porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on 4 days ago:
That’s a queen
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 days ago:
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 week ago:
Do blame Nike, and all the other corps, they are the ones who force capitalism on us, they are the cause of this behaviour, they control the politics.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s why they should be allowed
- Comment on Easy steezy 2 weeks ago:
That’s not naming species though
- Comment on Gravity 2 weeks ago:
Which is roughly the pay for a staff scientist or lecturer
- Comment on Gravity 2 weeks ago:
Postdocs are definitely not getting 55k in the UK except maybe if something like medicine is special? The range is like 36-45ish.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 2 weeks ago:
Understandable
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 2 weeks ago:
It is, this guy is a known fraud and all-round bad dude
- Comment on A slow and painful death 2 weeks ago:
No it won’t, the thermal mass of the car is way higher than a few of its volumes of air, and it’s still sitting in the sun too
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.
And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.
- Comment on yeey 3 weeks ago:
Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
- Comment on yeey 3 weeks ago:
Nickel is not extremely edible lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
In my opinion yeah, the texture is better, smoother, when they’re freshly brined as opposed to the more crumbly/flaky texture when they’re marinaded in vinegar. But Danish picked herring is also delicious.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I’ve had a wide variation of them, some are awful like the ones you had, some are just okay. If they are shelf stable they’re usually never good, but you can get vinegar pickled ones in refrigerated jars or pouches which can sometimes be a bit nice if you’re into that. But none of them come anywhere close to the real delicacy that’s in that photo.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
I guess you’re Dutch, you might not know that in English ‘pickled’ doesn’t only refer to things in vinegar, but it can also refer to things put in salt brine for a few days like maatjes.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
It would have to be cooked to be in a tin. You can get jarred pickled herring but it’s nowhere near as good as a fresh salted herring.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
It’s very soft, you eat it with the skin. The Dutch version of salted herring is the nicest one (compared to Nordic and Baltic versions), it’s quite mild flavoured and has a great raw-fish kind of texture, ones which are pickled longer are still nice but can get a bit floury sometimes.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 4 weeks ago:
I miss orbs
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the translation ofc but yeah that’s really what it says
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 4 weeks ago:
Really recommend listening to the “you’re wrong about” episode about her
- Comment on To thy own self be true 4 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what it is
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 weeks ago:
So in most Western European countries I think that limit is actually more like 1000km, or if it includes crossing France even more than that, or if you’re not close to the airport too. Beyond about 7 hours of train, flying starts to be faster and more convenient, most people around here find, but you can get quite far with a train in that time. I appreciate the current situation in the US isn’t the same and it would cost money to upgrade the network, but I think the rest of the world does show that it’s actually worthwhile.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 4 weeks ago:
Those people don’t exist, they are just an excuse for you to be cruel
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 weeks ago:
Depends what you are thinking of as long distance. NY to LA? Sure. NY to Chicago would be 4-4.5 hours, downtown to downtown, with a proper train (typical French TGV speeds of 330 kmh / 205 mph). Faster than flying when you count the time and cost of getting to the airport etc.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 weeks ago:
Even if you adjusted for population (550 mil vs 330 mil) you could easily at least connect all the major cities in the US, given how many smaller regional lines there are in Europe too
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 4 weeks ago:
but even if we had enough of that, there’d still be mentally ill people and drug addicts that would prefer to live on the street
How about we get there first and then you can hand wring about any of these supposed people who are left?