I’ve always thought soap was the wrong comparison, but I definitely have the gene that makes it awful.

Cilantro is loaded with acetyl groups, and sensitivity to those is what defines the taste. Soap is also full of acetyls, but different ones I guess? What hits much closer to target is stink bugs. The gunk they secrete to make their distinctive stink has many of the same acetyl groups as cilantro.

With our sense of smell tied so strongly to our sense of taste, you kind of know what something tastes like just from getting a whiff, with a few exceptions (looking at you, vanilla extract… you fucking liar).

Anyway, a more accurate comparison would be that cilantro tastes like stink bugs. Or specifically, cilantro tastes like the smell of sink bugs.

I can stomach dishes with cilantro in them, but it just stings through everything. No matter how little was put in, it tastes to me like somebody over-cilantro’d the dish.

Same. The taste of cilantro ranges from bad to intolerable. If there’s just a tiny bit of it in there, it tastes only mildly bad; scale it up and the dish is ruined in a hurry.

Pro tip:

You’ve probably already noticed that “please no cilantro” will fall on deaf ears when placing an order at most restaurants. “I have an allergy to cilantro - please make sure there’s none in my food.” will get you MUCH better results.

If faced with skepticism, give them the spiel about acetyl groups and that those are the source of the allergy. Your symptoms are itchy sensation on the tongue, soreness on the roof of your mouth, constriction/wheezing in your throat, and nausea that kicks in later.

You’ll be amazed how rarely they ‘forget’ not to defile your meal with that rancid shit.

Yeah like I said, it sounds like they’ve done a lot to try to turn their product into something closer to what they advertised, but that doesn’t excuse their initial deception.

If they were a car dealer or something, and advertised a souped up 2026 Ferrari, which their customers enthusiastically ordered en mass; only to realize upon delivery that they received a 2007 Honda Civic with the Ferrari logo sloppily painted onto the side, they’d be in jail. Because it’s a videogame, the legal system didn’t give a fuck, so they just let it slide, but what they did was 100% false advertising. They didn’t just bite off more than they could chew, they stated clear as day that it contained a plethora of features that it simply did not.

Their decision to later send a series of free Honda-to-Ferrari conversion kits was a nice and extremely unexpected gesture, but doesn’t absolve them of their initial crime.

No Man’s Sky, near it’s release. Starting out it felt pretty novel, and finishing that first repair of your ship, getting inside of it, lifting off, looking up at a distant planet in the sky, and just fucking going to it all without a load screen… I cannot overstate how insanely epic that felt!!

…and then the player experience hit a brick wall as you realize more and more clearly that the game you bought doesn’t come close to the game that was advertised. Ya done got scammed!

Word is they’re done a shitload to correct that last paragraph, but dude, that initial wound still fucking stings.

Nothing more American than punching Nazis!

Nonsense! …don’t forget about shooting and/or bombing Nazis!

Punching them is but a gateway drug to patriotism.

That man is a personification of disease. Of all the things for him to be in charge of, it’s public health.

But maybe some patients don’t fully understand the dangers of having food in their digestive system when going under anesthesia.

100% it’s that. I’ve heard patients say it’s just a power trip from the doctor, or because the nurses want your stomach empty so they don’t have to clean up if you vomit. Some people have a weird interpretation of what “NOTHING BY MOUTH” means (“No I didn’t eat - all I had was a handful of crackers / just one pancake / just coffee / etc”)

Pre-op instructions are really bad about conveying why we give that instruction, which is a complaint I’ve made at every hospital I’ve worked at. So then the patient gets to the OR, and we’re trying to give that lesson verbally, but they’ve already broken the instruction at that point. Easily the #1 cause of cancellations when that comes to light; but we do get the occasional moron who thinks we’re just fucking with them or something or decides its worth risking their life instead of dealing with the hassle of rescheduling… there’s some confirmation bias too: this might be the 4th surgery they’ve had where they ignored that instruction. Ate a full breakfast every time and nothing went wrong, so it becomes like a game to them. Then on #4 the odds catch up to them and suddenly they’re digesting their own lungs.

I wish they’d have to watch like a 1m video animation showing what happens. The long list of do’s and dont’s gets understandably overwhelming.

Out-fuckin-standing game for its time; did not age well.

Excellent choice for a remaster!

One of the most important verifications before surgery is to make sure the patient didn’t eat or drink. We can’t just superman-vision into their stomach, so we settle for asking them.

Ya guessed it: one guy lied about not eating breakfast that morning. He aspirated (threw up into his own lungs) shortly after the anesthesia meds kicked in.

The following several minutes were an absolute shit show. He was still alive when they wheeled him out of the OR, but he went straight to ICU, I’m assuming to get him on a vent. Never got an update after that, so no idea if he survived.

If you’re gonna get surgery, don’t lie to your team.

push-to-talk

That is a must-have not just for me, but any other fucker in the channel who doesn’t want to be muted.

I don’t want to hear the fuckin darth vader breathing, dorito crunching, parents arguing, dog barking bullshit on the other end of the mic.

“…try to do it before they film Home Alone 2 - that way you can save a piece of our childhood as well as our country.”

I think the goal is to ruin the rock’s credit score, or put it into collections, or drive it into crime, etc.

Never forget the cruelty is the point. All of the baffling, hypocritical, batshit fucking stupid things Republicans do on the regular, all suddenly make sense when you consider that they don’t actually give a shit about enriching the country, their constituents, or often even themselves: their intent is solely to do harm to some outgroup.

IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.

So… we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline… you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.

It still bugs me how our vocabulary just immediately goes out the window to market this shit.

• NOTHING is powered by AI. And unless some poor fucker’s cranking away on a standing bicycle turbine or something, it’s not powered by humans either. It’s powered by whatever’s giving their grid power - solar, wind, nuclear, dinosaur juice, that shit.

• Humans grouped up for the purpose of taking and processing client requests isn’t a fucking ‘chat bot’, it’s a call center. This concept isn’t new or novel in any way.

• Even “AI” itself has become synonymous with ‘computer generated’. Intelligence that’s artificial still only exists in science fiction/fantasy. We’ve been misusing this term well before shit like LLMs existed - calling shit like NPC pathing in a videogame “AI” which is also stupid… but lately we’ll slap an “AI” sticker on anything with an algorithm. We even moved the goal posts on this one with the new term “AGI” but I guarantee that one will be marketed into meaninglessness in the near future too.

This post is powered by my phone’s battery and last night’s dinner.

That really ought to change on both sides of the equation.

xFire, please.

I mean, fucking with a PDF isn’t exactly arcane knowledge, even after it’s been signed. It’s just cumbersome and tedious and requires counterintuitive actions like pressing Ctrl+P instead of Ctrl+S.

If their purpose is to be secure, they’re shit at their job.

Sounds like screen readers need some improvement.

Open Office? Libre Office?

Critical temperature = user friendly. TIL.

Open Office? Libre Office?