There’s no set limit, not in days. Weeks, yeah. Generally, you’ll start noticing it tastes off after about five to ten days. It won’t necessarily be spoiled, but once opened, everything starts losing freshness fast, relatively. Safely wise, a week is what most people say is the cautious limit. But the truth is that if your fridge is stable, the jar didn’t have anything dipped into it, and it isn’t being opened frequently, it could potentially last a month or more without being dangerous to health.

However, it could also grow shit overnight that would make your toilet very unhappy.

So there’s a good bit of sense in not risking going past a week.

The nose is a decent enough detector for most things, but in this case, the bacteria that are problematic can grow well before anything that will smell bad. Botulism ain’t stank, and that’s the one you have to worry about the most. Mind you, the risk is low. A lot of sauces are acidic enough that botulism isn’t going to grow well. I’d even say most. The other two risks are usually going to be less likely, because they have to get in by cross contamination of some kind, where botulinum can come in over the air (not likely, just possible).

Me? I’d chuck it out after a week unless I had a specific plan to use it soon after. I hate wasting food, but the truth is that pizza sauce is cheap and common. Nobody is losing out if a half a jar gets trashed. But that’s me, I don’t make pizza often. If you’re using it regularly, and only pouring out into a bowl or onto dough without dipping things in, you’ll use it up before it could hurt you, even if it’s a few weeks.

No bullshit, commercial canning is very good at killing nasties off. It’s only when we stick things into the container that risks start climbing to “oh shit” territory in a fridge.

Yeah, that’s not how conversation works, my lemmite acquaintance. One isn’t required to slavishly pound away at the initial focus of a comment. It’s not only acceptable to work tangents and expand on sub-topics, it’s expected to some degree or another.

People seem to think that every interaction online is a debate. It isn’t. Me? I’m just drifting along, chilling, shooting the shit with other human beings.

In that spirit, why do you think “goodness” is either a singular thing that is the totality of a person, or that there aren’t gradations of it? Not all saints are of equal goodness, nor are all villains purely evil. In terms of the human condition, nobody is so completely single faceted that it’s useful to apply good/bad paradigms to the entirely of the person unless the entirety of their actions so heavily skew things that good or evil is such a large percentage that it’s moot that other aspects exist.

I think we can agree that there’s difference between someone like Trump and someone like bezos. Both absolutely horrible people overall, but the degree of horror is not the same.

As such, when you look at the bad of a given person, it has to be taken along with the good.

Now, I think we’d also agree that billionaires as a thing is a net evil so horrid as to need abolishment. But it doesn’t preclude individuals from being the same kind of mix that you and I are. See, I know I have the capacity for darkness and evil. I also know that I choose, even when darkness is lapping at the shores of my true self, to do the most good I can. I hope that the opposite is true for you, that your inner goodness is so great that only puddles of evil reside which are easily relegated to meaninglessness.

But people are never so purely good that they’re incapable of bad things. The same is true of even the most vile examples of humanity from history. In the worst cases, any good may have been accidental, but still.

The ruling class of the ultra wealthy should indeed be abolished. But it’s just silly to pretend that they aren’t human, and thus a spectrum of good and bad

Not really though

When you’re talking about hoarding wealth, the problem isn’t just different from hoarding money, it’s a deeper and more complicated problem.

Assets in the case of these assholes is ownership. If they just held onto cash, all they could do is buy shit, which isn’t really a problem.

What they own is vast amounts of the economy, land, and the labor of people.

They think they own the people as well as the labor and products of that labor. They do to a large extent.

When you start whittling down a tier list of which billionaires are worse than others, and there are layers of shittiness there; it’s about their impact and how they wield that wealth as power.

I’m not sure billionaires actually have billions of dollars just sitting in a bank account.

It’s usually assets that contribute to net worth, not actual cash

How the fuck did steam invent gambling for kids? That shit started back in Facebook games.

I mean, it is the alpha. D&d is the root of ttrpg. Didn’t have to be, there were other things that could have been. And it wasn’t the true first stage of that became ttrpg; it was built on other things.

But you gotta be realistic and admit that d&d as a “thing” is the single best known, most successful system out there. It is what it is.

Amen to that!

