> Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the \u201creal\u201d country, all of \u201creal\u201d America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/the_hole_scroll/video-biscuit-basin-geyser-explodes-sending-yellowstone-tourists-packing/article_6862fda2-4923-11ef-b5c4-abdc9bc8cd83.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_buescher","story_41050055"],"author":"buescher","children":[41053458],"comment_text":"I grew up in the surrounding area. Tourists, and some locals, died every year, frequently at Yellowstone. Relevant Baudrillard quote:
> Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the \u201creal\u201d country, all of \u201creal\u201d America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.","created_at":"2024-07-23T23:55:38Z","created_at_i":1721778938,"objectID":"41052295","parent_id":41050055,"story_id":41050055,"story_title":"Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park","story_url":"https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/the_hole_scroll/video-biscuit-basin-geyser-explodes-sending-yellowstone-tourists-packing/article_6862fda2-4923-11ef-b5c4-abdc9bc8cd83.html","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:28:54Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"JamesLeonis"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"Jean Baudrillard would argue we are in an even worse fate: The VR/AR/Mobile/Disneyland world is a presented reality in a way we can dismiss it, while still accepting the world around us as real [0]. The danger is the simple call ("turn it off" or "remove it from your eyes") misses that the reality without the glasses is just as much a fiction. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek makes the argument as forcefully against Ideology as a concept as well [1].
> Thus, everywhere in Disneyland the objective profile of America, down to the morphology of individuals and of the crowd, is drawn. All its values are exalted by the miniature and the comic strip. Embalmed and pacified. Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland: digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality.
> Certainly.
> But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
> The imaginary of Disneyland is neither true nor false, it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate the fiction of the real in the opposite camp. Whence the debility of this imaginary, its infantile degeneration. This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world [...]
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120309115319/https://www9.geor...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Wild (and Slightly Terrifying) Future of Inescapable AR Ads"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://beyondthescreen.substack.com/p/the-wild-and-slightly-terrifying"}},"_tags":["comment","author_JamesLeonis","story_36495059"],"author":"JamesLeonis","comment_text":"Jean Baudrillard would argue we are in an even worse fate: The VR/AR/Mobile/Disneyland world is a presented reality in a way we can dismiss it, while still accepting the world around us as real [0]. The danger is the simple call ("turn it off" or "remove it from your eyes") misses that the reality without the glasses is just as much a fiction. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek makes the argument as forcefully against Ideology as a concept as well [1].
> Thus, everywhere in Disneyland the objective profile of America, down to the morphology of individuals and of the crowd, is drawn. All its values are exalted by the miniature and the comic strip. Embalmed and pacified. Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland: digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality.
> Certainly.
> But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
> The imaginary of Disneyland is neither true nor false, it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate the fiction of the real in the opposite camp. Whence the debility of this imaginary, its infantile degeneration. This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world [...]
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120309115319/https://www9.geor...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k","created_at":"2023-06-27T17:36:16Z","created_at_i":1687887376,"objectID":"36496154","parent_id":36495059,"story_id":36495059,"story_title":"The Wild (and Slightly Terrifying) Future of Inescapable AR Ads","story_url":"https://beyondthescreen.substack.com/p/the-wild-and-slightly-terrifying","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:31:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gowld"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid
> Synapsids[a] are one of the two major clades of vertebrate animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the sauropsids, which include reptiles (turtles, crocodilians and lepidosaurs) and birds.
> the only extant group that survived into the Cenozoic are the mammals.
> The animals (basal amniotes) from which non-mammalian synapsids evolved were traditionally called "reptiles".
> It is now known that all extant animals traditionally called "reptiles" are more closely related to each other than to synapsids, so the word "reptile" has been re-defined to mean only members of Sauropsida (bird-line Amniota) or even just an under-clade thereof"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721420917687"}},"_tags":["comment","author_gowld","story_37555118"],"author":"gowld","comment_text":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid
> Synapsids[a] are one of the two major clades of vertebrate animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the sauropsids, which include reptiles (turtles, crocodilians and lepidosaurs) and birds.
> the only extant group that survived into the Cenozoic are the mammals.
> The animals (basal amniotes) from which non-mammalian synapsids evolved were traditionally called "reptiles".
