[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I haven't tried it myself yet, but you can get yeast improvers , a powdered 'mother yeast' that claims similar results to sourdough.

I have a starter in the fridge that I only use once every two or three weeks, and have not had any mould problems; perhaps you just have to be only a little less lazy to keep a viable one, and feed on that sort of a schedule?

I agree though, that making sourdough bread can be a nuisance time-management-wise until you find some sort of rhythm that suits you.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I don't think I've come across that before, but I'd say it depends on what is meant:

  • I don't know what that thing is.
  • There is a thing, but I don't know what it is.
  • There is a thing such that I don't know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don't know what they might be.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, it is a famously polarizing taste, but a small amount in something hefty like a ragout adds umami without adding too much of the marmite flavour. I'm vegetarian, and find it's really handy for adding meatiness to such things.

If you try it and like it, do try marmite spaghetti.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
\end{document}

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, that seems about right to me.

I can't quite put my finger on the rule for when you can use "for me"; perhaps there isn't one.

I do think, however, that you can safely put "For me," at the beginning of the sentence instead of using "to me" later: "For me, it seems...", "For me, it looks like...", etc.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, "for me" is more subjective than "to me", suggesting there may be other equally valid points of view.

But I would never say "It seems for me", or the other items in your list except for "...makes more sense for me...".

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.

I would be really handy for finding out what's going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I'd imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A vote for the Oxford comma from me too.

Apart from anything else, as an occasional copy-editor, I find it much easier to apply the Oxford comma rule if it's in the style guide than to spot the occasions where it's needed to remove ambiguity when the general rule is no Oxford comma.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You can unblock communities and users in the web interface: settings > blocks. Can't see a way to do it using Jerboa, though.

[-] asterisk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?

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