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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outsmarted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Firm ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I (and my siblings) had a total of 6 hamsters. 4 died of old age, 1 suddenly bled out overnight, and 1 died pretty young, but nothing was obviously wrong, so I dunno.

  My neighbors had more than a dozen rodents (including 5 guinea pigs). They all died horrifically, including 4 that were killed by mouse traps. Because of course you should have mouse traps, and also keep small rodents that you allow to escape constantly. As an adult, I think the parents were seriously negligent in teaching their children, and then also negligent in buying more rodents for the grinder after the first two or three met horrible fates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNAddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get a similar vibe from psychology. There’s a number of “experts” that are out in the field, doing the hard work day after day, putting in those hours… And hopelessly blinded by their own confirmation bias and survivorship bias. Clinical therapists in surveys prove very willing to overlook strong research in support of certain methods because they believe they see results in their clinical work that can’t be reproduced in a lab.

  Then each field also has a research wing, slowly carving a path towards useful ideas, expending tremendous effort for each new finding, method, and result (even negative results!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, force of habit my B⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s not a 55 gallon drum, don’t even bother bringing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The restaurant didn’t murder the guy, but the reviewer requested a seat in the non-murdering section, so seating him right next to it loses a star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … And he can do it again in 2-5 hours ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made paneer, following a recipe I’ve used dozens of times before. The resulting cheese was perhaps softer than usual, and even after squeezing it and dripping for hours, the slow drip of whey continued, unabated.

  I dared to try a bit. The texture was just as expected, with the familiar squeak as the cheese broke apart upon chewing, and just a hint of extra liquid. The flavor was also fine. I could have added more salt, but that’s a problem I’ve run into before, and I usually cook the paneer into something, so I would just make a saltier sauce.

  I decided it would be fine to leave dripping overnight, but I thought something was unusual. It was late, and dark, and I was ready to go to sleep, so I needed an answer to the lingering doubt at the back of my mind. The bowl I hang cheese over to drip is one of my largest bowls, but I dumped out the accumulated whey anyways - then I went to bed.

  In the morning, my wife woke me up in a panic, and I came downstairs to discover that the bowl had filled, then overflowed with whey. I dumped the bowl once more, cleaned up the mess, and then promptly dug a pit to bury whatever this approximation of cheese was. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will flow down into the water table, and bacteria will digest whatever is in the Great Value whey.

  In either case, I have made the important decision that the outcome is not my fault. Walmart is responsible for whatever occurs, and if I need to sell this house at some point in the future, I hope Walmart will disclose the state of affairs to the buyer, because I most certainly will not.

  Three stars out of five.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of those “this is how the locals say it” things are clinging to a fading past. My favorite was a Kitchen Nightmares episode where the owner tells Gordon Ramsay that New Orleans is pronounced “Naw-Lins” (with some drawl, not sure how to write that exactly), but every other time before and after, he says “New Orleans”.

  I grew up near Baltimore, which people variously insisted should be “Bee-mer”, “Balmer” or… A couple others. The only one I’ve seen actually play out is residents of NYC primarily referring to it as “The City”, but that one is also pretty normal, so it makes sense that it would survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that she’s an English major, but how is that an excuse to not know that cameras typically have a flash so they can illuminate the object being photographed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Something Beans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not safe for le-outdoors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dick with wine? Sounds like Friday night, amirite? Err… For straight women, obviously. And gay guys. And handsome prime numbers that… Nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: I'm stuck in traffic and the liquor store closes in 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Powerade, “Very Real Power” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5XrXMwB2U

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing to see here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only enough fish fingers for like… 0 children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there, just waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a child, my elderly neighbor grew pears, and they were the best pears. My parents live in the same house, and the pear trees my elderly neighbor grew are still in the same spot, still alive.

  The pears on those trees aren’t the same anymore. They turn meally before they get soft, and they never get sweet enough. They don’t have the same strong flavor, and they don’t bake up well in desserts.

  She taught me many things about growing plants, but never anything about what she did for the pear trees. So now pears aren’t what they’re supposed to be, and the reason is lost to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their statement is probably incorrect. This says that 39% of India’s population is “vegetarian” (with the definition left to the respondent): pewresearch.org/…/eight-in-ten-indians-limit-meat…

  I see claims that 9% of the population is vegan, but can’t find the source of that figure (on brief examination).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So how would you handle this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only if it’s on a GFI. The resistance to Earth for a typical human is well below the “boy this space heater sure is drawing a lot of power” line that a breaker detects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take 20⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can know that it doesn’t do something without knowing what it does. For example, there’s a light switch in my house in a room with a light. I know that flipping that switch does not turn the light on… But I don’t know what it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you put the same wine in different bottles, they pretty reliably prefer (and describe the rich complexities of) the more expensive bottles.

  I knew an audiophile that believed the government had top secret technology for additional audio channels in surround sound setups, like 17.7 or something. I tried very hard to explain how you can buy an off the shelf 128 channel recorder/playback device, and have as many channels as you can feasibly buy and set up, and the reason a lot of media was recorded in 5.1 was because a 5.1 setup was considered at the upper end of what people would be willing to pay for. He moved his target in response, to now the government has top secret 1000 channel audio equipment.

  I don’t know what the equivalent of the wine world is, but I hope never to meet it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education is important. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the Medditerain’t, right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☪️⛎♑️☦️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to ban fully automatic transmissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Not everything is going to evolve into crabs.

  2. I’ve read a wikipedia page about the Dunning Kruger effect, so I understand it as well as an expert.

  3. Name brand Band-aid self adhesive sterile bandages really are that much better. If you grew up using anything else, your parents didn’t love you, or you were extremely poor (or both).

  4. Tryptophan is not the thing that makes you tired after overeating on Thanksgiving. It’s mostly carbs, and the fact that so many people uncritically repeat this easily disproven lie is a sign of how little concern for the truth almost everyone has, almost all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re really going to put that up against “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Mariah Carey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CompSci freshmen can relate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an integer larger than 10, this post is extremely offensive. Please don’t lump me in with complex, irrational, and imaginary numbers. We integers have our own finite groups closed under multiplication, sequences, and properties, not all of which are shared by other, less important, less useful numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How old are ferns, anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hard part is finding someone else that also wants to discuss ferns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I love the round things!" - The Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I visited part of California when it was 62F outside. People complained about how cold it was. There were people wearing jackets.

  There is no weather option that will keep you permanently happy, it is more reliable to learn to love what you have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

  Under “Term coined by”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sporange” does. If you’re especially bad at pronouncing words, many other things also rhyme with orange, like flange, range, and monkey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People with big mouths (like me, I have a big mouth) eat hotdogs in bites that span left to right, and top to bottom along (approximately) a plane that lies perpendicular to the axis along which the hotdog was extruded. With this approach, the condiments merely have to run the length of the hotdog (or just the bun if you dislike messy eating) in order for them to participate in every bite.

  Only small mouth dweebs that can’t fit a wide, juicy frank into their mouth when they’re gobbling down a… Nevermind, I think I got sidetracked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then one of those is right, and one is wrong. Probably There’s a non-printing character in one of the answers that makes it parse as an invalid string.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won the bet. Please send me the money at your earliest convenience.