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- Comment on Name this Paper 23 hours ago:
The main substance that burns but doesn’t necessarily get metabolized is dietary fiber, which is a category of some different polysaccharides that burn but don’t get (fully) digested.
So high fiber foods would tend to give incorrect results in bomb calorimetry.
- Comment on accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶 1 day ago:
What’s the trap, though? Is this eventually gonna become a patreon where we can pay $1/month for some shitposts?
- Comment on accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶 1 day ago:
It is impossible to get to 47 followers without making enemies. Thus, everyone with 47 followers has made enemies. Put another way, if you haven’t made enemies, you haven’t done the bare minimum required to eventually get 47 followers.
- Comment on Game over 2 days ago:
No, but by referencing their childhoods I’m covering their parents and grandparents, too, while avoiding the complications of the discussing food culture during the total war posture of World War II. Of every generation still alive today, each generation generally knows more about food than their parents.
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 3 days ago:
Isn’t she just…Italian?
- Comment on Game over 3 days ago:
What are you talking about? Every generation in the US knows more about food than the ones before.
Boomers were raised on canned/frozen nonsense and basically had no variety. Their vegetables were underseasoned and overcooked. Their pickiness about cuts of meat left many delicious parts of the animals underappreciated scraps. They knew each fruit as basically one cultivar, like how all apples were the utterly mediocre red delicious. Even their bread was boring.
Their restaurant scene was pathetic, with Italian American food representing the pinnacle of exotic cuisine. Any immigrant opening a restaurant for American diners would have to carefully water down their traditions to fit American tastes and the American supply chain.
No thank you, I’d never travel back in time to eat or cook the way people did 50 years ago. Food is better now, and it’s largely because today’s cooks and diners know way more about food than people did back then.
- Comment on works every time 3 days ago:
Have you A/B tested this before?
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 3 days ago:
I honestly think he’s kind of a child or childish.
Becoming rich and famous at a young age is probably terrible for one’s development.
He became a successful recording artist at 18, became a TV star at 22, and had a wildly successful run in both music and acting throughout his entire 20’s and early 30’s.
He never had a normal life, and it probably baked in a lot of things that one would normally outgrow by the age of 25 or 30.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 6 days ago:
Yes, there’s that, too.
But even if you don’t like your job and don’t find much meaning out of it, it’s still worth trying to find contentment and happiness in other parts of your life.
I’ve had jobs I hated with coworkers I loved. I’ve had jobs I’ve liked in places I hated. I’ve had jobs I mostly hated that I actually appreciate having taught me important skills I still use today (for example, a 3-year stint in restaurants in my 20’s was miserable in a lot of ways, but it helped me stretch a tight grocery budget and fed me plenty of staff meals, and 20+ years later I’m still a great cook).
Jobs don’t define us. For many people, they’re just a small part of us. And we should go on to build fulfilling lives for ourselves across many domains, not just at work.
I had fun in college. My major didn’t define my actual day to day, or my memories of that time. I had fun in high school. I had fun in elementary school too. I don’t remember everything or even everyone, but I know I had a blast at those stages in my life, and most of the fun was had outside of school.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 6 days ago:
You should be having fun during the 20 years that you’re studying. And you should be having fun during the 40 years that you’re working.
- Comment on “Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement” 1 week ago:
Sure, it’s possible, but the margin of error is pretty narrow for making up for unexpected turbulent wind or slight imperfections in how the person exits the aircraft.
In a normal ski jump, even though they can move more than 250m through the air, they’re never more than 6m above the ground at any given point.
So jumping out of an airplane would require a level of precision that probably couldn’t be safely achieved.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 1 week ago:
Go outside, nerd!
- Comment on ```curl -u "lab_tech:olympic_medalist" https://usa-curling.org/podium``` 1 week ago:
We don’t fund sports for shit.
That’s wrong. A big part of the reason why the US dominates in women’s sports generally is because our higher education funding system is based on a bedrock legal principle from Title IX that schools must spend as much on women as they do on men, including in extracurricular activities like sports. So as a result, with college football being a men’s only sport that raises a ton of revenue, a majority of our universities robustly fund women’s sports programs in a large number of sports.
Plus the US has a relatively unique culture of youth sports associated with their school, sponsored by the schools and their funding.
