Partly the food being mixed in. Partly the thickness. Partly YouTubers making omelettes and them looking differently.

I guess it’s a loose/wide definition.

Thanks. When I see omelets (omelettes) (is there a difference?) I typically see a crepe of scrambled eggs with other food on top and then it’s folded twice, or rolled. The IHOP omelet is pretty interesting (as it’s stretched/firmed by pancake batter, or so they say) and it has both protein in it and on it. Their Colorado omelet is exciting to me. I wish I could make something like that. It’s not even fancy, but I don’t care about fancy. Function way over form.

That’s kind of what I was thinking. I married into an Italian family and fell in love with the dish, but my in-laws only use pepperoni, mozzarella, and asparagus. I started coming up with alternative meat/cheese combinations and they looked at me like I was crazy! A frittata typically does not get folded, but you could really serve the dish however. Another difference is, with frittata, the ingredients are mixed in before the mixture is added to the pan. A slight difference.

I beat a teacher at a typing test (speed, which is raw speed with mistakes subtracted; aka WPM, words per minute). He said it wasn’t fair that I found a “better” way. Right fingers on Shift and Enter (and maybe right thumb on Space), and left hand doing the rest of the work. He said that’s not the right way to type, even though he couldn’t type as fast as me. So he took me to the office and said I cheated on the typing test. To pass the class, he made me learn the “normal” way of typing. So I did, and I beat him again, this time with office staff watching.

This was in the early to mid-1990s. No computers, no phones, no Google. I don’t envy today’s kids.

He could be, but over 200 million Americans voted for him (mostly by not voting against him). If you take the population of the United States eligible to vote, and then subtract Harris’s numbers, you have a whole heck of a lot of people who decided Trump should be president.

Some may be foreign assets. A few of them are billionaires who find the GOP protects their money. Most are fools.

Interesting, but nah. They launched it before for influencers to join, and I’m not sure how many did. I haven’t heard much about it. It sounds like it’s gonna be very corporate run. I have no idea what the political climate will be, but there’s a lot of big money behind it, so that’s not great. I got kicked off Reddit for saying child abusers should be punished more harshly, which says way more about Reddit than it does about me. I don’t trust Digg to be any better.

It can. Maybe yours does. Maybe mine did by default. Mine ignores vote weights and sorts both the home feed (either Subscribed or All) and the comment feed by newest first.

I can vote, I see the arrows, but I don’t see vote weight and vote weight has no affect on how I read Lemmy.

Yes, that’s right. Sorry if I was unclear. The light timing is often changed to generate more profit to justify the costs and the camera take.

Columbine happened in the 1990s. I remember when they came out with the DOOM map for it. In the 90s. I never actually played it, but I kinda wanted to.

I feel like if Blood came out after Columbine, they would have had a school level. They did have a grocery store level. Blood was more like Duke Nukem 3D, way more advanced than DOOM, but still that same generation (what people now call boomer shooters).

The only purpose of law enforcement traffic cameras is to generate revenue. The people operating the cameras take roughly half of the revenue, with the other half being divided up between your local police and other local departments they might say they are supporting (like road crews fixing potholes and the like). But, generally these things are set up to “trap” people and to extort money from them.

Red light cameras, in particular, have been proven to adjust the timing of lights, giving people less time to get through a light and create more stressful traffic patterns. This does two things. One, it creates red-light violations that would not exist without the camera (since the camera slowed down the yellow light timing) and it causes accidents as people brake early to avoid the fine, get rear-ended by people behind them expecting to make the light, and potentially pushing them into traffic causing further damage. That’s why a lot of cities have gotten rid of them. The money they were making wasn’t worth it, and they were paying scummy people to make their streets less safe!

The more safe solution is to fix what is congesting traffic in the first place. Roundabouts in place of intersections are a nice, short-term solution. Better public transportation is better.

Canada? Your government can’t do much but block Twitter and its related apps, and maybe that’s what Carney should do. I’ve never heard of him being associated with any of the bad stuff your neighbours down south are in their government.

