porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 hours ago:
Germany is cheating, you only need to be like 20 to get most of this list
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 12 hours ago:
This is absolute made up nonsense, and yet it tells us so much about what kind of content you consume and what kind of attitude you have.
Obviously joking… Haha… Unless…
- Comment on Why does my back hurt? 4 days ago:
You’re not meant to stick your head in there, the whole point of it being so low is to keep you from breathing in the stuff that’s in there
- Comment on Cosmology (2025-03-12) 3 weeks ago:
In Anglophone countries there are usually other pathways. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, for example, it’s normal to start a PhD with a master’s, but you can also do it with a BSc(Hons) or “honours” degree, which is a one year programme added on to the end of a bachelors. It’s roughly half graduate courses and half research for a small dissertation. A real master’s degree there is a bit more intense than it would usually be in Germany, and would usually involve half a year of graduate courses and a year and a half of independent research for a thesis to be examined by independent examiners. It should really contain some novel work, even if it’s just replicating, comparing and synthesizing existing techniques from the field. Often if people want to quit their PhD program halfway, they are given the opportunity to write up what they have into a thesis and submit it for a master’s, and that does roughly correspond with the work they have already done.
- Comment on Risky 4 weeks ago:
Suits are to keep you safe, glove boxes are to keep the things inside them safe. Also never seen them used together though, you’re right about that.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
I agree it’s a huge concern and I also absolutely don’t trust the CDU, and especially Merz, as far as I can throw them. However I’m just saying that the situation is not identical to the USA, there are some points of difference.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the
SDPCDU broke that and started working with AfD.I’m also very worried about that, but it’s another point of difference - there were historically enormous protests (tens to hundreds of thousands per city, well over a million total, more than a percent of Germany’s total population) several times recently because CDU looked like it was slightly cooperating with them with an informal and unbinding agreement about immigration. These protests had the support of the churches, the sports leagues. Various senior government figures support outright banning the AfD. It would not be as easy for them as in the USA, where everyone immediately capitulates.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Oh yeah then explain this *gestures broadly at everything*
- Comment on Giving the neighbors a laugh 1 month ago:
Lmao at the slogan “EasyToys home delivery service. We always come.”
- Comment on WHY 1 month ago:
That’s a dishwasher, a “washing machine” is for clothes
- Comment on Is there really a difference between my understanding the phrase "go for a walk" and my dog understanding the phrase "go for a walk"? 1 month ago:
No other animal has even come close to creating such a close co-existence with humans.
Horses are at least close
- Comment on Lost in translation 1 month ago:
This is getting so tired. Take it up with Facebook.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 month ago:
You can definitely get a week worth of groceries for that in the UK or Europe. Nothing fancy, only ingredients, but good nutritional food and enough of it.
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
95, lol, the percentages are there on the screen
- Comment on get a free GOAT (shipping not included) 2 months ago:
Dialup? In 2006? Pretty sure we’d had ADSL for well over five years by then, pretty sure everyone had switched where I lived (not USA).
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 2 months ago:
“30 below [zero]” expected
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 2 months ago:
This is a good joke but it really lets itself down by switching from “guys” to “dudes” when it’s about the former word…
- Comment on Anon expects more 2 months ago:
I guess that’s not totally wrong but I think being Muslim is definitely one of the things that is scary about the migrants
- Comment on Anon expects more 2 months ago:
Fear mongering from the RN/AFD/PVV/PP/FdI/PiS/Fidesz and other Nazis like them
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 months ago:
No, they’re right, it’s extremely unrealistic to lose much weight in fat in one week. Even if you ate literally nothing and hiked up mountains 12 hours a day, which is obviously impossible, it’d be maximum like 10 pounds. Walking a bit and eating normally? No more than 2, that’s already extremely rapid weight loss.
Water weight on the other hand you can easily lose more than 5 pounds in a day.
- Comment on UFO sightings 2 months ago:
That’s not flying, it’s falling (and based on the shape of many flightless birds, rather likely without style)
- Comment on UFO sightings 2 months ago:
every bird is a UFO if…
Not all birds fly
- Comment on GET REKT 3 months ago:
It’s a good joke but American oligarchs are much richer than Russian ones
- Comment on GET REKT 3 months ago:
Yes, Russia became capitalist so
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 3 months ago:
Mostly water, in that case
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 3 months ago:
Right, but it doesn’t capture the whole story, namely that it’s arranged in a very particular way
- Comment on We dumb 3 months ago:
Best to rest the comment you’re replying to before going on a tirade - this guy interrupted OPs conversation to lecture them, it’s a proportionate response
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 3 months ago:
Sales tax, has different acronyms in different countries such as Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST)…
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 3 months ago:
Of the variable alleles, not all DNA