Roasted peanuts are cheap, high calorie, high protein, and shelf stable. It’s a decent mix of all the macronutrients (including carbs and fiber). Personally, I can also eat them all day.

Around me, a $3 jar has 2500 calories, over 200g fat, over 100g protein, and about 30g fiber. On a per dollar basis, it’s hard to beat for shelf stable food.

Gauging with pasta: angel hair, thin spaghetti, spaghetti, thick spaghetti, bucatini, penne, rigatoni, all the way up through big-ass cannelloni.

Most starches gelatinize between 60°C to 80°C. Including rice, which has starches that gelatinize between 59°C and 72°C.

Not sure where you’re getting the idea that rice needs to cook above 100°C, which is just plainly inconsistent with how most cultures have cooked rice for thousands of years.

Most rice noodles are formed from pre-gelatinized starches, too, in order to form the dough necessary for forming into noodle shapes to begin with. So those just need to be hydrated, and perhaps heated for personal taste preferences.

5% salinity is inedibly salty. You will ruin your pasta or rice, flavor wise. The health effects are not relevant because nobody will actually finish eating an entire serving.

The phone only draws a charge while you’re watching ads, so you’ll need to watch an hour per day to recharge.

if you’re a gooner

if you’re not a creep

Good luck with that Venn diagram.

Also if every woman and or man would be like this it wouldnt be special and you wouldnt look up to it soo… yeah

I eat food every day, but there are also plenty of meals I’ll remember fondly and think of as special.

I like hosting dinner parties where I cook for my friends and family. I can assure you that even though I do this for a lot of loved ones, they generally still appreciate each dinner I make. It is still perceived fundamentally differently from a commercial transaction (like buying takeout from a licensed restaurant).

It doesn’t just apply to food, either. Sometimes it feels good to have someone do something for you, where the exclusivity or rarity of that act doesn’t even factor into whether it feels meaningful.

So no, your hypothesis of “if everyone was fucking all the time, fucking wouldn’t feel special” doesn’t seem to hold up in comparison to other things in life.

This whole discussion, trying to rigorously define terms so that a robust mathematical proof can be given, is basically a plot point in the show Silicon Valley.

Dietary cholesterol has very little to do with health effects, but you swing too far in the other direction by claiming it’s “almost all genetics.” Plenty of environmental factors that can affect blood cholesterol (or more relevant to health, VLDL and LDL cholesterol), including diet.

A big motivator behind the banning or restriction of trans fats in most countries is the clear link between trans fat consumption and cardiovascular disease, including a direct causal link to raising LDL (aka “bad cholesterol” and lowering HDL (aka “good cholesterol”).

Some moderate physical activity has also been shown to significantly improve things like blood lipid profiles, at least compared to totally sedentary lifestyles.

And genetics can affect how much of an effect these environmental or lifestyle factors actually change blood lipids, and in turn how much those stats correlate or cause actual cardiovascular disease, but diet and exercise are still important for almost everyone regardless of genetics.

The average American eats about 270-290 eggs per year, across all foods. It’s a cheap, versatile ingredient.

The U.S. isn’t even that far out of the ordinary among other nations, 19th out of this list of 185 (if you include Hong Kong and Macau as their own jurisdictions). Seems like most of Asia and South America eats more eggs than most of Europe, but it’s not like there aren’t European countries in the top 20.

The reason why there’s a lot of coverage of eggs isn’t because of the high number of eggs in an American diet or the high proportion of a household budget spent on eggs, but it’s just that it’s a commodity that happened to spike in price, more than triple what it cost 4 years ago.

$20 gas gets me much, much, much further than $20 in eating high carb prepared food when riding my bike between point A and B.

Let’s see. Assuming:

• Gasoline costs $3/gallon
• A car gets 30 miles per gallon

That works out to where $20 buys 6.7 gallons or 200 miles.

Assuming cycling burns 50 calories per mile, you’re looking at 10,000 calories of excess energy usage to travel 200 miles.

At 1700 calories per pound for dry pasta or dry rice, that’s about 5.8 lbs of pasta or rice, probably less than $10 in most places.

Or course, people eat other things, and will likely increase their consumption of everything in a ratio proportional to their increased caloric needs, not just adding carbs to some kind of baseline amount of food for their BMR, so I wouldn’t expect it to be that cheap in real life. But there’s a little bit of wiggle room to work with for anyone cooking their meals at home.

I don’t understand why that changed.

It’s easy to point at social media, and that’s part of it, but I think it’s probably the ubiquity of photos and videos, easily transmitted to others. Even those of us who aren’t on social media still send photos and videos of our kids to the grandparents, to cousins, to other friends and family. We’re constantly exposed to parenting highlights, which subtly shifts the expectations on what the non-highlight portions look like.

One big one is that today’s parents put too much pressure on themselves (both individually and as a group) to always be supervising. Some parents don’t feel that they can leave their child alone for 30 minutes while they shower or clean, or watch TV, because we’ve built up expectations that everything is structured and that we’re supposed to sacrifice our individuality for the kid. Some recent research has shown that millennial parents are spending a lot more “hands on” time with their kids than any previous generation, rather than passive supervision like when kids are playing in the house while the adults do something else.

Plus there is a significant line of people who feel compelled to do high effort, high visibility shows of parenting effort: Instagram worthy birthday parties, more structured play and learning, high effort cooking of things from scratch rather than convenience foods, etc.

Finances (and working hours) are definitely a big part of it, but a bigger part is the shift in norms and expectations that we’re expected to be much more for our kids than prior generations.

I assure you, many of us were drinking copious amounts of coffee before kids, too.

The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

Isn’t that just what Lemmy shitposts is?

I don’t think most people consider dates to be the same as dressing up for work. One can look “nice” without having to look like a white collar drone in a boring workplace.

For example, I have different suits and ties for the workplace (conservative, standard dark colors) versus for things like weddings (brighter, more expressive colors and patterns and fabrics).

But even short of that level of formality, there are fashion choices that can attract attention. If you’re in an environment where the dress code is to wear a collar and some buttons, there’s a difference between a plain polo (whether cotton or some kind of performance polyester athleisure) or a short sleeve buttoned shirt with some fun prints (whether we’re talking about Dan Flashes or a Hawaiian shirt or something more subtle), on top of the decision on whether to wear that shirt tight or loose or baggy.

Or, some people make conscious choices for their athletic wear, when they’re going to the gym or for a run or a bike ride, or playing sports like golf or basketball or tennis.

For people who are going on dates, the attire can convey a message, either intentional or not. And people might choose to send completely different messages in the workplace versus on dates versus just out with friends.

It can basically move a blade along an electronically controlled path, so it can cut intricate shapes.

It can also use a pen or marker attachment to draw on paper, so that you can have things that look like handwritten script. So for example, if you want to send out a bunch of wedding invitations and you want to make “hand written” addresses on the envelopes, you can use certain script fonts with your existing address book, or even try to design a custom font from your own writing, and use that as a mass produced “writing” tool. There are a bunch of ways to make drawings and things like that, too.

Like rehearsing a speech in the mirror while getting ready for the day.

living DNA along with better error correction mechanisms so it doesn’t mutate

Isn’t DNA, like, famous for its mutations?