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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pee was stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm

  But whose sperm are we talking about here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From this summary, The American Health Association still has a very modest recommendation to avoid excessive dietary cholesterol but no longer recommends a daily limit, and notes that foods high in cholesterol tend to be high in saturated fat, which does still show a link to serum cholesterol.

  In other words, foods that are high in cholesterol but low in saturated fat (like shellfish, and to some degree eggs) are still fine.

  I’d trust the American Heart Association over a video by a doctor who advocates for veganism through his books and media appearances. He seems to me to be more of an advocate (and isn’t very open about the fact that nutritionfacts.org is his own marketing website for promoting his specific products). And his books rely partially on data now known to be faulty, about “blue zones” where lots of people live past 100 (turns out each are hotspots for pension fraud so it’s hard to actually know how old people actually live in those places).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  (I must say I disagree completely with that guy sharing messages from his girlfriend- that piece is very weird and a total breach of trust)

  My impression from the original post was that kind of stuff was what drove most of the fallout. Leaked off color memes aren’t going to ruin people’s relationships, but leaked shit talk or breaches of someone else’s privacy will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've done it again...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re thinking of bacillus cereus, which grows on cooked rice or pasta stored at room temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moon Worshippers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pliny believed that elephants knew enough to kneel for human kings, or to point out directions to lost travelers.

  Not a reliable source, if this claim can even be found in his works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossils on Fossils⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While we humans eat a lot, something like 50% of our calories are going to our brains.

  I don’t think that’s right.

  This article says that about 20% of an adult human male’s resting energy expenditure goes towards supporting the brain’s metabolism. Obviously for more active people, the higher denominator of total energy expenditure will mean an even lower percentage of energy being used for the human brain.

  Flying is energetically expensive to start doing, but pays off in efficiency once an animal moves a far enough distance. How many calories does a goose need to consume to fly 4000 km, and how does that compare to terrestrial species like deer or wolves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossils on Fossils⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds have to use almost all of their available calories on flying.

  But flying is quite energy efficient as a method of getting from point A to point B. That’s why flying insects and birds have had such evolutionary success with that strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution didn’t make your teeth to grow like this.

  Modern diets are just selection pressure. Evolution marches on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  where saddam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton at Princeton University published a study in 2010 showing that money buys happiness only up to about $75k per year (in 2010 dollars, for Americans), at which point happiness plateaus and more money doesn’t meaningfully buy more happiness.

  Years later, Matthew Killingsworth at the University of Pennsylvania published a study showing that happiness didn’t really plateau with money, but kept increasing at $75k and beyond.

  They got together to see if they could reconcile their different findings from pretty similar methodologies.

  As it turns out, Killingsworth’s data did show the same plateau, at pretty much the same place, if you focus only on the least happy 20%. In a sense, the Kahneman data was focused on only measuring unhappiness, and didn’t properly distinguish between people who were kinda happy, people who were moderately happy, and people who were really happy.

  So now the most widely accepted analysis is that there are people who are deeply unhappy, for whom giving them more money might not make them emotionally better off, at least past $75k in 2010 dollars. But for the rest of us, the majority of people will continue getting happier with more money, well up to the $500k income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve completely missed the point of the comment you’re replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I learned how to drive, manual transmissions were higher performance and better fuel efficiency: side by side comparisons of the exact same model of car would show better 0-60 and quarter mile times, while having slightly better EPA fuel efficiency ratings, for the manual transmission.

  At some point, though, the sheer number of gears in an automatic transmission surpassed those in the typical manual gearbox, and the average automatic today has 6 gears, up to 9 in some Mercedes and 10 in certain Ford and GM models. So they could start selecting gear ratios for better fuel efficiency, without “wasting” a valuable gear slot. There was a generation of Corvettes that was notorious for having a 6th gear that was worthless for actual performance but helped the car sneak by with a better highway fuel mileage rating.

  And the automatics became much faster at shifting gears, with even the ultra high performance supercars shifting to paddle shifters where the driver could still control the gear, but with the shifting mechanism automated. Ferrari’s paddle shifter models started outperforming the traditional stick shift models in the early 2000’s, if I remember correctly. As those gear shifting technologies migrated over to regular automatics, the performance gap shrunk and then ended up going the other way.

  At this point there’s not enough reason for a true manual stickshift transmission. It’s no longer faster or more economic, so it’s just a pure fun. Which is fine, but does make it hard to actually design one for any given model of car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some steep stop sign intersections in San Francisco that I’ve had to use the e brake for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The average added sugar consumption for American adults is about 70g per day, which works out to be 25.6 kg (56.2 lbs) per year. People can shift their source of sweetener and consume a dramatically higher amount of honey without necessarily having a diet that is all that different from the national average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I plan on going abroad in the coming year

  See world. Oceans. Fish. Jump. China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please answer.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gauging with pasta: angel hair, thin spaghetti, spaghetti, thick spaghetti, bucatini, penne, rigatoni, all the way up through big-ass cannelloni.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most starches gelatinize between 60°C to 80°C. Including rice, which has starches that gelatinize between 59°C and 72°C.

  Not sure where you’re getting the idea that rice needs to cook above 100°C, which is just plainly inconsistent with how most cultures have cooked rice for thousands of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5% salinity is inedibly salty. You will ruin your pasta or rice, flavor wise. The health effects are not relevant because nobody will actually finish eating an entire serving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be overcooking it. Once the cell walls rupture too much, the sulfur compounds spread out and start to overpower the rest of the vegetable. It should still be somewhat firm/crisp when you bite into it.

