janus2

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks for the writeup! I dislike straws but am going to try using them for a few days to see if I notice a difference, alongside the bottle trick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wait, i might have this problem. would you be able to describe or link to a guide on fixing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  iron and sulfur compounds in tap water, or even some more “neutral” ones that are even in bottled water (like carbonates and magnesium), can have a really revolting taste to people who are sensitive to them

  I have a friend who is so sensitive to sulfur that she had to rinse her drinking cups with filtered water before using them, just to remove the traces left by washing with tap water from the area we lived in

  don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or overreacting. also, give distilled water a try. no, it’s not bad for you like people say–your highly acidic stomach is perfectly capable of handling the osmotic shift when drinking distilled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the monkey’s paw curls a finger. now, only people that particular genie considers “not an idiot” can be politicians. shame that the intellect evaluation of a several thousand year old supernatural entity who spends most of his time sleeping in a lamp don’t exactly line up with most modern people’s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Strength/athletics check.

  Success: you kill the person. The coordinator presses a button and a smart restraining net robot launches from the ceiling and pins you down. “Congratulations! You’ve been identified as a prime candidate for a military career. You’re going to need that pay boost, because unfortunately we’ll have to charge part of that technician’s reconstruction fee to your tab.” You feel a needle pierce your neck and your vision goes dark.

  Failure: The technician manages to pin you down until a smart restraining net is deployed to hold you. “Congratulations! You’ve been identified as a prime candidate for a law enforcement career. We like that kind of fighting spirit for keeping criminals off our streets.” You feel a needle pierce your neck and your vision goes dark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Welcome back! ReLife Corporation has spared you from the afterlife! Your reconstruction fee is a mere 450,000,000 credits. Please proceed to the Debt Servicers department and then the career fair down the hall!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  plastic can be oversimplified into “usually biologically inert molecule chains” (polymers) held together by “usually NOT biologically inert accessory molecules” (plasticizers, fillers, etc.)

  BPA is a pretty well-known “fucks you up” plasticizer, hence it being banned for some applications and “BPA-free” marketing taking off (fun fact we’re still figuring out how badly BPA replacements, most being very similar molecules, are fucking us up and to what extent)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m vaguely qualified (biochem degree) to say it’s probably possible

  that being said there’s just a lot of stuff in nature easier to eat than plastic so if some kind of plasticphagic microbe starts causing issues it’ll likely be somewhere otherwise very inhospitable, like near the poles or in space, where there’s not much else in the way of metabolizable carbon sources

  which, lol. imagine going on an Antarctic or space mission and your fucking PPE starts fermenting lmao good luck

  or the ocean might become so horribly poisinous that everything dies and after microbes eat all the dead biomass and then each other, then they start eating the plastic 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is why nothing feels right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I vote this internet rando for God Emperor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is the voice of God. I am giving you a divine order to go seek mental health treatment at an intensive inpatient care facility immediately.”

  (/s, obvs. don’t do that lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also have not dropped any of my phones once in the past ~10 years.

  I am in fear and awe. I put in incredible mental and physical effort not to drop my devices yet have managed to drop and break about half of them (while they were in cases, too).

  On the upside it forced me to learn basic electronics repair lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Sucker Punch is definitely problematic to say the least. A lot of people said it tried to do girl power and ended up just being a neckbeard fantasy, and I can’t earnestly argue against that. That being said it was visually fun, the fantasy/reality dichitomy and “what’s actually real?” was interesting even if not perfectly executed, and what the hell, I was a nerdy gay teenager when I first watched it so of course I was gonna enjoy steampunk schoolgirl ninjas kicking ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucker Punch and D.E.B.S.

  no, it’s not cuz I’m a lesbian!

  …ok maybe it’s cuz I’m a lesbian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will fistfight anyone who thinks Time Bandits is bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they give white women in SUVs a run for their money

  (disclaimer am white woman. don’t drive SUV tho. moped/ebike)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’ve seen the Quebec territory flag used for “FR (Can)” which I found amusing as a US hick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people care about Jak, but Naughty Dog is constrained to marketing success and has to focus on their money makers Crash, Last of Us, and Uncharted, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried going outside though⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone watched enough Pingu to know what the hell the context is? Why he so grunmpy 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shoutout to my current PCP for actually listening to my symptoms and (most importantly) when they started/worsened and treating them and/or the cause while also reminding me I still need to keep working on my weight

  gonna miss her when I move towns :[

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and so they can use browser vulnerabilities features to collect more data on you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instant rotten milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  artificially condensed milk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instant rotten milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  great way to demolish your espresso maker’s tank tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  casually ends humanity with time traveling covid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your service 🫡

  (that was great comedy and great boobs lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t worry I’m a femme i’m too pink and frilly to hurt things lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  am I supposed to be more discerning with tiddies? because I am not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ok I’m a lesbian and haven’t heard of New York boobs please define

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Achievable goals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Manhattan. There are some downright claustrophobic Westside Markets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accurate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to be straight, wanna trade?