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Sure, that's extremely fair! Those qt dependencies are no joke! How do you feel about Evince (apparently now called gnome document viewer)? It seems to be the standard gtk pdf viewer, but I've never used it, so I actually don't know what it's features are like. It's a heavier application than mupdf (of course), but at least you don't need to install qt to use it!

When zathura (my beloved) isn't feature-rich enough for my needs I usually turn to okular. Sure, it's kde, so if you're on a pure gnome system you're going to have to install a bunch of dependencies, but if that's not a problem for you, okular is quite good in my experience!

Ok. Doesn't sound like great world-building to me. There's a reason I don't like capeshit. But enjoy your crappy stories about a shitty billionaire and the unrealistic impossibly broken city he beats people up in.

Like, actually "good" billionaires

Hahaha, no such thing. How did they get their billions? Where did the billions come from?

First of all, your comment is pretty ableist.

Second of all, these two distinct meanings you're seeing aren't so distinct, so I don't at all think it's a misunderstanding.

For an example that sits right between the two meanings you see as distinct, we can look at my struggle to finish my PhD. I should have quit 4 years ago with a master's. I'd be in a much better spot economically, mentally, emotionally, basically in every way that matters. Sure, finishing my PhD was not as bad as staying in an abusive relationship or smoking a ton or partying way too hard way too often, but it's closer to that than someone who believes "quitters never win" would like to admit. There are lots of times when it's a way better idea to just quit while you're ahead and do something more worthwhile that will actually make your life better rather than stick with something awful just because you don't want to be a loser and quit.

Ok, I think I see. For people who use it frequently, an instant pot is actually easier than other options. For me it's very much an arcane piece of equipment that makes me nervous every time I touch it. I think I'll stick to pots and rice cookers. I've never had beans boil over (I use a giant pot) and my rice cooker is amazing. For setting and forgetting reasons I can just use a crock pot (which takes forever, sure, but I'm fine with that).

Thanks for answering my questions! And for posting your delicious looking meals all the time, I love looking at them!

Ah ok, that makes some sense. I really enjoy the process of cooking beans, I like having a pot simmering on the stove for hours, so I'm probably not about to switch to instant pot for beans. The whole set it and go thing is pretty cool in some contexts I'm sure. I use a crock pot sometimes for similar reasons.

I have a few questions about instant pots, because people love them, but I just can't figure out why I'd want to use one. Maybe someone reading this can help!

So, ok, instant pots can cook beans quicker. But I have no idea how you decide how long to put the beans in for! And every time I've tried I've ended up with crunchy beans, so I have to restart the whole instant pot process and basically cook the beans twice, which ends up not being that much quicker than just doing them in a pot on the stove. How do you get the time right the first time so you don't have to cook the beans twice? Do you just way overestimate the time since beans can't really get overcooked?

Second, I recently tried to make some rice in the instant pot, using the usual ratio of rice to water that I normally would. It was terrible! Just wet and mushy and awful. What is the correct grain to water ratio for an instant pot? Not just rice, but like, say I wanted to make barley, or any other grain. In a rice cooker you want to do 3 to 1 water to barley. How do you adjust water to grain ratios for an instant pot?

And third, this picture has me confused. Why would anyone ever cook pasta in an instant pot? Isn't that going to be way slower than on the stove? Because the instant pot has to pressurize and then de-pressurize? What am I missing?

Basically, someone who likes instant pots, please instant-pot-pill me. People swear by these things, but in my mind they're entirely useless to downright worse than other cooking methods. What is it about instant pots that makes them good, because I literally do not understand.

Thanks!

Oh shit, is this supposed to be a response to me asking about ranked choice voting? Assuming that's the case:

That's cool for Arizona. I hope it passes. But I don't live in Arizona. Most americans don't. What should those of us not in Arizona do to bring about ranked choice voting?

support some form of ranked voting in your state next time

Serious question: how do you suggest I do this? The "vote for Biden" people say this a lot, and like, I agree, ranked choice voting would be far preferable to our current electoral system. I'd like this change to happen. So how can we make it happen? What is the plan for after the election to get ranked voting before the next one? So far as I can tell, none of the politicians in my state (or any state, really) have tried to implement ranked choice and there aren't any ballot initiatives that aim towards it. So what do you see as the way forward here? How do we get ranked choice voting to become a reality before the next time we're faced with a choice between two absolutely unacceptable presidential candidates?

I can think of a couple of uses. Well, basically just one use. You could hide posts that cause distress for whatever reason. For example, I hate snakes and if someone posted a neat picture of a snake I'd probably hide it, just so I don't have to keep seeing the same post and jump scaring myself with a picture of a snake while scrolling. Another example might be a thread in which people are arguing and you don't want to get dragged into the argument. I actually literally did this earlier today with a thread where people were yet again arguing about the upcoming US election and whether voting Biden is a reasonable choice. I've read this argument so many times and it's so tempting to jump in and be an asshole to someone who is wrong and I just don't want to do that today, so better to hide the post so I don't keep seeing it while scrolling.

So yeah, you can hide posts you don't want to keep running across while scrolling for whatever reason. Seems like a pretty useful feature to me, I'm glad we have it now.

Demonstrating ~~absences~~ anything beyond math's clarity and definiteness can be challenging if not impossible to say the least.

ftfy

Anyway, just a tip for future comments on the internet: I'd suggest not being an asshole in your very first reply to someone you disagree with unless there's a good reason to be, because it makes you look extremely silly if your shitty comment is actually just wrong. I wouldn't have commented in this thread at all if you hadn't been an immediate asshole to frightful_hobgoblin, but here we are.