micolithe

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Micolithe
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36 years old
Philadelphia, PA
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Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.

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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
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We all do what we can ♫

So we can do just one more thing ♫

We can all be free ♫

Maybe not in words ♫

Maybe not with a look ♫

But with your mind ♫

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Looking for lemon cake recipes

Website: Do you love the taste of refreshing lemonade on a cool summer's day? I remember the lemonade stand from my childhood days, selling glass after glass of fresh squeezed juice to the neighbors for 25c a cup. It was a yearly tradition of ours to do this with the lemon trees in our backyard, until one day I discovered my love for baking. My teenage years pivoted from running a simple lemonade stand to charity bake sales to raise money for the local-
Me, holding 20 lemons: what's the fucking recipe
Website: one (1) teaspoon of lemon juice uwu

numberonebug
@numberonebug

They do this so that they can copyright (aka earn money from) their recipes! Copyright laws don't protect recipes even though they take months if not longer to make, but putting that sort of thing at the start allows it to be copyrighted as an article

micolithe
@micolithe

THEY SURE FUCKING DO. The number of recipes I've seen with huge spiels like "In the aftermath of the attacks of september 11th 2001.... food brought our nation together, also tremendous amounts of racism"

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numberonebug
@numberonebug

My point is that they have to if they want to make a living. People wrongly assume that recipes are written by grandma's just posting what they know, but that's wrong. Most are written by chiefs and cooks who specialize in writing recipes. It's a craft

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numberonebug
@numberonebug

I mean not all of them, but often they are freelancers or commissioned. And yeah a lot of them (NYTimes cooking, hard copy cook books) do actually make a lot of money. I do think a lot of recipes just do this because it's part of the genre

At the end of the day though, these websites almost always have a "jump to the recipe" button, and the articles are usually someone sharing what the dish means to them, so like, that's of value and if one doesn't want to see it they can just ignore it

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DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Most are "user submissions" and professional recipes in general are not like that. The amount of content required to make a recipe page amenable to copyright protection is not particularly extensive; look at southernliving.com, their recipes include no more than a paragraph of headnotes. foodnetwork.com generally has no headnotes. Instructions alone are enough to qualify a recipe for copyright protection. Furthermore, the recipe content is still unprotected and can be used as long as the text is rewritten, meaning that the copyright protection argument only applies to content farms like Pinterest that don't respect that anyway

What these eternally long headnotes do is:

  • Increase dwell time on the page (improved metrics)
  • Provide more area for ads and affiliate links

Now you may think that's reasonable too but the "copyright" justification for this nonsense just doesn't hold water.

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