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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard on the radio at some point that it’s not great to eat after brushing, but it’s more important to brush your teeth at all. Unfortunately, they didn’t explain why, but from what I can tell, brushing your teeth with (normal) toothpaste does two things:

  • Removes the plaque from your teeth, which is basically a layer of bacteria, which can damage the enamel, since they can produce acids. Or if you don’t brush for a longer time, they can form into hard layers which cannot be brushed away (so-called calculus/tartar).

  • Repairs the enamel by providing fluoride molecules, which stick into places where the enamel is missing molecules. This is important in particular, since the places with missing molecules are more likely to get further damaged by the acids.

  So, if you eat after brushing, you’re providing new food to the bacteria, which allows them to form into a new layer of plaque.
  But it’s gonna take a few hours to re-form the new plaque, during which your teeth won’t get damaged as much anyways. And the new plaque sits on top of freshly repaired enamel, too.

  This is definitely simplifying it, too, like apparently plaque can also affect the gums and obviously different people have more or less problems with teeth in general, but it still seems plausible to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it was Skyrim. It was one of the first games I bought with my own money and certainly the first where I followed the news before the release. I did not know that Todd Howard was a notorious liar and that ruined the game for me. Like, the game itself was probably fine. It was an upgrade in some ways and a downgrade in various other ways. But having been promised that it would be so much better than Oblivion and Morrowind, when it was simply not, that just robbed me of the fun I could have had with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s this whole concept of “Oracles”, which were supposed to be trustable sources for facts, but they can mainly deal well with things like stock prices or weather data.

  It would also have been possible for these Oracles to employ people to fact-check things in case of a dispute. So, user30000004 might claim that the pizza has been delivered and wants their money for it, while user9000005 says nothing got delivered, so then you have someone physically drive out to user9000005 and see if there’s pizza there or not.

  But yeah, you still have the problem that a pizza isn’t hard to hide/eat, so you’d need to do some expensive detective work to try to figure out the truth. And that just isn’t worth the cost…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also heard the theory before that even GPUs went pretty much straight from mining cryptocurrencies to then be used for training LLM models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick thinking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, I thought “AF” meant “as fuck” like it usually does on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do have to look for ones made out of wood/bamboo and plant fibers, yeah. Wasn’t too hard for me, but mileage probably varies, depending on where one lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Auf Deutsch heißen sie oft “Topfbürste”. Nur dann nicht beim Handwerksbedarf bedienen… 🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure, I’m not the same people that condemned sponges as unsanitary…

  I do think brushes are more sanitary (on average probably even more so than a launderable cloth), but hygiene isn’t my problem with sponges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also get small dish brushes like these:
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  They’re better at scrubbing stuff, and for the rest, you can use a normal washing cloth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you tie yourself to a commercial platform, it’s gonna take advantage of you. That’s how they make money. So, I would also recommend using an open-source game engine like Godot and then distributing on multiple platforms.

  The closest open-source thing to the Roblox model, that I can think of, is Luanti, which is basically a game engine and distribution platform for Minecraft-like games. Don’t expect to make money off of it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of theses games should i play?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Luanti, because it has a more mature community and more extensive mining gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Meat Boy 3D - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I wish them all of the luck in the world, but I have never seen a 3D platformer with tight movement and you do need tight movement for a brutally hard game, otherwise it just feels brutally bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just wondering that, too. Wasn’t the first one almost like an indie title? Not sure, how much I’m mixing it up with Outer Wilds, but Wikipedia tells me their teams were around a similar size anyways…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, that’s mostly a US thing, where the government classifies them as vegetables…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that like an official definition for vegetables from some government? Because I don’t feel like there is a particularly good definition of vegetables. People mostly wouldn’t refer to apples as vegetables, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, is it really that little? The stats look devastating, like e.g. 3 grams per 100 grams, but mushrooms also consist out of 90+ grams of water.

  For example, the button mushroom has:
  100 g total - 91.8 g water - 1.7 g fiber = 6.5g nutrients
  2.89 g protein / 6.5 g nutrients = 44.4% protein

  Comparing that to e.g. canned black beans:
  100 g total - 70.8 g water - 6.69 g fiber = 22.51 g nutrients
  6.91 g protein / 22.51 g nutrients = 30.9% protein

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think about affairs a lot…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From those two stills, you’re not gonna guess their reaction. I feel like lots of people have seen the video, but here on Lemmy, you always just get the stills…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How the hell did your autocorrect turn that into “WorldCom”? Is that something you type out a lot? 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game looked quite generic to me. As someone who’s not deep into Star Wars, the titular character looked more like 70s mom than space adventure. And the gameplay also looked like they just slapped yet another texture pack onto something I’ve seen a thousand times already.

  So, I don’t see why you’d buy this game in particular, unless you do a lot of gaming or a lot of Star Wars. I imagine, they missed out on most sales towards the more casual crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unciv also happens to be 100% off. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My pet theory is that our brain rewards us for interpreting clues correctly, because this is crucial for survival. And patterns make it easy to do this interpretation correctly, therefore triggering the reward system frequently.

  But if it is too easy to interpret a pattern correctly, the reward will be lessened, because the challenge you succeeded in was lesser. And it was also crucial to survival to fade out patterns which don’t change, so that e.g. the wind brushing through leaves doesn’t drown out the noises from a predator approaching.

  That’s why patterns which don’t change every so often stop triggering the reward system and therefore bore us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antz in my Pantz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess, they’d have a tendency to look goofy, so they can stick their snouts into ant hills, and then we might’ve named them accordingly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I walk to the shops with robust cloth bags and it often happens that I’ll have a bag with glass jars or cans or thicc 1L reusable juice bottles.

  And yeah, the thought has crossed my mind that if someone were to threaten me, I’d just start flailing them. Would need to take care, though, so I don’t accidentally kill them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨all models are wrong, some are useful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is kind of funny, since there is genuinely a decent chance that someone who’s unwell is also obese or unfit or old…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 is getting auto-explore for scouts, reminding me that I both hate and love auto-explore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s kind of wild that they didn’t have this feature until now. Like, yeah, occasionally you need to start from scratch despite people’s expectations being higher than the last time around. But that still feels like a relatively basic feature to not have…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On a definitely related note, I’ve recently been thinking it’s wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.

  In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BRUSHIED IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BRUSHIED IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.