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Plot twist: mystrothedefender is actually the cat in her avatar and was actually just trying to insult dogs.

Perhaps the government should collect money from the AI companies — they could call it something simple, like “taxes” — and distribute the money to anyone who had ever written something that made its way to the internet (since we can reasonably assume that everything posted online has now been sucked in to the slop machines)

Ha, sorry, no, I was making a bad dad-joke. “Cast iron brownies” makes it sound like the brownies are made of cast iron :)

(And I love making them this way tbh, the sides and bottom are extra crunchy and you get to cut yourself a slice of brownie instead of a brick!)

Huh, I would have guessed they were chocolate if not for the title.

I don’t remember either of those episodes…

6 could be a screen cap of me in any weekday zoom meeting. A weekend zoom would look like 9, but the box is on fire.

I don’t know about micro but I keep a conventional amount of starter in the fridge and have had it for 5+ years. If I’m out of a bread phase I take it out once every few months, let it come to temperature and feed it. When it gets bubbly and happy again I give it more flour and water till it’s thick and stick it back in the fridge. When my next bread phase kicks in I leave it out of the fridge for a day, feed it again and then use it like normal (once I see it can double in size). Very little waste this way and super-low effort.

I’ve also dehydrated strips of extra-thick starter and have successfully reanimated them years later (just did it recently with 4+ year dehydrated starter in fact).