  You might also be using broccoli that’s had too many of the cell walls ruptured from processing before cooking. If you’re cutting with a dull knife, especially into small pieces, or smashing it somehow before cooking, those smells will leak out a bit faster.

  Or, if you’re cooking from frozen, the ice crystals might have mushed up the vegetable.

  Here’s the two main ways I cook broccoli:

  Blanched: cut broccoli into big florets, big enough to constitute two big bites. Boil a lot of water, salted to about 2% salinity. Once it’s a rolling boil, put the broccoli in, and set a timer for 4 minutes. As soon as the timer goes off, dump the broccoli into a strainer and run cold water over it, or dunk it in ice water, to stop the cooking process. Serve and eat.

  Roasted: cut broccoli into big florets. Toss in oil, and season with salt and pepper. Preheat oven with a sheet pan in it, to 450°F. Once preheated, take the broccoli and place it in a single layer on the sheet pan. It should sizzle. Roast for about 15-20 minutes, optionally flipping once (better char if you don’t flip it, but it’s only on one side).

  Optional seasonings: garlic, pepper, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, honey, bread crumbs, pine nuts, any combination of the above. Works with either blanched or roasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not real... *for now*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The phone only draws a charge while you’re watching ads, so you’ll need to watch an hour per day to recharge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon investigates a random goth girl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re a gooner

  if you’re not a creep

  Good luck with that Venn diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gigadee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if every woman and or man would be like this it wouldnt be special and you wouldnt look up to it soo… yeah

  I eat food every day, but there are also plenty of meals I’ll remember fondly and think of as special.

  I like hosting dinner parties where I cook for my friends and family. I can assure you that even though I do this for a lot of loved ones, they generally still appreciate each dinner I make. It is still perceived fundamentally differently from a commercial transaction (like buying takeout from a licensed restaurant).

  It doesn’t just apply to food, either. Sometimes it feels good to have someone do something for you, where the exclusivity or rarity of that act doesn’t even factor into whether it feels meaningful.

  So no, your hypothesis of “if everyone was fucking all the time, fucking wouldn’t feel special” doesn’t seem to hold up in comparison to other things in life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $20 gas gets me much, much, much further than $20 in eating high carb prepared food when riding my bike between point A and B.

  Let’s see. Assuming:

  • Gasoline costs $3/gallon
  • A car gets 30 miles per gallon

  That works out to where $20 buys 6.7 gallons or 200 miles.

  Assuming cycling burns 50 calories per mile, you’re looking at 10,000 calories of excess energy usage to travel 200 miles.

  At 1700 calories per pound for dry pasta or dry rice, that’s about 5.8 lbs of pasta or rice, probably less than $10 in most places.

  Or course, people eat other things, and will likely increase their consumption of everything in a ratio proportional to their increased caloric needs, not just adding carbs to some kind of baseline amount of food for their BMR, so I wouldn’t expect it to be that cheap in real life. But there’s a little bit of wiggle room to work with for anyone cooking their meals at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

  There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But they are two bangin shirts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think most people consider dates to be the same as dressing up for work. One can look “nice” without having to look like a white collar drone in a boring workplace.

  For example, I have different suits and ties for the workplace (conservative, standard dark colors) versus for things like weddings (brighter, more expressive colors and patterns and fabrics).

  But even short of that level of formality, there are fashion choices that can attract attention. If you’re in an environment where the dress code is to wear a collar and some buttons, there’s a difference between a plain polo (whether cotton or some kind of performance polyester athleisure) or a short sleeve buttoned shirt with some fun prints (whether we’re talking about Dan Flashes or a Hawaiian shirt or something more subtle), on top of the decision on whether to wear that shirt tight or loose or baggy.

  Or, some people make conscious choices for their athletic wear, when they’re going to the gym or for a run or a bike ride, or playing sports like golf or basketball or tennis.

  For people who are going on dates, the attire can convey a message, either intentional or not. And people might choose to send completely different messages in the workplace versus on dates versus just out with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎵 🎶 🎵⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like rehearsing a speech in the mirror while getting ready for the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting the die in diet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By my count that’s:

  16g carbs (64 calories) 45g fat (405 calories) 56g protein (224 calories) 14g alcohol (100 calories)

  That’s about 800 calories per day, with enough protein to maintain at least some lean mass while on a significant calorie deficit.

  Doesn’t seem healthy but I think it would work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's strict mom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luminol is a chemical that reacts with hemoglobin to glow where very small amounts of blood might have been. That’s usually sprayed, for detecting much smaller concentrations than what would show up under a UV light. That might be what you’re thinking of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s a week lol you’re talking about losing water from sweating, stored sugars in muscles from exercising, and a teensy bit of fat loss.

  Yes, and that is visibly noticeable on many people.

  When I switch from bulk to cut the cut starts to take effect like almost immediately, and I slim down significantly within a few days. I know it’s mostly glycogen and water, but it physically looks very different after the water wooshes out of your body and your muscles become more visible.

  (Also, it’s not exactly sweat, it’s that higher glycogen levels are bound to water molecules, which get released and can actually be used by the body or discarded as excess as the body seeks an equilibrium.)