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- Comment on All cells are bastards 6 days ago:
The plants want to be eaten by a specific animal. Human beings do not have any such symbiotic relationship with any plant I know of. You’d get very sick, for example, if you ate a Cassowary Plum.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 1 week ago:
I’m enjoying mine. Pokopia is great.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it lets the food companies sell you more.
- Comment on I found pre-installed (unremovable) malware on my phone, and ESET doesn't seem to be checking system apps... (Ulefone Armor 24) 3 weeks ago:
Yes, you must root first.
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 3 weeks ago:
There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn’t the place for it.
Debian here. IMO “btw” is purely reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.
- Comment on Anon questions nature 1 month ago:
Name checks out…
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 1 month ago:
You’ve surely heard of Slay the Spire, and if you liked that I would strongly recommend Monster Train.
- Comment on Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report 1 month ago:
Data from the Fera pesticide usage survey for 2024, showed 102 – including seven banned in the EU – were used on seven vegetable and soft fruit categories.
Those roast potatoes may have been sprayed with benthiavalicarb, a fungicide banned in the rest of Europe because it causes cancer. They may have also had a sprinkling of metribuzin, a herbicide, banned because its an endocrine disruptor.
The carrots may have been treated with the insecticide spirotetramat, whose EU approval has expired and can kill bees and fish. Peas are often treated with the herbicide S-metolachlor, which poses risks to mammals and has been implicated in groundwater contamination.
And those strawberries may have been doused with clofentezine, dimethomorph and mepanipyrim, all banned in the EU because they have been identified as endocrine disruptors and may have harmful effects on human and animal hormones.
- Comment on Science is iterative 2 months ago:
Still kinda using water to turn a turbine, if you squint really hard.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 months ago:
Lactate is lactic acid.
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 2 months ago:
Not actually a professor but an English literature major, I believe.
- Comment on New insect just dropped for the ones who dont know 2 months ago:
Nice stick
- Comment on The Struggle 2 months ago:
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 2 months ago:
Audio Technica make some really small and comfortable ones that sound good.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 3 months ago:
What I think he’s saying is that Glyphosate affects the shikimate pathway, which is a biological pathway in plants. This doesn’t exist in human cells, but it does exist in our gut microbiota.
We also know now that Glyphosate is a glycine analogue and can displace glycine anywhere in protein synthesis, with unknown effects. It’s also likely an endocrine disrupter.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
Mass is not conserved.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 3 months ago:
So it’s just jank, then?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
You should consider looking into the bioavailability of nutrients from meat vs legumes when factoring in value for money, also.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
If all you need to do, as you say, is to “burn more and eat less”, then how come people with T1D lose weight while eating more? It’s physics, right?
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
Not only is it not set in stone, it appears that your BMR is affected by what you do. If not provided with sufficient nutrition, the body seems to adapt and lowers BMR.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
The body isn’t a fire and food isn’t wood, so the analogy isn’t a very good one.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
They could both be problems. White bread by itself, even without being sweetened, is still very high in carbohydrates which turns into glucose in the body.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
Please point to another mechanism by which weight is lost.
Type 1 diabetics, without treatment, can consume vast amounts of food (and hence as a result calories) and yet continue to waste away. How do you explain this with CICO?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 3 months ago:
Madoff’s scheme lasted for 30 years or more, surely that means it’s worth something?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 3 months ago:
Crime.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 months ago:
CrDroid on 8 pro.
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 3 months ago:
It will get increasingly locked down due to authoritarianism and corporate capture. Small pockets like the Fediverse persist, but it becomes harder and harder to use as regulators impose laws on more technology.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 3 months ago:
We don’t care about your take either, Jeff. Now fuck off.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 3 months ago:
I don’t know about highly. It’s better than not processing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Check out OP’s post history.