> When twins Hannah and Grace Pratt moved out of their tiny dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa and into their “adult” apartment, the mini-fridge they no longer needed gave their mother, Sarah, an opportunity: an extra place to store her art.
Is there a name for this kind of narrative "cold open" where you plonk a tangential detail of the article in the first paragraph, and only start the article properly in the next one?
My teacher would have crossed it out with "irrelevant, get to the point" in the margin! The irony of this being off the main topic of the article is not lost on me, but I'll drag it back into HN territory by saying "something something AI training data".
> Because the butter used for the Iowa State Fair's cow sculpture is recycled for many years, the cooler where it's made has a funky smell that most fairgoers would never know about on the other side of the display glass.
The fact that they recycle the butter for about a decade is reassuring though. A full cow worth of butter yearly just sounds wasteful, but this approach scales that back to a tenth of a cow.
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Being: "So get this: I swung by that planet next to Sol, right? And the Bipedalians apparently like enslave a ton of bovine en masse and take up most of their land to feed them, right? And they breed and eat their body fluids and muscles or whatever. Okay, but then I saw they like took the body fluids they nurture their offspring with—the bovine's fluid for the bovine's offspring not their own—, fed it to a bunch of smaller creatures until it became semi-firm, and then molded the hardened fluids into a scale replica of the bovine's likeness and put it in a transparent sarcophagus. I'm serious, it's wild. It's been there for years and people put on a big festival around it..."
> When twins Hannah and Grace Pratt moved out of their tiny dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa and into their “adult” apartment, the mini-fridge they no longer needed gave their mother, Sarah, an opportunity: an extra place to store her art.
Is there a name for this kind of narrative "cold open" where you plonk a tangential detail of the article in the first paragraph, and only start the article properly in the next one?
My teacher would have crossed it out with "irrelevant, get to the point" in the margin! The irony of this being off the main topic of the article is not lost on me, but I'll drag it back into HN territory by saying "something something AI training data".
> Because the butter used for the Iowa State Fair's cow sculpture is recycled for many years, the cooler where it's made has a funky smell that most fairgoers would never know about on the other side of the display glass.
The fact that they recycle the butter for about a decade is reassuring though. A full cow worth of butter yearly just sounds wasteful, but this approach scales that back to a tenth of a cow.
One cow is not so bad in comparison to the erstwhile EU butter mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_mountain
Or the US cheese caverns: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/05/cheese-caves-missouri/, which also, as of 2022, contain about an Ford-class aircraft carrier and a half of butter.
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Being: "So get this: I swung by that planet next to Sol, right? And the Bipedalians apparently like enslave a ton of bovine en masse and take up most of their land to feed them, right? And they breed and eat their body fluids and muscles or whatever. Okay, but then I saw they like took the body fluids they nurture their offspring with—the bovine's fluid for the bovine's offspring not their own—, fed it to a bunch of smaller creatures until it became semi-firm, and then molded the hardened fluids into a scale replica of the bovine's likeness and put it in a transparent sarcophagus. I'm serious, it's wild. It's been there for years and people put on a big festival around it..."
Reminds me of: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
"They're made out of meat"
That is.. pretty gross.
Is the whole mass supported on slender legs made of butter, or is there a metal "skeleton" encased in it?
It contains an armature made of wire
Disgusting and cruel.
Ugh
The dairy lobby lied and told people milk is healthy. Milk is a dessert
Half of your HN comment history is about veganism.
Aren't there more appropriate places to rant about this subject
Thank your mother.