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Cake day: September 26th, 2026

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  • What is the advantage of their rice cooker vs a generic $10 one from walmart?

    I’ve had my generic one for 4 years and keep wanting to upgrade since I use it all the time but at the end of that, day it works fine. I mean it’s just a bowl that gets warm for a while and then turns off, that’s all rice needs. So I keep asking myself ‘why bother’.

    Sell me on upgrading




  • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is inflation desirable?
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    Inflation means money tomorrow is worth less than money today. So you are encouraged to spend it.

    At a macro-economic level, more money being spent is generally always good as it represents increased productivity (oh, and taxes). So a small amount of inflation is good for an economy.

    High inflation means money tomorrow is worth much less which means things start to feel unaffordable.





  • I was going to joke about “Milk is simply processed grass” but then you said

    I practically live on cheese, but I could see arguments for dairy products not being vegan

    Brother, cheese is not vegan. Are you confusing it with vegetarian? Vegan = no animal derived product. Eggs, milk, wool, etc. are not allowed.

    That said “is honey vegan” is debated and there isn’t really one consensus. Some vegans allow it, others don’t. The main issue is that most honeys are not harvested in ethical ways & their apiaries are not set in a way to benefit the surrounding ecology.










  • I’m engaging earnestly / not trolling. You can disagree with me but I’m not just stating random BS.

    They took my statement about distrusting governments and concluded I have a bad relationship with trust in personal relationships. But those are fundamentally different things.

    Even if I trusted every individual in a group, that doesn’t necessarily mean I should trust the group behavior. One easy example is the Tragedy of the Commons but there are better examples if you spend more time on it. I trust farmers to care for their land and try to grow the best crops with the resources as their disposal; I do not trust them to collectively reduce water consumption for the health of the ecosystem. Etc. Trusting group behavior is fundamentally different from trusting individuals. They didn’t make a metaphor I disagreed with they just took my statement A and made a totally unrelated conclusion about B. Hence waffle vs pancake.

    I could make a stronger argument centered on distrust of government but the above serves to defend the waffle refutation specifically.