fallinghawks (u/fallinghawks)

fallinghawks commented on The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving twopct.com/p/the-secret-s... · Posted by u/bilsbie

Fun take but if french fries are bad, what is the correct way to ingest potatoes? Why bogart the secret?

Any way that doesn't involve a boatload of oils is fine, I'm sure.

One of the things I'm surprised they didn't mention is cooling. Cooling converts the starch in rice, potatoes, and pasta into resistant starch (and it stays resistant when you reheat it because nobody really likes eating cold potatoes). Starch normally gets processed by the small intestine into glucose but resistant starch is digested in the large intestine, so glucose levels don't spike. There are a number of other benefits described in the articles below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/

https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/what-is-resistant-starch/

fallinghawks commented on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% wildingout.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ripe

iso1631 · a month ago

With a QR menu, if I can also order and pay from them, then they are far superior to having to try to flag someone down. If not its less useful, but it's useful for multiple languages.

In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app"

There are no adverts on netflix, and I have a lot of subscriptions, but its still less (pro-rata) than I paid for satelite tv with adverts in the 00s.

fallinghawks · a month ago

> In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app"

Increasingly often, it is "download our app". And they will try to force it by sabotaging their website. I did a pickup order from Walmart once. You're supposed to take a numbered parking place and check in, but if you try it from the website on a mobile, it'll redirect you to download the app. There's no getting around it. I don't recall if I tried desktop mode on the website, but the website is a pretty cluttered widescreen mess anyway. (Fortunately at the parking area there's a phone number for checking in posted.)

I run into similar sabotage issues with Facebook (yes I am just a year or so shy of being a boomer). You can no longer use messaging on mobile, it tells you to download the app. Desktop mode does work, though (for now; I'm sure someone will try to take it away). All this stuff used to work on phones.

fallinghawks commented on Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036 github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/jmward01

SoftTalker · a month ago

Also, and to generalize:

Stop asking me about accepting cookies.

Stop asking me to subscribe to your email list

Stop asking me to review my last purchase.

Stop telling me I need to subscribe to view this content.

Stop asking for my phone number

Stop asking for my income

If I want to do or tell you any of these things I will initiate that myself.

fallinghawks · a month ago

My garbage disposal service sends me a survey once or twice a year asking if I would recommend them to my friends.

Where I live, garbage disposal is a county contract. You get get whatever company your county has engaged. Do they think people would to move to another county for better garbage disposal?

fallinghawks commented on Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

duckkg5 · a month ago

Watching surfers in the middle of this park was one of my favorite things to do in Munich. What a bummer. I'd be surprised if they had any luck at all restoring it.

fallinghawks · a month ago

The first time I saw them was around Christmastime and I was just stunned by the sight of surfers in the middle of a snow-filled park.

fallinghawks commented on Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him "exploded all over," cbsnews.com/news/sean-dun... · Posted by u/rolph

zippyman55 · a month ago

I don't get why this could not have been a learning experience for the two. Mustard is ok, but while I do hate mayo I think it would not induce PTSD.

fallinghawks · a month ago

Mustard is not OK. Where do you think mustard gas comes from? ;) That guy was deploying a chemical weapon in violation of the Geneva protocol.

fallinghawks commented on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/cowboyscott

fallinghawks · 2 months ago

It's all transactional. Do something Trump likes, he'll help you, laws, morals, and ethics be damned.

fallinghawks commented on RFK Jr. Must Go quillette.com/2025/09/17/... · Posted by u/kamaraju

alphabettsy · 2 months ago

I think that’s true and I’m not going to make excuses for the mistakes of the medical community, but I don’t think we should excuse the influence of what is now the wellness community, of which RFK Jr. is a part.

fallinghawks · 2 months ago

The administration's sowing of distrust in medical community also played a big part. Recommendations of useless and/or unproven remedies as "cures," claims of big pharma driving the decisions, and hyping up the changes in CDC's recommendations as waffling, have legitimized distrust of medicine.

fallinghawks commented on Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown theverge.com/news/791533/... · Posted by u/funkyfourier

Wowfunhappy · 2 months ago

From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/

> Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments.

Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are allowed to use. It's one thing to make decisions about which products are allowed in your store, and quite another to unilaterally ban software from what is many people's primary computer.

There should have always been a side-loading switch. It doesn't have to be easy to find, it just needs to be available in the event of an emergency. Any possible security arguments to the contrary pale in comparison to the importance of maintaining a free society.

We live in a digital age, and software is a form of free expression. We would not (I hope) find this situation acceptable for eBooks, and we should not find it acceptable for software.

I am horrified that Google has decided to move in the same direction on Android, and I urge them to reconsider before it's too late. Right now, these apps can still be sideloaded on Android phones, so to be honest I don't care that much what Google does with the Play Store. But what happens next year?

fallinghawks · 2 months ago

Google has been clamping down over the past year or two on sideloading too. I used to be able to install games restricted to Japan if they were uploaded to apkpure, but every one lately gets stopped either by Play Services or the Play Store under the claim of "safety" and can't be worked around.

fallinghawks commented on M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/brian-armstrong

sedatk · 3 months ago

This was the strongest earthquake I felt since I moved to Bay Area ten years ago. Luckily, it was quite short. Woke me and all my friends in the SF and vicinity up though.

fallinghawks · 3 months ago

I've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta. How close you are to the epicenter has a strong effect on what you experience (it's undoubtedly more complicated than that but distance is a big factor). Last night's was 14.8 miles away from me and although I woke up, I didn't hear earthquaky sounds and shaking was moderate. Thought my partner had just flopped over in bed harder than usual. By contrast, a few years ago we had a 3.1 centered about 1.5 miles away that really made me fear it was a big one. The house jumped and stuff swayed, and I was just thinking I'd better get next to the bookcase when it stopped.