I saw that clip of the church singing the Madonna song like a week ago and it has been playing in my head non stop ever since.
I don't even know the lyrics! It's just a blur of sound with the words "on my knees" in the middle of it!
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Japanese-style peanuts, also known as Japanese peanuts or cracker nuts (widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as cacahuates japoneses or maní japonés), are a type of snack food made from peanuts that are coated in a wheat flour dough and then fried or deep-fried. They come in a variety of different flavors. The Mexican version's recipe for the extra-crunchy shell has ingredients such as wheat flour, soy sauce, water, sugar, monosodium glutamate, and citric acid. The snacks are often sold in sealed bags, but can also be found in bulk containers
History
Japanese-style peanuts were created in Mexico during the 1940s by Japanese immigrant Yoshihei Nakatani, the father of Yoshio and Carlos Nakatani. He lost his job after the mother-of-pearl button factory he worked at, named El Nuevo Japón, was forced to close after its proprietor came under suspicion of being a spy for the Empire of Japan.
Nakatani had to find alternatives to provide for his family. He obtained a job at La Merced Market, where he initially sold Mexican candies called muéganos [es]. Later, he developed a new variety of fried snacks he named oranda that he named after the like-named fish. He also created a new version of a snack that reminded him of his homeland, mamekashi (seeds covered with a layer of flour with spices), that he adapted to Mexican tastes. Nakatani sold them in packages decorated with a geisha design made by his daughter Elvia. While his children tended to the family business, Nakatani and his wife Emma sold the snacks on local streets. Sales of the snacks were so successful that Nakatani was able to obtain his own stall at the market. With the help of Nakatani's son Armando, the family established their business under the brand Nipón in the 1950s; the name was registered as a trademark in 1977.
Nakatani never registered the patent for the snack. As a result, various competitors made their own versions of Japanese-style peanuts.
A Japanese version originated in Okinawa, called Takorina, has the image of a Mexican charro in the bag, and it is claimed to be called "Mexican-style peanuts", though the rumour has been disproven.
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I’m probably thinking too simply, but are the different phrases that appear at the top of the website just pulled randomly from a list or something? How does that work?
Neither soft nor hard but forward
Lol @ a reddit thread discussing whether it's better to pay for a Tencent owned game via Steam to 
Steam (?? why do you like Steam so much) or pay for the game directly via the devs' website which gives all the money to Tencent, but also supports the dev.
Meanwhile, mfw I just donate my money directly to Tencent because I'm a real Dengist: 
Got my wireless mouse and keyboard set up, puter hooked to my tv, I'm in bed rn playing vampire the masquerade: bloodlines unoffical patch and it's raining. 
my vibes are emasculate
This thread inspired me to patronize the new Hispanic grocery store that just opened in my neighbourhood and purchase some Japanese peanuts. Almost finished the pack 
Saw a doggie in a little knitted hoodie :3
Guy who describes the food from a Palestinian restaurant as "Mediterranean" - fash or nah?
it is november 23 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Pondering 
belles ponderer
Oh and here are some Broad Beanis my lady just picked. ( ~~I'm not a fan of them but they are pretty~~ Edit: they are much tastier than other broad beans I have had.)
The best advice for archery I ever got was from an American who said imagine the arrow is a gun and the arrowhead is the foresight and the nock is the back sight. It is great advice but funny that an American was like “so imagine a gun…”
Oh hey, I've been wanting to try japanese peanuts at some point. They're all over the convenience stores where I live, but I just hadn't gotten around to it.
They are great, i can eat like 1/2 a kilo easily
lol Sony losing money on a second morbius theatrical release because of morbius memes was so good
So when Trump inevitably grows tired of Elon and publicly disowns him, and Elon is left with a small fraction of the following because all the chuds will think he's part of the deep state, what's next? Does Elon overdose on ket? Does he go full Daniel Plainview and kill JD Vance in a drunken rage?
It would be so funny if he lashes out like a rebellious high schooler in some fashion or another. It would be just like Bowling for Soup sang in High School Never Ends. Elon gets arrested for taking a gun to the white house. Or something less cool like he starts smoking cigarettes and twitter gets headers with edgy emo lyrics.
Harvested my garlic. Didn't take pictures because they were underwhelming. What I found out this season is that if you do 20% more work you get 30% bigger bulbs. Now its time to plant Beanis.
Had a long post about a friend that has been a bit flaky about hanging out even though she's been asking to go to a ramen spot for years now, but I started typing the post when my shift started and stayed busy the whole day lol.
Anyway we were supposed to finally meet up for ramen last year but she told me she couldn't about 30 minutes after we were supposed to meet up. Now a few days ago she sent me a DM about meeting up and I let her know that yeah I'd be up for it and silence lol.
Its a bit weird because she used to invite me whenever shed want to hang out no issues, but now its just IDK. Maybe its just meant to be a running joke between us like it was before last year.