So we do fund a lot of youth and amateur (and semi professional) sports, indirectly through schools at various levels, including through whatever government subsidies and policies affect those schools.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 week ago:
51% is the threshold for calling it “process cheese food.” The stuff that is called “process cheese” is only allowed additives off of a particular list: water, salt, milkfat up to 5% of the weight of the total, acidifying agents, spices, artificial coloring, mold inhibitors up to 0.2% or 0.3% of the total weight.
There’s basically not an easy way to make something match the legal definition of American cheese without making it out of at least 90% cheese, because the amount of water and fat you can add to fit within the requirement that the end result be 47% fat, except that only 5% of the total can be from added fat, makes it hard to cut corners.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 2 weeks ago:
Every culture takes/mixes foods from other cultures and makes it their own.
Perhaps more importantly, every generation remixes their parents’ and grandparents’ food.
French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Mexican food aren’t the same as they were 50 years ago. Lots of new dishes were invented and remixed, sometimes from imported influence. It’s not like chefs sit around and refuse to do anything different from how they learned. They do invent and innovate and tweak recipes. That’s, like, the job.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 weeks ago:
Cash is riskier, yeah. But it’s also a lot cheaper depending on what the services and machines cost.
No, I don’t think this is true, and most merchants are coming around to this view. Adding an extra 15 minutes to the cashier’s shift counting cash, adding an hour to the manager’s shift driving the cash to the bank, doing all sorts of analog counting processes, maintaining a secure chain of custody so that the cash doesn’t get lost or stolen, the risk of actual violent robbery, it’s all going to cost more than the 3% fee that the processor charges.
but you have to keep the receipts from those as well just like you need to keep cash
No, everyone’s POS systems are totally digitized. There’s a database with all the transactions, not a pile of paper receipts. And the database actually links each transaction to an actual distinct card payment, rather than a digital note that the cashier took that much cash and put it into the register.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 weeks ago:
Even just reconciling the register every day is way easier with just cash.
No, it’s the opposite. Humans make mistakes with cash, and the overall drag on the store’s operations (from needing a safe for large amounts of cash, physically transporting cash to be deposited at the bank, dealing with theft/loss) tends to be higher than credit cards.
That’s why a lot of places have switched to entirely cashless operations, because cash is slow and expensive for them.
- Comment on Anon wants sex 2 weeks ago:
Almost everyone I know who would be interested in that, while not dating or otherwise committed to someone else, without some kind of religious baggage or ethical qualms that prevents them from wanting to have a one-night stand, has been successful at least once or twice. But those caveats really do carve people out: the guy who was in a committed relationship from 20-22 while attending that party school, the guy who has religious reasons not to have low commitment sex, etc.
And that window doesn’t last forever. Men who tend to be charismatic enough to find a quick partner also tend to be charismatic enough to find a stable partner. So a hookup phase tends to give way to a serious relationship, especially when hooking up with a woman who otherwise stands out from the others in terms of some kind of specific compatibility.
So stringing that together multiple times in the phase of your life where you might want to do that instead of a committed relationship, enough to move past the 5-9 number, seems much more unusual to me.
For me, I think I basically only had a 1 year window where I lived in a city where hookups with strangers was feasible and where I wasn’t already committed to a monogamous relationship. And I had some hookups that year, but ended up in a serious relationship by the end of that 12-month period. And when I got out of that relationship I had basically a few dates before meeting my wife and falling in love with her.
In other words, even among the men I know who had lots of hookups in their 20’s tended to be married by 30 anyway, so it’s a limited window of time.
- Comment on Anon wants sex 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, plenty of guys like that exist, but I’m giving reasons why the average (or maybe median) might be much lower. The guys I know who have hooked up with at least 20 women in a year (once every 2 weeks) were specifically working and living in a place where that happens with enough frequency (surf instructor in Hawaii who would hook up with women on vacation, bouncer at a popular bar in a party college town). And obviously celebrities are in a different category as well. But are there enough of them to move the numbers for the median?
I went to a law school where plenty of hookups happened, but the pool of potential partners tended to flame out by 5 before they either settled into a single monogamous relationship or exhausted the entire pool of potentially interested short term partners.
I also went to a party school for undergrad, but young people are just so much more awkward about sex and relationships that it seemed like way fewer men had repeated success at any kind of sustainable rate. Some men did, but for the the overall average, even among physically attractive men, was low enough that a big chunk would prefer at least medium term commitments rather than try for hookups every weekend.
- Comment on Anon wants sex 2 weeks ago:
I could see it. A substantial number of men go through several long relationships and meet their monogamous life partner before they hit even their third or fourth serious relationship. And a string of 3+ year monogamous relationships starts adding up so that you’re old before you hit 10 partners.
