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Burger night!

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They look like they've been overhandled, so the muscle fibres contracted while cooking, making them tough and squeezing all the moisture out. It's an easy mistake to make if you've never bothered to read how to make burgers because they look so simple that no one could get them wrong, and then jumped to the conclusion that water is coming out of the meat because supermarkets plump up meat by injecting water and there's nothing that can be done about it rather than looking up what could cause it to see if there's anything that can be done about it.

If anyone you know is ever affected by this condition, you can potentially trick them into making edible food by telling them that mince is more tender if a small amount of bicarb is added to it, without mentioning that it's partially mitigating the consequences of overhandling and you don't need it at all if you avoid kneading your burgers like they're bread dough.

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This is a clean hit

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Oil has an outsized impact on how inflation is measured, so prices not growing faster than inflation when oil prices are high still leaves lots of room for them to grow rapidly. As well as that, for most people, things going up in price is already a problem whether or not inflation is higher, especially when inflation's so far above the target rate of 2%. If it was just a short blip of inflation being above 2%, then it wouldn't be so bad, but because it was really high for a while, lots of people already burned through any buffer they had.

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No you cannot crush our foreign backed armed terrorist insurrection. Wait, protests in our country?!

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You're putting a lot of words into my mouth. No one's more to blame for the current situation in Iran than the West, but the Iranian government has more than its fair share of what could be incredibly charitably referred to as unforced errors. There are plenty of Iranians living outside of Iran who have such a warped view of the CIA-backed Shah regime that they want his son reinstalled as monarch, which is fucking nuts. That doesn't include any of my relatives.

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No you cannot crush our foreign backed armed terrorist insurrection. Wait, protests in our country?!

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Israel also admits to doing cancer research. That doesn't automatically make cancer good, it just means that one of their many enemies also happens to be a bad thing. Obviously, Israel will want to support any enemies of their enemies, and will be willing to force the hand of their enemies in ways that make them look bad on the international stage to make their future attacks more palatable. That doesn't mean that the only people in Iran who don't support the government are Mossad assets.

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No you cannot crush our foreign backed armed terrorist insurrection. Wait, protests in our country?!

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It's pretty easy to find my real name from my username here and see that it's blatantly of Persian origin. You've jumped the gun with that accusation. It works much better if you point out that I'm overwhelmingly likely to be biased given that people that oppose a country's government are much more likely to emigrate and I've only claimed to have relatives in Iran, as that undermines my point without risking being totally fucking wrong.

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No you cannot crush our foreign backed armed terrorist insurrection. Wait, protests in our country?!

Rupert Lowe is recognised by a large proportion of the population to be backwards. Unfortunately, a large proportion of the population is also backwards (not a wildly different percentage to the percentage of Iranians that continued to support their government after protests had been violently and lethally suppressed) and somehow think he's great.

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Priorities people

The context: the UK ended slavery within the empire by taking out a huge loan to buy all the slaves in the empire, then freeing them. The loan wasn't fully paid off until recently, so UK taxpayers were effectively paying for money that had been given to slave owners. However, it quickly and decisively put a stop to slavery in a lot of the world without much fuss or objection, when it otherwise could have triggered wars.

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I've had an unreasonable number of arguments against people who seemed to think animal was a synonym for mammal. Thankfully, we're now in an era where you can look it up and show them now mobile data is cheap, so it's become a winnable argument.

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It's worth taking a moment to remember that PETA, despite not being perfect, has been the victim of a smear campaign by the meat industry, so every mistake they make is amplified and every policy that isn't immediately obviously sensible is reframed to look as bad as possible. E.g. you'll often see that PETA-run dog shelters euthanise a lot more dogs than the average shelter, leaving out the context that plenty of no-kill shelters send all their sick dogs to a PETA shelter to be euthanised so they can claim not to have killed the dog, but that skews the statistics. You'll also see news reports about PETA abducting a pet dog and killing it, which leave out the fact that it's one past event being reported over and over as if it's news each time, and that it was a much more nuanced situation than most people think. A pet dog's collar fell off while it was unattended playing with a pack of strays, which animal control had been dispatched to round up, and then sent to PETA to be put down, then a series of clerical errors meant animal control told the owners they never had the dog and told PETA that the dog had already been held waiting to see if an owner claimed it, so it was already dead by the time the owners tracked down where it had really ended up.

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Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

From what I saw, the 'call to murder' was someone having kill all zionists in their username, and that only makes sense as a real call to violence if we're supposed to take everyone's username seriously and literally. That would be a very weird world to be in, as then we'd have to accept that we're reading posts written by Star Trek characters come to life, inanimate objects, and various bodily fluids. Without evidence of something worth taking more seriously, at best this looks like the admin team doing something silly, and obviously certain groups of Lemmy users will interpret it less charitably and as the LW admin team being pro-genocide. Neither is a good look.

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Yeah, fuck these two.

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Macklemoore was opening for Ed Sheeran on his tour, and took some time in his set to speak out in favour of not genociding Palestinians, including clarifying statements that he wasn't blaming Jews in general, just specifically the state of Israel.

The owner of many of Sheeran's tour venues phoned him and said he needed to change his opening act or he'd be barred from performing at venues owned by the same company and several other venue-owners who'd agreed to join the threat. Sheeran caved, despite the fact that some of the tour dates were too soon to plausibly book a replacement capable of filling the venues, and Sheeran being a massive ticket-seller in general, so it likely being a bluff.

P!nk retweeted a message from a pro-Israeli organisation accusing Macklemoore of extreme and vile antisemitism, then when called out for it, doubled down with direct accusations of Macklemoore being an antisemite and wanting to harm Jews.

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meow >:)

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He was found guilty of medical malpractice after gene editing babies by treating their embryos with CRISPR/Cas9. He claims that he was trying to make them resistant to HIV, and that medical ethics are preventing cures from being discovered, but his critics say that we know CRISPR is too unreliable to use on a genome the size of a human's, and is more likely to introduce dangerous mutations than apply the intended change, hence why no one else has done this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui

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YSK: Green man gaming, a site which lets you purchase games directly from the developers, often at discount

To go one better, there's http://isthereanydeal.com/, which tracks prices across a bunch of vetted key retailers (i.e. companies that buy wholesale keys from publishers and sell them to users, but not grey-market or dodgy sites) so you can see where's cheapest and get notified of discounts etc.

Why check GreenManGaming and Steam (and potentially a bunch of their competitors, too) when you could check one site and know who's best?

I've accidentally made this read like an ad, but they've not paid me to say this, I just always check the site before buying games, and have either saved loads of money by doing so over the years, or have ended up buying a bunch of things I'd have ignored on the grounds they were too expensive otherwise. I don't know in which direction, but it's definitely changed the amount I've spent on games over the last ten years.

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Life goals

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Under maritime law, she was a victim of kidnapping and piracy, and was never arrested as it happened outside Israel's territorial waters, where it has no authority to have a blockade.

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Endorphins

I question the choice of sauce bottle. That's clearly sriracha, and as someone who doesn't consider themselves a hot sauce person, it's not hot, it just contains chillies. I don't think anyone who goes back for seconds after melting their face would melt their face with sriracha.