Thank you Froggo. I really needed this one!

Thank you!

Do you have a link to a story of what happened to ScummVM? I love that project and I’d be really upset if it was lost!

Yes! And you can mix and match with regular habaneros to tune your own spice level until it’s perfect. You can basically achieve any spice level between zero and full habanero by combining in different ratios!

I’m not sure! What you can do though is use habanadas together with a habanero as a way of diluting the heat. If it’s a saucy dish you can just cook with a small piece of one as needed, then use nadas for the main pepper flavour.

If it’s something like a stir fry then just cut the pepper, remove the seeds, then stir fry with half or two halves of the seeded pepper, then remove or otherwise don’t eat it. It’s common in Chinese dishes to include a very hot pepper that you’re not supposed to eat which just imparts a bit of its heat to the dish (because it’s not chopped up or crushed it doesn’t release too much heat unless really cooked a lot).

Really confused on the purpose for this. Pepper growers have a petty good handle on how to dial up/down the heat level of peppers (stress tends to increase the heat). We also have people breeding tons of new varieties of peppers with different shapes, colours, flavours, textures, and heat levels.

Check this out:

These are habanada peppers. A variation on the habanero, they have no heat at all! Similar flavour but zero capsaicin, just like a sweet bell pepper.

I think you mean private equity, which act as the scavengers of the economy, dismantling companies and selling them off piece by piece. Venture capital is about funding 20 startups and hoping one of them becomes the next Google.

Yes but not Calgary or Edmonton, nor Lake Louise, nor Banff, or any of the other mountain resort towns! Plus we keep the full stretch of the trans Canada highway and all the major railways.

What? No. All our (Canadian) fascists are gonna separate and join the US. Then we’ll be a fascist-free country!

Honestly this every time I read ACX posts on Al risk/trajectories.

Generally nature doesn’t keep doing a useless thing if there’s no longer any need to do it. Energy efficiency is a constant selective pressure in the absence of all other challenges.

My bet is that baobabs are shaped that way for very good reasons. The fact that the trees are spaced far apart even in baobab forests is a clue: the environment is very harsh, especially on saplings.

Since baobabs reproduce via many fruits and since they can be spaced very far apart my hypothesis is that they evolved to be very tall with featureless trunks in order to attract fruit-eating birds to carry their seeds. The tall and featureless trunks would make the trees difficult for ground-dwelling predators to climb, keeping the birds and their nests safe from attack.

I believe leopards are fairly common in these areas and they love to climb trees, although they prefer ones with lower, wider branches they rest on and even eat their prey within. Leopards have been known to carry large prey such as gazelles up into the branches of a tree to protect their kill from being stolen.

It’s extremely efficient given the low calorie density, high fibre diet and extremely limited grazing time (dawn and dusk) of crepuscular rabbits.

Think about ruminants for comparison. They spend all day every day grazing on the same kinds of foods as rabbits. Rabbits have a much more rapid metabolism (faster resting heart rate and ridiculous athletic ability) than, say cattle, yet they manage to extract more energy in less time eating. Rabbits are a marvel of efficiency!

Think about it this way: they’ve evolved a clever behavioural hack that doubles the length of their entire digestive tract without any increase in weight. This is extremely efficient!

They deposit them directly into their mouth. They know when they’re about to produce one and they reach down there with their mouth and consume it directly.

If you think about where wild rabbits spend most of their time (underground in burrows surrounded by dirt) this makes total sense. By not allowing cecotropes to touch the ground, they avoid contamination with soil-borne pathogens.

All spiders are little mechs to me! Their legs are powered by hydraulics!

Tigers are generally crepuscular which means they’re most active around dawn or dusk, when the sun is very low in the sky. Their orange fur does not stand out so well when everything looks orange under the golden light of dawn.

But hey on the upside you give birth to extremely tiny babies and then raise them in a pouch!

I have seen this exact story a bunch of times. I haven’t bothered to complain. I just chalk it up to a Lemmy thing.

Most of the games I buy today are less than $10 anyway. What I want from games has really changed, and a lot of the time I’m just playing free Roguelikes rather than commercial games.