Lvxferre [he/him]

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.

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  • I never tasted tomato sauce from cans because that is not a thing where I live, but here’s how I prepare homemade tomato sauce.

    First you need to pick the right tomatoes:

    Where I live the bottom ones are called “Roman” or “crawling” tomatoes. They’re oblong. Pick those, the “salad tomatoes” on the top are not sauce material. I use 2kg (4lb) each time.

    Peel them with boiling water. Discard the skins. Then open the tomatoes and chop them coarsely, reserving that “slime” full of seeds. Strain the “slime” so you get rid of the seeds (discard them); reserve a cup of the strained liquid, and blend the rest alongside the flesh. No seeds - just discard them.

    Now get a large enough pot. Put the blended flesh there. Add some salt and ground pepper. (Some people like red pepper flakes here; your choice, I personally don’t.) Simmer until you got 1L of sauce (~half? volume), stirring occasionally. LOW FIRE. It should take less than a hour. You want it a bit thicker than the desired final consistency.

    Turn off the fire. While the sauce is still hot add that strained cup of tomato “slime” reserved in an earlier step. (That’s why I told you to make the sauce thicker than the desired final consistency.)

    Taste the sauce. If it’s too sour, add a bit of sugar. If it lacks that “whoosh” from tomato sauce, a dash of MSG. Adjust the salt if necessary.

    For reference this is the basic sauce that I use in sauce-heavy pizze, like cheese pizza. It works wonders. You can also convert into a pasta sauce with garlic, onion, basil, olive oil. It freezes really well and it should last more than a month in the freezer (I don’t know the spoiling time because… well, people use it like water here.












  • I’ve got great news for you. You can create the same community on any instance you like.

    I am aware of that. In fact myself did exactly that a year or so ago.

    And the issue still stands. Someone just hopping into the Fediverse is likely to have incomplete information about it. If they have a poor experience in one instance they likely won’t migrate to another instance, but instead blame the issue on “Lemmy” as a whole and go back to Reddit.




  • Double reply addressing HN comments:

    I haven’t read the papers in detail, but can someone explain how genetics can be used to trace spread of languages? For context, you don’t need population movements for a language to spread (it is similar to religion). See this article for a logical explanation

    Languages don’t spread out of nowhere, they do it through groups of people interacting with each other. And those interactions are also bound to introduce at least some genetic admixture.

    Because of that, you can use the presence or absence of genetic admixture in a place as weak evidence for / against the presence of a language there. On itself it is not fail-proof, you’d need further evidence to claim with certainty “no, [language] was not here”, but it helps.

    Writings on artifacts and burial practices associated with DNA fragments found at the burial sites.]

    No written record.

    Fun facts, the most common words of Indo-European Family are surprisingly very similar across Sanskrit (S) <–> English (E) <–> German (G) [3].

    And so they are in other Indo-European branches, if you know where to look like. Compare for example English and Spanish:

    • foot, father vs. pie, padre - /f/ vs. /p/
    • three, thrush (the bird) vs. tres, tordo - /θ/ vs. /t/
    • horn, what, hundred vs. cuerno, que, ciento - /h/ vs. /k/ or /θ/~/s/

    There’s plenty words like this, where Spanish uses an unvoiced stop while English uses a fricative. Pehausse Frotho-Chermanih speahers Because Proto-Germanic speakers eventually shifted those consonants this way.

    There are some complications though. See what I said about English /h/ vs. Spanish /θ/~/s/? That’s in words where Latin was still using /k/, like “centum” /kentũ/. (Those words stick out like a sore thumb if you pick Italian instead, you’ll see /tʃ/ instead.)

    My favorite part is that the most foundational swear words in modern Slavic languages are still recognizable from their PIE roots:

    So is the most popular Romance foul word: PIE *(s)merdh₂ “stench, stinging [smell]”. Latin inherited it as “merda” (shit) and it’s still up there.

    Could you explain in non-specialist language how similarities between these modern languages now has anything to do with their relationship from some earliest common ancestor? How is that explanation better than convergent evolution or overfitting hallucinations?

    I almost forgot those are Hacker News comments. Thanks for reminding me.

    Those sound changes are systematic, as I showed above with English vs. Spanish.