Restaurant waste, which is what your post body starts with, can’t be recycled like that. It’s an unsafe practice due to the contamination gained at the table combined with time out of the temperature safe zone. Even if you killed an the pathogens there, the risk of the toxins left by those pathogens is problematic. That and it would ruin the food trying to kill them to a reasonable degree.

Now, back in the kitchen, you could do what some restaurants do and donate the prepared but unserved food to local distribution centers (often focused on homeless charities or government outlets). But it wouldn’t make sense to turn it into some kind of “nutrition loaf”. Seriously, look up that term and be prepared to hate the prison system more than you do currently.

And that is why even if the process could be perfectly safe, it would still suck. Nobody should have to eat the horrible crap that it would turn into. If would be cheaper, safer, and more humane to just make sure everyone has good food to eat in the first place.

The only application for the kind of bricks you’d get from the process is feeding people that don’t have access to good, healthy food in the first place.

Nudity isn’t inherently erotic. Nor is a guy shoving a lamp up his ass.

You can even have outright sex, and it isn’t inherently erotic, just tends to be viewed that way because most people do connect the two.

Oglaf is a great example because it uses sexual imagery as a tool for humor, rather than to stir arousal. Yeah, there’s tits and dicks, but you’ll find the same in a decent sauna where it also isn’t sexual unless you make it that way.

The particular strip you’re talking about isn’t made to turn people on, it’s you get laughs. If people DO get turned on by a cartoon ass get to rammed by an object, that’s okay, but it doesn’t make the strip itself erotic.

Back when I smoked, I couldn’t pick up the smell of chicken. I always thought it was just bland, but it was that I didn’t get enough of the smell. Scent is a big part of perceived taste (as opposed to the actual detection that happens on the tongue only), and food has been so much better overall since I quit.

Since chicken, particularly breast meat, doesn’t have a very strong smell, it’s easy to not notice it even when one’s nose isn’t inhibited by something

Great post :)

I can’t say I agree in detail, but I don’t disagree completely either.

I’d say that it depends on brand, preparation, and then personal taste (as in the variability of human taste as a sense, not preferences) as to whether a given substitute is going to be better, acceptable, or worse.

Texture wise, I’d agree that the usual options are on par. Slightly different, but not in a bad way. Juiciness, in my experience, is iffy. Definitely not as greasy; but for some dishes, that missing fat is a significant detriment. Flavor is more like texture; any given person is going to interpret the chemicals on their tongue slightly differently.

I think where the substitutes often fail for the most part is the smell, not the actual on-tongue taste. Even though most chicken meat isn’t going to smell a lot, it is there, and the nose is very important to perceived flavor. I’ve yet to smell any chicken substitutes that smell right at all, though none have smelled bad. Soups and stews that aren’t very chicken centric, that won’t matter. But other stuff, it can and will.

Something like chicken noodle soup though? That’s a hell no lol. You can’t currently get anything that will make a stock that actually tastes right. I’m not saying you can’t make good soup with chicken substitutes, just that it’s a totally different taste. Enough so that calling it by the same name would be a joke.

Where chicken substitutes shine is nugget size dishes that don’t rely on the chicken fats and soluble components for the flavor. I’ve had some sesame substitute that was as good or better than chicken. Stuff like that, with sauces, or even straight up breaded nuggets, that’s where even if the substitutes didn’t taste of anything at all, they’d be just fine.

Now me? I tend to be of the mind that for most dishes, you’re better off just abandoning the original meat based recipe entirely and just cook things that make veggies shine on their own.

!writingprompts@literature.cafe :)

Yeah, I suspect that’s what I’ll end up doing. But for now, dual boot ftw?

It’s one of those things where screwing around with an otherwise stable system just seems pointless unless I don’t have a choice.

Stock? Nah.

I have something like a dozen tablets and phones stacked on my desk. I get new ones, but the old ones have enough life in them that I don’t just count them as ewaste and wash my hands of them. Only two of those have current lineage available, and I can’t be arsed to update what amounts to a picture frame that isn’t connected to Wi-Fi. The rest get used as security cameras for very short term use.

Most of them still have the os they came with as, again, I can’t be arsed to fiddle with the ones that I could dig up a rom for, or they couldn’t be unlocked to do it in the first place. But none of them were ever stock Android. Since when I got them, I favored Samsung and LG tablets, the ui was highly altered from regular AOSP.

