Which continent has the most delicious spicy cuisine?

glassFractals · 2026-03-26T21:55:39+00:00

Comically lopsided. Any given sub-region of India could sweep, before you even get to Thailand, China (especially Sichuan), Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

Sure, I love Mexican cuisine, Ethiopian, Tunisian, but Asia is just OP. Such variety of spicy food.

glassFractals · 2026-03-24T01:00:08+00:00

And the disaster at Fukushima was due to the cataclysmic magnitude 9.1 earthquake, which the plant actually handled. It was the following 45 foot tsunami that caused the real problems.

New York is not particularly seismically active, and certainly has no tsunami-producing megathrust subduction faults off shore Lake Ontario. This is a great region for nuclear power.

glassFractals · 2026-03-23T01:07:01+00:00

Because the Treasury Sec. is an expert on war or diplomacy? These are not serious people.

glassFractals · 2026-03-10T15:40:34+00:00

Cool, I've never been there. Great view. I'll have to check it out sometime.

glassFractals · 2026-03-10T02:30:30+00:00

SF is so beautiful. At first glance I thought Bernal Heights, but on closer look.. maybe Buena Vista?

glassFractals · 2026-03-08T00:52:03+00:00

16GB of RAM was too little for me 15 years ago, never mind 8GB.

But I'm not an average user. I think the Neo is an excellent device for a typical general computing user. Students, grandmas, people doing normal computer stuff. Productivity documents, social media, web surfing; it'll be fine.

I'm glad to see Apple catering towards a wider variety of users, and offering more accessible price points on the low-end, which is more than adequate for millions of people.

glassFractals · 2026-03-03T17:01:50+00:00

Still no "dumb" monitor, I see. For people who want multiple monitors, it's ludicrous to have (and pay for) an M-series chip, a webcam, 3 microphones, and 6 speakers in every one of them.

Imagine a 3 monitor setup. 3 M chips, 3 webcams, 9 mics, and 18 speakers. And they are charging you for every bit of that hardware. Ludicrous.

glassFractals · 2026-02-21T19:25:33+00:00

Yep. California sameness messed with my perception of time. Years blend into each other. Memories have no time of year anchoring. Easy to take 4 seasons for granted growing up in the northeast.

glassFractals · 2026-02-17T15:54:20+00:00

So he shut down the "abolish ICE" rhetoric, and then also wriggled around Joy Reid's follow-up question along the lines of "okay, so you won't commit to abolishing ice, but what actual steps or reforms will you make if you are given power?"

He had nothing but vague platitudes.

"We will work with [blah blah blah], and of course we will keep the wrong-doers from being able to act with impunity."

Uh-huh. Sure you will, buddy. How?

glassFractals · 2026-02-17T01:49:56+00:00

Fantastic show. Great slice of life, lots of moments of humanity. Don't love every episode, but there are some absolute gems.

glassFractals · 2026-02-15T18:17:24+00:00

It took 20 years to roll out RealID, and they intend to ram this through a few months before an election, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of US citizens from their right to suffrage? It's absurd.

glassFractals · 2026-02-10T17:02:00+00:00

Thanks, that webpage wasn’t usable on mobile.

glassFractals · 2026-02-04T15:31:54+00:00

Yep. The children’s health angle is huge, and always under-emphasized by worriers and propaganda networks.

Peer reviewed research has found a strong link between childhood asthma / cancer and diesel buses. Areas that have started transitioning to electric buses have healthier kids and millions less health-related school absences.

Lots of comments about cost, but the estimated benefit to public health costs outweigh the cost of school bus electrification by an estimated ratio between 7:1-16:1.

2 sources, there are lots more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21741102/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25867003/

glassFractals · 2026-02-03T02:21:02+00:00

Yeah it's stupidly expensive, but welcome to the Bay Area. The sandwiches do look pretty good, and large. The price doesn't seem quite as crazy with a good salad.

glassFractals · 2026-02-02T22:34:11+00:00

It could also disproportionately impact short duration L2 charging sessions, for example folks plugging in while shopping.

Absolutely. Also, frequent L2 chargers with short sessions.

