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2024-02-12, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-02-12, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
You're right. All of the sources I've been able to find present the myth as being specifically associated with the European Middle Ages, so none of them explicitly refute it in the context of South Asia. So I will instead point out that spices cannot in fact hide the smell or taste of rotten meat.
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2024-02-12, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Also the health impacts of eating rotten meat are... Not ideal. I'm not going to argue that they were used to disguise rotting meat. Preservation i can buy, though. Salt is great but variety is nice, not to mention potential lack of availability, cost, or other logistical factors.
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2024-02-12, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
It is kind of interesting how many ways of preparing food (especially meat, I think) just started out as a way to keep it from going bad. Now I kinda wonder whether the invention of freezers and refrigerators has slowed the pace of culinary invention? (If that is the case, I'd say it's worth the prize, though my reactions to spoiled food probably count as a phobia, so I'm a bit biased).
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2024-02-12, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-12, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Now that's a daring and divisive opinion! So controversial. So brave.
Probably not slowed at all, given the prevalence of fusion and multicultural foods that have become more commonplace even just in the last two decades.
Or a better way to say it: I agree that necessity may indeed have been the mother of invention when it came to preservation in centuries past, and innovation due to preserving food is mostly unheard of now. But I'm certain that globalization (for all of its many flaws, which we deffo can't get into on this thread ) has more than made up for that difference. People have more access than ever before to a wealth of ingredients and cuisine (which they immediately incorporate into their own cuisine). Food & cooking media is also huge, and it inspires many to push their culinary boundaries.
As anyone who's ever tried to google a recipe ever can tell you, we almost have too much culinary innovation these daysLast edited by Ionathus; 2024-02-12 at 04:36 PM.
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2024-02-12, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-13, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
It;s possible that we've mixed up cause and effect here. Maybe they flavored it that way because they liked how it tasted and those whose recipes happened to preserve the fool lived longer and healthier and thus had more opportunity to communicate those recipes to other people. Meme theory!
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2024-02-18, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
My wife recently tried the chocolate cake recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook; she thinks it is the best chocolate cake recipe she has ever made. So many recipes these days are full of meme ingredients (brioche means "stale, tasteless bread" to me, by the way), that what you really want is tried and true recipes, not innovation.
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2024-02-18, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hot take: cream cheese is a garbage ingredient in sushi.
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2024-02-18, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Instead of "cousin once(/twice/thrice/etc) removed" we should say "second(/third/etc) niece/nephew/aunt/uncle" This is not only less ambiguous but generally also better represents the relationship in practice.
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2024-02-18, 03:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-18, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
My mother occasionally interacts with her 6th-cousin 3-times removed who is about her own age. Then again, I knew 2 sets of aunt/uncle and neice/nephew who were the same age growing up, and one of my cousins is younger than his oldest nephew. Generations are of rather varied length.
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2024-02-18, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I don't think I've ever known or even met anybody who actually uses this given that it doesn't really matter how "removed" a cousin is lol.
Unless you're a weirdo who likes to really find the legal line on certain things, and making that kind of thing even more ambiguous is probably for the best.
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2024-02-18, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
What do you call a spouse's sibling's spouse? I'd go with "Sibling-In-Second-Law"
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2024-02-18, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-19, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
In my family we use a pretty straightforward system.
If it's the sibling of a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent, they're an aunt or an uncle.
If they're the children of any of THOSE individuals, they're a cousin.
If they're the children of your own siblings, they're a Nice, Nephew, or Nibling.
Anyone beyond any of that is generally referred too as a "Cousin"Avy by Thormag
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2024-02-19, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Indeed, degrees of cousinhood don't really seem that important nowadays. Unless you're planning to marry one, maybe.
To the best of my knowledge, I've never even met a third-or-higher degree cousin of mine."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-02-19, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
My wife is my 14th-ish cousin (possibly once or twice removed). I looked it up once because I was curious. I met some second cousins once and might have met some another time. My parents are very into genealogy, so they have figured out how they are related to some of their friends (I think it tends to be in the 8th- to 15th-cousin range), and I know some of those friends (or their children) so technically I have met rather distant cousins. But then the question should probably be the most distant relation who you met because you were related.
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2024-02-21, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
We had to design software at work (CPS) to track relationships (bio, married, adopted) between various people. The developers wondered why we started laughing when they said there didn't need to be more than one bio relationship between any two given people.
According to my grandmother (I never verified this), Peyton and Eli Manning are my 6th cousins.
My wife MIGHT be a 5th cousin."That's a horrible idea! What time?"
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2024-02-21, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I can see only having the closest bio relationship as being reasonable, but I am fairly certain you would want to track all the relationships.
My wife MIGHT be a 5th cousin.
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2024-02-22, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Calibration precision services? Canon printing systems? Clicks per second? Crown Prosecution Service? Don't keep us in suspense.
The developers wondered why we started laughing when they said there didn't need to be more than one bio relationship between any two given people."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-02-22, 06:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-22, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Genetically speaking, by the time you get to 3rd cousins there’s really not a lot of overlap, right?
If you couldn’t have children with your third cousins, a lot of small communities would probably struggle. And no, that’s not a joke — I grew up in a town of fewer than 3,000 people and family connections were incredibly common. You’d get to 3rd cousins really quickly without even knowing it, I’d bet.Last edited by Ionathus; 2024-02-22 at 08:42 AM.
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2024-02-22, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
"That's a horrible idea! What time?"
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2024-02-22, 08:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
pretty much yeah. Genetically speaking 3rd cousins are fine.
Realistically, everyone's a distant cousin from one another in some way. if you think about it, you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, every generation back doubles. But if we were to go back in time, our population would be smaller then it is today.
So eventually you reach a point where you're guaranteed to have people who appear on multiple different branches of your family tree.
Pretty sure that's related to the whole "after enough time has passed, you're either the direct ancestor of every living human in existence, or the direct ancestor of none of them" thing.Avy by Thormag
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2024-02-22, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2024-02-23, 04:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I wouldn't exactly say I hate it, but I've certainly never seen the appeal. When I was a kid, we would often eat a nice Friday dinner by candle-light and I remember occasionally complaining about it. As an adult, I suppose I've gotten used to it, but it's not something I would choose for myself.
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2024-02-23, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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The only time I've eaten in dim light was at a weird local restaurant, and my date got food poisoning.
Probably not because of the lighting, though
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2024-02-23, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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