oh portal 1 too I finally met @PortalRadio
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Thereās at times a really disturbing disconnect between content which does well on the Internet and content of the same form but provides better or more accurate information.
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It makes sense given the economic and psychological forces at work, but it requires a constant vigilance and skepticism thatās hard to maintain.
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I found a library but its closed for another hour
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Thereās also so much complexity that people donāt want to actually engage with that it leads to a lack of understanding as to why things are the way they are, and makes us more vulnerable to lifehack ass bullshit that must seem clever, simple, and accessible. Vanilla ice cream, olive oil, and salt are things people probably have in their kitchen, mixing them together asks virtually nothing, and, assuming the claim of them tasting good together are true, would seem like a neat trick. Most people donāt know why certain things taste good when combined (myself included), so it would be difficult to recognize in the abstract of that combination would taste good or not.
A counterexample is I add a dash of salt to my coffee beans before grinding them. You canāt really taste the salt, but it does make the coffee taste less bitter. This makes sense because salt blocks bitterness receptors on your tongue. The difference is subtle, but having tried the same beans with and without, it tempers the strongest bitter notes which is preferable to me.
(I canāt really say why the vanilla ice cream, olive oil, and salt thing would taste bad from the same principles. The texture seems like itād be an absolute fucking nightmare though.)
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i am so sorry for you
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have you blind triangle tested it tho
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i love you charitable bestie but that shit sounds fucking terrible. perhaps this is a society issue but tutuu might just have brain damage
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soweli finds out that portland is a big city
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tbf ābeing deceived by an influencer into believing that a recipe will taste good when it will actually taste badā is pretty low-stakes as these things go ā obviously it would be better for it not to have happened, but the negative consequence for this in particular is āyou eat a food that tastes badā
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vs., like, being deceived by an influencer into thinking you can create a special extra good cleaning product by mixing together everything under your sink, which could seriously harm you
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Alsoā¦ like, taste isnāt an objective thing here? Maybe some people like ice cream with olive oilā¦?
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Are they necessarily lying or spreading misinformation? (Influencer) seems to think ice cream tastes good with olive oil and tutuu thinks it tastes bad. I donāt feel like this is evidence of people lying on the internetā¦
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Also it could be a difference in the quality of olive oil, I feel like it could be good with high-quality olive oil but thereās also low-quality olive oil, and not all olive oil tastes the same.
You can go back years and see plenty of people on cooking Reddit endorsing ice cream with olive oil
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People lying on the internet? Impossible!
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Because tutuu is our guinea pig 
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Like itās an odd food combination and tutuu is a cooked individual for doing this and being surprised they didnāt like it, but, like, why are we treating this like a deception and not your friend putting ranch dressing on pizza
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ranch dressing is amazing it could go well on anything
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