Of course, generations of humans cooked without thermometers or thermostats. You could cook with the Rankine scale if you get used to it .

But let me just say, I don’t think it’s an accident France is both the originator of the Metric system and haute cuisine.

Advanced cooking is as much engineering as it is art.

As a metric person, I can confirm.

Indoor temperatures are basically 18-22 for most people most of the time.

15-25 covers the whole range of indoor temperatures that people with functioning heat or A/C would see.

For temperatures outside we commonly round to the nearest five:*

• -5 and below: very cold winter weather
• 0 cold winter weather
• 5 mild winter weather
• 10 autumn weather
• 15 spring weather
• 20 summer weather
• 25 beach weather
• 30 heatwave
• 35 and higher heatwave in the Sahara

The only thing I admire of the Fahrenheit scale is that it can round to the nearest 10 and still be a little bit more precise than Celsius with the nearest 5. And when discussing fever temperatures, Celsius needs half degrees and Fahrenheit does not.

But it’s an absolutely awful scale for cooking.

Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

Waiting for SBF to respond to this.

It’s basically the flu vaccine in my opinion.

People at risk stand to beneffit most, but it doesn’t need to be mandated .

Yes, you could argue that, but it would be an extraordinary claim.

I might still get indigestion from that taco I ate in 1999.

But it’s really unlikely, since that Taco cleared my system way back then.

mRNA also clears the body quite quickly.

So to have side-effects after so many years, one would need to explain a mechanism.

Otherwise it’s really just very speculative. Might as well believe 5G causes cancer. After all, it’s new technology.

So how many years does it take to no longer be new?

The Polio vaccines are also new compared to the Smallpox vaccines.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t have sufficient data on their safety and effectiveness. And we have comparable levels of data on the mRNA covid vaccines.

Is your friend stuck in 2021?

The covid vaccines are three years old now. Millions of people have had 3 or 4 shots, or even more.

In what world are they “new”.

Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.

Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.

I never know when to engage or ignore.

In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.

Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.

Are you implying that Roe v Wade is religious? Cause you aren’t making much sense.

One could also argue that legally allowing unrestricted abortions past 24 weeks is counterproductive, since it galvanizes the pro-life movement. Look at any rally and most protestors are showing pictures of very late term abortions. I remember being in school as a teenager and the pro-life activists coming to our classroom to graphically describe partial-birth abortions that suck out the brains of babies. I was pro-life for the next ten years or so.

Obviously, that’s not representative at all of what a normal abortion looks like. But it’s much less galvanizing to show a 6-8 week old bunch of unrecognizable bodily fluids, which is much more representative of the average abortion.

A clear timeline also puts a healthy pressure on pregnant women to make a difficult decision earlier, when everything is easier, less impactful and less risky, instead of postponing it.

I’m not an expert, but the happy balance seems to be with easy accessibility up to 12 weeks and progressive restrictions after that.

This was also the gist of the original Roe v Wade, which established a trimester framework.

Once you assign rights to the unborn, you very quickly end up in an “no abortion except to save the life or health of the mother or prevent unnecessary suffering of a non-viable fetus”.

And this is exactly why most jurisdictions have limits on abortion.

In my country, elective abortions are only legally allowed up to 24 weeks of gestation and the doctors only perform it up to 22 weeks.

Above that, there needs to be a serious medical situation that falls in the exceptional categories.

Practically speaking, it’s mostly an ethics discussion. The vast majority of abortions take place within the first 12 weeks, most even within 8 weeks.

Also, they curate the collection so that it doesn’t get filled with low quality garbage.

Part of preserving and sharing knowledge is doing quality control.

Not much.

We can easily solve climate change. We have the technological capability to do it.

Once it gets bad enough, we will solve it.

Probably with cooling stratospheric aerosols for a few years to buy some extra time to make up for the lost time of the last three decades.

I think melatonin is more the exception than the rule.

Testosterone needs to be injected and has a very short half life.

A quick Google shows Dopamine also needs to be injected and has a half life of one minute, so is only used as an IV drip.

To answer the first one:

My understanding is that it’s basically impossible to get these hormones through oral pathways.

Mostly because they break down in stomach acid or can’t cross the blood brain barrier.

And finally, if all that were solved, these hormones are typically short lived and are quickly lost.

Which is why, say you are low on dopamine. We don’t give people dopamine pills, but instead some other medicine that promotes higher levels of dopamine.

Eh… Tech companies do some of the biggest stock buybacks, which is a transfer of profits to shareholders.

But yes, they also reinvest money.

I agree.

In terms of things that make capitalistic IT expensive, #1 would be the profit extracted by shareholders (either directly or through licensing schemes) , #2 would be the layer of highly paid “very important people” and then #3 would be developer cost.

(note: I am a social democratic capitalist, don’t take this as an anti-capitalist rant)

Ever wonder why capitalistic IT is so expensive?

It’s not because of the cost of developers, hardware or internet, even though those things are not cheap.

It’s mainly because companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft make insanely huge profits and those profits must come from revenue. And to ensure they don’t lose market share, they overspend an insane amount on hiring armies of the best developers, most of whom aren’t doing much productive work, but are paid hefty salaries.

And they also have complex internal politics, manager layers, architects, and a whole lot of highly paid people working alongside the developers and slowing them down.

So the parent is totally right. Hosting something like Lemmy and developing it isn’t that expensive, especially because it runs on a lot of volunteer time and doesn’t have a lot of fluff around it.

And also, they aren’t spending armies of developers and UX engineers to analyze and maximize the number of hours you spend on Lemmy. Or to maximize ad revenue. Or to implement DRM. Or to think of a premium offer and then develop a two tiered experience.

Once you get rid of all the capitalistic fluff, most of the basics we need are surprisingly cheap and easy to develop and run.

I do believe people should make it a regular practice to pay for the software they like and use. So donate here and there.

But if you are ever in doubt, just look at the sheer number of Linux distros built and maintained by volunteers.