CerebralHawks

I don’t think anyone (at least involved with culinary arts in any way beyond casual) thought it did. Like how pizza isn’t Italian, Chinese food isn’t Chinese, Mexican food isn’t Mexican, and so on. It’s a flavour someone made in the spirit of another place and everyone just kinda accepts that’s what it is, but they know deep down it’s not really what food from that place is like. Doesn’t mean the flavour is any less delicious, it’s just not geographically accurate. Most food falsely attributed to a region is more flavourful and bold than the food from the actual place. Like it’s inspired by the place or something.

It’s like when Americans started saying “French fries are now called Freedom Fries” and the French said “what you call French Fries are actually Belgian.” A lot of “French” food isn’t really French, either. Referring to chips.

I guess a good Hawaiian isn’t something you’d expect to find in the United Kingdom.

Hawaii is at least as far from me as I am from the United Kingdom, but I have had a good Hawaiian. I hope that one day, everyone who hasn’t, can experience that just once.

This isn’t an argument for pineapple on pizza because pizza isn’t a monolithic thing. Sometimes I want a veggie pizza. Sometimes I want meat lover’s. Sometimes Hawaiian. Sometimes pepperoni & jalapeno. Sometimes sausage, bell pepper, and onion. Sometimes even BBQ — that’s chicken breast, onion, and bacon, with BBQ sauce instead of marinara. Like a Hawaiian, it isn’t traditional pizza, but it works.

I would hold no value for a pizza place that completely refuses to do pineapple. Rather, I would hold value for the pizza place that can change your mind about just about any topping (I stipulate that because no pizza place will ever convince me to eat shrimp on pizza, not because it can’t be good, but because I’m allergic to shrimp so that’s automatically a no go). That said, if you’re ever in the part of the US state of California where everyone smokes pot and thick red trees extend up into the clouds and beyond (the northern half), look up a chain called Round Table. They have a “Polynesian” pizza with pineapple that is something else. Sweet, spicy, and delicious.

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to compare Trump to Gates in terms of what they ran, but how much having that money disconnects one from the working class. They don’t know shit about shit not because of why they have money/power, but because they have money/power. (They also likely have people who shop for them. I mean, I know Trump does, I just assume Gates still does, too.)

I’ve never actually played a game (but I have a set!), but, shogi, or, Japanese chess.

• Nine rows, nine ranks. Three nearest you are yours. The middle three are no man’s land.

• The second rank only contains generals, two of the new pieces. There’s a silver general and a gold general. Nine pawns.

• Any captured piece can be reclaimed, at the cost of a turn. It goes back to its starting position (which must be open).

• All pieces are 2D tiles with black kanji designations. The tiles are directional and always point away from you. (They’re slightly pentagonal.)

• All pieces can promote by reaching the ninth row. You flip the tile over and the designation becomes red and it gains new moves. (Its name changes too.)

• Most pieces can’t move backwards. This is one of the main abilities of a promoted (red) piece. The tile always points at your opponent.

• Games are timed like chess in official matches, and I assume they take longer. They’re typically played on the floor, though I think that’s more a Japanese thing than a shogi thing.

If you’re inclined toward anime at all, March Comes in Like a Lion is a nice little cosy slice of life story about a shogi player (and the insert song Nyan Shogi is a bop you’ll love to hate (it’s cats teaching you how to play Shogi)).

That’s the thing. You have to be some kind of influencer with followers on state backed social media to win.

Someone like MKBHD, to use one example, isn’t going to talk about the guy on Lemmy with no followers who won. He (or someone like him) might talk about a Twitter user with thousands of followers who won so they can cross traffic.

Microsoft and Google want you to use their browser so they can sell your data. Your data, on its own, isn’t worth paying you anything for. So they won’t do it. What contests like this pay for is organic exposure. Which people like us can never give them, which is why we don’t win things.

How much did Bill Gates think a dozen eggs cost in the 1990s?

Billionaires not understanding working class struggles is nothing new.

Hi! I’m one of the few people who enjoy YouTube Shorts.

I don’t hate the idea of TikTok, I hate the privacy and political implications. I installed it on my Android phone (already a privacy nightmare) and I didn’t hate it. Made an account with a burner email. They send 2-3 emails a day. I didn’t get into TikTok per se, but I didn’t hate using it. I could have done something about the spammy notifications (which I was getting on my iPhone since I used iCloud’s Hide My Email feature), but ultimately I didn’t like using it.

Even on my TV, I was fine with the vertical videos. Vertical videos shouldn’t be a thing because you can/should turn your phone (and some phones used to make you do it to record video!), but I don’t hate that they are a thing. I only don’t like footage that is cropped to look like vertical video. It’s like Pan & Scan (4:3 video format that slides back and forth along the original video frame as needed, popular on VHS) all over again.

What really fucks me off about YouTube is the AI generated shit. I listen to a lot of Japanese music, so AI generated subtitles are not the worst thing in the world. Thing is, I took this song (“Anima” by ReoNa) and I took several translations, including an AI one, and rolled my own subtitles for the video, taking what I assumed to be the artist’s intent and going with the words I thought conveyed her meanings as best I could (not knowing Japanese). Like you can say “konnichiwa” means hello/good day, but when you’re talking about a philosophical song about the colour of the soul, asking if a person’s bravery or hesitation (bordering on cowardice/fear) makes them brave or not… you’re not gonna get a very accurate translation, which is why all the translations suck, including mine. But mine is what I chose to go with and it’s about as accurate as the others.

The worst part is the ads, but it only affects my Apple TV box. On my Macs I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. I also have Wipr2, but that only affects Safari. On my iPhone, I use Safari with Wipr2 and it gets most of the ads. On my Android phone, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. The only place I’m not protected is my Apple TV, which is why my next one will be a gently used Mac mini so I don’t have to use the derpy tvOS — though, notably, tvOS itself is the best smart TV interface (no ads, just icons). I think I can make macOS into a better smart TV platform, with just a few icons on the dock and maximum magnification on hover, the highest zoom setting, and whatever else — I haven’t really begun planning it yet. But, I think, with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (like a Logitech K400 or similar, or one of those game controller looking keyboards you can get on Amazon from China), a Mac (or Linux PC) could be the best TV interface. (I’m not ruling out a Raspberry Pi, which kinda seems obvious, I just like Apple stuff.)