gandalf_der_12te
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- Comment on fruit flavor without the fruit 22 minutes ago:
what’s in it?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 11 hours ago:
yeah btw this is because it’s not purely-sorted input. mixing is up is what leads to the molecules to not properly align and that’s what makes it brittle.
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- Comment on I'm doing my part 13 hours ago:
this would be a legitimate argument if any of the plastic was actually recycled … last time i checked it all goes into the incinerator to make electricity out of it.
the recycling of plastic is difficult, not because melting and re-shaping the plastic itself is difficult (it is not, it’s trivially easy); the problem is that you basically never get correctly-sorted garbage. when you get “plastic waste”, it has at least 20% things in it that are not plastic, including food waste, aluminum, paper, etc. some even throw toxic batteries in it, chemicals (soap), pharmaceuticals … then there’s the risk of infections on the plastic (viruses, bacteria, fungi). there’s absolutely no chance that you’re just gonna take plastic waste and mold it into a new shape that’s food safe. best you can do is to mix it with concrete and use it as a construction material in road construction.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 13 hours ago:
paper straws are quite literally a strawman project against environmental pollution. they do not actually solve environmental pollution while pretending they do …
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 13 hours ago:
yeah, in germany a few weeks ago the news made the headline that for-profit rent-out company vonovia makes 30c profit for every 1€ revenue. that’s extreme. that means they’re charging almost 50% more than they had to to operate at-cost.
also in vienna there’s a lot of city-owned apartments and rents here are really affordable. sincerely, written from my 550€/month apartment (roughly $600/month)
also a huge roadblock to lower construction costs is unnecessary complex building codes, zoning laws, and again zoning laws.
- unnecessarily complex construction regulations for example include zoning laws that prescribe that you can’t build multi-family houses on a single lot. this means two houses instead of two apartments in one house, which makes construction significantly more expensive.
- zoning laws also forbid in many places for example to operate supermarkets close to where you live. this is mostly a problem in the US, not so much in europe. it means you have to drive everywhere, which makes your cost-of-living higher.
- zoning laws, again, prescribe things such as minimum lot-size, which means you only have the option to buy 1 large lot instead of 1 small lot, even if you would be content with a smaller house on a small lot. also if not enough area is designated in a city as land for building, then that means that there’s a lack of supply, which makes the land more expensive, which makes the house more expensive.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 14 hours ago:
yeah it’s politics’ job to feed everyone, agree. however, food waste in general is not the bad thing that you think it is.
food production naturally fluctuates. there have been over 20 volcano eruptions (example) in the last 2000 years that led to recorded famines. it’s only a matter of time till the next one happens. it’s not preventable, the only mitigation is to have enough surplus food production capability to make it through even if 30% of crops fails.
and having surplus food production capability necessarily leads to food waste.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 14 hours ago:
i mean lots of wolves only eat half the sheep … have you ever seen a half-eaten sheep? i have
- Comment on Womp 1 day ago:
they know you’re watching them so they don’t wanna do it. they’re shy >.<
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 1 day ago:
depends on how you define science. if math is science, then no.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
literally just watched this series 5 seconds ago before opening lemmy and this is the first post i see.
- Comment on bone 2 days ago:
genius question. in the next chapter: why do we have 10¹² cells and not just one giant one?
- Comment on Rough date 2 days ago:
the act of getting a date might be easier for women, but the chances of the date going well are not higher.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 days ago:
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 days ago:
and also, a reason why the body mostly uses sugar molecules instead of fat molecules for energy metabolism is probably because sugar has polar groups (-OH groups) that are electrically charged, so it’s easier to grasp those with the fingers (which are also charged), while fatty acids are not charged, so they’re hard to grasp. so it’s easier for enzymes to attack sugars than fats, and that is why sugar metabolism is orders of magnitudes faster than fat metabolism.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 days ago:
you know what i recently recognized, the electrically charged pronges are like the fingers of the enzyme that it uses to grasp other things.
- Comment on my brain when 3 days ago:
ashita no nadja reference
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 4 days ago:
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
oh yeah you’re right.
- Comment on Cheese is available 4 days ago:
for those who don’t know:
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
yeah i guess so.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
perversion doesn’t exist, it was made up by the english to suppress the people and feel morally superior to the french
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
NSFW
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
fun fact: i accidentally shit (shat?) myself once when i was hiking in the woods and had to take a dump … i tried to shit on the floor but some got on my shoes, it was messy.
(riding the subway home was embarrassing)
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
just don’t like how it feels
i mean there’s a serious risk of infections from anal penetration so i get that many people just don’t like it
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
having a low tolerance for loss of control IMO is connected to a general anxiety, having made bad life experiences, having been hurt by others etc . this are not inherent character traits but develop in a rough and coldhearted environment.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
just as a follow-up, the sad thing is, nobody could explain to me why the puritans have such a strong aversion to sex. it’s just postulated but without any proof or at least hint that would make it plausible.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
there’s definitely a gender dichotomy that goes far back to england and the puritans who believed that basically women are inferior beings for having a sex drive (because that’s devilish), meanwhile men got a semi-pass possibly because they’re more difficult to say “no” to.
anyways, the english church is single-handedly responsible for the divide of human culture from human nature. nowhere else in the world (and i’ve studied a lot of philosophy!) have i seen such a great divide. it’s all about the asymmetry of good and bad.
- Comment on Sorry 6 days ago:
anxiety, basically
- Comment on Sorry 6 days ago:
i think it establishes a relationship between you (the viewer) and the meme, by hinting that your role in this meme would be alice
