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Imitation eggs aren’t eggs.

SciTechDaily:  Why Plant-Based Eggs Are Finally Getting the Spotlight

The team also asked participants to rate how plant-based eggs would compare to traditional ones. Unsurprisingly, expected taste and appearance still favor the classic egg.

A plant-based egg, is not an egg.  Not even a little bit.  A traditional egg comes from a chicken.  If the cook is using ostrich or turtle eggs to make my omelet, he is obliged to make that clear.

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Culture

Pythagorians

Today I learned that until the mid-1800’s, people who didn’t eat meat were referred to as “Pythagoreans”.  That’s about the time when some killjoy invented the word “vegetarian”.

This Rubens painting is Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism.

That’s from Wikipedia, and it doesn’t make sense because the painting is from the 1600’s.  Doesn’t matter, I’m still going to start calling them Pythagoreans.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s book, Gothic Tales, he refers to a character as a Pythagorean, so the word was in usage in the 1800’s.  Back in the day, culture changed slowly and not uniformly.

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Culture

Statues of fat Black ladies.

Statues Of Random Fat Black Women Popping Up Worldwide

Those aren’t fat Black women.  Statues #2 and #4 would be overweight, but #2 looks like she’d be too tall and #4 carries too much weight in her belly.  I’m assuming that a fat Black woman is the same as a fat Black lady.

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Culture

Sydney Sweeney makes a difference.

The American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney is a big deal because of what it reveals.

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Culture Government Technology

Europeans are too stubborn to turn on the air conditioning.

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Culture People

It must be embarrassing to be a Colbert fan.

Stephen Colbert is a whiny little pussy, and he wants to make sure that everyone knows it.

Comedy is subjective, so not everyone is going to get his humor.  Numbers are not subjective.  For several years, Colbert was paid $20 million a year for show that could not even bring in enough revenue to cover two-thirds of the budget. His staff of 200 people could not produce a show that was more than mediocre.  That have to be a thousand people on Youtube who do a better job with 1% of Colbert’s resources.

Colbert gets to keep the scam running for one more season, and he acts like a victim.  Colbert is presenting himself as a martyr for disrespecting our president, but he sounds like a garden-variety Progressive. 

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Culture Music

Steve Miller Band isn’t so sure about the weather.

Steve Miller Band unexpectedly pulls the plug on entire North American tour

The Steve Miller Band unexpectedly canceled their North American tour Wednesday, citing risky weather patterns.

The real news is that Steve Miller Band still exists and performing.  The band issued the cancellation on social media.

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Culture Economics

Bring back the test pattern.

Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ was reportedly losing CBS $40M a year as critics speculate politics drove cancellation

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is getting cancelled, and his competitors aren’t doing much better.  Broadcast networks may as well go back to a test pattern at midnight, and just sign off until morning.

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Culture Government

la Fête Nationale Française

“Bastille Day” is how you say, “4th of July” in the metric system.

This video explains Bastille Day in less than 3 minutes.

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Culture Sparky

What do cats really want?

WSJ: A Pet Food Giant’s Mission to Understand Cats

WSJ: A Pet Food Giant’s Mission to Understand Cats

The Mars company makes M&M’s, Snickers and other human food, along with pet food brands like IAMS, Eukanuba, Pedigree and Sheba.

The pet food giant had a problem. Cats were rapidly catching up to dogs as America’s favorite pets, but the company was filled with people who didn’t fully understand the mercurial creatures—or their owners.

So Mars launched a mission to get its dog-loving workers inside cats’ heads.