Far out, that is huge. And here I am cracking two chicken eggs and questioning if three might be a little excessive in one meal.

I’d still eat all of it knowing I’d feel heavy as hell afterwards.

Neat. A goose egg yolk.

Is it the angle of the photo or is it like the size of a fist? Does it taste much different to a good quality chicken egg? I’m imagining it’s a little richer.

Strong disagree. Prevalent literary tropes are always worth dissecting, because they reveal a lot about the cultures that construct them, and provide us with insights into how to be better people.

In this case, the quantity of black lightning heroes may indicate that non-white skin color is / was perceived as such a defining feature of the character, beyond any potential personality facets, that any other power simply wasn’t considered.

If nearly every white comic hero were The Hulk, it would also be shit, and worth raising questions about.

It probably also helps that the dense clouds appear black, and dense clouds mean a more severe storm. I wonder if the ink contrast is more of a perk than the primary reason, compared to darkness being a convenient power metaphor for storms.

No clue about dietary percentages, unfortunately. The recipes and agriculture instructions we have in the Qimin Yaoshu (amongst a few others) do indicate a large amount of grain and legume consumption, but I expect the proportions of what people ate depended on how good the yield was for any given year anyway.

What we have left of the old recipes suggests sesame was likely cheaper than animal fats, because it’s mentioned as a possible substitute for when you don’t have animal fat available - the theory is that sesame oil production is how stir-frying came to be one of the big Chinese cooking techniques.

Something we do know that backs that theory is that sesame oil was being produced and traded in multi-barrel quantities for military campaigns. So it had to be a pretty sizable operation, even 1500 years ago.

Stone mills were used for extraction and there’s suggestion that was happening thousands of years earlier - sesame isn’t native to China. The paper I linked says they even found a jar of sesame seeds in Tutankhamun’s tomb, which is pretty cool.

Sesame wasn’t the only plant oil around in China in 500CE either, mustard oil and occasionally vegetable oils are mentioned in the texts. We also know hemp oil was being produced in China, but I don’t think we know that anyone used it for cooking.

None of that has any bearing on inflammation, but I’m not sure we can really compare the circumstances of a 500CE citizen to the world we live in today anyway - there are way too many variables at play to draw a meaningful conclusion based on sesame oil consumption in ancient China.

seed oils (they didn’t exist 150 years ago)

It’s a small point of order, but China has been using sesame oil in food for at least 1500 years. The first recipe we have is in the 齊民要術 (Qimin Yaoshu / “Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People” vol. 8 ch. 70 (zh)) from c.544 CE where scallions are fried in white sesame oil as part of a meat sauce recipe.

Earlier than that it was used for warfare, torches, lamps etc. More info on sesame agriculture in: Chen et al., 2024. Sesame use in Turpan during the Tang dynasty: evidence from the Astana Cemetery. Journal of Archaeological Science

I love fluorite, and it can have really awesome colors too. Such a pity it’s so brittle.

Shub-Niggurath wants the tip of her tentacle back.

Seriously though, what a neat looking chunk of hematite.

Buy, buy, buy — may not always play, but definitely buy. We know this habit is a bit odd.

不太奇怪，西方人也这样。谢谢你的故事。很有意思啊！我希望你以后会多分享一些。

The raw changes are interesting but not particularly descriptive of the problem(s?) it intends to resolve, so I can’t gauge whether it achieves the goal from this. The description of the version bump as simply “security improvements” doesn’t help me determine if any of these changes add dedicated tests or anything else to prevent future occurrences (and I’m not traversing the repository on my phone). Additionally, the issue acknowledged via inline comment: “This will probably break PeerTube federation” is odd to omit from even the briefest changelog. In my opinion, this is not that reassuring an update.

The LLM generated report of Lemmy’s vulnerability, which I note requires an entire DNS configuration to exploit, is a little ironic to point to as an authoritative source while characterizing the Piefed exploit discovery as “someone running an LLM and trying to discover vulnerabilities without double checking them”.

But I don’t think it’s necessary or helpful to have a competitive security score-card situation between packages either - I would much prefer that each ActivityPub implementation is meaningfully improving their development lifecycle processes, especially around security risk mitigation, even if they don’t go quite as far as having a formal “security posture”.

