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- Comment on Anon has learned enough 3 days ago:
The fanfic that tried to apply logic to JKR’s writing lead to an actual, real life murder.
- Comment on kingdom come 5 days ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on Anon has nothing to do 1 week ago:
It may actually be part of the depression. We don’t know that anyone hates him, just that he believes they do.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
Something I pretty much never see pointed out is that we don’t need billions of humans. Our governments keep encouraging us to have children, but they should be working to end the culture of pressuring people (especially women) into having children because they’re somehow incomplete without them. There should be more programs offering access to birth control and family counseling services. This endless and meaningless growth is as harmful to us as it is to the rest of our planet.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
I believe pets are counted as livestock, but it’s not specifically referenced as far as I have the interest to read.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 weeks ago:
But what if she had four wheels?
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 weeks ago:
No. What is or isn’t a vegetable is determined entirely by whether we collectively consider any given plant or plant part a food item.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
In Swedish the prefix for bad stuff is the same as the prefix for not or un-. So a monster is a not-animal and a weed is ungrass. Which is especially interesting to me because that same prefix (o) is for better versions of things in Japanese.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
It definitely counts as invasive if we put it there though. I don’t see rabbits swimming to Australia.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 weeks ago:
Everything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn’t really mean much to me without data to show it’s actually the case.
My personal feeling is that I don’t care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn’t have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won’t purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 4 weeks ago:
Similar experience for me with the Babadook. It illustrates that you will never be rid of your mental problems and trauma, that trying to be cured or normal is a fool’s errand. They’re things you’ll have to deal with forever, and the more you confront them the less they’ll control you.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 4 weeks ago:
Genetic evidence suggests that carnivory developed by co-opting and repurposing existing genes which had established functions in flowering plants
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 5 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, this is the latest drama on my WoW server:
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 5 weeks ago:
The new administration has also introduced Christian prayer at the start of its meetings, with a Reform councillor, the group whip Dan Price, saying the UK was a “Christian country”.
Cool.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn’t tell you anything about the “why” but it’s definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.
I agree with what you mean in kind of a broad-strokes way, but as individuals our subjective experiences of flavors can vary pretty wildly. There’s genetics, neurology, age, and habit/experience that influence our taste in terms of actually sensing the chemicals. Then there’s what we see, taste, and smell just prior or during tasting that severely impact our interpretation of that chemical sense.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
No, this post is not even accurate.
The substance in strawberries which causes allergic reactions is the fra a 1 protein which gives strawberries their red color. White strawberries have less of this protein and may be tolerated by people with this allergy, depending on individual sensitivity.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
Achenes are not nuts.
(1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.
(2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/achene
i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.
ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are not drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 month ago:
If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry nuts is not a bowl of strawberries.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 month ago:
It doesn’t matter to me whether there was ever a mystery because that wasn’t the interesting part. “What are they working on?” doesn’t need to have an amazing answer; it could just be accounting for all I care. What matters is who the characters are, what they have done and will do and why. And more importantly, the way it highlights issues with corporations by drawing interesting parallels within the story. Maybe people in real life will be inclined to question their own conditions and be inspired to protest for better lives.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 month ago:
Glasses are barely an inconvenience; you can’t compare them to cancer. A 1% drop rate on making my life significantly worse is terrible odds, especially given the monetary cost.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 1 month ago:
If you’re going to do all that and still end up with “not great”, why not just distill it?
- Comment on It's a mysteria 1 month ago:
Maybe there’s something I don’t understand (I don’t drink coffee at all), but coffee is antimicrobial and doesn’t need to be kept out of the food safety danger zone. I should think it would take an extremely long time to grow pathogens.
Relevant study: researchgate.net/…/388799782_Survival_of_Listeria…
- Comment on Can't fathom it 1 month ago:
Prolly trying to trick us into making free co2.
- Comment on Anyone else 1 month ago:
Good thinking. The probe goes in easier when you empty you bowels.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 1 month ago:
It’s already a risk to literally anyone wrongly convicted, trans or cis.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 1 month ago:
I think it’s fine as an option for people with serious conditions beyond their control, like pedophilia, provided that the scientific community agrees it’s a helpful treatment option. Other than that, I don’t see how it could be helpful.
- Comment on Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero' 1 month ago:
Maybe if literacy were actually taught instead of being sabotaged by what I can only assume is a plot to increase the pool of incarcerated slave labor we could then move on to more advanced forms of literacy.
- Comment on That's me 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what this person is talking about because I worked the towels area of an American department store not so long ago, and I wanted a lot of those towels because they were great. Maybe they just aren’t shopping at the right places.
