Patagonian toothfish -> Chilean sea bass

Slimehead -> Orange Roughy

pervasive surveillance and tracking -> Advertising

Oppression -> safety measures.

Undesirable political views -> disinformation

disagreement -> downvote

Adam Back -> Satoshi Nakamoto

Oh please. Read some of the stuff Satoshi wrote, it's obviously not the same person.

Satoshi actively encouraged other blockchains, even encouraging namecoin to run their own chain separate from bitcoin back when the proposal was called "bitdns":

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/535/

Back has been nothing but a frothing-at-the-mouth altcoin hater.

Comments like @gridder's do an injustice to Hal Finney.

I agree with you on Back and Finney and I apologize to whoever was offended, it was not my intention...

Yeah, taxation isn't extortion and tyranny isn't representative government tho but otherwise agreed!

I would argue the conversion is the one you're utilizing, from "taxation" to "extortion."

Extortion is a specifically defined crime, and of course, it is the role of the government to define criminal behavior. In the same way that getting arrested by the police isn't kidnapping, paying taxes isn't extortion.

The consent of the governed and all that.

> The consent of the governed and all that.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Turns out if you don’t pay taxes or fines, at the extreme you can be shot to death. This is legal.

Lot of laws and rules are arbitrary, so a government official get a “fine”, sometimes massive fines, placed against you.

You pay it or lose everything, go to jail, or get shot for refusing.

Lots of struggling business owners are finding themselves in this situation lately.

Lots of small business owners are getting shot for not paying taxes? Generally you have to make profit to pay taxes. Otherwise they've been substantial beneficiaries of programs like the PPP.

Gyms and restaurants are opening despite orders.

Many have already been given major fines, had utilities shutdown, etc.

Friends our shutdown there restaurant last week.

That’s what happens when you break the law. It’s like talking about all your friends jailed for DUI, like ok, maybe don’t do that then?

Break the law? "Dictator" given mandates without scientific backing are "law" now?

Because everywhere you look... with or without lockdowns, COVID is spreading... California, New Jersey, Florida, Texas... all different approaches. All spreading in "2nd waves"...

Not everyone is okay with following "decree's from on high by a benevolent master" without end because "the war will never be over so give me more power"...

Just to be clear, the state and federal government have a long history of challenged (and ultimately upheld) sweeping authority to impose restrictions in support of public heath. Here's an analysis by the CATO institute, which is, dare I say, not exactly "left-leaning". [1]

There were pandemics and lockdowns all the way back to the founding fathers, which I still find very strange to hearken back to, they made a lot of poor decisions too - but I digress.

[1] https://www.cato.org/commentary/are-lockdown-orders-constitu...

Not in New Zealand though huh. Where they did the lockdowns properly, and it stopped Covid completely. Compliance is the issue not the approach.

So all laws are good? Is that what you would say to someone who broke Jim Crow?

> That’s what happens when you break the law. It’s like talking about all your friends jailed for DUI, like ok, maybe don’t do that then?

What law is being broken?

survival -> stimulus

Be evil -> Don't be evil.

Don't be evil -> Don't don't be evil

Genius.

Oh... That makes so much more sense.

I have many ever-so-slightly aged cookbooks (Asian-themed, in particular) that would always recommend, "Use rapeseed oil for stir-frying, due to its high smoke point" and driving myself nuts trying to find rapeseed oil at grocery stores. Even at Asian marts! I could find grapeseed oil, but never rapeseed.

Thank you!

This might sound rude, but you never thought to google "rapeseed oil" and immediately clear up what it is?

I think resourcefulness is inexplicably decreasing in the age of information.

For example, it amazes me how many questions on r/Spanish could be answered in 5 seconds by pasting the title into Google, but OP also wrote two paragraphs to explain their predicament of being unable to translate a common word.

I don't want to pile on our friend above, but it's a good example. We are all seconds away from just looking up rapeseed oil and learning some interesting things about it, but we don't even do that (myself included in all of this).

It reminds me of the parable of the lumberjack who is found trying to cut down the same tree all day with a dull axe because he says he doesn't have time to sharpen it.

I just googled "rapeseed oil" (though I knew another name for it is "canola"), and literally the first result's title is "Rapeseed Oil (Canola Oil): Uses, Benefits, and Downsides".

I understand people asking about subjective stuff but objective stuff like this is so easy to Google.

It's also still the common term in some places (e.g. UK, iirc) so you may find it in current recipes.

Technically, it's a subset. Not all rapeseed oil is low-acid (the l-a in canola).

Fair point. In europe, say, would that be marketed as low acid rapeseed oil though, rather than canola?

"Rape blossom" is perhaps my favorite English word because of how starkly the feelings invoked by the individual words contrast each other.

I always wondered what the hell canola was (not enough to look it up, but, still)

CANadian Oil Low Acid, it’s lower in erucic acid than other rapeseed cultivars. In the early 70s there were studies in rats that showed that erucic acid caused heart disease so canola was marketed as being healthier.

That's the same acid which lead to mustard oil being banned, hence it being labelled 'for ceremonial purposes only' or something similar in Indian groceries in the US as a wink-wink workaround.

Is mustard oil used in a lot of Indian cuisine? I wonder if that has something to do with the high rates of heart disease in people of Indian descent?

I have no firsthand knowledge of Indian home cooking, but here's an article about it which claims it's common.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/02/mustard-oil-guide.html

From what I've seen in passing most people attribute rising heart disease to economic prosperity leading to a more westernised diet but I haven't really looked into it.

More common in some northern states than in south India.

"Indian cuisine" is not a monolith and in fact, regional cuisines are disparate, contrary to the image derived from Indian restaurant menus abroad. Some parts of India like West Bengal (which is in east India) famously use mustard oil in a lot of their cooking. Other parts of the country never use it.

(I'm Indian.)

I've only seen it used to make Aam ka achaar (mango pickle)

It stands for CANadian Oil Low Acid.