Fair. In my case I wish someone had not overlooked the systemic inflammation (from a different condition that has been recently correlated with OA, somewhat unexpectedly) and the malmechanics I was experiencing, so that I might have avoided some of the further issues, but, so it goes.

I manage to shift some of the chronic pain, but sadly society really likes to build worlds that have only one blessed way of doing certain things, which makes it impossible to shift more consistently. So I will have to mostly content myself with smugly sore.

Given you appear to be a doctor though, I do have one favor to ask. If you ever get a flexible kid with crepitus come through your doors, maybe add a CRP test to their blood work, just on the off-chance and even if only for the chain of evidence.

A few months ago I mentioned in a thread about Piefed there were questionable system design choices that indicated that other parts of the system should be carefully examined for how they’re handling and sanitizing input. I’m assuming someone discovered one of the places that this was actively exploitable.

From what I’ve seen of the code, although Python is not my specialty, it might be worth delaying reactivation until it can demonstrate that it is at least somewhat resistant to the OWASP Top 10, especially Injection.

Irresponsible disclosure is annoying, but vastly better than discovery and exploitation by those who aren’t going to disclose at all.

So when people told me as a kid not to worry about my crepitus, they were in fact completely wrong? If so, I’m feeling vindicated but also sore, but that’s better than only sore.

He actually said the phrase “ensure a fair deal for working people”. Who thought it was a good idea to put that in the speech knowing he was going to be fully dressed in the spoils of exploitation? You’d think they’d at least temper it with the comparative term “fairer” if the more sensitive wardrobe option was truly off the table.

Or if you didn’t file 5 years of tax returns - even if you’ve never lived or earned income in the US.

This caught an acquaintances of mine who was accidentally born in the US when their mother went into early labor. They found out about both the rule of the land and the exit tax when they were an adult when their application for citizenship in a different country was rejected for already being a dual citizen of the US.

Peter dinklage doesn’t have a Twitter account. This is someone who just wants to keep using people with dwarfism as the butt of their jokes.

Total speculation on my part. They could have blasted that cash on orgies for all I know.

Oh, that percentage is the year on year change, not a return on investment. So 2025 financial year they reported roughly -30 million cash from investments, this year is roughly -267 million, so they reported a loss of (267-30) / 30 = ~7.78 times as much money against the scope of the category “investments”.

You’d expect to see the percentage go below zero when you buy more stocks / bonds or securities than you sell or which mature, or (I think) when you take money gained from an investment and then put it towards another investment or other cash category, so it’s not necessarily a really bad thing for a company to have a negative number there. It just means they’re either shuffling it internally or committed to spending it. The size and timing of the change is what is unusual.

There are all sorts of rules and tricks in this shell game though, I couldn’t say with any certainty where that money went, or if it ever really existed at all. I just see a pattern of companies with big negative short term investment cash flows and layoffs that correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.

I think the “original” money is still mostly from their 2021 IPO, so “leveraged” was the wrong word, my brain is a mess today.

But, they certainly look like they either ate up to a quarter billion loss on crypto gambling, or shuffled the money from that column into a different part of the books to pay for AI, or spent that money on other new investments. I don’t think it could be entirely new investments because they’ve never even hit one billion in annual revenue, their net income has never been positive, and they’ve had no new acquisitions over the last couple of years. The new CFO in January move also points at a big financial fuckup being the reason.

No surprises here. Their cash flow suggests they were heavily leveraged on crypto (Edit: or other unusual spending, the crypto part is speculation, they officially claim to have no crypto), -776% y/y change for investments in 2026. Not as bad as their 2023 -1,023%, but their new CFO has an uphill battle ahead of her.

I can see them being on the 2027 casualty list. They’ve been pushing AI hard internally the last year or so, which caused me some issues at my workplace after their misplaced confidence led them to call out my niche as an “opportunity” they had “mostly solved”. Spoilers: They hadn’t then, visibly still haven’t now, and will have less chance doing so by adding more AI because it is particularly terrible at this niche.