> It is now known that all extant animals traditionally called "reptiles" are more closely related to each other than to synapsids, so the word "reptile" has been re-defined to mean only members of Sauropsida (bird-line Amniota) or even just an under-clade thereof","created_at":"2023-09-18T20:15:14Z","created_at_i":1695068114,"objectID":"37561403","parent_id":37559488,"story_id":37555118,"story_title":"The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)","story_url":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721420917687","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:12:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sradman"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"The paper Early adaptation to eolian sand dunes by basal amniotes is documented in two Pennsylvanian Grand Canyon trackways [1]:
> The narrow width of both trackways indicates that both trackmakers had relatively small femoral abduction angles and correspondingly relatively erect postures. They represent the earliest known occurrence of dunefield-dwelling amniotes\u2015either basal reptiles or basal synapsids...
This geological formation was from the Moscovian age (315.2 to 307 Ma) or the Kasimovian age (307 to 303.7 Ma) in the Pennsylvanian period.
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904943006/fallen-boulder-reveals-313-million-year-old-fossil-footprints-at-grand-canyon"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sradman","story_24241828"],"author":"sradman","comment_text":"The paper Early adaptation to eolian sand dunes by basal amniotes is documented in two Pennsylvanian Grand Canyon trackways [1]:
> The narrow width of both trackways indicates that both trackmakers had relatively small femoral abduction angles and correspondingly relatively erect postures. They represent the earliest known occurrence of dunefield-dwelling amniotes\u2015either basal reptiles or basal synapsids...
This geological formation was from the Moscovian age (315.2 to 307 Ma) or the Kasimovian age (307 to 303.7 Ma) in the Pennsylvanian period.
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...","created_at":"2020-08-23T09:02:48Z","created_at_i":1598173368,"objectID":"24250643","parent_id":24241828,"story_id":24241828,"story_title":"Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon","story_url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904943006/fallen-boulder-reveals-313-million-year-old-fossil-footprints-at-grand-canyon","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:47:51Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"6510"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"I ended up cooking for next to nothing by accident one time. I didn't notice it until I discover all my money was still in the bank end of the month.
To make things more ironic my goal was to create superior food which absolutely worked.
The main invention was this: For most meals we take a bunch of ingredients and mix them into a deliciously flavored mix and give it fancy names. The grand mistake we made is that the entire meal tastes the same. The second mistake is that every ingredient we use really is an experience to eat in it self. Every 2 ingredients offer 3 different experiences. A, B and A+B
With 3 ingredients you get A, B, C, AB, AC, BC! Thats 6!
With 4 ingredients you get A,B,C,D,AB,AC,AD,BC,BD,CD! Thats 10!
So I needed some kind of structured platform to carefully plan out this adventure. Pizza was my medium of choice but an oven dish should work too. (I make small 25 cm pizzas)
So I got the Gouda, the mozzarella, the camembert and the goat cheese. (there are many more of course) (4)
I got some varieties of mushrooms. (2)
I got some meat, chicken, bacon, salami, ham. (4)
I got some different kinds of fish. (3)
Some fruit is fine too. (2)
But the largest diversity of tastes are in the vegetables(!)(20?)
The "problem" the above presents is that you cant put a lot of anything on there. My pizza is only 25 cm or 490 cm2. Lets say there are 60 bites on it. The goal was to zone it into an adventure of identifiable tastes. More than 4 flavors per bite would ruin the experience.
With 35 different ingredients..., at least 1 slice of olive (or it isn't a pizza) oregano, thyme, basil, onion, garlic, slices of red pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper.... you just have to many combinations to put everything on it.
Each pizza will have to be a sub set.
I know it instinctively feels weird and disgusting to put a slices of carrot on the pizza but in practice it really takes the journey of flavors some place else. You wouldn't want 3 bites of it but the single bite really creates an additional moment of "oh?" (hilarious note: guests feel the need to tell me the pizza is delicious roughly every 3rd bite)
I just buy different boxes of frozen vegetables but you could cook or bake and/or freeze your own.
We (there is a "we" now) (bake if needed then) sparsely spread the sub-selection of meat and/or fish over their own region. Take a hand full of vegetables mix and place each chunk strategically. Put a lot of thought into the adventure and improve it every time. Take the minimum amount of each cheese you've picked and spread it into similar regions as the meat so that they overlap.
Really put a lot of thought into it. It helps if you look at an ingredient and ask yourself what kind of meals are prepared with it. Then you take the [for example] chunk of cauliflower, put 2 cubes of potato next to it and some Gouda on top.
The end result should be a slab of flour with vegetables on it, good spices and as little meat, fish and cheese as possible. Not because meat, fish or cheese are not wonderful but because they get in the way of the vegetable flavors.
Being cheep as fuck is just a side effect.