Lemmy.ml's Typography community is such bullshit. You aren't even allowed to talk about how on the morning of July 4, 2012, two big headlines came from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. The first was that the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti had made a significant discovery in quantum field theory. The second was that her PowerPoint presentation about it had been delivered in Comic Sans. Hilarity competed with outrage: Critics argued that Comic Sans was a font for children’s-party invitations, with a promise of fun and games. It was not meant for important developments in particle mass. Lisa Randall, the first tenured female theoretical-physics professor at Harvard, emailed Gianotti with congratulations and the question on everybody’s mind: Why Comic Sans? “Because I like it,” Gianotti replied.
Comic Sans has long been the “Macarena” of fonts. Type aficionados don’t like it, the way coffee connoisseurs don’t like Starbucks. It is the font everyone loves to hate. But I love to love it. More than the typeface itself, I love the idea of Comic Sans: a set of letters that can make people suddenly intrigued, and sometimes cross. No other font gets people so worked up. When was the last time you had an argument over Garamond or Calibri?
Comic Sans wasn’t always so reviled. In 1994, Vincent Connare, a typographic engineer at Microsoft, designed it for Microsoft Bob, a program that taught users how to operate their computer. An animated dog named Rover would pop up with speech bubbles of helpful tips. Connare thought the font should look friendly, so he designed the letters to resemble the print from the comic books he had around his office. The letters were not uniformly spaced, and carried elements that in a formal typeface would be considered unacceptable; p wasn’t a mirror-opposite of q, for example. “The initial idea took minutes,” Connare told me. “I never thought it would be set in all caps, so I didn’t worry about how these weird shapes would work that way. It looks horrible in all caps,” he said. “The joy for me was not making it right or perfect or straight.”
Connare’s new letters weren’t used in the final version of Microsoft Bob; the company stuck with its original choice of Times New Roman. Still, Comic Sans escaped into the world. It appeared as an original option in Windows 95, if only because, unlike many other typefaces, Microsoft didn’t have to pay for it. Comic Sans proved immediately popular, predominantly because it didn’t look remotely like anything else—blatantly quirkier than Arial, Courier New, or any others in the then-limited drop-down menu.
Comic Sans arrived at precisely the moment when computers became tools for personal expression rather than just dull workhorses, and users wanted fonts to match. The type was of its age: It met a singular need and then a popular demand, albeit an unintended, unsophisticated one. Typefaces are the clothes that words wear; fashion suits the times.
“The magic is that people took to it on their own,” Tom Stephens, who worked alongside Connare in Microsoft’s typography unit when Comic Sans emerged, wrote in The Guardian. Before home computers and desktop publishing, font selection for posters and invitations was left to the professionals; Comic Sans ushered in the era of the amateur’s choice, for good or ill. “When you use Comic Sans, you’re making a statement: ‘I’m more relaxed, more creative. I may be working in this area, but this job does not define me,’” Stephens said. “It’s almost an anti-technology typeface.”
And then the backlash began. People liked Comic Sans too much. It was being used everywhere, on everything—funeral announcements, museum display signs—as if fonts had just been invented and Comic Sans was the only choice. Hating Comic Sans became a meme of sorts. For this we must credit Dave and Holly Combs, a couple from Indianapolis who, in 2002, bonded over their dislike of Comic Sans’s overuse. Dave suggested that there was only one solution: It had to be banned. With a whiff of internet-age irony, he printed T-shirts, stickers, and mugs with a logo (“Comic Sans” encased within a red “No Entry” sign), and the public crusade against the typeface began.
“The font wars are raging on the World Wide Web,” Canada’s National Post concluded in 2004. The same cycle has played out again and again: Comic Sans is perceived as a provocation, and social media takes the bait. In 2013, the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI was marked with a 62-page digital photo album commemorating his travels. The captions were in Comic Sans, leading to a Twitter storm. In 2019, John Dowd, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, issued a letter in Comic Sans explaining why documents requested during the first Trump impeachment inquiry would not be released. Again, Twitter storm. In 2022, Disney+ viewers discovered that they had the option of watching a program with captions in Comic Sans. Storm.
An unexpected quality of Comic Sans, like the heroes in the comic books that inspired it, is its vulnerability, the sense that its fate could change at any moment. Even Dave and Holly Combs changed their mind about Comic Sans. Or at least Dave did. Holly still maintains that it’s an ugly font, but in 2019, Dave told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he’d decided he didn’t want “anyone to be mean to anyone” anymore. He amended the message of the “Ban Comic Sans” campaign to “Use Comic Sans.” After a quarter century, the backlash seems to be winding down. The brave—or foolhardy—among us can even love to love it.
