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Re: The Best Egg Salad

Lethe — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:04:11 -0000

Uh...but at the end of the day, didn't you just do the same thing? : "...I will say that it
could use a bit more acidity for my taste. I used store-bought olive oil
mayonnaise, which might have been a bit too unctuous. Next time, I
might try a few drops of white wine vinegar. I'm an acid freak, what can
I say."

Re: The Best Egg Salad

Lethe — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:56:01 -0000

Right? That one suggestion alone was worth all the angst to me, lol. I'm off to buy one, stat!

Re: The Best Egg Salad

Lethe — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:53:20 -0000

Well, grammatically speaking, you've got a point. But the commenter doesn't seem to be upset so much with the grammar as she seems upset that others would offer suggestions as to how to amend the original recipe to match varying tastes. I for one appreciate the touch of jazz provided in the comments!

Re: The Best Egg Salad

Lethe — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:30:11 -0000

Oh, no! You're missing the best part of the conversation! I always read the comments, they're full of bonus recipes, lol. And if someone didn't like the original recipe, wouldn't you want to know why?

Anyway, once one person has commented that they made the recipe and it was delicious (or it wasn't), well, who else needs to comment, they'd just click thumbs up (or down) and what would you have learned from that? Tastes are subjective, just saying it was delicious to you gives me no new information, because I don't know how your taste matches up to mine.

Adding suggestions as to what ingredients you might add or subtract to the original recipe to adapt to different tastes isn't a bad thing, it's a conversation! Isn't that what the comments are for?

Re: The Hollow Earth Theory Isn’t So Funny Anymore

Lethe — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:32:08 -0000

THIS is a story? WTH IS this? It's not a story, it's some sentences.

Re: Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy

Lethe — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:17:28 -0000

Darren Seabolt - Source?

Re: Facebook, Instagram down, company confirms

Lethe — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:11:05 -0000

I tend to agree with you on the purely social aspect, having had way too many people run smack dab into me on the street with their noses buried in their digital world, but many people have built small business platforms via facebook/instagram, so...yeah, that'll ruin your day alright. I'm thinking of a number of metalsmiths I personally know who will be hurting if this continues.

Re: Facebook, Instagram down, company confirms

Lethe — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:08:16 -0000

So...I'm guessing we can expect a push speeding up the planned obsolescence of earlier iterations of the iphone?

Re: Facebook, Instagram down, company confirms

Lethe — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:06:54 -0000

Says a lot about who (or what) is in control.

Re: New NASA video calls for return to moon and Mars | Human World | EarthSky

Lethe — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:27:00 -0000

I wrote three different responses to this comment, but deleted them all. In the long run...what can you say in the face of nihilism?

Re: New NASA video calls for return to moon and Mars | Human World | EarthSky

Lethe — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:54:48 -0000

No. No, no, no, no, no. If we continue to sit and stew in our own poisons, thinking that we can somehow 'solve' them, we will die in them. And remember, a frontier is what allowed our species to expand across the planet...when there is no long a frontier, when there is nowhere else to go, something in us dies. If you want to stay behind, then stay. But let those who want to go, go.

That alone will go a long way towards solving the Big Question - what do we do with all these people? Because that is THE problem. All the rest arises from that single issue. Massive single-species populations will always eventually produce enough poisons to kill themselves off. And the earth, while big, is no longer limitless. If you want us to stay put and 'solve our problems,' then that is the first one to tackle. and if you do solve it, I think you'll find that most of the other ones will go away. But no matter which way you look at it, the solution is going to be ugly. Open up a new frontier, the sooner, the better.

Re: New NASA video calls for return to moon and Mars | Human World | EarthSky

Lethe — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:44:01 -0000

I think you're wrong there. I think Trump and the 1%er Republicans are all about business and industry, about earnings potential, and if they can expand that into space, well, they'll jump on that wagon and ride it straight to Mars. Frame it as a humanitarian expansion or pure science and they'll turn their backs. Frame it as earnings potential (or, of course, military dominance,which is what got us up there in the first place) and that's a go. We just have to make sure that science gets a ride-along.

Re: Narwhal adopted by belugas | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:32:59 -0000

I think we as humans suffer a bit from hubris when we find behaviour akin to ours elsewhere in the animal kingdom. "In the human realm, adoption is seen as a benevolent act..." Seeing it as a 'benevolent act' does nothing to explain it, though. The same in-depth analysis that is being applied to other animals applies equally to our behaviour as well. That 'benevolent act' has complicated behavioural reasons behind it, the same as for other animals. It always makes me smh when we are surprised to see behaviour similar to ours amongst our animal brethren. We wonder why the dolphins in the wild will come to swim with us, but we never seem to wonder why we go to swim with them.

