I was thinking about potential for inaccuracy due to refraction from thermal inversion layers or other temperature anomalies, but then I realized that the refraction would equally affect the optics, provided that the optics remain on target throughout the firing.
Corollary: do not assume anybody doesnt speak English.
These pressures are all gauge pressure, not absolute pressure. 1 bar gauge pressure would be about 2 bar absolute.
Yes. It cooks faster with the fan. Btw, it’s also referred to as a “convection” oven as opposed to a “conventional” oven. Air fryers are just small convection ovens.
It will just be like a battlefield tontine: only if you become the oldest person alive in Australia will you be allowed to retire.
Only if you live in New Jersey
You can’t really get a concrete answer because there’s not a completely agreed upon definition of fascism. Some pieces are somewhat general; right-wing populism, authoritarian dictatorship, nationalism and “rebirth”, and the valorization of violence. Other parts can be considered by some, but not everyone, to be a part of fascism. There’s a reason there’s a whole wikipedia page on the definition of fascism..
Russia definitely meets some criteria of some definitions, but they don’t necessarily meet all definitions of fascism. For example, some definitions of fascism include a complete rejection of communism and opposition to communists because that was the case for the fascists in the first half of the 20th century. Russia, however, still valorizes the strength and actions of soviet Russia, particularly in WWII. Putin’s claim for the invasion of Ukraine was that it was to “denazify” it.
TL;DR, some people say if it doesn’t meet all the right criteria, it’s just sparkling white authoritarianism, others are fine calling it all champagne
My understanding is that the predicted low is for the upcoming night, not the lowest temperature in that 24 hour block
Your title here isn’t technically wrong, but it is misleading. It should be "white AI faces judged to be more real than white human faces. The way you phased it insinuates that white AI faces are judged to be more real than a diverse mix of human faces.
For anyone who doesn’t want to read the paper, they basically took an 60 white men and 60 white women, and showed them a whole bunch of white faces, half of which were generated by AI. It turns out that AI faces were rated as more human-like than actual humans, and they had some hypothesis why. Principally that AI, by its nature, generates images close to “average”, while real people tend to have features that are not “average”. The reason the study focused on white people is that most AI have been trained on white faces, so AI tends to do better with white faces.
I think what happened is that back in the day, recipes were super sparse and crappy. Think of the typical “grandma’s recipe” written on an index card with half of the ingredients not listed as having any specific amount, and the only directions would be “mix” and “put in a hot oven”. Then you had websites that basically did the same thing. Allrecipes is a good example of this; not too much fluff, but there are so many crappy recipes on there. Unless you know who made the recipe (like chef john), it’s hard to trust a lot of them.
Then you had websites like serious eats where they wouldn’t just give you the recipe, they tell you how and why they made choices about ingredients, process, etc. That stuff is all super helpful if it’s what you are looking for, so Google et al. would give them and sites like them search priority. They also need to make money, so the added space for advertisement is a plus for them.
Now, anyone can spend a little bit of money to start a website, throw down a lot of useless preamble, and get the same search engine priority as serious eats. Most of those are garbage.
No one is going to do the work to put out great recipes for free, though, so there’s gotta be some compromise. If you are willing to spend money, there’s a lot of great cookbooks, and the ebook versions of them are easily searchable. New York times cooking, Bon Appétit, and America’s test kitchen/cooks illustrated have extensive catalogs of fairly barebones recipes if you are willing to spend money on a subscription.
There’s also apps and browser extensions that chop the unnecessary stuff off of a recipe, but just keep in mind that a lot of those sites that pop up when you just Google a recipe suck.
I think some of the best recipes you can get with no pay wall or unnecessary text are from the websites of companies that actually sell ingredients or equipment because they are basically just advertising for themselves. For example, king arthur baking company has good bread recipes cause they want you to buy their flour. Similarly, anson mills has a lot of good stuff. Those companies have dedicated test kitchens of professionals.
What I wish I had was a way to create a whitelist of sites/authors that I could search for recipes
Just get the toilet seat bidet. It’s probably like 40£
Washlets don’t require hot water or electricity, though, they can pull right from the toilet water supply
Alcohol is a diuretic, but your average beer is like 5% alcohol and 90% water (and 5% other stuff). Beer at 0.1% alcohol is going to hydrate you more than it dehydrated you, and a shot of 151 will dehydrate you more than it hydrates you. There exists, for any given person at a specific time, a percentage where the effects of the alcohol and the water level out. From what I’ve read, that percentage is typically higher than your normal beer.
When it comes to optimizing performance/recovery, I can’t imagine alcohol doing anything good. Personally, I might be inclined to avoid alcohol after a hard workout where I feel like crap, but I’m not going to not have a celebratory beer after finishing a big race or something.
This is something that I think about often. There is an argument that progressives should try to stay and change things for the better where they are. I think to some extent, though, that only works if everyone is operating in good faith. The government there is essentially conducting a full assault on any progressive measures. Just recently, Texas passed a law that automatically overrules any city ordinances that they dont like. More progressive cities like Austin can try to pass laws to protect tenants or workers, but it won’t do anything. It’s hard to make a positive impact in those circumstances. You also have to balance out the fact that by living there X% of your paycheck will go to that govt via property/sales tax.
On the other hand, where do you move to? There are lots of communities with skyrocketing real estate prices that they blame on remote workers (not sure how legitimate that is), so people are getting priced out of the communities they’ve been in for ages.
In the end, I think it’s impossible to make a complete moral determination either way. The only thing you can do is just try your best at whatever you do. Whatever you do, I’d definitely recommend trying to build a community wherever you are. You might not be able to get the local laws around you to reflect your values, but you can do your best to help those around you.
The problem I have with that is the same problem I have with the way people talk about most colonizer-colonizee(?) relationships. In many cases, you don’t have the big bad powerful people going in and doing violence against natives. The powerful sit at home, and force their local poor into a position where they have to do violence in order to survive. Yeah, you had your Christopher Columbus types, but they weren’t/aren’t the majority.
Odds are, those loggers are members of another local tribe, who have been economically forced into illegal logging. Logging is super dangerous, and there’s no way that the people actually responsible, who are the ones making real money off of it, are out there with chainsaws.
Tl;dr, they need glocks and bus tickets