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  • Ah interesting. I know eggs can be (though the industrial washing they get changes that by removing an important protective layer), but figured the few times I got milk that went bad before the best before date it was because it wasn’t properly stored before I got it.

    Might depend on the pasteurization method maybe? Like the “bring it close to boiling” doesn’t kill everything in it but the chemicals might? (Speculation)

    Edit: apparently it has to do with the temperature it is pasteurized. There’s one version, most common in north America, that pasteurizes at slightly under a boil, which doesn’t kill everything in it and requires refrigeration before opening.

    And then there’s UHT milk, which is pasteurized at 138°C, and this apparently kills everything such that the milk doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge until it is open, and is more common in Europe and parts of Asia.





  • They are grocery stores, not some break room fridge. This attack is both economic (for the spoiled food that needs to be thrown out and the price increase that will come with that reduced supply) and on health (because not all spoiled food will necessarily be recognized as such in an effort to avoid the first consequence, plus if the fridges containing milk go warm for a few hours, they can test some milk and it’ll probably still be fine, but that best before date is now likely useless at best or misleading at worst). Also, even if most food is fine, if some food isn’t, it will mess with some people’s heads pretty badly.

    If the intention behind the hack was disruption and damage, IMO this is one of the more effective angles they could attack.



  • I found it pretty easily searching for “Florida plane crash audio”. Cnn had a version that cuts out right after it starts to go wrong, the actual one ends with “we’re out of time”.

    It is pretty brutal imo. She knew what was happening and that there was no stopping it, though there was at least some denial. Can’t blame her though, going from a routine thing she did regularly, if in a bit of hairy weather, to being in a situation where it was almost certain she would die over a span of seconds. She spent more time knowing it was over than it took for it to go from normal to fucked and all she could do about it was declare an emergency.

    Hope quantum immortality is real for her sake and she’s currently sitting in the Bahamas waiting for their return flight in a universe where she veered in a slightly different course that missed the worst of it.






  • Only thing that would make me interested is if they vastly improved the NPC AI. And I don’t mean hooking them up to an LLM but improving their behaviour.

    Make neutral NPCs more interactive (instead of just repeating a set of lines and otherwise ignoring anything you’re doing, unless you touch an owned item in front of them and they telepathically summon guards because only a thief would touch a bowl on an inn table).

    Make hostile NPCs smarter. Part of the reason that so many people end up pigeon holed into some kind of stealth archer build is because NPCs completely forget someone is there harassing them with arrows when they can’t find them after like 30 seconds of searching. They should put up barriers to block line of fire, add torches to light up dark areas, inform others and group up to search the area. If they keep getting picked off without even seeing who was doing it, eventually the remaining survivors should try to run or lock the place up tight.

    Would also be nice if the density of the world can be increased. Like not so much stuff to do, but how full the world is. Like have more than a dozen NPCs plus guards in towns. Just random people that don’t even have to interact much but are there. Instead of like 5 farmers supporting 30 guards and the lord’s household.

    Also add some more dungeon layouts. Sometimes reuse makes sense, though for ruins it doesn’t make sense for something to decay in the exact same way even if the layout is the same. But there shouldn’t be any identical caves (or if there is, it should be notable that they are identical and there should be a quest or at least hidden notes or something talking about it).

    I’m also not completely satisfied with the whole “everyone is about the same relative strength as you”. I get why they do the balance that way but IMO it really hurts the whole sense of progression when the whole world is always appropriately balanced against your current level. Other mechanisms could be used to bring early level areas up so that a high level character can still do interesting things there, which would also make the world more interesting. Have bandits move around and take over areas, or necromancers, or pull another encounter from a hat. But not a “oh you’re now at a level where you can fight trolls? Ok, the forests are full of them now”. But I acknowledge that this particular facet is hard to tune right and pretty subjective.

    I really hope they put some attention towards these things and aren’t just building a new map and quests for a game that might as well just be called the biggest skyrim DLC.




  • The main thing the fediverse offered is a way to avoid any single admin from taking over the whole thing. One instance gets too dictatory, users can move to another instance and still have at least some of what they left behind. And because of that, it will limit the amount of money that capitalists are willing to spend on it because their purchase itself would turn the asset toxic.

    But it’s otherwise still people running, moderating, participating, lurking, and automating here, and they cover the whole spectrum.





  • It was just yesterday that I closed my lurking tabs (again). I had been using old.reddit and initially closed them when they first made it log in only, but then after accidentally clicking a reddit link and seeing old reddit again, it turned out the old reddit redirect addon had added something that made it work again. Don’t know exactly what, maybe it was a reskin, maybe they only blocked it on the client side and it was trivial to bypass.

    Then, a few days ago, I noticed that the load more comments links were broken. Then, yesterday, when I refreshed the sub I was lurking, it just opened new reddit instead of old. The redirect wasn’t even giving a loop, so not sure what was going on there. I wonder if this step here is an extra one because they got it working again after I closed the tabs.

    Either way, it’s lurk or nothing for me. Quality was noticeably going down ever since the API change anyways, same with activity level. I remember you used to be able to spend a couple hours reading AITA then refresh and all but the most active threads would be different. At this point, you could refresh a day later and still see some stale threads that weren’t even at 1k upvotes. There was still enough to pass some time with but nothing like it used to be.

    Though I was surprised at how it never did really slide to the right like I figured it would with all the people talking about being banned for any kind of pushback to far right bs.