But the future could hold an even better fate for the font: public opinion turning, not toward love but toward meh. In March 2023, The Face, a British culture magazine, did something extraordinary. All the text—the magazine’s name, its interview with the actor Halle Bailey, an article about the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood—was in a variation of Comic Sans. As The Face explained on its website, “Comic Sans always elicits a strong reaction. Whether that’s excitement or discomfort, we’ll leave up to you.” The issue’s designers added, “Feeling positive about Comic Sans could be seen as bad taste, while feeling negative about it could be interpreted as snobbery.” Two key factors define a great font, they wrote: It isn’t boring, and it has staying power. “Our least favorite typefaces are ones that provoke zero reactions.”
But what was most remarkable about the magazine’s decision was how little commotion it caused. No storm. It quickly sold out its print run, but beyond a few reactions on TikTok, the social-media comments were about subject, not form—about Halle Bailey and Vivienne Westwood. Comic Sans was ironic. It was post-ironic. Nobody knew. Nobody really seemed to care much, either. After 30 years of trouble, perhaps Comic Sans can be just another font in the drop-down menu.
IIRC the Eliot Rogner Manifesto was posted in comic sans.
Need some advice. Business next to my apartment plays loud music past midnight so its very hard for me to sleep. I'm like 16 floors above where the music is, and yet its still loud. I Is it fair for me to submit a noise complaint? I'm literally tired from dealing with it every night
Yes. Be the unknown hero for the people too shy to do anything. If you are 1 floors away and it bothers you imagine if you were right next door.
Noise complaint time, yes
I found my sunglasses! 
the most popular character in wrestling right now is the rizzler
lol
It’s really funny for pundits to pretend that left-wing politics are dead and Democrats must run more conservative in an election cycle where an unpopular incumbent was replaced by an unpopular vp, people are unhappy with the economy, the candidate ran a conservative campaign, and after all that the republicans won the popular vote by under 2 points and the slimmest house margin imaginable. Republicans are probably gonna do a lot of evil shit, but this isn’t some world shattering election, their politics are still deeply unpopular. Democrats are going to toss a bunch of minority groups under the bus because the fumbled hard and still only lost by a little. I hate this fucking shit lol.
Apparently the guy who sang Dag Nastys Circles, is a republican. Like what the hell was the point of that song then
kung fu kenny now
Does anyone else watch https://www.youtube.com/@WeirdExplorer, the YouTube algorithm has been sending me a lot of their videos, seems pretty cool, some of the fruits reviewed are in fact pretty weird.
Is the fact that this post exists and is on the front page of reddit right now a teachable example of idealism/materialism at play? TIL Fire doesn't actually ignite materials, it just makes them reach their self combustion temperature
Like people have this unquestioned notion that fire is just this stuff that hops from one thing to another for no particular reason, but when you give it a moment's thought you'll realize "Fire" is a thing that arises from a certain set of material conditions.
The day will come when the unsolved questions we have will be obvious and elementary. The Reimann Zeta Function? Yeah of course all primes lie within the critical line. Quantum Gravity? I learned that in the 10th grade. Why are basically all amino acids left-handed? What didn't you read your science textbook in grade school? Although fire is a pretty well understood phenomena, the fact that it's still pretty mysterious to people is okay by me.
That people think of fire as a thing that spreads in order to find more material to feed on rather than a quality of a given object dependent on certain material conditions isn't too surprising, it works well enough for most people in most scenarios they would encounter. It would be nice if people had a more dialectical understanding of the physical sciences but that's in a long list of things that I wish could change about people.
Maybe, but I think this is more just semantics pervertry. There's no reason to even have the word 'ignite' if it doesn't mean 'when something catches fire.' It's like saying "Nothing ever touches anything because there's always a gap between atoms" which is just a really useless statement because the definition of 'touch' that would require atomic nuclei to come into contact is completely useless. It's just notional fetishism.
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For the longest time, I thought these peanuts were Japanese Japanese instead of Japanese Mexican. I always wondered growing up why they were exclusively sold at hispanic convenience and grocery stores.
Got a new pre workout mix and creatine and a cute shaker cup
Fully back on my gym rat bullshit
I will get back to squatting 3x bodyweight and leg pressing 5x bodyweight before my next birthday and will get legs powerful enough to double jump irl
The trans side of the gender is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
I really worry that eventually most media companies will shift toward generating AI slop that’s only touched up by humans enough so it looks believable. I think a lot of mass media has become noticeably worse as analytics has become more dominant and AI slop era will only make that more acute. Also, as delivering slop becomes cheaper there’s even less of an incentive to produce high quality or even halfway decent content.
I think we will be ok. The quality of AI generated slop degrades exponentially as it gets longer. If they are trying to build something long and detailed the prompt will exclude a significant amount of training data. If they generate it in stages the need to be self consistent means that any minor errors in the chosen training data get amplified as the model goes back over its own work again and again. Think of LLMs as a potters wheel that is off balance. The longer you work it the more obvious that it is wrong and here is no way to fix it. It is impossible to train an AI on error free data so the clay will never be centered.
I think artists using AI to fill in gaps in their work will become more common much like how marble sculptors use apprentices to do the rough work.
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