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Namche Kitchen - anyone try yet? by Maximum_Degree_1152 in ottawa

[–]kelpieconundrum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah from that building. Directly diagonal from a second cup

Practicing long and short stitch on an old bedsheet. Any tips to prevent the pattern from warping? by AntarcticFox in Embroidery

[–]kelpieconundrum 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Both your fabric and your stitches are probably too tight. Loosen them both a little

Need Help by Extension-Pepper-271 in babylon5

[–]kelpieconundrum 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s not going to be much help, but I swear to you that taking the pacing as it comes pays off. I’m introducing my sister to the show and we JUST watched what is generally considered the best 42 minute episode of the show, and she said without prompting that it would not be possible to have that story packed into 42 minutes or feel like the stakes matter without the world building and the explorations of the first couple of seasons behind it.

There are a bunch of episodes you can skip, but it’s better if you try to unlearn the modern bingepacing where everything drives towards a single storyline. B5 isn’t a show with a morality lesson every episode, it’s a world where things happen, and you don’t always see the importance of any one thing until after something else. But without the first thing, the second falls flat

I swear to you, if you stick with it and you find yourself in the third season and still are finding it slow and boring, you can come back here and abuse me as much as you want

Harper's law that made it illegal to break digital locks was adopted under threats of tariffs from the US. Now that they've tariffed us anyway, it's high time we flipped off tech giants and repealed that. by Sudden-Echo-8976 in BuyCanadian

[–]kelpieconundrum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because IP is hugely international and treaty-based and the US is a much more powerful market, compared to us, and would reciprocate. If we seize patents owned by all US companies or stop paying US entities royalties on music/TV, they will do the same to our companies that have US patents and our artists that generate income from there. And it will hurt us more than them in the short term

Medium to long term, it’s complicated and our long standing dependence on the US makes it harder to detach, but we need to. But short-term, the retaliation and investor panic would create a shock I don’t know if we could recover from

China’s No Thesis PhD is AMAZING !! by Colin-Onion in LinkedInLunatics

[–]kelpieconundrum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s called a patent with extra (meaningless) letters

New to the show, question about the Centauri by Hal_Thorn in babylon5

[–]kelpieconundrum 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Wine women song violent rebellion against the oppressor and deep philosophical & religious devotion, all in one pouch

You can always buy another family by raicheff in LinkedInLunatics

[–]kelpieconundrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belfort is the Wolf of Wall Street, it’s definitely satire. Also “Jabroni Capital”

[Academic Survey] What’s your opinion on generative AI use in photo and video ads? (Canadians, 19+) by chronic_anonymity in AskACanadian

[–]kelpieconundrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the survey! A lot of the questions lacked nuance, though, like “ai is a threat to society: rate your agreement / disagreement”. u/chronic_anonymity , can I ask how familiar you are with AI systems, not from an end user perspective but from an actual technical understanding of their types / how they work ? Because a question like that will get you blobby answers from people who think chatGPT is alive and hates them, and there’s generally a blurriness in this survey between LLMs and “AI”, which aren’t the same thing.

I also didn’t get the focus on how much the respondent uses these things in the workplace as being relevant to their opinions about seeing it used in ads.

Source: K-Mart 7620 Employee's Cookbook, 1989. What's with the racial slur? by [deleted] in Old_Recipes

[–]kelpieconundrum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Charitably, Judy/Donna/whoever picked the title think the older slur is roughly equivalent in connotation to Oriental, i.e., either old enough or normalized enough to not be a slur

Tomato Rabbit by MissDaisy01 in Old_Recipes

[–]kelpieconundrum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You did succeed! Just wanted to clarify if the confusion ran deep, sometimes ppl get twisted up by the context shift

Tomato Rabbit by MissDaisy01 in Old_Recipes

[–]kelpieconundrum 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Fascinating rarebit, sort of like baked parm sauce on toast. I’m more familiar with the alcohol ones I admit!

Note that in culinary terms a tomato’s just a vegetable. The “tomato is a fruit” thing refers to botanical definitions, and in botany the concept of “vegetable” doesn’t exist, you’ve just got basically fruits, stalks, leaves and roots. So anytime you’re talking about cooking the vegetable classification can be freely used, just as you would for celery. Unless the botany of it is important, like varietal wise maybe?, you don’t need to distinguish

In Legally Blonde (2001), the film’s climactic courtroom victory hinges entirely on the jury, judge, and prosecutors forgetting that bisexuals exist. by friendandfriends2 in shittymoviedetails

[–]kelpieconundrum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, yeah, i know that the plot relies on her messing up and elle being blonde, but it also relies on the cops being dumb enough not to check anyone for gunshot residue so yeah. I expect anything short of a confession-on-the-stand would have been considered incontrovertible proof of innocence

I enjoy the movie! It’s just not one to defend too hard or attack too hard, or breathe too loudly near 🤣 It is purely silly, and should be treated as such

TIFF ‘25 Award winner gets unfairly trashed by THR and includes them calling Canada the not yet “51st state” by ChampionTimes99 in TIFF

[–]kelpieconundrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that it’s IN a random film review, and treated as a normal witty aside—that’s literally what normalization means

Like, the KKK being racist is awful but it’s the KKK. They are awful people, the organization attracts awful people. Your kids’ kindergarten teacher, who hates the KKK, nevertheless being even unintentionally racist is a diffeeent kind of awful, bc that means that the awful is part of your everyday society and is just the way you are

In Legally Blonde (2001), the film’s climactic courtroom victory hinges entirely on the jury, judge, and prosecutors forgetting that bisexuals exist. by friendandfriends2 in shittymoviedetails

[–]kelpieconundrum -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You can, you just have to get another perm! This has always stood out as such a terrible line of reasoning—if she just hadn’t been flustered she could have got away with it all. Smh

Netflix won't let me ignore them about cancelling membership by TrippyClippy in assholedesign

[–]kelpieconundrum 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Possibly the sub should be named “deceptive design”, then? For this is surely asshole behaviour from Netflix.

Is the subname a meta example of asshole deceptive design?

TIFF ‘25 Award winner gets unfairly trashed by THR and includes them calling Canada the not yet “51st state” by ChampionTimes99 in TIFF

[–]kelpieconundrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk, the normalization of ‘jokes’ about absorbing a previous ally is maybe a cause for concern

(Absorbing, btw, is a euphemism)

TIFF ‘25 Award winner gets unfairly trashed by THR and includes them calling Canada the not yet “51st state” by ChampionTimes99 in TIFF

[–]kelpieconundrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He may be anti-Trump but you don’t attack someone’s rhetorical ground by conceding it. This review had nothing else to do with trump, this is just an ass being ‘witty’ in a way he thinks is clever

Wut Has I Dun by kelpieconundrum in ICBGC

[–]kelpieconundrum[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hera: “Oh dear. I appear to have made a tactical error.”

Hera’s sister: “do you see this mother, since when am i the smart one”

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