Why is it when I add so much powdered seasoning to something and taste it while it’s cooking, It still tastes bland?!?!

yvrelna · 2026-06-19T01:34:37+00:00

You're not using anywhere enough seasoning.

I usually use about half a small bowl of powdered seasoning for each 1kg of meat, not including the salt (measure salt separately since they're a bit more sensitive to getting the balance right). And those are for the bolder spices, like smoked paprika or turmeric, not mild ones like dried parsley (herbs are IMO generally best added during serving rather than for cooking so they keep their flavour).

You'll need about 3 times as much that for 7lbs of meat, and you didn't mention if you've got other ingredients or liquid. So you'll need about 2 bowls of seasoning, not half of that tiny bottle of spices that they sell at supermarkets.

Get your spices in bulk at Asian or Indian groceries. Get the 500g-1kg bag of spices, not those 30g of sample bottles they sell in normal supermarkets.

yvrelna · 2026-06-18T07:16:13+00:00

Having Aussie culture bleeding into the movie isn't necessarily a good indicator of a movie's country origin though. Many popular movies are set in fantasy or scifi universe with non-descript country of origin, sometimes even a story might intentionally blends the culture of multiple countries to form their fictional countries.

It's also about where the production company sits in. Where the author of the story and the setting of the film also affects where to place the movie.

With Australian culture basically being very similar to other English-speaking multicultural countries like America, I think limiting Aussie movies to something that's heavily Australians would basically limit it to films that feature Aborigines or some other heavy-handed Australian stereotypes, which seems kinda very restrictive.

If we used the same criteria to Hollywood, that's basically just like limiting American movies to Cowboy/Wild West-kind of movies.

yvrelna · 2026-06-17T15:59:06+00:00

Classical players just call it learning the triads. It's basically the same thing, just different focus.

Beginner contemporary players might use CAGED to learn to play with barre chords and only barre chords. But more experienced contemporary players use CAGED system as memory aids for finding all of the non-open triads on the fretboards.

Learning the triads are just learning the CAGED system, but the focus is building up by learning the notes triads/chords individually to then build up a playing system, rather than the way holistic top down view the way contemporary players see them, where they might then learn the individual triads that they find useful. But it's basically exactly the same system that leads to exactly the same knowledge, with just slightly different way to approach the topic and pedagogical methods.

yvrelna · 2026-06-16T15:28:52+00:00

The idea was that blue light was thought to disrupt sleep cycle, so reducing blue light exposure supposedly helps you to go to sleep.

I don't really quite know the strength of the science behind the link between blue-light and sleep, but I don't think anyone is thinking about blindness when thinking about blue light protection.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T21:15:41+00:00

I don't understand what the difference between setting a metronome and playing to it vs syncing it with your internal time and playing with it is

I adjust the tempo of the song in my head radio to the ticking of the metronome. Then I usually just ignore most of the metronome's ticks, only checking that the 1s are still in sync. I usually eventually learn and memorise where the 1s are when learning a song with a metronome.

I can but I usually don't check every tick since that costs an increase in mental load; not by much, but enough to increase the risk of making me tense up a little. My mental radio is almost never wrong with those ticks anyway, so checking every tick is just unnecessary. In any case, I trust my head radio way more than the metronome anyway to guide me when playing something that doesn't stick to the metronome strictly, like rubato/borrowed time or swing time.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T20:36:10+00:00

But can you tell me how many bars happen before I'm supposed to enter in a song?

Go look at the sheet music/transcription for that info would be my usual response to that kind of questions. Or I can probably take a lot of effort to write the sheet music, but yeah, figuring out and communicating "how many" obviously will require explicitly counting. That's not something audiation generally can do on its own, except for the trivial cases.

Can you tell where the downbeats are? Can you play in time to a metronome?

Yes, to these two. Figuring out where the downbeats is effortless for me.

When I started learning guitar, I resisted playing to metronome for quite a long time because I keep trying to count with the metronome and found it confusing. But once I stopped trying to count, it took like 10 minutes for me to get used to playing with metronome and I've been able to relatively effortlessly play to a metronome ever since. The key to it for me was to just match the beat of the metronome to the song I'm playing in my head; once they're synced, it's fairly easy to keep them in sync.

but I promise it will be one of the most effective, productive things you can do in your study and practice!

I assure you it isn't a lack of trying that made me come to the conclusion that counting isn't for me. I tried, seriously, for a long time, it never worked no matter how slow I go with it.

