ricecake

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[–] ricecake 13 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The "point" is that it's a tasty beverage.
Why on earth would you measure the quality of a beverage by how diluted the solids are, or how much filler gets strained out?

"Milk is just watered down cheese! It's 87% water! What's the point of it?"
Coffee hardly has any coffee in it, you throw away most of the bean.
Don't even get me started on broth.

The fat content is equal to or lower than the fat content of typical dairy based creamers, which is also where the sugar content comes from. A mild quantity of fat is required for the creamer to have a good mouth feel and have a degree of "coating" effect. The gums help keep the fat in suspension since I lack a homogenizer like they use on milk, as well as increasing the viscosity in a way that's imparted by protein in milk.

If you want to you can just eat the result without filtering. It's called oatmeal. It's still watered down though, so I might recommend toasting them and having a nice dry oat bar to go with your puck of dehydrated milk.

In general, I'd recommend against putting any sort of creamer in your black coffee. It tends to make it no longer black coffee.
I don't personally find issue with any of the emulsifies doing anything to coffee I don't like, but if you're exploring there are plenty of others. I've had good luck with konjac in a blend with guar, xanthan, and methylcellulose, but two of those are less likely to be in the baking aisle at the store. The more you use the smaller the proportional quantity you need, since they have a synergistic effect. Less than a gram total combined weight of the four previous ones makes a consistency like heavy cream. Great for ice cream base.

[–] ricecake 6 points 2 weeks ago

An oil without a flavor. Olive oil is an example of a not neutral oil since it imparts a flavor to the dish.

Corn, vegetable, soybean, canola and peanut are good examples. No one would drizzle a little corn oil on a plate to dip bread in. :)

They also can tolerate higher temperatures, so you can use them in cooking a bit easier.

[–] ricecake 7 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Depending on your patience, you can make your own for super cheap. It's roughly 100g oats to 1000g water, with 20-50g neutral oil, and a tiny bit of guar and xanthan gums. Blend the oats and water for a minute, strain, then add the gums and oil and blend again. Sweeten to taste. Maybe ten minutes max.

If you can get it easily, adding amylase enzymes (blend of alpha, beta and gamma works best) after blending, warming to around 140, let sit for 30 minutes and then raise to 180 for 5 will increase the sweetness and keep it from getting gloopy. You can get them pretty cheap from a brewing supply store. It's how they make commercial oat milk, and it's how they can say "no added sugar" and still have it be sweet.

[–] ricecake 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I just don't think that history aligns with that view. Arab spring is an example just from the past decade of a series of protest movements that escalated into armed rebellion.
Actually going and looking at the handy list of revolutions shows that it's pretty easy to find protest movements that escalate like that.

This article in particular has the preamble that kind of sums it up: ”This article is about the nonviolent protests. For the ongoing civil war, see Myanmar civil war (2021–present)."

People in the US don't currently connect protestors to the problem because they're not angry. At some point you don't see protesters as "them" yelling and making noise, and you join them because you're also angry.

Revolution and rebellion aren't polite and orderly. Thinking you can scare fascists in power into behaving isn't going to work. Part of their entire "thing" is that people are a danger and they need to crack down on dangerous elements to keep society functioning. If society stops functioning and gets materially worse without a balaclava wearing gang of insurgents throwing cartoon spherical black powder bombs, people see the people in charge as the problem and are more willing to do a Mussolini.

[–] ricecake 34 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Unfortunately, "making life hell for people" is part of how you stop any government from working. Reduce efficiency, increase disorder and confusion, and make people angry enough to actually want to tear down the system.

Governments where everyone is chipper and basically have their needs met don't collapse, and people don't fight to collapse them.

It's like the people who say that protests shouldn't inconvenience anyone. The inconvenience is the point.

Happy people don't kneel cops in the Dunkin donuts parking lot.

[–] ricecake 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're not pro-fascism any more than they're anti-fascism. They're extremely pro-doing-what-we-fucking-tell-you, and anti-not-furthering-US-interests.

Fascists are typically good at doing what someone stronger than them orders, so they're easy to work with. Anyone who's willing to ignore what needs to be done in favor of someone else's agenda and their own personal ends is viable though.

[–] ricecake 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

my definition givenwas too narrow

Yes, that's what I said when you opted to take the first half of a sentence out of context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

The common usage of open data is just that it's freely shareable.
Like I said in my initial comment, people frequently use "open source" to refer to it, but it's such a pervasive error that it hardly worth getting too caught up on and practically doesn't count as an error anymore.

Some open data can't be reproduced by anyone who has access to the data.

[–] ricecake 3 points 2 weeks ago

You assume there's a "real power" that exists to stop him.

The president is not some underdog fighting the power. "Deep state" isn't a shadowy cabal of people who secretly run the country, it's the career office workers who have experience working in their departments and make tiny decisions in the implementation of authority delegated to regulatory agencies.

They're not in smoke filled rooms they're in beige conference rooms on cspan looking at PowerPoints.

[–] ricecake -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

... Did you not read the litteral next phrase in the sentence?

since it distinctly lacks any form of executable content.

Your definition of open source specified reproducible binaries. From context it's clear that I took issue with your definition, not with the the notion of reproducing data.

[–] ricecake 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We do still actually see that lower income households tend to have the highest birth rates, even in places where child labor is outlawed.

And I'm gonna disagree about the demand thing. People have demands from the base act of existing. Lower income people have proportionally higher demands. Their entire income is consumed and goes to other people. If you're looking for people to do economic activity and whatever tasks you need done by a human, low income people are usually incapable of seeking a life elsewhere, and quickly return any compensation they get to circulation near where they are.

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