The only down side is that you have to keep making pizza 2 or 3 times per day week after week after week. It never gets boring tho.
Final note: Keep as much stuff frozen as you can or your adventure ends up chasing expiration dates."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Eat for $1.50 per Day \u2013 Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://efficiencyiseverything.com/eat-for-1-50-per-day-layoffs-coronavirus-quarantine-food-shortages/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_6510","story_22654646"],"author":"6510","children":[22655875,22656266],"comment_text":"I ended up cooking for next to nothing by accident one time. I didn't notice it until I discover all my money was still in the bank end of the month.
To make things more ironic my goal was to create superior food which absolutely worked.
The main invention was this: For most meals we take a bunch of ingredients and mix them into a deliciously flavored mix and give it fancy names. The grand mistake we made is that the entire meal tastes the same. The second mistake is that every ingredient we use really is an experience to eat in it self. Every 2 ingredients offer 3 different experiences. A, B and A+B
With 3 ingredients you get A, B, C, AB, AC, BC! Thats 6!
With 4 ingredients you get A,B,C,D,AB,AC,AD,BC,BD,CD! Thats 10!
So I needed some kind of structured platform to carefully plan out this adventure. Pizza was my medium of choice but an oven dish should work too. (I make small 25 cm pizzas)
So I got the Gouda, the mozzarella, the camembert and the goat cheese. (there are many more of course) (4)
I got some varieties of mushrooms. (2)
I got some meat, chicken, bacon, salami, ham. (4)
I got some different kinds of fish. (3)
Some fruit is fine too. (2)
But the largest diversity of tastes are in the vegetables(!)(20?)
The "problem" the above presents is that you cant put a lot of anything on there. My pizza is only 25 cm or 490 cm2. Lets say there are 60 bites on it. The goal was to zone it into an adventure of identifiable tastes. More than 4 flavors per bite would ruin the experience.
With 35 different ingredients..., at least 1 slice of olive (or it isn't a pizza) oregano, thyme, basil, onion, garlic, slices of red pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper.... you just have to many combinations to put everything on it.
Each pizza will have to be a sub set.
I know it instinctively feels weird and disgusting to put a slices of carrot on the pizza but in practice it really takes the journey of flavors some place else. You wouldn't want 3 bites of it but the single bite really creates an additional moment of "oh?" (hilarious note: guests feel the need to tell me the pizza is delicious roughly every 3rd bite)
I just buy different boxes of frozen vegetables but you could cook or bake and/or freeze your own.
We (there is a "we" now) (bake if needed then) sparsely spread the sub-selection of meat and/or fish over their own region. Take a hand full of vegetables mix and place each chunk strategically. Put a lot of thought into the adventure and improve it every time. Take the minimum amount of each cheese you've picked and spread it into similar regions as the meat so that they overlap.
Really put a lot of thought into it. It helps if you look at an ingredient and ask yourself what kind of meals are prepared with it. Then you take the [for example] chunk of cauliflower, put 2 cubes of potato next to it and some Gouda on top.
The end result should be a slab of flour with vegetables on it, good spices and as little meat, fish and cheese as possible. Not because meat, fish or cheese are not wonderful but because they get in the way of the vegetable flavors.
Being cheep as fuck is just a side effect.
The only down side is that you have to keep making pizza 2 or 3 times per day week after week after week. It never gets boring tho.
Final note: Keep as much stuff frozen as you can or your adventure ends up chasing expiration dates.","created_at":"2020-03-22T15:36:41Z","created_at_i":1584891401,"objectID":"22655725","parent_id":22654646,"story_id":22654646,"story_title":"Eat for $1.50 per Day \u2013 Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages","story_url":"https://efficiencyiseverything.com/eat-for-1-50-per-day-layoffs-coronavirus-quarantine-food-shortages/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T05:53:01Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"modells"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"As a rubber tramp, I have EBT/SNAP (for the next 2-3 months until the Republicans take it away), 2 propane burners and Costco but no fridge (it needs servicing). It\u2019s often buy fresh as-needed, which is expensive, or buy things that keep like protein bars and bag of rice/lentil/quinoa. Giving homeless people canned goods is a waste because they usually require can openers or are too heavy for the amount of food contained.
Grocery Outlet and WinCo often have hydroponic LiveLettuce for cheap that keeps for a long time. Apples and some citrus last. I wish I had fresh tomatoes, they\u2019re so good. Fresh tomato, basil, onion and garlic salad is to die for: see FrenchGuyCooking on IG. If I had a solar-powered hydroponic greenhouse trailer, I\u2019d grow all of my own vegetables. One modern adaptation is some farmer\u2019s markets take EBT and offer extra incentives... which all well-and-good if you have refrigeration.
