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[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 184 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the building block of the savory taste the same way sodium chloride is the building block of the salty taste.

The whole thing about MSG sensitivity and it being bad for you was largely xenophobic in origin, and a fascinating example of the nocebo effect.

In college I remember hearing about a study where they gave people who claimed to have MSG sensitivity a Chinese meal and an Italian meal. They claimed to have symptoms after the Chinese meal. But that particular Chinese meal had no MSG in it. Meanwhile, people didn’t report symptoms from the Italian meal, which was chock-full of MSG.

Do yourself a favor: get a shaker of MSG from your local grocery store and put that shit on eggs (along with salt). It’s amazing what a pinch of “the flavor enhancer” does.

Edit: also nothing wrong with fluoride in the water at the doses we get it. It’s good for developing stronger teeth.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

The msg "scare" was such bullshit. MSG is the fuckin bomb for making those quick meals taste great when you're in a rush. And good meals even better when you got time.

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[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Big ass bottle of MSG in the drawer with the rest of the bulk spices. It is mandatory that my food is properly seasoned.

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 9 points 10 months ago

thanks I was gonna type all that out 👌

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

The issue I have with MSG is that if you put it in everything, it becomes your new norm. I would ideally like to minimize how much MSG I eat, and keep it feeling special.

[-] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

Indeed, same with salt or any other spice!

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[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I make a "savory salt" that I just use in place of salt. It's not a miracle or anything, but it's definitely good.

By weight:

90% salt

7.5% MSG

2.5% I + G https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-350-gram/dp/B07ZQS2DL2

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 77 points 10 months ago

Where can I find open source friends? I'd like to compile them myself

[-] new_guy@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Calm down Dr. Frankenstein

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 22 points 10 months ago

You can fork them too 😏

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

And pull them too.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm already available as an executable, a few known bugs but they won't accept pull requests for patches on oneself, something about eternal life or something.

I mean uhhhhhh beep boop.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago

Ah neat, so I can just curl you?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

🥺👉👈

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

~~OpenLlama~~. Alpaca.

Run a local friend model, today!

I... actually futzed around with this just to see if it would work, and... yeah, there actually are models that will run on a Steam Deck, with Bazzite.

EDIT: Got my angry spitting long necked quadrupeds mixed up.

Alpaca is a flatpak, literally could not be easier to set up a local LLM.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 10 months ago

People who believe MSG is any more terrible for you than table salt understand jack shit about health lol

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Well eating a shit load of fried "Chinese food" that happens to have msg makes me feel ill, so what else could it be?

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 10 months ago

Msg is so good. Try it in your stock. Its like different salt. So good.

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

If you like parmesan cheese, you like msg

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Msg is naturally occurs in most protein rich foods. While extremely important for our bodies, our tongues actually don't detect protein directly, but the msg that occurs with it. That's why your brain goes "ooooo yummy!" but in a different way from salt.

Steps down from soap box

Anywho.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

MSG also forms when glutamic acid meets tablesalt. That's why tomatoes or beef with a tiny bit of salt are so damned tasty, they're full of glutamic acid. Same with cheese (which is usually pre-salted for that lovely MSG-flavour).

Tomatoes and beef already contain MSG naturally, but adding a few grains of salt produces far more.

Edit: This is why walnut oil is amaaaaazing for savory flavours. It's full of glutamate. Just like grape juice, or shi-take. Even potatoes to a lesser extend. And this is why we love combing all those foods for "winter foods" with game and in stews.

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Magic yummy powder.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago

This whole thing is cancer... What's wrong with fluoride?

[-] phar@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nor is there anything wrong with MSG or prozac

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

He said fluoridation was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, fluoridation is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I think that one's just FUD, because fluoride is added to the water by the US government.

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

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Fluoride in the water to dumb the masses is part of their conspiracy theory. They call it the fluoride stare and think you shouldn't drink tap water.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I just can't imagine being so simple minded that I would ignore actual science, and instead equate ingesting fluoride with a way they've seen people stare? It's just so insanely stupid, all of it.

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

In all fairness...GIMP cannot do that.

Of all the FOSS software I've used, GIMP is by far the furthest behind the commercial competitor. Adobe sucks ass in a lot of ways, but Photoshop and Lightroom are amazing products.

I do prefer Inkscape to Illustrator in a lot of cases. Especially with SVG support. Illustrator actually kinda sucks at importing SVG files.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Krita.

Everyone screams at me when I say this, " Krita is for tablet artistry REEE!!! ", but Krita is basically PhotoShop from before Adobe went hardcore into 'everything is a subscription', roughly 10-15 years ago.

grumbles about macromedia suite and newgrounds and homestar runner and xiaoxiao stick fighter and fucking kids these days

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Krita is weak with vectors, text (not for much longer!) and things such as transform filters which are a little buggy and poorly performing. But painting? filters? ergonomy? it's the king

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[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Perhaps I'm pedestrian when it comes to image editing, but idk what it is that Gimp can't do that's regularly needed. Aside, of course, from AI features that draw for you.

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[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 19 points 10 months ago

What's wrong with metal sear golid?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 17 points 10 months ago

You must mean magic se gathering

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 10 months ago

My Sittle Gony

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[-] starman2112@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Me keeping a W11 laptop around exclusively for Fusion360

[-] Artaca@lemdro.id 8 points 10 months ago

Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Bluebeam, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Virtual machines are, unfortunately, not ideal professionally. Other solutions like Crossfire and Winboat are hit or miss, but mostly miss. My biggest hope for SteamOS isn't that games continue to improve, but that other large corpos will start to take Linux that much more seriously soon.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty happy with FreeCad.

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Look my laptop came with an NVIDIA GPU I have to use the drivers

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[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Watch out for those chemtrails!

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] Hannibal@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I think this is relevant to the topic. I don't think it violates any copyright "ToS"--New to the site, as it was Linus himself that posted it. I'll share it. He talks about why he pays Adobe 10k+k USD a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VysWRHPdI

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

From what I remember, that boiled down to 'it is more important to consistently pump out lots of content instead of letting staff learn and use something new' which... I don't have a very good opinion of him but that's another oof.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I'll say this for GIMP: it is a well-named piece of software. I do appreciate honesty. And I hate GIMP.

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