Even the short term relationships are pretty unusual, and require some ramp up of building connections. It still usually takes a few days or weeks of dates and text messages for most people to be comfortable having sex with someone they only recently met. Even among incredibly attractive and charismatic men, the same-night hookup is pretty rare.
So a pretty typical lifecycle of the attractive man is something like high school sweethearts, then maybe 1-2 college girlfriends, then maybe 2-3 serious girlfriends after that before marrying someone and being monogamous. Even throwing in a few short term flings, you’re still not typically getting up to 10 partners. And that’s for a pretty attractive guy who can easily attract women.
And if we’re being honest, first time sex with a new partner just isn’t as fun as sex with someone you’ve already had sex with 10+ times, so there’s plenty of reason to want to keep the same partner over time.
- Comment on Veganuary 3 weeks ago:
I eat about 3000 calories per day, but generally limit my meat intake to about 500 calories per day, while trying to hit at least 150g of protein per day. Generally that means I’m eating a vegetarian lunch, where the only animal product is parmesan cheese (gives a great umami kick to salads).
I eat a lot of legumes. Not just beans/lentils, but also a lot of green varieties like green beans, peas, edamame, snap peas, snow peas, and peanuts are like my go-to snack.
When paired up with grains, which you’ll generally already be eating enough of, the protein profile of most legumes complement grains so that you’re getting plenty of every essential amino acid.
And generally, I eat a lot of vegetables and mushrooms. On a per calorie basis, some vegetables are surprisingly high protein.
I eat a decent amount of yogurt or cheese, maybe 3-4 servings per day.
The meat I do eat tends to be the kind that lends a lot of flavor to a dish. 1 oz of bacon in a sandwich sometimes seems meatier than another sandwich with 8 oz of meat. Same with things like fish sauce or anchovy paste. I have a lot of soups and stews where the actual amount of meat involved is kinda low on a per serving basis, where the fresh meat is paired with a cured meat and things like mushrooms and fermented sauces to add lots of umami to a soup without actually consisting of that much meat. I also do stir fries, curries, salads, etc., where any meat is served with a lot of vegetables, as well.
So for example, it’s easy to eat a pound of meat in 2 half pound hamburgers. It’s much harder to eat a pound of meat in the form of burgers made from 3 oz smash patties. And smash burgers taste better to me anyway.
Basically I steer all my eating towards less meat, but I eat a lot and have pretty high caloric needs.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 3 weeks ago:
It basically doesn’t work out.
Theoretically you could have 2500 square meters of solar arrays above the weather beaming the power down to a dish with only a 500 square meter footprint.
But you’d still have to deal with weather with some kind of a storage solution. And 2500 square meters of area in space seems more expensive to claim than just 500 square meters of area on land, in pretty much any scenario.
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 3 weeks ago:
No I need cations to be positive because the t in the word looks like a little plus sign so that’s an easy way to remember which is cathode/anode or cation/anion.
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 3 weeks ago:
I’ve left a floating load that leaked to the ground before.
- Comment on Me waiting for the cute Texas girls to DM me at 55 Water St. 3 weeks ago:
18 and 24 are worlds apart.
38 and 24 is an eyebrow raiser, 39 and 18 is a bad person who deserves scorn.
Especially when you consider the fact that Claudia Schiffer was a celebrity in her own right and had her own thing going on, whereas Seinfeld’s girlfriend was literally still in high school. The power dynamics of each couple were wildly different.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t aware that there were household scales with that level of precision, to 5 significant figures.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 4 weeks ago:
On July 1, 2024, the census estimates of the number of each generation of drinking age, if I’m reading this Excel spreadsheet correctly:
Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012, but as of 2024 the only legal drinking age was those born between 1997 and 2003): 31.3 million
Millennial (born between 1981 and 1996): 74.1 million
Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980): 65.6 million
Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964): 66.9 million
So assuming that 20-somethings have less money to spend on expensive alcohol, and recognizing that Gen Z has less than half the drinking age population as the other generations, it’s not surprising for that generation to spend less on alcohol, even if their habits weren’t different than the older generations.
Now, their habits actually are different, so that might stretch things further. But a better way to present the data would be adjusted per capita. And maybe looking at historical data about when prior generations were the same age.
- Comment on Teach me 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Too late 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re describing beer.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 5 weeks ago:
Whoops, didn’t realize you were talking about industrial scale. I guess that makes sense, and I would have no idea which type of bread uses cheaper equipment.
