You can take honey that has crystalized and set it in sunlight to "melt" back into the gooey goodness, but you can't do that to chocolate that has that white powdery stuff on it.
Let's see, set a jar of honey in sunlight, or get out your double boiler to melt down chocolate and be sure to get out the molds that I'm sure everyone has.
yeah, that's the same thing. roughly. but you'd be good to go to be sure
If you're looking to have a reason.... That's probably going to over-heat the honey, which comes at a cost to flavor.
But your grocery store honey is already pasteurized. That's more controlled than your microwave, so if you were looking to feel guilty about something, save it for when your neighbor gives you some from her hive next door.
You seem to have missed this in the comment to which you're replying "...for people lacking the wealth or living in areas with no access to human tutors, LLMs are a godsend." And WTF are you mentioning "palestinians"?
Maybe you should consider that an understanding of these alternatives is completely compatible with wanting the best outcome for everyone and that, in the absence of situation 3, situation 2 is better than nothing.
AI "therapists" aren't necessarily "something better" than nothing[0]. Mental health is just as important as physical health. If Yahoo Answers and amateur back alley surgeries are unacceptable physical health support then dangerously unqualified AI "therapists" should also be unacceptable mental health support.
Thank you for the excellent example of victim-blaming. Tell me, what does a failing helicopter falling out of the sky sound like? I need to know what I'm supposed to be listening for.
I don't think you know what straw man means. He was killed by a crashing helicopter, not a car. People expect cars on the road, not helicopters. Deaf people cross the road all the time. People wearing headphones or earbuds cross the road without difficulty regularly. I ride motorcycles with silicone earplugs and have no problem hearing traffic, because car tires against asphalt alone makes a tremendous racket.
Again, what does it sound like when a helicopter is falling out of the sky onto you? I need to know so that I can stay safe.
Let me break it down for you. It's nonsensical for someone to be penalized for increasing their risks by wearing headphones. Nonetheless, it is sensible to be more aware of your surroundings by being able to hear what's going on around you. There are plenty of other sounds which can be helpful besides a car's tires loudly screeching as it's about to hit you.
The reason your example of a helicopter noise is a straw man is because, while it doesn't make sense to take precautions for a helicopter crashing on you, that is irrelevant to whether it makes sense for more likely situations.
Riding a motorcycle and wearing silicone earplugs! Tell me you're not the guy to take safety advice from without telling me you're not the guy.
That's not price discrimination, like hardcover vs paperback if you have two versions of something and people can choose which they want. That's totally fine and actually something that makes capitalism great. The rich usually end up covering more of the costs here cause they are less price sensitive, like business vs economy on airplanes.
Price discrimination is when two people visit a site to buy a book, the algorithm computes an estimate of what they are barely willing to pay, and then shows the two of them different prices for the exact same book based on who they are.
Yours is an overly narrow version of price discrimination in which the discrimination is extended to the customer level. If that's what OP meant he should use a less ambiguous description.
Hardcovers last longer, resource use is real. Cheap things is a regressive tax on the lower incomes who have to replace cheap stuff faster. They can’t save for better stuff.
When it comes to media like movies… really? Still? The resource use of Top Gun and Star Wars is bonkers. Can’t we just have local theater and you know socialize?
Do we need the movie to come together and socialize over?
I so thought we were done with that stuff around Spider-Man 3. MCU and Star Wars sequels made no sense to me.
Is our attention always going to be coupled to Saturday mornings in 1990s?
Boomers did all the drugs and made music and corny fun shows like SNL and somehow convinced us to stare at computers iterating on word problems like it’s fucking middle school while staring at these over the top delusions of grandeur to borrow from Han Solo.
Paperbacks are _not_ a regressive tax. The book is equally readable in both forms, and often more portable in paperback. Hardcover books are (mild) luxury items that can command a higher profit margin and thus are easier for publishers to justify. Very few individuals are buying hardcover books in order to maximize utility over many decades
Yes. The obvious conclusion is that touchscreens for those functions should also be illegal. It would be better if they didn't need to be illegal and, if their use resulted in an accident, the user would be liable, but concluding that would be challenging.
You're happy to redefine genocide in a ludicrously expansive fashion but pretend to need clarification about what antisemitic means in this context? I know, you're just asking questions.
"Semitic" is a word that includes both hebrews and arabs, because both are classified as descendants of Shem in the Bible.
Despite that, most people who use the word "antisemitic" apply it only to something that is done against hebrews, and not to something done against arabs.
Therefore it makes sense to request clarification about what someone means by that word, i.e. if they meant that BBC is anti-Israel or it is anti-arabs.
It would be much better if everyone who means that something is anti-Israeli, would say it clearly, instead of using the ambiguous word "antisemitic".
The word "Semitic" has been created due to a misunderstanding of the Bible, because there the classification of the people was not based on real descendance from common ancestors, but it was based on the political dependence of those people at the time when the Book of Genesis was written. Unfortunately, nobody has found a suitable replacement for this word.
(In the Bible, the descendants of Shem were those dominated by Assyro-Babylonia, while the descendants of Ham were those dominated by Egypt, regardless of their true ancestors. For instance the Phoenicians were classified as descendants of Ham and the Hebrews as descendants of Shem, despite being 2 extremely closely related populations, separated by little else except their different religions.)
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