porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 4 days ago:
Mostly water, in that case
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 4 days ago:
Right, but it doesn’t capture the whole story, namely that it’s arranged in a very particular way
- Comment on We dumb 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Of the variable alleles, not all DNA
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yes, I’m talking about the state owned companies versus both private companies and individual landlords, rents with the state owned ones are like 20% or more lower than the others and they are usually more responsive to fixing problems, don’t play too many games
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s ideal. In Germany (where there is a culture much more oriented towards renting than owning) there are a lot of state run landlords and they are great to rent from, reasonable rents, reasonable to deal with (in the local context), etc. And of course they have good laws to protect tenants to back it up. Not necessarily a perfect system but definitely one the rest of the world can learn from. Unfortunately things are still heading in the wrong direction there too right now.
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 2 weeks ago:
picrelated
- Comment on definitely 2 weeks ago:
“Commend” is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend
- Comment on SHINY 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing “special” in the way you imagine about quantum phenomena. They are complicated to describe mathematically because we are limited to a fundamentally imperfect set of symbols, but they are not complicated to obtain the requirements for.
All chemical and light-interaction processes use quantum phenomena if you dig enough into how they work, and it’s especially clear on a smaller scale. If you just make something thin enough, it will start displaying quantum effects, but there is nothing that complicated about “thin”.
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
The US does have a homicide rate 3-5 times greater than other developed countries and a gun death rate 20-50 times greater than other developed countries, and in line with Guatemala, El Salvador etc.
- Comment on Fuck it, we're doing eggs this.weekend. Behold: Scotch eggs. 3 weeks ago:
Hoe dan dat ik er nog nooit van gehoord heb? 'k heb ook nog nooit in Nederland geleefd, er zijn veel dingen die ik niet ken. Alleen een beetje de taal bijhouden hebben mijn ouders wel voor gezorgd, maar niet dat ik wist wat zo’n eitje was.
- Comment on Fuck it, we're doing eggs this.weekend. Behold: Scotch eggs. 3 weeks ago:
Omg, nog nooit van gehoord maar dat moet ik een keer proberen
- Comment on Bird Bath 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but people actually do that, as opposed to the edgy preteen nonsense above
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
But Leone’s most famous movies are from the 60s
- Comment on Anon shoots some hoops 4 weeks ago:
Because she actually wants to go on the date and it’s easier to miss on purpose than guarantee for sure getting it? Idk, it’s awkward af but kids are awkward and there’s all kinds of dumb gender stuff tied up in girls asking boys out directly so it’s forgivable imo.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
Source? This seems almost impossible
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but if you stir it into a warm sauce it will mostly dissolve and it will still substantially improve it compared to no salt at all.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
I don’t really like Go either, but it’s better than Java, and it’s pretty good for Big Software ™. In the end, every language has some problems. Java just has all of them.
- Comment on Anon is jealous 1 month ago:
People say her podcast is actually good. I don’t know, I haven’t listened to it, but if so, then she is playing the game with decidedly more skill than just one 5-second video clip.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 month ago:
If someone “perceives they are losing out” because of doing something positive for women or minorities then that says a lot about their worldview, they are the ones responsible for polarisation there.
Agreed on the campaign though, it was the dems’ to lose and they royally fucked it up.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 month ago:
Yeah, the demographics of voters are just made up, huh? They are the overwhelming supporters of the far right. Don’t wanna be painted like that? Don’t vote for fascists.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 month ago:
No, straight cis white men will get hurt economically and through living in a degraded society, but they will not be forced to carry pregnancies, or be murdered because of their race or their sexual orientation.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 month ago:
Yeah the thing is the average trump supporter will be hurt less than everyone else (and that’s the whole point)
- Comment on Spoopy Science Costumes 1 month ago:
It is, to within 5%
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
Wow, I guess cryptography is just fraudulent, who knew
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, people here yell at you for not using profane language because “you can swear on the internet”, they’re a weird bunch.
- Comment on Anon visits Paris 1 month ago:
Paris has pretty good food but it’s below average for France, the south is where it’s at.
- Comment on OH SHI- 1 month ago:
*structural biologists
The crystallographer is sitting in the beamline control room at the synchrotron swearing about how this person mounts their crystals right against the metal pin
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 month ago:
“just”