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If switching to oatmeal, go with the unflavored raw oats. It's not bad once a person gets used to it. Substituting milk with water is also perfectly fine.

Eating a low sugar breakfast does feel pretty healthy.


I much prefer the texture of porridge made in a pan on the stove to that made in the microwave. The stirring releases the starches from the oats.

I use rolled oats and cook with just salt and water which avoids the risk of the milk burning if you are inattentive, then add milk or yoghurt (and raw brown sugar) to my bowl.


Go all in and invest in a Spurtle.


Or just use a wooden spoon upside-down?


As EZ-E says above, adding a dash of healthy fat (olive oil) above does improve the mouthfeel - as well as using a little more water than you need.


As someone who grew up eating oatmeal for breakfast... that sounds really disgusting.

Don't get me wrong, to each their own, if you like it that's great, but way too liquidly oatmeal plus oil just sounds really disgusting compared to just normal oatmeal + normal amounts of water.


Ha, I guess that's the difference – I grew up eating porridge and congee. I usually find oatmeal done by my friends too gloopy.


And if you can find them: I find steel cut oats (as opposed to rolled oats) way more enjoyable for texture.


Pretty good! It would be nice to have a little icon showing at the preferred ending location.


Thanks! Yeah, you're right, the point is to get to the center, and it's a lot easier to know where that is on my original "Polar" maze https://xn--sberg-lra.net/maze/polar?size=5&entryCount=1 I should update them to have a goal icon like you say, maybe antoher time.


It’s likely that Google has tested how many ads it can place in search results before users lose patience and turn elsewhere.

On paper, the approach makes sense: push profitability as far as possible. But in practice, it can leave customers feeling squeezed and resentful, much like the increasingly nickel‑and‑dimed atmosphere visitors now complain about in Las Vegas, and the proliferation of tip screens.


Yes its purely economics and profit maximizing behaviour from Google.

Marginal benefit vs Marginal cost.


It's a fitting title to describe life today for most people.


The series actually talks about this in detail, in particular the (incorrect) trope that medieval peasants worked a lot less than we do.


Yeah, and imagine how much more time could the medieval peasants have spent working if only they had electricity, machines and computers at their disposal.

The joys of progress.


Is that a trope?



I think the origin of the trope is that the peasants sat around doing nothing during winter, when there was nothing to plant or harvest.

It's probably true that there was less work in the winter (although you still had all your maintenance tasks, e.g. repairs and preparing firewood), but this was compensated by much more intense labor in the spring and summer.

Overall, though, it makes no sense to say medieval peasants worked less than people do now, it's likely very comparable, and the variations would depend on the quality of your soil/irrigation and how much you were going to get taxed.


Totally agree - their lives were no doubt hard and busy with back breaking work - my 'yes' was a 'yes it is a trope' - not a 'yes they barely worked'


Ehm... definitely NOT!

> Ultimately, we found that the claim that medieval peasants worked around 150 days a year is still largely accepted as a valid estimate by academic economic historians, at least in England for a period starting around 1350 and lasting between a few decades and more than a century, depending on the methodology used to study the data.


As below; Totally agree - their lives were no doubt hard and busy with back breaking work - my 'yes' was a 'yes it is a trope' - not a 'yes they barely worked


Wtf? Ok I guess so. I would have never guessed.


Its a favorite among degrowthers and those who romanticise life in primitive societies


Also a favourite among those that compare apples to oranges.


It is really great that Snopes was around in medieval times and can confirm or deny! /S

The thing is, no one knows what medieval peasants were doing, cos we weren't there. We have this or that piece of evidence, but evidence can be misinterpreted.


We know enough facts to get a good picture even if we don't know exactly what they were doing\


The majority of people today don't work as hard as the farmers of today. It is completely implausible that they work harder than the farmers of the middle ages, who almost certainly had to work harder than modern farmers (thanks to no mechanization).


That’s not really a fair comparison when vastly more of the population worked as farmers. The article has a good bit of evidence though that the amount of food needed to feed laborers didn’t lower meaningfully during the period cited as having short work hours, while the economic record that statistic is based on is very spotty. They probably worked way more hours.



> you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license

Correction: Docker Desktop is $9/month (not $9/year).


The article makes valid points. However, many of its recommendations are not practical for the 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Even merely contributing to a 401(k) or HSA can be difficult for these families.


I wonder about this, because people make stupid decisions about things like vehicles.

Eg. If people prioritized this advice and didn’t buy vehicles they couldn’t afford, would America be better off?


Hasleo Backup is completely free and is a pretty decent alternative to Macrium. I switched to Hasleo after Macrium went to subscription mode.

https://www.easyuefi.com/backup-software/backup-suite-free.h...


Small recommendation: The diagrams on [https://wuu73.org/aicp] are helpful, but clicking them does not display the full‑resolution images; they appear blurry. This occurs in both Firefox and Chrome. In the GitHub repository, the same images appear sharp at full resolution, so the issue may be caused by the JavaScript rendering library.


Another data point: On Android Chrome they render without problem.


thx - i did not know that. Will try to fix.


And a semicolon, AI really likes semicolons.


What does TFA stand for?


Among others (e.g.: "trans fatty acid"), in this particular case either "today's featured article" or "the f**ing article". I guess the latter.


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