tankiejerk is also acceptable.

The Internet would be great if it wasn’t for all the other computers attached to it.

Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment

In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)

Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)

Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.

Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward

Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.

(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)

It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.

If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.

Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.

Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work, so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.

If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.

This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.

One of these things is not like the other…

It’s the guy pointing at something completely random.

So I’m the smart now?

The problem with .ml shitposting is that it will almost immediately get removed. If it does start to propagate around to other instances, people will immediately recognize it as a troll post and it will get upvoted.

Trolling ml takes finesse and it’s the IRL epitome of “opposite day” over there.

I read it as bees.

Please do not the bees.

never having directly experienced war

Please tell us more about how war is a good thing, oh master of armchair politics.

Wishing war on anyone is just fucking vile. Go on, look yourself in the mirror and tell yourself you wish that thousands of people should die needlessly.

The US has never had a war on its own soil?

It’s ok to shit in someone else’s, just not yours.

Note to self: Start wearing silver eyeshadow.

Butter is just milk with extra steps. There are quite a few things you can cook with milk (or specifically creams) that you would typically use butter for that you wouldn’t think. Steak is a good example.

Of course it’s not a 1:1 replacement, but that is kind of the point. The question is: How of you prefer your milk fats to taste when cooked? (If you are cooking a steak, are you after a specific butter flavor or a deeper cooked dairy flavor?)

Oh, fuck off.

No, that is not what he said at all.

I guess you are saying that everyone on Lemmy is on the spectrum. That kinda tracks…