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  • Veteran Regrets Donald Trump Vote After Wife With Green Card Detained

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  • And the bow goes between the bridge and the fingerboard, not the bridge and the tailpiece. This image is the string player's equivalent of an AI picture of a person with 6+ fingers on each hand 🤦‍♀️

  • Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

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  • Yeah, I tend to use "staff" or sometimes "waitstaff" to describe them, particularly in cafes, where the owner and/or manager might also be waiting tables. "Waiter" or "waitress" I'd mostly use when recounting something that happened while eating out, and I'm trying to specify who's who in the story.

  • Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

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  • Hmmm, well, the "wait" in waiter/waitress/waitstaff refers to the act of serving someone, usually in a restaurant or cafe. (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wait-on?topic=providing-and-serving-meals.) Like a lot of words in English, "wait" has more than one meaning.

    There's nothing wrong with "server", per se, other than that we already had an established set of words for that role, and a server was also an existing word for a piece of IT equipment prior to US vernacular shifting (somewhere between the 90s and the 2010s, I think - we've always had a lot of US media pumped into Australia, but the vocab used to align on this one when I was a kid, and then at some point it changed).

    Not saying Americans should do things the way we do it (vive la difference), just that the linguistic shift still throws me off. It would probably confuse me less if you'd always called them servers.

  • Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

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  • Of all the American vernacular for job titles, "server" is probably the one that makes my poor Aussie brain glitch most frequently. While you're wondering why people are bringing you a meal in the office, I'm looking at the same sentence and wondering why diners are being forced to work as sysadmins over dinner.

  • Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.

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  • CommBank winning the Big 4's race to the bottom yet again? The only thing that surprises me about this is that people still bank with them when credit unions and building societies exist 🙄 (The only exception would be international students, backpackers and working holidaymakers, because I hear CommBank's probably the easiest institution for foreign nationals to set up an account.)

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • All good! There's probably far more people in your boat than mine; it was a pretty natural conclusion to draw 🙂

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • No one needs the internet outside of work.

    As someone with a disability (and no car), the internet has played a massive role in allowing me to live independently, which in turn has a profoundly positive impact on my mental health. There are a wide variety of circumstances in which the internet has enhanced life experience - let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • From Banksy's 2004 book Cut It Out. Banksy, in turn, 'got' it (in its original form) from Sean Tejaratchi's 1999 essay in his Crap Hound zine. 😅

  • Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback

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  • Who, Jeff? He made a whole video a while back about how he doesn't rely on YouTube, and is also on Floatplane. However, he acknowledges that a lot of viewers can't afford a subscription service, and YT has a massive reach, so he still uploads there, too.

  • Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

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  • Even for bread, is it all bread?

    It's most bread. There will always be a few outliers, but they're a tiny minority.

    Is it added gluten?

    Gluten isn't 'added' to bread, it's a naturally occurring component of grains like wheat, rye and barley. Gluten free bread is made from alternative grains that naturally do not contain gluten (sorghum, rice, buckwheat, etc.). Gluten isn't unhealthy unless you have Coeliac disease or a gluten sensitivity/intolerance. It won't factor into UPF status.

    Is it a specific preservative?

    The ideal bread is preservative free. Mass-produced bread is almost never preservative free, because the time it takes for the bread to be baked, shipped, put on the shelf in a shop, picked up by you and taken home to eat is longer than it takes to go mouldy (particularly if it's in a plastic bag). Hence, they add a preservative to extend the shelf life.

    A bakery is less likely to use preservatives, because they bake fresh daily, based on customer demand. Homemade bread also doesn't need preservatives for pretty much the same reason.

    No need to demonise preservatives, or split hairs over "better" or "worse" ones, but worth being mindful of the amount you consume.

    Is it only bread with bleached flour?

    Bleached flour improves performance for baking (making lighter, fluffier loaves with more 'bounce' and chewiness from the gluten), but also strips out a lot of the minerals that are beneficial for your health. Mass-produced bread tends to use bleached flour, because a white and fluffy loaf is more appealling to consumers than a denser and darker one, and the lighter consistency makes it less filling, leading you to consume more of it, which means more money for them. Given the choice between bleached and unbleached flour, choose the latter if you can.

    So, yes, 'mass-produced and packaged' does tend to correlate directly with the overall nutritional content.

    Costco makes prepared food that is equivalent to what you’d make at home.

    I can only speak for myself on this one, but I've never seen a pre-prepared meal at Costco that is the equivalent of what I'd make at home. It tends to be carb, fat and animal protein heavy, and very light on veg. My cooking is the opposite (lots of veg, some complex carbs, not too much fat or animal protein).

    Just like the preservatives and bleached flour in bread, companies who mass-produce food are looking to use the cheapest ingredients with the longest shelf life to maximise their profits. Makes good business sense for them, but not good health/nutritional sense for consumers.

  • Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

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  • I remember the first time I visited the States, and bought a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter from the grocery store on my first night to make toast the following morning. Boy, did the unexpected sugar hit at breakfast time wake me up! HFCS really is in everything over there. Not at all surprised that packaged bread is classed as UPF.

  • Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

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  • Ooh, semolina, nice! Love me some Pane Siciliano... Think you just inspired my next loaf 🤭

    (Highly recommend breadmaking as a hobby, if the spirit moves you. Very meditative - particularly the kneading - with bonus baked goods when you're done!)

  • Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

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  • Each 10% extra intake of UPF, such as bread, cakes and ready meals, increases someone’s risk of dying before they reach 75 by 3%, according to research in countries including the US and England.

    Was a bit surprised to see bread there, as it's been a staple of many cultures' cuisines for millennia. Did a quick search, and got some clarity in this list - "mass-produced packaged bread" is UPF, not the stuff you make from scratch or perhaps pick up from the local bakery.

    A relief, actually, as I just took a loaf of sourdough out of the oven and was waiting for it to be cool enough to slice into. This article took the shine off the experience for a moment there 😅

  • Safe professions

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  • It's still doing a consistently poorer job than a skilled translator, because it has no concept of nuance or tone. I encounter people getting themselves worked up over information in AI-translated news articles, so I go back to the source material and discover it's mistranslated, under-translated, or just completely omitted parts of sentences. It's very Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

    The quality is better than it was a decade ago, sure, but that's a pretty low bar. Back then it was gibberish, nowadays it's natural-sounding phrases with incorrect translations.

  • Safe professions

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  • I assumed it was supposed to be Personal Assistant, but the text got cut off.