volvoxvsmarla

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened in your life that this has become your lucky number? (Genuine question)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for taking the time to write this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cats are so silly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy how orange gave your cat PTSD. I think cats are dichromatic, they see blue and yellow. But orange is weird because of the red part of the color. I guess they still can differentiate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cats are so silly⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a cat that loved yellow food. I realize cats don’t see colors the way we do which made it all the more confusing. Honeydew melon? Yeah. Cantaloupe? Nah. Water melon? You crazy? Yellow bell pepper? Go ahead. Red bell pepper? Fuck off. It loved corn. And potatoes. And once it went straight for the yellow M&M when they spilled on the floor. That cat had a severe deficiency of yellow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LETS GO GAMBLING!!!! 🤩🌟😋⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what? Really? I didn’t know they worked that way. I ended up biting tiny pieces off and chewing them (often together with a normal gum) because I couldn’t handle their strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am surprised that a lot of people think it would be exhausting to act differently around different people. Isn’t it just an automatic vibe thing that happens naturally? I have different interests and different personality traits and which ones show stronger absolutely depends on the person I am talking with. It’s literally easier to not be the same one size fits all person around everyone. I also wouldn’t call it disingenuous, I am not hiding anything, I just enjoy different kinds of people and interactions naturally adjust. It would be really boring and antisocial to only talk about the same stuff the same way with everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe one day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I grew up in a country where alcohol is legal from age 16 and parents often allow a drink to their kids even earlier (I’ve seen 12 year olds with their non-trash parents at a beer tent with a beer-lemonade-mix. Bavarian people man).

  So one evening my mom gave me a small glass of champagne and somehow put a small shot of vodka inside. I was probably 15.

  The next day I woke up at 9:30 am, as early as never on a weekend, feeling well rested, and my chronic headache was gone. I was flabbergasted. My mom was flabbergasted.

  Needless to say that memory of a perfect morning might have partly fueled my alcohol problem later on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are large chunks of it that are really repetitive and boring, just things like the number of goats and chickens owned by so and so.

  That honestly sounds like the exposition of every character in a Wes Anderson movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new bag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what does the jacket you choose have to do with backpacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heave-ho!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mandatory mention that cup size means nothing without the band size.

  A C cup with a 70 cm band is much smaller in volume than a C cup with a 90 cm band. 70G and 90C have equivalent breast volume (if you go with A, B C, D, E, F, G as nomenclature).

  Which is especially annoying because as a 70G you still get the industrial support model while you’d be fine with a turtle dove model. And if you have a band width below 70 you are absolutely fucked, although a lot of petite women would do better in 65.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar issue with the word research. Do your own research - wtf. Research is either standing in the lab and actually experimenting, or conducting (clinical) studies, or at the very least an extensive literature research that even for a paper takes days (more like weeks and months) and a lot of knowledge on the field as well as methods for literature research in this sphere to be conducted properly. I absolutely don’t want you to do your own research about my field of study. You probably have a job and don’t want to go to university for 6 years to understand my niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did mean the distance between earth and moon, thanks for correcting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, whenever I think about this, I get my tinfoil hat moment. Life being created by statistical probability and chance, well ok. Life being created and people with conscientiousness rising up at exactly the time this one planet has this perfect orbital distance - give me that tinfoil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nooo :( I hope you’ll get back on track. Setbacks are ok. It took me about 5 years to get sober once I started trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you gotta do what you gotta do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Am an academic, can confirm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1/8?? What kind of dream job do you have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How on earth are you reading while lying on your stomach??

  Anecdotally, I had a quenching desire to lie on my stomach after giving birth. Like, I was exhausted and sleep deprived and you could have told me that this would kill me and I’d still sleep on my stomach in the hospital. I later looked it up and apparently lying on your stomach helps with the back formation of the uterus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Influencers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you telling me venus doesn’t look like a cheesy pizza?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean... they work on me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it was because it helps develop fine motor skills. Also bright colors and contrasts are a visual stimulant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean... they work on me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t believe how surprised I was that you could just buy them as a regular person. Somehow it felt like only doctors are allowed to have these. You can’t have that at home.

  Well, we do now, but it feels wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What life hack helped you this year?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I suggest putting some frozen kale or spinach in it as well? For extra veggies and taste. We basically cook that every week and I love it. Granted, I put a tad more effort into it (stir fry onion and garlic and tomato paste before I add rice, lentils, greens and broth) but it’s basically the same.

  Also try adding soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke. Just a drop but it does wonders. Yeast flakes are also great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so, so sorry about your loss. I’m glad to hear that you were able to feel a beacon of hope last year, and that this painting was a way for you to cling on to it and feel it a little longer. I hope you find a way to keep holding on to it, and through that hope find the courage to not give up and try to support change instead whenever you can and have the strength and energy to do so. But I can’t even imagine how hard that must be. And most of all, carry the love you had for your mom in your heart despite the grief, and the disgust and hate for the system that led to her demise quicker than it had to be.

