CompactFlax
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- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 days ago:
Red onions are best.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
When I flew recently, I wore a mask fortunately but needed to eat on the plane so some mask-off time. I’m not sure the plague stuck though; I’m a bit under the weather but not as bad as my seatmates. 🤞
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
I have mercifully not experienced that. Usually, I get stuck between two people with communicable diseases who missed the early childhood education experience of being told not to wipe their nose on their hands, cover their mouth for coughs, wash their hands etc. Fml.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
Stay off airplanes.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
One of us!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
These people are balanced out by the ones who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios, and the people who eat ghost peppers like popcorn.
- Comment on Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee 6 days ago:
Spot on with the AI C-Suite description.
- Comment on Anon remembers 6 days ago:
Oh yeah for sure. This guy would get so excited about things and ended up with some expensive stuff …
- Comment on When you realize it's time to trade in your old sedan for an SUV 6 days ago:
Check your privilege, says the person with a back yard!
Also - don’t they sell saws in your country? You can make a corpse into backpack sized pieces. with a bit of effort.
I’m on a list now, I bet.
- Comment on Anon remembers 6 days ago:
I know an undiagnosed bipolar guy. The highs are so high, and he’s such a wonderful person. The lows are so low, and come on so fast, and last too long, and he’s a miserable person to be around. And just as you think maybe the growing distance should be made larger and permanent, he’s on a high again and it’s really easy to forget the low period.
I can see how meds are tough to get right.
- Comment on Apple reminding me my iPad sucks 1 week ago:
Ah, true.
- Comment on Apple reminding me my iPad sucks 1 week ago:
From recollection, the chip in the iPhone 15 had the capacity to do the local model and perhaps they turned it on in an iPad. Or perhaps I’m confused. That happens a lot.
- Comment on Apple reminding me my iPad sucks 1 week ago:
I very much understand why the software hits end of support but goddamn it’s irritating when something this simple is gated.
Going back to Siri on iPhone 4 (only 4S supported it despite no hardware limitation) and perhaps earlier, Apple gates features behind hardware upgrades for no reason beyond selling new hardware (eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways). This makes it difficult to have a reasonable conversation about legitimately EOL devices - an iPad that’s EOL doesn’t get the feature for med notification because it’s packaged with the other OS changes and the amount of work to backport it to an older OS version is significant.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 week ago:
Ironworkers.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 1 week ago:
Their interpretation of scripture is literally god’s word
FTFY. That’s where they get the wilggle room “oh he didn’t mean love one another like that”
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
I’ve got a couple variations in a drawer. I don’t use a lot of honey so I don’t use them a lot.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 week ago:
The UK needs to cut some bureaucrat middle management and allocate the funds to the social programs they’ve austeritied into symbolic existence.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve got enough employees that notices are tacked to a wall, and you’re not doing a million in sales, you don’t have much of a company!
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 2 weeks ago:
That’s also an outlook that needs to change. The billionaires want to keep you just happy enough and just nihilistic enough that you don’t revolt.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 2 weeks ago:
Very good point. That’s the “it couldn’t happen to me” attitude which is just ignorant.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 2 weeks ago:
Feasible
The number of people who think that healthcare in the USA is just about perfect is evidently quite high - or the situation would change. So, it probably is easier than you think. There’s a lot of healthy people out there.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Sure.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 3 weeks ago:
If it feels good you’re fine. It felt freaking awesome when I was recovering from a herniated disc as prescribed by a physiotherapist. Lying that way is at least as effective as “decompression” from a chiroquacker. I can’t imagine why it would be harmful.
If you’re scrolling and your neck isn’t supported your neck muscles will not thank you.
- Comment on Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe for a second his family is holding the bag.
- Comment on why 3 weeks ago:
Mark Twain also struggled with language
To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female—tomcats included, of course; a person’s mouth, neck, bosom, elbows, fingers, nails, feet, and body are of the male sex, and his head is male or neuter according to the word selected to signify it, and NOT according to the sex of the individual who wears it—for in Germany all the women either male heads or sexless ones; a person’s nose, lips, shoulders, breast, hands, and toes are of the female sex; and his hair, ears, eyes, chin, legs, knees, heart, and conscience haven’t any sex at all. The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 3 weeks ago:
“Zero carb!” - a ton of artificial sweetener and fats. Makes up for the carbs twice over with fat, leading to pretty high caloric density
“Source of protein! - has some protein in it, perhaps more than another product in the category, but protein still is probably less than 50% of the carb content by mass, and also has fat. Never mind the quality or bioavailability of the protein.
Protein is starting to enter the zeitgeist as something that is helpful for muscle maintenance during weight loss and for helping with satiety. But like anything, if you don’t pay attention, reading the ad copy not going to help reach your goals.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 3 weeks ago:
They don’t put the name tags on everything in the retirement home because the residents are so important. It’s because they forget.
Living in Florida might make you think it’s normal though what with all the retirees.
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s reasonable high and low bounds as you say, but i think there’s a lot of factors as others have said. Income, culture, and cost of living are big factors. If you live in the USA and basically need to do a weekly shop at Costco for a family of 4 you need a lot more space than a single person who is able to eat out for nearly every meal in a dense urban area with affordable and moderately healthy street food (so a tiny hot plate suffices as a kitchen). But a family of 4 living in an urban area with lots of shops might do the groceries on the way home from work several times a week and then the refrigerator doesn’t need to be enormous.
Lifestyle plays into it as well. If you have a serious hobby you need space for it - whether it’s sewing, machining, fitness, or gaming. If you live on a rural property, you need space to keep chickens and a lawn tractor and a lot more necessities than someone in a flat in London.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 4 weeks ago:
Found the American.
Don’t tell him that in some countries it’s illegal to undertake!
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 weeks ago:
Op provides the other reason that libraries may not want you to read a book and return it (other than putting it in the wrong place, which occurs). Libraries may be collecting data on usage.