Maybe the manufacturer is in New Zealand and the French-Canadian people are the guys who package and sell it or something. Dunno, just did a quick skim of their site.

Apparently it does have a somewhat salty taste.

I’m trying to figure what is best and how to get in the in-crowd.

I feel like you’re probably better off posting on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com than here.

The lead admin and a lot of the /r/piracy crowd came over from Reddit.

Maybe he wouldn’t have lost anything, but I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy his comment.

hydrogen probably… just need further development

You can get a hydrogen car today. Just that if you’re outside a few places like Japan and California, finding a fueling station might be a bit difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai

Sales in Japan began on 15 December 2014 at ¥6.7 million (~US$57,400) at Toyota Store and Toyopet Store locations. The Japanese government plans to support the commercialization of fuel-cell vehicles with a subsidy of ¥2 million (~US$19,600).[12] Retail sales in the U.S. began in August 2015 at a price of US$57,500 before any government incentives. Deliveries to retail customers began in California in October 2015.[13] Toyota scheduled to release the Mirai in the Northeastern United States in the first half of 2016.[14] As of June 2016, the Mirai was available for retail sales in the UK, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and Norway.[15] Pricing in Germany started at €60,000 (~US$75,140) plus VAT (€78,540).[16]

https://www.toyota.com/mirai/

2025 Mirai

Starting MSRP $ 51,795

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen-locations#%2Ffind%2Fnearest%3Ffuel=HY

They do fuel up a lot faster than BEVs do, but the fuel cost is considerably higher than for BEVs.

I’d actually be willing to give it a try if it’s vaguely price-competitive, but their website is all glam shots of butter and people doing things with butter and not only doesn’t sell it but doesn’t tell you where you can get it.

https://www.savor.it/

Also, they did not do a good job of choosing that name. It looks like there’s a very-similarly-named French Canadian manufacturer of butter, Savör, which apparently isn’t too religious about using their umlaut:

At Savor, we believe the best butter starts with the best environment. That’s why we source our grass-fed dairy butter from New Zealand, a country renowned for its pristine landscapes, sustainable farming, and exceptional dairy quality.

I foresee a collision between those two.

From Trump Term 1:

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/us-tariffs-are-arbitrary-and-regressive-tax

Tariffs – taxes on imported goods – likely impose a heavier burden on lower-income households, as these households generally spend more on traded goods as a share of expenditure/income and because of the higher level of tariffs placed on some key consumer goods. This column estimates the tariff burden by income group and by family structure using a new dataset constructed by matching of granular data on trade and consumer spending. The findings suggest that tariffs function as a regressive tax that weighs most heavily on women and single parents.

“Tariffs have not caused Inflation, or any other problems for America, other than massive amounts of CASH pouring into our Treasury’s coffers,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

You know, I’d chuckled at the “Truth” part of “Truth Social”, but it hadn’t really occurred to me until now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda

Pravda (Russian: Правда, IPA: [ˈpravdə] ⓘ, lit. ‘Truth’) is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.[1]

Pravda became an official publication, or “organ”, of the ruling Soviet Communist Party. Pravda became the conduit for announcing official policy and policy changes and would remain so until 1991. Subscription to Pravda was mandatory for state run companies, the armed services and other organizations until 1989.[17]

As the names of the main communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant “the truth” and “the news” respectively, a popular saying was “there’s no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia”. Though not highly appreciated as an objective and unbiased news source, Pravda was regarded – both by Soviet citizens and by the outside world – as a government mouthpiece and therefore a reliable reflection of the Soviet government’s positions on various issues.

kagis

Ah hah. Thought so.

You’re in luck. It looks like after that post blew up on Reddit, someone went out and actually implemented a commercial Cat Facts service:

https://catfactstexts.com/

Texts to Send Per Day:

• 1 message per day
• 2 messages per day
• 3 messages per day
• 5 messages per day
• 10 messages per day
• 15 messages per day

kagis more

Apparently there’s an entire industry with competing commercial services:

https://www.catfacts.co/

At least one of the developers of the latter service posted to Reddit when he did so:

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/mel529/cat_facts_i_made_a_service_that_lets_you/

Fake plates aren’t legal. I was curious and looked that up the other day. Even at nonstandard locations.