  I hope you don’t mind if I save that picture of yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Making an AI meme of Luigi as a Saint is one thing.

  Making a painting and having it casually displayed in your room is a whole other level.

  Also, I can’t believe it’s already been a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just want to say I love comments like yours. I love when people know their stuff about the bible (or other holy texts) and can put it into a reflected context. Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point about distraction from the matter, and I agree there. At the same time I am very bothered by the media coverage saying pedophile 99% of the time. Because, as you have mentioned in your first two paragraphs, pedophilia is a disorder, and not every pedophile/ephebophile/hebephile is an offender or consumes CSM. They should be calling them child rapists, sex offenders who raped minors, whatever. At least in Epstein’s case you can reasonably assume he did, indeed, have a sexual disorder, I’m not sure if it is true for all his clients. But they all are child sex offenders, there is no doubt about that.

  Language matters. The last decade was putting such an emphasis on this, but with this case a lot of people seem to agree that “language distracts”. Let it be vague, everyone knows what is meant. Don’t distract from the important matter by being specific about the words you use. Well, I disagree, and I disagree not because it is ephebophilia or hebephilia, I disagree because a) It’s not about the …philia, it is about the offenses committed, and thus b) there are more precise terms that should be used in this case, and these terms (child rapist, statutory rape, child sex trafficker, etc) sound much harsher anyway. Also c) you are working against the interest of non offending pedophiles here and dismantle any awareness there is about everything you had pointed out above. Language matters for them as well.

  I’m lucky enough to have a very bland, healthy sexual orientation and preference, but I do have a kid, and God knows I want to protect her from harm.

  For this, I need people who are attracted to minors to be open about it, and they won’t be if we run with torches after them for just their orientation, or if we keep calling every person who offended a minor a pedophile. They won’t be open or seek help, and the discourse right now is incredibly counterproductive.

  I also need people to be more aware that about half of sex offenses concerning minors are committed by people who have no attraction dysfunction. If it were so easy as to just “remove all the pedophiles” to stop child sex offenses.

  So, in my opinion, the response to “ackshually he’s not a pedophile” should be “you’re right, he sex trafficked and raped minors. Better now?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’re definitely not from the Munich area

  Looking back to my first 20 years I wonder why tf we all thought it’s a great idea to bike through storms and blizzards instead of just walking

  That could be me at 18 years, 3:30 am, with way too much alcohol in my blood going home from the sbahn station after clubbing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Perfect Picture of Helth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. Even if I make pizza from scratch with whole wheat flour and homemade sauce, the amount of vegetables I can reasonably put in/on it is so limited. If I want to mimic a typical pizza as it is served in Germany, I need about 2 mushrooms for the whole thing. Even with the sauce, there is just so much sauce I can put on the dough - and so many veggies I can put on it - before it just becomes a soaky pie. And this is nowhere near a ratio I can really approve of. Our usual dishes consist of 50-80% vegetables. With pizza, I feel like we are just eating 50-80% dough.

  Just because whole wheat is good, tomato sauce is good, veggies are good, and a bit of cheese is good, doesn’t mean the combo of it is anywhere near balanced and healthy. We usually balance it with a huge salad but honestly we just don’t like filling up on bread/dough, so we rarely eat pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s ham bro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any particular reason it has to be in the fridge?

  The thing is, it is actually not recommended to store tropical fruit in the fridge. So mangos, bananas, kiwis… The other thing is that most fruit doesn’t need to be refrigerated and will still stay fresh at room temperature (assuming room temp is between 20-25°C).

  You can buy a bunch of green-yellow bananas and they will ripen throughout the week without going bad and leave them outside. Apples will last a long time outside of the fridge too - even in warmer/moister climates. So do citric fruit. Berries and grapes are probably the only thing I would refrigerate, as well as cut fruit. (Tbh I wouldn’t refrigerate berries either because that makes them lose their taste, so I’d just eat them right away. They are a fleeting breeze of summer that should be enjoyed within the blink of an eye.)

  Why do you need to limit yourself to one type of fruit? Idk your fruit portions, we eat so much fruit at home that I am shocked we haven’t died of fructose induced liver cirrhosis yet. So get some greener bananas (store outside) for Tuesday and Wednesday, grapes in the fridge for Thursday and Friday, and bring something fresh like a mango for Monday? And just have a sack of apples as an emergency. They, like, really don’t go bad. If you buy fruit that is not fully ripe yet, then as well, leave it outside, next to the apples ideally, and they will ripen by the middle/end of the week.

  Also, veggies?