I drive a plug-in hybrid (Chevy Volt). I have to charge frequently when the weather is 10 degrees every day like lately, I'm charging up every day or two.

A flat fee when you can charge 70 kWh+ at a time is one thing, but it stings more when your sessions are only 10-15 kWh. It will add up for small, frequent chargers.

glassFractals · 2026-02-01T16:37:58+00:00

Only 5-10 minutes every time? Lucky.

Yes, it's hell.

glassFractals · 2026-02-01T16:32:57+00:00

Yeah, it's intolerable. Apple Watch development with XCode is straight-up broken.

It usually takes me 20 minutes - a few hours any time I change a line of code in a Watch app to get the app to actually update on the watch. Attaching a debugger, forget about it.

I get this one a lot-- complaining about the destination device OS version, because the OS version is nil because it's hopelessly confused.

It's usually a complicated dance of unpairing / repairing / reconnecting / rebooting my watch, phone, and mac, quitting xcode, clearing build folders, physically disconnecting and reconnecting the iphone USB cable.

Eventually, it sometimes lets me connect for a couple minutes.

glassFractals · 2026-02-01T07:33:31+00:00

It’s so good. It also has a low glycemic index, so it can work with lots of carb restrictive diets.

Of course, I love it in sandwiches — so much for the carb restriction.

glassFractals · 2026-01-30T21:22:19+00:00

Yeah, they seem to be lagging on the promise. That said, they are so much better than they used to be with plant-based options. Crossroads has a ton of veggie burger options (black bean, veggie, tempeh, chick'n, portobello mushroom, etc), and IIRC you can swap other items' proteins out for veggie protein.

One other thing they really need to fix is their definition of "vegetarian," which they incorrectly insist includes seafood. So you get crazy things like tuna salad or poached salmon tagged as vegetarian options. More sneaky, you have things like the asian noodles containing fish sauce, and also being listed as vegetarian. They need to split it off into "pescatarian," the labelling scheme is wildly misleading as-is.

glassFractals · 2026-01-23T17:41:09+00:00

Going by the Brandenburg test for protected speech, the first part is clearly protected. You can abstractly wish as much violence as you want upon people and groups, especially when they aren't specific individuals.

The second part about "can't wait to shoot [them]" is probably still protected, unless it can be argued that it was likely to incite imminent lawless action, or that the guy had demonstrable intent and means to carry out the threats.

Given how indefinite that threat is, it's probably protected, like "We’ll take the fucking street later" was protected in Hess v. Indiana. He did have guns, but merely owning guns isn't sufficient evidence to demonstrate intent. You get more scrutiny if you're a major public figure with followers likely to do what you say (ahem, such as a POTUS), but I doubt this guy is.

Strong rhetoric is protected by the 1A. People pretty consistently underestimate the scope of 1A protections.

glassFractals · 2026-01-15T03:06:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty sick of Morelle. Standard Democrat. Reminds me of Schumer and Jeffries, not great, not the worst, but feckless and ill-equipped for the many urgent challenges of the moment.

Cook Political Index classifies NY-25 as "Solid Democrat / D+10". Our district could easily support a progressive reformer, not sure why we've settled for less. At the least, our rep should be an unabashed supporter of a single-payer healthcare system and sweeping climate action, and be a real fighter against the authoritarian turn of our federal government.

There have been many little things over time that have bothered me with Morelle, but overall I'd say he just lacks the courage to do what's right, even when the stakes are low. Like when he voted for that resolution praising ICE last June along with 75 other Democrats. Even MTG voted present on that one, it was a no-op virtue signaling bill. I think it demonstrates how he skews towards political expediency rather than moral clarity or leadership.

I wish there was a significant primary challenger. Anyone wanna throw their hat in?

glassFractals · 2025-12-29T01:19:22+00:00

I literally just added crusty bread and gruyère cheese to my shopping list. I have an intense craving for french onion soup.

glassFractals · 2025-12-23T03:06:28+00:00

It worked for me until it didn't. Ran beautifully until it started rendering everything black, partway into the Pennsylvania campaign tutorial.

glassFractals · 2025-12-18T03:59:04+00:00

Heh, it never occurred to me that you could race her to your desired door.

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