End comes after 10 minutes of video with nothing happening. And when something does happen, it’s half out of frame and completely underwhelming.

Woks don’t have buttons! How the hell do you expect to deep fry things without any buttons!? I’ve seen into the back of a McDonald’s before, their deep fryers have buttons and beep and shit. If a wok ever beeped at me, I wouldn’t think “oh, fries are done,” I’d think, “am I going insane?”

Unless you’re using one as a helmet, in which case it’s more of a ding than a beep, but it means it just saved your life and you should tip your blacksmith. You should also probably clean the wok before you use it to sear something and set it aside or bake cookies or anything, though.

Yeah only question for me right now is if it will go to 0 or 2 before going back to 1.

How many world wars were fought in the last century? The answer might surprise you!

Spicy enemas. Or by regularly consuming so much spice that some makes it to that end, since binding to a heat receptor uses it up, as I understand it.

Tangent topic, but how does an anarchist system prevent popular leaders from gaining authority? Also, how does it defend against an aggressive authoritarian neighbour that wants to annex territory?

I like the idea of anarchism in theory, but I just don’t see how it could be possible to get there from here where every existing power would see it as an ideological threat to their own power (similar to how capitalist powers reacted to communism), or how it would maintain stability if it was realized.

And as much as I don’t like the monopoly on violence system because it seems to encourage corruption on the side with more access to violence, I can’t help but think it would eventually devolve into a lot of in-fighting.

Like power constantly rises from nothing more than physical strength, charisma, or good strategic thinking in groups of humans. Some primates other than humans go to war with their neighbouring groups. Egypt became a kingdom when one tribe conquered the rest, and that one wasn’t the first to try. Countless empires have risen and fallen, most of the time despite violent resistance of those who would rather be neighbours than subjects. The Vikings sailed around raiding for their own benefit and then later conquered regions like in France, Britain, Sicily, and Kiev. The Mongols did the same except using horses instead of boats. Then European powers did it. Then America started pretty much puppeting anyone who went against corporate interests while a cultural movement in Russia and China started out trying to move power out of the hands of their ruling class only to see even more authoritarian powers take over.

History is full of cases of “I don’t care what you want, this is what I want and I’ll just kill you if you don’t go along with it.” How could that change?

Holy fuck, can I join in? I promise not to shit it up!

I come here from all.

Though when I do post a comment about the accuracy of a joke or some kind of serious angle, I don’t intend to imply “stop having fun!”

I enjoy learning and seeing things that challenge my assumptions, so when I comment a “joke killer” comment, it’s meant as a “while we’re on the topic, this might be interesting”.

I reject the idea that the only reply one should make to a joke is “haha” and then move on. Especially when the response makes a good point, like IMO the parent comment to this one did: some interpretations of “snitches get stitches” are more about protecting abusers than discouraging betrayal.

The comic was still funny.

This wouldn’t be necessary if everyone used the proper peer review process before publishing their jokes!!

Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.

Speaking of which, an obsession with dicks or second hand dicks totally sets off my gaydar. Not that there’s anything wrong with being gay, but this post feels a bit like overcompensating, so maybe it’s something to think about.

Like does it really bug you that a hand probably touched a dick or does it bug you that the thought causes a more complex reaction than that?

Either that or you don’t really care about it that much but are saying it to trigger others who might care, which I can respect.

Nuclear launch detected.

Nah, it’ll be more subtle than that. Just like Brawno is full of the electrolytes plants crave, responses will be full of subtle product and brand references marketers crave. And A/B studies performed at massive scales in real-time on unwitting users and evaluated with other AIs will help them zero in on the most effective way to pepper those in for each personality type it can differentiate.

I mean, he got better so it’s nbd right?

It’s a live studio audience in this case. Not that it makes it any less annoying.

Edit: a word

Yeah, though I’d argue using kanji is different notation. Unless you meant delta and five both being spelled out in English. Should have used Δ lol.

I think that’s the difference. Someone who does enjoy it will quickly build a tolerance to that level of spice.

My cousin once drank from a Sriracha sauce bottle like it was a water bottle because he enjoyed the flavour that much. He regretted it when he realized that his mouth had built more tolerance than his other end, though.

Last time I was at a firehouse subs, I noticed they had a spicy sauce rack with everything labeled from 1 to 10 in spiciness. They only had ones going up to 8 at the time, so I tried adding a little bit of the 8 to my sandwich. Sriracha was like a 5 iirc.

I think it was a linear scale though because I didn’t really notice anything from the little bit I put on my sandwich. Put more on the other half and even then, it didn’t leave much heat.

Yet if I eat a slice of fresh cayenne when cooking, it will burn intensely for a good 5 minutes and I know that it’s only around the middle of the spice scale, which is logarithmic.

I wish humans didn’t have the ego issue that results in “some products are labeled very spicy when they aren’t so that fragile egos can act like they can handle more spice than they really can”. I’m kinda tired of needing to calibrate every single spicy thing trying to find some good heat without worrying about whether the extreme spice warning is accurate or just playing into that ego thing. I want enjoyable heat, not burn your face off.

Though I suppose part of it might be because I don’t think a single person can accurately measure the amount of heat in a variety of sauces from mild to very hot. Your own tolerance plays an important role and everything less spicy than your ideal will seem barely spicy at all and everything more will seem very spicy.

Yeah, that last one is my preferred one. Who knows if it’s true or not, but if I could pick which one was true, I’d pick that one. I think it would have the best combination of getting all questions answered while also being able to keep existence interesting. It’s a way to be immortal without regretting it, if mortality even applies to whatever we really are that is experiencing all of this.

I wonder if there were eons of boredom before the possibly even occurred and if there will be eons more of boredom after the one ends. Or if there’s simultaneously a multitude of planets with life that we can experience. Maybe even a multitude of universes to experience life on.

Going really far with the idea, there’s a possibility that all fiction and creative storytelling is actually a part of us just recounting something that happened to other parts of us in places with similar rules or very different ones.

Like infinite monkeys in infinite universes with infinite laws of physics and infinite definitions of “monkey” playing out every possible permutation of every possible existence.

A few more:

Delta, there is a god and he’s good because nothing in this reality really matters, it’s just a test (for us) or experiment (that we are a part of).

Five) after being more hands on in the old times, and trying many different things, god decided to try again elsewhere and just lets shit play out as it will here.

六> We are god experiencing a reality as lesser beings because it gets boring being all powerful and knowing. Any godly effects are done for entertainment purposes rather than making things better or worse.