The bigger problem in the produce industry is the parallels with swipe dating apps: optimizing for looks, but not taste or nutrition... hence why store-bought vegetables taste like cardboard. As an example, a former coworker had a job at one of those fruit stands. Blemished fruits and vegetables were fine to eat but wouldn\u2019t sell, so they went into pies and soups. It seems to me shrewd farmers and shoppers would find a way to rate/compete produce, shorten the supply chain and deliver naturally-ripened food.
Finally, a Russian hustler friend of mine fregans all sorts of stuff: steaks, salads, takeaway meals, whatever. I should do that more TBH because expiration dates are very conservative."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/uglyproduce/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_modells","story_17786894"],"author":"modells","children":[17787375,17788232],"comment_text":"As a rubber tramp, I have EBT/SNAP (for the next 2-3 months until the Republicans take it away), 2 propane burners and Costco but no fridge (it needs servicing). It\u2019s often buy fresh as-needed, which is expensive, or buy things that keep like protein bars and bag of rice/lentil/quinoa. Giving homeless people canned goods is a waste because they usually require can openers or are too heavy for the amount of food contained.
Grocery Outlet and WinCo often have hydroponic LiveLettuce for cheap that keeps for a long time. Apples and some citrus last. I wish I had fresh tomatoes, they\u2019re so good. Fresh tomato, basil, onion and garlic salad is to die for: see FrenchGuyCooking on IG. If I had a solar-powered hydroponic greenhouse trailer, I\u2019d grow all of my own vegetables. One modern adaptation is some farmer\u2019s markets take EBT and offer extra incentives... which all well-and-good if you have refrigeration.
The bigger problem in the produce industry is the parallels with swipe dating apps: optimizing for looks, but not taste or nutrition... hence why store-bought vegetables taste like cardboard. As an example, a former coworker had a job at one of those fruit stands. Blemished fruits and vegetables were fine to eat but wouldn\u2019t sell, so they went into pies and soups. It seems to me shrewd farmers and shoppers would find a way to rate/compete produce, shorten the supply chain and deliver naturally-ripened food.
Finally, a Russian hustler friend of mine fregans all sorts of stuff: steaks, salads, takeaway meals, whatever. I should do that more TBH because expiration dates are very conservative.","created_at":"2018-08-18T07:45:09Z","created_at_i":1534578309,"objectID":"17787357","parent_id":17787134,"story_id":17786894,"story_title":"The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce","story_url":"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/uglyproduce/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:57:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rdlecler1"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["basal","omni"],"value":"I'm not sure where you were, but my wife and I just returned from 14 days in Vietnam. There was so much diversity in the food: Lemon grass, garlic, ginger, morning glory, two types of basil, onions, two types of cilantro, carrots, three types of peppers, lettuce, green onion, peanuts, sesame, shallots, cucumber, tomato, mint, banana flower, cabbage, papaya, mango, dragon fruit, breast fruit, lime. I'm sure I'm still missing a dozen."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Munchery CEO Tri Tran's harrowing journey to Silicon Valley"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-01-05/how-a-vietnamese-refugee-is-rethinking-food-delivery-in-america"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rdlecler1","story_10886794"],"author":"rdlecler1","children":[10890087],"comment_text":"I'm not sure where you were, but my wife and I just returned from 14 days in Vietnam. There was so much diversity in the food: Lemon grass, garlic, ginger, morning glory, two types of basil, onions, two types of cilantro, carrots, three types of peppers, lettuce, green onion, peanuts, sesame, shallots, cucumber, tomato, mint, banana flower, cabbage, papaya, mango, dragon fruit, breast fruit, lime. I'm sure I'm still missing a dozen.","created_at":"2016-01-12T19:36:46Z","created_at_i":1452627406,"objectID":"10889764","parent_id":10888601,"story_id":10886794,"story_title":"Munchery CEO Tri Tran's harrowing journey to Silicon Valley","story_url":"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-01-05/how-a-vietnamese-refugee-is-rethinking-food-delivery-in-america","updated_at":"2024-09-19T22:45:43Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":9,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=basal-omni&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":12,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":1,"total":1},"total":1},"total":1},"fetch":{"query":5,"scanning":3,"total":9},"total":12},"query":"basal-omni","serverTimeMS":14}