I love what I’ve seen from Canada in response to the madness in the US, so keep being awesome in that way. Encourage your neighbours to use Bluesky or Mastodon in place of Twitter, and if they have to use an AI chatbot, the one on DuckDuckGo (duck.ai) is supposed to be private, as is the one on Proton (Luna or Luma or something like that). I personally don’t use them, but they are useful in search results with finding stuff from time to time.

“Sweet Home Alabama” jokes aside, if you mean “someone else’s mother,” it means you have a step-child.

If you’re (I know, not you, OP, but rather, the person you heard about) 17 and dating an adult who has a 12-year-old daughter, that’s gonna cause some friction because the age range is so close there. She’s not gonna be a stepdaughter, she’s gonna be more like a stepsister. She’s not gonna see a teenage boy as a father figure. She might even try to kiss him to get between them (or because she’s curious). Yeah, it’s not something you wanna think about it, but you can bet she’s thought of it.

Any time you date someone with a kid, regardless of the age gap between the two people dating, or the gap between the non-parent and their dating partner’s child, the first thing to note is that the child will always come first in priority in their parent’s life. If not, they’re not a good parent, and won’t make a good partner, either. Specifically referring to people who date abusive partners, and look the other way when that person abuses their child — or blames the child, or accuses the child of initiating the abuse.

But assuming everyone is good and acting in good faith, even though it’s not “your” kid, if you have long-term plans with the kid’s mum, you have to plan on that being your kid as well. If you’re not ready to sign papers and adopt that child as your own, you really have no business sleeping with his or her mum. You should be honest that this isn’t long-term and you’re not ready to commit to having a family and be honest that way. You can still hook up with the mum. You can even be friends with the kid. But don’t string the mum along, and don’t give the kid false hope that they can trust another adult if they can’t.

And regarding having another child, never put the child you have together over the child your partner already had. If the previous child says “of course you love them more, they’re your child,” you have to reassure them somehow that they’re your child as well and you’ll always be there for them regardless of blood relation.

Only thing that works is putting the ring back the first place I’d think you look for it.

It’s always one dumb little issue they blow out of proportion. For trans people it’s the idea that a trans woman will attack their daughter in the bathroom. It’s an absurd idea that most likely stems from something they wanted to do in school (i.e. sneak into the girls’ toilet) so they assume people AMAB are trying to do the same based on what they themselves would do, and yet they do not see the hypocrisy.

For immigrants it’s “they’ll take our jobs.” No they won’t. Unless you like working in agriculture, construction, janitorial, hotel service, or other areas immigrants are willing to work — largely because citizens think it’s beneath them.

Oddly, Mass Effect 3 did this, except theirs was EDI and is pronounced Edie. EDI started as a malevolent AI found on Earth’s moon in the first Mass Effect, only it’s not revealed until late in ME3 that that was EDI. You formally meet EDI in ME2 as the ship’s computer, which the pilot originally hates but then forms a bond with. In ME3, EDI is given a body, and the pilot who once hated her/it develops a romantic relationship with her. It’s a hell of a story.

I may have only played the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time just last year, but I think EDI in ME being pronounced Edie and me always calling ED-E “Eddie” is solidified by them being two completely different characters.

Though I certainly see how ED-E can go the other way, and it’s fine. It’s certainly not a hill I’m going to die on.

Yes and they’ve been proven to do so. Meta (Facebook) recently made the news for pirating a bunch of ebooks to train its AI.

Anna’s Archive, a site associated with training AI, recently scraped some 99.9% of Spotify songs. They say at some point they will make torrents so the common people can download it, but for now they’re using it to teach AI to copy music. (Note: Spotify uses lower quality than other music currently available, so AA will offer nothing new if/when they ever do release these torrents.)

So, yes, that is exactly what they’re doing. They are training their models on all the data, not just all the legal data.

So he’s saying CSAM is free/protected speech? Got it.

