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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • When the solution to the problems are ‘low prices sell more product’ and literally every company seems to be ignoring that

    Its not that simple. Selling more product at a lower price may not result in higher profits. These companies generally don’t care about sales as much as they do profits. Selling 10x the amount of product, but at break-even or a loss would be worse to the company than it is now with their declining sales. PepsiCo’s problem as I see it, is PepsiCo makes only a few products (some of their minor food brands) that would actually be a necessary purchase to live. Everything else they make is a luxury that people can skip if they can’t afford it.

    Everyone is getting squeezed with rising costs in housing, transportation, actual food, and medical care costs that can’t be skipped, so it is PepsiCo products (and brands like them) are the first things we cut out.




  • The good news is that is super easy to remedy.

    I have to learn the basics of stir-fry first! :) I’m a pretty basic cook, but haven’t really tried my hand at stir-fry.

    I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge on the wok cooking though, and I didn’t know about the specifics behind wok hei, though I always love that flavor from restaurants.

    However, sautéed green beans in cast iron on an induction stove is one of my go-to dishes at home. What I make is NOT 四季荳! I have to go to a restaurant for that lovely dish! There was another thread here on Lemmy we were talking about induction cooking and I had taken some picture that last time I made my green beans. You’re absolutely right on my overcrowding:

    And after looking up your comment about wok hei temperatures starting at about 260°C and going as high as 371°C, you’re also absolutely right my regular methods are nowhere near that (but until your post I didn’t know about wok hei specifics). I used a FLIR camera when I was in middle of cooking and you can see I was only at about 150°C. This was the induction element set at 6 or 7 I think:




  • My RPi uptime on one project will never exceed 4 hours.

    I’ve got a cron job set to reboot my Raspberry Pi every 4 hours because I wrote a crappy Python app that continuously creates objects during operation that I would have to recreate, but I can’t delete the originals, or rather, I can delete the original parent but the child survives and keeps its memory allocation. So a full reboot with autolaunch of the application on boot is my ugly janky workaround. Its a cosmetic application, nothing critical. Its just a colorful display of data metrics.

    I can hear the horror and gnashing of teeth of real developers as they read this.


  • Increasing fossil fuel - Heritage warns that the U.S. is on the verge of an electricity shortage, arguing that cutting reliance on renewable energy — and expanding oil and natural gas — is the only way to avoid a crisis.

    How are they able to say this with a straight face. “Were on the verge of a electricity shortage. We believe we should cut out a huge source of electricity to solve the shortage”.

    That’s just whackadoodle, and so is anyone that genuinely thinks this is true.





  • Details are weird here. The wiping occurred in Jan 2025. I found the indictment which was filed with the court on Nov 13th 2025 linked here

    We have almost no details of what happened in Jan 2025 except “Customs and Border Patrol Tactical Terrorism Response Team” was doing something with Tunick in January and Tunick “used a code” to wipe the phone. Then suddenly in November 2025 the US Government filed to have him arrested for that event.

    I’m not a legal scholar, but none of these details or timeline makes sense to me. Anyone else have any clue?





  • but imo it’s important to aknowledge the skill behind something like this.

    From my first post that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m not sure why you’re taking this thread where I have done nothing but compliment the artist and their skills and try to make it sound like I’m insulting the artist instead. Even with your response here you’re doing that again.