I haven’t read the books, but I did watch both versions, and they’re both decent, but I would recommend the Chinese version. Not only is it obviously more faithful to the books (you can just tell as it is so much more detailed than the Netflix version), but I found it fascinating to watch a high budget series from China, as I’ve never seen any Chinese art/media at that level. Interesting to see how they are and aren’t influenced by Western media.
I wouldn’t say the Netflix version was bad (much much shorter, and not the full story yet) though. I wonder if the portrayals of the Cultural Revolution in the Chinese version were white washed a bit (though I will say that, surprisingly, it was slightly critical of the CCP at times).
Nihilism might be able to help assuage it, but yeah in my experience, yeah it’s depressing. But that’s because reality is depressing, and I’m actually paying attention to it.
But if you’re not familiar with nihilism or existentialism, maybe look into them a bit. They can provide ways to become happy (or maybe more accurately, “content”) in spite of everything being objectively awful.
I heated up a leftover chicken breast the other night, and felt as though that was a perfect example of something that needs to be reheated at a lower power level. If you’ve ever had leftover chicken from the microwave that was chewy or tough, there’s a good chance it was that (unless it was tough to begin with).
Try using 80% heat (power level 8) next time you have to re-heat up a thick piece of chicken. It really is a game changer.
Yeah dude… If you’re reheating leftovers on full blast, you’ve been making everything worse. Microwaves aren’t perfect, but you can def finesse it a bit, and it makes a huge difference.
Try doing 80% for reheating. Also, stir occasionally (for stirrable foods), and pause to rotate the plate occasionally as well. Even if it’s already on a carousel.
People that thing microwaves suck to heat up food are just rawdogging the +30 seconds button.
So I agree with this, however, microwaves are absolutely one of the worst ways to heat up food, in most situations (but they’re super fast, so…)
That said, there is a lot of finesse, particularly when it comes to reheating food, that it seems like so many people never figured out.
Always gotta reheat food on power level 8 (Sometimes I’ll blast it for 15-20 sec on high after that just to make sure nothing is lukewarm in the center).
On mine, you can only add 30 seconds, if you started it with that button. If you start the microwave any other way, the “+30 sec” button does nothing. It’s annoying.
So if I’m reheating something on power level 7 or 8 (or even cooking popcorn with the popcorn button), I can’t just add 30 seconds. I have to let it end and then start it up again.
Don’t they have conversation lookup tables for stuff like that? Been years since I was in school so maybe those aren’t really used anymore? At least to convert the numerator to different units.
If this was the actual explanation, that would be kind of funny (and possibly ironic?)
Just the pure distillation of, “protect the private key with your life.” If it can happen to the person who literally created the thing, it can happen to you.
Will I get banned if I don’t call this person Margot Robbie, because they claim to identify as a famous Hollywood actress?