Catch42

joined 2 years ago
[–] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

If you build a linguistics magazine I will join :) I think the thing to do is pick the subject you're most passionate about/ most knowledgable about and create a magazine for it. Post things regularly and people will start to notice it. That's what I've done! https://kbin.social/m/Otomegames (@Otomegames@kbin.social for my federated gals)

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work in this space (food processing) and deal with this negative public perception all the time. I really think it’s misplaced. The degree to which something is processed is not a good indicator of it’s healthfulness. Tomato paste is a highly processed food, those tomatoes go through the ringer to end up in a little can you can use year round. Those little packs of peeled and sliced apples they sell to put in lunch boxes are a incredibly “processed”; in order to keep them fresh the entire composition of the atmosphere inside those little bags has to be modified, and the bag itself has to be semi-permeable so it can deal with the ethylene gas that the apple slices release.

All that to say that processing makes ultra-unhealthy foods possible, but I don’t think it’s a good metric that we should base policy off of. If we want to regulate the area it should be of the nutritional value of the products. Of course that’s harder to legislate because people get mad when you try to restrict what they can eat, unlike restricting processing which most people don’t know anything about.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This is incredibly useful for me, thank you. I found your post right after backing up my comments with the original power suite delete. Now I'm editing with this fork. I'll probably delete the posts with the original as well so it doesn't take as long.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can swap the ssd! Why are they charging so much to upgrade to only 256gb of Nvme storage?

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will it really? I didn't realize. I'm guessing its because the api will no longer be free?

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for writing this up. After years of only having seen the kelvin timeline movies, I decided to take the plunge into the prime universe by watching in-universe chronological order. I've been using the list by u/bernasm he still updates it pretty regularly! I also like the methodology used by https://startrekviewingguide.com which is pretty similar but moves the mirror universe episodes in ENT until the mirror universe after the mirror universe has been introduced to the viewer. I think this solves much of the problem of ENT referencing older series being confusing to new viewers. Plus when you watch ENT first those references become references to enterprise when you watch those series later.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I already knew what that term means and I still had trouble parsing what the headline was talking about.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

"Another employee question in the companywide meeting asked if Google can more easily surface “authentic discussion” since the “Reddit blackout” was making it harder to find such content.

CEO Sundar Pichai chimed in to to say that users don’t want “blue links” as much as they want “more comprehensive answers.”

No I'm pretty sure people really are looking for authentic discussion, twisting that to say that we want more comprehensive answers is clearly Pichai trying to make the situation fit what he already wants to do: implement generative AI in response to searches to keep people on the site.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I only have so many interesting things to say. I don't really want to post for the sake of generating content, so making 5-10 posts right off the bat seems like the wrong way to go about it. I think it'd be better to make one post a day or one every other day or so that anyone who comes in can see that it's recently active.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

wouldn't want a cold snoot interrupting a perfectly good nap

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Does account migration work in this part of the fediverse? I know on Mastadon you can move instances pretty easily.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

The only point of karma and account age is to be able to post in subreddits that have minimum karma requirements and so people don't think you're a shill. But if you don't plan to post anymore, there's not anything to regret.

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