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On August 25, 1958, Momofuku Ando created the first instant noodles, Chikin Ramen (Chicken Ramen). The inventor and businessman created them to help address the food shortage crisis in post-World War II Japan. Ramen itself has its roots in China, but after Japan ended its isolationist policies in the mid-1800s, the quintessentially Japanese version of the dish was created from the resulting cultural fusion. More specifically, modern Japanese ramen was first created in 1926 by a chef named Wang Wen-chai at a Chinese restaurant in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. His dish was designed to appeal to both Chinese and Japanese students studying in the area and combined Chinese wheat-based noodles with traditional Japanese flavors. The food quickly became a staple, and during the postwar period in Japan, black-market food vendors began selling ramen. After noticing the long lines forming at these stalls, Momofuku Ando became determined to help alleviate the plight of food shortages and set out to create noodles that could be “quickly prepared and eaten at home with only hot water.” He spent a year working on the recipe in his garden shed and then had an epiphany while watching his wife make tempura, which made him realize that the process of dehydration through frying could preserve the noodles, allowing them to be stored for a long period of time. He then created the first instant ramen, which was sold by Nissin Foods under the name Chikin Ramen. The product was originally sold as a luxury item, costing far more than fresh noodles, and was originally met with skepticism, but eventually morphed into a staple. Then in 1971, Momofuku Ando introduced Cup Noodles, creating a global trend that is still going strong today. Over time, different flavors and brands of instant noodles have been introduced, but the original Chikin Ramen version is still widely available. In fact, instant noodles remain extremely popular today overall and more than 100 billion servings are consumed each year.

It's like a very quiet Digg or (old) Reddit. Niche content covered by passionate individuals. The way the web was meant to be. While I wasn't able to log in with my piefed account, I was able to use my mastodon one, which is pretty cool.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51078361

Here, using high-resolution satellite-retrieved data and interpretable machine learning techniques, this study quantified the impact of NEVs on atmospheric pollution, specifically particulate matter particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 μm or less, and evaluates the corresponding health benefits. By 2023, NEVs led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths, respectively.

For the most part the predicted market peaks and troughs are pretty accurate. This is more of a statistical analysis (using past numbers to predict future behavior) than a Nostradamus getting high and pulling predictions out of his ass.

But still, there's a degree of confirmation bias influencing the believers (and conversely instinctive skepticism affecting doubters) that come into okay.

Either way, I think it's an interesting tidbit from the past.

So I saw this show with a bit of a different title but completely the superfriends animation with cyborg and firestorm and im like what is this? Went on a bit of a rabbit hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Friends but it seems like they were slowly inter speeding so many reruns and not putting in much new content when I was watching it and then it was gone for awhile but apparently it came back but they had relegated it to early sat timeslots. Kinda funny because I was getting into comics about then and I had never seen firestorm or cyborg at the time unitl I saw them in comics but apperently they were on some early time on saturdays.

Window guidance - essentially, the central bank increases or limits credit for certain sectors in order to incentivize their growth.

Learned from watching this documentary - The Princes of Yen | The Hidden Power of Central Banks (yt link) - , so if anyone knows if any information is wrong or misleading, please tell me so :)

Other stuff the doc mentions is that the late 1980s Japanese economic crisis was caused on purpose by the Ministry of Finance, through the Bank of Japan, by enforcing all banks to reach minimal loan quotas; all of that in order to force structural changes to the finance system, as without a crisis, there is "no reason to change the structure"

• Genus name: Rattus
• Species name: rattus
• Subspecies name: rattus

You'd actually say it as R. rattus rattus or Rattus r. rattus.

The Flashpoint Archive is a big project to preserve old web games (Adobe Flash based games, animations etc).

It has a really cool video about what it does on its website: https://flashpointarchive.org/

Go check it out. It's literally a treasure trove of old games.

Here are some screenshots:

Haven't bought name brand Pop-Tarts in years, but have occasionally picked up Toaster 'Betes or whatever the off-brand versions are called.

Noticed a 'sale' on the name brand and got conned into buying them. They're now smaller, have less frosting, and have way less filling. The damn things were so flimsy that two of them snapped trying to take them out of the toaster.

If you get a craving for some nice sugary betes for breakfast, stick to the off-brands. They're now higher quality than the name brand.

The future is stupid.

TIL: „Oberdeutscher Präteritumschwund“ exists and I absolutely love it — and the name, obviously.

It basically describes the phenomenon that the simple past tense is vanishing or even has completely vanished from various German dialects. Apprently, this can be traced back until the 13th century.

@wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberdeutscher/_Pr%C3%A4teritumschwund

Article is only available in German (… and Bavarian)

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