Readit Newsphs318u commented on As Ozempic Shrinks Appetites, Some Restaurants Offer Miniature Meals nytimes.com/2025/08/07/di... · Posted by u/mikhael
"... miniature meals"
Or as we call them in the rest of the world: meals.
https://www.infographicsarchive.com/infographic-serving-size...
phs318u commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Add "moving to a different country while owning an account that started as Google Apps for Domains" for a little more flavor.
"Can't share the subscription because the other person in your family is in another country."
Okay guess I'll change countr- "No you can't change your Google Workspace account's country."
This issue alone is driving me to switch to Microsoft for a particular use-case where I inherited a Google Apps for Domains account. Why anyone who knows the history of Google's behaviour with respect to supporting businesses that are not advertisers, would still choose Google over other options, continues to baffle me.
phs318u commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx
This is absurd. When people refer to "the elites" as I did, they often mean a large group of people. They do NOT speak with one voice[0], nor do they act in seamless unison. It is a bit noteworthy then that governments worldwide seem intent on destroying the privacy of communications on the internet.
[0] People who are used to getting fucked by people higher up in the economic food chain are pretty used to seeing, with their own eyes, the actions "the elites" take. See, we get to live in the world they create. Whereas they get to live in a much, much nicer world, without rules or restrictions. To call the average person's lived experience "hyper-pattern-matching imagination" is just plainly being shitty.
No. I don’t believe most people can see “with their own eyes” anything of the sort. They definitely feel the pain. But the ability of most people to correctly ascribe their pain to a semi-reasonable, possibly-likely source is utter rubbish. Most folks do the exact opposite. They are SO incapable of seeing with clear eyes that they will happily let their abusers scapegoat utterly irrelevant groups and distract with pointless crusades. Most people let their pain get hijacked just so they can easily point the finger at anyone and feel justified that yes, someone did indeed do them over. And as a result, they will consistently vote against their own interests and join in on the gang bashing of minority groups, all the while being screwed over even more.
Perhaps next time it would be more useful to point out exactly who you’re referring to in a given discussion rather than lazily refer to “the elites”.
I’ll also add that in my view, most of what seems like the concerted actions of a global conspiracy is merely the result of very simple human heuristics. Mostly functions of greed (for money, power, or both). Just like the amazing structure in fractals arises from very simple math, so too the workings of our politics and economies through simple human heuristics played out at scale.
phs318u commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx
Because the elites have decided that privacy is only applicable to businesses.
Ah yes. The “elites”. The invisible yet omnipresent, subtle yet ubiquitous, global cabal that no matter how fragmented and divided society gets, always speaks with one voice[0] and acts in seamless unison.
[0] It’s an endless source of fascination to me that it always seems to be non-elites that have the inside scoop on what the elites are thinking and deciding. I’d love to know where they get that insight if not from their own hyper-pattern-matching imagination.
You’re right the world is a lot more accepting. No matter how much things improve and how positive the trajectory though, there will be someone online who tells us it’s not enough
Yes, and there will be others rolling their eyes and calling out all this "woke" acceptance.
On a serious note, if the world is a lot more accepting, it's mostly because the youngest generations are a lot more accepting, and the more bigoted among us (which tend to skew older) are slowly dying off.
This thesis would explain J.D. Vance being effectively MIA during the whole Trump-Epstein saga. What's that saying about never letting a good catastrophe go unused?
phs318u commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
"I was always under the impression that if you pull your meat at let's say 128"
Please state units. In en_GB (at least) "pulling your meat" is ... ambiguous.
Off topic, and please forgive the way my mind works, but having read your comment I couldn't help thinking that the interpretive ambiguity would be resolved if the unit stated was "pulls" per minute (128 ppm while vigorous, is still plausible).
However, I think the "Skip All Permissions" (high-risk) mode shouldn't even exist.