I mean yeah that’s why I made the distinction in my comment… Without secure boot you’re still opening yourself up to a whole host of other attack vectors even if you have bitlocker enabled.

Ah gotcha! I for sure was not following what you were saying. I don’t know if that’s he real thrust of the point in my above comment, but I was more referring to the fact that artificial vanilla doesn’t necessarily come from vanilla beans. I should’ve been more precise with my language, but it’s worth noting that artificial vanilla is largely synthesized and comes from a variety of sources, not just vanilla beans (see below for the source/pertinent excerpt).

It also gets weird as to how the FDA regulates the term. I believe the key term is actually “Pure” in the “Pure Vanilla Extract” but don’t quote me on that. Not sure how it’s done by other regulatory agencies but it’s probably equally convoluted in a lot of places.

Source: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/technical-documents/technical-article/food-and-beverage-testing-and-manufacturing/flavor-and-fragrance-formulation/vanilla-regulations

Pertinent excerpt:

However, many alternate routes to vanillin are well documented, including vanillin derived from spruce tree lignin, corn sugar, rice or wheat bran, clove oil, curcumin, or guaiacol.

Look some people keep sourdough starter for generations. Just because they don’t necessarily make sourdough for 37 years with it is no reason to shame people for their hobbies. /s

Fun fact there’s an ancient sourdough yeast that is thought to be several thousands of years old. It’s not a virgin though and gets around quite a lot!

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220711-the-worlds-oldest-sourdough

I’d argue that you now have two major issues. Someone breaking into a house and stealing a desktop isn’t unheard of. Full disk encryption with secure boot deployed will save you the headache of also having your identity/bank account/cc info stolen a few days later.

Okay but you should enable secure boot on any device you want to keep any level of private data on. It’s trivial to break into a device that doesn’t have it enabled if you can physically access it. Laptops especially should have secure boot enabled.

I don’t understand what this would be correcting in what I said above. Can you show me what part this is correcting? Cause I’m legitimately confused.

I have missed this trend and I am hoping to never be caught by it. Even cartoon animals in distress fucks with me and I can’t imagine me sticking around long enough on a video to analyze it closely enough to see if it was AI slop or not. I can 100% guarantee I will get random flashes of it for several days if not longer after catching a glimpse of it though.

I kind of cringe everytime someone goes off about some dumbass purity test for AOC. Like one of the most, if not the most, progressive politicians of my lifetime and jokers want to get mad at her because this one time she wasn’t progressive enough. Like how the fuck do people think you push politics in general to the left? By electing some middling democrat, or even a republican, because the progressive candidate wasn’t progressive enough? How does that make any fucking sense?

I think it’s worth pointing out that vanilla extract is from vanilla beans and artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck they feel like that tastes like vanilla. Also, modern artificial vanilla extremely rarely, if ever, is derived from Castoreum because it’s hard as hell to farm beavers and expensive as all fuck. The “artificial vanilla comes from beaver anal glands” is basically a prevalent internet myth that gets passed around like the, “You eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep.” myth.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-vanilla-flavoring-actually-come-from-beaver-butts-180983288/

It’s like the first line in the article. Buffalo Wild Wings.

Look up why moped regulations (including speed limiters and speed limits) were introduced.

It was done because car lobbyists wanted to make sure that mopeds sucked bad enough that people would continue to buy cars instead of smaller, lower power vehicles.

Do you have a source for this claim? I tried to look it up but just got the justification (to keep them under the motorcycle classification). I don’t really doubt you but verification would be nice.

Yeah. I’m like minutes outside a major city and see these things in my backyard. I think they probably need to get their eyes checked or something…

Well you’re half right.

The Ayn Rand fever dream!

Any % cancer speedrun

This is kind of the actual problem though. It’s hard to actually have effective charities. Even some of the most ethical, and well run charities, end up with surplus funds (Dolly Parton’s charity for example). The government is setup to spend that much money helping people though. But paying taxes is somehow bad and wrong. I don’t know if I had a real point other than maybe we should actually tax these rich folks so they can achieve their dream of giving away at least half their wealth.

If you’re reading this, you’ve been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We’re trying a new technique. We don’t know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blob/db33ec7b1d5d9616a88c76394b7d0897bd0b97eb/blns.txt#L712

That may be the case, but African Buffalo are like one of the most dangerous animals to humans on the planet. They have long had the nickname of “Black Death” and “Widowmaker” by the locals because they are so aggressive. The bachelor buffalo (older males that don’t travel with a herd anymore) are known to be the most dangerous. From the description that’s what it sounds like they were tracking. So one of those dudes killing the shit out of someone isn’t exactly uncommon even historically.

Some cracker ass rich dude hunting them and then being killed by one is kind of fucking hilarious. Can you imagine this dipshit thinking that a buffalo wouldn’t trample the shit out of him cause his bank account had a bunch of 0’s? I just imagine him turning around as he’s being charged at and yelling, “You can’t do this I have money!”

His ex-partner and teenage daughter have been notified of his death.

I parsed that sentence wrong and the next paragraph didn’t help me correct it.

A close friend of the father revealed: "He spent every spare moment he could with Savannah and shared his life with her. Nobody could love a daughter more than he did…

I was in full WTF mode for a second there.

Also can someone explain to me what a luxury ranch is? Cause I just imagine it’s a fucked up modern day plantation with extra steps.

Yeah certainly not the fucking Mormon church though. Literally would rather it go to a crackhead at peak addiction so they can throw a $450,000 crack party then those fucks.