China, the world’s largest importer of canola, also known as rapeseed, sources nearly all its supplies of the product from Canada. The steep duties would likely all but end imports if they are maintained.

Eh, other places make it. It looks like Europe grows a lot.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-top-rapeseed-producing-countries.html

The World’s Top Rapeseed Producing Countries

For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.

I guess it’s just as well that he didn’t try substituting bleach.

EDIT: Also, aside from not looking the stuff up, whatever form he got the stuff in from the Internet has to have either not had a warning label or he ignored it.

Here’s a container of sodium bromide on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/SpaChoice-472-3-5021-Sodium-Bromide-1-Pound/dp/B00IGERDJ8

On the front:

KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN

CAUTION

See first aid statement and other precautions on back panel

On the back:

PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS

HAZARDS TO HUMANS AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS

CAUTION: Harmful if swallowed, absorbed, or inhaled through skin.

FIRST AID

IF SWALLOWED: Call a poison control center or doctor immediately for treatment advice. Have person sip a glass of water if able to swallow. Do not induce vomiting unless told to do so by the poison control center or doctor. Do not give anything by mouth to an unconscious person.

russian propaganda

US and EU funded, and I doubt propaganda.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-2046590 and the European Union under the project MedDMO (Grant Agreement no. 101083756).

Lemmy is an open-source, self-hosted Decentralized Web platform that provides instances for news aggregation and discussion forums (Lemmy 2023).

Notably, this work find positive sentiments toward Lemmy and criticism of Reddit among the users of this platform.

in a dry tone

Indeed.

Usually crackling is buffer underruns. The sound hardware exhausts the buffered sound before the software can fill the buffer again.

Larger buffer or less stuff slowing down whatever’s filling the buffer. I’m typing this with one hand while I eat pizza, but give me a few minutes and I’ll give you some suggestions.

EDIT: Okay, took me a few hours instead of a few minutes.

The PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC reference in another comment is a way to increase buffer size at the Pulseaudio level if the program in question is’re using pulseaudio (probably yes, as I think that WINE always goes through PulseAudio today).

You can set this persistently and systemwide for PulseAudio in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf with the default-fragments and default-fragment-size-msec.

For PipeWire, the newer system, you can set this at a per-user level using pw-metadata like so:

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

choppy audio on systems with high load

PipeWire’s lower latency compared to PulseAudio can lead to choppy audio on systems with high load.

First view the quantum using the pw-top command and then increase the quantum value using this command, until the audio becomes smoother.

pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 2048

Once you find the right quantum value for your situation, you can make the value permanent by creating a config file ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/choppy-under-load.conf with the following content and restart pipewire related daemons.

context.properties = {
   default.clock.quantum = 2048
   default.clock.min-quantum = 2048
}

I don’t know how the two typically interact today, unfortunately — most Linux audio systems to date have had some form of emulation of each other, which somewhat complicates matters. When I play back audio from mpv today using the PipeWire audio output plugin, I see a stream both in pavucontrol, which is PulseAudio’s mixer, and in pw-top, which is a PipeWire tool. Same thing happened with all of PulseAudio and ALSA and with ALSA and OSS in the past.

From past reading, their authoring process is to make up funny titles, and pick a few to turn into an article. So it’s really optimized for the title.

Fair enough.

Pesticide can have no effect on humans. In fact, it’s generally a desirable attribute of pesticide to not affect humans, to be a poison that only affects the target.

https://gizmodo.com/these-people-took-ddt-pills-in-the-1970s-to-prove-it-wa-1678385578

These People Took DDT Pills In the 1970s to Prove it Was Safe

In 1971 two people in North Hollywood started eating DDT pills every day. That’s right, they willingly swallowed 10mg of poison every single day for three months. In front of witnesses.

A Reddit classic:

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/owx3v/so_my_little_cousin_posted_on_fb_that_he_was/

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1c64bbe1-710d-4ff1-8dc1-0eca4f208151.jpeg

And they make them so thin you need a case to actually hold it,

You probably don’t want an integrated case, or the phone vendor picks your case options, and you’ll have rather fewer. Few enough customizable options on cell phones as things stand.

This is in no way to disagree with the bit about how it’d be nice to have a thicker phone and larger battery.