I’m glad to hear that. Otherwise we’d be confronted with the possibility of vast factory farms of mature beavers having their “castor sacs” milked daily.

Possibly. But there are several different types of vanilla. Also:

An estimated 95% of “vanilla” products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla fruits.

and

However, vanillin is only one of 171 identified aromatic components of real vanilla fruits.

Also you may be amused to know:

In the United States, castoreum, the exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive,[54] often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in the product’s list of ingredients. It is used in both food and beverages,[55] especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring, with a total annual U.S. production of less than 300 pounds.[55][56] It is also used to flavor some cigarettes and in perfume-making, and is used by fur trappers as a scent lure.

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

OK, I’ll look at the ingredients.

CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GELATIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (WHIPPING AID), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1.

https://www.kraftheinz.com/jetpuffed/products/00600699003285-marshmallows

Looks like there is some kind of “natural and artificial flavor” besides sugar and corn syrup. Wat are those? Dunno. Apparently it’s legal to have secret ingredients that are not disclosed unless a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.

There’s a distinct flavor

Yeah, when I was a kid, there were like 2-3 difference places I could get soft-serve ice cream from, and at one of them the vanilla flavor was marshmallow-like and it was my favorite.

I don’t have an answer, tho. For all I know, it was just a distinctive type of vanilla.

I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly. This is, after all, the MILDLY infuriating community, and it can be a hassle when something stops working for you, even if it’s perfectly reasonable for it to happen.

Have you taken a look at the plato.stanford.edu entry on such, specifically the bibliography?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/#Bib

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The number of papers, anthologies, and monographs has been growing immensely since the beginning of the 1990s. It might be useful to highlight that in existing literature, Kühne (2006) remains the most substantial historical study on the philosophical exploration of thought experiments. And Sorensen (1992) remains the most comprehensive philosophical study of thought experiments. More than other monographs both of these studies well exceed the author’s own systematic contribution to what is widely considered the primary epistemological challenge presented by thought experiments. Also, this bibliography does not include the many (we count about eight) popular books on thought experiments (like Wittgenstein’s Beetle and Other Classical Thought Experiments by Martin Cohen); nor do we list fiction that is related to the subject (like The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas, or God’s Debris by Scott Adams). Further, for undergraduate teaching purposes one might want to consider Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments (edited by Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn, fifth edition, 2012, Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education), and chapter 5 of Timothy Williamson’s short introduction to philosophical method (Oxford University Press, 2020). Moreover, a number of philosophical journals have dedicated part or all of an issue to the topic of thought experiments, including the Croatian Journal of Philosophy (19/VII, 2007), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1/59, 2011), Informal Logic (3/17, 1995), Philosophica (1/72, 2003), Perspectives on Science (2/22, 2014), Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (1/38, 2015)), as well as TOPOI (4/38, 2019), HOPOS (1/11, 2021), and Epistemologia (12/2022). Furthermore, a companion to thought experiments exists now: The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments was published in 2017. Each includes substantial state of the art reports.

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I had that problem with a t-shirt with lacing on the front (it’s a Punk Rave t-shirt… lolz don’t hate…) Anyway I fixed it by cutting slits in the sides at the bottom so the front could hang lower more easily. With hoodies I just never zip them unless I’m walking outdoors and it’s freezing.

see: https://grafana.lem.rocks/goto/gMske4jHR?orgId=1

I don’t understand everything on this chart, but it looks like sh.itjust.works lagged a bit over the past 24 hours and is now catching up.

Well you’ve got a lot of great recommendtions in general on this post, but while we’re on the topic of war movies:

• Gettysburg (1993) has some great character studies, the book it’s based on is “The Killer Angels” and also worth reading
• Zulu (1964) is another product of its times but they did an outstanding job, and it’s a solid depiction of English defensive tactics of the late 1800s

Yah, OP seems to like war movies, so I’d add:

• A Bridge Too Far - a classic, tho kinda old-fashioned moviemaking
• Apocalypse Now - another classic, still seems fresh
• Waterloo - the only good movie about Napoleon
• 1917 - some really amazing camerawork

Distance education.

dunno I don’t use mobile clients for piefed… I think there’s one but don’t know much about it.

I use prepaid cards for Twitch and similar online services. It’s great because they always try to dark-pattern you into subscriptions, but then they’re all plaintive when your account runs out and they don’t have a credit card to perpetually drain. (actually, it’s more like “stages of grief”… first it’s alarmist: “your payment has failed!!!” then it’s businesslike: “remember to re-subscribe!” THEN it’s plaintive: “(name of performer) misses you on Our Moneydraining Platform!” then it’s nostalgic: “remember the good times you had on Our Moneydraining Platform? It’s not too late to re-subscribe!”) However, there’s usually a slight extra charge for the cards.

Cash irl is great but a slight downside is making sure you’re always carrying enough. Also, if you drop it somewhere it’s just gone.

Piefed is awesome. I really like Scheduled Posts, as well as Feeds (which are collections of communities). There are only a couple reasons why keep my lemmy.world account: uploading images in comments is difficult in piefed, and I don’t think piefed supports custom preview for youtube videos yet. But I imagine those will be fixed at some point in the near future.

a classic: “Hallowed Be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden.

I still remember the first time I heard that song.

good bot.

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

It looks like a pretty inventive cross between a Baja and a Poncho . It definitely uses Baja-like cloth, and it has a hood like a Baja. But it apparently has no sleeves, and is long like a poncho. And the hood looks more like a collar, which I think is rare for Bajas. And it has an additional blanket attached around the shoulders in a style which I kinda associate with north-american-Natives. It’s a great piece. Pairing it with moccasins is a visual pun. But I’m not crazy about the pants.

@frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml is right that it’s runway fashion, and the Dsquared2 web pages identify themselves as “alternative luxury”. But this community’s about “Fashion rooted in youth subcultures”, and the Baja is traditionally a youth item. Plus, there’ll be cheap knock-offs, and those’ll have influences on fast fashion variations, and all of this is inspiration for people doing DIY.