Dude had absolutely no reason to out himself as a paedophile, but that seems to be exactly what he’s done. And for what? Epic is in legal battles to get onto other companies’ platforms (Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS) without paying the fees outlined in the terms and conditions every other developer had to agree to. I’m not saying he’s 100% wrong in that opinion, but outing himself as a paedophile by stating CSAM is protected speech only hurts his argument in the other case, because he’s saying he could put CSAM on his own platform (i.e. Fortnite, a game aimed at children and teenagers) and he’d be against you censoring his “free” and “protected” speech.

I just see no good outcomes for what Sweeney is fighting for here.

To address the political opponents angle, no one was calling for a Twitter/X ban before the CSAM problem, even when our political opponents were up there (i.e. before and after Trump was banned and un-banned).

Instagram/Meta is the problem here; if you are concerned about privacy and the effect of Instagram/Meta in your life, the solution is not to alienate services that (you think) work with Meta, but rather, to just cut Meta out.

Apple works with Google: Google pays Apple billions to be the default search. I still use an iPhone because it’s more private than a (stock) Android phone. Yes, Apple has business dealings with Google, who I want to avoid, but I can make them concern me less by changing my default search to (and, disclaimer of bias here) DuckDuckGo. (To clarify, an Android phone can be more private than an iPhone if you use certain custom firmware, such as GrapheneOS, but you still have to throw money at Google to do so as they only provide their CFW for Google Pixel phones, though they are rumoured to be working with another hardware manufacturer to cut Google out entirely — I am very interested in what they will be offering.)

Clarification: DuckDuckGo uses Bing for search on the back end and passes results back and forth anonymously — or so they’ve said. I don’t have the koalafications to verify. No, that wasn’t a typo. Randomly popped in my head (from a meme years ago), so I’m leaving it. Deal with it and take the rest of my post just as seriously if you know better. ;)

The only good thing to be said about Fallout 76 is that the latest expansion features voice work from Walton Goggins (The Ghoul, on the Amazon streaming series, but he’s done a lot more work and is generally a good actor). But like Elder Scrolls Online, it pretty much just exists to print money, which is why they haven’t focused on single-player games since, and the one time they did (Starfield), it basically just sucked.

Fallout and Fallout 2 are not at all the same kind of game as 3, 4, and New Vegas. They’re turn-based strategy games with RPG elements (dialogue and skill points). But it’s mainly strategy, where you position your pieces and manage your action points (which are present in the newer ones but more of an homage to the first two). Not saying they’re not worth playing, but they’re a whole other genre of game. Though, if you do like those, the Wasteland games exist as well. Fallout (the first one) was inspired by Wasteland, and Wasteland 2 came out after Fallout 3 and maybe after Fallout 4, and it was due to popular demand for a resurgence of that type of game. Now there’s a Wasteland 3. Something to keep in mind if you like the first two Fallouts. Which, by the way, are always being given away on GOG, it seems like. As for 3, New Vegas is basically like a “total conversion mod” for 3. It’s the same engine, with updated graphics/GUI elements, and gameplay features. 3 was my first Fallout and will always be special to me, but compared with New Vegas, the writing is just weak. Otherwise it’s a lot of fun.

If you ever do go back and replay 4, do it after playing Fallout 3. There’s a mod for Fallout 4 called Project Valkyrie. Get it, and the mods connected to it (I think there are 3 or 4 of them? Maybe 5). Fair warning, the modder added a bunch of adult content. For example, you have the option to turn The Institute into a sex club called “The Sinstitute.” You can ignore most of the adult content. And you should, because what else it adds to the experience is worth going for. For one, first and foremost, it allows you to unite all the factions of the Commonwealth. All of them. So they all have a point when they say, “okay supreme leader, now is the time to kill all our enemies” and you have to just go with it… or the game kinda stops. With these mods, you can say “no fuck that, I am the leader and I say we will have peace.” And then it lets you try that. There are skill and speech checks to actually make it happen, but you can pursue peace with any faction, considering you’re in charge of all of them. Oh, and the name Valkyrie… it refers to an NPC from Fallout 3 who makes a comeback in 4 (but only in this mod). This person is essential to securing peace with their faction. They also make a mod, I don’t think it’s compatible with the rest, but it lets you be evil from the start. I think that’s them.