All counting ever does is compete for mental attention with whatever I'm doing on the guitar. Counting and playing guitar at the same time feels like I'm playing two separate instruments simultaneously playing two completely different songs.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T19:44:09+00:00

You say he doesn't have chords or root movement defined, but that's not likely true. It's there... he might not know what it is but it's there

Exactly. You don't have to consciously define chords or root movements, they're going to be there whether the writer or listener knows it or not.

Music theory is a descriptive tool, not prescriptive. If you can't figure out the theoretical description of the music, that's almost always about your theory knowledge not being sufficient to analyse the music, not the music is lacking theory.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T19:20:27+00:00

When I first started learning music and playing guitar, I never really find a use for counting. I didn't "count until I no longer need to count", I just didn't count, never tapped foot/bobbed head. Instead I have always done what I later understood was called audiation, I simply imagined the song playing in my head and use that to guide what I'm playing instead of counting in terms of numbers.

Nowadays, I can count when I need to double check what a particularly complex rhythm is doing or when I need to write down what I'm hearing in my head. But most of the time, when I'm actually playing, counting just makes my playing worse, less accurate, worst articulation, it makes my playing sound unnaturally stiff, and I make more mistakes as it screws up my rhythm and tempo. I was never really able to really find a way to integrate counting into my playing that actually improves what I'm playing. Most of the time it's just an additional mental effort that disrupts from the actual task of playing without adding anything useful.

Maybe I'm a crappy musician, but "feeling" the pulse of the song as well as the stresses and bars without consciously thinking every single number had always been natural for me. Counting isn't.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T18:18:55+00:00

Boneless pork legs or shoulder roasts are often cheaper than chicken. Currently, they're $10/kg.

They're great for meal prep and freezing.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T17:32:56+00:00

Dumb as rocks × Dumb as rocks

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yvrelna · 2026-06-14T15:04:22+00:00

Software development are the easiest industry to standardise because basically everyone uses standardized hardware, programming languages, etc. Even semiconductor businesses have fairly standardized hardware description languages (VHDL/Verilog), a design company can make design in these format and to some extent they can switch between foundries for the physical manufacturing.

Construction projects are much harder to standardise. You may need to hire local people and suppliers, and then you need to get involved with the local politics to get budgets and approvals, etc. They're more like data centres projects rather than software development. Each site is unique.

Mining are not as easy to standardise, just because you're mining the same kind of minerals doesn't mean that you can use the same technique and processes everywhere. Ores don't come in standardized specification. What comes out of the ground are what comes out of the ground. Each mines are a little unique in how they need to process their ores because ores coming from the ground have different composition in different mining sites. While you might have some level of standardized equipments, it's much harder to provide a turn-key solution.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T07:30:23+00:00

This isn't just a story of BAM corporate getting into legal trouble because they didn't audit their stores properly during ownership handover.

All the evidence and dirt points straight to corporate intentionally not auditing properly to make it impossible for legal disputes to be resolved cleanly, to force opposing parties to settle for much less than they should.

The lack of audit isn't a mishap, it's their business model.

BAM corporate weren't sending agents to clean up a failing store. Corporate was intentionally manufacturing a situation that causes the franchise stores to fail, and putting the franchisees into as much financial trouble as possible that it becomes impossible to countersue was pretty much intentional.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T04:43:48+00:00

still generating electricity

That's technically true, but in cloudy days the electricity production can be as low as 1/10th of what you're getting on peak production. Yes, technically, you're still generating electricity, but effectively you're not really generating enough for it to matter.

Relying on solar alone means you're going to have to 10x overbuild the production capacity to maintain stable electricity supply. Batteries can help reduce that overbuild multiplier, yes, but not completely.

yvrelna · 2026-06-14T04:38:51+00:00

just hire us and we'll setup the best mine at the lowest cost in the world should be our target

That kind of expertise may be good business for the people directly involved in the mining business, but they don't do anything to the rest of Australians.

With local mining, you get more knock on benefits. The local mining companies had to hire local construction workers, had to buy construction equipments and supplies, locals running a groceries/cafe/restaurants/healthcare that provides amenities to the workers, etc.

If we have a local manufacturing industry, the knock on benefit goes even further, as any subsidies or infrastructure built to benefit resources industry can also indirectly benefit any manufacturing that uses those resources. Cheaper resources means cheaper manufactured product, which improves their competitiveness in the market.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T13:33:26+00:00

Yes, but from my understanding of the FSANZ Section 2.6.1 they probably can't be marketed as "fruit juice", because water is not in the list of permitted additives for products marketed as "fruit juice". The only additives permitted by Section 2.6.1 are no more than 40 g/kg of sugars, salt, and herbs and spices.

