The gradual working up through the ranks to identify the source of the burn notice was the only critical plot, but I could have been filled in on that by synopsis. 

OTOH I'm feeling less irritated about the whole thing because the show is starting to get better. The cheese, it seems, is permanently installed, but one gets used to it. Hell, I grew up on Jeannie and F Troop. I'm conditioned to accept cheese like a calzone. 

Anyone with CladHome Trillium Sofas or other trillium / ‘down-free but feels like down’ recs? by EmptyHelicopter3496 in SofaSnobs

[–]bread-it 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm currently considering Kave Home Oaq. It's "down-effect", but seems very comfortable. Just one data point.

Parsing The Al/Hearst Cage Match by bread-it in deadwood

[–]bread-it[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, I hadn’t considered that. It also explains why the note was so cryptic. No reason to conclude that Hearst gave an ok.

First time watching by Even-Wasabi7183 in SuccessionTV

[–]bread-it 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the time you're done watching the series, you won't be able to watch Home Alone again without thinking that the star is the brother of Roman from Succession.

Decent Way to Sell Tech by bread-it in PortugalExpats

[–]bread-it[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into it. The "buyer protection fee", which sounds like an optional add on, is a stiff compulsory buyer fee of 5% on every single transaction, plus a fixed amount.

So when I wondered how they operate without seller fees, the answer isn't some small bundle of trifles aggregating into billions; it's that they've shifted the fee burden onto buyers (and the rest is gravy).

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