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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just did this today in another thread. Currently at name calling, hopefully stops there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked at an outdoor ed place which catered to rich private schools and some wealthy public districts. They could seat 400 people for lunch service and had two separate kitchens for upstairs and downstairs dining rooms). I looked forward to meals there 3x a day.

  Things that stand out:

  1. Buffet style, all you can eat. Staff serving you the food from a serving line. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
  2. Always had fresh food, prepared that day from scratch. Nice restaurant quality, but not like Michelin Star fine dining. Stuff kids like, bit also aduts would too. Usually some comfort foods and some things more interesting / unusual.
  3. Menu on an 8 day rotation with some special changes thrown in, for example “chicken waffles” day about once a month. Great variety.
  4. The head baker (separate from the head chef) would always be testing new recipes and handing out fruit bars, cookies, pastries, etc. to staff. These were typically only available to the teachers as a lowkey incentive to take their schools to our place for field trips. The teachers also had all kinds of booze in their rooms and had vacation while we took care of everything.

  The kids tended to be super spoiled, but there were some nice ones. We bribed them all to drink water by getting them a pitcher of “Special Drink” for the table after they finished a first pitcher of water as a group. This was a pitcher of ice and soft drinks/ powerade made and layered in such a way that they made cool patterns. We had sunrise, “hulk drink”, various rainbows, etc. Staff would have their specialties and trade techniques.

  I met some other educators who worked at a less fancy place nearby and they said their cafeteria was all fried foods and gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you feeling lucky?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  💚

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you feeling lucky?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing. You said a “succulent is a cactus.”

  Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

  As someone who is a scientist who studies cacti, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls succulents cacti. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

  If you’re saying “cactus family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of succulae, which includes things from christmas cactus to joshua trees to prickily pear.

  So your reasoning for calling a succulent a cactus is because random people “call the squishy ones cacti?” Let’s get stonecrop and aloe in there, then, too.

  Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A succulent is a succulent and a member of the cactus family. But that’s not what you said. You said a succulent is a cactus, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the cactus family catcti, which means you’d call Joshua trees, aloe, and other plants cacti, too. Which you said you don’t.

  It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research for high school and college. We are a nonprofit initiative of Rice University.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait does having your SSID in one of these databases affect your privacy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I don’t know how they are on balance, but I know 100℅ it’s a bad action.

  Unless we’re talking about doing doughnuts at traffic lights in ATL, that seems kinda cool. But it is not racing so the initial premise holds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Desnt work when they’re different classes of infinity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why b vitamins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sour apple tastes different.

  Redbull and monster and full throttle in the old days all had a similar taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a shit post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Strongyloides (from Greek strongylos, round, + eidos, resemblance), anguillula, or threadworm is a genus of small nematode parasites, belonging to the family Strongylidae, commonly found in the small intestine of mammals (particularly ruminants), that are characterized by an unusual lifecycle that involves one or several generations of free-living adult worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought some of the Apollo astronauts were illegally enriching themselves by selling a service where they would take people’s stuff to the moon in their private gear allowance, and then give it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS App to Edit videos ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was editing a movie with lightworks I had something called eyeframe-converter that would convert your video into a low-res editing proxy for ease of use, and then swaps them out with the full quality mpeg2 or whatever the proper editing format was for the full render, and then outputs to H.264 or whatever.

  Hopefully resolve can do something like that too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS App to Edit videos ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you use resolve for free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was quoting burger king, I’m sorry I don’t think that anarchism is compatible with the violent tendencies inherent in human nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No rules, just right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not just intelligence it’s also emotion / trust.

  Dumb people don’t distrust scientists without a culture telling them they’re the victims of an elite, and the strongman will save and protect them by attacking their enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like novels I highly recommend Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson. It has a moment where Galileo realizes you could “weigh” time, in his experiments with objects rolling down an inclined plane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was curious and found this support.burnerapp.com/…/273-plans-and-pricing

  Looks like the cheapest is

  • $6.99/Monthly
  • $47.99/Yearly
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one on the right, yeah? droid-life.com/…/Android-16-New-Volume-Sliders-76…

  Weird!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what.

  Can you show a picture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what can I do at my workplace during downtime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like podcasts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened with hushed? Did they cancel your lines or change them to monthly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just learned about one but I forget what it was called. It was like a Google voice replacement.

  I’ll have to try and find itin Lemmy and then edit my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I remember that now. IIRC it was in rock creek which the locals do, even if it is not healthy. Not a good look for the secretary of health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know pasturized breastmilk was a commodity product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t cry over spilled milk 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Envy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Golden ducking handcuffs. Is that the right expression?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the center of gravity is lower on the scooter too for what it’s worth.