Now, my main phone? My absolutely amazing friend gifted me a pixel with graphene ready to go as soon s it reached me. But I do still use some play store apps on it, when I can’t find something good enough that isn’t (nothing touches poweramp, and I haven’t had the budget to put towards a licence for it from the dev, yet. Higher priorities).

Never touched a pi unless it was a pie being shoved down my throat.

Ngl though, if I wasn’t lazy as fuck, I’d likely swap to lineage on my older oneplus that’s my backup phone. Just don’t feel like dealing with the time it would take. So it’s as stock as it was when I got it a few years ago. I doubt I’ll ever do it unless I get a newer graphene device and it gets retired to the desk for infrequent uses. That’s how I end up with a still working Galaxytab 2 lol. Barely still working tbh.

Mad rant props!

For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.

You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).

Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.

Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.

Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.

Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.

Ignoring private schools, it really depends on locale. Most schools are run by a combination of local and state guidelines. So each state has its own minimum standards, which are then implemented on a district level.

However, in some districts, the budget isn’t equal between all schools.

So you can have varying quality within the same school system, and even more between different systems.

The good thing about school meals is that they aren’t usually super expensive, don’t require packing only foods that won’t spoil or be gross by lunch time, and there’s usually some kind of budget for free reduced cost lunches (sometimes breakfast too) for those in need. It makes sense that most students will choke down even the bad options instead.

Some schools do damn well though. The bulk is usually going to be supplied by one of the industrial food distributors, but most of that is similar to or the same as what you’d get in terms of ingredient quality as chain restaurants.

So the staff of the cafeteria can make a huge difference in quality right there. Knowing how to turn fairly meh ingredients into something tasty is a great thing.

When schools supplement with fresh produce, it can be damn good food. Local farmers out in rural areas often contribute. Some high schools have agriculture programs where they grow stuff that gets used in their own school, and may be distributed to others. Our closest high school supplements their own cafeteria, plus the elementary schools, and part of the jr high schools (some of those have their own gardens, so they tend to handle their own). My kid was very happy with the high school’s food, unlike the food at their jr high in another state that they hated.

I ate at the high school a couple of times. Waaaaaay better than when I was a student there, and the agriculture program was starting up back then. Mind you, the lady that ran the cafeteria was doing a great job with what she had. The supplies were just crap back then. All canned shit for veggies if it wasn’t grown local, mandated recipes on a schedule set by the county, so you could only do so much to improve things. She ran a damn good kitchen though, so even when the food was bad, we knew the cooks were doing their best.

And that’s pretty much the problem with school food. It just isn’t a nationwide priority.

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If it isn’t blues, then it’s gotta be funk.

Disco was possibly on par with funk in its heyday, but the disco drop in the eighties followed by a lack of return has to have let funk catch up and blow past.

But you know the Blues has more song titles and lyrics referring to the Blues, be it as a genre or the feeling, than anything else.

Metal barely gets an honorable mention, but it does get one.

Country probably falls right behind funk, maybe a little ahead. Hard to guesstimate that since I’m not a disco freak. But country does self reference a lot, though usually only in lyrics, whereas funk does both. Shit, “we want the funk” has to give funk the edge over country by itself lol.

Afaik, it isn’t really a thing in bluegrass.

Plain old rock n roll might have tied with blues, but referencing rock in rock songs kinda fell out of favor by the end of the sixties, so it fell off enough that I doubt it matches country at this point.

So, I guess my likely rank would go:

Blues

Funk

Country

Rock

Disco

Metal

Then maybe hip-hop/rap, but referencing rap or hip-hop in tracks fell off hard after the eighties.

I can’t think of any other genres that do it tbh.

Oh! Miami bass, as subgenre of hip-hop and/or electronica does self reference a good bit. The classic, genre defining track “the bass that ate miami” does a good job of it by itself. If you count that and bass music as a whole, and are willing to accept the word bass being a self reference, then it may well rank as high as the blues since damn near every bass track has the damn word in it, and in most titles. Only thing keeping it back is the lower production numbers. Just aren’t as many people doing it compared to full genres.

Dude, I am so fucking tired

Yeah, it’s a thing. There’s been a few folks like that on lemmy in particular. They end up getting noticed, then get run off after a while.