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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 176 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the building block of the savory taste the same way sodium chloride is the building block of the salty taste.

The whole thing about MSG sensitivity and it being bad for you was largely xenophobic in origin, and a fascinating example of the nocebo effect.

In college I remember hearing about a study where they gave people who claimed to have MSG sensitivity a Chinese meal and an Italian meal. They claimed to have symptoms after the Chinese meal. But that particular Chinese meal had no MSG in it. Meanwhile, people didn’t report symptoms from the Italian meal, which was chock-full of MSG.

Do yourself a favor: get a shaker of MSG from your local grocery store and put that shit on eggs (along with salt). It’s amazing what a pinch of “the flavor enhancer” does.

Edit: also nothing wrong with fluoride in the water at the doses we get it. It’s good for developing stronger teeth.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The msg "scare" was such bullshit. MSG is the fuckin bomb for making those quick meals taste great when you're in a rush. And good meals even better when you got time.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah i sprinkle they shit in everything i cook

Big ass bottle of MSG in the drawer with the rest of the bulk spices. It is mandatory that my food is properly seasoned.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 9 points 1 month ago

thanks I was gonna type all that out 👌

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The issue I have with MSG is that if you put it in everything, it becomes your new norm. I would ideally like to minimize how much MSG I eat, and keep it feeling special.

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Indeed, same with salt or any other spice!

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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I make a "savory salt" that I just use in place of salt. It's not a miracle or anything, but it's definitely good.

By weight:

90% salt

7.5% MSG

2.5% I + G https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-350-gram/dp/B07ZQS2DL2

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

I live in the Netherlands, where we don't have water fluoridation because of legal principles. Our laws don't allow medication without knowledge and consent, and fluoride is considered part of that. So if one person disagrees, you can't do it, so we don't do it.

As a result, we have markedly worse dental quality than in places that have naturally high fluoride content

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Where can I find open source friends? I'd like to compile them myself

[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Calm down Dr. Frankenstein

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can fork them too 😏

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

And pull them too.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I've forked a person. The fork is certainly much more agreeable than the original that I've since abandoned completely, but being a solo maintainer on this project is pretty rough.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm already available as an executable, a few known bugs but they won't accept pull requests for patches on oneself, something about eternal life or something.

I mean uhhhhhh beep boop.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah neat, so I can just curl you?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

🥺👉👈

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~OpenLlama~~. Alpaca.

Run a local friend model, today!

I... actually futzed around with this just to see if it would work, and... yeah, there actually are models that will run on a Steam Deck, with Bazzite.

EDIT: Got my angry spitting long necked quadrupeds mixed up.

Alpaca is a flatpak, literally could not be easier to set up a local LLM.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People who believe MSG is any more terrible for you than table salt understand jack shit about health lol

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well eating a shit load of fried "Chinese food" that happens to have msg makes me feel ill, so what else could it be?

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Msg is so good. Try it in your stock. Its like different salt. So good.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

If you like parmesan cheese, you like msg

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Msg is naturally occurs in most protein rich foods. While extremely important for our bodies, our tongues actually don't detect protein directly, but the msg that occurs with it. That's why your brain goes "ooooo yummy!" but in a different way from salt.

Steps down from soap box

Anywho.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

MSG also forms when glutamic acid meets tablesalt. That's why tomatoes or beef with a tiny bit of salt are so damned tasty, they're full of glutamic acid. Same with cheese (which is usually pre-salted for that lovely MSG-flavour).

Tomatoes and beef already contain MSG naturally, but adding a few grains of salt produces far more.

Edit: This is why walnut oil is amaaaaazing for savory flavours. It's full of glutamate. Just like grape juice, or shi-take. Even potatoes to a lesser extend. And this is why we love combing all those foods for "winter foods" with game and in stews.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Magic yummy powder.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

It's also already in like everything we eat.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This whole thing is cancer... What's wrong with fluoride?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He said fluoridation was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, fluoridation is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In all fairness...GIMP cannot do that.

Of all the FOSS software I've used, GIMP is by far the furthest behind the commercial competitor. Adobe sucks ass in a lot of ways, but Photoshop and Lightroom are amazing products.

I do prefer Inkscape to Illustrator in a lot of cases. Especially with SVG support. Illustrator actually kinda sucks at importing SVG files.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Krita.

Everyone screams at me when I say this, " Krita is for tablet artistry REEE!!! ", but Krita is basically PhotoShop from before Adobe went hardcore into 'everything is a subscription', roughly 10-15 years ago.

grumbles about macromedia suite and newgrounds and homestar runner and xiaoxiao stick fighter and fucking kids these days

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Krita is weak with vectors, text (not for much longer!) and things such as transform filters which are a little buggy and poorly performing. But painting? filters? ergonomy? it's the king

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Perhaps I'm pedestrian when it comes to image editing, but idk what it is that Gimp can't do that's regularly needed. Aside, of course, from AI features that draw for you.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's wrong with metal sear golid?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You must mean magic se gathering

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

My Sittle Gony

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[–] starman2112@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Me keeping a W11 laptop around exclusively for Fusion360

[–] Artaca@lemdro.id 8 points 1 month ago

Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Bluebeam, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Virtual machines are, unfortunately, not ideal professionally. Other solutions like Crossfire and Winboat are hit or miss, but mostly miss. My biggest hope for SteamOS isn't that games continue to improve, but that other large corpos will start to take Linux that much more seriously soon.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty happy with FreeCad.

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Look my laptop came with an NVIDIA GPU I have to use the drivers

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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Watch out for those chemtrails!

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'll say this for GIMP: it is a well-named piece of software. I do appreciate honesty. And I hate GIMP.

[–] Hannibal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think this is relevant to the topic. I don't think it violates any copyright "ToS"--New to the site, as it was Linus himself that posted it. I'll share it. He talks about why he pays Adobe 10k+k USD a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VysWRHPdI

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

From what I remember, that boiled down to 'it is more important to consistently pump out lots of content instead of letting staff learn and use something new' which... I don't have a very good opinion of him but that's another oof.

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