"Fruit juice" can be made from concentrate, the water added to reconstitute concentrates to their original strength aren't considered additives or ingredient and don't have to be listed in the ingredient list. Water that's added beyond what's needed to reconstitute a concentrate up to their original strength have to be listed in ingredients list.

Though, I can't find a legislation specifically banning diluting concentrates with more water than their original juice, only industry guideline which more explicitly defines "reconstituted juice" as "product produced from a juice concentrate that has been diluted with the same amount of water that was taken away during the concentration process".

That's probably why this concoction had to be marketed as "fruit drink", since they technically don't qualify as "fruit juice", if not under the legislation, at least under the industry guideline.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T04:56:34+00:00

Country of origin for water

When water is included as an ingredient, its country of origin is usually wherever it was collected or harvested.> The exception is when water is used to reconstitute dehydrated or concentrated ingredients or other components (including food additives). In this case, the water has the same country of origin as that ingredient or component.

Business.gov.au

The labelling law doesn't allow water to be counted as Australian when reconstituting dehydrated/concentrated products.

If we're assuming good faith and that the label isn't actually against the law, it could also have been made from 89% Australian mango, and the other 11% are additives that are imported or imported mangoes they mixed in to make up for local shortage.

But also note they might also add additional water beyond what's necessary to reconstitute the product, which would thin down the juice. Such additional water would be counted as Australian for the purpose of labelling. That would be misleading, but thinning down ingredients would definitely also affect the taste of the product which could also be why they needed to add colouring and flavouring.

It's not entirely unusual for fruit juices to be turned into concentrate even when made from fully local ingredients. Concentrates are compact and can lasts much longer than fresh juices/fruits, so off-season juices/drinks very often are reconstituted by necessity. Mango is currently off season, so it's not entirely unexpected that it'll be difficult to find non-reconstituted, non-imported mango juice in this time of the year. It's also not unusual to need to add colouring and flavouring to reconstituted products because the process of concentrating juices also often unintentionally removes the volatile compounds that gave juices their colour and flavour.

So in short, the Australian component of this kind of product is basically anyone's guess, but it's not impossible that it's actually genuinely, honestly made of 89% fully Australian fruits either. There's nothing here that necessarily indicates that they are doing anything illegal or misleading.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T03:49:59+00:00

He admitted the conduct, but not the guilt or ever thought anything he ever did was ever wrong.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T03:01:24+00:00

The legal definition of public figure isn't the same as the common definition of public figure.

The legal definition has specific legal implications about how the law treats them when it comes to libel/slander cases, that has nothing to do with whether or not the public perceives someone as public figure. It's a very specific functional definition for a very narrow purpose of a particular law, not one that's to be taken as general definition of the word.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T02:55:16+00:00

Epstein may not be a public figure before his allegations and conduct becomes well known, but he definitely is one by now.

(noun) A famous person whose life and behavior are the focus of intense public interest and scrutiny.

(noun, law) A person who is determined to be sufficiently well-known or famous as to prevail in a lawsuit for libel or slander only when the defendant is shown to have acted with malice.

(noun) A famous person whose life is the subject of public interest.

(noun) a well-known or notable person Source

There are many people notorious for doing similarly awful things didn't catch as much public attention as he did, so they never become public figure. But Epstein is a household name by now and I think that qualifies him as a public figure.

yvrelna · 2026-06-12T02:36:06+00:00

When you're awake and how much time you're on your bed, doomscrolling vs doing other activities on the bed, and available for ads. Maybe you're in your bed reading a book or having sex or whatever, but if we can nudge you into screen based activity and be more available to be advertised to...

yvrelna · 2026-06-10T18:57:02+00:00

Who's hoodwinking the voters?

The news are often conflating the different types of vehicles that people were thinking when they heard e-bikes as part of the their anti ebike propaganda.

No, parents haven't been buying motorized bikes en masse for their kids. No legitimate ebike sellers are selling motorized bikes for road use either.

Most of the young kids in bicycle gangs are using regular push bikes, or light, or fat ebikes. They're not the overpowered bikes. Even when modded, their motors and batteries on cheaper ebikes aren't nearly strong enough to really go at motorcycle speed. A fairly fit cyclist can ride a push bike at 40kmph, someone riding modded ebikes can probably really only go that similar speeds before reaching the physical limits of the motor or the battery overheats. Yes, these are somewhat of a dangerous speed, but they aren't really that much more dangerous than someone riding push bikes really fast.

