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- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 8 hours ago:
Unless “the mitochondria” is a singular group noun, like in “The Village People is a band”, or “This [set of] data was collected…”
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 9 hours ago:
Hazelnut, Mystify, Cuttlefish, Lark, Lurk, Robert, Anglican, Pheromone
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 day ago:
It’s one of the those aromatic vegetables (along with carrots and onions, etc. ) that for most people (obviously not yourself) adds a background flavor that is not overpowering or offensive. It makes your soup taste like soup instead of salty chicken-water or bean-water. Its also fairly inexpensive compared to more meats and spices.
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- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
Basketball was invented using peach baskets. So the NBA will have to become the National Fruitball League (NFL)
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
Or BIPM
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 1 week ago:
Lol. We run on opposite wavelengths. If the mantises go postal I want to be as far away as possible.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 week ago:
Now I want a doormat with “monosodium gluta” inscribed on it
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 1 week ago:
Usually propped up on an elbow or two. Holding the book out or letting it lay flat in the ground.
Sometimes resting with my chin on the ground, my elbows splayed outward so I can hold the book upright in front of me and my knees bent with my feet up in the air like a fleshy scorpion.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 week ago:
Fab shops & low volume manufacturing, tool & die, construction, cosmetology, IT services, consulting, accounting firms, non-profits…
- Comment on Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too. 1 week ago:
You may misunderstand me. I never said it was healthy to smash things. OP asked if it was normal to get upset over a broken mundane object and I pointed out that we don’t get to choose what triggers us to feel. How you channel the energy of those emotions is another question entirely.
- Comment on Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too. 2 weeks ago:
We don’t get to choose when emotions will take us. This morning I broke down over a Pokémon short because it reminded me someone I love has cancer. They have no connection to Pokémon whatsoever, and I haven’t watched Pokémon in years. It was just a sweet short and it got me going.
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 2 weeks ago:
Not for long! 🍻
- Comment on Authentism 2 weeks ago:
Is there one that adds fold creases?
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have an exact match to what your looking for, but a couple things come to mind.
Having “selective hearing” is when someone fails to recognize that someone (usually a partner or a parent) is speaking to them or fails to comprehend what was said, but is otherwise sufficiently capable of holding a conversation.
The implication is that they are able (or choose) to ignore questions and requests when they don’t wish to answer or undertake them.
“Willful ignorance” or “being willfully ignorant” is when someone refuses to engage in understanding something when given the opportunity or discounts arguments that challenge their presuppositions.
This isn’t exclusive to verbal communication but it does imply they are some sort of discourse that they are choosing to ignore.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 weeks ago:
A pretty peony.
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 weeks ago:
Is it about all the maga twitter accounts having foreign origins. Or am I missing something else.
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 3 weeks ago:
On the package? Yes.
At a restaurant? Not usually. - Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's always been women in STEM. 4 weeks ago:
I mean…. It does and it doesn’t. Yes, al-Qarawiyyin was founded as a mosque. Yes, it became a “university” within the last 100 years. But there was a looong span of time between where it was an institution of higher learning not formally classified as a “university”
Paragraph 4 of the article you linked specifically notes that such institutions with mixed provenance were omitted from the list.
Ancient higher-learning institutions, such as those of … the Islamic world, are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university… These include the University of al-Qarawiyyin… founded as mosques in 859… These developed associated madrasas… by 1129 for al-Qarawiyyin…
Basically it is the oldest educational institution that is currently a university, as opposed to the institution having operated under the university model for the longest time.
- Comment on Halo Infinite's Last Update Arrives This Month As Devs Move To Other Halo Projects 5 weeks ago:
More like Halo Finite, amiright?
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 5 weeks ago:
I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.
I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.
- Comment on Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land? 5 weeks ago:
The word goes back to at least 1580 and at the time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until those two nations joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.
- Comment on A brick a day keeps the pigs away. 1 month ago:
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
Don’t get me wrong. I love me a nuanced conversation about the intersections of sustainability and accessibility. If you want to, we can have that.
But this is a shitpost community. Posts here aren’t really expected to conform to reality, let alone provide exhaustive coverage of all corner cases. This stupid shitpost also neglects to consider folks who need to have fluids introduced intravenously and the plastic waste created by single use saline bags, or the material/lifetime of the cup in which a straw is used. This is a dumb meme about the choices that some people make with the options that they have. It is not an indictment against the people to which those options may not be available.
- Comment on eco-vengeance iconoclast 1 month ago:
Javelina?
I don’t even know Alina!
- Comment on purrfect costume 2 months ago:
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I had to look up the name.
- Comment on purrfect costume 2 months ago:
I immediately thought T’Ana