Re: How do dogs process words? | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:38:46 -0000

Adriana, an Irish friend of mine came from a smaller village where a local farmer was often fetched home from the pub by the farm's border collie. The man's wife would send the dog into town with a command to bring 'John' home, and he would head to town and go from pub to pub until he found 'John.' That dog was famous in the town, and everyone knew 'John' was in trouble when they saw the dog searching him out.

Re: How do dogs process words? | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:10:16 -0000

"Why do they have to waste time proving something so obvious?" Well, I can think of one important reason. Because sometimes 'something so obvious' is completely false. It was obvious that the sun revolved around the earth until science proved otherwise.

That said, I agree wholeheartedly that dogs (and other animals) associate words with objects or actions. Anyone who is around animals a lot (and pays attention) knows that. Prove me wrong, science!

Re: How do dogs process words? | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:08:57 -0000

I think perhaps that many people, including scientists working on animal behavior, still have that age-old prejudice that if a being does not have a verbal capacity, it is not capable of associating certain aural cues (uh...we call them 'words') with their related objects or actions. However, as noted in the article, they are comfortable associating the reaction of a dog to a verbal command to "gaze, gestures or even emotional expressions." What? So this so-called dumb animal can't associate a sound with an object but can figure it out from other less obvious cues? (And isn't it interesting that, in English at least, 'dumb' can mean
either unable to speak OR lacking in intelligence? Now there's a telling association that speaks to such an innate prejudice!)

Why would sound specifically be excluded from cues the animal could be expected to interpret, when it could be believed to interpret something as complex as the emotional responses of a being outside its own species?

Anyway, proving (or disproving) things that 'everybody knows' is part of science's job, so now we know. Scientifically speaking.

Re: New technology may help solve mystery of life's origins | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:23:44 -0000

Anybody else think of the "Wolf 359" episode of the original "The Outer Limits?"

Re: New technology may help solve mystery of life's origins | Earth | EarthSky

Lethe — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:18:15 -0000

"Everyone?"

Re: How to Check If Your Facebook Account Got Hacked—and How Badly

Lethe — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 13:22:53 -0000

Dude, it's FACEBOOK. It's social media. People who post information on facebook WANT it to be seen.

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:18:25 -0000

How did we get here from Melania Trump's bullying, lol. Gotta go, nice chatting with you!

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:15:45 -0000

That would be because you didn't ask me that. But if you had, I would have answered that the economy of a country, particularly one as large as the US, has a certain momentum. It doesn't stop and start on a dime (pun intended). When it crashes, that crash reverberates for years, and any action taken to counter it will also take years to have any effect. Ten years on, we are seeing the effects of the efforts made by Obama take hold.

But you seem to think I am claiming that Trump is trying to step on the economy! Not at all. I got into this because you were trying to lay the momentum gained over eight years of hard work (made harder in the face of truly incredible obstructionism - even you have to concede that) at Trump's feet, and Trump's feet alone. He took office just as that momentum was gaining speed - he certainly didn't create it, he was nowhere in the political sphere when that happened.

And I'll toss this in as well, just for perspective. Obama took office just as things were crashing down around us, yet I see him actually blamed for the crash and its repercussions in so many, many discussions across the internet. The fact is he inherited a crashing economy, and eight years later turned over to his successor an economy with a strong forward momentum. Give the man credit.

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:50:17 -0000

You mean during the eight years immediately after the financial crash? Of course it was lower. There were no jobs because employers were crashing and burning along with the rest of us. Come on, do better. No, wait...do best! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:48:05 -0000

Thanks, good point. Obama had to resort to executive fiat to accomplish many things (not everything) because he could not get the Republican dead weight to do anything. Anything. At. All. They simply laid down and drummed their feet on the Congress floors like spoiled children for eight years because (horrors) a black man was president. I've looked at it from every direction, and that's the only way what they did makes any sense at all.

But Obama did manage to get a bastardized ACA passed (many of the problems with it are due to compromises needed to get approval)...a first step toward insuring health care for all. He shepherded the return to a functioning economy (for which you for some reason insist upon laying at Trump's feet - and he himself was claiming it just a few months into his first term, lol). He put in place protections to insure that an unregulated banking system could not turn right around and do the same thing again. (Protections that this administration, as you say, is dismantling step by methodical step). There are many other things he accomplished that the current administration is in fact dismantling...and not because they are bad. Simply because he seems to have a pathological desire to erase every indication that that black man ever held two terms in office as president of the United States.

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:33:45 -0000

Sorry, Ncirel1, but that's an idiot vote. Throw out the party politics and vote for CANDIDATES. Inform yourself.

Re: Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing

Lethe — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:31:16 -0000

So...no answer?