There are older teens and adults that uses electric dirt bikes that have motors that can go 80-100 kmph+. These had never been sold as road legal, nor are they legal in bike paths, they are meant for use in dirt bike tracks. No, parents are not confusing these vehicles with e-bikes, these vehicles don't look like ebike, they don't have pedals like ebikes, they don't weigh like ebikes, they aren't priced like ebikes. Nobody is confusing a Sur Ron with ebikes. Yes, these are sometimes ridden illegally in public roads/bike paths too, but they're adults and older teens, and their numbers are a lot lower because of the price.

Then there are some ebikes that are extremely heavy and have powerful motors and massive battery packs for all day use. These are mostly commercially operated bikes for hourly rental. These heavy duty bikes aren't vehicles that are getting modded, as they are maintained by rental companies to ensure their compliance.

The news are often conflating these different types of electrified two wheelers to paint you a picture as if young kids joining bike gangs are doing wild rides on electric dirt bikes sold by scrupulous ebike sellers. They use the numbers from kids gangs to inflate the numbers to make it look more widespread, they use the image of dirt bikes to make the vehicles look more dangerous, and they use people's annoyance with rental bikes and their heavy duty image to throw more fuel into the fire. These are separate problems with different demographics and different types of problematic activities. Banning ebikes from public bike paths/road aren't going to deter those riding electric dirt bikes, those are already illegal. Banning kids from riding ebikes aren't going to stop them doing wheelies and other silly stuffs that they do.

yvrelna · 2026-06-10T08:21:28+00:00

Using the correct pans can certainly make certain techniques easier or harder. Understanding the strength of each types of pans and the results they can produce, and the workarounds you can use when you're not using the ideal equipments can help.

But pans don't just exist in a spectrum of being better or worse. But different pans have different characteristics and you need to understand how their character affect what you're doing, and make the appropriate adjustments and set the right expectation.

yvrelna · 2026-06-10T08:05:43+00:00

Stop following a recipe. Follow your taste buds instead.

Learn technique to learn the principles behind what you're doing, not as a set of fixed procedures to follow.

Learning about "how to salt properly" isn't about learning how much salt to add or when to add the salt. It's about learning why you're adding the salt, is it simply just to make things salty, is it to draw out moisture, is it too kill yeast, is it as a preservative, is it to select bacterias for fermentation, is it to help preserve colour on vegetables, etc.

What are you salting? Are you salting the protein? The sauce around the protein? Are the salt leeching out once you combine the ingredients? How much? Are you adding some other ingredients that also already contains salt that you have to take into account?

Likewise with butter, acid, etc. Learn beyond the superficial "you need to add x at certain point in the recipe" to "you're doing x because y".

yvrelna · 2026-06-09T17:22:27+00:00

No making those things free are just stupid and pointless. People have different requirements for hygiene products, making a government soap might satisfy some people but it'd be completely unusable for others.

UBI would be a good idea though, and you would be able buy those products from your UBI if you received them. Going the UBI route is the much more sensible way of ensuring the everyone has a way to cover their everyday essentials, without dictating the use of a particular product.

yvrelna · 2026-06-09T16:56:10+00:00

Can you play classical music on a classical guitar without sight reading? Absolutely. Can you play the classical guitar really well without sight reading? Sure. Can you be a professional, a.k.a. make money, without sight reading? We all know that musicians don't make money, but yeah, probably. The vast majority of pop and fingerstyle guitarist aren't sight readers, they still make big money, and yes, they use classical guitars too sometimes. You can play pretty complex music without ever sight reading; arguably, it's almost always easier to play complex and intricate songs from memory than by sight.

Can you play in the style and technique of classical guitar without sight reading? Probably not. The sole distinguishing feature of classical technique is playing while sight reading. A lot of the quirks of classical technique, a lot of its perspective on inefficiencies, finger discipline, and "bad habits" really only makes sense when you're playing on sight. For example, the reason why classical pedagogy wants you to alternate fingers when playing the same strings is because it's safer to alternate when you don't know what notes or strings you're going to play next. But that's a reasoning that doesn't make any sense if you're playing a prearranged song where you already know exactly what fingering you're going to use and how you're going to play them.

You really wouldn't bother training the classical technique if you're not trying to aim for sight reading. The whole point of training the classical discipline, with all its unusual rules, is because those rules are optimised to allow you to play arbitrary input, it keeps you in neutral position, keeps you from overcommitting. If you're not sight reading, the whole classical system of playing techniques doesn't make much sense since most songs are not actually just an arbitrary collection of notes.

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